AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 262, 12 July 1843, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

We have numbers of the Southern Cross and Auckland Chronicle of the 27th May, and also one of the Southern Cross of an earlier date. There is very little in them. We observe another of the Parkhurst Seedling flourishing in the Police Court ; and the Will Watch and Sistsrs which had just sailed each carried an ominous number of passengers. There is a complaint of the scandalous manner in which the emigrants ex Westminster have been treated, driven ashore like bullocks, lodged in miserable warries without fire, food, or a shilling to buy it with, and so left to themseves and starvation for four days. We have also private . information of the wretched estate of this our Great Metropolis. Wages we are told are at nine to ten shillings a week, and very little employment at even that rate. When we co nder that the Auckland people have no whale fishery to fall back upon, that very little land has been brought under crop, that they are not likely to draw any more of the large supplies from us which have hitherto, chiefly maintained them, and that colonial securities are unproductive with Mr. Boyd, we confess we pity their condition. Nevertheless" it serves them right — the day of retribution has arrived. If they had fixed the seat of Government here, and lent their influence to enable us to get on the land, they would neither have known want nor shame ; now they are likely to kuow both.

. Yet, with this s^ate of things before his eyes, we find a writer in the Chronicle singing a pieam on the grandeur and resources of Auckland, which he does, he says, in, order that it may go home by the Tortoise, and demonstrate the falsity of the reports which the New Zealand Company has promulgated respecting the capital. Though his strains fill two columns and a half, they are after all but a beggarly account of empty, boxes ; consisting of a great deal of nonsense about the safe anchorage of the harbour, the latitude in which it is situate, and the range of the thermometer ; while the' onljr facts he can get hold of to illustrate his boast of prosperity, are the formation, of an Agricultural Society ; and Mrs. Hobson's having raised a crop of maiden oats in the paddocks around the Government House.

Drunk with idolatry, drunk with wine, as Milton describes the uncircumcised Philistines on Dagons holiday f are these Auck-

land people; drunk with the idolatry of a false god whose feet are of brass to trample and destroy, and whose head is of clay — the idolatryof a Government powerful only to do evil, feeble in ought else ; drunk with the wine of that miserable infatuation which first led the Government to suppose that it could prosper apart from the prosperity of those it came to protect, and which still blinds its eyes to the only chance it possesses Qf redeeming its past mis-government. Laws and Ordinances op New Zealand. — A- friend has called to our recollection, a fact which shows the boast of the Auckland Chronicle; respecting the interest taken in England in the Auckland Ordinances, to be still more empty than we said it was. All Ordinances enacted by the Colonial Legislature, are required by Act of Parliament 3. and 4. Vie. c. 63. s. 10. to be laid before the British Parliament ; and all papers so laid are as mere matter of course printed and sold as those have been. We remember that the former Ordinances which were prepared under Mr. Attorney-General Fisher, were also so printed, and we bought a copy in England for eightpence. The fact therefore indicates no very extraordinary interest in these won^ derful efforts of legislation.