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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 348, 23 December 1864, Page 4

Areiy.vls in Habbouk.—Our harbour will tills morning present a livelier scene than it lias done for some days past, in consequence of the arrival of quite a small fleet of vessels in the course of yesterday. ..Besides a number of colonial and coasting craft, thero were two of tlie expected sliips from England—the ' Helenslee,' slap, 101 days out from tlie Clyde, bringing 33*1 passengers, mostly emigrants selected for the General Government emigration! scheme by Mr. A. _ Clark, the agent for Scotland, and the ' Liglst Brigade,' of the Black Ball and Eagle line, which has made splendid passage of onlv 84 days from Gravesend, -tfitli SGO troops to complete the strength of regiments already here. Both vessels arrived in first-rate order, and with all well on board.

Discovkuy of a Dead Body keak the QueejtSTitEET "VY jiarf.— A corpse, which has since been identified as being that of a seaman named Icter Macpherson, formerly attached to the schooner 'Surprise,' was found floating near the watermen's steps on the Queen-street Wharf, at about five o'clock yesterday morning, by the water police. It appears the deceased had been discharged from the ' Surprise,' and had been working up to Saturday last on board the ' lauranga, from which time lie has not been seen. The corpse was conveyed to the morgue, aud an enquiry will be lield at Palmer's, lioyal Hotel, this day. A max named George Gardner, a seaman attached to the ' Falcon,' was arrested at the Pavilion Music Hall last night, on a charge of desertion from that vessel, and conveyed to the guard-room.

A BXBTTTBBAITCK arose ill Mr. "Williamson's tobacco stop, Quccn-street, .yesterday after noon, caused by the fronts of three bushmen in a state of. intoxication, Sergeant-Major Meredith, who 5 was passing by at tie time, was violently assaulted, and it was witli much difficulty that the delinquents' 'were taken to the lock-up. Wool Sale.—Wc see by an advertisement m another column that Messrs. Hunter and f will hold their -ustial wool sale this day, at noon V There is a large quantity to be offered, and intending purchasers will hare an opportunity of seiurmg good samples for shipment per ' Ida Aeigler and ' Light Brigade,' which are advertised to sail at an early date for London direct. We call the attention of wool growers and buyers to this sale, as there will not be many more opportunities this season. LEWJssoN'svjVl-Aii-jioTH Gift.—We call attention to Mr. Lewisson's lottery of jewellery which will take place in the Theatre fioyal this afternoon at three o'clock. Those who have not as yet secured their tickets can yet secure them The prices are 20s. a ticket and os. a share! Mr. Lewisson has alarge assortment of jewellery to select from, to the amount of £6,CCO. The method of drawing for the prizes is very simple There are as many tickets put into the " wheel of fortune" as there are ticket holders, which arc numbered to correspond with the tickets issued. A child puts his hand into the wheel and draws out a ticket; the holder of the ticket numbered to correspond with the number drawn is entitled to a prize. The first ticket drawn is the winner of the first prize, and so on. The persons holding a ss. ticket are entitled to a prize of one-fourth of the value of £1 tickets .There are very few tickets left;, and we trust before the drawing commences l cVery one will be taken up.

The Heik of the Prince cm "Wales.—The Spectator of the 22nd October; in noticing the departure of tlie Prince and Princess of Wales tlius speaks of the babyolatry with which tlieir infant son has been welcomed by the Fnglish people:—" The baby is home again, to the delight, we presume, of all England, and certainly to the immense relief of all newspaper readers The child landed at Hull, and its arrival produced an outbreak of 'flunkeyism beyond even English precedent. The Mayor actually went in his robes to visit a baby not. twelve months old, the Shcrjfl's wife gave him a fur rabbit, which, say the reporters, he V appeared to appreciate," a vast erowd assembled to see him pass, and " the cow which the infant i rincc "witli milk during liis passage frcm tde Elbe to the Humber was purchased by Mr Alderman Abbey, of Hull;" that dignitary obviously considering the animal to be historic. The Queen should put a stop to this kind of folly, which, if it continues, will lead to a sharp re-action against the worship now paid to the l<oyal Family. Already, a journal which once declared that the winds would blow gently on a tree because the Queen had planted it is indulging in pretty sharp ridicule,. and aldermen who now buy cows because they feed Uoyal babies will soon be ashamed of caring about tho babies themselves. It will not do to let the English people raise their princes into idols. They always break th'em in the end." The Was jn IS'ew Zealand, says the London '"spectator of the 22nd October, as we ventured to indicate last week, is not yet over, but it seems likely that the closing scene of it will be identical with that on which it opened, the "Waitara block of land claimed by the chief who calls himself TVilliam King, near Taranaki. A correspondent, on whose knowledge we can rely, writes to us fiom Taranaki that " a large number of the TVaikatos and nearly all the leading chiefs of the district, including the King hiiuseli and his sister, the Princrss Sophia, have just arrived at Mataitawa, William King's stronghold on the Waitara, with the intention of recommencing the war in this.province. The Tauranga natives having given in, the nest campaign will be in this plaee .and between hero and "VYanganui, and as things look we may reasonably hope to. sec the end of the war during the coming summer," —unless indeed Sir George Grey patches up a peace that is no peace. If this account should prove true, it is a curious comment on Sir George Grey's weakness in restoring the Waiara block to William King.— totally without published grounds, and as the late lJuke ot JNewcastle, hinted, cliiefiy by way of throwing blame on his predecessor,—that this veiy block of land should be the last rallying point of his enemies.

Fail of Atlanta;— Tile liichmond. Uraminer of tlic 22nd. September gives llie following letter from Lovejoy's Station, depicting the consequence of the ISorthem invasion of the State of Atlanta:—" Tiie banished citizens of Atlanta continue to arrive. Some 500 families Late already come through. Many of them report the most deplorable condition of the Atlanta populace. About one-lialf of the populace elected to go to Tennessee, and the rest were coming, or preparing to come, south. Scarcely any ol tliem saved anything but a few articles of clothing and furniture—the remainder of tlic household goods having been sacrificed to the insatiable Moloch of invasion. The Federal soldier)-, though not permitted to commit personal outrage, were insulting to a degree. One venerable lady relates that a Cerulean shouted to her in the street, in unmistakable IN'ew England twang—' TV here are you going— if orth ?' 'No, Sir, —seen enough of the IS' orth —we are going South '' ' Then you are going to li—-I,' ejaculated the polite puppy. 'Well,' was the redoubtable dame's rejoinder, ' if we do, old Sherman will have a chance to flank us out of it, for L«i is mighty certain to get there first.' Sherman, with characteristic cunning, would permit none of the younger nieii of the town to come south of his lines, and ordered them all in the .opposite direction." It appears that the press of Georgia are not dispirited by the fall of Atlanta. The Columbus (Georgia) Times says : —" fThings are not desperate yet. The enemy cannot be said to hold more than fourteen counties ' out of the 130 of the State. During the revolutionary war the British might be said to hold every county in tlio State, and. Savannah to boot. ' But Atlanta has fallen .' * Well, so has Eoioxvillc and Memphis, and Jackson and Yieksburg, and if ew Orleans and Little Ivock, and a hitnd_red other towns and villages ; but we are not conquered yet. Who ever heard of such a fuss being made over the fall of a twentyyear old town, 300 miles in the interior of a State, as we and the Yankees are making over the evacuation of Atlanta ? If we, of Georgia and Alabama, will do our duty, and the President will do hts, we will make Atlanta a furnace to Sherman yet."

The AVajj in Zealand.—Tlic liomc Press generally mistook tlic submission ot' tlic Tanranga uatives as the settlement of the war, licnce throughout the latest issues of these journals we lind many articles and paragraphs founded on this erroneous conclusion. Among them is evidently the following from Mitchell's 'Afaritimc Jieg inter of the 22nd October: —"In consequence of the termination of hostilities in .New Zealand no additional reinforcements will be: dispatched from Chatham to augment the regiments serving in that colony, several of which will bo at onee ordered to return home. The regiments in. JN T ew Zealand are the Ist battalion of the 32th. IKegiment, the 2nd battalion of the 14th Regiment, the 2nd battalion of the 18th Itoyal Irish, the 40th liegiment, 43rd Light Infantry, 50th Queen's Own, 57th Ixegiment, 155t1i Eegiment, tiStli Light Infantry, 70th Regiment, and the 4th battalion of the Military Train, besides the usual force of Koyal Artillery, lloyal -Engineers, and the Commissariat Corps. The regiments which have been longest abroad, lind may therefore shortly be'expected toireturn home, are the Colli, which embarked for New Zealand in May, 18-1 (J; the 70th, which left England for Bengal in January, 1840, and was subsequently ordered to JN'err Zealand;

~5 r k lit Infantry, -which was dispatched to T? - Zealand from the Cape of Good Hope, for hiclt P lacc ifc -England in October, 1851; A the 40th Regiment, which embarked in July, ?os'? Of the other regiments enumerated lirii are now serving in New Zealand, the f'Y cnl barked for Coi'Tu in 1853, and was after--01 j s dispatched to New Zealand, and the Ist battalion of the "12th left England in July, '' sed "Despatch of Convicts to Aucict __Au absurd paragraph, says the Atickhmi oiid Zealand Gazette, of the Bth Oct., originating with some of the penny dailies, is iiiiß 'the round of the press to the cflect that a Wi'U °'" convicts have just embarked for Auckj t jfcw Zealand —an announcement which is 'iliulated to cxcito no slight surprise and eon-!u-rnation in the colony, jmd amongst those *■ ic reft oil in it here. In order to excite some 'mount of sensation, the paragraph in question with a statement that the notorious ■\Villinm Eonpell was to have gone to the colony, nlv ho could not be spared on account of 0 "tain legal proceedings in connection with forT<r'cs- c not: say that there is no truth in the statement, which has originated "a the brain of some ingenious but. not overscrupulous penny-a-liner. A vessel has certainly siikii trom Pcptford this week with convicts for Gibraltar, who will be, as usual, employed on the Government works there. Gibraltar is not iu X mv Zealand, but it is too great an effort of .teocrapliieal knowledge for some of our contemporaries to be aware of the fact. Si'KKin- JrsTicE. —The police received information on Wednesfhn- last, that, the store of Messrs. Gibson &• Co., at Oneliunga, had been broken into during Tuesday night, and a quantity of boots, shirts, axes, tomahawks, saws, and other articles abstracted. Constable Lloyd and two military policemen were at once despatched to the scene of action, who, alter making due inquiries in the town, lay down about half-past ;) o'clock a.m. yesterday morning, to have a short sleep, upon a bundle of shavings, in a half-finished shop near to the store. Before, honever. they had entirely succumbed to the influence of the drowsy god, tliev were joined l>v another candidate for a night's lodging, who, "'on hospitable thoughts intent," produced from the' pocket of his jumper a bottle of brandy. \t"ter partaking rather too freely of the contents ot' the bottle, lie became exceedingly eommunieitive to his newly-found companions, and dropped a hint that" he had " been, and gone, and done " something very lately that had paid him verv well, upon the strength of which he was agreeable to " shout." But to cut short a lons story, Constable Lloyd, acting upon the hint, cleverly drew out of his new companion the whole particulars of the robbery it was his especial mission to unravel; not before, however. he had promised to join him the next night in another robbery of greater venture, for which, according to his friends statement, the services of a horse and cart would be required. The entrance through the window—the safe place in which he had planted his illgotten gains—were vividlv described, and his story being finished, he received for his pains, not a world of sighs, but a seutlc hint that his false friend was an officer of justice, and that he must consider himself a prisoner. Upon being searched some files aud measuring tapes were found upon his person, and the remainter of the property discovered underneath Messrs. Gibbon's Store. The prisoner, who is a soldier named Robert Spowrt, attached to the 2nd Waikato Regiment, was brought before the Bcsident Magistrate, at Onehunga, yesterday morning, and the stolen goods being identified, and the ease proved against him', was ordered to be imprisoned for nine monts, and to be kept to hard labour, Death of the Dcke of Newcastle. —The deatli of the Duke of Newcastle will cause wore regret than surprise. Some months ago the worst was feared, but his Grace rallied unexpectedly, only to terminate bis existence, at Clumber Park, on the evening of the ISth, in his 53rd year. He is deeply regretted, and he has left behind him few men of his class who have worked harder or more steadily for the good of his country. Indeed, his devotion to public life has greatly shortened his days, and he has lallen, like Lord Herbert and others, the victim of overtaxed energies in the discharge of his public duties. The Duke of Newcastle commenced life as a Tory of the old school, under the wing of Sir Robert iPeel; but Free-trade, which broke up the party, was soon followed by the death of the man who had trained to practical statesmanship Gladstone, Herbert, Cardwell, Lord Canning, Lord Elgin, the Earl of Lincoln, Sir Koundell Palmer, and Lord Dalliousie, Sir James Graham and Lord Aberdeen were the old and tried friends of the Con servativePremier. Of these distinguished men, known as the Peelitesthe only survivors are Messrs. Gladstone and Cardwell and the present Attorney-General. At the time of the war with Bussia the late Duke whs thrust into a position, that of Minister of War, which entailed upon him much unpopularity, for to him were attributed all the disasters which befel our anny during the winter of 1854-5. Thirty years peace had caused all the war machinery to break down, and the reputation of the Duke of Newcastle suffered accordingly. It has since been admitted on all hands that scant justice was done to his Grace, who inaugurated many reforms in the department over wnicli he presided, by which subsequent War Ministers have largely benefitted. With the more reccnt career of the Duke of Newcastle, as the head of the Colonial Office,and asthe noblemen selected by Her Majesty to accompany the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, everyone is familiar. Politically and personally, he was held in great respect by all parties, and his loss will he difficult to repair.—JEuropean Tims, October 26.

A House attached to an express waggon took fright yesterday morning, while standing at Mr. Hill's shop, next the Auckland Hotel, High-street, and proceeded at a rapid pace past the Court-house, along Chancery-street, where the cart was capsized at the bottom of the hill, without having received any more injury than a twist of the right-hand shaft, and the breakage of a box of candles. Police Coujit, Yzstekday.—Nine drunkards had an interview with the Resident Magistrate, and were treated in. the usual manner. John Turner pleaded guilty to having deserted from the ' Albert AYilliam,' stating, in extenuation of the offence, that he had left " merely to better himself," in proof of which he was ordered to be imprisoned for twelve weeks, with hardlabour. Peter Turner, a deserter from the 57th Regiment, was ordered to be handed over to tho military authorities. The Resident Magistrate was occupied the whole of yesterday in adjudicating upon civil cases, none, of which, however, were of any public interest, with the exception of an action Drought by Mr. G. B. Frazi, the late Engineer to the City Board, against Mr. David Graham, as Chairman of the Board, to rccover the sum of £35, being amount of judgment recorded against the plaintiff in the late case Hawkeswood v. Frazi, for mouldings ordered by and delivered to Mr. Frazi, on the alleged account ot the City Board. We refrain from making any comments on the matter at issue, as judgment was deferred until next Court day.

At a meeting of tlie Fire Brigade, held on Wednesday evening, Mr. -Bartley was, elected Superintendent, viee Mr. James Gilberd, deeeased. - . Ixsahity.—Our lunatic asylum is tilling rapidly. Yesterday Hugh. Logue, upon the certificates of Drs. G-oldsborough and Lee, was found to he of unsound mind, and was conveyed to this institution. . Wynn v. Hazelden. —His Worship gave judgment in this case yesterday in favor defendant. Our readers "will remember that this was an action brought by Mr. Wynn some tirao ago (and judgment in. which was deterred

« Tisifc to Tnranaki), against the Commissioner of , rown Grants, to recover the sum of £6, n WtWF - ged to hare been sustained by the l n c ° nsc Vicnee of tlie detention by the S™ 1 of , 5 crown., grant, and that Mr. f r ° s d lus defence upon the fact that „l > ' , „ ees exacted by Government were payFore . < ]l « : kveiy of the grant. His Worship's at be found in our police report. ___ j ESS f S .\ & Co. held a large sale of dry Roods at the stores of Messrs. Giliillan & Co. ~° a F 0S realised good prices, although the attendance was not a full one. -English Vessels Loading foe Auckland. ., t ™ c tune of the departure of the English ? i i i following vessels were loading for Auckland ' Nctson,' Capt.Meiklejolm;' Mary and Edith, Capt. Murray ; ' Foam of the Sea," Oapt. Rogers; 'Armstrong,' Capt. Armstrong, Ganges, Capt. Furnell; 'Ernestine,' Capt. JieU;■ ' Spirit of the North,' Capt. Holliday; Capt. Tillman ; ' Bombay,' Capt. < w lrt; ' Napier,' Capt. Petherbridge. j Collins' popular story "No Name," adapted for dramatic representation by Mr. treorgc Fawcett, was the attraction at the -theatre Royal last night, and the piece proved eminently successful. We shall take an early opportunity of mentioning "No Name;" in the meantime, we should advise everybody to go and see it.

Sale of Grajiasistown.—Tlio results of the sale of Grahamstown, which is situated at the mouth ot the Wangarei Harbour, wero most satisfactory. By the sale of this township the Iroymeial Government have netted a sum of £'_150. Out of 316 lots ofl'ered, all were sold except G(5. The attendance was scanty, but those present were buyers, and the bidding was brisk- The speculation is said to be a good one.

Land Sale.—Mr. Sanrael Cochrano held n land sale of 32 valuable building allotments in Ponsonby-road, at his laud mart, Fort-street, yesterday. The prices realised were extremely satisfactory, as will be seen by tho following list: —Lot No. 1, £3 12s. per foot; No. 2 anil 3, £2 IDs.; No. 4, £3 ss. ; No. 5, £3 ltts.; Nos. 0, 7, S, 9, £2; Nos. 10,11, and 12, £1 18s.; No. 13, £2; Nos. 14 and 15, £1155.; No. 22, £1 135.; No. 23, £1 175.; Nos. 24 and 25, £1 ISs.; Nos. 20, 27, 2S, and 29, £2 ; No. 30, £2 45.; No. 33, £1 175.; Nos. 34 and 35, £1 ISs. ; No. 3S, £1 155. ; No. 41, £1 195.; No. 43, £2 ss.

The lir.v. J. Taylor.—Among the passengers by the mail steamer is the Rev. J. Taylor, of California, Wesleyan minister, and who lias for some months past been preaching and lecturing to large audiences in Sydney. We understand that- he will preach next Sunday morning at the Wesleyan Chapel, High-street. Mr. Taylor's ability, both as a preacher and a lecturer, have drawn forth from the iSydney Aloriiing llerald the highest encomiums.

Messes. E. & H. Isaacs hold a sale of stationery, this morning, at 11 o'clock, at their stores. Queen-street.

Sale of Building Allotments.—Messrs. -Ridings and Dowden will offer for sale this day at noon, five allotments at Spring Bank, having frontages to Richmond-road and Brownestreet ; also the interest in a lease of an allotment in Hepburn-street. To Bdildeks and CAKrENTEits.—Tenders for the erection of a house iu Cabbagetree Swamp Rond will be received by Mr. Keals until noon of Thursday next.

Land Societies, Nos. 5 and 6. —On account of the Christmas holidays, the office of Auckland Land Societies, N os. 5 and 6, will be open for receipt of subscriptions on Wednesday, the 28th inst., from 9 till 10 o'clock, instead of Monday, the 26th; the Saturday evening attendance remaining as usual. Albehtland Association. —The New Zealand Examiner, of the 18th October, says : —" We are requested by the manager of the Albert-land Association to draw attention to the fact that the head offices are now at No. 3, St. Mary Axe, London." Sewing Machines. —Messrs. Mabin and Graham will, we perceive, offer for sale to-day, at the New Zealand Auction Rooms, six sewing machines, made l>y Wight and Mann, just arrived from London in the ' Albert William.' The machines arc said to be of a very superior make, with late improvements.