ENGLISH NEWS

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 31, 4 December 1841, Page 2

ENGLISH NEWS

We received last night a Shipping Gazette of the2lst July, from which we lea*n, -that the elections had concluded, the different papers according to the parties they belonged to, variously stating the Conservative majority at. from 30 to 80. It was un ierstood that the re-election of Mr. S. Lkfevre as Speaker, would not be opposed, Mr. J. G. S. Lefevre (brother to the Speaker) has been appointed a member,of the Land and Emigration Commission, in the place of Colonel Toruens. Wool was looking up, and trade appeared to be rather improving. Sydney Herald. Nov\'2.

An Article in the Auckland Chronicle of Thursday last, in reference to the Murders at the Bay of Islands, has, just before going to press, caught our eye, which we are sorry to say we cannot avoid expressing our disapproval of : The article is, no doubt, well meant, but the truth is, the subject will not bear the construction the Chronicle would put upon it, and that construction is dangerous and .improper in the extreme. The murderer is designated " a misguided young chief, who in a moment of passion and excitement, and without malice prepense, perpetrated the crime." Now, this is not only not the fact, but the very reverse of it, for a more 'cold-blooded, deliberate and inhuman murderer it is difficult to conceive; and every incident of the horrid deed, whether we regard the treacherous slaying of the sleeping man, the almost incredible cruelty of the murder of the little boy who Tan from the monster, or the cowardly slaughter of Mrs. Roberton, and the two infants, mark the perpetrator a diabolical savage ; and the crime one which should excite in every well regulated and manly mind, feelings of the utmost-detestation of the criminal, and the strongest desire to see enforced in the promptest and most signal manner, the just vengeance of outraged humanity. The proceedings in the affairs at the Bay of Islands afford, as we said in our last, a subject for serious consideration—excite feelings of indignant shame and neglect; and we take this opportunity of recommending the Governor to communicate immediately with Sir George Gipps, to request most urgently that without delay, he would make such arrangements as may enable him to spare from the forces in New South Wales, for the honor of the Crown, the protection and, security of Her Majesty's English subjects in this Colony, and to preserve from contempt and degradation the authority of I Law, an additional number of trOops; and we advise His Excellency to urge the expediency of the measure in such a way, that Sir George Gipps may perceive that strong necessity renders imperative that he should waive all formalities, and get over any difficulties or obstacles loan immediate compliance with such request. We know very well that what we now write, will be considered by some as an injudicious topic for a Newspaper article at the present time—that it may be deemed impolitic—of injurious tendency, and ail that sort of thing : but to such twaddle we are extremely indiffeient, and for general information we may now as well state, that the time is at hand when that indifferenee and an inflexibility of purpose in manifesting it, will givea character to a portion of the Press of this Colony,