New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, November 7, 1849.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 445, 7 November 1849, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, November 7, 1849.

The Kelso has brought intelligence of the arrival of the Cornelia in England on the 21st June, and by this opportunity we learn that " the Petition, 1 ' about which so much stir has been made by the Faction, has shared the usual fate of such documents. It was presented by Sir William Molesworth in the House of Commons, and there is an end of the matter. The moderate soberminded colonists* who .knew how the thing was got up, and how very few of those who signed the Petition had previously read it or were acquainted with its contents, will not be at all surprised to find the bubble has burst ; as no other result could have reasonably been anticipated. The faction on the other hand are extremely mortified and quite chop fallen to find that 'the piece of quackery which they tried hard to induce the credulous to believe would prove a wonder working panacea, has turned out to be an abortion, that the mountain has produced a mouse, and that all their " colonial manoeuvres" have only ended in defeat and disappointment. Even their friend the Neir Zealand Journal, whose abuse (in the numbers received by previous arrivals) of the members of the Legislative Council, founded on the misrepresentations and misstatements of the faction, was referred to by them with such unqualified satisfaction ; even that organ of the New Zealand Company has turned against them, and proclaims their party unfit to be trusted, and as one that would be passed over by the people of this settlement in the selection of Representatives, if a moderate test of the elective franchise were granted. We do not attach much weight or importance to the opinions of that Journal, but since it has been quoted by the faction in their organ as an authority, it is as well to know what their friends say of them. Hear the crier. * c Not that we are altogether satisfied with the parties who have refused a participation in the honours and emoluments showered by his Excellency upon recipients who must have been not a little astonished at the dignities with which they have been so suddenly invested. There are amongst them men whose chief notoriety consisted in attempting to thwart the plans of the late Colonel Wakefield, because those plans did not suit their own selfish purposes. There are others who have laboured hard, and, for the present they have succeeded in converting the liberality of the New Zealand Company, in the adjustment of the land question, into a gross job for their own especial benefit, to the exclusion of others who were really entitled to the advantage. Others, again, were chartists at homer, and are, in all probability, little improved by their colonial education ; whilst the remainder are laudably anxious for free institutions, for the sate of that self-government which they had been led to expect." It is currently reported that Mr. Fox has received a severe reprimand from the Directors of the New Zealand Company for his conduct to Mr. Bell on his accepting a seat in the Legislative Council. They certainly have great reason to be dissatisfied with the part their Agent has taken in the local politics of the settlement, and we can easily imagine that they find it by no means conducive to their interests that their principal Agent should be the leader of a faction chiefly remarkable for its unscrupulous opposition to the Government. The Directors must by this time have discovered, to their cost, the loss they have sustained in the death of Colonel Wakefield, and how inadequately he is replaced by the present holder of his office. It is also reported

that Mr. E. G. Wakefield intends shortly coming to New Zealand ; it has, we believe, b.een a long cherished idea on his part to visit, and perhaps to become a resident in, a* colony with which his name is so intimately associated.

The Kelso arrived on Monday last, having previously visited Taranaki and Nelson ; she sailed from England 7th July. The Kelso left fifty of her passengers at Nelson, fortyone of whom are emigrants, and the remainder cabin and fore-cabin passengers. The remaining emigrants are for Otago. The ship I hames was advertised to sail for Auckland and Wellington on the 15th of July, and the ship Pekin was to sail for Wellington on the Bth of August.

We have published in our present number a communication received, by the Kelso, from Mr. E. G. Wakefield, inclosing a series of resolutions to be submitted by Mr. Adderley to the House of Commons on the second reading of the Australian ' Constitutions Bill. The subject is of considerable importance, and as it is proposed to extend the application of these principles to this colony we shall take an early opportunity of recurring to the subject.

Te Wheroa, from Uruhi, one of the most influential chiefs of the Ngatitoa tribe has within the last few days been received as a patient into the Colonial Hospital.

His Excellency Governor Sbortland (formerly Colonial Secretary of this colony) lady and family, sailed July 2 in the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Trent for Nevis, one of the West Indian Islands, of which he has been appointed. Governor.