The Taranaki Herald. NEW PLYMOUTH, MARCH 23, 1853.

Taranaki Herald, Volume 1, Issue 34, 23 March 1853, Page 2

The Taranaki Herald. NEW PLYMOUTH, MARCH 23, 1853.

Tnr. William from "yilney tor Whanganui, anchored in our roadstead oiNjfcdnesday morning last, hawii,- W" uind-wn&in the offing for ten days previous. Shd^Kk Sydney on the 1 7th ultimo, and had encountered \ery stormy weather.

We are enabled, liy the kindness of 11. Brown, Esq. — who has favoured us with some files of the Sydney Morning Herald —

to furnish our reailfis with some Jinglis.li I intelligence of a month's later date than previous arrivals.

The Melbourne, screw steam ship, had anived at Sydney on the Bth ultimo. Unfortunately, the Herald of the 9th ult., is missing from the file, and makes our intelligence of an imperfect character. From the contents of the papers we have obtained, it is to be presumed that the missing paper contains the Qulun's speech on the opening of parliament, one or two paragraphs being given in subsequent papeis, but which have no interest for the Colony. We shall be able next week to furnish the proceedings of the Parliament on the address, a perusal of which will give our readers a shrewd idea of the moves of the Ministry, and the tactics of the opposition.

The following is from the Sydney Morning Herald of the 10th ult :— " The excellent summary of English news which we copied yesteiday from the Melbourne Argus renders it unnecessary for us to say much this morning. We give a number of extracts in other parts of the j paper. The mail by the Melbourne only comes down to her sailing from England ; no mail appears to have been sent after i her to Lisbon, which ought to have been I done.

" We have in a weekly paper of the 7th November the official programme of the ceremonies to take place at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington, but as we are in hourly expectation of the arrival of the Shanghae, which will bring us intelligence of the ceremony itself, we have determined not to publish it. Every thing that the authorities— ecclesiastical, military, or heraldic — can do to show lespect to the illustrious deceased appears to have been provided fot. It is said the procession will be ihiee miles long. In the Times there ate two columns of advertisements from persons offering to let rooms or windows on the line of proces" sion ; from seven shillings for a single person "on the roof" to twenty-five guineas for a comfortable drawing-room with " his plate glass windows and a fire," are asked by the advertisers. It was leporled that the Queen would view the procession ftotn Somerset-House. Seats for seven thousand persons were being jnepaied in St. Paui'o Cnthedral.

" We have I'eon unable to procure any wool idles in town, but a Cape paper reports that the sales had gone off brUkly with an aUcVue of Id. to l£d. on previous rates."

"We have C ape papers to the Ist January. The " wai 1 ' &eems in as unsatisfactoly a state as ever. We read of marchings and .surprises, and men being picked off, but no teal advancement towards peace appears to be made. To make room for English extracts we have been compelled to postpone our Cape summary until to morrow."

Our next arrivals will probably enable us to lay the whole speech before our teadeis, but from the debates it may be gathered that the document is neither very interesting or satisfactory. The debates mooting nothing of Foreign affairs, we may perhaps assume that the usual official formula has been observed, and that her Majesty continues to receive, &c.

« There is, however, other matter than the debates which, on the subject of Foreign affairs, will claim attention. We subjoin a document, which in its operation, seem likely seriously to menace the peace of

Kutope, perhaps the world. It purpoits to be an edict by the French Senate, establishing the Empire, consisting of eight articles, and having for its object the inauguration of Louis Napoleon to the Imperial dignity, and settling the hereditary right, either by descent, or adoption, in the Bonaparte family. The eighth article prescribes, that tlui same shall be submitted to the French People, so that there is little doubt, the farce lias been played out long since. Establishment of the Empiiik by the French Senate.

Art J. — The imperial dignity is re-es-tablisheil. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is Emperor under the title of Napoleon 111.

Ah. 2. — The imperial dignity ishererfter in the direct and legitimate descendants of Louis Napoleon Bonapatte, from male to male, by oider of primogeniture, to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants.

Art. 3.— Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, if he have no male child, may adopt the legitimate children and descendants in the male line of the brothers of the Emperor Napoleon I. The forms of adoption are regulated by the Senatus Consultum. If after the adoption, male children should be born lo Louis Napoleon, his adopted children cannot be called on to succeed him until after his legitimate descendants. The adoption is interdicted to the successors of Louis Napoleon and their descendants.

Art. 4. — Louis Napoleon regulates, by an otganic decree, addressed to the Senate and deposited in its archives, the order of succession to the throne in the Bonaparte family, 'incase he should have uo direct legitimate or adoptive heits.

Art. 6. — In fault of legitimate or adoptive heirs of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in the colateral line, who shall derive tlie'ir right -in the above-mentioned organic decree. A Sennlus Consultum, proposed to the Senate by the ministers formed into a Council of Government, united to the presidence of the Senate of the ' Legislative body and of the Couucil of the State, aud submitted to the acceptance of the peop'e, names the Emperor, arfd regulates 'in his family from male to mate, to the perpetual exclusion of females and their descendants. Until the moment wlitn the election of the new Emperor is consummated, the affairs of the state are governed by tlie Ministers in office, who shall form themselves into a Council of Government, and deliberate by a majority of voles.

Art. 6. — The members of the family of Louis Napoleon 13onaparle called eventually to the succession, and their descendants of both sexes, form part of 'the Imperial family. A Senatus Consullum regulates their position. They cannot marry without the authorization of the Emperor. — Their marriage without such authorization entails privation of all hereditary right, as well from him who contracts it as from his descendants.

Art. 7. — The constitution of January, 1852, is maintained in all provisions which arc not conttary to the present Senatus Consultum. There cannot be any modification in it, except by the form, and by the means therein prescribed.

Art, 8. — The following proposition shall be presented lo the acceptance of the French people, in the terms determined in the decree of the 2nd and sth of December 1851. The people wish for the establishment of imperial dignity in the person of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, with hereditary right to his direct descendants either legitimate or adopted, and give him the right to regulate the order of succession of the Bonaparte farhily, as provided for by the Sanatus Consultum of November 1852.

On the 7th of Nov. it was put to the vote, and carried by a majority of 86 out of 87. All signed their names to the documents after waids, the whole Senate in full costume. The Cardinals iv their red dresses, preceded

1 by an escoit went to the palace of St. Cloud. M. Mesiiaid addiossed the President, placing in his hand the Senatus Consultant. The Senate shortly afterwards departed. The decree appeared the same day, calling on the people to vote aye and nay to the proposition ou the 21st and 22nd of November. The news from America contain the melancholy intelligence of the death of the Hon. Daniel Webster, after a brief illness. The Prince of Leufchenburg is dead.

By the Overland Mail, we have received Wellington papers to the sth inst. The Government Gazette of the 28th of February contains the following Proclamation of the Provinces and boundaries under the provisions of the New Act :—: — By His Excellency Sir George Grey, a Knight Commander of the most Honorable Order of the Bath, (L. S.) Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c, &c. Whereas an Act was passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, C. Ixxii, intituled " An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand." And whereas, the said Act in accordance Whh the provisions thereof was Proclaimed in the said Colony of New Zealand on the seventeenth day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Three. And whereas, by the second clause of the above recited Act, the following Provinces weie eslab'ished in the said Colony of New Zealand, viz. — The Province of Auckland. The Province o"f Ntw Plymouth. The Province of Wellington. The Province of Nelson. The Province of Canterbury, and The Province of Otago. And whereas, it was by the same clause of the same Act fuither enacted that "the limits of such several Provinces shall be fixed by the Governor as soon as conveniently may be after the Pioclamation of the said Act."

Now thciefore, I, theGovernor-in-Chief 1 , do hereby Proclaim and Declare that the limits of the Provinces aforesaid shall be as follows, viz — ! The Province of Auckland shall be bounded on The North By the Const line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The East By the Coast line, including the islands adjacent thereto. The West By the coast line, including the islands adjacent thereto. 'Ihe South By the River Mokau to its source, thence by a right line running from the source of the Mokau, to the point where the Ngahuinga or Tupua the principal tributary of the Whanganui River is intersected by the thirty-ninth parallel of South Latitude, thence eastward by the thirty-ninth parallel of South Latitude, to the point where that parallel of Latitude cuts the East coast of the Northern Island of New Zealand. The Province of New Plymouth shall be bounded on The North By the Kivea Mokau to its source. The East By a right line running from the source of the River Mokaii to the point where the Ngahuinga or Tupua, the principal tributary of the Whanganui River is intersected by the 39th parallel of South Latitude, thence by the River Whanganui to the point where it is met by the Taumatamahoe Path leading from the River Waita, thence by a right line running from the above described point on the Whanganui river to the mouth of the river Patea. The (Vest By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto.

The South Yiy the coast line, including the islands adjacent thereto. The Province of Wellington shall be 1)0 ii n dec! on The Noilh By the Southern boundary of the Province of Auckland as alieady described in this Proclamation. The East By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. 'The North Wat By the Southern- poition of the KaMern boundary of the Province of Neiv Plymouth as already described in this Proclamation. The South West By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The South By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The Province of Nelson shall he bounded

on The North By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The East By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The West By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The South Hy the River Ilurunui to its source, thence by a right line drawn to the point where tho River Kotu-urakaoku issues out of Lake Brunner, thence by the River Ko-lu-urakaoka to its junction with the River Grey, thence by the River Grey to its mouth. The Province of Canterbury shall be liounded on The North By the Southern boundary of the Province of Nelson as desciibed in this Proclamation. Tiie East By the coast line, it.eluding the Islands adjicvnl therelo. The West By the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The South By the River Waitangi to its source, thence by a right line running to the source of th<: River Awatua, thence by the River Aivarua to its mouth. The Ptovince of Otago shall be hounded

on The North By the Southern boundary of the Province of Canterbury as already described in this Proclamation. The East Hy the coast line, including the Islands adjacent thereto. The West Hy the coaat line, including the Islands adjacent theieto. The South By the coast line, including the Islands adjicont thereto, with tho exception of Ste'.vart's Island, its adjacent Islands, and Sclanders Island, and the Island of Uuapuke. ThisProclamalion shall take effect within the Province of We lington on and after the day of the date hereof, and within each of the other Provinces aforesaid on and after the receipt of a copy hereof at the principal Toivn of such Province, Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Government House, at Wellington, in the Province of New Munsler, in the IsJands aforesaid, this Twenty -eighth day of February, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-three.

G. GREY, Governor-in-Chief. ]3y His Excel'ency's command, Alpiud Domett, Civil Secretary. God Save the Queen !

There is a report that Government intend to propose some alteration in the minimum upset price of country Lands in the colony, and our contemporary the Spectator has an article on the subject, from which we make the following extracts : —

" Considerable interest has been lately excited by the report of a proposed alteration, by the Government, in the minimum price of country lands in this colony, and a good

deal of anxiety has been displayed to know the nature of the new regulations which, it is believed, are shortly to be put forth for the regulation and nuui.v;ement of the Waste Lands of the Ciown. It is generally understood, that for the future minimum upset price of country land, available for cultivation, will be fixed, throughout the tbholc of New Zca/and, wherever no existing arrangements interfere to prevent it, at 10s. per acre, and that inferior, broken and hilly land, available for pasturage Lut not fit for cultivation, will be offered for sale at the minimum upset price of ss. an acre.

" But not only is the price of land to be reduced as above stated, but it is said that under certain prescribed conditions the power of selection will be unlimited ; that is to say, that instead of being confined, as in the case of the New Zealand Company, to certain districts which were first surveyed and then offered for selection lo the land purchasers, it will be in the power of any one to purchase land in any part of the waste lands of Now Zealand under the management of the Crown, the principal restrictions being that the block of land shall be of v prescribed form, varying in size from 80 acres to 640 acres, or not exceeding one square mile, and that the payment shall be cash." We shall lake a future opportunity of returning lo this subject, so full of interest to this seltlem lit.

By the Overland Mail we haVe received from Auckland the New Zcalander and Southern Cross to the sth instant. By way of Melbourne our contemporary the New Zealander furnishes some additions to the intelligence obtained here by the papers per the William, which we extract as follows — The New Parliament was opened on the lllh of November by Her Majesty in person. The following is THIS QUEEN'S SPEECH. My Lords and Gentlemen— I nlnliot meet you for the first time after tlio dissolution of Parliament, without expro-siniJ; my deep sorrow, in uhich I am sure you will i nriii ipate, that your deliberations can no longer lie aided by the counsels of Unit illuitiious man whose great achievements have exulted the nimo of England, and in whose loyalty and patriotism the interests t of my tlirono and of my people ever found an uut failing support, I rely witli confidence in your desire to agree With mo in taking such step' ns may mark your sense of the irrcpnrahle loss which the country has sustained by the loss of Arthur, Duke of Wellington. I am happy to acknowledge the readiness with which n>y subjects in general have como forward in pursuance of tho act of the last seision, to join the rankt of the militia ; ond I confidently trust that the force thus ratit-d by voluntary enlistment will be calculated to give ciiective aid to my regular array for the protection and Security of the country. 1 continue to receive from all foreign powers nnmranees of their anxious desire to maintain tho friendly relations now happily subsisting with my Government. I

Frequent and well founded complaints on the part of my North American Colon iei of infractions by citizens of the United States, of the convention of 1818, induced mo to despatch, for the protection of their interests, a cla6s of vessels better adapted to the service than those winch had been previously employed. This step has led to discussions with the Government of the United Stales; end while the rights of my subjects have been firmly maintained, the friendly spirit in which the question has been treated Induee h mo to hope that the ultimate result may be a mutually beneficial extension and improvement of our commercial intercourse with that great rcqtiblic. A special mission, which, in concert with tho Prince Piciident of tho French Republic, I deemed it right to send to the Argentine Confederation, has been received with the utmost cordiality ; ami the wise and enlightened policy of tho Provisional Dictator has already opened to the commerce of the world the great rivers, hitherto closed, which afford an access to the intorior of the vast conti« nent of South America.

I have the satisfaction of announcing to you that the sincere and zealous effons of the Government of Brazil for the suppression of the slave trade, now nearly extinguished on that const, have en«« bled me to suspend the stringent measures which I had been compelled reluctuntly to adopt— a re. currence to which I anxiously hope may be proved to be unnecessary. The Government of Her Moat Faithful Majesty have fully recogniied the juitice of the claim which my Government have loni? urged for the abolition of tho discriminating duties on the export of wine, and have passed a decree for giving complete effect to the stipulations of the treaty on that subject.

You will probably deem it advisable to reiunio the inquiries which were commenced by the late Ptrliauienl, wuh a view to legislation on the subject of the future Government of my Eait Indian Possessions. Gentlemen of the Home of Commons— The eitim&lca of the ensuing year will ia due

lime be laid before you. The advancement of the fine arts, and of practical science, will bo frreatly recogniied by you as worthy the attention of a ffrcnt and enlightened nation. I huve directed that a comprehensive schomo shall bo laid before yon, having in view the due promotion of those objects, towards which I invite your aid and co-operation.

My Lords and Gentlemen — It gives mo pleasure to be cnablrd, by tho blessing of Providence, to congratulate you on the gene« ru|ly improved condition of tho country, and especially of the industiioui classes. If you should bo of opinion that recent legislation, contributing with other onuses, to this happy result, liai at the fnmc time inflicted unavoidable iujury on cortnin important interests, I recommend you dispassionately to coniidcr how for it miy he practicable equitnbly to mitigate that injury, and to enable the industry of the country to meet «ucce-«fully thai unrcotricted competition to which Parliament in its wisdom has decided that it shall bo subjected. I trust that the general improvement, notwithstanding many obstacles has extended to Ireland ; and while I rely with confidence on your aid, should It be required, to restrict that unhappy spirit of insubordination and lurbulencc, which produce many and nggravutes nil of the evils which afltct thut portion of my dominions, ,1 lecommend to you tho adoption of such a liberal and geimrous policy to» wards Ireland, as may encourage and assist lier (o rally from the depression in which sue has been sunk of late ycais. Anxious to promote tho efficiency of every branch of our national church, I have thought fit to isiue a commission to inquiio and report to mo how far, in their opinion, il.c capital institutions of the couniry ure capable of being made more effective fur the general objects of religious worship, rel.. gioui education, and oculeuiabtical discipline. 1 Lave directed iliat the reports of commissioners for enquiung into the M ■'tern of education pursued at Oxford and Cambridge thould bo coromuuicattd to tho governing bodies of tho universities for their consideration j and 1 rely upon your readiness to remove uny lcgul dis ibllities which m<ty impede the desire of the universities at luge or of the several colleges, to it.tioduccsuch amenjments into their existing system a-. tl><7 niuy deem to be moro in accordance with the rtquirements of the present time. Tho system of secondary puniihnii m« ''as usefully occupied the labours of successive Parliaments and I shall rejoice if jou shall find it possible to devi«o means by which, without giving eneouratement to crime, transpottalion tn Vnu Dtcmcns's may at no distant day, be ultogrtner discontinued. The subject of legal reform continues to engage my most scrioun attention. The acts passed in the last scstion of Pailiamcnt hnvc becu followed up hy the orders necessary lor putting them into operation. luquiiiea Hre in piogress by my direction, with a vimv of blinking into liumony the testamentary jurixiicti n ol my aevt" r.il oourtB; and bills Bill he submitted tv you fur tffcttinii further, improvement* in ilic admininrnturn of tlio law.

To these, and oilier measures ..fleeting tin* korial condition or' the country, 1 <"■> pe.Miuurd tli.it >ob will give your earnest and zt-ulous ullen'lon ; and 1 pray that, by the blessing ol Almighty G)d your deliberations may be guided to the well being und happiness of my people.