English News

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 216, 3 January 1861, Page 3

English News

TO 26m OCTOBER.

Her Majesty arrived fronv Germany. thcrl7t 2 7'he successor to the late Mr. Wilson, at ) Calcutta, is Mr. Samuel Laing, M.P., the t Financial Secretary to the 2Veasury, who will » be succeeded by Mr. Peel, r The authorities at Whitehall have had * under their serious consideration the necessity • of building a further number of iron armourclad ships; and although we believe nothing i definitive has as yet been resolved upon as to the exact plans which are to be used in their construction, we have reason to know that several'of these ships will be laid down. It is further jiroposed that one of these shall be built in Chatham dockyard, We shall con- ' sequeutly be in a position to judge as to the respective merits of the work performed, in. public and private establishments.

The new steel gun, rifled, invented by Mr. L-ynet Thomas, has been fired in the long range, the result of which is as follows: —The i gun, charged with 23 lb. of powder and a shot weighing 160 lb., obtained-a flight of 10,000 yards, or five and .three- quarter miles. Ar- : rangements are being made to carry out a course of trials and experiments with the gun, i which are ordered to take place shortly, in the ; presence of the select committee of Woolwich <. arsenal. i

The Newmarket and Cmsarewich has been won by D.ilcibella, owned by Mr.. Day. The steamer Arctic has been totally lost.

i There have been fierce gales in the north of Europe, causing great destruction to life and property, and a vast havoc among the shipping in the Baltic. A regiment of infantry is to proceed from jCalcutta to New Zealand, and also a half battalion of the royal artillery, with Armstrong 'gui>3, from .England, together with the 35th! company of the royal engineers. i Captain 11. Mercer’s No. 3 field battery, 4th brigade royal artillery, fully equipped with 12-pouuder Armstrong guns, lias been placed under orders for New .Zealand, with an intimation that their departure from head-quarteis at Woolwich will take place towards the latter end of November. Pekin, lias been occupied by the allied troops.

THF NEW ZEALAND WAT: AND TIIE ' CONDUCT OF VICFOIUA. [From (lie EconomicF] Wo learn from New Zealand flint, after an jjjHtvhl of nearly ihm; m-mihs; tie; '.m.niider*

ing war between the natives and the New Plymouth settlers, respecting the block of ground on the Waitara river, in the neighbourhood of the settlement, had broken out with new vehemence, in June last. sFhe renewal of hostilities was provoked by the natives. 7hey fired from, a fort on a reconnoitreing party of the 40th regiment, thereby determining our. sluggish commander to punish the insult; and the tardy attempt to take the fort resulted in a serious check to the British force. This is -the-, worst news we have yet received. The Waireka engagement of the 28th March, though it was marked by the grossest ; mismanagement, and, apparently, at least-, misconduct,-on the part of the British commanders, Colonel Gold and Colonel Murray, was in effect a victory, though an indecisive one ; since the native fott which was the bone of contention w r as stormed successfully by the naval brigade. But the engagement of which we no’wdiear as having taken place the last week .in June, and which was equally marked by unaccountable and culpable delay on the part of Colonel Gold in supporting an apparently well-planned expedition, lias met with defeat, though an indecisive one since the British detachment being vastly outnumbered by the Maories, who poured in from the interior during the engagement with great force, retired in good order, though without effecting its purpose, leaving 29 dead on the field, and having 33 wounded, of whom some have since died. Colonel Gold had large unused succours at his disposal, and is said to have been near the spot with 300 men, and deterred only by a swollen river from lending aid. The accounts state, that our opponents, the Maories, behaved with considerable gal lantry, and, —a tiling that is almost, unknown in the history of our warfare with Orientals or savaige tribes,—sustained with courage and

nerve a charge of British bayonets. This, we need scarcely say, : is very serious news. It needed only such a partial success as this to determine some of the most powerful MkOfX tribes, who were as yet wavering as to their course, to join the anti-British party o! the Waitara chief, W. I£ingi. We may almost regard a rebellion of the principal Maori tribes as now certain. Some, no doubt, will find their advantage in taking part with the settlers. Many will successfully avoid taking a part at all till the struggle is ended in our favour. Still it is obvious that, were we even to suppose, what is far from true, that settler volun-

teers from the various settlements could concentrate and uuite as rapidly as the various Maori tribes from the different provinces, even then, settler for native, the English in the Northern island are vastly-, outnumbered. Nor can we say in the present case as we usually may, that, one stout English’ volunteer is worth in a military point of view several natives, —the Maories being, by common consent and the testimony of their ene raies, the most dauntless and skilful of savage warriors with whom the /English have ever crossed arms.

And now, what, measures have been taken to counteract and retrieve this reverse ? In the first place, we hear that when the news was known at the seat of government—Auckland—the government determined to strip itself of troops, and send every available soldier to the seat of war at New Plymouth,—relying for their own safety, we conclude, on Auck-i land volunteers. I

Now let us see -what the generous aid of Victoria has effected for New Jbymouth. We learn that when the first news of this disaster reached Melbourne the movement of sympathy was universal and spontaneous, and noble and prompt aid was given, which increases the little army at New Plymouth by about 260 regular soldiers, and, what is far more important at the present juncture, by a General officer and his staff, who, we may hope, is competent to redeem, the sad bungling of his subordinates.

Should’ the New Ptymouth war retain its present dimensions, we may well hope that the timely succour thus sent from Victoria may have brought it to a successful and speedy conclusion. But we must remember that the dimensions of the war may have, and but too probably have, been largely increased in consequence of the success achieved in June by the natives. In this case, General Pratt’s aid, and that of the detachment of the 40th regt. under his immediate command, would only bring tempoi-ary relief. Ami, in any ease, it is obvious that it will be necessary for the

\ T ew Zealand Government to have permanently it its disposal a force sufficient to extinguish ill hope of insurrection amongst the natives,— ufficient to dictate, if necessary, both to naives and colonists, t!ie relations that shall for ihe future exist between them. Under these '•ircumstances, we cannot but anxiously recall the pledge virtually given by our Colonial Under Secretary, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, in the House of Commons, on the 21st Aw- 1 gust last, that such a force would be, or hac been, provided. Amidst all'the food for anxiety and regrel which the present aspect of things in New Zealand affords, two themes fur sincere and

(pure rejoicing present themselves to the English nation :—first, that the democratic constitutions of our distant dependencies have as yet in no way engendered indifference or even coolness in the loyalty of their affection for the Crown, or in their willingness to make costly sacrifices both of wealth and personal convenience for the sake of other members of the great brotherhood .of. free. British colonies in their time of need next, that the enthusiasm and disinterestedness of the recent Volunteer movement in Great Britain has been tble to infect so strongly our fellow-country-

men at,tlio antipodesa similar body of men at New Plymouth having displayed in the en* .ragemcnl of the 2S!h March an enterprise,

skill, and general efficiency equal to that regularly trained troops,—and another stii more recent body having now sprung up in Melbourne, to set free the regular garrison fo those more urgent duties which await them o the scene-of the Maori war. With a common, spirit such as this spreading through the British communities of both hemispheres, we may feel assured that the unity of. the British empire is something-more than a name.

CANTERBURY. The Lyttelton companies will be pleased to hear of the successful selection and purchase in. Melbourne of the instruments required for theband.—Lyttelton Times, 12th Dec. 7'he volunteers of Canterbury, will be,glad, to learn that one important part of their equipment—the uniform—will soon be delivered to them, advices having been.received* ■ of its shipment from London.— lbid. We notice the arrival, per Mutoaka, of five Saxony Merino rams, bred by Mr. Steiger, from the well known and justly celebrated Gadegast flocks. These rains were selected, by Mr. //umphrejs, the (/eiitlemHM who. has imported them from Saxony, and are some of the finest stock ever brought into this colony. The Gadegast flock.has been a favourite lor many years with the chief- L-ieedcrs: of firstclass stock in Australia, who have eontiimaily

, renewed their flocks with blood from this stock. A ram from the above flock took the prize of* 2000 francs, as. well as the-gold, medal, at rho Paris ExLbition in. 1855, and very recentljv Mr. Kennode, owner of .the famous “ three legs” brand in Van Diemen’s land, one of these rains in- Germany for the sum of 150 Z, another purchase of., ten being made at the same time on account of the Emperor-of /Zussia, for the sum of 1200/. Ibid. Sunday, the ,26th of- .December, was l the I.oth anniversary of the landing of the first body of settlefs upon the shore of Lyttelton harbour, and the fol<owing day was kept as a holiday. The estimates for public work's for 18G0-61. laid before the .Provincial Council on 33th December, amount to 24,909/, of which 21,200/would be expended on roads-. The whole estimated income for the year is 94,79G/, of which 36,000/ is derived from land ; sales, 14,000/ from pasturage licences, anil 14,000/ from - customs; and the expenditure 94,795/ 16s 2d. A subsidy of 1500/ is given*, for the steam service between Melbourne, . Otago, and Lyttelton. A sum of 500/is voted ' to secure the services of Mr. Julius Haast in-.-making a thorough topographical and geological survey of the province. Two vessels began to load wool on the 19th

December. They: will take 4000 bales aud be despatched in January. ' On the 12th the Superintendent proposed to memorialize: the Govmn r-for u dissolution ofthe Council, in order th.it the mind of the • province might be taken on the railway ques* tion. Tlie proposal was agreed to by a large majority.

Mr. W. D. Barnard sold on 6th Dec., at the White Hart, 2a ores of freehold land and a four-roomed dwelling house, situated in • Barbadoes street sou Ti,. for .£625. Also Ashby’s flour mill, with 25 acres leasehold■< land, which realised £B3O cash. On Saturday, -Mr. W. D. Barnard sold at his stock-, yards, opposite the White Hart, 10-maresand! geldings, at prices varying from £22 to £46,.. at an average of £3O per head.

OTAGO. The Provincial Council was opened on Urn 12th Dec. 7'he Superintendent, in his opening address, menti >ned that no land had been sold for eight months, and that the amount in the treasury was now reduced to £9455. The total revenue of the province from 31st March to 30th Nov. is 71.564/. The total expenditure 74,860/; of which 38,380/ has been expended on roads, and 36,480/ on other public works, .//bout 760 square miles have been surveyed at an expence of 5740/. ..There are 140,000 acres mapped and divided into rural sections now open for selection. The amount spent on immigration has been 18,575/, by means of' which 2532 immigrants have been iutroduced, the population being now front. 12, OOO'to 13,000. 7Te Superintendent proposes to reclaim 22! acres of Dunedin harbour from the sea, at tt cost of 33,000/* which, he- estimates will produce 72,000/ if sold at 15/ a foot frontage. A steam dredge will be needed, which will also be employed in deej ehing ilie channel so as to dlow large vessels to come up to Dunedin wharf. He proposes to make a main road into the interior to connect Dunedin with the whole southern country ns far as the banks' of. the Waiau. This roal it is estimated will make Dunedin the natural oufet for the produce of seven million acres of the tinest agricultural and pastoral country in the province. The Superintendent proceeds as f Hows:—-

“ The next,,ami by far the niu t impoifant proposition whioli 1 projik-e to submit is, ono which, doubtless, will be startling to some—one which may be |ui down as a chimera. It is one, howe\er, wlm h.b >tli I.ami others more competent to judge luvo Lug been consideringin all sobeniess—one in w’ icii I confidently anticipate that this Council during.its present, session will cordially coincide;, it is. neither more nor less than the establishment of tho Panama route between Great Britain and tho Australian colonies. The establishment of this route by the Provincial government of Otago, and as a necessary consequence, the making this province the Head-quarters, the focus of tlie great high-way of tho Pacific, ami bringing us within 42. days’ sale,of-the mother country. Gentlemen, great as have been the results which'have- flowed from the establish-

ment of steam with the Australian- colonies,., they arc as the small dust in.the balance, ami*

less than nothing as compared with the effects which cannot fail to flow from the line now indicated—effects, the smallest of which would be to quadruple the value of every man’s property in Otago; it would, in fact, to some extent, confer the same advantages, without many of: the drawbacks, upon this province which the gold fields have conferred upon Victoria.

“ Gentlemen,—lt only rests with you to say the word, to utter the “open sesame,” which will put the hitherto insignificant province of Otago into the proudest position of any of the numerous colonies of Great Britain in this hemisphere. The beauty of it is, that all this can be done without its costing any one a sixpence in the shape of taxation, and iwifliout our borrowing one single farthing; all that is wanted is, to declare into a hundred a single sheep run on the sea coast, which, instead of being now a comparative wilderness, with some few thousand, sheep roaming over it, ought to be producing sixty bushels of wheat to the acre, and supporting a large population. By disposing of such a run for the end now in view, you will be effecting a double object. “ Assuming that we establish the monthly line between Panama and this port, there will be no difficulty in arranging with the A.S.N. Coi, or the Coleman line, to continue the communication by separate vessels between this port and the ports of Sydney and Melbourne respectively, and probably with Tasmania—■ so that you see this would become the grand centre to and from which the mails for Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, and all the New Zealand provinces, would have to find their way. As a matter of course, the line would be subsidized by all these Governments, although, in so far as we are concerned, I believe you will be satisfied by tbe data which will be laid before you, that it will pay us without any subsidy. It will be manifest, I trust, that even if we should throw the price of a sheep run into the sea—an assumption, however, for which there are no grounds—yet if it should bring us into direct steam communication with Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart Town, and the New Zealand Provinces, the benefits incidental to such connections would far more than counterbalance the loss of the price of a dozen sheep runs. “ Gentlemen, —It will rest with you to decide upon this matter; if you say the word, I am prepared to undertake that the vessels shall be built and on the berth within nine months from this date. I sincerely trust that the matter will he taken up by you in a liberal and comprehensive spirit,, and that you will keep in view that, whatever Province in New Zealand may ultimately become the- port of call of the great highway, of the Pacific, such province will secure to itself an expenditure of at least a quarter of a million per annum, which it will not otherwise have. Of one thing we may rest assured, that the Panama line lias become an absolute necessity, and that it will very speedily be established by some one. To give an idea of some of the merely contingent benefits which would result to this province from the scheme now proposed:— Suppose, for example, that we arranged with the Coleman Company to continue the line to the other colonies, their head quarters would require to be in this port, involving an ex penditure of at least 60,000/ a year among us.”

ESTIMATE OF STEAM SERVICE

BETWEEN OTAGO ANZ> PANAMA.

Number of Steamers to be employed. —lt is proposed to employ A'teamers of 700 tons register,l6o horse-power, guaranteed to steam at a rate not less than 10 knots per hour. With such steamers, the distance between the point of arrival and departure being 6000 miles, the voyage .would occupy 25 days. A'uppose—

Steamer A leaves Dunedin January 3, Arrives at Panama, January 27 ; Leaves Panama February 6: Arrives at Dunedin March 4. „ B Leaves Dunedin February 1; Arrives at Panama February 27. „ C Leaves Dunedin March 1 ; Arrives at Panama March 27. „ A Leaves Dunedin April 1. Steamer A arriving at Dunedin on the return trip by March 4, would be ready to resume the service April 1, and so on with B; and C. It is evident,, therefore, that three vessels will suffice for the work, allowing 12 days between ariival and departure at Panama, and 25 days between arrival unci departure at Dunedin—an interval ample for coaling, and any accidental delay in the duration of the voyage.

Cost. —Such vessels, with engines, fittings, and every other necessary, built in the best possible manner, and with every modern improvement, would cost a maximum of £20.000 each. If brought out here under sail with Government Emigrants,, the expense of the voyage would be met by the passage money, and they would be delivered at Duuediu at the Home cost. Cost of 3 Vessels at £20,0000....£60,0000 Providing suitable Hulks for coals, offices, patent slip,. workshops, ! '■"and/other appliances— 10,000 Total outlay 4:70,000 Working Expences —The expence for! working such vessels as described, .would''he for each vessel per month— Wages and provisions for officers, crew, engineers, and firemen... £6OO Coals, 400 tons, at\£2 ffer tori.A 800 4-1400 The annual expence, therefore of working each boat would be in round numbers, snv—*l7,ooo

Allow for depeciation 25 per cent. per annum 4250 Repairs, oil, tallow, canvas, and other stores '3750 Crockery, Glass, Linen, and Cabin Furniture .*• 500 £25,500 Total expences of working three' boats 76,500 Allow for : contingencies 3,500 Total working expences £BO,OOO Revenue. —To meet this expenditure would be revenue derived from three sources, viz.:— Mail Subsidy; Passenger Traffic; and Freight on specie and parcels. These, :of course, can only be approximated; the following may fairly be taken as within the probable amount: Proportion of mail subsidy from the N.Z. Colonies, Sydney, and Melbourne £50,000 Passengers, 100 each way, at £3O • each, exclusive of provisions... 72,000 Preight on specie.... 10,000 £132,000

Profit .—The foregoing statement involves a profit of £52,000 per annum, but even if the establishment of the service involved a heavy loss, the advantages secured would more, than compensate such loss. Phe Superintendent intimated his intention of retiring from his office at the close of tbe session of the Council.

Mr. Gillies gave notice of a motion, “ for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the state of the public accounts.” A dinner was given, on Tuesday evening, 11th Pec., in recognition of Mr. Gillies’ services in the late session of the General Assembly. Upwards of sixty gentlemen were present on the occasion. Major .Richardson occupied the chair, and Messrs. Dick and E. M’Glaslian acted as vice-chairmen. The whole proceedings went off well, and the company separated at 10 o’clock. We have not space to give a full report of the proceedings, and, possibly, it was not intended that we should do so, as the customary practice of forwarding a ticket for the press was omitted. —Otago Witness, 15th Dec.

NEW SOUTH WALES. Wool.— Messrs. Mort and Co., held today their weekiy produce sale. The quantify of wool catalogued was 304 bales, the whole of which, with the exception of two or three lots, consisting of 65 bales, were sold. -The sale to-day may be considered as the first sale by auction of this season’s clip, and is a fair test of the state of the wool market. The prices obtained show a decline of about Id. per lb. on the last year’s rates for first-class clips, and a decline of fully 2d. per lb. on middling and low wools. There are, however, some wools which have not suffered so great a decline —for instance, 25 bales of fleece wool, marked Ureka, brought Is. 10£d. which is within a farthing of the price realised for this wool last year. Buyers to-day were cautious in their operations, and not inclined to buy except at the decline before noticed. The following were the rates obtained for the several lots sold : fleece Is. s£d. to Is. 10£d.; grease 9|d. to mixed 6fd, to Is. 7d.; New Zealand Is. 2d.; clippings Gd. Sheepskins are steady, and prices remain the same as last week. About 1249 sheepskins were sold at from to per lb. Felts d per lb. —Sydney Morning Herald. Nov. 16.

Disastrous Flood at llawkesbury. The first sign of the present visitation was noticeable both in the Hawkesbury and South i'reek early on Saturday morning, and continued increasing very gradually during the day. In the evening fears were entertained that we u'ere to have a repetition of the August flood, as both the river and creek were then bank bigb; necessitating the immediate removal of many families to places of safety ; horses, cattle, and other stock had also to be brought into town, and moved to some high position out of reach of the water. On Sunday morning, a grand but mournful spectacle presented itself to the many who were anxiously watching the progress of the flood. From Windsor to Richmond Bottoms, Wilberforce, Fieeman’s Reach, and Cornwallis, was one large sheet of water, interspersed here and there with the homesteads of the farmers, more or less covered. The Richmond bridge and the newly erected brige at Cornwallis are entirely covered. At the South Creek, the flat from the Fitzroy bridge to M'Grath’s hill is under water, as is also the most of the Peninsula. The mail from Sydney, due in Wiudsor on Saturday evening, was not delivered at the Post-office till near 11 a.m. on Sunday. The passengers with the mail had to be conveyed from M‘Grath’s 7/ill in a boat. It has been raining continuously all day, and at the present [time (Sunday 4 p.m.) has no sign of abating. The water has kept rising gradually all day, and is now about thirty feet above its usual level. It is to be hoped that, should the water soon commence to recede,

|part of the crops now covered may become available ; but it is very improbable. Fanning operations must be retarded for a conIsiderabie time, and it is feared that application will have to be .made to Government for some relief to the sufferers. A man named Dockerby was drowned while attempting to get bis stock off the love laud. —Sydney Empire Nov. 20. VICTORIA.

Wool.— The usual public sales of wool were held this afternoon. At Messrs. R. Goldsbrongh and Co.’s, 1590 bales were catalogued, arid 1125 bales sold. At Messrs. J.

H. Clough and ' Co.’s, 1543 bales were cata-| logued, and 1449 bales sold, exclusive of 200 bales catalogued for last week’s sale,,, but , not offered. Buyers attended -very- numerously, and the bidding was well sustained,, the advices received from England having,'imparted a firmer tone to the market. Greasy wools realized from lOd. to 12fd.; fleece from. 12Jd. to 26d.; scoured 26d. per lb. Mr. Manley’s station on the Goulburn, with sheep and cattle, is stated to have been sold for £26,000; the sheep at 255. per head shorn. The improvements on the property are very complete.—Argus. Nov. 15. ;

POST AND RAIL FENCES. Until a thoroughly approved description of live hedge becomes adopted, post and rail fences must still be generally used. Posts, of whatever kind of timber, should always be coated with coal tar, or well char red exactly at which will be immediately below and above the surface, for it is there that decay first takes place. Another consideration, which is neither not known or not regarded, should never be lost sight of in putting posts into the ground. We refer to the very old and, we believe sound, theory, that posts should always be set into the ground in a position exactly the reverse of that in which they grew—or top downwards ; because they are, in that state, less liable to absorb water than if they were in their natural position. We extract from the American Farmer an experiment on this subject, as follows : “ bout thirty years ago, I, to test the thing, split two bar posts, side by side, out of a chesnut log. They were eight feet long, eight inches wide, and three thick. One 1 set butt down, the other top down. At the end of ten yeers the one set, butt down was rotted off, and I re-set it in the same hole. At the end of six years it was rotted off again, and I put in a new one. The other lasted four years longer, when it got split in two, and I took it out, and it was about twothipds rotted off. Sixteen years ago, I set in six pairs of bar posts, all split out of the butt cut of the same white oak log. One pair I set butts down, another pair one butt down the other but up, and others tops down. Four years ago, those set butt down were rotted off, and had to be replaced by'new ones. This summer I had occasion to re-set those that were set top down. I found them all sound enough to re-set. My experiments have convinced me that the best way is to set them top down.” —Victoria Farmer's Journal. Some notion (says the Pastoral Times) may he formed of the grand scale in which squatting is carried on in these districts when we record the number of sheep to be shorn this season on the runs belonging to Mr. James Tyson, as 80,000. 'The average weight of the wool is 3 \ lbs. per sheep. This would give 280,000 lbs. of wool, which at 2s. per lb. would realise £28,000. If the sheep increase as we expect, Mr. Tyson in five years will shear 500,000 giving employment to hundreds of men ; and this is the interest that the demo, cracy of these colonies is trying to destroy or extinguish.

Training Steers.— This is an art that every one lias not faculty to practise. It requires a great deal of patience, judgment, skill, in short, to know bow, and the ability to do what you know. Four pair of steers can Re trained with nearly the same ease at once. The first step is to shut them in a well-fenced yard, with an area of from twelve to sixteen square rods, where the driver can stand in the centre and make the steers travel round him. They should be kept going in pairs, or Indian file, until they will allow Ids approach—until they learn to be bandied without fear, which is an important rudiment in the education of an ox. In doing this, the same patience and gentleness should be exercised which is expected of the teacher of a school—a patience which never yields to vexation. In a short time they will allow themselves to be yoked on either side, and can be driven anywhere, either in or out of the yard. Four days spent in this way will better train steers to the yoke than four months of miscellaneous ftirm service, and they will be better cattle foi all kinds of teaming, and sell for a higher price. The drilling in the yard should be continued until they can be driven with ease. To teach them to stand when left to rest., they need hitching as much as a span of horses. When steers are trained to drive well in the yoke, the entire operation of training them to work should be commenced. This should proceed by degrees, with light loads ami short journeys, until they gave evidence of ability as well as knowledge. Oxen can be trained to work well with as little expence to the natural spirits of the animal, as the horse, and it should be the aim of every ox-trainer to train his cattle to work well without discouraging or abusing them. FIJI. Fire. —A large fire took place at Leouka, when Bensusan’s store was burnt down, and nearly all the property destroyed. All the native houses where burned also; The fire was the work of an incendiary. A man named Mordaunt was convicted of stealing £2OO from the store just before it,was,destroyed. In the consul’s Court he was Sentenced to imprisonment till he can be sent away-from the island, and his property confncatecl for expences of imprisonment.— Sydney Morning Herald Nov. 8.

Emigration to Fiji.— The following extract from a letter from Fiji, received by a gentleman in .Sydney, has been handed to us ;

(‘Sydney Morning Herald’) for publication : -—“The Jeaunie Dove is on the point of sailing, and I snatch up my pen to beg you will warn intending emigrants hither that to come without means, is folly. We have had lately a very considerable addition, to. our white population from New Zealand and from Australia con sisting chiefly of mechanics—-men, I am sorry to say, with no money. What has them to thrust themselves amongst a cannibal race in so reckless a manner I cannot conceive. Living, even in the rough style that we pioneers do, is as expensive as in the colonies. Employment for labourers and mechanics.. there is none. Cash is an article that is positively unknown among us: we buy and sell by barter. The new-comers have been forced to thrust themselves upon the old residents for food and shelter; and although the hospitality of.the old Fiji hands is notoriously almost unbounded yet there is a limit at which the most liberal will halt. We require men with hard hands, and energetic minds, backed by a few hundred pounds. To such Fiji offers every prospect of future independence. This group is no refuge for the destitute.”

The Presentation or our Bugle. —The day arrived, and the hour. Headed by our band (their first appearance in public—rather nervous and shaky, a trifle agitated in the trombone; and a thought Punch and Judyish about the big drum, but. still playing capitally), we marched through the village and into the field.; The profane vulgar were not allowed to come inside, hut they clustered thickly round the gates and swarmed about the palings like bees. Very good and searching were the remarks of the boys. “ /Talk up ! walk up ! just a-goin’ to .begin !”,shouts one, as the band passed. “ Hooray for the Workus Corpse,” says another, in allusion to our neat grey uniform., ‘ Z/ere’s the pauper lunatics with their throats cut,” .says a third, hinting'at the red. stripe on our collars, “//alio, Bill,” says a hoy perched on the gate, “here’s your huncle.” “7 see him,” responds Bill, a grimy-faced cyi.ical young blacksmith—“ I see him, bat 1 never takes no notice of him when he's with his WolunteersP And we passed on into the field. The white tent glimmered in the sun, and the ground was covered with company. The Duleiss people had brought some great acquaintances with them, country grandees in their carriages, dashing girls on horsebabk, and three or four young, Guards’ officers, who came to scoff, and remained to prey—mpon the luncheon. To pass this lot was the great ordeal. “ Keep up, rear rank !” “Steady in the centre ! ” “ Touch to the left, Jenkins; where the deuce are you going to?” 7'he first and second companies went by splendidly. “ Weall-y, not so bad now, for quill-drivers and mechanics,” says young Lithpson of the Bombardiers to Jack Gorget of the Body Guards, mauve. Jack nods approvingly ; then, as the third company advances, headed by Tom Exlex, who was in the Spanish service under General Dvans and wears his Sebastian medal and San Fernando cross on his breast, Jack says earnestly, though ungrammatically, “ Hullo, what’s this swell’s decorations ?” “ ’Pon my soul I can’t say,” answers Lithpson ; “ pwobably some weward for supewior penmanship.” But we could afford to laugh even at such bitter sarcasm as this, so well were our evolutions performed, and so heartily were they applauded. Finally, we were drawn up in line, and, amidst the cheers of the populace, Lady Duleiss advanced, followed by a portentous servant bearing the bugle on a cushion. Aady Duleiss is a very fine woman : a kind, benevolent, motherly looking lady, and I’ve no doubt she made an excellent speech. It was intended for the entire regiment, but-she delivered it in a confidential tone to Jack Heatly, who stood in front of her,, and all we . caught was, “ Britannia,” “ bugle,” “ Grimgribber,’' and “ call to arms.” Then she presented the bugle gracefully to Jack, who, in his intense nei'vbusuess, instantly dropped it, and she and he and Sir Gregory and the portentous footman all struggled for it on the ground. Then.the band played “ God save the Queen,” the people cheered louder than ever, and we broke off and went into lunch.— Dickens's 'All the i ear Round.