WELLINGTON.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 5, Issue 243, 11 July 1861, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

(Form, our own Correspondent.)

The Lord Horsley arrived this morning from Auckland ; mail delivered about eleven o’clock. The debate on Fox’s motion bad taken place on Thursday, and was adjourned till 12 o’clock next day. I have not seen the papers yet, but from all I can glean the Ataf-, ford ministry will be beaten by only a small majority; they are moving heaven and earth to get members in in time'before the division takes place. Mr. Rowley, one of the Canter bury members, had arrived from Christchurch, and was instantly seized by the button-hole by Stafford, and wife and family are now snugly domesticated at ‘Government Home ; also, the gun. brig Caroline .-had- been despatched to New Plymouth to bring Captain Atkinson up from Taranaki; this will show what a desperate' game they are playing. /'Voin Stafford’s chop-fallen appearance, and hauteur style vanished, it indicates, to say the least, that he by no means feels safe and comfortable. Had. your Mr. //arrison been at his post, victory was certain. Mr. Grosbie Ward is now on his way up. ' 7’lie Airedale was to leave Manukau for .the southern ports last Sunday,-and may be expected here next Friday. Out of 33 head of cattle shipped per £ord Worsjey from here,- '/ hear that. 8 were lost l .or killed'on board-p it seems, after- all, - that shipping cattle by steamers'is no go. . By the Prince Alfred from Otago, we hear of the loss of the. Oolemau’s fine steamer Victory, off Cape Saunders, within five miles of Port Chalmers; it was blowing. hard at the time, and broad' daylight. The ship ran ashore at full speed and jumped, as described

by a passenger to -.me,, over a sand bank, and* was after two tide's 1 Imbedded in seven feet? water ; ,at any rate, she.will have to be broken up, and-was either qr- will* be condemned. I forbear tq.critici.se, although in possession of until an inquiry is. instituted ;, carelessness and drunkenness are attributed.