THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT Saturday, October 31, 1846.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 110, 31 October 1846, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT Saturday, October 31, 1846.

We refer our readers to the distressing intelligence from Manawatu and Wanganui. We sincerely trust that every thing will be done to meet the emergency of the case.

We are compelled to defer further remarks on the Company's 20th report; till our next.

The letter of ««Old Bill "will appear in our next. We have been compelled to leave out several communications, owinc to the want of room.

The schooner Souvenir, arrived in port on Wednesday from Hobart Town. Mr. Perry kindly furnished us with a late paper, from which we have extracted the following :—

The Java, with a London mail of the 19th May, called here yesterday on her way to Sydney to convey the 65th Regiment thither.

The intelligence she brings is most important— »n order to send forthwith to Sydney from hence three thousand well selected probationers, who are to be made up to ten thousand as rapidly as possible, with whom to form the new settlement under Colonel Barney, at Halifax Bay. It is believed to be the intention to carry the prayer of the Petition into effect by diminishing as quickly, and to as low a number as possible, the number of* prisoners in Van Diemen's Land, so as to turn the stream of British expenditure to the fosteiing the new colony. These are the first fruits of the petition. Will ihe colonists find their situation improved by it?

Dr. Hampton is certainly appointed Comptroller-General. He is on board the Calcutta, and is to arrange the drafting the men above-mentioned to be sent away.

We are disposed to believe that Mr Latrobe is to be the permanent new Go vernor.

There is nothing of particular news that we have not before given our readers. There is a ship signalised supposed to be either the Calcutta or the Cygnet. The following ships are on the passage: — Maitland, Capt. Grey; Cygnet, Captain Macleod ; Calcutta, Captain Ross; Jane Francis, Derwent, Eliza and Fenwick; the Buckhara, for Launceston, and the Renown, and Arab, for Port Phillip ; and it is said that an arrangement was in contemplation at the Post Office for the Trafalgar, the June Packet to call en passant here- .

We beg to call the attention of our readers to the advertisement, relating to the Britannia Cricket Club, and trust that those of our fellow colonists who ate able; will assist with their purse and presence in keeping up this fine old manly English game. We are happy'lo observe that practice has already commenced, and that the military and naval officers have come forward in a liberal mariner, and appear to take much interest in the amu-ement. Several matches are on the " tapis "