Shipping Intelligence.

Wellington Independent, Volume VII, Issue 587, 28 May 1851, Page 2

Shipping Intelligence.

arrivals!"

May 26, cutter Alpha, 40 tons, M'Gregor, from Port Victoria. .Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Itichard. son, Miss Scott, John Madden.

SAILED. . .

May 19, harqxieMaria, 470 tons, Plank, for Port . Victoria. Same day, schooner Fidele, 0 tons, Fyfe, for the Kai Korns, May 22, schooner Gypsy, 10 tons, Brown, for Waikiiwa. May 24, cutter Fly, 25 tons, Cemino, for Port Victoria. May 25, barque Cornelia, 330 tons, Mickleburgh, . for Sjdney. Passengers—Mrs. Marshall and Mr. Jeffry : steerage—W. Read, J. Booth & wife, James ; M'Donald, R. Morgan, James Glead, G. Jncksou, J. Bent and wife. i Samo doy, brig Louis & Miriam, 150 tons, Pilfold, for Sydney. Same day, brigantine Perseverance, 82 tons, Marshall, for Port Victoria. Passengers—* Mr. and Mrs. Flyger &3 children, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Wood. Same day, schooner Emma Jane, 12 tons, Brown, for Waikawa.

IN PORT.

Barque Laura, 32!) tons, Dambrill. W. Fitzherhert, Agent. Brigantine Scotia, GO tons, Ward. Brigantino Return, 90 tons, King. R. Wailt, Agent. Scliooner Wellington, 5-1 tous, Ferguson. R WRitt, Agent.

Schooner Hose, M tons, Grey. Schooner Salopian, ft I) tone, Griffiths. Cutler Maria Josephine, !W tons, Wnlkpr.--. Bothuiio & Hunter, Agqntu. ... Cutter Alpha, 40 tons, Jl'Gregor.

IMPORTS.

In the Alpha, from . Port Victoria— Khodes & Co Agents—2 qr. casks sherry, 10 grindstones, ;j bulea wool, 4 hearth stones, and part origiuul cargo. In the Maria Josephine, from Port Victoria—. Bethune & Hunter, Agents—7 hhds. vinegar. ~*

EXPORTS,

In the Louis it Miriam, for Sydney—Samuel & Joseph, Agents--580 bugs flour, Crawford &Yule-~ 18 ooils wool .lashing, Rhodes & Co., and part o f original onrgo. ,

In the Governor Grey, for Wnngnimi—W. Lyoh Agent—2 hhds. rum,' 0 cuses Geneva, 1 q r> sherry, 3 bags sugar, 2 cases wine, ] cask sugar I half-chest tea, 27 bags salt, 2 cases lemon syrup, 10 casks bottled beer, 1 dozen adzes, 1 bale hosiery, I cask split peas, 3 casee slops, 1 ton coals, £ ton iron 1 box soap, 1 bale soap, 4 hhds. 8 barrels beer, 1 case cheese. Passenger—Miss Hobbs. In the Cornelia, for Sydney—Hervey, Johnston & Co., Agents—4 tierces 3 kegs tobacco, 7 hhds. brandy, Bannatyne—| keg tobacco, I case cigars 4-J tons flax, Miekleburgh—A bales canvass, 4 bales wool, W, B. Bhodee—l2o water casks, ] backet, 3 coopers'jointers, :j casks felling axes ( 4 anvils, 1 cask ironmongery,-1 bundle, 5 casks tools, 1 cask axes, 64 coils wool lashing, 41 bales wool, Betlmue & Hunter —3 bales canvass, 3 do. tfbol, Yftrnhara, and part of original bargo. '^ In the Perseverance, for-ptfrbWatbria!—2o cases •2 qr. casks brandy, 8,1,000 ft. timber, 5 kegs butter, and part of original cargo.

As to the threo Justices of the Peace, the arithmetic becomes moro eotnplicatod. It uppears almost necessary to resort to algebra, as the calculation depends on less known quantities. Instead of even following the Instructions as nearly us possible, anil trying to add up six . Justices of the Peace standing first in order on tho Provincial Couimissions, so as to make them equal to three Justices of the Peace on a General Commission, an attempt has been made to obtain the attendance of ono or two Justices from each settlement, whose only claim to seniority is that, out. of the particular number of Justices then residing or happening to reside at a particular settlement, they stand first in order on a Commission for the whole Province. Should the attempt succeed, the result would probably be, that eight or nine Justices of the Peace, standing first, second, fifth, twelfth, fifteenth, &c., or iv some such irregular order on the Commission of the Peace for the Province of New Munster, together with, perhaps, a certain number standing in a similar order on that of New Ulster, would at length be added up, as equal to the three Justices of the Peace designated by the Royal Instructions*... . ..,

Should it prove true, that two Provincial Secretaries, Attorney-Generals, and Treasurers are to be in attendance, as equal to one of each for New Zealand, the effect will of course be, considering the attendance of the Lieutenant-Gover-nor of New Munster, to double the official majority. Instead of four ex- ojicio members receiving emolument from the Crown, there will be eight. The attendance of other paid officers of the Crown, such as Collector of Customs—perhaps Commissioner of Crown Lands, —will still further swell that majority: while the irregular manner iv which substitutes have been sought for the three unpaid Justices of the Peace standing first in order on a General Commission, is but a poor guarantee for the energy and public spirit of any protest which even a small minority of unsalaried gentlemen might be allowed to make against measures of which they should not approve. We have heard it said by some, that his Excellency must legislate somehow or other, and that he is doing so in the nearest way possible to that prescribed by the Royal Instructions. We must only express our firm conviction, that the custom of legislating somehow or other has become too prevalent among Governors who are freed from any local check upon their so doing: us witness the appropriation of the revenue in this Province for the last eleyeu.months without any legal authority. And it appears that his Excellency might perfectly well appoint the paid arid unpaid officers for New Zealand which are designated by the Royal Instructions. Why not appoint a Colonial Secretary, Attorney-General, and Public Treasurer for New Zealand ? Why not issue a General Commission of the Peace, bearing on it first in order the names of the three first unsalaried gentlemen who have accepted, or who may be willing to accept, seats in the Council? This would be a kind of honourable distinction, like that lately conferred upon a gentleman at the Cape of Good Hope. There, by almost unanimous passive resistance to an arbitrary government, the gallant colonists were enabled to escape the bitter indignity which, by the introduction of convicts, Lord Grey had proposed to inflict on them. The sole exception to that passive resistance was Knighted.