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When the consideration of the estimates was called on, Mr. Dry moved, and Mr Kermode second
ed as an amendment-
That a committee be appointed to enquire into and report upon the amount of expenditure in each department of the Government, arising out of the Convict System,
For the Amendment,
Mr Dry
Gregson
Fenton
Swanston Kermode Dunn Kerr
Against it. Lieutenant-Governor
THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETIE,
have been subjected, by being compelled to support police, rendered necessary by the presence of British criminals, is so gross that wherever it is fully and clearly understood by the British public, it must be done away with. We shall return to the subject on en carly day.
The amendment was supported by Capt. Fenton CAPT. FITZROY'S "DISOBEDIENCE OF ORDERS." and Mr Gregson, and opposed by the Colonial Se- It is far from our intention to step forward as cretary, the Attorney-General, the Comptroller of the champions of Captain Fitzroy, whose policy Convicts, and the Lieutenant Governor. the letter in the government of New Zealand, judging from of whom is reported to have said, "Honorable its results, would appear to have been a series of members acted as if they were there not to assist calamitous blunders. But we are inclined to think. him (the Governor), but that they might interfere less unfavourably of the ex Governor than we pre even with the instructions of the Secretary of State. viously did, since reading Sir James Graham's But it was his duty not to listen to any such inter-statement, in the House of Commons, of the grounds ference by the Council, but to carry out the intentions upon which Her Majesty's Government had re- of the Home Government If, as a Legislative called him. Council, they declared otherwise, he must tell thems In our observations of Friday upon the Proroga they had not the power of changing the system intion Speech of our own Governor, we expressed operation, and ought not to attempt to alter it. our belief that from the first day of his administra- The funds of this colony must sustain the necessary tion to the present time, and in all his measures. expenditure for maintaining the colony, until it whether executive or legislative, the ruling princi shall be Her Majesty's pleasure to direct otherwise.ple of His Excellency had been to please the au The Queen (His Excellency observed), and no thorities in Downing-street, and to study the wel Upon the question | fare of the colony only in so far as it could be pro other on earth can alter it," being put, there appeared
moted without detriment to that principle.
There are two aspects in which a colony may be regarded by its local ruler-as a Ministerial.in. strument, or as part of the nation. If dealt with in the first of these characters, the pleasure of the Minister is of course the primary consideration, and the welfare of the province but a secondary thought; if treated in the other character, the paramount object is of course the good of the country, and rather than compromise this great and virtuous aim, the Minister's frown will be braved without hesita
We fear Sir George Gipps has handled this fine colony as a mere instrument; and it is because we discern in the conduct of Captain Fitzroy, as described by Sir James Graham, something like a preference of the interests of New Zealand above the smiles of the West-minster officials, that we have become inclined to think that, after all, he may not have been so deficient either in wisdom or
courage as his enemies have represented. The Home Secretary is reported to have said, in his speech of 10th June, on Mr Bu ler's motion respecting New Zealand, that though he did not wish to inculpate Captain Fitzroy in order to viu- dicate the Government, he must mention the cir The Council again divided, and a third time did
cumstances in which that officer had disobeyed the the Lieutenant-Governor use his double vote, and instructions of Lord Stanley, in order to justify his thus carry his point against the whole of the non-
recall. He readily admitted the difficulties of Capt. official members. Messrs, Gregson, Dry, Fenton, Fitzroy's position, but still he thought that it wrs and Kermode, then left the Council chamber, and impossible to overlook the disobedience of orders of the whole of the items on the estimates were gone which he had been gui ty, in issuing an inconver through in half an hour, without a single word cftible paper currency-in. refussing to incorporate into a militia the sctilers and such untives as they On the following day the Appropriation Bill was
could place reliance on--and in repealing all the brought in and read a first time, the Lieutenant-customs duties of the island.' Governor's double vote being used, as it was also for the second reading, and, as the papers state, it would have been read a third time, had not the six non official members who were present have left the chamber, which broke up the House. Reading a bi, especially a money bill, three times in a one day, appears to be a singular mode of conducting Legislative business, but we suppose the Standing Orders of the Council permit it,
. Chief Justice
Attorney-General Colonial Secretary
• Comptroller General Collector of Customs. Colonial Auditor. The Governor said-the numbers being equal I give my casting vote against the amendment,tion.
which is lost.
One of the members (Mr O'Connor) being ab sent, Mr Gregson moved as a further amendment that the consideration of the estimates might be postponed until all the members were present, which upon a division met with the same fate as the previous resolution,
Mr Dry then moved, as a further amendment.in That the consideration of the estimates be post. poued till Friday, in order that the Colonial Secre tary may be enabled to give an explanation of the items, amounting to upwards of £20,000, under the head of sums required to supply deficiencies.
comment,
-force to Canada, and also that the construction of part; and, in suffering under Ministerial displea. sure, he is a martyr to right principle. And the 17 war steamers was to be undertaken forthwith, question naturally occurs, to a New South Wales In noticing these pregnant movements, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser very properly says, "At colonist. Had the gentleman at the head of our own Government been placed in the same predica every point England seems to be strengthening her ment, would he have acted the same or a similar means of offence and defence, and there is much part! If so, then we can only apologise for hav-reason to believe that at no time within the last ing furmeil a very erroneous estimate of his public quarter of a century have our relations with that character; for, according to that estimate, he would Power been in a mere delicate, if not critical, si- no more have done so than would have thrust his tuation. What is our Government doing t Donud- ing many of the most important points on the fron- right band into the fire.
tier and the seaboard of noorly all their effective defensive force, and, without the authority and scarcely the colour of law, transferring this force to Texas, a foreign country by our laws. Why is Buffalo one of the most important points on the whole frontier, without any troops, while several companies are still kept at Plattsburgh, Sackett's Harbour, Oswego. Detroit, and Fort Gratiot,-New York Couri s and Inquirer
THE WAR IN ALGERIA. The French Government has published the of ficial report of General Lamoriciere on the series of combats which that officer fought on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of the present month, in the neigh bourhood of Nedróma, against the native tribes, which have risen in favoar Abdel Kader, and the news of which was previously announced by the telegraphic despatch dated Perpignan, October 23, which we have already published,
to the world.
Union of the Atlantic and Pacific. We have re- ceived the Grenada Chronicle of the 6th ultimo, which contains intelligence of the highest interest. It appears that, efforts are making. in Europe to cut a canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, though the isthmus of Panama, or to con struct à railroad across the country to Tehuantepec at an enormous expetise, the Americans, lave.
Philadelphia. Oct. 15.-The southern papers record five duels-two killed an i three wounded -- at New Orleans at l'ensacola Also a street 6:5 at St. Augustine, in which one was killed and two were wounded. Ritles, broadswords, and pistola wore the agreeable weapons.
Melancholy Reverse of Fortune.--The daughter' of the late Sir Abraham Bradly King, who was The despatch of General Lamoricière, though twice Lord Mayor of Dublin, and Grand Master a very long document, adds in fact very litle to
of the Orange Lodge, and who in his cap city of the information previously given us by the telegra. Lord Mayor entertained George IV., when ho phic despatch. On the 13th he attacked the visited Ireland in 1821, has been compelled, as the Kabyles in their mountains, and made himself widow of a naval officer, to apply to the Royal Naval Benevolent Society for assistance. Her master of a very difficult defile, which the na-
memorial was rejected at the last Court of the So.. tives do not appear to have defended with any vigour. For the two following days, a sort of run-ciety, on the ground that a lady so connected ning fight was kept up, in which Abd-el Kader, { should not be left by her friends to seek assistance who was in sight during the first day, and at the from strangera.-Globe.
General head of 2800 cavalry, did not take part. Lamoriciere says, that instead of fighting, the Emir retreated, amidst the jeering and hosting of allies whom he had induced to rise in his favour, and then sacrificed at the moment when lary were fighting his battle. The fact. however, probably is, that Abd el-Kader uns induced to retreat, bes cause the country, which is very mountainous, was unfit for cavalry movements At all events, Abd-achieved the great work in the most simple way, el-Kader escaped with his cavalry untouched. The and at comparatively little or no cost. They have remaining tribes were hemined in by the ficach discovered the Amazon to be navigable for steamers troops in an angle, having the sea on one side, the from its mouth, on the Atlantic, to Lima, in Peru,
and within eight miles of Callas one of the princi river Tafon on the other, and the French army in front; and finding that they had no chance of ex.
pal ports on the Pacific.--New York Morning News. cape, they surrendered at discretion. We are left The expedition was made in September, 1844, by in the dark as to the exact number of prisoners, Capt. John S, Kause of Philadelphia, up the river but they appear to be principally composed of the Manham, as far as the port of Baros,” in the peaceable inhabitants of the country and so little republic of the Equador. Captain Kl use says he do their fature attempis ut attark alarm General was truly amazed at the quantity of minerals, Uye Lamorisiere, that the contents himself with order. Woods of varions sorts, and other valuable woods, ing them to remain at large in the mountains of coffee, comun, white and common, of excellent qual the Trara tribe, where they surrendered, until such ty; cotton, very fine and long, like wool; spices, time as the plain heromes more tranquil. General balsam, raisins, wax, and other rich productions, Lamonciere takes great credit to himself for not which he met with in great abundance everywhere having put the whole of these native tribes to death during his travels.-- Richmond Enquirer. after they had surrendered as prisoners of war, My Infantry," says he, "would have had ample vengeance for this insurrection; but, with the pre. sent exasperated feelings of our troops would this The offence, then for which Captain Fitzroy has vengeance not be perhaps too severe ?? The Jour been dismised from his Government, was neither | nal des Debats also praises the humanity and mo- more hor less than disobedience of orders" Wiederation of the General, which, it says, int ther the three mensuris here referred to were in instance, makes the French character contrast no, themselves good or bad, necessary or unreessary, bly with that of the barbarises of Africa; but the is not the question; they were contrary to orders;| Debats forgets that there is a great difference be and in that contraiety there exists, in official eyes, taen the present eise and the circumstances under a degroe of turpitude which no intrinsic virtues, on which Colonel Montagune and his companions last practical benefits, pan either redeem or palliate. their lives. In the one case the natives had sur-
We are by no means insensible or indifferent to the importance, in affairs of government as well as in the business of private life, of submission to ri. ghtful authority. But whilst we would shan the one extreme of defending insubordination, we would also shun the alber of giving to subordination a supremacy which dors not belong to it-of making it the end instead of a means. Applying this dis tinction to the relation in which the Governors of colonies stand to the Secretory of Siafe, we should
Military Firing-The subject of directing fre maintain that the marrow views taken (us webe
rightly is unportant; and it may be added, in illus. level by Sir Giorge Gipps, are unworthy of the
tation of its importance, that e gay or a handle d uue dignity of his othee; and that the wider views
thousand bail cartridges are often fired in the course The Lieutenant Governor was very warm in taken (as it would seein) by Captain Fitzroy, are
of a military action without killing or wounding opposing this resolution. He said "when honor such as tecome the ruler of a free British cominu
In such case (and such cases. able members urge questions on for discussion and nity. Sir George's rule is," Whatever becomes of
are not rare) it is evident that there is an expense re-decision, which have been already decided against the colony, stick to your orders;" Captain Fitzory's
of ammunition without an effect commensurate to them one, two, or three times-when they move re-
the expenditure. If the non-effect arise from dis- solutions and adjournments upon matters which appear to have been, Whatever becomes of your
The results from Gen. Lammficierre's four days tance or position, the military officer in command, have been fairly decided after full discussion-when orders, stick to the colony." Which of the rules is
commits an error. If the distance be the just dis the wiser, the mure virtuous, the more magnani- of fighting do not appear to be either brilliant or they get up and walk away at the moment a divi-
moms of the two, will be seen on stripping them of very important tien. Lampriciere himself says
tance for action, if the enemy be duly expused, and sion has to be taken, leaving me embarrassed, and their official mask, and exhibiting them in their that the best effect of them is to take away from the troops be carried into the field in a proper min the Council not in a state to carry on business-naked character. The one really means What Abdelkader the opportunity of attaching Nedromaner, and the effect be such as is stated, it is evident call it an unconstitutional opposition; a disloyal ever becomes of the exlony, I will take care of my opposition." And concluded with the following self" the other Whatever becomes of myself, ed by simply closing its gates even before the skill which he possesses, Want of skill is always a place which the natives had successfully defend that the soldier wants skill, or that he wants disei- pline and courage necessary for the direction of the very explicit declaration:-"I came here as the will take care of the colony." And the natural opera-pearance of the French troops. General Lamori. representative of the Queen, to carry out Her Ma- tion of these rules is now seen. Sir George Gipps, ciere, however, intimates that he was on the tofaucompanied with inrry and confusion, and a sul- jesty's commands; and with great respect to you having exceeded his terms of office by nearly two lowing day to go again in pursuit of Abdel-Kader dier who wants skill, that is, who is not confident all, and with a sincere desire now, as I have hitherto
of producing a given effet by a discharge of his had, to promote the welfare of this colony to the years, has yet the prospect of retaining his pon who had reared in the direction of the taina.
musket, has no calculation, Ha Laws that he is for some years to come; Captain Fitzroy, having utmost extent in my powers shall continue 10 held his appointment not more than half the usual
i possession of an instrument of distruction. fle carrry out the instructions of Her Majesty's Se.
termas, ie abruptly superseded It is clear, there
aste and confusion, in hopes of hiding himself un is ignorant of its true value; he fouds and fires int cretary of State, and no power on earth shall in-fore, that Sir George's role, whatever else may be duce me to take any other course
said of it, is the more prudent of the two "It is
under it noise. But os he has ou skill, and, frnshi der the cover of its smoke, or of drowning his fenng The amendment being put, of course shared the same fate as the rest.
want of skill, no promise oliject in view, the mund ta blank, and the act in a rimaner vol. In thin
On the following day (Friday, October 31st,) on the third reading of the Appropriation Bill being called, Mr Gregson moved,
That this Council do adjourn until Monday, in order that the Attorney-General may have time to give his deliberate opinion as to the meaning and legal construction of the 9th George IV. cap. 80, sections 21 and 23 particularly, and the law gene. rally as applicable to the questions now under con- sideration; viz., Mr Gregson's motion against the police and gaol expenditure, and carrying the esti mates in committee, with less than two thirds of the council present at the deliberation.
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rendered as prisoners of war; in the other, the French troops were killed, fighting to the fast. In deed, had the Freych troops put their prisoners to death on this occasion, that comrast would have been greatly in favour of the natives, for it appears that the lives of all the prisoners who fell into the hands of Abd El-Kader after the destruction of Colonel Montagnac's column have been spared, and that the wounded have been carefully attended to. A letter has been received from Colorel de Cognard, who was supposed to have been one of those killed with Colonel Mortagoas, from which it appears that the whole of the troops forming that column were ant slain, as was originally stated. Ninety-six of them were taken prisoners by the Arabs under Abdi-Kater. Colonel de Cognord speaks highly of the humanity and kindness with which they are treated by the Emir.
night several Governin at officials have been ex- Erlification of the Coust. → Within the last fort,
amming the atte of the ramparts and other des
fences of Berwick. It is known that Government
are in contemplation some exensive plan for the improvement of the means of defence of our costs, in the view of hostibtics braking out with the United States, in consequence of the grasping ag Fressions of that Power, and its infringement of our territorial rights on the North America con. distant date the fortifications of Berwick may ho tinent. It is not improbable, therefore, that at no
into a state of efficiency, the batteries mounted with cannen, and sufficient force of military lodged in the barracks to repel temporarily, the attack of an enemy. Berwick Warder.
more than 500 men.
Joint-Stock Companies. By a Parliamentary paper just issued an account is given of all joint stock companies registered under the act 7 and Victoria, c. 110. It appears that of companies exiting before September last there ware 163, and A wise and well-meaning Minister will take cars) 45 for foreign operations. Of the total number 103, The question was then put on the third reading how he istus orders. Having selected for the of were railway companies. From the Ist of Novem which was carried by the usual duable vote. Five fice of the Governor a gentleman of character and ber to the 7th of June last 355 were provisionaly of the non-officials immediately left the Chamber, and as there was not a house, the Council was ad, he will not fetter him with too many intruc registered, and 17 foreign operations, but the 360
tions: be will placé confidence in him; he will in as many as 22 were talway companies, and I journed to the following Monday, the question that a very great measure, leave to his own discretion others for steign operations. Etween the 9th and
this Bill do pass" not having been put
the management of affairs that, being purely focal, | Bub of Jane, 57 railways were registered. than any where else. Under a judicrous arrage all expenses, the Reger-Geol bad in hund a mast of necessity be better understood on the spot provisional registration a fee of 56. ** pail after inent like this, a Governor would feel himsair a talause of 3002 Ga. 2. It seems from the amount free and a responsible agent. free tá advance the of fees tecured that, from the test of November: interests of his colony to the beat of his power; in the 31st of December 9, wis mentres in responsible for the insults of a policy so entirely a provisional registratest, from the Best of Jammy November 3, 1845. ova. And ifle had to be ceatured or recalet, à ) to the 2ta of Starch, 3107, aut frixe do test of; The undermentioned gentlemen having tendered i would not be for dusolmlieucs na a ferrant, ku for ↑ Apal to the 7th of June Tejl, spiking & kul 6, with just trection, rather than for alinining rapi
Our Holurt Town papers do not come down to a later date than this, but we find from the Lam ceston Examiner that on the Saturday, six of the non-official members resigned their seats, and on the Monday the following notice was issued :——
Colonial Secretary's office,
to the Lieutenant-Governor the resignaties of their seats in the Legislative Council of this colony, his Excellency directe à to be notified, that he has b pleased to accept the same —
Charles Swanston, Esq.
Michael Fenten, Esq.
John Kerr, Esq.
William Kernode, Esq.
Thomas G. Gregson, Esq.
Richard Dry, E.
By his Excelsey's comment,
For a
inclos petency as the bral ofan quinistration Foraight that appears in the case of Captain Fa
provinomal regtertium“ of 1,59%d. "The retura extends to 103 pages. zroj, as pat by Mir Jane Graham, his competency Fortifications to Casale - We kam trom the for the duties of bir obce may have been of the | Reapsia (Kaust) ('Aruakier cost was the perpure bighat, the mory baghost muk, for he had the rages on & large beale are both male af lund point avut courage 14 dbstep adres; and it may be) The Mom alle spinalat Toan #ful, wye the dant them anders were ingransitable, er til afl Chesinde, is a be bad opms to the lake by the path opger to the peopée of his clargel
east, the remedy against panie canalata principally in the noise and under of the explosion-and-timis preoteinis, Ou the contrary, the skilful soldier is dent of an eff et resulting from his skill. The la master of bimelt on all occasions ; utl, accost. portion and bis bearings, be is alsoort certare of diminishing the number of the fun by very ball discharged, thus every discharge while to yurity, both in his own idea and in reality. ff this subject be commidered as it ought to be, the will be heaved on cultivating the art of living principal olent ofatuly in the traming of troops
exploylue and exunt coer-ipondence in time leg platom or batusluum et apgyar that mykty ne ofe ferdred thousand balke with me wount an inter than
horend of enemy, and it' is bn dummunceable the witter when bougha idh. action property, auf torp Altach budeet would had the many certif
oferious by solomon sense that every soldier ought -Ilho eurostly have the prsveg of his musket, it is bag duma of Meseta M'Pleræn hari berde's mintite bases and the reaction of a bay bulary. Theth labelig af en greu nhin - Jackown a to be treatedcully instructed so na vluchy bridge shal-in fact be to be secured be a large wwo
Gang of Armies. which wid be of gims silty in a ranil pont of
As we bave already wait, we do not par domaines Chemied as Captain Fitzroy's adibeatm not sufficiently costerons with the facts of ha) case to be aide to sprak pratively, mer fie or vice, d* a mach for the barkuar. It se dlan pro) saus The spirited comicct of arse gradento pests. Ali pe or to say that if he do post to enct a barer tower at pedant's foldy and to have been reaply praiseworthy, shed these others from couples surengsen the works for Dory. The bat have a most beneficial efect The tapustite se i sked to pad chass in ferre volt be injurious to the simmer for England bengas virve det i wo which New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ralogy placed dater his protective, be sent a male esseppired as sand can a large pedávnomat oselitory
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