The merchants of Nantes are thrown into consternation by the
English colony at New Zealand. The owners of whale-ships, con- sidering their intereAs at stake, have joined the others in an appeal to the French Cabinet, and recommend that the indpendenee of New Zealand shall he acknowledged, and that French agents, supported by a respectable force, should be sent to the chiefs of that country. The Minister of the Marine has sent for the captain and officers of the sloop lieradone ; and. 31. de Saint Hiliare, Director of the Colonies, has received instructions to collect information from them relating to those parts of the country which they have visited.—l'aris Currevonlcot
the Standard.
The Journal dc Paris gives long extracts from the instructions of Lord Nortuanby to Captain Hobson, the Commissioner in New Zeeland, and contends that they are a violation of' the nationality of New Zealand, and in opposition to the rights of French subjects who may be desirous of residing ill that country for the purposes of trade. It calls upon the French Government to interfere, and states that 31arehal Soult has already ordered that a report may be made to him on the subject pre- paratory to taking the necessary steps. The Jou/wade Paris, however, does not give any other authority for tins statement than an on nit. that very convenient mode of shifting off responsibility whilst a certain effect is produced, and not unfrequently of converting mere speculation into fitet.—Galignani.
The National snys that the inquiries respecting New Zealand, set on foot by the French Marine Minister, have been stopped by superior authority.
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