The Capital.

It says: "By the latest accounts from Auckland we learn that the James had arrived from London—[Among the surviving passengers by the James in Auckland, to-day, are Mr. Corbett, ex-Chief Postmaster, Mr. Joseph Newman, share-broker, and Rev. W. Gittos, Wesleyan Missionary],—bearing his Excellency's commission as Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Her Majesty's Order-in-Council for their separation from New South Wales. His Excellency was pleased to appoint Monday last for proclaiming the same, and shortly afterwards a levee was to have been held. In the evening His Excellency was to have given a grand dinner at Government House, to which all the elite of Auckland and the surrounding country had received invitations."