Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence.
NEW ZEALAND.
Church Miss. Soc. --Since the publication of our last Number information has arrived stating that two attacks had been made by the British Force on Heke, in which they were repulsed with a loss of 120 men killed and wounded. By a third attack in July, Heke was compelled to evacuate the Pa, in which he had successfully defended himself on the two previous occasions. The Missionaries have been preserved from injury. Archd. Henry Williams states in a Letter dated the 4th of July-- "On the Lord's Day before last the troops were engaged as on other days, and firing at the Pa the whole day. Of course they had no Service. The Natives in the Pa held their Service, and did not return a shot during the whole day. These are striking facts." And he adds-- "The loss on the part of the Military is attributed, by the Natives, to this circumstance."
