The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-13 00:00:00

eduction to duties which would lemon the differ-

POI in ant between the two, was regarded u the
"thin egad of the protection wedge," and weld not
be submitted to. On the motion that the hones do
go into committee of ways and means, an amend-
ment, moved by Mr. O'Shanasay and seconded by
Mr. Nicholson, that the Speaker do not leave the
chair, otter several nights' discussion, was carded
by a majority of nix. Among the six were three
avowed protectionists—Mesas. Loader, Cummins,

end Wasan—who obtained seeta by promising •
general support to the ministry, but who joined the
free-traders on the ground that their policy
was not imieciently protective. A fourth was.
Dr. Mackay, a barrister, who had just been sent up
from Gipps Land as • moat determined adherent of
the government. Mr. Olikanassy undertook to
form a new administration, and in a few days pre-
sented to the governor the following list :—Ma
O'Shansasy, Chief Secretary ; Mr. Haines,
tea of Finance ; Mr. Duffy, Commissioner of Lends
and Hervey ; Mr. Johnston, Commissioner of Pub-

ho Maki; Mr. Wood, Minister of Jingo') and

Mita i Mr. Wand,

; and Mr.

Asian; Omansimioner of &tams. There are
times dims who are to hold " portfolios."'
The now government has lost no time in dr-
clarizts its policy. On the great and all-important
question of land, a scheme, "simple, just, and
expedient," says the Age, "has been announced
by Mr. Duffy, the /Colder foe loads and Works.'
Parliament had adjourned to the 7th December,
to give time to the middles to complete their
arrangements and to mood with their re-elections.

A ;refound impresaon has been crested through-
out the colony by the melancholy tidings of the
deaths of the explorers Burke and Wills, who left
Cooper's Ore* in December last to examine the
interior of the country towarda Carpentaria. They
saooseded in their mission.

llelbourne has recently been brought into tow
laudation with Brisbane, the *vital of Qua,.
land, by electric telegraph.
The history of the gold-fields during the pat
month had been marked by no very remarkable
event. There had been no extraordinary discove-
ries of rich leads or of monster nuggets, but it was
doubted if at any former period during the year
the digging population bad beea doing better. On
metal the gold fields of** colony old leads were
being satisfactorily worked, and new deposits of
more or less importance haw bean discovered.

Nov. 26..

Brandies firm ; Martell's, 176 d. ; Hennessy's,
120 d. Geneva advancing, MIL Oats firm, at
40d. Butter declining, present quotations 7d. per
lb. Hams active, at 11d. Ban's ale, Bi. NIL Flour
dull, 101. 10c. Rice dulL Sugar firm, at 371.
IL:change unaltered.

SYDNEY, Nov. 21.
lrachange unaltered. Trade is improving.

NEW ZEALAND.

PROSPECTS OF PEACE.
THE GOLD DISCOVERIES.
Vitt Sydney we have papers from Auckland to
the 6th, Nelson to the 12th, Wellington to the 9th,
and Taranaki to the 2nd November.
His Excellency Sir George Grey, accompanied
by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Fox, left on a visit
to the Bay of Islands and Hokianga, 1.1 H.M.S.
Pelorus, on the 4th. It is hoped that this—the
commencement of a series of peaceful campaigns
in the Maori territory—will end in "'storing the
friendly relations between the races, and establish
once 'more law, order, and security in this lately
distracted colony.
"It was," says the New Zealander, "In came-
gunny of an invitation personally delivered by our
old ally Tamati Wake Nene (who no sooner beard
of Sir George Grey's arrival than he hastened to
Auckland), that the Ngspuhi tribe has base
honoured by his Met visit. Infineutial chiefs from
other districts, including the Lower Waikato, have
also been to see bis Excellency, and have urgently
requested him to visit them, which we understand
he boa promised to do as soon as he returns from
the Bay of Ldands."
The New Zco/ander, adverting to the probable
settlement of the native question, remarks:--"lris
said that it is Governor Grey's intention to offer
to the natives a system of civil institutions similar
to those he introduced at the Gape of Good Hope,
and which led to the settlement of difficulties of
far greater magnitude than any which exist here."
We have sews from Obsgo to the 9th of
November. We take the following from the
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