The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-16 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The Melbourne papers are full of comments upon
the dead lock between the two branches of the legisla-
ture. The Legislative Council has rejected the Tariff
and the Appropriation Bill, and refused the supplies
voted by the Legislative Assembly, whereupon the
government has stopped the payments of salaries,
wages, and contingencies " until the necessary
authority for the expenditure shall have been ob-
tained." In the principal centres of population
and in the outlying country districts large public
meetings have been held, at which resolutions in
support of the ministry have been carried by over-
whelming majorities.
Of the gold the Age says :
The mining intelligence received from the gold fields
during the pest month an scarcely be described otherwise
than as almost quite destitute of interest for persons at a
distance. There has, in fact, been nothing recorded beyond
the dry details of the yields of claims in the various die.
ditricts,vene anedirctumheire-tantlioationunder of.hithatese, t oh:is:et:101h o
' very
diverse circumutanoes under which the metal is ob-
twined in the several localities, will coovey little, if any
informa: ion as to the comparative remunerativeness of the
labours of the gold seekers. Now diaooveries, and many
of great value, continue to be made from time to time, but
they are to the outside public of a far less attractive cha-
racter than the monster " rushes" of former days. The
great fleas now consist in the successful tracing of " leads"
or veins of gold, the course of which had been temporarily
lost, end which, however remunerative to the finders or
holden of immediately contiguous claims, fail to attraot
masses of population from afar off.

NEW ZEALAND.
GENERAL CAMERON'S RESIGNATION.
CONTINUATION OF THE WAR.
Events of importance in their bearing upon the
present contest with the Maories are the resignation
by General Cameron of his command, bis departure
from the colony, and the reduction of the troops.
Five regiments, the 40th, 43rd, 65th, GBth, and 75th
were under orders for England. The command of
the forces, consequent upon this reeignation, has
devolved upon Major-General Chute, of Victoria,
who bad proceeded to Auckland.
Parliament was opened at Wellington on the
23rd of August. Correspondence which has been
laid before it, discloses the whole of the unhappy
squabble between General Cameron on the one
hand and Sir George Grey and the ministry on
the other.
The Wereroa Pa has been captured by the colo-
nial troops without their having experienced a
single casualty ; 98 Maories on their way to rein-
force the garrison were taken.
Sir George Grey, on the faith of a published
letter from Brigadier-General Waddy, states that
imperial troops were precluded by instructions
from operating against the Pa, and General
Cameron has pointedly denied this assertion.
While the capture of Wereroa Pa was being
effected, the natives attacked in force a neighbouring
post at Perikiri, held by a colonial force under
Captain Braiwey. They were beaten off with severe
loss. At Taranaki a skirmishing party, which bad
surprised a village and shot some thirty Maories,
was attacked on its return, and Lieutenant
Bally and three privates of the 70th were killed,
and Lieutenant Traydon and five men were wounded.