The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a smoud time :—Sir lobo
Miaibue's (Leasing) &tote ; Westminster Lopmvements ;
Tyne improvement; sod Kingaton-upoo-Hell Itocke.
The following hill. were read a third time : —i'arnwell
Libra. , Improvement v • Liverpool Improment • Newertitounder-
Lyme Marsh Land.; Nantwich and Mirket Draytoe Hall-
way ; Universal Private Telegraph Compaq ; Leeds, Brad-
ford, and Halifax Jutudiog Bailway.
THE NEW PROVINCES (NEW ZEALAND) LILL.
On the order for the merwel reading of this 1011.
The Luke of NEWCASTLE said that in the I 'onatitution
het passed are. PAri .3., for the colony of New Ze.tiand
there were certain provision. b which ;Noricum—Canter-
birry awl other_ were vital& and there was &previ-
ew to the offset that the amembly should he the
wei
rsprsombetive body for the whole @okay, and that the
ammohly might ihrid• the provisos* into separate provinces
with the approlsd jou of the Quer. In lii an art was
pared by which many of the restrietions which hod bees
imposed noon the terra! arembly were removed, and it
w iateated thereby to remove throe restrictions which
prometal the cortitorma of new provinces in the
rarer then provided, and giving the legislature per-
Berton te do it by an sot of the ortlinsry ,li ir.icter.
Is lerkieg their attentions the implefel parliament made
this mistake, that it repealed the aft crime of th.• cm:W-
arier ask which it was obviate', est Intended should be
deep. Siam that period the posand mem* of New
&areal bad separated oriel the peritire into two, by an
set of the colimial I,,ii.bitaire, sad that set was is the wool
way confirmed at home, no deed* eddies thst the course
rweeirsi was remilar and the set wild. Subsequently
doers arose and the matter car ralemed to the law officers
of the crows, awl they were of Asides that it was sot eon, 1
resat to the colonial legislator te separate the province
in the meager which he bad Baited. This bill wag merely 1
tor the purpose of eorreeting the mistake, Rail to resider
wild the act of the eologial legislator lie begged, there-
fore, to move the reowl reading of the bill.
bred MIRY had Do objection to the permas of the 1011,
but thasOt it onxlit not to be passed without atteriti.o
blip raped to the deplorable elate of things in New Zsa-
bat Welled 'Mamie suffered sad taiieted much dame'',
seed the illiedlereelnoista we bad bees obliged to rod thither
Posoll bow a material effect in diminishing the regd.. of
the flemaelise of the Kachogeor. Having regretted that
meet. bed her made to arced hostilities, and hiring
diseased the mote cares d the war, he entered into a
mudderatism of Ms inimoliate origin, and regretted that a
poi* bed he.. Faulted is NMI opposition no the mend
prissiplas laid does by the late gemenee, Sir I:. Grey,
whs. sell emleated e ith eters laws. bid done his bed to ens
the affective, of the natives. Had Mir G. Croy, phi, y
be Sieniell Wet this great end might have 1-ern re rebel ;
Li se liaise could be imputed to the governor, as it was
ter him MAr the present "institution if the
eseeptitotioe granted to the coke., helm* it sae
Mai for it—to carry out may definite hoe of poi...v. He
look skessfeee, that her Majesty's government ah,old :it
Wale bike Oslo t,, pod es end to the ascriica of the in-
tegers of the natives to the eareecies of a popular govern.
rent by temporarily stispendierg the constitutieg of the
missy. and by smolins out Mir G. Cray with wield pewees
is Seel with the eniergeacy. Is seadssien, he urged the
peownsaist to take immediate dope to alter the present
'obey, for, if it were rut cheeped, it would etre the loss
of many Lew, the waste of reels! millions of mossy, and
the redectiois of the Wand to a desert.
Lord LYTTELTON was, on the whole, finite initialed
with the line rhea by the guvernment on this subj./et, and I
did not oppose the reser bill.
The Irk, of NEWCAMTLE said he hail arrived at a
eciadmioe totally opposed to that of Lord tire, for be was
waviered that the grantor was right end Wilrirlo XIMI
Ina winer—aa opinion corrohnested by that of the presser
amid Judie. of the miesy—for tits oily principle no which
Whirr Riagi acted was that of might nohow right. He
'reseeded to vindicate the coitus pursued by the governor,
and contended that. although the piece of grou4 at stake
was hit insignifigint, the principle involved wee
most impersiot. Having proved that no weds,
haste hail been used is =Allier the right of Follies
sad parehmeine the lead is question, he pue
"mews why the Motile Mu of a trihunal for the de. i.
Issue of claims between coloilists and rases would not lie of
the wisantass el le clad to the bitter, and took oecaainn to
animulvert on the empltiet of the Bishnp n' 50,1 Zethied
end his mirioneries. who were the principal advocates foe
tit. pegweagreot of soch to ihonah, in rem roma tern,,
reerving that high the iaterfenotee of the lichen VA the
tor of his pamphlet were a peel imoropriety. The -we..
tine if land was a mere pretext, the whole aft .ir was a
struggle c f nationalities —a movement which h... 1 hoes owl-
essmplated by the Miseries fur. erne year. In the native m:nd
the dispute bad now wowed tlie magnet of a tr it rot...ve-
lars', biomes (lease Victoria and the Muni K•qc„ woe: of
mane it wasimpossible for us toyiehl on that point. blurting
from the aesertion that representative government had led
to the present state of things, as the gist of the evidence in
the hloelsooks wee decidedly to the contrary effect, he ad-
mitted that the change of the coestitutioa which took place
in 1a".2 hail certaiely curtailed the power of the governor
se dealing with the ostler The New Zealand At•erablv,
however, bad shown by their debates no dispoeitioo to
press banny upon the native inhabitants. With re•
ipard to the expense of the war, the govertrreint
led repudiated the dernaod on part of New
lealand that this country should pay not only
far the troops, hut also for the militia and volunteers
ertple)ed, and be was glad to see that the New Zealand
newcomer we. taking means to defray tlie expenses.
Harr reviewed the present three of war mad peace, he
rated that, as the present go.regerhi pried of tare was
ilinely at an sad. her Majesty s paveroment had thought it
to • Sir G. Orey at once to the government of New
7 , and at therms time, to show their confiders. is
the pmesse parersor, the sevenussat had appointed lam
to Amato. obeli prom most.