The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-17 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

Both the corresnondencd and the summary of news
of the Southern Cross of the 30th of April state
hat the wors, lectures of the intelligenct
are confirmed :—"Rewi and Kingi have returned
to the Waikato, where they are actively engaged in

crganizing armed oppositions. to law and order.
Their followers have gone to the south, to the corn.
.er of several htindted—suna e;3- 20(t, wheu,&:(l
.nd others again state that Rewl started at the
quad of 500. We do not, therefore, know the
exact numbers, but our information leads
us to conclude that 300 is about the
truth. The native educational and industrial
establishment at Te Awumutu has been broken up,
and the European women and children have already
come to town. The missionaries most likely will
come in ; in fact, it is only a question of events, as
views may come any moment of an outbreak at
Taranaki, when it would not be safe to remain un-
protected among the Waikatos. The natives are in
a state of unbridled anarchy. There is no controt-
ling power to check them ; and such being the case,
one can readily perceive the difficifhties that sur-
round the movement for reinstating the Taranhki
settlers on their former holdings. Tne professions
of friendship which Thompson and some other
chiefs make are of little use; and we see no pro-
bable end to the present stale of things unless
British law and authority are established through
out the island, or until the natives shall have ceased
to exercise any political influence owing to their
natural decrease."

The Taranaki Herald of the Btb of May contains
the details of ti .e muroer of two officers and eight
men of the 57th Regiment:—'' A party of the Com-
missariat Transport Corps, with two drays and
12 bullocks with supplies, were on their way to
Tat arsimaka, on the 4th of M ‘y, and, having crossed
thk, Oakura- river, heard the report of a volley of
small arms and saw the smoke of the piece some half
4 mile before them. They saw that a party of
soldiers and two horsemen, who proved to be offi
cers, were attacked, and saw some of them fall,
when they immediately abandonec their carts, and
hastened back to the Poutoko, and gave information
of what they had seen. Captain Shortt, with a
party of 30 men only, from the Redoubt at Poutoko,
were the first to at rive at the spot, followed shortly
afterwards by Colonel Warre, and it was their
mournful task to gather the bodies of the follow-
ing officers and 11 en, savagely murdered :

Assistanr•Surgeon W. A. Hope, M.B.
Lieutenant T. H. Tragett, 57th Regiment.
Colour-Sergeant Samuel Ellers, 57th Regiment.
Sergeant Samuel Hill, 67ca Regiment.
Private Edward Kelly, 57th Regiment.
Private John Flynn, 57th Regiment
Private Bartholomew Macarthy, 67th Regiment.
Private Wm Banks, 57th Regiment.

They were on their way, on military duty, to
town from Tataraimaka, and apparently had been
shot down without a moment's notice. The bodies
were all horribly mutilated, and those of theofficers
stripped of nearly all their clothes. One of the
drays was found where the escort bad left it, but the
other, which contained a quantity of flour, potatoEs
and groceries, had been driven off. The other dray
was subsequently seen being driven up to Kaitake,
on the spur of the ranges. Dr. Hope's horse tad
4,„lmpped towards town, and was caught by tht
.scort. Tnis fearful tragedy cast a deep gloom over
►he wr.ole settlement.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The tone of the debates on the differences
hetweeu this country and Brnzil must make the
Government, aware of a very widespread feeling of
regret at the rupture and of desire for reconcilia
ion. The more the events which led to the present
• uspension of relations are considered, the more
,lain it is that, whatever faults mny have been com-
mitted by the Brazilian Government, our own ha-.
io say the least, exacted quite enough compensation
and inflicted quite enough indignity. In the present
week the question has been discussed both in the
Lords and Commons with almost identical arguments
On either side. On Tuesday evening Lord Chelms-
ford cleverly exposed what we may almost call the
extortion of the demands connected with the wreck
of the Prince of Wales, and last night Mr. S. Fitz-
gerald went over the same ground, and added mr
cumstances whieb c,tnfirm the view which Lord
Chelmsford took of the affair. It is wearisome to
enter into the details of this miserable transaction,
but when we find that a friendly Government has
been compelled by force of armJ to pay a blood fire
or persons who may only " possibly" have beet.
murdered, and when it is perfectly clear that the
value of the cargo appropriated by the wreckers has
been scandalously exaggerated to the benefit of pr i-
vate persons, common morality and regard for the
credit of the country bid us pay attention to the
facts that are brought to our notice. The story
may be told in a few words. The Prince of Wales
was a vessel laden with a mixed cargo, of which the
invoice value was 13,500, according to Lord
Chelmsford ; Mr. Fitzgerald makes it only £3,000.
The cargo was made up of coal, kegs of nails, iron
castings, barrels of beer, seamen's chests, and some
soda. The ship was anchored three miles from the
shore, and in all probability went down at her an-
chorage. We leave it to our readers to compute
how much of such a cargo reached the shore to be
plundered by the wreckers. That some of the chests
were washed ashore end seen broken open is the
chief evidence that there was any wrecking at all.
But when it was known that there was to be com-
pensation the shippers came forward at once with a
modest demand for £5,000; and, though Mr. Fitz-
gerald tells us that, accoroing to an eminent mer-
chant well acquainted with such matters, only
packages of light goods to the value of £BlO could
have come ashore at all, yet the Queen's Advocate,
in a fficer whom the Foreign-office seems to think
endowed with omniscience, " roughly " estimated
the proper comp-nsation at £2,36 I. Besides this,
the sum of £B4O was demanded as comp. nsation for
the murder of the crew, though it is admitted there
is no legal proof of their having been murdered at all,
the reports current on the subject. being the chief
evidence on which the Queen's Advocate c •me to the-
conclusion that several of them had been "too probe
bey murdered." Although this claim wes not urg, o
n the first piece, te demand wasmade for £B4O for
4 popsible murder "of the n en. Now, though it is
andoubtedly ih. du.y of the Government to watch
over the lives and property of British sulker,.
to foreign parts, it must strike every unprejuuiceo
person that these demands were based on very ut,
-übstantial grounds, and enforced with a rigour sel-
dom employed to a friendly Government. It is not
pretended that the Brazilian Governmtn was Ruth,
of more than delay in giving satisfaction, and telt-
fault was sufficiently punished by the reprisals to
which our Government resorted. When the Em-
peror's Government yielded, it would have been
courteous *0 restrict the money demand within
moderate limits, instead of taking the opportunity
to make questionable charges. The defence of this
part ut the transaction made by Lord Russell on
Tuesday night is singular enough. Tne very sub-
mission of the Brazilians is attributed to them as a
fault. " When the Brazilian Government threw it
upon the British Government to make this inquiry
atone, saying that they would pay whatever sum was
demanded, they placed us in a posi.ion of conside
rabic difficulty, because we had no one on the other
side to dispute the verious items." Fancy an attorney
• efending an extortionate bill on the ground that the
victim neglected to have it taxed ! No one can
believe that the Emperor really desires to encourage
wreckers, or to murder the crews of the ships which
supply his country with every European article of
use or luxury, and in return take away the pro-
ducts of his teeming soil. Let us therefore hope
that there will be no opposition on the part o f our
Government to an honourable renewal of friendly
relations. The King of Portugal has offered his
good offices, and as there is really no longer any
question in dispute, there Fanbe no obstacle to a
good understanding. It will then be
Minis-
ters who shall be appointed by the two countries to
maintain the harmony which this mediation has re-
stored.
POST.—We do not agree with those politicians
who think that a member of Parliament's dinner is
of no consequence. Sir John Trelawny and Mr.
Osborne evidently entertain a transcendental idea
of the duties of Parliamentary life As in the Apo-
cryphal narrative of Bel and the Dragon, this divi-
nity of a statesman should never be seen to eat, bu
unlike the idol, on the other hand, neither shoulo
!here be any preparation made for him He is pre-
sumed to live on nectar and ambrosia somewhere,
but not within the ken of ordinary mortals, and any
discussion as to what he should eat and drink is
deemed to be equally derogatory to his great posi-
tion, his lofty intellect, and his immortal soul. It
he appeals, in the person of Mr. Dillwyn, to the
hardship of being compelled to eat bad meat iii
cooked atm worse served, he is told that he takes a
low view of political life.. We presume, of course,
that Sir John Tretawny and Mr. Osborne never fiire
anywhere. That is certainly the obvious deductive
from their speeches on Wednesday, wh.al the pro
posal of a select committee for the enlargement of
the kitchen and refreshment rooms was brought
before the House of Commons. In our judgment,
the grievance that is complained of is well-
founded—whatever may be the best remedy. I'
IS, in truth, a grievance on which twenty other
grievances depend. The complaint is, that there is
no adequate acct.mmodation for dinner, and that
the provisions also are bad. Now, during four
nights every week, the house sits from four in the

lifternoon (when there are no ntorning sittings) often.
ttotil midnight, en(' sometimes till two :L.m. Of
e,,urse, int-cutters ut P..ritament must dine in their)-
, rva.; or, I, the h..' to Enain,sin she o d fashion
of dining before the House met, there would be an
equal necessity of sup ling. However, there is an
established usage of dining at seven or eight o'clock
in London, and established usages are not readily
invaded. At that time half the House, or probably
three-fourths, go to dinner. The result is that, from
seven to ten, little progress is made in the debate
of the evening, although the " House" still drags
on its weary length. Members who cannot get
dinner decently served in the refreshment. room of
:tie House of Commons, go to their clubs or their
homes, or dine with friends. The distance may be
A mile, two miles, or three. If the parsimonious
opponents of the present proposed reform send them
to that distance for their dinners, it is not reason-
Ale to expect their return to t,e House under Et
coupled' hours at least. Now all this is so much
ime lost in legislation.

HERALD —Lord Russell, who refuses to recognise
t he South, or to advise an armist ce, or to interpose
it, any way in the great American conflict by which
we are suffering so severely, has ac•ually asked an
.armistice for the Poles, has addressed to Russia
what might almost be called a threatening letter on
heir behalf, has all but recognised them, and has
tecu red for their sake no trifling risk of an Euro-
pean conflagration. Where shall we seek a more
striking contrast between one Minister and another
than exists between the Minister of inaction in
America and the Minsster of interposition in
Polano ? the Minister who will not stir a finger
o protect the dearest interests and revive the
most valuable trade of Great Britain, and him who
is ready to assist in kindling the flame of conti-
nental war for a cause in which we have absolutely
no interest whatever ? the Minister who spurns the
appeal of our kinsmen, fellow Christians, all but
rellow•countrymen of the S ,uthern States, and the
Minister who does everything short of declaring
war upon Russia for the beboof of a few
thousand insurgents of a race " alien in blood, in
language, in religion ;" the statesman who thinks
nothing of the risk of a war between Russia,
France, and Prussia, ending in the annexe-
tiou of the left bank of the Rhine, and hesitates not
to enter on a policy of which this is not the natural
and foreseen conclusion, and the statesman whose
scrupulous conscience shudders at the bare possibi-
lity of a war, which, if it came at all, would be
ended in a few weeks, between France and Eng-
land on the one hand, and such remnants as still
cohere of the Federal Union on the other ? Furious
towards Brazil, a coward before the Yankees,an in•
triguer in Italy, a Kingmaker in Greece, a would-
be arbitrator in Poland, but in America the advo-
cate of a policy of isolation unparalleled in
selfishness, meanness, and timidity ; a braggart to
Senhor Moreira, a blusterer to the Tycoon, but a
pattern of patience and humility under the lectures
of Mr. Adams and the insults of Admiral Wilkes,
Lord Russell combines in himself a choice collec-
tion ofopposite and apparently incompatible faults,
and may serve his successors, whether they be
disposed to err on the side of caution or of energy,
18 a perfect model of what a Foreign Secretary
ought not to be.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

MANCHESTER-JtrLY 16.

At our market this morning there wa' a slender attend-
ance of buyers, and there was a limited demand for wheat
at a decline on last week's prices of is per qr on English,
and 2d per cental on foreign. Flour eglected, at 6d per
sack and barrel un ,er the rates of lasi, week. Oats at a re-
auction t Id per 451bs, and oatmeal 6d per load. Beans
and Indian corn firm, at late values.

BIRMINGHAM—JULY 16.
English wheat was sold at 48s to 56s for white, and 40s
to 508 per 36 stone for red. Barley, new malting, 32s to
42s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s Oats, old, 24s to 30s
per 30 stone ; Irish, 228 to 255. Beans, 38s to 44s per qr.
Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 atone.