The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.

(front the _London Gazette of last Evening )
WAIL-OFFICE, OCT. 26.
The Secretary of State for War has received despatches,
with their enclosures, from Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan
Cameron, K,C.8., commanding her Majesty's Forces in
New Zealand, of which the following are copies :
Headquarters, Auckland, August 2, 1864.
My Lord,—l have the honour to report, that in accord-
ance with the intention expressed in my despatch to your
lordship of 7th Juno, I have not undertaken any active
operations against the rebels during the past month.
I have, however, the satisfaction of informing your lord-
ship that on the 25th July, 133 natives of Tauranga, in-
cluding some chiefs of rank, delivered up their arms to
Colonel Greer, commanding at that station, and signed
a declaration of allegiance to the Queen, leaving their lands
at the disposal of the Governor.
His Excellency has requested me to accompany him to
Tauranga, where he has been solicited by the natives to
meet them and arrange the terms of their submission. It
s expected that W. Thompson and other chiefs will also be
present, in which case it is possible that other tribes, besides
those of Tauranga, may be included in the arraugement.
I fear, however, that from the want of adhesion among the
many tribes composing the native population, it is
scarcely to be expected that the meeting about to take
place at Tauranga will lead to a general pacification of the
country.
I herewith enclose Colonel Greer's report of his proceed-
ings, and I beg to bring to your lordship's favourable
notice the great zeal, judgment, and ability displayed by
that officer whilst in command of the troops at Tauranga,
—1 have, &c.,

D. A. CAMERON, Lieutenant-General.
The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War,
War-offico, London.

C snip Tepapa, Tauranga, July 25, 1864.
Sir,— I have the honour to report, for the information of
the Lieutenant-General Commanding, that 133 native
warriors, amongst whom were many chiefs of rank, came
into camp and laid down their arms to-day.
Previous to their coming in, Mr Rice explained to them
that their land was to be at the disposal of the Governor
and the General ; and before I accepted their Submission
and took their arms, each man signed a document, which
was read over twice to them, stating that he clearly
understood that fact, and also a declaration of loyalty to the

Queen.
All Tauraaga has now submitted, with the exception of
two chiefs, who have perhaps from 10 to 20 followers be-
tween them.
I have permitted the natives to remain in the village of
Oitamoite, and at Maunge tape, pending further instruc-
tions ; and they are naturally most anxious for some speedy
settlement relative to their land.
I beg to bring to notice the tact and ability of Mr Rico
in conducting the matter to which this letter alludes, which
he carried through satisfactorily, notwithstanding the op-
position and obstruction of Mr Mackay, Commissioner of
the Thames District (whom I have been obliged to confine
to the neighbourhood of his tent), and Mr Baker, interpre •
ter, without compromising the position of the Government
or our arms, and at the same time gaining the esteem and
goodwill of the natives.
1 enclose lists of the arms delivered, of the names and
tribes of the natives who have surrendered, and a copy of
the document which they signed, also an account of the
proceedings, and of the speeches of the natives when they
delivered up their arras, which has been furnished to me
by the Interpreter, Mr Baker; but as his translation
gives a very different meaning in some instances from
that which was conveyed to mo by Mr Shepherd (Inter-
preter from Taupo), who acted as Interpreter when the
natives were speaking, I have requested the Lord Bishop
mofeWa aiapo, who was present and took notes, to give
translation,
to which ito kindly assented,
I have. &c.,
(Signed) IL 11. GREER, Colonel,
Commanding Tauranga District.
The Dcputy Quartermaster-General,
head Quarters.

Headquarters, Tauranga, New Zealand,
August 6, 1861.
My Lord,—I have the honour to raport that the meeting
referred to in my despatch, between his Excellency the
Governor and the natives of Tauranga, has passed off most
satisfactorily, the natives having submitted unconditionally
the
to the Queen's authority, and placed all their lands at
Governor's disposal.
I herewith enclose the terms of peace which were granted
to them, and with which they all expressed themselves per-
fectly satisfied.
Hostilities are now at an end in this part of the colony,
and there is reason to hope that the liberal terms accorded
to the natives of Tauranga may induce other tribes to make
their submissions,—l have, &c.
D. A. CAMERON, Lientenant-General,
The Right Hon. the Secretary of State for War;
War. omce, London.

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SIR GEORGE GREY'S ADDRESS TO THE =STILE NATIVES
OF TAURANGA, ON 6THAUGUST,1864.
At present I am not acquainted with the boundaries or
extent of your lands, or with the claims of individuals or
tribes. What I shall therefore do is this : I shall order
that settlements shall at once be assigo you as far as
assign
d t
possible in such localities as you may select, which shall be
secured by Crown grants to yourselves and your children.
When this has been done and the boundaries of your lands
have been ascertained, I will inform you in what manner
the residue of your lands will bo dealt with; but as it is
right in some measure to mark our sense of the honourable
manner in which you conducted hostilities, neither robbing
nor murdering, hut respecting the wounded, I promise you,
in the ultimate settlement of your lands, the amount taken
shall not exceed one-fourth of the whole land. And in
order that you may, without delay, again be placed in a
position which will enable you to maintain yourselves,
as soon as your future location has been decided, seed
potatoes and the means of settling on your lands will be
given you.
I now speak to the friendly natives. I thank you warmly
for your good conduct under circumstances of great diffi-
culty. I will consider in what manner you shall be re-
warded for your fidelity. In the meantime in any arrange-
ments which may be made about the lands of your tribe,
your rights will bo scrupulously respected,
(Signed)
Tauranga, 6th August, 1864.

G. GREY.

HEALTH OF AIR. ROEBUCK.—The hon. member
fjr Sheffield is so seriously indisposed that ho has been
compelled to forego two engagements to appear in public—
One at Shtffiell', and the other at littaderatield.

Circular of Senor Gonzalez Bravo,

MADRID, Oct. 15.

The following is the official text of the circular
signed by Senor Gonzalez Bravo, Minister of the
Interior, relative to the new elections, A brief sum-
mary has been forwarded by telegraph :
" Ministry of the Interior, Oct. 14.

" The period appointed for the election of dep .
ties to the Cortes has now commenced. Although
the Government, in its circular of Sept. 19 has
already formally defined the bases of its policy in
so far as relates to the internal government of the
kingdom, and has since strongly confirmed.by its
conduct the assurances of that communication, it is
❑evertheless considered advinble to forward your
Excellency some brief instructions, with the view,
if possible, explaining still more clearly our.ideas
relative to certain points which might still seem
doubtful.

"I do not consider it necessary to remind your
Excellency of the terms in which the Government
thus expressed its firm resolution to confine itseAf
scrupulously within the limits fixed by the Consti.
tution, the laws, and the rights thereby prescribed.
Nevertheless, as the acts of the Government with
reference to the elections of deputies in the Cortes
may, in certain cases, furnish pretexts for criticism,
and even for dangerous opposition, it is of import-
ance to point out to your Excellency the unavoid-
able necessity of reconciling all your decisions with
the strictest observance of legal precepts, And the
legal respect for rights the free exercise of which
must engender the sincere application of political
institutions by which we are governed.
" From the moment when the agitation which
ordinarily precedes the electoral movement begins
the action of the citizens also commences to be
exercised, and under the circumstances the first
duty of political authority is so to proceed as that
this action shall b 3 peaceably carried out in all the
plenitude guaranteed by the laws and under the
special conditions of regularity and order demanded
by the high interests of the State.
" The election of deputies to the Cortes is not
an unforeseen event, and does not belong to the
class of those which arise suddenly, and without
any apparent preparation. It is, upon the con-
trary, a fact very generally announced in advance
—the inevitable consequence of the ardour of ideas
and opinions, or of the collision of interests and
sympathies, the changes of which date from a
distant period. To produce useful results the crisis
must take place with the utmost possible liberty.
It would be useless to point out to your Excel-
lency, whose sagacity I know and appreciate, how
unfortunate have been the attacks made upon this
doctrine at different times and in different coun-
tries. The Government of the Queen reckons upon
the functionaries in whom it has placed confidence,
scrupulously avoiding the imitation of these de-
plorable examples.

" Fortunately the legislation which rules
and secures the exercise of the electoral
rights has already furnished experiences
which must not.be forgotten. Your Excellency is
no doubt well acquainted with them, and the Go
vernment hopes that you will derive examples and
useful counsel from their application upon the pre-•
sent eccaeion. Further, public customs throw out
roots, and band themselves to the spirit and ideas of
the political law which governs us. Although more
or lees specious discussions have recently risen upon
several points, the latest laws which settle the rules
to which the rights of assembly must be subjected,
smoothes away (in the opinion of the Government)
many obstacles by abrogating administrative ar-
rangements, less formal than the law, in which
some have affected to find sufficient reasons for com-
plaint and exclusion which can no longer be brought
forward with sincerity.

si The electoral course is clear and open. The
law, which guarantees the right of entering there-
upon to any one legally qualified to do so, is exe-
cuted with religious rigour. There is no legitimate
opinion which cannot expound its doctrines, and
which does not explain them with a liberty and
amplitude of which examples have never previ-
ously been seen in Spain. The late amnesty,
finally, generously recalls to the bosoms of their
famiiies the small number of individuals who have
been separated from them by recent and deplorable
events. What more could be asked for? If some
persons are still anxious to revive without reason,
right, or motive the state of anarchical tyranny and
the sinister agitation through which we have
recently passed, let the responsibility of the conse-
quences of such blindness fall upon their own
heads ! The Government of a great kingdom can.
not stop in its career, and the nation must not sus-
pend the majestic progress of its vital force because
a handful of political subjects are unfortunately the
victims of a deplorable hallucination.

" Your Excellency, as well as the Queen's Go.
vernment, finds yourself therefore supported and
defended by a power superior to all force, by the
power born of the sure conviction of moderation
and j.stice, strengthened by a will obeying the
strict dictates of conscience.

" Relying upon the well-known instruc•
tions and evident facilities of which I have
just spoken, and guided by thoroughly de-
fined maxims, your Excellency will not hesitate
for a single instant to resolve the questions within
your competence which may arise during the poli-
tical period in which we are now placed. Your
Excellency will bear in mind that the Queen's Go
vernment is determined to support and aid its
delegates energetically upon all occasions when
their conduct shall be in harmony with the ideas it
proclaims so frankly and practises so sincerely.
But it will with the same rigour place the respon-
sibility, according to the case, upon those who shall
endeavour to paralyse or oppose its action by mis-
interpreting the sincerity of its wishes, by departing
from the rectitude of its intentions, and by entail•
jug sterility upon its programme.
May Heaven preserve your Excellency many
years,
GONZALIZ BRAVO.
"To his Excellency the Governor of
the Province of -- ."

Evasion of the Customs Laws,

The Commissioners of Customs have ifkuad the
following notice, consequent upon a supply of coal
having been obtained by a United States' war
steamer through an evasion of the law :
The Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs having
recEived information that a cargo of coal had been shipped
on board a vessel at a British port without duo clearance by
the proper officers of Customs at the port of shipment, and
that such coals had been laden at sea on board a ship of war
of the United States of America, with which certain States
styled the Confederate States of America are now at war—
the said Commissioners hereby giva notice that by the
144th section of "The Customs' Consolidation Act, 1853,"
it is enacted that if any goods shall be shipped, put
off, or water-borne to be:shipped without being duly cleared,
or otherwise contrary to tho provisions of that Act, the same
shall be liable to forfeiture; and by section 11 of the 18th
and 19th of Victoria, cap. 96, if any ship having cargo on
board depart from any port without being duly cleared, the
master shall forfeit the sum of 4100. And the said Com-
missioners hereby further give notice, that in all similar
cases of shipment for either of the belligerent Powers in
violation of the regulations contained in Earl Russell's
letter of the 31st of Janury, 1862, the law above quoted will
be strictly enforced.

The following order has subsequently been issued
to the collectors at the various port:—
Custom-house, London, Oct, 14,1861,
Sir,—l am directed to acquaint you for your informa-
tion and guidance that the Board have received a communi-
cation from the Lords of the Treasury, stating that an ap-
plication had been made to her Majesty's Government
requesting permission to ship 40 tons of coals on board the
United States' ship Sacramento, at Dover, to enable her to
proceed to Flushing, and that in reply Earl Russell had in-
formed the United States' 11Enister that, as it appeared that
this vessel had been furnished with 871 tons of coals at
Cork on the 29th of July, and with a further supply of 25
tons at Plymouth on the 17th of August, her Majesty's Go •
vernment could not, consistently with the regulations on
this subject, permit the Sacramento to bo again coaled in
any port in the Uaited Kingdom until the expiration of
three months from the last-mentioned date.—l am, &c.,
" J. B:
" The Collector at

DEATEI OF CAPTAIN LAWSON.—Captain Charles
Lawson, the respected dock master of the Commer•
cial Docks, died on Wednesday evening last, after a long
Hitless. He had filled that position near a quarter of a can.
tury. Most of the shipping in the Commercial and Grand
Stu rey Docks have their colours half-niast high, out of re-
spt.ct to the deceased.

Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Yesterday being the 59th anniversary of Nelson's
great victory, it wes celebrated on board many
of the ships in the various ports. Notwithstand-
ing that fifty-nine years have passed away, there
still remain 74 gallant veteran cfficers to celebrate
the anniversary of one of those victories which set-
tled the destinies of nations, and which will aver
be remembered by every Englishman.
The following are the names of the survivors
who contributed to the glories of the above day,
together with the ships in which they served, and
their rank then and now.

Admirals.—Sir George Rose Sartorius, Knight,
a recipient of the good service pension, was mid-
shipman of the Tonnant ; George W. H. D'Aeth,
was master's mate of the Bellercphon ; Lewis Hole
was first lieutenant of the Revenge; the Right
Hon. George Earl of Egmont, was midshipman of
the Orion ; William Walpole, in receipt of goad
service pension, was midshipman of the Colossus.
Sir George A. Westhal, Knight, was master's mate
of the Victory, and seriously wounded in the head,
and was laid in the cockpit by the side of his dying
chief; Sir Alexander D. Y. Arbuthnott, Knight,
was midshipman of the Mars ; Robert Patton was
midshipman of the Bellerophon.
Vice-Admirals.—John Lyons, was midshipman
of the Victory ; Robert C. M'Crea, was midship•
man of the Swiftsure ; William A. Herringham,
was midshipman of the Colossus, and wounded ;
Alfred Luckraft, was midshipman of the Mars, and
slightly wounded in the leg.
Rear-Admirals.—Xoseph Gage, was first■class
volunteer of the Ajax; William Shepheard, was
first class volunteer of the Temeraire.

Captains.—William Carleton, was midshipman of
the Colossus; William H. Brand, was midshipman
of the Revenge; Richard Douglas, in receipt of the
cagtain's oat-pension of Greenwich Hospital, was
midshipman of the Achilles, and wounded; Ben-
jamin W. Festing, R.H , was midshipman of the
Prince; George F. Herbert, was midshipman, of
the Neptune ; Gilbert Kennicott, in receipt of a
pension for wounds, was midshipman of the Royal
Sovereign, and received nearly 40 wounds, and lost
the sight of his right eye; Henry Parker, one of
the commanders of Greenwich Hospital, was mid-
shipman of the Belleisle ; William Martin, was first
'class volunteer of the Minotaur; Henry B. Mason,
was first class volunteer of the Prince; Wm. Mena
ley, was signal midshipman of the Belleisle ; John
Reeve, in receipt of the captain's out pension of
Greenwich Hospital, was midshipman of the Aga-
memnon ; Spencer Smyth, was midshipman of the
Defiance; Mark H. Sweny, a captain of Greenwich
Hospital, and in receipt of a pension for wounds,
was severely wounded while acting lieutenant of
the Colossus ; John Geary, was master's mate of the
Monarch, and is in receipt of the commander's out-
pension of Greenwich Hospital.
Commanders.—Mark Anthony, in the receipt of
the lieutenant's out-pension of Greenwich Hos-
pital, was midshipman of the Naiad. James
Blandford, officiated as aide-de-camp to Captain
Moorsom, in the Revenge; James P. Blenner-
hassett, in receipt of the Greenwich Hospital cut-
pension, was a volunteer in the Tonnant ; Charles
Chapel!, was master's mate of the Victory, and was
severely wounded in the face ; Thomas Chrystie,
was first class volunteer of the Defiance; Bar-
tholomew G. S. Day, was midshipman of the
Revenge; Lardner Dnanys, in receipt of the
lieutenant's out pension of Greenwich Hospital, was
midshipman of the Achilles; Patrick Deuchar, was
midshipman of the Swiftsure ; James B. Elliott,
was midshipman of the Prince; Philip J. E.
Elnahirst, was midshipman of the Africa, and
wounded ; Hugh Entwistle, was midshipman of
the Bellerophon ; Alexander Gallaway, in receipt
of the lieutenant's out pension of Greenwich Hos-
pital, was midshipman of the Thunderer, and
wounded ; Henry Garrett, was midshipman of the
Bellerophon ; Francis Harrison, in receipt of the
lieutenant's out pension of Greenwich Hospital,
was midshipman of the Temeraire; Charles Hayden,
in receipt of the commander's out pension of
Greenwich Hospital, was midshipman of the
Ramiles; Stephen Hilton, in receipt of the lieu-
tenant's out pension of Greenwich Hospital, was
master's mate of the Minotaur; Sir Thomas W.
Holburne, Bart., was first class volunteer of the
Orion; Alexander B. Howe, was lieutenant of the
Leviathan; John Knapman, was midshipman o;
the Temeraire; Edward Knapman, in receipt of the
lieutenant's out pension of Greenwich Hospital,
was midshipman of the Spartiate, and severely
wounded in the leg and arm; Vernon Lauphier,
was midshipman of the Spartiate; John Lechmere,
was midshipman of the Orion ; Alex. Martin, was
midshipman of the Prince ; Alex. M`Kenzie, was
midshipman of the Neptune; James Napier, on
the Greenwich Hospital out pension from the
masters' list, was midshipman of the Temeraire ;
Geo. E. Patey, was aide de camp to Captains Duff
and Hennah, in the Mars; J. U. Purchee, in receipt
of a pension for wounds, was lieutenant of the
Defiance; John H. Sanders, in receipt of a pension
for wounds, was master's mate of the Swiftsurc ;
Richard S. Simmons, was a volunteer in the De-
fence; James St. Quintin, in receipt of a pension
for wounds, was aide-de-camp to Captain Sir E.
Berry; Day R. Syer, was midshipman of the
Prince; George Tardrew was midshipman of the
Prince ; illiam Vicary, was midshipman of the
Achilles ; Charles Wolrige, was midshipman of the
Monotaur ; John Adamson, in receipt of the lieu-
tenant's out-pension of Greenwich Hospital, was
master's mate of the Britannia; John Carslake,
was midshipman of the Victory ; Wm. H. Boyce,
on the lieutenant's out-pension of Gecenwich Hos-
pital, was lieutenant of the Mars; John Pollard, a
lieutenant of Greenwich Hospital, was signal mid-
shipman of the Victory.
General John R. Cory ton, R.M., a recipient of
the good service pension, and a pension for wounds,
was first lieutenant of the Spartiate.
Lieutenant Generals—Sir Samuel B. Ellis, R.N.,
was second lieutenant of the Ajax ; John A. Phi-
lips, R.M., was midshipman of the Beileisle.
Colonel Thomas Lemon, C. 8., R,M.. a recipient
of the good service pension, was first lieutenant of
the Dreadoeught.
Captain James Fynmors, R.M., was midshipman
of the Africa.
First Lieutenants—Thomas Brattle , R.M., hold
the came rank in the Africa—Thomas J. W. Tane,
held the same rank in the Leviathan ; Lewis
Rooks, R.M.,
was second lieutenant of the Nep•
tune.