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

NEW ZEALAND.

Both the correspondence and the summary of news
of the Southern Cross of the 30th of April state
that the worst textures of the Waikato in telligecce
are conti.med Rewi and Kingi have returned
to the Waikato, where they are actively er gagid

organizing armed opposition to law and order.
Their followers have gone to the south, to the num-
)er of saveral htindred—sume say 200, others 300,
ard others again state that Rewi started at the
.1.-ad of 500. We do nor, therefore, know the
exact numbers, but our information leads
us to conclude that 300 is about the
'ruth. The native educational and industrial
,stablishment at Te Awurnutu 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
)ews may come any moment of an outbreak at
l'aranaki, when it would not be safe to remain un-
protected amt ng the Waikatos. The natives are in
a state of unbridled anarchy. There is no control-
ling power to check them ; and such being the case,
one can readily perceive the difficu.ties that sur-
ound the movement for reinstating the Taranaki
settlers on their former holdings. Tne professions
of friendship vc hich Thompson and some other
chiefs make are of little use; and we see no pro-
htbie end lo the present state of things unless
B.itish law end authority are estbb.islitd Ihrougli
out the island, or until the natives shall have ceased
to exercise any political influence owng to their
natural decrease."

The Taranaki Herald of the Brh of May contains
the details of t. e tnurcer of two officers and eight
men of the 67th Regiment :—'• A party of the Com-
rnissatiat Transport Corps, with two drays and
12 bullocks with supplies, were on their way to
T taraimaka, on the 4th of M y. and, having erossei
the Oukura river, heard the report of a volley of
small arms and saw the smoke of the piece some heft
mile before them. They saw that a party 01
soldiers and two horsemen, who proved to be (All
cers, were attacked, and saw some of them fall,
when they immediately abandoneo their carts, and
hastened back to the Poutoko, and gave information
of what they had seen. Captain Shortt, with a
party of 30 a en only, from the Redoubt at Poutoko
were the first to al rive at the spot, followed &tort ly
afterwards by Colonel Warre, and it was their
mournful task to gather the bodies of the follow-
ing officers and n en, savagely murdered :

Assistant •Surgeon W. A. Hope, M.B.
Lieutenant T. H. Tragett, 57th Regiment.
Colour-Sergeant Samuel Ellers, 57th Regiment.
Serge ,nt Samuel Hill, 57ta Regiment.
Private Edward Kelly, 57th Regiment.
Private John Flynn, 57rh Regiment
Private Bartholomew Macarthy, 57th 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 the officers
stripped of nearly all their clothes. One of the
drays was found where the escort had 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
gallopped towards town, and was caught by the
escort. This fearful tragedy cast a deep gloom over
the wnole settlement.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—Tne tone of the debates on the differences
between this country and Br-,zil 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
Plain it is that, whatever faults may have been com-
mitted by the Brazilian Government, our own hae,
to say the least, exacted quite enough compensation
and ieflicted quite enougn indignity. In the present
wet-k the ques ion has been discussed both in the
Lordsand Commons with almost identical arguments
on either side. On Tuesday evening Lord Cheime-
ford cleverly exposed what we may almost call the
extortion of the demands connected with the wreck
of the Prince of We es, and last night Mr. S. Fi z-
gerald went over the same ground, and added cir-
cumstances which confirm 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 arm.; to pay a b ood fi, t-
or p, rsons 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 sctndaleuely exaggerated to the bent fit of pri-
vate persons, common morality and regard for the-
credit of toe country bid as pay attention to the
facts that are brought to our notice. The stoty
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 :3,500, according to Lort
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 ber 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 and seen broken open is the
chief evidence that there was any wrecking at all.
But when it w- a known that there was to be com-
pensation the shippers came forward at once with s
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 came ashore at all, yet the Queen's Advocate,
an officer whom the Foreign-office seems to think
endowed with omniscience, " roughly" estimated
the proper comp-nsation at £2,36 Besides ibis,
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 hating been murders d 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 bed been "too proba-
bly murdered." Although this claim wes not urge°
in the first piece, a demand was meth, for £B4O for flat-
possible murder "of the n en. Now, though it is
undoubtedly ih,. duty of the Government to watch
over the lives and property of British sutj- ors
In foreign parts, it must strike every unprejuoiced
person that these demands were based on very no
-übstantial grounds, and enforced with a rigour sel-
dom employed to a friendly Government. It is not
pretended that the Brazilian Governmen was guilty
of more than delay in giving satisfaction, and this
fault was sufficiently punished by the reprisals to
which our Government resorted. Wnen the Em-
peror's Government yielded, it would have beet.
courteous ,o restrict the money demand wishit
moderate limits, instead of taking the opportunity
to make questionable charges. The defence of this
part of the transaction made by Lord Russell or
l'uesday 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
lone, saying that they would pay whatever sum tie
oemireded, they pi, cal us in a post ion of concede
table difficulty, because we had no one on the other
side to dispute the various it. ms." Fancy an attorney
eefending an extortionate bill on the ground that the
victim neglected to have it taxen ! No one can
believe that the Emperor 'really desires to encourage
wreckers, or to murder the crews of the ships whist
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 of our
Government to ate honourable renewal of friendly
relations. The King of Portugal has offered his
good (Zees, and as there is really no longer any
question in dispute, there can be no obstacle to a
good understanding. It will then be for the Minis-
ters who shall be appointed by the two countries to
maietain 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
or the duties of Parliamentary life As in the Apo-
cryphal narrative of Bel and the Dragon, this divi-
troy • of a statesman should never be seen to eat, but
unlike the idol, on the otner hand, neither should
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 ill
cooked and worse served, he is told that be takes a
low view of political life. We presume, of course,
hat Sir John Trelawny and Mr. Osborne never dine
anywhere. That is certainly the obvious deduction,
from their speeches on Wednesday, whin the pro
poeal 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. It
is, in truth, a grievance on which twenty other
grievances depend. The complaint is, that there is
no adequate accommodation for dinner, and that
the provlstons also are bad. Now, during tout
nights every week, the. house si's from four in the

afternoon (when there are no morning sittings) often
until midnight, and sometimes till two a.tn; Of
course, members of Parliament must dine in the in-
terval; or, it they were to maintain the old fashion
of dining before the House met, (here would be an
equal necessity of sup)ing. 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
mile, two miles, or three. If the parsimonious
opponents of the present proposed reform send them
to that dis:ance for their dinners, it is not reason-
able to expect their return to tee House under zL
couple of hours at least. Now all this is so much,
ima lost in legislation.

HERALD —Lord Russell, who refuses to recognise
:he Soto), or to advise an armist cc, or to interpose
it. any way in the great Arredcan conflict by which
we are suffering so severely, has ac.ualiy asked an
armistice for tie Poles, has addressed to Russia.
what might almost be called a threatening letter on
heir behalf, has all but r,cogniard th,m, nod h-s
'set red for their sake no trifling risk of an Euro-
pean conflagration. Where shall we seek a more
striking con:rest between one Minister and anott?er
hen exists bet .veep the Minister of inaction lei
America and the Minister of interposition
Poland ? the Minister who will not stir a fiuger
.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 oonii-
,,,ntal war for a eau,-e in which we have absolutely
no interest whatever ? the Minister wno spurns the
appeal of our kinsmen, fellow Christians, all but
tellow•country men of the S ,uthern States, and the
Minister who does everything short of declaring
war upon Russia for the behoof of a few
housand insurgents of a race " alien in blood, in
language, in religion ;" the statesman who thinks
',oinieg of the tisk of a war between Russia,
France, and Prussia, ending in the annexa-
tion of the left bank of the Rhine, and hesitates not
to enter on a policy of which this is tilt 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
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 timf.dity ' • 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,
as a perfect model of what a Foreign Secretary
ought not to be.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

MANCHESTER-JULY 16.

At our market this morning them we. 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 2ct per cental on foreign. Flour r eglected, at 6d per
sack and barrel under the rates of last week. Oats at a re-
duction f id
per 451bs, and oatmeal 6d per load. Beans
and Indian corn firm, at late values.