The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly.de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
lestitute sick has for a con,iderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are 'capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae-
-lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; 'ferries and Co. ; hansom
and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith,
Payne, and Co.
Barclay and Co. ; W Mims, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gar -
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
"o Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till &.
STANFORD SMITII. Secretary. °I

NEW ZEALAND.

(From the Time; Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON, June 14..
In consequence of General Cameron having de-
spatched a special steamer from Auckland after the
mail of last month had left, with the view of catch-
ing the European steamer at Melbourne, the fol-
ing memorandum of the Ministry will probably have
reached London before my present communication
does :

" In reference to certain statements made by Lieut.-Gen
Sir Duncan A. Cameron, which have been communicated
by the Governor to his responsible advisers, Ministers
I express their regret that the Lieut.-General should have
thought fit to attribute base and unworthy motives, and
a culpable disregard for the lives of British officers and
men, to the Ministry of New Zealand, and, by implication,
to Her Majesty's representatives in the colony. They
believe that, having regard to the character of the colony
(which it is their duty to uphold), and to their own, which,
as public men, is the property of the colony, it is impos-
sible longer to accept assistance so unwillingly rendered.
Nor, indeed, can it be hoped that zeal and energy (which
alone can secure success or lead to any useful result in
operations of the field) will be displayed by any officer,
however distinguished, in support of a cause which is
branded by him with such severe reprobation.
"April 8."
"FREDERICK A. WELD.
This memorandum is, in fact, nothing more nor
less than a dismissal of the General so far as the
Ministry is concerned, and culminates our compli-
cations. Its history is briefly this :—Some three
months ago the General wrote to the Governor a
charging the Ministry with the
semi-official letter,
continued prosecution of the war for purposes of
aggrandisement and in utter carelessness of the
lives of the Imperial troops. When the Governor
showed this to Ministers privately, they declined to
take notice of it without its being placed before
them officially, which was eventually done. As the
Governor and Ministry had acted in entire harmony,
in devising the Taranaki and Wanganui cam-
paigns, the charges brought against the latter in-
cluded the former by implication ; and alike con-
scious that their motives and conduct were unim-
peachable, Sir George Grey terminated all further
relations with General Cameron, excepting those
strictly official ; while Mr. Weld and his colleagues
declined to be any longer parties to the conduct of
operations under the General's directions. The
story goes that the Ministry did not intend to
make the above-quoted memorandum public until
the last mo nthhe'
month's
pboadp2rtjovuen both the Governor
andthe opportunity of making their
appeal
Secretary of State ; but from the
Governor
several the memorandum in his pocket
for
to
Generalt
he has a habit of doing
with important documents, the General first be-
came aware of it through the Auckland press, to
k e weeks,eping as
which it was communicated a few days after the
departure of the ordinary mail for England. The
General thereupon wrote to Sir George Grey, up-
braiding him with making official use of a private
communication, to which Sir George replied that
the General's
the
Genchargese could not be considered pri-
vate,General had himself communicated
since
the substance to the War-office at home. Nettled
at this mode of treatment the General immediately
sent one of the transport steamers to Melbourne,
where his special despatches no doubt arrived in time
to be forwarded home. The colony has already
suffered severely from the antagonism between the
Governor and his former Minister, now it is suffer-
ing no less severely from this quarrel with the Gene.-
ral. In the former case the Imperial Government
naturally sided with its own officers, now it must
decide between them. One or the other, it is pre-
sumed, must be recalled, if not both of them. Gen.
Cameron is understood to have sent an officer to
Galle, to telegraph to London for instructions, and
to wait there until he gets them.

The memorandum has been thoroughly can-
vassed by the local press; the most influential of
the Auckland journals stigmatising it as a gross