The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TimEs..—Agreeable intelligence from our colonies
has, of late, been so unusual as to render particularly
welcome some satisfactory papers from New Zea-
land, which have just been presented to Parliament.
For the first time for a long period, we have official
information from that disturbed settlement of our
cause being actively espoused by friendly natives,
of debt adjusted, and of troops recalled. The two
last of these items of intelligence are those which
will most immediately attract an English eye. It
has been our unfortunate position for some time
past to have our troops perpetually wasted in ineffec-
tual and inglorious New Zealand wars, to hear of
our Treasury being continually tapped to supply
driblets for New Zealand expenses and guarantees
for New Zealand debt, and to see no end to any of
these demands ; and it has been our only wisdom to
submit to this position as best we might, in the hope
of some better prospect opening. At length the
present despatches seem to tell a different story. In
the first place the New Zealand Government have
directed the Crown agents for the Colonies to issue
and hand over to the Imperial Treasury debentures
for £500,000, bearing interest at 4 per cent. Mr.
Cardwell observes, indeed, that this announcement
is accompanied by no information as to the further
financial plans of Sir George Grey's advisers ; but
the fact is satisfactory, so far as it goes. The infor-
mation respecting the recall of the troops represents,
probably, a more tangible benefit. General Came-
ron, we learn, has by this time received Lord de
Grey's instructions for the withdrawal of five regi-
ments from the colony., It is, moreover, the " de-
clared policy of the New Zealand Government" to
send home the remaining regiments as soon as ever
the circumstances of the colony will permit it ; and
for all troops whom it may be desired to retain for
a time Sir George Grey is instructed to take care
that " that provision is made which is contemplated
in the correspondence between this Department
and Mr. Reader Wood." The policy, in fact, of
allowing the colonists to fight their own battles is
now thoroughly commenced, and we may expect in
a short time either to have no troops engaged in a
New Zealand war, or to be relieved of the principal
expense of their employment. It will be the chief
advantage to be expected from such an arrangement
that the colonists will be very chary of calling in our
assistance. Satisfactory, however, as this informa-
tion appears, it might be received with some mis-
givings if we had reason to think at the same time
that the disaffection of the natives was as active as
of old. But, happily, in this respect also the news
is more satisfactory. Our troops seem to have been
for some time comparatively inactive, to the appa-
rent dissatisfaction of the colonists; but two suc-
cesses of considerable importance have been achieved
independently of their assistance, and both are due
to the interference of friendly natives. The first of
these successes is the defeat, already reported, of the
rebels in the province of Wanganui, in a regular en-
gagement with the friendly natives. Twenty-five
rebels are said to have been killed on the field, and
four chiefs of importance were taken prisoners. One
of them is the principal chief of the Wanganui dis-
trict, and he has since appeared before Sir Georg e
Grey, has made his entire submission to her Ma-
jesty's authority, and has undertaken to aid, to the
best of his ability, in preserving the peace, so far as
concerns the Wanganui river and the adjacent dis-
trict. He had, moreover, previously given proof
of the sincerity of his intention, by sending back to
their country a reinforcement of about 200 men who
had been despatched by other disaffected chiefs to
his assistance. It seems not too much to anticipate
with Sir George Grey that the firmness thus dis-
played by the friendly natives and the conduct of
this prominent chief will exercise an important in-
fluence upon other chiefs in the same part of New
Zealand, and we hope with him that he " may
not be too sanguine in saying that he regards it
as a proof that the disturbances prevailing in
New Zealand are now drawing to a close."
This welcome anticipation is most materiallyb sup-
ported by the second of the two successes we are
considering. A few days before this victory was
gained on the west side of the island a still more
important service had been rendered by a friendly
tribe on the east coast, and one all the more welcome
because it had been obtained without any sacrifice
of life, and almost without hostilities. Sir George
Grey informs us that " he had known for some
time that the disaffected chiefs viewed the new
superstition which has sprung up, and which they
term 'Pai Marire,' as a bond of union which is to
unite all parties in a last effort against the European
race ;" and that, in some instances, they had deter-
mined to delay further hostilities until the prophets
of this superstition had been despatched to the na-
tives of the east coast, and the result of their mission
ascertained. The officer commanding at Taurangi
received timely information of this expedition having
set out, of its first destination, and clear evidence
of the nature of its obj ect. It was obvious, there-
fore, that if it could be intercepted and captured at
the outset, a decisive blow would be struck at one
of the main supports of the rebellion. He wisely
decided, however, to attempt this capture by sending
an armed European force up the country, anti he
accomplished his object far more effectually by
communicating the information to a friendly tribe
and treating it rather as their concern than his to
stop it. The result was that without the least diffi-
culty they captured the whole expedition, consisting
of the principal chief of the Taurangi district, the
leading Pai Marire prophet, another prophet, and
a number of their followers ; and these prisoners
were all handed over to Colonel Greer, to whose
management the success was due. The more insig-
nificant members of the expedition were at once
dismissed, but the chief, the two prophets, and six
.of their followers, were retained for Sir George
Grey's decision. The chief, it appears, is an old
friend of the Europeans, who has only lately been
carried away by the new superstition, and the prac-
tical evidence of the falsehood of its claims afforded
by the capture of its prophet promptly brougbt him
back to his former allegiance. He accordingly at
once expressed the greatest concern at having been
in any way connected with the recent transaction,
and offered to make the fullest submission to the
Queen's authority, and to aid in any manner he
could in bringing about a lasting peace. The
friendly chiefs offered to guarantee his loyalty, and
with the concurrence, as it appears, of every autho-
rity in New Zealand, he has been released upon his
parole, " subject to the condition of living at such
place as the Governor might direct until the war is
terminated." The other captives are retained as pri-
soners, and will be brought to trial before a court-
martial, on a charge of endeavouring to excite her
Majesty's subjects to join in the present rebellion.
We are placed in a singular. difficulty in dealing
with these prophets. It would seem wise to disre-
gard them, after having so completely demonstrated
the falsehood of their pretensions; but this course is
rendered difficult, as " they are believed by their
deluded followers to possess supernatural powers,
and that these will be manifested by their so blind-
ing us that they will be let loose without suffering
any punishment." We may hope, however, that
some means will be found of steering between this
danger and that of making martyrs of these fana-
tics, and that, to use the expressive language of one
of the despatches, the result will be effectually " to
put out the Pai Marire humbug." If this trouble-
some war should be really brought to a close by this
means, it would afford a singular condemnation of
our former tactics. A more decisive success appears
to have been achieved by a skilful employment of
the friendly natives than by all our dearly bought
military achievements. There appears, indeed, to
be some apprehension that the friendly tribe who
thus assisted us will be exposed to an attack from
the hostile natives ; but even if this should be the
case, it would be a very different thing protecting
the natives in the immediate vicinity of our own
settlements, and entangling our elaborately orga-
nised forces in an invasion of the Maori bush. If
we could but surround our settlements with a band
of friendly natives, we should be comparatively
secure, and our influence could not fail to extend.
HERALD.—A night or two ago Ministers pro-
posed the vote to enable them to buy the land re-
quired for' the enlargement of the National Gallery.
The site of Archbishop's Tenison's School, and the
plot adjoining, occupied by the workhouse, are
found to offer all we require for the proposed ex-
tension ; and it is so far a happy incident in the
matter, that as all the parties making the cession
are trustees for interests which will be rather bet-
tered than injured by the transfer, we may count
on having the acquisition at no exceptional cost to
the national Treasury. The arrangement, in fact,
will be about as simple as the purchase of a tub of
butter in the market ; and as we recall the fact that
the want we are thus meeting so tardily has been
quite beyond the power of exaggeration, we have
the feeling of an unexpected relief when we dis-
cover that the supply was always at hand, to be had
merely for the asking. Suffering under a famine,
we have been shutting our eyes and, obstinately re-
fusing to open our mouths and take the goods the
gods had been wearying themselves in providing
for us. Perhaps one reason why Government has
been so long coy in accepting so desirable an oppor-
tunity has been the unwillingness to meet the diffi-
culty which now presses upon them of deciding
whether the gallery shall be enlarged or rebuilt.
After the floods of learned invective we have all
been pouring out against that unfortunate struc-
ture, how, in the name of that transcendental art
we all insist on and never,get, shall we retain what
we have, and yet avail ourselves of the new space,
which would leave us without an excuse for the
absence of a gallery worthy of the nation ? By
what Magic of architecture may we make the build-
ings we have even apart of that decent Temple of
of the Fine Arts which all the better aspirations of

the country are demanding ? But whatever the
necessity for a reconstruction, it is not within the
range of things English that we should have
If the edifice we have were quite as bad as all its
critics say, there is a practical character in the
national mind under which we should try to turn
some good money out of it. Its almost infantile
artlessness easily enough suggests the barracks, the
gaol, the factory, the workhouse, to the British in'
tellect familiarised with the contemplation of such
objects ; and even people whose estimates are formed
less on the relations of things, and who are not
accustomed to overdraw on their vocabulary, map
sigh to think that our architecture of that day, when
liberally subsidised, could invent nothing finer for,
the occupation of so fine a site and the answering 01
such noble ends. The limited space, under the leo;
of harmony in the proportions, admitted perhaps °I
nothing very extraordinary in a building which was,
after all, to be adjudged chiefly as it fulfilled its per:
pose of being an effective show-room. We do not
therefore demur to the common consent which seems
to have taken upon itself to decide that the architect
has made a failure. The question just now with us
is to settle how we are to make the best of it. The
statesman may shine in a second role whose qualities
condemned him to eclipse in a first, and it may be
that a building which is decided to have fallen short
as a whole may be made a very successful affair as a
part. There may be Shaksperes of architecture as of.
the drama. If, as with Homer, it be the glory of
an architect to combine the new and the great int°,
one beautiful result, it is not the less the triumph 01
his art if, like Shakspere, he can secure a like effect
out of a skilful modification of the structure fur' '
niched him by the past. If we must put up with the
mass of building we have in Trafalgar-square, we
see no reason why it may not be made to undergo
almost any conceivable transformation under the
resources of our decorative art. In any case in the
proportion in which there would be any difficulty
in
making something out of what we have, would pro-
bably be the danger of giving ourselves to the unner"
tainty of the unknown in architectural art, under
such incubation as it might have under Lord Pal-
merston and Mr. Cowper. The latest of our greab
building achievements—the International Exhibition
—did not offer so encouraging an example that we
should be eager needlessly to risk a larger stake on
the chance of getting an architectural prize. NV°,
must put up, we suppose, with one of our usual
compromises. The .old lot ; we have borne it so
often that it would be mere fastidiousness of taste
to make much ado about our not getting something
better now. It is something in favour of an en-
largement that we should sooner get the complel eo
building. It would be provoking not to have the
gallery by the time—let us suppose—when the Land"
seer Lions will be about putting in their appearance
the other side of the fountains. It would be some-
thing, too, if it might be added that when the gal
lery is a gallery means were devised to secure 8:
larger use of it by the nation. As a rule, we do not
get our money's worth out of this sort of institution.
We are asked to think of what it costs the nation---.
about eighteen shillings—every time we—we final'
vidually—visit an establishment that ought to be Par"
of this national collection—we mean the " Hist%
rical Gallery." The country pays for the amusement
of those visiting the Kensington Museum about °
shilling a-piece. The price we pay for the visitor
to a more popular institution—the British Muscly:a
—is about three times that amount, and there is the
additional misfortune, which deserves to be noticed,
that in some of these establishments, notwithstand" '
ing the premium we are offering for them, the visitors
are falling off—the visitors to the British Museuni,
for example, having been less in 1864, by 80,00.
than in 1859. A chief pleasure, however, in getting
our new house of the arts will be one which our
readers have not, perhaps, promised themselves:'
that of unhousing the artists who have been pus;
using the old one. It must take a great deal
respect for them as distinguished painters an
accomplished gentlemen, to prevent our being de-
lighted at getting rid of them. Just so much as
we admire their paintings just so much would we
not trust them with those of their predecessors °r
the training of their successors. They have 13°
much cleverness in showing their own art that
would not for the world let them lose a morn_Acild
about the art of anybody else. As soon sboV
Correggio—were he amongst us—consecrate his
days and nights to the bustle and beadledom f
official academicism. Short of giving them Buck",l
ingham Palace or the Foundling Hospital, we wow'
assign them any residence in the kingdom,
if they
would only house themselves where they could con"
fine their corporate functions to giving artists 3
liberal use of living models, make an annual bonfire
of all lay figures, and showing under the moat
favourable conditions all that masters of the fine arte
have been doing for us during the 12 months. of
all clear things, the clearest is that the sooner they
are made to shift for themselves the better for
everybody. At present they are helpless under the
embarrassment of their riches, and languid under
the pressure of their good fortune. The eight thou-
sand pounds it cost them and their friends to acconi-
plish the labour of buying three thousand pound°.
worth of pictures is the succinct history of all their
administration. Over patronage has all the effect on
them that inanition has cn those who depend on.
them, and the strenua inertia of the artistic MI
within, overwhelmed by everybody's kindness, Ps,
offers the measure of the neglect, and the misery '3'
the artistic Lazarus who lies at the gate without.

COUNTRY MARKETS

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MANCHES TER—THURSDAY.
This morning wheat was in moderate demand ?theal!
advance of is per qr., and foreign was the turn big
Fresh made flour was 6d per sack higher, but no change French. Oats and oatmeal steady. Beans and law'
corn quite as dear.

BIRMINGHAM—TauRsDAy.
At this day's market there was again a short supply of
wheat, which sold at an improvement of 6d to is pe.nr
Barley tending upwards. Oats 6d per qr. higher. 1-Q

anCurrenciesd beans rather
cl :—English wheat, white, 43s to 47s ; re 9n9S
6
to 44s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; gnu ;
22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ; Irish, 21s to 2400
30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 40s to 428 per qr'

BURY ST. EDMUND'S—WEDNESDAY.
There was a fair supply of wheat at this market to-salt
Prime samples realised an advance of is per qr. upon Isl.6sb
week's prices; secondary qualities in most instances
ape
not sold. There was no alteration in the value of beams'
peas, or barley. Oats quite as dear.
Talavera wheat, 44s to 495; red ditto, 37s to 40s; bar"
30s to 325; secondary ditto, 27s to 29s per qr. 91
Averages_: Wheat, 1,123 qrs., 39s 7d ; barley,
qrs., 29s 10d; oats, qrs., —s Od.

BRISTOL—Tau RSDAY.
On our market to-day there was an unusually short 6115
ply of wheat ; the trade ruled very firm, and an advaDef'ed
is per qr. was readily obtainable. Foreign more inclilLi.
for, at fully last week's prices. A good demand for gY"qr.
ing and distilling barleys, at an improvement of 6d per 3:6
Oats scarce, and all kinds sold at 6d per qr. more lon
Maize quite as dear. In beans and peas little doing.

EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY.
dip
At to-day's market there was a fair attendance, 1.0
a good feeling prevailed throughout, wheat making
more money.

Average prices.
Wheat, 40s10d I Oats, 23510 d
Barley, 2Bs 1d 1 Beans, 39s id
Wheat on the top, Os 6d down average, is 0(111P•
Barley on the top, is Od up average, Os 7d 1113:„,
avemge,Os doh.
Beans on the top, is Od up
.
Beans on the top, is Od up average, is 7d u•

Total supply and sales.
Wheat 771 qrs sold 672
Barley 56 qrs sold 8
Oats 1448 qrs sold 725
Beans 99 qrs sold B`,tro
Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 37s Od i e`
superfine, 35s Od; superfine, 33s Od; fine, 31s Od.

GL—WEDNESDAY. ra
The home slppliAesSGO were small. The tone of the Iftedde
•
has not varied, and previous prices have to be rep
This day's market wag fairly attonded. Wheat and cora
in limited request at about last week's rates. Spring
neglected.
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irths.
FIENNES,—On the 20th inB
st., at 3, Clarendon-place, t eallr
ington, the Hon. Mrs. Ivo de Viesci Fiennes, of a the
GILBERT.—On the 19th inst., at The Priory, Bed"'
wife of Lieut.-Col. Gilbert, of a daughter. Airs
GLYN.—On the 22d inst., at 51, Berkeley-squarei
Leger Glyn, of a daughter.

Marriages chrOr
BROOME—BARKER.—On *the 21st inst , at Prost 1--",,rif
shiro, Frederick Napier Broome, Es. , of Canter''.- a.
New Zealand, to Lady Barker, widowq.of Colonel Su.
R. Barker, K.C.8., R.A. nar'Ditla
iIIGGS—NORMAN.—On the 21st inst , at Holy - 1 0
Cloudesle-square, W. A. Higgs, Esq., of sbnEt°ll Atilif
B]ackfriars, to Phoebe, eldest dau hter.of Saab
-r4°*--
Esq., of Clerkenwell. g

Deaths.
CRAIG.—On the 21st inst., at Bocking, the Ref. Th°olo
Craig, aged 85. I co,
HuNT.—On the 21st inst., at 2, Upper Portland-- Boot,
Caroline Sophia, the wife of Thomas Newman.
Esq.
STODART.—On the 21st inst., at 18, Durham-terrace,dy,69-.
bourne-park, Bayswater, Adam Stodart, geneserrolliv
TOLLINTON.—On the 17th inst at Kilburn,
ton, Esq., aged 60.
WALTER.—On the 19th inst., at the Vicarage Sutton V. 814
lence, Kent, the Rev. Frak Walter,

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