The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

E V ENING EDITION.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OP YESTERDAY.
• (From the Globe.)
The " wine-warmed" declaimers at Conservative ban-
quets, and the ignorant zealots at Protestant Assc-
elation anniversaries, are especially eloquent on the
miraculous interference of Heaven in behalf of the
Protestant Establishment of Ireland, surrounded and
opposed, as it has been, by the active and zealous agents
of the Reman Catholic Church. The bush, enveloped
with flame yet unconsumed—and the three Hebrew
confessors walking unhurt in the^midst of the are, kindled
by the infuriated monarch for their destruction, have supplied
glowing illustrations of the dangers and deliverances of our
much-persecuted and divinely-preserved Church. We
admit the interposition, but dispute the nature of the
danger which threatened it with extirpation. The
wonder is, that the Protestant Church in Ireland has sur-
vived, notwithstanding the pluralities and other monstrous
abuses which have prevailed within its pale,..—the
non-residence and worse than apathy of the c:ergy,
and the supineness and nepotism of the hierarchy.
The stratagems to which formerly the defenders of the
abuses in the Irish Establishment so frequently re-
_sorted, and by which they sought to repel those who ,
de.nouneed the evils which were obvious to all, will no
longer serve. To charge with irreligion and impiety all
those who presume to bring to light the causes of
efficiency in a church proverbial for its immense wealth,
and equally proverbial, till lately, for its indolence, will
neither prevent nor repel attacks.
(From the C'ourier.)
The misdeeds of election contests we would reprobate
strongly as the most truly conscientious man breathing,
whether of one party or the other. Bu t we firmly be-
t aad the Reform annals are there to bear us out,
with records of Election Committees in proof besides,
ttever since Parliaments became part azell parcel of the
itution was bribery so revolting, immoralities so
, and perjuries so atrocious, so unblushingly practised
openly patronised as under the auspices of the Reform
"'Ministry and by the prcfligate hands of Reform agents.
eat that is the least disgusting feature of Reform
eel tineas, for the venality of the Reform party in the reformed
House is infinitely more atrocious still. It is all vastly
fine and sentimental to dilate in affected strains of shocked
meeeality about the corruption of poor ignorant voters,
guilty of accepting of a few pounds as the price of a vote,
which Reform agents, more crim.nat, are there open-
handed to tempt poverty with. But where is the virtuous
indignation of tlsFse lofty moralists fur the- wholesale pro-
fligacy perpetrated in Parliament itself? Sales and pur-
chases of votes, aye, and of seats, are there matters of
everyday business.

( F, orn the Standard,)
We dread the accompkinnent of such a design as
Lord Stanley's," says the Morning Chronicle to-day.
"about as much as we do the cracking of the world's axis."
This we presume to be a i-trong expression of the ab-
sence -4 fear, for as the world haF. no material Reis
to crack, the event spoken cf. by our Contemporary
ih the way of comparisow. can scarcely be amid..
pated by the most timid. Without, however, presuming
to criticise a style of illustration which we must vainly at-
tempt to emulate, and which, indeed, we do net always
distinctly comprehend, we meet:our Contemporary's pro_
position, or what we suppose to be its proposition, by a di-
rect contradiction. As far as we can judge of the fu-
ture, wo avow our conviction that Lord Stanley's " de-
sign will be accomplished"—namely, that his Lordship's
Bill will become the law. Why should it not pass even
in the present Sessioa ?

UNIVEWSITY IN TELLIGEN CE.

MAY 21. —A congrgation was this holden
far granting degrees, &c., when the following were con-
ferred :
MASTERS OF ARTS. --B. E. Winthrop, Wadham Col-
lege ; Rev. P. Robin, Brasennose College; Rev. C. R. S.
Cocks, Christ Church ; T. F. T..vemlow, ditto ; H. W.
Sttlivan, &glut C,iller,,,e; Rev. Evans, Oriel College ;
Thomas a Berr:rd, Exeter College; Rev H. W.
Nsw Inn Hall.
BACHELORS OF ARTS.--John M. Gresley. St, Mary
Hall ; James L. Moody, ditto; John Hampden King,
ditto; C. Cookaon, University College ; G. W. Ashworth,
ditto; G. J. Davie, Exeter College Isaac Morgan, Tri.
nity College% John J. Trollope, Pembroke College; W.
F. Sweet, ditto; John G. Hawkins, nitto ; Henry E.
Devev, ditto ; John Fletcher, St. Mary Hall ; John J.
11-enaett, St. Elrnund C.)llege; A. H. Smith, ditto;
T. Price, Jesus College; W. Rogers, Exeter Col-
lage ; A. Oakley. New Inn Hall ; F. C. Tvvemlow,
Uric! College; W. D. Stent. Wadham College; Chas.
Penny, Wrircester College; F. W. Garnett, Balliol Col-
lege; C. Torkington, Brdsennose College ; Charles H.
bale, ditto ; R. W. Lowry, ditto ; J. F. Lowry, ditto;
Thus Wright, ditto ; H. J. Dixon, St. Mary Hall,
Grand Cotnpounder ; H. Symonds, Magdalen Hall ; B.
IV, Cane, 'ditto ; Thomas Scott, New Inn Hall.
The Professor of Moral Philosophy has given notice,
that he will resume his Lectures on the principles of
ethics, on Saturday, the 23d instant, at two o'clock, iiit_the
Hall of Exeter College, and continue them on Thursdays
apd Saturdays during this Term.
CAMBRIDGE' MAY. 23.—TYRWiliTT'S HEBREW SCHOLAR-
-sinus —On Tuesday last Henry Griffin Williams .B. A. of
Emmanuel College, was elected a scholar of the fiNt class,
arid Nicholas Mortimer Manley, B.A. of St. John's Col-
itge,„,a scholar of the second class, upon the above foun-
dittzen.

As a congregation on Wednesday last the following de.
gram were conferred :
HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS.—Thomas Charles Wit
Epricg Rice, Trinity College.
MASTERS OF ARTS.-Robert Loftus Tottenham, St
Juilti's College; John Saul Howson, Trinity College
Charles Mayor, Trinity College ; Tho:nas Kyrwood Bow.
yeti, Ca'.us College ; Henry Raymond Smytbies, Rama.
noel College.
BACHELOR IN THE CIVIL LAW.-John DJdSOTI De Skel-
ton, Trinity Hall.

aSCHELORS o ARTS.—John Eyre Yonge, King's Col-
illege.; Rowland Williams, King's College; Alexander
Blackall Simonds, King's College; Edward Balston,
King's College; Richard Holmes Tuck, King's College;
William Bate Strong, Trinity College; Richard Samuel
White, Trinity College ; Henry Hill Strettell, Trinity
College ; George Nicholas Vansittart, Trinity College;
Charles Ibbotson, Trinity College; William Assketon
Cross, Trinity College; Benjamin Crompton, Trinity
College ; Octavius John Williamson, St. John's College;
Robert Tindall, St. John's College; Richard Eaton Mo-
nins, St., John's College ; George Gunning, St. John's
Cellego.; William Mignott Kerr, St. John's College ;
Etephea Atkinson Cooke, St. Peter's College ; Thomas
Jones Burton. St. Peter's College; James William Far-
gnsson, Cams College ; Alfred Ed. Rogers, Queer's
College ; Charles John Shebbcare, Queen's College ;
George Eller. Queen's College ; John Thornton, Catha-
rine Hall ; William Harker, Catharine Hall ; Edward
Francis Manby, Christ's College ; Beaumont Dixie, Em-
manuel College.
At a meeting of the Master and Senior Fellows of Caius
Collrge on Thursday last, William John Johnson. M.A.,
was translated into a Frankland Fellowship, and Matthew
O'Brizn, 8.A., was elected a Fellow an the Wortley
foundation

At the congregation on the 6th inst., the name of the
Rev. Vincent Raven, Fellow of Magdalene College, was
eot inserted in the list of Masten of Arts, to which dei;ree
he was adrnitred.

The Rev. Robert Blunt, M.A., of St. John's College,
in this University, vicar of Bisham, in Berkshire, has been
presented to the vicatage of Belton, in Leicestershire,
.void by the death of the Rev. 1. Ed:lows ; on the pre-
sentation of the most Noble the Marquis of Hastings.
The Rev. William Burdett, 8.A., of Queen's College,
in this University, has been instituted to the vicarage of
.North Molton, in the county cf Devon; on the presenta-
tion of the Right Hon. the Ep.rl of Morley.
On Tuesday last, the Rev. W. H. Charlton, B. A., of
Trinity Col:ege, i❑ this University, was instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to the rectory of St. George with
St. Paul, Stamford, on the presentation of the Marquis of

EXTRACT FROM THE THIRD DESPATCH
OF COLONEL WAKEFIELD.
(From the Colonial Gazette.)
Having given some details of his movements, in conti-
nuation of his second despatch, Col. Wakefield gives the
following accounts of interviews with an aged warrior of
great influence in the island, and with the Baron De
Thierry, who claims large property in the island. From
these extracts it will be seen that the most horrible con-
tests are still carried on by the different tribes in that
country.
The history of Raupero is the most eventful and
worthy of record of any existing New Zealand chief.
His expulsion, and that of all his numerous and power-
ful tribe, from their native district, Kafia, by the Wai-
hato and Bay of Islands hosts, is well know to you,
prom the mention it has received in numerous works on
this country. Their forcible seizure and occupation,
in their turn, of all the coast land on both sides of this
strait has also been described ; but the means he has
employed for the aggradizement of his people, and the
causes of his prerninence and influence amongst all
classes and clans, extending also to the foreign residents
and visitors in the southern parts of these islands, have
not been dwelt on.
Raupero is at least sixty years old. When a young
man, he acquired a reputation for strength and courage,
founded on his skill in native warfare, which his wily-
ness and success in all his undertakings have preserved
for him in his old age. He came from Kafia as the
fighting general of Ti Pahi ; and after the death of the
latter at Otago, by Tairoa and the Southern tribes,
became chief of the tribe. To revenge Ti Pahi's death,
which was accomplished by tying him up by the heels
to a tree and cutting his throat, at which his enemies
sucked his blood, Raupero engaged with a master of
an English vessel, by name Stewart, to carry him and
some of his people to Otago, under pretence of a trad-
ing voyage, where the master coaxed on board a leading
chief of the tribe and his family.
Some of these were immediately killed ; after which
Raupero and Stewart, with their myrmidons, landed
and laid waste the settlements, killing every man,
woman, and child that came in their way. The chief,
who had been enticed on board, was made fast in the
cabin by a hook through his throat ; and in despair at
seeing his daughter about to become the victim of
these monsters, killed her with his own hands. During
the voyage back to Kapiti, the old man was de-_
:patched ; and it is a fact, that one of the ship's cop,
pers was in use for cooking human flesh for his guest
and that Stewart and his crew participated, if not in
the feast, in the atrocious murder and revolting prepa-
rations for it.
By similar treachery has Raupero acquired his power
in other parts, and become the terror of all the neigh-
bouring tribes. Unable to cope with the Ngatiawas,
whom he was forced to allow to live on the lands in
Queen Charlotte Sound, Port Nicholson, and on the
main abreast of Kapiti, when they were driven from
Taranake, he is occasionally is alliance with them, and
more than once has led them into an encounter with
their mutual Southern enemies, for the purpose of -de-
setting them with his people in the midst of the fight ;
by losses in which manner they have been much
thinned. In all negotiations, Raupero is considered
skilful, and is referred to upon many occasions. In
his dealings with Europeans and Americans, he makes
use of alternate begging and extorting measures, ac-
cording to the power of resistance to his demands he may
meet with ; and might, if he had been prudent, be now
extremely rich by his trafficking for supplies for ships,
and the presents he has received. He receives tribute
from numerous petty tribes and slaves ; and the
stronger tribes are occasionally constrained to purchase
peace at his hands.
On the whole, he is disposed to encourage and pro-
tect European settlers ; and having been several times
to Port Jackson, knows how to appreciate the commo-
dities of civilized life.
No longer since than last week, to afford a treat to
the chiefs of Ngatiroco, or Boiling-water tribe, who as-
sembled at Marra upon the occasion of the mourning for
his sister, he sacrificed a slave of the Rhangatanis, who
had come from Admiralty Bay with presents of dried
fish ; but my informant, an Englishman, who saw the
unfortunate man dragged to his fate, says that more dis-
guise as to the disposal of the body was made use of
than heretofore, in consequence of Raupero having of
late professed himself a Missionary, and that he intended
to discourage cannibalism.
In resolving to visit and conciliate this old savage,
however strong my repugnance to his character and
practices, I am more led by the hope of acquiring his
land, on which to locate a society which shall put an
end to his reign, than by any good wishes to him, and
of obtaining influence with his presumptive successor,
Hiko, who bears a much better character.
Kapiti, Wednesday, 16th October.--We came to
anchor to-day off Kapiti, near Evans's Island, which is a
low termination to a reef running out from the former,
and the residence and whaling-station of a large esta-
blishment carried on by Mr. Evans for Mr. Peterson,
of Sydney. We arrived just at the close of a smart en-
gagemect which had taken-place on the main at about
two miles distant, and in sight of our anchorage, be-
tween the Ngatirocowas and Ngatiawas. The former
mustered in great force from all parts of the coast I
mentioned yesterday, and stealing into the pah, or forti-
fied village, of the latter in the night, killed some of them
as they left their huts at daylight. In the course
of the morning, the fighting was carried on on
the beach ; and ended in the Ngatirocowas being
defeated, with a loss of forty-tive left dead on the
shore, whilst their enemy had but fourteen killed. The
quarrel, which is of long standing, was brought to a
crisis by the former having killed some sheep at Mana
during the late crying feast, which the latter had tried
to protect, and by th irritation produced by contact in
the passage of the Ngatiroco was in front of the settle-
ments of the Ngatia was in their journey to and from
Mena. Raupero, with his usual caution, had kept him-
self out of harm's way, but had gone over late in the
contest, with a view, as he told us afterwards, of
making peace, but as people here say, with that of
encouraging his allies. Finding him absent, and de-
sirous to see at least one party of the belligerents,
I mustered an amateur boat's crew, our surgeons
taking their instruments with them in case of being
able to render assistance to the wounded ; and was
on the point of starting for Waikanai,• the scene of
bloodshed, when a boat arrived from Evans's Island
with a message from Raupero, expressing his wish to
see me there. It appeared that he had larded on the
main, but finding his party defeated, and unwilling to
trust himself with their opponents, had returned to Ka-
piti. At the same time, he had seen our ship anchor
near his settlement, and had betaken himself with all his
valuablesto the English whaling settlement for protection
from some imaginary danger he anticipated from us.
This must have arisen in his mind from knowing that he
had been making very violent speeches as tohis intentions
respecting us for purchasing Port Nicholson, without
his sanction, and threats of snatching from the residents
of that place the goods I had left in payment for it. He
also had expressed his anxiety to the English whalers,
respecting the persons on board ; no doubt bearing in
mini! his own treacherous visit to Otago, for which rea-
son he would not come on board. On our leaping from
the boat, he arose from his seat on the beach, and in
evident fear, and with the greatest servility, sought our
hands to give us the Missionary greeting, It was some
time before he was reassured as to our intentions to-
wards him, and during the whole interview betrayed a
feeling of insecurity but little consistent with his cus-
tomary vapouring and insolence.
He made a pious speech about the morning's affair,
and declared that be would not interfere; being deter-
mined to discountenance further fighting. He accepted
my invitation to come on board to-morrow, and hurried
away to the settlement of Rangaihiro, an influential but
peaceable chief of his tribe.

In person Raupero is not conspicuous amongst his
countrymen, his height being rather under the average.
His years sit lightly on him ; he is bale and stout, and
his hair but slightly touched with grey. His counte-
nance expressas keenness and vivacity, whilst a receding
forehead and deep eyelids, in raising which his eyebrows
are elevated into the furrows of his brow, give a re-
semblance to the ape in the upper part of the face,
which I have remarked in many of the natives. He
was cleanly dressed in the ordinary mat and other
blanket, worn as the toga ; slow and dignified in his
action ; and had not his wandering and watcbfui looks
betrayed his doubts as to his safety, perfectly easy in
his address.

The whaling establishment here is most complete,
ande h
very superior to those of the poor shore-parties
we have seen. Their boats put off after a whale,
which came in sight during our visit, and showed a dis-
cipline and ensemble in their movements, similar to those
of a well-regulated man of war. The party has ob-
tained 250 tuns of oil during the season, and the second
in command told me he had realised 300/. to his share.
Friday, Dec. 3.--Whilst visiting parts of the river
to-day, the Baren de Thierry came on board. His
claims hereabout are very extensive, and from all I can
commissioned
years
oned
collect, not without foundation Mr. Kendall, of the Church.iMmislis.ioe co
n, s
ago, to purchase land for h
bias 700/. for the purpose hoefre, and gave
p
it. Mr. Kendall acquired an immense riniget bfne-r
tween this place and the Bay of Islands, butistronl
only paid
the natives thirty-six axes for it. The deeds,
t however,h
were regularly executed by the chiefs, who were a
time satisfied with the consideration received. As land,tat
however, became of value, they have bee* induced to
re-sell portions to other Europeans, and now say that
the axes were only a present made to them by Mr.
Kendall. The Baron is consequently in dispute with
all the proprietors on this district, and talks of waiting
the arrival of a French man-of-war to eject the trQs.
passers.

A French Bishop has purchased land, and formed an
establishment half-way up the river. He has a few
Proselytes, who prefer his form of worship to that of the
Wesleyans, because they receive some small pre-
sent for attendance at the Catholic chapel, and because
the service is much shorter. A Belgian naturalist has
also an extensive property near the heads of the river.