The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM NEW
ZE.VLAND.
(P::.;_tm'the S. cond E 'iliOn of the. Neu; Zealander, Jan. 19.)
Se,•:eZar,'s Oa*, Auckl 3::n 17,1846.
The Lieutenant-Gov,irlor tee ;s great sat.isiacti a it, direct-
ing the pOlicatiori of the f;liowin- dispatches from Colt nel
D 6ai the diis 'Cho operatAms against the
rabel chiefs Kawiti and lieke, front the 29th of Dec,mber last
tv the'llth inst. inclusive; ovratioris which were conducted
ill a manner most highly tionouroble to her Majesty's navalatal military forc.,, and Which resulted in a se, ies of successes
Which must p °duce the me bc,!etieial consequences fot this
portion of her. Majesty's domin:ons.
By his Excelleney's.comNand,
ANDREW SINi:LAIR, Colonial Secretary.

Camp before the Raupekapeka,
Kawi:i's Pah, Jan. 5, 1846.
Sir,—ln my let er, dated tee 28. h athlreeeed to
tour Excellency, I ,erd the honour of detailin e the proceed.
ings of the force u d centrm! up to that period, and I
new proceed with he detail of what has taken place since.
Bef,.re daylight on the morning of the 29th, it eiarry of our
native allies pe. etrated the weed immediately in our trout, in
a most praiseworthy Manner, and to'.k possession ci an open
piece of ground on the pirsize side, sending me itemeitiate
intelligence of what t hey lied done.
I directly moved forward with 200 men to their suppoit,
and secured the position.
The 30th aed 31st were principally occupied in bringing up
the guns and ammunition through the woods ; a work of
great labour and time, as it required between fifty and sixty
Men to each gnn to get them through, on account of the
heavy trees it was necessary to cut down in making the
road, and the steepness of the hills they had to pass over.
Several rockets and shells have been thrown imo the pals
on the 31st, and each day since, with the utmost accuracy,
doing great credit to the officer of her Majesty's navy who
directed them. namely, Lieut. Egerton, North Star, in
Charge of the rockets, and Lieut. Bland, of the Racehorse,
and Lieut. Leeds, of H.E.I.C.S. Elphinstone, who directed
the shells.
On the morning of the let inst. I pushed forward a strong
Party into the only. wood that now divided us from the
enemy, and taking up a position into the centre of it on an
open piece of ground, about 400 yards from the pah, a
strong stockade was immediately commenced for the pur-
pose of covering a battery, and the work was sufficiently
advanced before night to render any attempt of the enemy to
drive us away useless. This work was carried on under cover
of a very thick part of the wood, which completely concealed
it from the enemy.'
On the afternoon of the following day, the enemy made
a Strong sally from the ph, with a view, it is supposed, of
turning the fleuk of this advanced party of ours in the
Stockade, which was not finished; but they were most gal-
lantly opposed by our native allies, under the direction of
Chiefe Tomaiti Waka, Nene, Noble, or Nopera, Mohi Tawhai,
and others, eh° instantly dashed out, and attacked them,
driving them back with some loss, supposed to amount to
8 or 10 killed, and between 15 or 2U wounded; on our side
five were wounded on this occasion ; and one of the most
active chiefs, Reppa, was severely wounded the previous day,
in a skirmish with a small party of the enemy, who it ap-
peared had come out of the pall for the purpose of picking
off any stragglers from our camp, and who had succeeded
in killing one of the volunteer pioneers, who bad gone to
an unnecessary distance for water, and was shot in the
act of taking it. Up to this date, no casualty, with the
above exceptions, has taken place in the European part of
the farce.
It may be proper for me to observe, that in O. e action of
the afternoon of the 2d, the European troops acted only as a
reserve, at the particular desire of the native chiefs, who were
fearftil that their own people might be mistaken for the
enemy, and fired upon.
I have, &c.,
(Signed) H. DESPARD,
• Acting Colonel on the Staff,
Commanding the troops in New Zealand.
To his Excellency Governor Grey, &c., &c.

EXTRACT FROM BRIGADE ORDERS.
Camp before Raupekapeka, Jan 11, 1546.
The officer commalie.ing the force, against the rebel chiefs
Rake and Kawiti. has the greatest satisfaction in congratu-
lating the whole of the force at the brilliant success that has
attended their operations of the last two days. The capture
of a fortress, of such extraordinary strength, by assault, and
nobly defended by a brave and determined enemy, is of itself
sufficient to prove the intrepi.lity and gallantry displayed by
all concerned, whether seamen, marines, troops of the line,
artillery of H.E.I.C.'s service, and the volunteer pioneers;
and it will be a most pleasing part of his duty to bring such
conduct to the n,,tice of his Excellency the Governor ot New
Zealand, ard through him to that of her Majesty, and his
Grace the Commander-in Chief.
The Colonel cadnot conclude this order without expressing
his admiration at the brave and intrepid conduct displayed
by our native allies on every occasion since these operations
commenced, and more particularly during the assault of the
Pad, on which occasion their bravery was fully equal to
what might be exp;cted from the bravest of her Majesty's
troops.
The Colonel cAnmanding feels the greatest regret at the
loss of so many brave men as have been killed and wounded
011 this occasion ; but it will be considered as an alleviation
by their triends, that they have fallen while nobly perform-
ing their duty to their Queen and country.

Camp at the Raupekapeka.
Kawiti's Pah, Jan. 11, 1846.
Sir,—lt is with extreme satistactien that I have the honour
of acquainting your Excellency that Kawiti's stronghold, or
Pah, at the Raupekapeka, was this day cart ied by assault by
the force under my command, after a bold and determined
resistance on the part of the enemy, who continued the action
long after he had been driven from the fortress; but the
ardour and intrepidity displayed by the British force of every
description, as well as by our ►,at►ve allies, overcame every
obstacle. and after three hours' hard fighting the enemy was
obliged to fly, and dispersed in different directions.
The derail of this attack, as well as that of the preceding
day's cannonade, shall be laid before your Excellency with
the least possible de!ay.
I greatly regret to add that our loss on this occasion has
been heavy. as will be seen by the inclosed list of killed and
wounded : but when the extraordinary strength of the place
assaulted is taken into oonsideration, I am only surprised it
has been so small.—l have, &e.

—.. _
H. DESPARD,
Acting Colonel on the Staff, commanding the Troops.
To his Excellency Governyr Grey, &c.

Return of Killed and Wounded of the forte under the com-
ad ofColoel Despard, 99th Regiment. Acting Colonel on
themn Staff, during the assault on Kawiti's PaL, on the 11th

January, 1846 : --
H.M.S. Castor.—Killed, 7 seamen; wounded, 10 seamen
and 2 marines.
H.M.S. North Star.— Killed, 1 marine; wounded, 2 sea-
men, including Mr. Murray, midshipman.
H.M.S. Calliope.—Killed. 1 marine; wounded, 1 marine.
H.M.S. Racehorse.—Wounded, 1 seaman.
H.E.I.C. S. Elphinstone.— Wounded, 1 seaman.
H.M. 58th Regiment.—Killed, 2 privates; wounded 10
privates.
H.M. 99th Regiment. _Killed, 1 private; wounded,
privat e.
Volunteer Pioneers.—Wounded, 1 private, a'.so 2 during
the previous operations, one since dead.
Officer wounded.—Mr. Murray, midshipman of her Ma-
jesty's ship North Star, severely, but not dangerously.

from the question of whether the home manufacturers will be
tibit trsastand up against the competition or not, it appeared
clear that the old law had not operated to increase the revenue,
seeing so little had balif cleaveBm for consumption compared
with the amount that had entered from France.—( Hear, bear.)
The Government, therefore, would not have been justified in
doing otherwise than they have done, so as to increase the
revenue of the country and the imposition of a moderate duty.
The next matter to which the Noble Lord referred was that of
timber. Here also the same principle had been observed that
had been in the other branches of the tariff. The
object was to impose a moderate, not a protective
duty, and the result of the tariff of 1842 was to show that the
principle had been most successful. Of foreign timber there
10,3,000 loads ; -1845, 282,000
was imported as follows :
loads; of deals there had been imported, in 1842, 229,000
loads ; 1845, 34'2,000 loads. A similar increase had also taken
place in colonial timber-255. a load. -He did not think it
necessary to protect the-colonies, and hence the Government
Toposed to reduce the duty to 15s. a load; trusting, as ex-
perience had already shown, that the increase in consumption
in this article, which entered so largely into the comforts of
the people, would soon more than equalise any temporary loss
of revenne. In boots and shoes the Government had acted on
the same principle as was applied to the other articles, be-
lieving that a reduction of ten par cent. would be a source of
revenue, while those engaged in those trades would have but
little occasion to complain, having that amount of revenue
duty in their favour. having, as a general principle, reduced ,
the duty on all articles of manufactured produce, they could
not consistently have passed by manufactured leather.
The next point adverted to was the matter of stained paper.
He thought, that of all the things sought to be introduced,
this was one where there was the least ground of complaint.
rhe present duty was Is. a square yard—a moat monstrous
thin?. The excise duty en tae article manufactured was, at
home, not more than half a farthing; the proposed Bill
limited the amount of duty to 2d. a square yard. The paper-
stainers were a class who were less worked than any class in
the country; they none of them worked full hours. There
was no reason why those engaged in arts and designs for the
paper should not be able to compete with foreigners if they set
themselves to werk. Government had done all they could to
promote the success of the arts, by the establishing of schools
of design, which were already very successful. Another article
which was sought to be reduced was that of pillow lace. The
present duty was 121. 103. ad valorem. ; it was proposed to re-
duce it to 101. It had been urged as an objection to the Bill that
the duties were sought to be removed from the poorer classes,
He would say, that the measure was construc'_ed for no such
putposes. The measure was n.t proposed as a perfect mea-
sure. The measure was meant only to carry out further the
principle which bad been acted upon for the last four years, in
making reductions in the articles of general consumption, and
reducing the amount of duty on manufactures: to as near as
possible the ad ralorunt duty of ten per cent. It rested with
their Lordships, therefore, to express their opinion on the mea-
sure, which, he contended would be of great bens& to the in-
terests of all classes of the empire.
Earl STANHOPE thought the parties capable of giv.ng
information on the real working of the last tariff should be
allowed to be heard by counsel at the bar of their Lordships'
House. Nothing could alter the opinions he had express_ don this
measure, and nothing could invalidate his arguments. He
should, therefore, feel it his duty to ask the Noble Earl the
question of which he I- ad given notice, with reference to the
remonstrances which had been received by the Board of Trade
and the First Lord of the Treasury against this measure.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE would lay on the table of their
Lordships' House, in a few days, the remonstrances which had
been received by the Board of Trade.
Earl STANHOPE-1f no regard were to be paid to such
remonstrances and petitions from the people, he thought it
would be entirely useless to petition against any measure, and
he was borne out in that opinion by the statement of the Noble
Duke on the Treasury benches.
I The Duke of WELLINGTON—What I said was, that
your Lordships were not in the habit of altering, and could not
alter, 'any clause or money Bill which was brought up from
the other louse.

The Earl of DALHOUSIE wished to know why the great
autocrat of the Cabinet did not carry out his measures fully in
every other article, instead of taking the protection from the
labouring classes and poorer people, and driving them like
victims to the slaughter-house ? He believed there could not
be a single class of the country who would not be injured by
the passing of this Bill.
The Duke of WELLINGTON considered that their Lord-
ships had always recognised the principle of not altering the
money clauses in a Bill of supply. In the late Bill which had
been under discussion—
Earl STANHOPE—What Bill?
The Duke of WELLINGTON—The Corn Bill—their
Lordships had acted upon this principle. For 200 years they
had always recognised this mode of doing busineas between the
two Houses of Parliament. It would tend greatly to the in-
convenience of public business if their Lordships were to exer-
cise this power.
The Duke of RICHMOND—The Noble Duke has per-
haps forgotten that I voted with him against Mr. Huskisson's
Corn Bill, and it was thrown out.
Earl STANHOPE— he fact of discussing the Corn Bill
by their Lordships was, he thought, a sufficient refutation of
the Noble Duke's opinions on the subject of money clauses.
He would then ask the Noble Lord the President of the
Board of Trade whether he was willing to lay upon their
Lordships' table any information as to who were tho parties,
other than those connected with the Goverment, who had fur-
nished the information upon which her Majesty's Minister had
though proper to act.
Earl of DALHOUSIE thought the present mode of pro-
ceeding a little comical. He had often felt the difficulty of
his situation in their Lordship's House, but he had neve: felt it
so much as he had done this evening, at being called up so often
to repeat his catechism. He had answered the first question
of the Noble Earl because it was a question connected with a
public office, and he always felt it both a duty and a pleasure
to give every inforn'iation on that subject. But the second
question of the Noble Lord he must decline to answer, as it
would have the effect of throwing the responsibility from off
the shoulders of the Government on to other and inferior
persons.
Earl STANHOPE replied, that his object on putting the
question was, to be informed whether the Government,
before they proposed this measure, had taken the opinion of
intelligent, impartial, and well-informed persons on the effects
likely to follow the carrying out of the measure, and he really
believed that the Noble Earl had it in his power, there and
then, to give a distinct answer to the question. He knew that
it was utterly in vain to argue this question further, for there
seemed to be a strange and unaccountable conversion of
opinion on this subject. Their Lordships, however, would
find probably, at the end of the year, that the principles of
free trade would become odious even amongst the mannfac-
turers themselves, and they would find that those very men
would come before their Lordships praying them to re-enact
those laws under whiah their commerce and the country at
large had flourished.—( Hear, hear.)
The Earl of RIPON said, that if he had consulted the
opinions of merchants and traders as to the effect of this
measure in the same manner as the Noble Earl had
represented had been done by Lord Liverpool, he should
have received the most contradictory answers. Now
he (the Earl of Ripon) conceived that that could not be the
best mode of proceeding in this matter. The glovers of Wor-
cester and Dover, when a previous measure similar to this was
submitted to Parliament, came to Parliament and represented
that they should be ruined if it passed; but it was shown to
them that under the old system they could not prosper, in con-
sequence of the high duties, which kept alive the system of
smuggling; whereas the measure proposed would make the
trade of smuggling a most unprofitable, instead of, as under
the old system, a most profitable system.—( Hear, hear )
The deputation eventually, after the matter was fully explained,
admitted that they were totally in the wrong. Another depu-
tation waited upon them from the dealers of provision in Ire-
land, but the result was the same. A deputation from the
boot and shoemakers also waited upon him in his official capa-
city of President of the Board of Trade ; but their
Lordships themselves must know that not a whit
less leather had been used in the manufacture of
boots and shoes in this country since the passing of the tariff
of 1842. Another most important deputation, consisting of
thirty-two Members of Parliament, as well as several other
gentlemen representing the milling interest of this country,
waited upon the Members of the Government to state that
unless the ancient system of protection were not only allowed to
continue, but even to be increased, they would be totally ruined.
But every one knew that all these prophecies had been any-
thing hut fulfilled.—( Hear, hear.)
Lord MONTEAGLE said the House had a right to ask the
Members of the Government what they expected the conse-
quence of this measnre would be.—(Hear, hear.) They had
so often asked, but he appealed to their Lordships whether the
Government had given a decided answer to any of the questions
that had been proposed to them. Their Lordships had a right
to know a little from their Lordships what effect these measures
would have en the revenue—the finances of the country.—
( Hear, hear.) Of course he gave the Government his hearty
support in their attempts to carry out the principles of free
trade, but the passing of measures like these must
inevitably lead to the perpetual continuance of that
heavy burden the income-tax. (Hear, hear.) If
the country were condemned to a tax of 5,500,0001., it might
be quite just that the country should be so burdened, but he
wished to know in what position this measure would place the
finance of the country ? He did not feel any apprehension as
to the 'security of the country, with respect to its finance.
He should regard that man as a mere quack in the free trade
cause, who should hold that the recent diminution of burdens
upon the commerce of the country had led to its prosperity.—
( Hear, hear.) The recent prosperity was not any more attri-
butable to the policy of the Government than a good harvest
should be considered as the effect of their conduct.—(Hear,
hear.) He would repeat that this measure would necessarily
cause the continuance of the income-tax, and that the House
had a right to demand an answer to the question, " what effect
will the measures have on the finances of the country ?
( Hear, hear.) Free trade was the question which interested
all classes, and he grieved to think that his Noble Friend op-
posite should have lent his talents, his influence, and his
youth to the advocacy of protective duties.—(Hear.) His
Noble Friend did not always hold those opinions, for in 1842
he reduced the timber duty, when it was an increasing duty,
The duty amounted to 600,0001. a-year. He also consented
to a repeal of the auction duties, which amounted *3300,0001. a-
year. Here, therefore, was a million gone. The manufactures
free
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was the most extraordinary misapplication of
of this country required no protection. The Noble Lord here
quoted the evidence of Mr. Ashworth and Mr. Gregg, to show
tthatAmerica,he these
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The
elmence he had
ever heard of. There had been objections taken to many parts
of this tariff, which wero disposed of by the Noble
Lord the President of the Board of Trade. It was well known
eu who
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alone,
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that foreign articles were introducedry into this country by.
smugglers, galretri
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posed,enwiTiutoh aa vheeray, largeheavy
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was smuggled into this country between slates, which
were used as ballast. By doing away with the incentive to
this contraband trade they would increase the amount of re-
venue. ( Hear, hear.)—The cry got up against this
measure might do very well in poetry, and excite a cheer,
eietenht
lutyiplaeffbyeylevttehe
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but to come to plain fact, it was well known that the
result of the Bill would he to the great benefit of the country.
Lord COLCHESTER believed the protective principle
7cerhaps when that period
peinsettewyowueldrebnemyreet
by competition with America, and other countries, ant the
favourably consider their claim
whichrnan ufa'evtausrne manufacturers themselves eulevhesdwehs
would be praying the House for that pptection
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proposed would work so advantageously
The Marquis of SALISBURY did
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not think the measure
those who supported it. The Noble Lord, the President of the
Board of Trade, had supported the measure by a series of re-
turns which he (the
eal Marquis
of Salisbury) thought were at-
tended with a great d
results deduced from of mystification. He did not think the
them so satisfactory as they had been con-
sidered by the Noble Lord • for while the reduction of the
duties might lead to an increase' in the consumption of foreign
silks and boots and shoes, it would be at the expense of British
industry. He recollected that a similar change in the tariff some
years ago, raised the linen trade in and around London. The
measures new
much, and force them to depend on direct taxation, when they
proposed would tend to reduce the revenue very
would find a general outcry raised by the country against the
aurae they were welting. --(Heart bear.) A$ the went