The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-15 00:00:00

TEM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1861.

and confidence is requisite. Respectable workmen
all know it, may be relied on to act accordingly,
and if they did not, would be hissed out of the office
by ;their fellow-workmen when sent about their
business by the master. And, is it for our police,
who should be the ministers:of social morals, to be
the depravers of our working men ? We insist on
it that the note ought to be impounded; that the
present possessor ought to be compelled to state
how he got it ; and so on backward till we know
where this shameful business began.
No one can doubt one of two things—either
money was paid for this note to some self-inspired
thief, or one of Sir RICHARD MAINE'S de-
tectives stole it in the execution of his
commission—of his duty, we cannot say. In the
former case the money was paid either by the
Austrian Ambassador, whom it is little likely the
thief would know, or by some Englishman. Who
was that Englishman? we ask, and' he question will
be asked till he is named. On the latter supposition,
which Sir G. C. LEWIS believes not to be correct,
our police are in the service of Austria, and
we pay a police rate that they may steal into re-
spectable tradesmen's workshops, and commit theft
by order of their superiors. If, as Mr. DUN-
COMBE observed, " our Government paid the
money, then this country was paying for
the spy system of Austria ; if Austria found it, then
our police were in the pay of Austria." We com-
mend the whole debate, however, to the notice of
our readers, calling their special attention to the
fencing of Sir G. C. LEWIS. Not having volunteered
an answer on the subject of the theft—" How did
they get the note ?" asked again Mr. DIINCOMBE.
To which the only reply was, " Oh, the note !"
Mr. BRIGHT rose and put the case fully before him,
and Mr. HENLEY supported Mr. BRIGHT, still he
replied, without a word about how
he came by the note. Pressed again with a
pointed and not to be evaded interrogation,
by the determined member for Birmingham, the
reply at last was—" The notes were laid before me
by Sir RICHARD MAYNE"—cries of "Oh !" and
" Hear !" followed. We wonder some one did not
rise and say, " The woman gave me and I did eat."
And another, but—" who was the serpent in the
business ?" The question, we repeat, must be an-
swered—" Who stole the note ?"

New that the New Zealand war has actually
terminated, we can look back to it dispassionately.
So long as.the natives were openly in arms against
our authority, so long as they appeared to set at de-
fiance our earnest efforts to subdue them, it was dif-
ficult, not unnaturally, to divest ourselves of all par-
ticipation in the passionate emotions excited by the
mere fluctuation of events among those European
and Aboriginal belligerents, a few months back
confronting each other at our antipodes. Now,
however, that there, far away to the South, in
New Zealand, no less absolutely than half-a-dozen
years ago yonder to the East in the Crimea, " the
dead past" has " buried its dead"—now that, as lite-
rally in regard to the naked New Zealanders as in
regard to the grey-coated Russians themselves, we
can live and act in the " living present" of a fully,
and we will even hope permanently, re-established
tranquillity —it is not only possible, but
advisable, to revert to a calm consideration
of the real origin of this last deplorable conflict
between a race of tawny savages, armed with
boomerangs, and the little band of skilled and
disciplined troops sent out against them by the
authority of the British Government.
Historical materials are already supplied to those
who care to enter into this retrospective examina-
tion. So entirely is the war of 1860 in New Zea-
land an event done with and completed ! Pamph-
lets have been issued from the press opportunely in
reference to the recent conflicts between barbarian
New Zealanders and civilised Englishmen.
Pamphlets, for example, like that formed by the
" Inquiry,"* reprinted in an octavo brochure
from, the columns of the Colonial Intelliyencer.
Goodly volumes, moreover, have already made their
appearance in elucidation of much that it was as
yet difficult thoroughly to appreciate, in respect to
these remote but still deeply interesting and, so far
as it relates to the assertion of our authority in our
vast colonial possessions in these antarctic regions,
these vitally important occurrences. Volumes, let us
say, such as that :able and comprehensive survey
of the past history, and the future prospects of New
Zealand—or as the writer designates it, " The Bri-
tain of the South," penned by CHARLES HURST-
HOUSE, as he significantly but unostentatiously calls
himself " A New Zealand Colonist and a Visitor
to the United States, the Canadies, the Cape Colony,
and Australia." A travelled bookman who him-
self knows (not by any means invariably the
case with authors) really knows what he is
writing about—learning much himself (before he
attempts to teach others) upon the subject
in reference to which he has deliberately made
up his mind to put forth his disquisitions—ob-
taining his knowledge upon that chosen theme
from personal inspection and from actual expe-
rience ! Anyone who upon entering on the parti-
cular inquiry we have here alluded to, as being in
every way at this moment so peculiarly desirable,
may " cram" with especial advantage either from
the numerous chapters of CHARLES HURSTHOUSE,
or from the few but sufficient pages of the anony-
mous pamphleteer above particularised.
From the comprehensive survey of the rise and
development of New Zealand as a British colony,
sketched by the pen of Mr. HURSTHOUSE, there may
be readily extracted all the information—about the
history and resources of that. Britain of the South—
that the inquirer could otherwise alone hope to
accumulate for himself after a laborious research in
a very chaos of scattered authorities. The Histo-
rical Sketch alone which forms the second chapter
of the production, setting out with a reference suc-
cessively to the Spanish Discovery and the Dutch
Discovery, and glancing afterwards at the memor-
able visits paid thither by COOK, and again
by DE SURVILLE, recounts the whole narra-
tive of the New Zealand annals under British
rulers, consecutively under Governor HOBSON,
Governor FITZROY, Governor GREY, Gover-
nor WYNYARD, and Governor BROWNE. The
configuration and area, the commanding posi-
tion, the geological peculiarities, the varied scenery
and other physical characteristics of the great
Antarctic Archipselego of New Zealand are then
particularised. Neither the climate nor its
salubrity, neither its temperature nor its fluctua-
tions are overlooked or examined (when turned to
by this watchful colonist) superficially. The ex-
traordinary peculiarity of the total absence from
New Zealand of any indigenous quadrupeds
whatever, and of almost every reptile, saving
a few lizards and a little wild rat, called' the
Kiore, will be found, as a matter of course,
duly commented upon in the waiter's incidental
treatises on the denizens of the animal kingdom,
the
native birds,fishes, and insects familiar of old to the
Zealanders. The vegetable kingdom,
New
and the mineral kingdom, as unfolded yonder at
our antipodes to the New Zealand Colonists

* "The New Zealand War of 1860: An inquiry into its
origin and justice." Bvo. pp. 52. W. Tweedie, 337,
Strand.
t "New Zealand—The Britain of the South." By
Charles Ilursthouse. 1 vol., Bvo. pp. 515. Stanford,
Charing Cross.

are so elaborately explained in subse-
quent chapters by Mr. HURSTHOUSE that
the readers of his work are soon enough
introduced to every bush and shrub, to every
fruit and flower, to the wild fern and the wild flax,
to the timber trees generally, the pine red and
yellow, the iron-teak and the mahogany of that
land of the greenwood ! Equally complete, equally
detailed and comprehensive, are the pages in which
the mineral wealth of New Zealand, its resources in
coal, in gold, in iron, and in copper may be found
laid open to the scrutiny of theoretical investiga-
tors. One by one the whole of the eight provinces
are glanced at in succession—Auckland, Taranaki,
Wellington, Hawke's Bay, Nelson, Canterbury,
Otago, and Marlborough. The agricultural and
pastoral pursuits, more particularly the New Zea-
land mode of cultivating wheat, barley, oats, maize,
hops, potatoes, and tobacco—the peculiarities
noticeable among the native population, espe-
cially the manifest and significant fact of their
wholly undeniable decrease in numbers—the extent
and nature of the exports—the machinery of the
Government—the value of the revenue—the nature
of the patronage—the scope of the civil, religious,
and educational institutions out yonder in that
great New Zealand Archipelago, will be found not
only very lucidly explained is Mr. HURSTHOUSE'S
pages, but, as there explained by him, eminently
worthy of examination. Finally, as to the causes
of those lamentable outbreaks which led to our
war in 1860 with the insensate and self-deluded
aborigines—thus writes Mr. HURSTHOUSE at the
444th page of his volume (chap. nix.)—"The disturb-
ances at Taranaki are attributable to a combination
of four causes, namely-Ist. The KING movement.'
—2d. The long-cherished determination of WIL •
MAXI KING to keep for himself the whole of the
Waitara district, intact.-3d. The braggart desire
of the younger men to try a fall with the whites,
and to make plunder.-4th. The strong, innate,
wanton love of fighting, and the weazel-like appe-
tite for blood peculiar to the whole Maori race."
The KING movement being justly regarded by him
as having been unquestionably the principal cause
of the disturbances. " The KING movement," he
adds, in explanation to the uninitiated, "is a
popular phrase used to designate an attempt on the
part of certain disaffected tribes to erect in New
Zealand in opposition to, or independent of, Bri-
tish rule, a separate native State to be governed by
an elected native king. , The first indications of
some such a design on the part of the natives, were
virtually manifested among the Cook's Straits and
Taranaki tribes at the native meeting, described at
page 501, in 1854. This was followed by another
meeting held by the Taupo natives in 18564
this was followed by a great meeting of the
Waikatoes in 1858, when old POTATAU (4) was
proclaimed king; and at the present time, count-
ing secret sympathisers and open and avowed sup-
porters, the Land-League and KING Movement
party numbers, probably, nearly two-thirds
of the natives, or some 15,000 fighting men."
As to the manner in which the earlier outbreaks at
Taranaki grew up into a veritable war between the
native population and their English rulers, that
will be found fully explained in the pamphlet
already referred to, as having been reprinted from
the columns of the Colonial Intelligencer.

THE PAY OF THE NAVY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In the report of my speech on the Navy
Estimates on Monday last the following passage
occurs :--

" If my hon. friend the member for Portsmouth had
looked to the details he would have seen that if the Admi-
ralty had not adjusted the captain's pay they would be
giving him more than a Rear-Admiral. The pay of the
captain of a line-of-battle ship is £7OO a-year. It is pro-
posed to give him in addition £1 10s. a day, or £547 com-
mand money, and but for the regulation made by the
Admiralty the total amount would be more than the pay
of an Admiral."

I fear that my statement on this point was not
so clear as it might have been. I intended to say
that the present pay of a captain of the first class
is £7Ol, and that it was proposed to give him
instead £1 10s. a day, or £547 10s. a year, and
command money of 12s. a day, or £219 a year, in
addition ; and that if this adjustment of the pay
had not been introduced the captain would receive
nearly the same pay as a Rear-Admiral.
This correction is important, for the statement,
as it now stands, will mislead officers.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Admiralty, March C. PAGET.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.—Her Ma-
jesty, the Prince Consort, tie Princesses Alice and Helena,
the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord
Harris, General Grey, and Colonel Hardinge visited the
theatre last evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, attended by the Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Captain Cust, honoured the performance of
the " Amber Witch" with their presence, at Her Majesty's
Theatre, last evening.

The other day at dinner a large party was con-
demning the conduct of the Bishop of Durham in giving
the living of Haughton to hill son-in-law. " They're a great
deal too hard on the poor hshop," said Lord Chelmsford,
every one knows that chee:e comes before dessert."

LORD WILTON AND COLONEL DICKSON.-011
application by Lord Wilton to the Commander. in-Chief his
Royal Highness has ordered. that the inquiry from which
Lieut.-Colonel Dickson witldrew in June, 1860, shall be at
once re-opened.
ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—Mr. and
Mrs. German Reed bring their present entertainment to a
close on the 23d inst., and follow it up by an entirely new
series on Easter Monday. In this they will again be joined
by Mr. John Parry, whosE return to professional life has
excited very great interest in the metropolis.
THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.—The Rev.
Mr. Mooney, who played so conspicuous a part in this trial
has published a long letter in the Dublin papers giving a
history of his share in the Irish marriage transaction, and
of his subsequent condact—that is to say a statement of
the facts as they would have been given by him on the
trial had he not been subjected from the very first to " a
bullying cross-examination" (to use his ownwords), instead
"of having a fair direct examination." He also proceeds
at some length to refute the charges which he says have
been brought against him of being " grossly ignorant of
the doctrines of his church, or of having equivocated for
fear of a criminal prosecution ; that he was tampered
with or bribed by the major's party, and that he took
money under false pretences." With reference to the
certificate given by him, he says, " I merely gave it to
satisfy a continental priest that Mrs. Yelverton was a mar-
ried lady, which I knew to be a fact. I inserted the
names of witnesses merely pro forma, because without them
the foreign priest would have regarded it as a spurious
document, and Mrs. Yelverton would have been thereby
placed in a very unpleasant position. I now feel that in
filling up the certificate in the manner and for the purpose
just mentioned I acted wrongly and unwisely. It is a fault
for which I since suffered, through many months, both
in mind and body. But that I was not influenced by a cor-
rupt, or by any other than a benevolent and humane motive,
must be quite evident to any one who reads the letter ;in
which Mrs. Yelverton applied for that certificate. Had I
in the least foreseen that it would have been used for any
purpose but the one for which I gave it, nothing could have
induced me to have written it." In the Outer House of
the Court of Session on Thursday, March 7, before Lord
A.rdmillan, the cases of " Yelverton v. Yelverton" were men-
tioned. These are conjoint actions of declarator of marriage,
and of putting to silence between Major and Mrs. Yelver-
ton, in which a proof has been going on for some time be-
fore the sheriff-commissary. The Lord Ordinary appointed
the pursuer to conclude her plod before the 6th April, and
the defender to conclude his by the first sederunt day.
THE ROAD MURDER.--The Western Daily Press
says :—" Reports of the most extraordinary character were
afloat in Bristol and Bath yesterday respecting this mys-
terious crime, and were the cause of considerable excite-
ment. One report stated that a new chain of evidence had
been obtained connecting Miss Constance Kent with the
crime in a positive manner; and others had it that that
young lady had made some sort of confession. We have
good authority for saying that both rcportsare utterly with-
out foundation. The case has assumed no new feature since
the circumstances were last before the public, and at present
there seems as little hope as ever of the mystery finding a
solution." We were in possession of the rumour with re-
gard to Miss Constance Kent, but refrained, from pruden-
tial motives, from giving currency to it, resting as it did on
such apparently little foundation,

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