The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

TUE WAR EV NEW ZEALAND.

The Australian mail brings intelligence of the outbreak
in New Zealand. Most of it has been anticipated, but
some few particulars referring to the earlier details of the
rising are interesting. On the 20th July a party of volun-
teers were defeated by the Maories at Turanga, where they
lost two men and about eighty horses, with baggage, pro-
visions, &c. A Maori chieftain, who attacked
the Tnruturumokai redoubt, and afterwards sorely
mangled the bodies of those who fell there, left the follow-
ing memorandum on the road :—" I have tasted the
white man we have killed ; my wife and children have
also tasted of the white man, and it is good. Now
all white men will be but food for the beasts of
the field and the fowls of the air. We have
tasted of the white man ; his throat is open
and red." The chief continues "And who knows
where we will stop ? You know not when
the winds die ! Death is now my friend. Every white
man who crosses here death will claim. Even as the
heavens, so are my words. Will the next meteor come
from the east or from the west, from the north or from the
the south ? You know not. Even so you know not where
we will gather the next palms of the white man. I have
said." On the 28th July the escort going from Turuturumo-
kai to Waihi was attacked by the natives in ambuscade. Two
of the escort were wounded—one mortally, and the other
dangerously. The escort returned the fire, and the rebels,
being then attacked In the rear by Captain Page and fifty
men who . happened to be wood-cutting close by, they
retired in good order, taking their wounded with them.
Paora, son-in-law to Mattu Kauhuka, of Ngatikurupakiak a,
concealed himself in the fern, and as one of the Hauhau
scouts came along, mounted on Lieutenant Wilson's cap-
tured horse, he sprang upon, seized him by the hair. and,
tearing him from the saddle, made him prisoner.

TIIE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY TO ASSASSI-
NATE THE DUKE -OF EDINBURGH,

The Sydney Morning Herald of September 9 gives some
explanation respecting the supposed conspiracy to assalsi-
nate the Duke of Edinburgh. A speech delivered by Mr.
Parkes to his constituents at Kiama had made great
sensation in the colony. Noticing the strictures of
the English press on the excessive precautions taken
by the Australian Government, and especially an article
in the Spectator, entitled "Royaltyßun Mad," Mr. Parkes
made some strange statements respecting the reasons
which induced the Government to take these extraordinary
measures. lle said : "I do not hesitate to say here, that
I have in my possession evidence, which I can produce
at any moment, that will satisfy every unbiassed indepen-
dent mind in the country that we had just and large
grounds for every step of precaution which we, as a
Government, took. And though, perhaps, we, as a
Government, might have been content to allow
this damning evidence to remain unknown, still,
if we are to be taunted, misrepresented, and vilified
by a complete storm of lies, we may, in justification
of ourselves, yet see fit to lay this before the world. I
can produce evidence attested by affidavits, which leaves
no doubt on my mind that not only was the murder of the
Prince planned, but that some person who was in the
secret, and whose fidelity was suspected, was foully mur-
dered before the attack was finally made upon the
I'rince. I state thi,;, now that I stand before my consti-
tuents, though up to this moment I have borne all these
misrepresentations and vilifications in silence ; but the
time will come when, I venture to say, every person in
the country will be perfectly satisfied that the precau-
tions taken by the Government of the day were amply
justified." Upon this speech the Sydney Morning
Herald remarks, that some are incredulous and some
believing, but almost everybody is of opinion, that after
such a statement it is incumbent on the lion. the Chief
Secretary to produce the evidence and affidavits to which
he referred. At present the information is vague in that
respect which will enable the public to judge of its value,
and opinions are as various as the numerous construc-
tions which may be put upon the statement. Was
the man murdered in the colony or elsewhere? If in the
colony, where is the body? and what steps have been
taken by the police? These are questions frequently
asked. Some have even suggested that the murdered
man referred to might have been AVG ee, whose untimely
fate evoked so much public sympathy and inflicted so vio-
lent a blow on the Fenian cause. In some quarters ex-
traordinary expectations are entertained in regard to the
nature of the affidavits. The probable character of the
persons attesting is a subject of surmise. But all these
speculations are premature, inasmuch as it isnot yet known
whether the principal facts are within the personal know-
ledge of those who have made affidavit, or whether the
affidavits go only to shew that certain allegations were
made by others in whom equal confidence would not be
placed. Soon after the capture of O'Farrell his effects were
taken possession of by the police. It is said that among
them were a diary and some other papers. It seems not
improbable that from these writings information of impor-
tance -may have been obtained, and that the affidavits
may have reference to these matters, and to certain
disclosures referred to some time ago by the hon.
and learned Attorney-General as having been made by
O'Farrell. The general impression is, Low_tver, that the
information in the possesSion of the C overnment is suffi-
cient to justify the precautions they took, if it should not
fully satisfy the expectations raised by the speech of Mr.
Parkes, which most people think would have been
better deferred until such time as the evidence (what-
ever it may be) could have been laid before Parliament,
and published for the edification of the colony. On the
Monday following the speech of Mr. Parkes at Kiama
a public meeting was called to take into considera-
tion the statement above referred to. It was invited
by anonymous advertisement, and said to have
been inserted by a rejected candidate for legislative
honours. It was foreseen that such a meeting could only
result in disorder, and steps were taken to prevent it—
perhaps to the chagrin of its originators. On the preceding
Sunday, the Most Rev. Archbishop Polding urgently
requested the members of the Roman Catholic Church
not to attend. The chairman of the Protestant Political
Association, however, took a different view. On the
night of the meeting several hundred persons assembled,
but the proprietors of the Masonic Hall declined
to open the doors for their reception, Three cheers
were given for the Queen and three for Mr. Parkes, and
the people quietly dispersed. We are not likely to hear
much more concerning this matter until the meeting of
Parliament.
The Melbourne Argus says it is generally believed that
Mr. Parkes is endeavouring to influence the passions of
the Orangemen for political purposes.

DEPUTATION TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF
M.vvo.—A deputation from the Christian Vernacular
Education Society for India has bad an interview with
the Right llon. the Earl of Mayo, the new Viceroy of
India. The deputation brought before his lordship the
great importance of the Government taking advantage of
the desire upon the pm t of the natives of India to receive
Christian instruction in their own native languages.
They explained what the society and other Chri:;-
tian educationists liadl :Arcady done to promote Christian
vernacular education in the four:e n principal lan-
tuagcs of India. They urged upon his lordship the
importance of the Government carrying out fully the pro-
visions for extending vernacular education contained in
the despatch of 185-1, particularly those provisions fur
creating a vernacular educational literature. They stated
that their
du societyjig had expended upon publications nearly
0
years of its existence ; and that no
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ten
aid in this vitally important department of their work had
hitherto been granted to them by the Government. Ilis
lordship received the deputation in the most gracious
manner, and promised to give the important subject they
had brought_pefore him his mosj earnest attention