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TIIE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, JULY 10.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 54 ; Highest, 71 ; Noon, 62.
BAROMETER, 29.90.—W1ND, S.W.
Num.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and
Highest" denote the lowest and highest state o' the
chermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All
the other observations are made at noon.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
sforning .. II minutes after 5 Evening .. 28 minutes after 5

Zealand Company by its directors against the charges
of dealing in and selling lands, which subsequent events
have proved that they held by no clear title, if by any,
is by no means satisfactory—by no means such as will
even procure them an acquittal at the bar of public
opinion upon the charges loudly pressed against them of
bad faith and worse management. The Colonial Go-
vernment, as it is more exposed to animadversion in a
case of this kind from its superior and original powers
and jurisdiction, so is it more open to charges reducible
into precise and specific form than even the malfeasance
of the New Zealand Company. In the infarcy of that
concern they ought to have determined finally, and
boldly and distinctly acted upon that determination,
whether they would occupy New Zealand in virtue of
the rights we have mentioned— whether they would
raise it to the rank of a Crown colony—or whether they
would retain it only in the humbler character of a naval
station? If the Government saw its way clearly as to
either of these conclusions, it ought, without hesitation,
to have dealt with the New Zealand Company on terms
and conditions clear and unambiguous—for privileges
and grants positive, limited, and ascertained. if it
did not, it bad no right, it was conscious
of no title, it could plead no excuse, for snaking
any bargain, reserving any conditions, or granting
any charter, in respect of one part of the millions of
acres, told by the score, with which it is now, in some
sort, committed to deal at pleasure. But the Govern-
ment has compromised itself irretrievably, by the very
coquetting to which it obviously resorted for the purpose
of avoiding the very extremes into which it has at last
fallen, instead of at first manfully assuming. The in-
stant they treated with the New Zealand Company on
the footing of a party who had something to grant, they,
in all legal construction, took upon themselves the inde-
fensible duties, as well as rights, of protectorship. That
protection they have not afforded to life or limb, property
or person, to our fellow-countrymen in New Zealand ;
and, if Lord STANLEY imagines that he has acquitted
himself, or his colleagues in the Government, of the
terrible responsibility that now attaches to them
for all the English blood that has been shed in New Zea-
land, by dexterously-strung official common-places in
half-a-dozen epistles from Downing-street, we venture
to state that he is most egregiously mistaken.
We shall really be curious to learn at what point
of hostile collision between English settlers and
native chiefs—at what point of national degradation
or unresented insults upon our national flag, and the
unpunished massacres by wholesale of our distant fellow-
countrymen by these half-naked savages, her MAJESTY'S
Government will feel themselves bound to interpose the
authority and the force with which the Constitution has
armed them. It will be seen, from communications
published in another part of The Sun, that the autho-
rities of New South Wales had received timely warning
of the coming danger, which, unfortunately, was not
heeded in time.

We are glad to learn that the plan for establishing an
asylum for the insane of the middle classes has met
with great support, and is likely to be attended with
complete success. Its objects have been already well
and succinctly stated in an ably-drawn prospectus, de-
voted to their exposition. After adverting to the gene-

ral ameliorations which have been of late years intro.

iluced into the treatment, both physical and moral, o

that suffering class of our fellow-creatures, who are the
victims of the most distressing malady that can afflict
sentient beings, this paper very clearly shows that—
looking, on the one hand, to the attentions and
comforts which the means of rich patients can
always command at the hands of the most intelli-
gent and experienced practitioners ; and, on the other,
at the professional skill and the superior internal ar-
rangements that are provided for the absolutely poor
and destitute lunatic or insane in large and well regu-
lated public establishments, supported by contributions
from the public and from individuals ; it is, perhaps, the

intermediate class of moderate competencies, or rather
of incomes approaching to moderate competencies, who
suffer most from the want of asylums, the treatment and
accommodation of which could be brought within the
reach of their means. " Those who are most conversant
with the wants of society," it is remarked, in -the docu-
ment before us, " are, it is believed, unanimously of
opinion that some asylum is urgently needed in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis for the reception of per-
sons of the middle classes only, offering for moderate
payments all the comforts suitable to per-
sons of their habits of life and combining all
the advantages and resources enjo3 ed in the
best institutions for the classes already provided for, in-
cluding many improvements in the method of treatment,
yet but very partially adopted in private asylums, and
quite unknown, perhaps impracticable, in the domestic
management of single cases in private residences." We
perceive that the provisional committee of management
are of opinion, that while the extensive scale on which
such an asylum is organised is, per se, a great good (in-
asmuch as it supplies for the patients a variety of objects
capable of attracting attention, exciting interest, and
stimulating to exertion and imitation) the principle,
carried beyond certain limits, becomes a practical evil.
They consider that such an asylum as they now propose
to establish should be confined within a capacity for
containing from 200 to 400 beds. " The cost of about
twenty-five acres of freehold land, with sufficient
buildings and every possible provision for contin-
gencies, is calculated at 30,0001." The subscrip-
tions and donations proposed for qualifications of
governors, members of the Committee of Management,
&c., appear to be proposed on a well-considered and
easy scale. We have no doubt, now that the Institution
has
heensoini
objectspressiyely ushered into public notice, that
the benevolent of its promoters will be rapidly
and fully accomplished. The public, itself, must feel
that they have every guarantee for the bond fide charac-
ter of an undertaking, for which such a man as Earl
SPENCER has given, with his own honoured name, a cer-
tificate of genuineness and honesty that will pass cur-
rent among all classes of his countrymen throughout the
length and breadth of the land ; to which Lord ASHLEY
records the sanction of his own active and sagacious
benevolence, honoured and respected as that is far be-
yond the stormy circles of political and party warfare ;
and among whose " Provisional Committee of Manage-
ment " we find that illustrious physician (for no
humbler designation will represent his merits),
whose persevering, high-principled, disinterested zeal,
and enlightened energy in developing and acting upon
the results of his profound study of mental disease, have
led to the introduction of a reformed and curative treat-
ment of insanity in all its phases, which have earned for
him an European reputation in the first ranks of con-
temporary science, and will secure for his memory the
gratitude and affectionate respect of posterity. For our
parts, we accept the name of Dr. CONOLLY, the peat
mover of that new system of treatment which has
brought, at last, the maladies of mind under the sana-
tive application of humanity and sympathy, in the place
of brute force and brutalising coercion, as an assurance
of all that success and prosperity to the new " Asylum
for the Insane " which the prayers of every good man,
in the full possessien of his mental faculties, will
assuredly implore for it.

The Madrid Gazette of the 2d inst. publishes the new
contract for 60,000,000 reals per month, entered into by the
Government with the bank of San Fernando. Either of the
parties is at liberty to annul the agreement at the end of
three months on giving due notice. Gibraltar papers an-
nounce the arrival of General DELARUE in the Titan steamer
before Tangiers, accompanied by the Veloce steamer and the
brig of war Cygne. The object of the visit was the final
arrangement of the treaty between France and Morocco.
The Three per Cents. closed at 30 for cash, and 301/2 at
60 days; and the Five per Cents.. at 211/2 at 60 days.

In the Freneh Chamber of Peers the discussion on the Bil
for granting 400,000 f. towards the emancipation of colonial
slaves gave rise to some remarkable speeches. The grant►
it will be admitted by all parties, is very small, only 16,0001.,
a remarkable contrast to the magificent sum of 20,000,000 f.,
voted by the British Parliament for a similar purpose; but
even that small sum was resisted by the son of the unfortu-
nate NEY, and by Baron CIIARLES Dun N, who professes
liberal and enlightened principles. The Prince DE MosKowA
maintained that if the slaves were to procure their freedom
otherwise than by their own exertions, they would not value
it so highly, and the colony would not possess the same gua-
rantee for their good conduct—sentiments unworthy a Peer
of France. Baron Durnre concurred in the view taken by
the Prince, considered the admixture of European workmen
would prove a disadvantage to the colonies, and declared his
intention to vote against the Bill. The generous speech of
the Duke DE BROGLIE ought to have overwhelmed with
shame these advocates of slavery. The Noble Duke said
" having been president of the Committee which had for a
length of time paid particular attention to the slave ques-
tion, he might be permitted to state that that body
had never set forth the privilege of the slave to possess
property, and so purchase his freedom, as sufficient to
bring about negro emancipation. On the contrary,
the report declared in the most formal manner that
every system of emancipation that was reduced to such a
means would be absolutely illusory. The gradual system,
as the Committee understood it, estimated at very nearly
nothing the purchase of freedom by the slaves themselves;
it was founded principally on the purchase of slaves
at the moment of their birth with the money of
the State. But even that gradual system was not by
any means the one recommended by the Committee, who
strongly advised that of simultaneous emancipation at the
cost of the State. Now, he would ask, had the Chamber,
in voting the Colonial Administration Bill, deprived itself
of the power of authorising the Government to have
recourse to the public money to complete the measures

previously Voted He certainly thought not. If that Bill
contained the maximum of what was to bs done to prepare
emancipation, he should not hesitate to declare that the
Chambers in voting it had done nothing else than establish
slavery for ever. The purchase of their own freedom by
slaves must be lithited. A similar system had been esta-
blished in the Spanish colonies nearly two hundred years 1,04
and as yet its effects were scarcely perceptible; and with-
out going to the colonies for an example, he would ask
the noble Peers around him to look at France, and
estimate the value of a privilege of eny kind Which
required a poor day labourer to accumulate a sum of 3,000 f.
or 4,000 f. in order to enjoy it. In the colonies the number
of those persons who would be able to purchase their
own freedom would be exceedingly small, and, for his part,
he did not suppose that in twenty years they would exceed
150. He did not make these remarks to depreciate the Bill
that had been voted, for he thought it a wise and useful
measure in the way of preparation for ultimate emancipa-
tion, but to prove to the Chamber that the credit of 400,000 f.
was absolutely required by the Government to carry out
their plans in favour of the negro population. The Govern-
ment would no doubt use the credit with discretion ; and
he had, in conclusion, to pray the Chamber not to suppose
that in passing the mere general measure already alluded to
nothing else remained to be effected." The cheers which
followed these remarks showed that the Chamber took the
more humane view of the question. The vote was then put
• and adopted. The journals are still occupied with the affair
of the Jesuits, but their remarks now possess no interest. The
question is settled, and it matters little whether it was done
by the POPE or the General of this intriguing body.

The Funds on Tuesday continued firm. The Three per
Cents. closed on that day at 83f. 40c. ; the New Loan at
83f. 65c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 50c.; Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,147 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,033 f. 75c. ; Vierzon,
752 f. 10c. ; Havre, 847 f. 10c. ; Avignon, 970 f.; Basle, 250 f. ;
Spanish Actives, 37%; Diito Three per Cents., 38 ; Ditto
Passives, 7 ; Old Deferred Stock, 151/6.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 175 f. premium ; Boulogne, 118 f. 75c.
ditto; Troyes and Montereau, 25f. ; Paris and Lyons (La-
tlitte), 20f. • ditto (Caton), par; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. ;
Northern Line (Latlitte), 31f. 25c. ; ditto (Rosainel), fif.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf. 50c. ; ditto
(Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 2f. 50c.; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 121. 50c ;
ditto (Talabot), 27f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale),
51.; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 50c. ; ditto,
and Cette (Espeleta), 4f.; Creil and St. Quentin, par ;
Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 101. ; Dijon and Mul-
hausen, par; Dieppe, 27f. 50c.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths
during the week, ending July .5, was 803, less by 27 than
that of the preceding week, and 101 less than the average of
five summers. The deaths from diseases of the organs of
respiration and violence are, however, considerably above the
average. Under the former head they are 240—average,
229 ; and under the latter 38—average, 24. Those caused
by small-pox are unusually small, only 7—one person died
of the disease at the age of 21, and the remaining six under
10 years. There are 3 suicides, 4 deaths from burns and
scalds, and the remaining 31 from accidents. The rain in
inches was 0.28.

NEW ZEALAND.
TO THE EDITO le OF THE SUIT,

SlR,—The news from New Zealand, bad as it is, is less
disastrous than there was reason to expect. I lett Auckland
towards the end of January, in company, with Major Robertson,
who conveyed dispatches from Captain Fitzroy to Sir George
Gipps, requesting a force of 200 soldiers. Sir George Gipps
did me the honour to inquire my opinion of the state of affairs
in New Zealand, when I assured him they were most pressing,
and that 200 men would be wholly insufficient to keep the
natives in subjection, since military aid would be required in a
dozen or more places at once, and to divide a small force would
be but to invite its certain destruction.
A month was suffered to pass over without Sir George Gipps
sending the aid required ! When, urged by the recollection of
the many friends in New Zealand, who had charged me not to
forget their precarious position, I remonstrated with Sir George
in a letter published in the Sydney Herald, a copy of which
paper I send you.
In a conversation I subsequently had with Major Robertson,
I understood that the reason a larger force than 200 men would
not be sent down to New Zealand was, that no more men had
been " asked for" by Governor Fitzroy.
After a most unwarrantable delay, the troops were sent down
to New Zealand in the North Star, and the attention of your
readers is requested to the fact, that had ordinary dispatch
only been used, those troops might have reached New Zealand
a month earlier than they did. Sir George Gipps advertised
for tenders for their freight, and because the offers he received
were not so low as he wished them to be, British life and pro-
perty ie New Zealand were left for a month to the improbable
abstinence of large bodies of gloating savages, insolent in their
strength, and the comparative weakness of those they were
evidently longing to make a " tower" (foray*) upon.
1 again repeat, the heavy expenditure necessary to bring the
natives into continued subjection will exceed the sum required
to compensate the settlers for removing to some other of the
adjoining colonies. New Zealand is lost as a colony, unless a
pestilence carry off nine-tenths of the natives, and so render
the remainder controllable at a reasonable expense to this
country.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
London, July 9, 1845. ROBERT D'OYLY
The following is the letter referred to :--
"TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE GIPPS.

" Sir,—At the risk of being even thought impertinent, I
cannot resist the inclination of addressing you again on the
subject of New Zealand.
" I know that your administration of the affairs of this colony
is approved of by the leading men in Englard, both Ministerial
and Opposition ; but it appears to me, most distinctly, that you
are incurring a heavy responsibility by delaying to furnish the
military assistance called for by Governor Fitzroy.
" At the time Major Robertson left New Zealand, bearing
dispatches to your Excellency respecting troops, the position
of the European population was becoming daily more precarious.
" I am credible informed that within a few days after these
dispatches left Auckland, Captain Fitzroy found it expedient
to temporise with a native chief and his followers in their threat
of plunder, by giving them a horse and other coveted things.
Each succeeding day, therefore, must, in my opinion, enh 'nce
the difficulties of the New Zealand Government, so long as it
remains incapable of suppressing and redressing the native out-
rage and plunder of Europeans.
" Befcre I left the colony, now some six weeks ago, the na-
tives had been collecting in and about Auckland for several
weeks, in large numbers, without any more ostensible object
than that of flies hovering around a butcher's stall. To hear,
therefore, of their having made a rush at, and emptied the
stores, would excite no surprise in my mind. If in such plun •
der they should be resisted and any blood be shed, there is no
calculating what amount of lives they might sacrifice.
" Should such a state of circumstances occur, after the time
when troops might have got down to New Zealand, had your
Excellency used dispatch, the whole blame will be thrown on
you ; arid you will find it difficult to exonerate yourself, it is
conceived, before either her Majesty's present or late advisers.
" Assuming it probable that you were so, it is no wonder
that you should have been disgusted by the hasty return of the
troops you sent, some time ago, to the Bay of Islands, or that
you should be annoyed and inconvenienced by the ports being
thrown open in New Zealand, the sale cf lands at a penny an
acre, &c. But your
.Excellency must not lose sight of the tact,
that Captain Fitzroy is no Lieu enant-Governor I If he send
to you for military aid, the Home Government must defray the
expenses of such aid. It is not competent for you to say, ' I
disapprove of Cal tam Fitzroy's doings, and will curb or ob-
struct his unnecessary extravagance.'
"To her Majesty's Government alone is Captain Fitzroy
amenable for his expenditure. On this point lam most clear,
that whether troops are necessary in New Zealand or not,
your Excellency cannot justify delay in acceding to the call for
military aid on any ground or argument of expenditure. In-
ability to forward the troops, if it can be shown, wilt prove your
sole justification.
" I trust your Excellency will excuse this expression of my
sentiments, in assurance of the perfect respect entertained for
your able government of the colony, by your Excellency's most
obedient and very humble servant,
" Sydney, March 3." " ROBERT D'OYLY.
• " Tower" is the New Zealand word for foray, that is, to
rush upon and plunder.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
LATEST BETTING.
CHESTERFIELD STAKES.-6 to son Free Lance. The
Garcia filly .is scratched.
LIVERPOOL Cur.-6 to 1 agst Winesour (t)-7 to 1 agst
Milton (t)-10 to 1 agst Rowena (t)-10 to 1 agst Corranna
(offered).
GOODWOOD STAKES.-12 to 1 agst Libel (t)-20 to 1 agst
Venus (t)-20 to 1 agst John o' Gaunt (t)-20 to 1 agst
Glossy (t)-20 to 1 agst Lightning (t).
ST. LEGER.-11 to 2 agst Weatherbit (0-13 to 2 agst
Merry Monarch-10 to 1 agst Old England (t)-20 to 1 agst
Connaught Ranger-20 to 1 agst Pantasa.
ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY.
Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, New T.Y.C.—Minikin colt,
Tunick, Stamp, and Tom Sare.
Handicap, 15 sovs. each, 10 ft.—Celia, Bst 71b—Dante
filly, 7st 91b—Skeleton, 7st.
WORCESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Sidbury Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added, for two
yrs old, Est 81b, and three yrs, Bst 101 b ; fillies allowed
3lbs ; winners of 1001., 41bs. extra. A straight run of five
furlongs.
Mr. T. Dawson's Lord Harry, 2 yrs, Est 121 b ..... ...(Lye) 1
Mr. Treen's Astonishment, 2 yrs 2
Mr. Carr na Javelin, 3 yrs 3
The following also ran :—Mr. Wall's br f by Liverpool, out
of Busk, 3 yrs; Mr. B. Collett's Naunie, 2 yrs; and Mr. E.
Peel's Dejanira, 2 yrs.
' The Tradesmen's Cup of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 15
sovs. each, 10 ft., and 5 only if declared. The second to
save his stake. One mile and a half and a dis.
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 4 yrs (Lye) 1
Mr. Careless's Aurungzebe, 5 yrs 2
Mr. Ongley's Roderick, 6 yrs 3
Mr. Collett's Corranna, 6 yrs 4
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, for three
yrs old, &c. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Hobson's Charity, 5 yrs (Calloway) 1
2
Sir C. Cockere!l's Rodney, 3 yrs
Mr. Skarrett's Tottenham, 6st 101 b ............
Three others ran.
The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles.
Mr. Buckley's David, 6 yrs (Dodgson) 1 1
Mr. Wall's bf by Bubastes, out of Zelinda, 4 yr 5...... 3 2
Mr. Holloway's Old George, 4 yrs. .........................

PUTNEY AND ROEHAISIPTON REGATTA.
The twenty-seventh annual contest for a purse of sove-
reigns, given by the nobility and gentry of Putney and Roe-
hampton, took place on Tuesday amongst the watermen ply-
ing at the first-named place. The race was in three heats,
with ten pair of sculls, two pair in each boat, and the condi-
tions of the wager allowed the third men in the first heat
to take their chance with those in the second heat, when in
the event of arriving at a more enviable position, they would
be entitled to start in the final heat. The distance rowed
was, in the two first heats from Putney-bridge up the south
shore, round a boat off the College of Civil Engineers, and
up through the centre arch of Putney-bridge.
FIRST H EAT.
T. Green, sen., and Charles Cobb (yellow)
J. Johnson and T. Green, jun. (pink)
James GI een and James Robinson ( white)
3
Pink took the lead, white following, and yellow lying close
on their quarter ; white were obliged for a moment to give
way to yellow, who shortly after went into the front place,
and won by a length.

SECOND HEAT.
W. Robinson and F. Phelps (blue)
11. Green and W. Cobb (red)
The winners took the lead and kept it.
GRAND HEAT.
The two best pairs of each heat started down for this, the
final heat, the distance being about the same as in those that

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