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LONDON, FRIDAY, J A NUAItY 1814.

At a late meeting of tha p,rishioners of St.
Stephen, Walbrook, on the tiresome and perplexing
subject of Alderman Ginus' account,,, the Rev. Dr.
CROIX, who was specially requested to attml, de-
livered a forcible and brilliant speech, in which cer-
tain stinging home truths were told, which will
bring vividly to the Alderman's recollection the old
adage that "naked truth is exceedingly unlovely"
For this clever and effective speech the Rev. Doctor
is roundly taken to task by the 'F ry journals of this
morning. The Post says, " While nobody will
deny its power and brilliancy, if any should
think it becoming the clerical character of
the speaker, we regret that with such a
person we cannot concur ;" and the Herald states,
" led on by the cheers of public meetings, Dr. CkOLY
seems recently to have droed the character of
peace-maker, and to have assumed that of the political
martyr and parochial patriot ;" and then proceeds to
sneer at the wit and satire of the speech in question,
as if they were offences not easily to be pardoned in a
clergyman. Now, wherefore this Tory outcry against
the Rector of St. Stephen's ? Is it absolutely neces-
sary that, because he is a parson, he be a dull,
prosy twaddler? Are wit, and fancy, and sarcasm un-
becoming in one of the cloth ? If so, Heaven help
SIDNEY SMITLI, for he must have sinned
beyond forgiveness in the eyes of our ultra-discreet
Contemporaries. But granting even that brilliant
qualities of mind ought never to be exhibited by one
who writes " Reverend!' before his name, surely the
exhibition of such qualities might be pardoned, if
only for their rarity. It is not at all likely that the
Doctor's example will be infectious ; indeed, we think
the very last thing that our Tory Contemporaries
need be apprehensive of, is the spread of wit and
-fancy among clergymen. They are not, in general,
the briskest and liveliest of created beings. They usually
may fax fewer good things than they eat ; and, perhaps,

you may travel all England over, from the Land's-end to '
Berwwk, without meeting with a parson who com-
bines the: wit and fancy of a STERNE with the terse
hull:our of a SIDNEY SMITH. But if Dr. CROLY 'S
vivacity be really so objectionable in the pious,
uplifted eyes of the Post and the Herald, we can
assure them for their comfort that the Rev. Gentle-
man is by no means so great an offender as they may
imagine; for the whole of his sarcastic allusions to
the numerous offices which Alderman GIBBS hold, is
a direct plagiarism from BunKE's speech on Econo-
mical Reform, wherein he alludes to the various
snug, profitable births of which GEORGE the THIRD
NM in possession,—viz., as Duke of CORNWALL,
Count Palatine of Lancaster, &c. &c. Let the
blame, therefore, rest on the right shoulders ; and let
not Doctor CROLY be sneered at as a reckless satirist,
for having merely made a dexterous application
of the brilliant sarcasm of BURKE. After all, the
only question worth considering, is are the
Doctor's wit and humour justly applied? Are
they grounded on truth ? Has he simply
given a spirited and forcible version of ad-
mitted facts, or has he perverted the truth in
order to suit his own purposes as an orator ? This
is the right light in which to regard the matter ; and
if it be acknowledged—and few can doubt the fact—
that he has said nothing but what every pa-
rishioner knows to be the truth ; then we
insist that he was perfectly justified in putting
that truth in such a manner that it might
make the strongest and vividest impression on his au-
dience. Had he prosed over his charges, he would
simply have set the parish fast asleep; and though this
perhaps would have been more in keeping with the
habits of the cloth, yet we respectfully contend that
his attendance was not requested by his flock in order
that he Might drug them with laudanum. As regards the
Doctor's passing remark, " I have been, like many others,
a victim to the ingratitude of Governments, who, in
conciliating their enemies, have neglected the zealous
friends whom they used as stepping-stones to their
own advancement," we are decidedly of opinion that
the Rev. Gentleman does not complain without suffi-
cient cause. Heaven knows we have no great sympa-
thies with Tories, or with those who advocate Toryism ;
but common justice demands that men like Dr.
CROLY and the late Dr. MAGINN, who spent the
best years of their lives in upholding the interests of
their party; who brought to the support of those interests
wit—learning—humour—vigour--skill, and perseve-
rance,—justice, we say, demands that men like these,
to whom their party owes so much, should not be over-
looked and neglected when the day of Tory triumph
comes. It is bad policy and gross ingratitude, whe-
ther in individuals or parties, to kick down the
ladder by the help of which they rose to power.

We have received files of the New Zealand and
Australian journals, which give detailed particulars of
events that have transpired in New Zealand since the
disastrous and sanguinary affair at Wairau, in June
last, in which, it will be remembered, no less than
five-and-twenty whites are supposed to have perished
on the field, or to have been wounded and since
died. From the interesting narrative given of

this melancholy affray by the police magis-
trate, Mr. M`Dostoon, and printed •in the Neid,
Zealand Colonist, it would seem that the outbreak
was really unpremeditated on the, part of the natives;
who never fired a shot-iiniil after five of their number
had fallen from the fire of theNthites, including the wife
of a chief named RANOtti4vrA, who held, at the mo-
ment of her deatlione'of.the chief's infant sons in her
arms. The deternaiiled.hostility of this chief to the
European settlers was well knoWn. He had sworn to
extirpate them, hut has himself since died from mor-
tification of the foot, occasioned by its having been
transfixed by the stump of one of the thorny under-
woods of the country. The better disposition of the
native tribes, generally, towards us may be well in-
ferred from the fact, that the native population of a
considerable district refused to receive this man into
the protection of their territory, lest they should
thereby bring down on themselves the displeasure of
the English Government settlers. On the 24th June
Mr. M‘DoNoott issued a proclamation, dated " Port
Nicholson," calling on the natives to keep quiet, and
not to fear that it was the intention of the English
authorities to take vengeance on them for the blood
spilled at -Miran ; it apprised them that diligent in.•
quiry would be made in the first instance, and the
law left to take its course with the offenders, whether
these proved to be native or English. Coinci-
dently with this was issued a proclamation
by three native chiefs of consideration, calling on the
tribes to respect and punctually obey the proclama-
tion of Mr. M‘DoNootr. The Maori Chiefs at Wan-
ganui, also, offered to place at the disposal of our
authorities in New Zealand, 2,000 of their warriors,
to assist them in taking vengeance for the slaughter
at Wairau. The magistrate, Mr. SPAIN, at the
request of his magisterial colleagues, proceeded
up the coast to make his personal inquiries
about this unfortunate event. He returned from his
mission in the first week in July, having found the
Chiefs determined to protect RAUPARARA, at all
hazards. At the latest advices, a strong detach-
ment of the 96th Regiment had just arrived
in Port Nicholson, dispatched thither by the Lieute-
nant-Governor, and whose intention it was to remain
there, whilst their Commander, Major BENNETT,
would proceed in a brig to conduct some investiga-
tions in person at Wairau, and to visit Cloudy Bay,
and he would go to Nelson on his return.

We are glad to find that there is 'this spirit of fair
dealing and of wise, because humane, policy
afloat, which we discern in the proclamation ofthe Ma-
gistrate, Mr. M‘DoNooff, to the native tribes. It
is now clear that the offences of the guilty—if (which

is very questionable at present) the savages were the
aggressors—will not be visited on the in-
nocent. We have no excuse or pretence to
occupy lands in New Zealand at all, or in
any other territory first opened to European com-
merce and enterprise by the discoveries of the earlier
Dutch and British navigators, if we do not carry

out the great mission with which Providence has so
evidently invested us. That mission is to be at once the
harbingers and the disseminators of the lights and bene-
fits of civilisation and commerce among the yet unre-
claimed societies of men in another hemisphere, who
are surrounded with abundant means of physical sup-

port and enjoyment—who are gifted with high
capacity for intellectual cultivation ; but who,
from ignorance of the first acts of social
life, and the first elements of human know-
ledge, have remained for ages in the degraded
condition of human animals, instead of attaining to
the dignity of sentient men. Generations after gene-
rations of them have starved, or at best derived but a
precarious subsistence, in the midst of nature's plenty;
and have lived and died in brutal and sordid igno-
rance of their higher powers and nobler destina-
tion. Distinguished as Britain is by the singular
advantages of her geographical position, and fortified
and improved as that position has been by all the
happy accidents which, in the course of ages, could
develope its own strength and multiply her own re-
sources, internal and foreign ; the irrepressible genius
of her people for mercantile occupations and maritime
adventure is the visible stamp and seal of her patent
to conduct all other nations' in the noble work of
diffusing knowledge, morals, industry, physical and
intellectual cultivation, the blessings of civilization,
the love of peace, and, with this love, the means of pro-
tecting its objects when menaced by war or invasion,
among all the children of the wilderness, whether in
the islands or on the mainlands of the Great
Pacific—of the Southern Ocean, or of the New
World. Grieved should we be, indeed, to see her
abandoning this glorious prerogative, consecrated, as
it has been, by three centuries of unremitted and
signally successful exertion, to become the imitator
of other Powers in the bad and pitiful arts of whole-
sale extermination. But we are sure that the hu-
manity and manliness which are the inseparable con-
comitants of English courage, would alone withhold
any English establishment, civil or military, from
chastising an accidental outbreak of the wild Indian's
reckless impetuosity, by the disproportionate ven-
geance and destruction of its own organised powers
and forces. We must not follow the footsteps of the
Spanish and Portuguese conquerors of the middle
ages, or of certain naval commanders in the service
of France and the United States of America, by con-
senting to become the avenging destroyers, instead of
the beneficent and Christian elder brethren of the red
men, or the black or yellow aborigines of the be-
nighted and remote, yet fair and fertile, lands, which,

in so many points of our wide-spread dominion, still
invoke our cheering voice and protecting arm.

The accounts from Madrid to the 28th ult. state

that though the capital was tranquil, the Opposition
members and journalists were preparing to arouse the
provinces by issuing addresses and dispatching dele-
gates in all directions. The following curious apology
for suspending the Cortes appears in the Government
paper, the Madrid Gazette. The reasons urged are
equally applicable to the suspension and abolition of
the Constitution :

" The great debates which took place during several consecu-
tive days, relative to the conduct of M. Olozaga on the night
of the 28th of November, prevented the Cortes and the Go-
vernment from preparing the laws required by the state of the
country, and excited a deplorable irritation in the public mind.
A fatal party spirit stifled the voice of reason ; passions which
had been subdued by the insurrection of June, had re-appeared
more ardent than ever ; so that the calmness and prudence ne-
cessary to examine the grave matters submitted to the approba-
hation of Congress no longer prevailed in its deliberations.
Already even too great an importance had been ascribed to
words which had been pronounced in a moment of exasperation,
and which might have led to fresh disturbances. Under these
circumstances, the Government deemed it expedient to suspend
the labours of the Cortes, which was accordingly done yester-
day. Repose will induce reflection, and time will allay the ir-
ritation. Those discussions, besides, occasioned the loss of
much valuable time, which might have been usefully employed."
The Three per Cents. were done at 25 251 1-16, for cash,
and 25i at 60 days ' • the Coupons which are not to be capita-
lized, at 20,1, at 59 days ; and the Floating Debt at 42.

The Paris papers are almost entirely filled with
reports of the discussions, or rather, conversations, in
the different Committee-rooms, respecting certain
paragraphs of the KING'S speech. The only one of
interest took place in the seventh bureau, of which
M. GUIZOT and M. THIERs are members, when the
ex-Minister put certain questions respecting the
words " friendship and intimate alliance with Eng-
land." We gave the substance of the questions,
with M. GUIZOT'S replies, yesterday, but as they re-
fer to subjects of considerable interest, as regards the
relations of England and France, we subjoin them in
a more ample form. M. TmERs said he was anxious
to have some explanation on one or two points, for he
(lid not wish to allude to all the topics in the Royal
speech ; but he would first of all declare that he was
in the number of the Oppositionists—decidedly of the
Opposition. It j was a matter of notoriety for a
length of time that he was not an adversary of the
English alliance ; but time destroyed many illusions,
and experience had suggested somewhat more reserve
on this point. Before pronouncing on the possibility
of sincere agreement and perfect alliance with Eng-
land, the matter ought to be looked at very narrowly.
They ought to examine if it were not possible for the
Ministry to obtain for the claims of the country some
satisfaction—if such demands of the nation as were
dictated by honour and right could not be fully con-
tented. If the two countries had really come to an
understanding respecting Spain, the fact ought to be
declared to the Chamber. As to Greece, which, in
his opinion, presented the Eastern question in a new
point of view, if an agreement had been come to, it
ought to be at once announced to the public. If, on
those points, satisfactory explanations were given, he
could readily comprehend—not that irrevocable en-
gagements were taken—but that an inclination, a ten-
dency, as it were, towards the English alliance, should
be expressed. If anything more than that had taken
place, he thought the matter had been urged on too
fast ! The expressions employed with respect to
the English alliance had much struck him. Could it

be possible that the question of the right of search,
which had so strongly engaged the attention of the
Chamber, had been abandoned ? He wished to hear
some explanations on those points, also on the ques-
tion of public instruction, which was of immense im-
portance. Was there, he would ask, any course de-
termined on, relative to the seminaries for the edu-
cation of persons intended for the priesthood ?
To these questions and remarks M. GUIZOT made
this reply :—" The words friendship and intimate
alliance had not been employed in the speech from
the throne as in the years preceding 1838, but simply
the expression cordial understanding—an expression
which implied, in fact, that the several questions that
might divide the two nations had been discussed one
by one, and that a cordial understanding had been
come to. As to the right of search, a negotiation had
been commenced by the consent of England, and the
wishes of the Chambe rs, and of the public in general,
had been taken seriously into consideration. He could
say no more on the subject. As to Spain, the difference of
opinion on that point, between England and France, had
been one of the causes of coolness between the two States,
and Spain had suffered thereby very seriously. At pre-
sent they had come to an understanding, and Spain would
reap from it a greater security. As to what con-
cerned Greece, England and France marched to•
gether on the same path, and their agreement on this
question was the more remarkable, inasmuch as
Russia held herself apart, and refused to act in con-
cert with the other two Powers."

In reference to the question, whether any course
had been determined on to settle the disputes between

the University and the Church, the Minister of Jus-
tice (M. MARTIN, du Nord) said the Government had
endeavoured to conciliate all parties, and he had every
reason to hope that all struggles between the State
and the clergy would soon cease.

Most of the papers simply announce the suspension,
or rather dissolution, of the Spanish Cortes (for it
amounts to this), and seem to regard it as a matter
of course, and quite in keeping with other acts of the
Camarilla. The Constitutionnel, however, is an ex-
ception, and makes the following amusing remarks on
the Spanish character :

" It is very difficult, it appears, to govern in Spain with the
Chamber. M. Olozaga was overturned because he desired to
he armed against the Cortes with an ordonnance of dissolu-
tion. We have new his successors, who had been so much
shocked at his audacity, adopting, with a slight difference in
the form, the plan which turned out an abortion in his hands.
They do not dissolve the Cortes : they suspend them. Except
the electoral embarrassments from which they free themselves,
it is precisely the same thing. Spain is an admirable country.
There we may behold what we shall never see elsewhere.
There is a Constitution which has interred two sr three
others, probably with the pretension of being regarded a s more
serious than its predecessors. This Constitution prescribes
the annual vote of the taxes by the representatives of the coun-
try, and in addition the examination, discussion, and passing of
laws which should govern Spain. Yet, for the last year and
more, this Constitution has been without action; for a year
and more the Cortes have assembled to discuss no one knows
what, and separate without voting either laws or budget. And
notwithstanding everything goes on in Spain, badly enough it
is true, but Spain is so mush in the habit of going out of the
direct line, that nobody pays any attention to the circumstance.
Budgets are levied by erdonnance, laws are made by ordon-
nance, and future and problematical Cortes are waited for to
pass a Bill of Indemnity. In truth, Spain is a happy country.
If only the quarter of what is seen in Spain, was attempted in
France or England, a furious kick-up would be the result."

BOURSr P ARIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 124 ... 124 25... 124 124 25
41h per Cents. 109 25... 109 25... 109 25... 109 25
Fouriper Cents. 105 ... 105 ... 105 ... 105
Threes. ...... 62 45... 82 50... 82 40.. ti 2 50

Bank of France 3215 —.3215 ...3210 ...3210
Belgian Bank 707 50... 707 50 .. 707 50... 707 50
Belgian Fives .
1840 1074 108 ... 107 108
1842 lOB4 ... 1084 ... 1084 ... 1084
Dutch 24 per Cents 564 ... 564 ... 564 ... 564
Spanish Active ... 30 30 30 ... 30
Passive
Neapolitan
Homan . 1044 ... 1044 .. 1044 ... 1044
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain 7BO ... 782 50... 780 ... 782 50
Versailles, L. 8... 190 ... 195 ... 190 ... 190
Rouen
Rouen to Havre ...... €45 ... 655 ... 645 ... 655
Orleans.
Strasburg to 8a1e... 215 ... 215 ... 212 50... 212 50
Avignon to Marseilles 660 ... 665 ... 660 665

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR DEC. ACCOUNT.
St. Germain 782 50... 782 50... 782 50... 782 50
Rouen
Rouen to Havre 650 ... 650 ... 647 50 .. 647 50
Orleans 842 50... 852 50... 842 50... 852 50
Strasburg to Bale 212 50... 213 75... 212 50... 213 75
Avignon to Marseilles 665 ... 667 50... 665 .. 667 50

THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " WHITE-
FRIARS; OR, THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE SECOND."--
The authorship of this remarkable work premises to become as
difficult a question with the critics as was that of the famous
tirst of its school, " Waverley." The John Bull truly remarks
that " it is the work of no common hand"—but whose hand
is it? The Atheneum says, "We should be somewhat per-
plexed if called on to give our opinion. It is more powerful
and striking as a romance than ' Arabella Stuart.' It is better
than Ainsworth, but at once soberer in tone and richer in cha-
racter, particularly in the dialogues; if then by Ainsworth, he
has published his best novel anonymously. But the occasional
verses, from their truth of colour, recal to us the lyrics in
Shakspeare and his Friends.' " The Atheneum concludes
with observing that the work is " one of the beat of its race"—
an opinion in which all who peruse it, we think, will coincide,
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