The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-24 00:00:00

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(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
• The following account of the actual state of this de-
voted island may be depended upon. The writer is a
talen'ed gentleman, with much industry, and has a wife
and eight children totally dependent on his single exer-
Sinus. Every word he has uttered is truth. The Direc-
tors of the Company must rejoice at the departure In in
office of the troop under Lard Stanley, in a fit in beliet that
their successors will do quickly what Lord Stanley has
1 day most unwillingly promised. There never was s
'colony so cruelly used or neglected, and the sooner the
Directors of the Company and the relatives of those
ur!fbrtunates who went out under the protection (as they
believed) of an honest Government, SPEAK 013 T--AND IN
LANGUAGE NOT TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD—THE BETTER.
It is cruel—it is barbarous—so long to have left them
unheeded and unprotected, there to remain the victims
of the fearful mis'rule of the late Governor.
Extract of a letter from Motucka, Nelson, New Zea-
land, May 30, 1845 :
" 1 should.,,indeed, under present eircuinstances, be
very cautious how I induced any one to come out to
New Zealand—not that my opinion of its climate, sell,
or capabilities is in the small( st degree altered;
neither do I see any reason to change the opinion I then
formed of the evils which were likely to result from the
real administration of the Company's affairs, the defects
of their original plan, and the continued hostility of our
local government. And yet I am one of the
most hopeful in our little community. I believe
thet we shall eventually succeed, and that in the
face of circumstances discouraging in no ordinary
degree. No vessel leaves our port without taking away
some of our colonists—the last, I am told, taking thir-
teen families in the steerage ; and of the educate d class,
out of about fifty, ten were enumerated to me lately as
making preparations for leaving. The effects of the
origina deceit become more and more palpable, and as
in all such cases, sooner or later, are now recoiling on
its authors. They asserted a body of capitalists were
prepared to go out to found this settlement of Nelson.
Not one ever came out. They arranged a scheme of
1,100 sections of land, and found a place with barely 500,
so that ore-half their purchasers must draw a blank,
or, what is equivalent, land not worth the expen,e
of cultivation. If this settlement is to prosper, it must
be by the representations of actual colonists to their
English friends. Now 1 will venture to assert that not
one person can be found hero to advise a friend to put
his hand in the ballot-box; and the New Zealand Com-
pany itself, if it wishes to preserte any reputation for
honesty or fair dealing, cannot allow any one to do so
after the strong statements which have been forwarded
to it from here. But I much doubt if the Directors will
have the opportunity. The late events at the Bay of
Islands (of which, when you have read the accounts in
the Nelson Examiner, on the files of the New Zealand
Company's house, you will know as much as we do here),
although three hundred miles off, will deter all from
venturing to so unsettled a country, where Go-
vernment tells colonists only thirteen miles from
the capital, Auckland, that they are out of the pale
of protection. And here again the chalice is returned
to their own lips. A Governor sent out to rule 8,000
or 9,000 Englishmen, fixes his seat of government 300
miles off, where the land is already sufficiently occupied
by native tribes, most of whom, by presents and mis-
sionary persuasions, he induces to sign a treaty making
them subjects of Great Britain. He believes he can
govern these half civilised, half-converted savages by-
moral influence alone, without any physical force to back
him. lie dies, and his successor, imbued with the same
ideas, as well as conscious of his own inability to enforce
compliance with his orders, begins by slurring over the
murders at the Wairau, allows all individual acts of native
aggression, robbery, and Id, lence, to go unpunished, and
drawing the greater part of his revenue from the Com-
pany's settlements, tells them en masse they are inter-
lopers and trespassers, and if they dare to resist native
aggression will do so at their peril. But his Maori sub-
jects begin to be troublesome. They say they ditl not
understand that in signing a treaty they mere to pay
more for their flour, sugar, and tobacco than formerly;
and, lo ! the-Governor abolishes the customs. They
next complain that the treaty does them an injury in
preventing them from disposing of their lands to whom-
soever they please; and again an ordinance is passed allow-
ing all men to buy of them on payment of one penny per
acre. Nothing now remained but the mere shadow of
allegiance, and accordingly some who did not sign the
treaty very logically refused to be bound by its provi-
sions, and cut down the British flag, once, twice, and a
third time, on the last occasion being joined by another
party, who, after a sharp fight, enter, sack, and burn the
settlement of Russell. They now threaten Auckland,
which has already as a settlement for peaceable people
received its coup de grace, and without a very strong
military force and much bloodshed will not,
in my opinion, exist a twelvemonth hence. Welling-
ten has its own troubles. The natives refuse to leave
the lands for which they had been paid over and over
again, in the hope of still more ; the settlers are, so to
speak, penned up in the town, and how they get on at
all is a mystery. Here, at Ndson, we have got on our
lands, and the Maoris are too few to annoy us ; and we
feel only the moral effects of these distant commotions,
being, as it appears, overlooked by our Governor, who has
never visited us since his arrival, 18 months ago; so that
the cause of our standing still must be looked for elsewhere.
I believe them to lie mainly in the particulars I have already
enumerated. Take my own case, for example. The scheme
talks of concentration and its consequent advantages
of mutual aid, protection, and society. I have one neigh-
bour half a mile off, and one only. The land around is ex.
celleie, but silent and waste; several settlers would wil-
lingly have set down beside me, but cannot; before and
to hind me are native reserves, and on each side unsold
allettnents, which may remain so my lifetime. How,
then, can I ask any one to join me? You will gather
from this account that the agency of your land is merely
nominal, and that, with the exception of your town
act e,, you have no title yet given you for a single foot
of ground in New Zealand. Your land at Ma-
nawatu for years to come will be useless ; that
in the llutt, leading to an extensive inland valley, the
Wairarapa, will be valuable as soon us the natives are
brought into subjection. Selling or exchanging your
land for wood is at present out of the question, even
your Hutt land, and as to that at Manewatu, the Com-
pany not being able to give possession, is, I fancy, bound
to return the purchase-money." •

THE ARMY.
COURTS-MARTIAL.
CIRCULAR ON THE RETURNS OF COURTS-MARTIAL.

It having been deemed expedient to discontinue the
detailed half-yearly returns of courts-martial hitherto
required from regiments and depots, from the Ist Jan.
next, I have it in command to notify the same to you,
and to call your attention specially to the following
instructions, rendered necessary in order that the series
of records preserved in this department may be continued
uninterrupted by the proposed arrangement:—
"Horse Guards, Dec. 6, 1845.
" The inner sheets, containing the entries of courts-
martial up to the 31st instant only, are to accompany the
summaries furnished at the first half-yearly inspection
after the receipt of this order. Subsequently to that
inspection, general officers are to forward, with their
confidential reports, the summaries (without the inner
sheets), and the 'general abstract of the summaries, &c.,
filled up as at present.
"The size of the monthly return of courts-martial
has been somewhat reduced, and the form slightly
altered. As the return will be bound up and preserved
as a record in the Adjutant-General's office, commanding
officers of regiments and derOts are strictly enjoined not
to allow the slightest deviation therefrom in any par-
ticular, and after the Ist of January, 1846, no other
form of return is to be used.

"'The greatest attention is to be bestowed on the
preparation of this return, and previously to its trans-
mission it must be carefully examined, and if necessary,
corrected by the general officer, who will make such re-
marks as he may deem fit in the column set apart for
that purpose.
" As this new form will not reach regiments at many
of the stations abroad in sufficient time to be used for
the month of January, 1846, commanding officers, not-
withstanding they may have already forwarded returns
of the old form, are to prepare others of the new one for
as many months as the old ones may have been for-
warded, commencing with the above month, and transmit
them to the Adjutant-General.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient
humble servant, (Signed)
" JOHN MACDONALI), Adjutant-General."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
MAKCIIESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—Very few subscribers
present ; nothing done.

SCARCITY OF GRAIN IN INDIA.—The price of grain
has again risen in the Calcutta market. Immediately after
the recent inundations the prices had become extremely ex-
orbitant. Some days after the traffic in rice for exportation
was suspended, but has since been resumed, and the people
ROW are obliged to pay for the balam rice which they eat, at
a rupee and 14 annas per maund, while there is every pros-
pect of further increase in the price to 2 or 2i rupees per
maund. The price of grain has likewise been enhanced. It
cannot be procured under a rupee and 10 annas per maund.
Other articles, especially those adapted for exportation, have
risen in price. It is difficult to say to what extent suffering
and distress may be prevalent among the humbler classes.
But still the fall of rain in the commencement of Kartick re-
vived the hopes of good crops. To what, then, is to be
ascribed this scarcity of grain in the markets ?—Cakutta
Bhashur, Nov. 4.

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT REVONPORT.—
The Deronport Independent says that one of the largest
meetings that ever took place at Devonport, assembled
within the walls of the Town-hall on Thursday even-
ing, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
petitioning her most gracious Majesty that the porta
of the country may be thrown open for the free impor-
tation of corn and every article of food. The requisition to
the Mayor to convene the meeting was signed by upwards
of 1,200 of the most respectable of the inhabitants, com-
prising Whig, Radical, and Conservative, showing the great
interest taken in a question of such importance to the future
comforts, nay, existence of millions of our fellow-subjects in
and a petition in favour of opening the ports
this country and in Ireland. The Mayor took the chair at
wseasvenagro'ecelodctko,
with enthusiasm.
Mr. Hutchinson, of Trinity College, Cambridge,
was received into the Roman Catholic Church, at Birming-
ham, on Sunday last. We understand that above thirty of
the late parishioners of the Rev. Marshall, of Swall,wefiffe,
Wilts, have, together with their pastor, conformed to the
Church of Rome. Mr. Oakeley, late Fellow of Balliol Col-
lege, has entered as a student in Theology alc=und'a
College, Hertfordshire, under Dr. GriffithleV _ lic f
the London District.
Viscount and Viscountess Villiers :And the Hon.
Miss Villiers arrived in town on Monder, from Upton House,
Warwickshire, and yesterday went to Northing, for the ad-
vantage of the sea air, her Ladyship being extremely delicate
after her recent severe illness.
Viscount Morpeth has left Groszor-plage for
Castle Howard. ‘O.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
M. JULIEN'S ANNUAL SERIES OF CONCERTS.
PROLONGATION OF THE SERIES.
SIGNOR SITORI FOR TWO NIGHTS.

M. JULLIEN has the honour to announce that the arrangements
for opening the Theatre Royal, Covent• garden, at Christmas for Dra-
matic Performances, not having been brought to a conclusion, the
Proprietors have hi the most handsome manner offered him the use
of their establishment for a further limited period.
M. JULLIEN therefore begs most respectfully to inform those
ladles and gentlemen who have been disappointed in obtaining boxes
for the past week, as well as the public generally, that this Series of
Concerts will be prolonged for One Month after Christmas.
This Evening (Christmas Eve) and To-morrow (Christmas Day),
there will of course be no Performance.

On FRIDAY, Dec. 26, The Series will be continued, and a Grand
Concert, embracing Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, a Solo by Herr
Kcenfg, a Solo by M. Baumann, a New Quadrille, &c. Also a Solo on
the Violin by Signor Sivorl, who has made arrangements to remain In
London until the end of the present week, and will perform both on
IrridaY and Saturday.
GRAND BAL MASQUE.
The unexpected prolongation of this Series of Concerts, added to
the universal admiration expressed by the brilliant assembly on Mon-
slay evening last, induces M. Jullien to announce another Del Masque,
j)hich will take lace on Monday, February 2, 1846.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
BOXING GHT
Will be Performed theON NI
Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART-
ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson;
Frank Outland. Mr. Bucistone ; Jessy Outland, Miss Julia Bennett.
To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Ur. W. Farren ; Dray-
ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, blr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E.
yArnold ; Susan, Mrs. Stanley.
To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THB BEE
AND THE ORANGE TREE ; or, The Four Wishes. Principal
Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr.
Clark, Miss P. Morton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Mrs.
Stanley.

THEATRE ROYAL, A 7,pH,
ON BOXING NIGHT
_ __ _

10NAEleris Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, called THE L
OF THE NOR PH, or, The Prisoner of Shlusselbour
Trip
Beth, Kront, Mr. Wrigt
Romanouski, Mr. Webster; t ; Eliza-
beth, Madame Celeste.
After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL.
To conclude with an entirely New and Original Christmas pan-
taralme called HARLEQUIN AND POONOOWINGKEEW.sa.m_
FLIBE'EDEEFLOBEEDEEBUSKEEBANG ; or, The King of the
Cannibal Islands.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
FRIDAY EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH: A FAIRY TALE
OF HOME.
The rrinsiPal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Meadow,,
Mr. F. Vining, Mrs. Keeley, Miss 11. Keeley (her Fourth Appearance
ep any !page), Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Dawson, Miss Howard, Miss
Forster, fend Miss Turner.
After whichwill he produced a New Grand Romantic extravaganza,
entitled THE ENCHANTED HORSE; or, Prince Fireuz Schah of
Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs.
Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c. ; Mes•
dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, So,

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
ON FRIDAY EVENING
WM be repeated a New Extravaganza, entitled JEAMES, THE
RAILROAD FOGT3LiN OF BERKELEY-SQUARE. jeames Plush,
Mr. Compton.

To which will be added THE BRIGAND.
To eonelmie with a New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE
KEY OF THE 'UN( ; or, HAR F.EQUIN AND THE FAIRY
BLUE BELL. Harliklubi. W. H Harvey ; Columbine, Miss
atalen CiORD, Mr. Fleamoro ; Pllntnicpu, Dat, w, uw.