The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

ed at that time

aeans of r

ther of

.ger for

then so e

,reed to have patience

would I

ess to cultivate the
They would not he-
could work in the interior while continually
le of the native ; neither would they believe
the land could pay for cultivation at the point

vaured

to bring on

tiost entirely dil

the permanent

give the

ety for a

partly with the

—partly

Leir neighbour

of all the land round
for the general good

at,ted by the vicinity of
• the market with their

by native cc

interested in

I so for

ions with which inte-
g others. Had their
ful, there cannot now

!heck 1

Tered a fate worse
s would have been

cl in their ha•

fe feelings by

ws of Government, and
would be detached to

more t

,ns also without re

was, the commence

to all his measures."

,ally unprepared with
at of an outbreak of
Captain Fitz-Roy's

1 known that it remained
k of the rebel chiefs, Heki
eumstances, and consider-
zting amongst the natives

%Used by the unruly rapacity of

Roy, very pro

s he could a conciliatory po-

chiefs, rather than attempt coercion with
ble and very insufficient force under his
e position of the colony, in the event of
s thus described
of February And

and was near being the
-night have precipitated the

A native prisoner w
couit hou

rescued from
the military went in
• the town
carried off

wn son
Most havoilY

to effect a peaceable ad

turn of the prisoner

and would

to mee

ht have

d then what would have been

rt hou

e vveat

boarded

4ription

been the first in

1 all the public docu

the late governor appears to have
of notes or debentures, for the pur-
-1 affairs of the colony until he could
ds from Great Britain. At the be-
Fitz'- " the local govern-

y says,

nt was £24,630 in debt, the revenue being then esti-
ted at about £20,000. All salaries and ordinary cnt=
a payments were several months in arrear ; there was
prospect of the revenue amounting even to two-thirds
the estimated indispensible expenditure; the establish-
lit was reduced to that which was authorized by the
2retary of State in a despatch received at the close of
previous year (18-13); the governor was strictly pro-
fited from drawing on the British treasury, and no loan

se circumstances,

ry on the

ernment until assistance and
as copld be received from England, to relieve the cre.
and to keep numerous
from actually starving—
tes, or debentures, bearing five per
piration of one year; and as these
at first refused by several speculators, and
likely to be much depreciated, they were
_ ender. It should be noticed that this paper cur-
s not intended to be permanent: it was intended to
tead of coin, daring a very limited period, not exceed
) years—before which it was

from extreme privation—s

after the exp

bable that some arrange-
_ ,
you'd be made by the home Government for their with-
al from circulation. These debentures enabled the
rnment to carry on its functions, and saved an extremity
sorder and distress which can hardly be appreciated by
mis in an old country."

Me practical effect of these debentures was not only the
vat of all actual want, but the promotion of much industry,
general Improvement. Instead of a complete stagnation,
the beginning of 1844, activity and abundant employment
prevailed. Auckland and its vicinity improved rapidly,
au export trade began.

ne necessity under which the principal holders of deben-
lay to employ them in the colony, and as speedily as pos-
*here should be any deterioration of value, induced
persons to buy up gum, flax, timber, or copper, or other
lye produce, to be exported as remittances to their corre-
mdents instead of money. Some built small vessels : others
proved their landed property by fences and better buildings.
e results were conspicuously beneficial."

ble,lest

_...
This resort of necessity appears to have been one of the
:aptain's most heinous offences. ,
The impression produced by the whole of the pamphlet
s one of complete exculpation of the gallant officer, who
as performed his duties in a most critical position with

' exemplary firmness and judgment; and displayed an
amount of moral courage which it would be well if some
of his revilers possessed. We shall d,ubtless bear the re-
ply of some of those parties shortly after parliament meets.
In the meantime we cannot but compliment Captain
Fitz-Roy upon the excellent taste displayed throughout
his whole pamphlet. Some men, circumstanced like
himself, would have displayed considerable and natural
soreness, and perhaps acrimony of tone. The gallant
captain, however, has preferred laying before the public a
plain unvarnished statement of the whole circumstances
of his late position in the colony, and leaving that public
to form its own judgment upon his conduct therefrom.

months.
per.

VARIETIES.

ng a smashing business by letting post

run over him, and then commencing suits for da-
He has cleared 1,172 dollars in the last nine
—3OO dollars on an ankle alone.—American Pa-

ke left one of his infidel r

xt by Mallet, a brother unbelieve
ked his opinion of thiQ 1

! who spent his lif

acy, exc

tions to be

against Christianity, and a coy
port of his own gun, left half-

Dr. Johnson

in charging a pop-gun
rd! who ad of the re-

hungry Scotch-

MODERN L

gger after his
ATURE.—FeeI

they write

men now think before

The consequenc