hesitation at saying it must and will do: every one likes the idea, also we have now good roadsand bridges all the way from the city, to this. The news of Col. Golds progress and storming an empty Pah and gaining sundry kits of potatoes, is severely handled here by many and a man here pretty well up in the Govt. says the effect will be most damaging, and people saying where were the mounted escort as scorts, why was not one person got who knew the whole country and of the gully concealed by the Pah, why were not spies, and native spies employed to go round and round the Pa night and day and see if there was an outlet, and set careful watches all the night? why did they not remember Heke's slaughter of 120 men in at Taiamai Pa in 1845? How was it they made 3 places of attack and took from noon till dark with 1300 men 3 guns and rockets 80 men natives being in the Pah and no guns or rockets? How came it that amunition was short? How came it that it was not known by Mr. Paris that a gully was on the land he purchased? Such ase the remarks and many much worse and more bitter calling