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Auckland Times, Volume 3, Issue 113, 11 March 1845, Page 2

Tub new members of Council must make up their minds to the criticism which invariably attends their position. They must submit to a s rutiny of their public conduct, although, sooth to say, as our Counci s are contrived, it is little matte? who are the members or what metal they are made of.

Mr. Whitaker has made a s'<ow of public spirit it is true, but it has been a very faint one. He challenged the secret service money, which goes by the name of " contingencies," but he had not the courage to carry out his proposition. The iirst frown, backed by an approvingsmi e from the Governor, put him down. If economy is the necessary order o( the day (as he says), nothing can be more wise tuan to par. with the Government Brig. This subject has been often mooted, and aiwa>s considered an useless and an extravagant means of expenditure. But His Excellency told Mr. Whitaker that it was paid for out of the English grant, and therefore he had no light to meddle with it. It might have occurred to the quick intelligence, of our ruler that it is necessary that he should take care that the scanty income atiorded by our

ru'ers at home, is properly expended; but the Governor said to Mr. Whitaker "the matter is no business of yours," and .Vlr Whitaker acquiesced.

Mr Donnelly speaks in the Council with a degree of thieney and self possession for which we never gave him credit in the Supreme Court,—and there was much good sense in his pro position that the consideration of the demands upon the colonial purse should go before the levying of taxes; but he, like his colleague, was faint in his purpose, and easily put aside from his ; argument. Wehavestil hope that both these new members will be effi~ cient in the public service. . jOf.Mr. Heale it is not easy to speak, and it, would seem that it is not easy for him to speak himself, for he hasnever opened his mouth since he took his seat. ~, They say that si ent waters run the deepest, and therefore we hope for somettdng profound from him, by-and-bye, Shakespear says—" You cannot rail the seal from off this bond," and neither can we heat our new member's taciturnity, unless he be pleased to bear a part in the business. King Log was, however, decidedly better than King Stork, ard the solemnity of si ence is preferable to the loquacity of those who talk for talking's sake.