The Lyttelton Times.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IV, Issue 205, 18 October 1854, Page 4

The Lyttelton Times.

Wednesday, October 18,1854.

His Excellency's Address on opening the second Session of the General Assembly will be found in another column. We may call it the Wakefield policy modified by *.he tampering of the Wakefield tail. We can scarcely speak seriously of the composition of the ephemeral ministry from whom this Address emanated. In one respect, however, they shewed wisdom. They were like plunderers who had succeeded in upsetting and taking possession of the coach ;—but instead of fighting over the booty, they agreed to an amicable compromise. This compromise accounts for the want of unity apparent in the Address. One wanted to appropriate a useless painted toy to curry favour with a coy and fickle constituency ; another wanted that tempting roll of notes ; another a gay dress to flaunt about in. Plenty of matter for quarrel, but they knew that their time was short, and the} r were wise in their generation. Besides this, they had to give -an account of their success to the wary old Captain who stayed at[horae,and who,though he preferred making his underlings fight, was very exacting in his expectations, and struck terror into the hearts of his trembling little band. It is easier and pleasanter to dwell upon the ludicrous part of the Wakefield policy; its deep treachery is an unpleasant subject, and has been already treated of at length elsewhere. We prefer leaving such clauses of the Address, as the " Seat of Government, and Auckland Separation" clause, the Waste Lands' clause, the Working Class compen- ! sation clause, &c, &c, to the judgment of our readers, without making any comment upon them for the present. When they remem - her the pledges giv^n by Mr. E. G. Wakefield on the hustingsand elsewhere, they will a^ree in the justice of the epithet by which Mr. Fox, in his address to the Hutt electors, describes the betrayer of the Southern interests.

We are happy to be able to state on good authority that Capt.Drury, of H.M.S. Pandora will shortly come down here to make an accurate survey of the Sumner bar.