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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 33, 28 March 1850, Page 4

War.—ls essentially opposed to the precepts of our Saviour. He tells us, that we should do to others as we would they should do to us—that we should love our enemies—and that we should not resist evil. lis tendency is adverse to the improvement of the human race. It occasions, more than uny other c.iuse, an immense amount of purely unproductive consumption. But you hear it said, tlifit war is good for trade, us it keeps money stirring, and mokes many rich. Such an assertion is only founded on a partial view of the subject. The money which is raised for the purpose of carrying on a war must first have been produced by the talents and productive industry of mun,and then withdrawn from si me more or less useful and productive purpose, to which it was either applied or applicable. You must not suppose that that portion alone is completely lost, which is fired away in powder and shot, exploded in mines, or aunk in the ocean. That wh'x'h has been spent in feeding and clothing a largo army is completely consumed, without leaving behind it a trace of manufacturer or agriculturist reappeared in the articles which they are the means of producing. It is ttuo that human beings have been kept alive *.in both cases; but, in the one case, they have lived to xome purpose, and created property ; in the other, they have, instead of producing capital, perhaps by the means of on their posterity a lasting deduc•iou from the proceed.) of their industry. I ' —■ Dr. Hodgkin,

\VONDKHFUI, KsCAI'B OF A tJLAVE. A lew weeks ago a slave in a southern rity mai.to open a correspondence wiih a ucntleman in a northen city with a view of eflVctiiig an escape from bondage. Having arranged the preliminaries, fie paid somebody 40 dollnrs to box him up, take him to the Express office, consigned to his friends in thfi north. On the pnssngo, on board of a steam-boat, he was accidentlly turned head downwards, and almost died with the rush ofblood to the head. At the next change of transportation, however, he was turned right side up again, and after twen'y-six hours' confinement arrived safely at his destination. On receiving the box, the {icntlemau h«d doubts whether he should find a corpse or free man. He tapped lightly on the box, with the question, " All right ?" and was delighted to hear the response, "All right sir." 'l'he poor fellow was immediately liberated from his place of* living burial, and forwarded to a wealthy abolitionist in a city of New England, where lie now is,— American Paper. Flax. —The Natives at Rangitikei, men, women, and children, thanks to the persevereiug efforts of Mr. M'Donell, are actively engaged preparing flax. With a little management our informant states he has no doubt that within a few weeks from five to ten tons will be shipped to this place monthly. Air. Von Alzdorf is collecting specimens and prosecuting enquiries as to the cost and construction of machines on a cheap scale, daily, and we believe that the result of that gentlemen's efforts will be that complete success will ultimately attend his exertions.