(From the London Correspondent of the Sydney Herald.) London, 25th October, 1851.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 612, 25 February 1852, Page 3

(From the London Correspondent of the Sydney Herald.) London, 25th October, 1851.

Tm9 evening's Glob? announces the immediate retirement of Mr. Hawes from the Parliamentary UnderSecretaryship for the Colonies, the honoiablegentlpman removing to the post of Deputy Secvetniy of War. This, I suppose, concludes the political and Parliamentary career of Mr. Uawes. He gets a snug permanent, berth of suni-ministerial standing, and as a good man of business will no doubt he n useful public servant. Any of the ambitious aspirations of hweailier public life he baa no dutibt long bince discaided ; and on the whole may piobably think he has brought up with adequate comfort and lespecubility.

The Globe seems to imply some merit to tYIr. Hawes, or mtber the absence of any striking dement, m the official part of his career, by obsprving that indifferently all Colonial Under-Secretanes Lave been abused pretty much alike. 1 think, however, it has been rather ob'.eivable in the case of Mi. IJawes, that if he has not escaped the customary abuse, he has also not succeeded h securing the usual share of party commendation. For my own pait, however, from some opportunities I have had of collecting opinions concerning Mr. Hawes, I should say he was a libeially disposed, active, and intelligent Under-Secietary for the Colonies ; but hia position in the House of'Commonb had since his accession to office become rather singular. lie had attached himself to the most unpopular man of tho ministry, Loid Grey, and this with no oidmary zeal and fidelity, and he «hared in conscqupnee much of that noble lord's ill-favour with the political woild. The paity of ulualiberals from which he came, though personally I bulieve tbioughout well disposed to him, fell oft fiom him as political allies; at the same time that he never seems to have become faiily amalgamated with the pure official Wbigs. The Protectionists, on the other hand, app> ar to me at times to have treated him with great and most unbecoming hauteur— as though an ex-tiader had no business on the ministeiial benches. Certainly he had not a very impressive manner with him; and I have often heard him laughed at for his consequent al air, ever accompanied as it was by the most obvious anxiety lest he should say something to commit himself. The somewhat isolated position in which he placed himself by his joining the Government was injurious to the colonips, inasmuch as he became far too much tho mere official dependent of Lord Grey. An Under-Sec-retary should not be in perpetual fear of disagreeing with his chief. As members of the legislature there is a certain equality between them, and there can be little wholesome deliberation between men, one of whom always exacts and the other is always willing to give a pliant acquiescence. Mr. Ilawes was in a UUe portion ; but as 1 have said his natural disposition towards the colonies was good, and with a Government moie in unison with the political school which he sprang fiom, I doubt not he could have earned a higher reputation for himself as an official man. The successor of Mr. Hawes is said to be Mr. Frederick Peel, son of the late Sir Robeit. Mr. Fredeuck Peel is a young man of about twenty-five yeais of age. He is a banister of Lincoln's Inn, and 1 have heard distinguished himself two or three yeara ago at the " mooting*" at Gray's Inn Hall. In Pariirment he came out on the Australian question, on which, he opposed the Government on the project of one Chamber, which I remember his remarking wns not according to the " English type" of legislature. Last session he opposed the Government again on the Papal Bill. Generally he bas been identified with the Newcastle and Gladstone paity, whose organ, the Morning Cfoonicle, has in its opposition, to Lord John Russell's Government, and more particularly to Lord Grey and Mr. Hawes, revived all that bitterness of personal reference for which the London press was more remarkable twenty years ago than on the whole it is now. '1 his selection of Mr. Peel seems strange, and I look forwaid witb some inteiest to the commentaries to which it will probably give rise in the morning journals of Monday. Jt is evident the wbigs feel Iheraselre3 compelled to look abroad for talent and influence with, which to stiengthen their position : and it is plain they rather go to the conservative and aristocratic quarter than to their liberal and radical supporters. Mr. Peel bos given evidence of considerable ability, for one so inexperienced, but I should suspect be was deficient in rigour for any very distiaguiahed career in public life. It is now twelve months, I think, since I told you I ' had in my mind the individual who was to succeed Sir Charles Fitz Roy, in the New South Wales Government. The individual I alluded to, was in truth, no other than Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand. I beard some days ago of a rumour to the effect that this gentleman was leally to be appointed Governor-Geneial of Australia, and to-day I feel that there is sufficient probability of the authority from which it proceeded, being well informed, to justify me in giving it you, A captain in the navy, whose name 1 missed, was said to be Sir George's successor in New Zealand, on Sir George going to Sydney. If this ru- | mour should prove true, Sir George Grey will be a very fortunate man. He belongs to that new school of governors, which it has been the object of successive ad» ministrations of late years to call into existence — what may be called professional governors. The old plan was to take veteran war officers, and remunerate them for their valour by these coX nial proconsulates ; ihis would be somtimes varied by the appointment of minor statesmen, or reduced men of quality. Now, the plan is to rear up governors, much as is done with regard to diplomatists. The favourite " raw materia l " in Down-ing-stieel, is said to be young military men of promise, especially fiom the Engineeis. In many respects the plan may be supposed to have its advantages. A ceitain bureauciatic ski 1 is attained, and a regulaily bred governor may handle his departments as ably as an experienced general would a brigade. But it may be doubted, perhaps, whether a man may not begin too early a career of governing, and whether a little longer experience of the conflicts of life among equals would not better prepaieaman for discharging at least the social duties of a governor. In a political view, the interests of this class of men are far too dependent on Downing-street. The steamers Yarra Yana and Waratah, built at Greenock for your colony, will leave early next month. The former, 1 learn, is expected to make a very quick voyage. The Government have given her peiniission to coal at Ascension. I understand they are remaikably well constiucted boats.