The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 761, 30 July 1853, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1853.

Be just and fear no:: Let all the ends thou aim’st at, bo thy Country’!), Thy God’*, and Truth’s.

Having so recently and repeatedly commented upon the general principles which should be kept in view in the elections now in progress, it is not necessary that we should travel again over the same ground in more immediate reference to the choice of members for the Hone sof Representatives which is about to take place in the City and the other Electoral Divisions of the Province. Many of the remarks which we have offered in relation to the selection of Provincial Councillors will in substance be applicable here also. We cannot, however, permit the occasion to pass without reminding the constituencies that in this exercise of their privileges, they will take a step of great importance to both the welfare and the character of the Province. Whatever amount of power may be possessed by the Provincial Council, (the extent of which, it should not be forgotten, will greatly depend upon the degree in which the General Assembly may be willing to delegate to them its authority under the Constitutional Act,) still a superior jurisdiction will always and Inalienably abide in the General Assembly; there are certain subjects upon which it will not be competent for the Provincial Councils to legislate at all; and on those mailers which do come within their sphere, their laws must not be repugnant to the laws made by tire General Assembly, the decisions of which will, as of course, over-ride those of the inferior Jurisdictions. The highest legislative power in the colony being thus vested in the Assembly, it needs no argument to prove how important it is that the Chamber of that Legislature in which the people are to be represented should be Oiled, as far as practicable, with men competent to understand and deal with the questions that may come before them, in an enlightened, sagacious, and statesmanlike spirit. In short they should—if we could only procure such—be men whose attainments would qualify them to occupy a respectable prominence in the House of Commons. ‘ It is to be renumbered also that this House will include representatives from all the Provinces of New Zealand ; and that in tne Southern Settlements there is every probability that several gentlemen distinguished amongst their fellow colonists for elucalion, colonial information, and general talent will be chosen. In every point of view it is surely most desirable that the City ami Province of Auckland should be represented by members who can compete with, and who in all respects are qualified to lake their places beside ihcirfellow members from the South. Our readers will have no difficulty in following out for themselves the train of thought which, for the present, we content ourselves with thus briefly suggesting. The electors should vote—on this occasion especially—with an entire freedom from the shackles of party, and a total subordination of private likings ami dislikings to the general good. And those on whom their more judicious fellow-settlers may fix as suitable candidates, should not permit any personal considerations to withhold them from a duly which under existing circumstances they should feel to be imperative.