The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1862. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1716, 20 August 1862, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1862. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Be just and fear not; Let all the ends thou aiin'st at, be thy Country's, Thy God's, i>nd Truth's.

Tiik Lord Worsley, s.s., arrived in the Manukau last evening. The late hour, nine o'clock, p.m., at which the mails were delivered prevented us from giving in our present issue the full report furnished by our own reporters of the late important proceedings in the Assembly. We have, however, extracted from the local papers, for the information of our readers, such accounts as they furnish, and propose at the earliest possible period to give our own more complete report. The Fox Ministry is out; the following notification from the General Government Gazette will show the present arrangements : Private Secretary's Office, Wellington; 6th August, 1862. The Governor having accepted the resignation of the Honorable William Fox, holding the office of Colonial Secretary ; the Honorable Henry Sewell, holding the office of Attorney-General ; the Honorable Reader Gilson Wood, holding the offices of Colonial Treasurer and Commissioner of Customs ; the Honorable Crosbie Ward, holding the offices of PostmasterGeneral and Secretary for Crown Lands ; the Honorable Thomas Henderson, holding the office of Member of the Executive Council of New Zealand, His Excellency hns been pleased this day to appoint the Honorable Alfred Domett, to be Colonial Secretary ; the Honorable Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, to be Attorney-General ; the Honorable Francis Dillon Bell, to be Colonial Treasurer, and Minister for Native Affairs ; the Honorable Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell, to be Postmaster-General and Secretary for Crown Lauds.—By Command, John Dwtek, Acting Private Secretary. Private Secretary's Office, Wellington, 6th August, 1862. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased this day to appoint the Honorable Alfred Domett, the Honorable Thomas Bannatyne Gillies, the Honorable Francis Dillon Bell, the Honorable Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell, the Honorable Henry John Tancred, the Honorable Thomas Russell, to be Members of the Executive Council; and His Excellency directs it to be notified that these gentlemen have this day taken the necessary oaths. John Dwyer, Acting Private Secretary. The ministry is composed exclusively of Soutliern Island mcu, and the iuterests pf Auckland aro confided to the care of Mr. Thomas Russell! ! Wheu Mr. Domett first undertook to form a ministry, he put himself, as we learn, in tho hands of the extreme men of his own side, the old war-party, and would, if he had been able, have formed his government out of such materials as that party could furnish. lie seems, howover, to have become very speedily aware that a Ministry so constituted would not for an hour be tolerated by tho House. Mr. Fox was then applied to, but declined to join any Ministry of which he was not to be the premier. After a week's • weary negotiation and intriguing, the present " lot" were got together, and they have acquired the distinguishing soubriquet of tho "rot and bosh" cabinet. It is gratifying to learn that but ono Auckland man lias attached himself to the now Ministry. Mr. Gillies, it is understood, holds office only for tho Session; Mr. Maqtell, on condition that he shall not be "required to como to Auckland, but be permitted to transact tho business of j;he l)ppartmpnt aj WeljiMh

ton. Every effort, by what amounts apparently to bribery *i V to induce Mr. Reader Wood to accent if 8 ** of Treasurer. Twelve hundred aSto have been offered to Mr.'Wood ducement, but, with a consistency* 8 'honorable adherance to principle -J^ aa him honor and which we feel g Ure .do loyally recognized by the people of Atal? *■ he steadily declined to lend himself to inimical to the interests of this holding views on native questions 2I M to the welfare of the whole sfortlu£ls* The despatches from the Duke of? 4 castle, the most important of which w re-printed to-day, were received aK? Ministry had been constituted, and they 1] e the " war men" in a very unenviable JS?* The new Ministers, however, appear^T olu proved themselves equal to the oca."vigorous" measures and no responS?* being no longer compatible, they ?* adopted the policy of their predeW 6 There are, apparently, no more ontJS peace men than the members tf?f administration. It is at the least satisfa,, that the necessity of " thrashing" ' tives, rightly or wrongly, in the J* I instance, is not a cardinal principle of nnr with the new Government. Mr. {vp Bell appears to be the actual leader hi? House, although Mr. Domett is the nomi. i Premier. m