TAHITI. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, May 5.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 38, 28 June 1845, Page 4

TAHITI. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, May 5.]

Having communicated all that appears either in the correspondence which has come«tp our hands, or in the papers of which we have obtained a sight, which has any direct bearing on the present state of Tahiti, it may not be amiss to offer a few general remarks as to the state of the sovereignty of Tahiti, in which the people of Sydney have evinced so great, so natural aiv interest. The French, for the present, appear to haveabandoned the idea of declaring Tahiti a French possession, but their intentions as to what they will do, if allowed, ultimately, are not the less apparent. They have restored the Protectorateand rehoisted the protectorate flag, but during 4he time that the Protectorate has been in abeyance, while savage warfare has been carrying on -#gainst the natives, the French have been erecting forts in all directions, so as to prevent any small armament, at all events, from being able>to effect a landing, by force, in opposition to--them. " Her Majesty Queen Pomare" — as the Governor and Commissioner of the King, Bruat, as again content to style her, has refused to recognize the restoi-ation of the Protectorate — -still looks for mediation from the Sovereign of Great -Britain^ but Admiral Hamelin in his •letter to her, states explicitly that France will accept of no mediation. Queen Pomare may hold out -yet. a while — but Bruat is no longer constrained by the presence of the Consul General-of and the guns of the Talbot, which refused to salute the French and the Protectorate flags, while the British Consul's remained debased, are equally absent, should M. Bruat attempt to signalize himself by any further exploits. M..Bruatand M. Hamelin kindly offer to restore to .Pomare " all the properties * * which are not necessary for the defence of the island" — and indemnification " for the others." -But we may judge of what the restoration would consist'by looking at the following arr&e issued by ;Bruat on the 21st October, 1844, published in the Journal of the 27th :— We, Governor of the French Establishments in Oceania : — Jn virtue-ef the 7th artide of the Royal Ordonnance of the 28th April, 1843. "With reference to the reports of the directing Captain Engineer of 20th May, and 16th October, 1844. -Considering that it is of urgent necessity to establish commnnieations between the water-side and the main road behind, as well .as continuous relations between the buildings on the street on the water-side. After having deliberated in the Council of Government. We*decree what follows — Are (exprpjmes) deprived of their properties for the sake of public utility. The proprietors of land between the American Consulat and the barrack of the 30th Company of Marine Infantry, in order to establish a street between the two principal communications of Papeite. The proprietors of land comprised between the projected street, the government brook, and the new street, in order that it may be possible to erect on this site the buildings thought necessary for the service of the colony. The forms indicated in the decree of the 15th January, 1 844, .published in the Journal de I' Oceanic of 2d June, will be followed in the notification and the execution of this decree. BRUAT. Papeite, 21st October, 1844. The exproprMs are, if we are rightly informed, but few, — nay, it is Pomare who is the expropriee. All her lands have been cut up ; all her property has been found necessary to the service of the State, that is, to the service of the • i Governor of the French possessions and the [ Regent, and the council of chiefs, who are tools . in M. Bruat's hands, he having failed to secure •the power without a regency, because Pomare m voulatepas confier her eldest son to Admiral Hamelin in order that he might cause him to be proclaimed King. As to indemnification — where .has there been any offer of restoration of the dollars extorted by Dv Petit Thouar's cannon ? What is to be the result? If the British, Government has consented to the restoration of the French Protectorate in the unqualified manner in which the French assert it — that France will not admit of the mediation of any foreign power, then the sovereignty of Pomaremay be said to be a thing past— and though shemay linger out even her whole life in sterile op— potition to the French protectors, her kingdom, must fall at last, and like the Chiefs who now. form the Council of M. Bruat, other chiefs will; secede from her, or will be entrapped to destruction under the arrtitfs and the ordonnancesoL the Protector and his tools.