[From the Sunday Times, June 22.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 58, 15 November 1845, Page 4

[From the Sunday Times, June 22.]

As the three nights 1 debate on Mr. Butler's motion in reference to the present unsettled and unsatisfactory condit on of Nhw Zealand, has terminated in a majority of 51 for the Government, it may be satisfactory to state briefly what a c the intentions of the Government in respect to this colony, as they were developed by Sir James Graham at the close of his speech on Thursday night. In reply to Mr. Bllice's question as to the constiuctinh Government intended to place on the treaty of Waitangi, the fight hon. bart. observed,'"'Th.it by that treaty the Queen was eutitleiPttrall the lights of sovereignty in New Zealand, consist-

ent tffth her engagements to its inhabitant*,, wMcb w<?re-— that they should be protected in their lamls and possessions so long as they I wished lo retain them ; and that th ;y should enjoy all the rights and privileges of British subjects. He thought that that tieaty ought to be religiously observed. What Government intended to do w th respect to land in that colony was this — within a time to be limited, to call on all per.-ons, whether natives ox settle rs, to come in and prove and register their lilies; and at the expiration ol that time, the right of the sovereignty of the Crown to the unregistered lauds would a<crue. After the registration, it would be open to the local Government to pUce a small ux on all waste lands to which a title had been made ou', and in this, manner he thought that the Crown w mild become possessed of a large portion of uiioccupied land. With respect to the New Zealand Company, instructions would be sent out to put them in possession of land within the limits aligned to them ; and, n pursuance of the arrangement of 18 13, they would receive it «.n a primaf'icie twle, liable to be upset when v belter title was produced. He admitted that the present state ot affairs in New Zealand iequired to be met by an increase of lorce there. To the question, what iusiitutions were to be git en to New Zealand, he replied that it was the wish of her Majesty's Government to give municipal institutions to all the settlements ot the New Zealand CViipany. The plan ot giving to the inland a representative government was lull of difficulty, tor it was prematuie to admit the natives, and dangerous to exclude them. As to the law of suciession in "'ami, und the law of primogeniture, he contended that, as a principle ot law, British emigrants carried with them British law lo whatever celony they went ; and that any departure from mat principle wa.s a departure from our general hystem." During Mr. Bailer's opening speech, in ilkstiatiou of the pioent Mate of iiviiizjiiou amongst the natives, he mentioned a rather curious title to land which was bet up by one ot | tiie New Zealand chiet>, namely, that " he had eaten the lormer possessor !" The followingis thepiesent melancholy condition ol the colony of New Zealah'l under the mal-ddminibtratiun of the home Government-, aa described bj Mr. Shell, at the clo»e ol his speech on Thursday night : — "Will you tell me that youi policy has been successful ? Has ' no' one ot the noblest fields ever opened to the genius ol Biitish enterprise, wiiheied and become bteiile under the sdiade of the Colonial Office? Is n,t the colony on the verge o! ruin? Is not the revenue gone? Is not the <>tute bankrupt? Are net thetiadeand agiiculture i>to])ped ? The plough is idle in tracts, ot bouiullehs fertility. Am<>i.g-.t the lort'sis of New Zealand the hatchet l.s unheatd. In harbour* cap-able of containing the navies of England, scarcely a sail is unfurled. Thet>etiler has been converted into an exile. He is trembling for the safety of his tamily from the lawlessness </f the savage w<.ich the timidity ul the Government had inspirited into ferocity."