New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, November 25, 1846.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 138, 25 November 1846, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, November 25, 1846.

Through the kindness o£ Mr. Bannatyne we ihave been furnished with a copy of the Sydney Morning Herald of the 10th November, containing the names of the new Whig Ministry and other important news from England to the 4th July, from which we have made copious extracts. This news was received by way of Port Phillip, and it is impossible to over estimate its importance with respect to this colony. The Sydney Morning Herald affects to regard Earl Grey's appointment as Secretary of Colonial affairs as a misfortune ; in New Zealand the appointment of two such men as Earl Grey and Mr. Buller to the management of the Colonies will be regarded as the most fortunate circumstance: that could occur. Both have so completely mastered the question of the proper policy to be pursued by Britain towards her colonies as to be considered authorities on the subject: and both have directed their attention so fully to New Zealand affairs, as to be well acquainted with the nature and extent of the mischief that has been caused by former mismanagement. From them we may expect such comprehensive measures as will not only remedy past mistakes, but prevent the possibility of their recurrence. From Earl Grey, looking to his expressed opinions in the debate last year on the state of New Zealand we may expect the boon of Representative Institutions; that he, will "revert to the ancient and wise policy of our ancestors, and allow the colonists to go- (

vein themselves." We may also expect that he will insist, now that he has incurred the responsibilities of office, on what he then considered as a most essential measure to be taken by his Excellency then newly appointed to the Government of New Zealand : the dismissal, namely, " of the highly paid and incapable servants of the Local Government by whose abject weakness and pusillanimity the present evils had been produced." After Mr. Gladstone's circular and Lord Grey's appointment these gentlemen may begin to set their houses in order. By the same opportunity we have received news from Auckland, containing an account of the proceedings of the Legislative Council to October 20th, being ten days later than the date of our last direct communication with the Capital. Nothing can point out more fully the folly and absurdity of placing the seat of Government so far from the governed than facts of this nature. Here the settlers in the Southern settlements learn that six ordinances materially affecting their interests, have been passed and several others advanced important stages through the Council, laws regulating the revenue and the administration of justice, and yet they first hear of these laws through the medium of another colony. It is quite time there should be a division of the island into separate Governments if the Southern settlers are ever to have the reality instead of mere show of a Government. We may well ask, in the words of the present Colonial Minister, if there is common sense in such a policy !

The brig Bee arrived on Sunday afternoon from Sydney with a cargo of sheep and cattle, after a favourable passage of nine days. She will sail this day for Sydney, and the mail for Sydney and London closes at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. The Comet and Star of China may be daily expected from Sydney.

Contracts for Supplying the Troops. — Tenders were received by the Commissariat on Thursday, for supplying the troops in this district with fresh meat, when Mr. Revans' tender was accepted, being at the rate of eight pence per pound. The previous contract was at the rate of eleven pence per pound.

Wellington Savings Bank. — Mr-. P. M. Hervey, Mr. P. D.Hogg, Mr. A. Hornbrook, and Dr. Featherston, the Managers in rotation, will attend to receive deposits at Mr. Ross's office, from seven to eight o'clock on Saturday evening, the 28th November, and at the Union Bank of Australia, from twejve to one o'clock on Monday forenoon, the 30th November.