MONTHLY SUMMARY FOR EUROPE.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 243, 18 April 1866, Page 2

MONTHLY SUMMARY FOR EUROPE.

POLITICAL— GENEEAL.

The elections for the House of Representatives are over, and the Assembly meets for the " despatch of business " on the 28 th May. The next session is looked forward to with considerable anxiety. It will unquestionably be an important one. The great question of Separation will require to be debated,and although it is doubtful if total Separation will be obtained, it is certain, that radical reforms in the existing system will be insisted upon. Hitherto <;he G-overnment of TNew Zealand has heen carried on with reckless extravagance, and without #ny regard for the future. The Provinces have been • dependent upon the General G-overn-ment, and the General Government dependent upon the Imperial Exchequer. The time has come when the colony from necessity is compelled to take up a selfdefensive position. This is patent to all who study the proceedings of the British Parliament, and mark the • tone and character of the despatches which have been recently received from the Home Government, lt is evident that the Imperial authorities will now insist that New Zealand shall learn to become selfreliant. Its patience has been worn out with protracted expenditure for Northern war and Northern colonisation ; and the Middle Island is afHicted with the same complaint ; its revenue has been absorbed, its progress impeded, and its future dimmed, to bolster up the North. The Imperial Government virtually says : — " The expensive assistance which we have so long supplied, must now be taken away." The South also has supported the North until she has placed herself in serious financial difficulties; yet while acknowledging this, and almost unanimously affirming that the partnership must : be dissolved, of a fresh "contract made, her actions imply that she is indilferent to the question. What has been the result of the Separation movement — a movement which promised to bring prosperity to the South without injury to the North ? It has strengthened the hands ofthe North. Separation was to have been the question upon which the candidates for legislative honors to be tested, and yet, with the exception of a few, those that bave been elected are antiSeparationists or men without pretension to political attainments.

The war items for the m( nth are but few and tame • fighting, there has been none, although a few brisk skirmishes have taken place. The East Coast natives appear subdued, and tbe whole country wears a more peaceful aspect than it has for a very long time. The skill sand energy displayed by General Chute has done wonders towards convincing the Maori population that they must succumb. Still, it is to be feared that fcrr George Grey with, his Maori instincts, and Exeter Hall sympathy, may destroy all that has been accomplished. He has just committed one of those erratic acts for which he is remarkable. He appears to have taken' into his confidence the Hau-Hau prophet ; the villian who has been the arch-instigator of almost all the murderous outrages which bave been perpetrated. Te Ua, the demon who caused the murder of many of New Zealand's best men, has become a sort of Native Secretary to his Excellency the Governor. Between one and two score of the deluded followers of this man have been tried for murder, and sentenced to death, whilst he, the chief of criminals, is taking pleasure trips from place to place in one of her Her Majesty's ships of war. It may be advanced that Te Uu haying confessed his sins, his Excellency believes that he may be useful to induce the remainder of his followers to abandon the demonaic creed of which he was the High Priest, and thereby facilitate another patchwork peace treaty being entered into. This appears as impolitic as it is evidently unjust. Such were the feelings of the friendly natives upon the subject, that when his Excellency made his appearance among them accompanied by this mah, it was with difficulty that they were restrained from taking the law into their own hands and executing him on the spot. A kind of State-prisoner settlement is to be estabhshed in the Chatham Islands. A large number of prisoners are already located there and from all accounts it vtould seem that ** they will have comfortable quarters ; the island is represented as being most fertile. We subjoin a correct list of members of t^e House of Bepresentatives. The following are the names of the gentlemen returned for the New Parliament, Those marked with asterisks are new members : — ATJpxiAKD. Auckland City, West... John Williamson Jameß Williamson Auckland City, East ... *Archibald Clark Northern Division of Auckland J. O'NeiU T. Henderson ParneU.. *F. Whitaker Newton G.Graham Franklyn „ Robert Graham T. M. Haultain Onehunga J. M. O'Rourko Pensioner Settlement ... *Col, De Quincey Raglan , *Joseph Newman Marsden »F. Hal! Bay of Islands H. Carlton Mongonui •T.Bali/ CAirrBBBUBy. Christchurch, City J. S. Fitzgerald Kaiapoi *Joseph Beswick Mount Herbert..., *W- S. Moorhouse Timaru iUfredGox A T on , , Cwsbie Ward Heathcote „,..,,,. *JohnH*U Akaroat, ,„,„,„,'„,■„,„ *G. Armstrong Selwyn „„„„„,.,.,„. *E. 0. J. Steveßt Ashley ,„ ..„,'„, ,,:...»* J. Walker

Lyttelton *E. A. Hargreave Cheviot Sir D.Monro Coleridge John C. WUson Westland *W. S. Moorhouse UABLBOBOTTGH. Wairau W.H. Eyes Picton * — Beauchamp hawke's Bay. Napier Donald ATLeaa Clive J. D. Ormond' ■NBISO3T. Nelson, City Hon. E. W. Stafford *0. Curtis Nelson, Suburbs WUliam Wells Waimea *A. R. Oliver Motueka *Charles Parker CoUingwood A. J. Richmond otago. Waikouafi..;: *W. D. Murison Goldfields.... J. Yogel •Captain O'NeiU Taieri *Donald Reid Bruce *John CargiU Dunedin James Paterson WUham H. Reynolds Hampden * C.E. Haughton Clutha James Macandrew Caversham A. J. Burns Port Chalmers *Thomas Dick Goldfields Boroughs... *J. B. Bradshaw Manuherikia *Captain Baldwin Roslyn '..'. *0- Hepburn Oamaru *B. CampbeU, jun. weili> t gtolsY The Hutt W. Fitzherbert * — Ludlam City of WeUington... J. E. Featherston W. W. Taylor *C. B. Borlase Wairarapa ..7 *H. Bunny Porhua A de B. Brandon Waneanui *John Bryce Rangitekei ..:.......... *W. H. Watt SOTTTHIiALND. InvercargUl * William Wood Riverton District *Donald Hankinson Mataura P. Ddlon BeU Wallace *A. M'NeU TABABTAEI. Grey and BeU J. Richmond New Plymouth Maj or Richardson Omata*. A. S. Atkinson