[Dec. 16, 
as to the cause would not be gratified till the house met 
on Monday. The latest letters from Kingston state, as 
the understood reason of this unexpected change, the 
desire of the late Council to be consulted upon all appoint- 
ments to office, a claim which it would appear Sir C. Met- 
ealfe is not inclined to submit to. The names of the 
retiring Members of the Council are—the Hon. Messrs. 
Sullivan, Lafontaine, Baldwin, Hincks, Dunn, Small, 
Morin, Aylwin, and Killaly—From Texas we learn that 
an entertainment had been given to General Houston at 
the place called after himself, where in returning thanks 
for the compliment, he denied the charges recently brought 
against him, of being an abolitionist, of conniving at the 
supremacy of England in Texas, and of vassalage to 
Mexico. The New Orleans Bee states that the British 
Government through Captain Elliot had presented claims 
of its subjects to land in Texas amounting to from ten to 
twenty millions of acres, with a threat that the necessary 
steps would be taken to enforce the settlement of the 
claims if they were not speedily conceded. The cotton 
crop in Texas had been seriously injured by the worm. At 
Galveston the collector was receiving the exchequer-bills 
of Texas ata discount of 20 per cent. 
Brazits.—The Swift packet, with mails from the 
Brazils, arrived on Monday direct from Rio de Janeiro, 
having sailed on the 20th of October. She brings §000/. 
on freight in gold. The rumoured illness of the Emperor 
was incorrect, but the Princess Januaria, heir presump- 
tive to the throne, has been extremely ill; her life was 
for some days considered in great danger, but the bulletin 
of the 19th of October, the day previous to the packet’s 
departure, her bein 1 e 
New Zearanp.—We regret to state that a disastrous 
occurrence has taken place in this colony which has led to 
the murder of Capts. Wakefield and England, Mr, Thom- 
son the magistrate, and several other English settlers. 
The leading facts were communicated to the New Zealand 
Company by Mr. Kelham in letters dated the 19th and 
21st June, but since their arrival the New Zealand papers 
ofa later date have been received, which contain more 
ample particulars, and show that what was at first expected 
to prove an exaggerated statement is unfortunately too 
true. The Auckland Chronicle of the 15th July gives the 
annexed account of the origin and progress of the affair:— 
“ The public are aware that the claims of the New Zealand 
Company to land in the colony amount to some millions 
of acres, partly in this island and parly in the northern 
part of the southern island; it is also generally known 
that in many instances these claims have been denied and 
in some cases openly resisted by the natives, on the ground 
that the land was never in fact sold by them to the agents 
of the company. Inorder to carry out the plan on which 
the Nelson settlement was founded it became necessary, 
after putting the settlers into the possession of their town 
and suburban sections, to resort to the. Wairau. valley, a 
fine district in Cloudy Bay about 70 miles from Nelson, 
for the purpose of finding land to supply. the original pur- 
chasers with their 150-acre sections of country land, In 
the month of April last several surveying-parties were 
despatched on the part of the company to survey the 
district. Almost i diately on their i i 
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sisting of muskets, bayonets, pistols, swords, and cutlasses, 
and several rounds of ball cartridge. The constables were 
also armed with guns, muskets, and pistols. One or two 
of the men were sworn in special constables, some were 
told they were going to take Rauparaha and Rangiaiata on 
a warrant, few it is thought knew that they were upon a 
hostile service. Many of the party are said to have ex- 
pressed their intention not to use their arms. In the 
course of their progress they were joined by Mr. Barnicoat 
the surveyor and his man, Early on Saturday morning 
the party who had left their boats when the river became 
shallow and marched up the banks, came up to the place 
ha and Rangiai 
forth, Thomas Tyrrell, and Isaac Smith.” The missing 
were—“ Malin (Chief Constable), Edward Stokes, Thos. 
Hannam, and John Burton.’’ 
CITY. 
Money Market, Friday.—Consols closed at 958; Three 
per Cents. Red., 964 to2; Three-and-Half per Cents. 
Red., 102} to 2; Bank Stock, 182to3; Exchequer Bills, 
57s. to 59s. prem. ; India Bonds, 74 prem. 
HAetropolis and fis PW teinitw. 
where they expected to find Raup 
and their party, they were encamped on the opposite bank 
of a narrow creek. By the directions of Mr. Thompson 
and Captain Wakefield the European party was now 
formed into two bodies under Ceptain England and Mr, 
Howard, who gave orders to their men not to interfere 
until directed. Asa means of communication with the 
other side of the creek where the chiefs were encamped a 
canoe was placed across the water to serve as a bridge. 
Mr. Thompson, Captain Wakefield, the chief-constable, 
Brooke, and some others then crossed over. Mr. Thompson, 
Captain Wakefield, and Mr. Cotterell walked backwards 
and forwards for nearly half an hour with the natives, 
apparently ina friendly manner. Mr. Thompson then 
showed his warrant, directed the constable to execute 
iton Rauparaha, and instructed Brooke to explain the 
meaning of it. Mr. Thompson also stated that he was 
‘the Queen’s representative,’ that that (pointing to the 
warrant) was the Queen’s book,—that Rauparaha must 
go on board the brig with the constable; that it was for 
burning Mr. Cotterell’s house, and had nothing to do 
with the land question. Rauparaha told them to sit 
down and talk, and not make a fight, and to wait till Mr, 
Spain and Mr. Clarke came, and hear what they would 
say. Mr. Thompson then inquired of Rauparaha, whether 
he would come or not; to which he replied he would 
not; but that if Mr. Clarke or Mr. Spain was there he 
would. Mr. Thompson then said if he would not go he 
would make him. Rauparaha still refusing, Mr. Thomp- 
son, pointing to the Europeans, said, ‘ There is the armed 
force, and they shall fire upon you all (or upon you) if 
you won’t go.” Mr. Thompson it appears then became 
“exasp d,’ and the di ion violent. Rangiai 
called on him not to fire. ‘ For God’s sake, Thompson, 
mind what you are about,’ shouted Mr. Richardson from 
the other side. Mr. Thompson then called to the armed 
party to fix bayonets and advance; Captain Wakefield 
placing the canoe across the stream for a bridge gave the 
word, ‘ Englishmen, forward.’ A few of them had entered 
the canoe, when a shot was fired, whether by accident or 
design is not clear, neither is it certain on which side ; 
but there is reason to think it was on the side of the 
Europeans. Upon this the firing immediately became 
general on both sides, and several fell. Three of their 
party having fallen, the Maories hesitated whether they 
should run away ; but Rauparaha urged them to pursue. 
When the firing commenced, Mr. Thompson, Captain 
Wakefield, and the rest of the party who had been in 
their 
work the natives, who it seems dispute the sale of that 
district, ordered off the surveyors, pulled up their 
ranging-rods and stakes, and did everything in their power 
to prevent the survey of the land. Whilst this was being 
done by some of their people, Rauparaha and Rangiaiata, 
two of the most powerful and least civilized chiefs of that 
part of New Zealand, who are the original native owners 
of the district, were at Porirua, on the other side of 
Cook’s Straits, urging the Land Claims’ Commissioner, 
Mr. Spain, to hasten over to settle the land claims at 
Wairau, as they wished the surveyors to be withdrawn, 
The Commissioner agreed to hear the claims there towards 
the end of June. Inthe meantime both the chiefs crossed 
the Straits to Cloudy Bay—went up the Wairau with 
their party—found the surveyors still there—collected a 
number of them together, their tents and provisions, and 
told them that they intended to send them all off the land 
together. Previous to this they had set fire to Mr. Cotte- 
reli’s (one of the surveyors) hut, having first carefully 
removed all property of value to prevent its destruction, 
Early in June Mr. Cotterell started for Nelson to inform 
Captain Wakefield of what had taken place. Mr. Tucket 
the Company’s chief surveyor attempted, but in vain, 
during Mr. Cotterell’s absence to obtain the permission of 
the chiefs for the survey to proceed. On arriving at 
Nelson Mr. Cotterell (on the 12th of June) laid an in- 
formation before the police magistrate Mr. Thompson, who 
it would seem issued a warrant against Rauparaha and 
Rangiaiata for burning Mr. Cotterell’s hut. At that time 
the colonial brig Victoria was on the point of sailing for 
Auckland, being under strict orders to return direct, and 
on no account to deviate from her course. Captain 
Richards it seems however was induced to remain until 
Tuesday the 13th, and to take on board Mr. Thompson 
the police magistrate; Captain Wakefield the New Zea- 
land Company’s Agent at Nelson; Mr. Richardson the 
recently-appointed Crown prosecutor; Captain Eng- 
land late of Her Majesty’s 12th Foot; Mr. Howard 
the company’s storekeeper ; Mr. Patchett, merchant; Mr. 
Cotterell, surveyor ; Mr. Brooke, who acted as interpreter ; 
the chief-constable of Nelson, three constables, and about 
25 other persons, most of them engaged in the company’s 
survey. Before reaching the Wairau they were joined by 
one of the company’s boats, having on board Mr. Tucket 
and 10 or 12 men who went on board and joined the party. 
On Thursday evening the brig anchored at the mouth of 
the Wairau and remained there. At a path at the entrance 
of the river Mr. Howard the company’s storekeeper, 
served out arms to the men (about 35 in number), con- 
with the chiefs, re-crossed the creek to 
join their own party, who were now retreating up the hill 
pursued by the natives. At each step in the ascent, 
Captain Wakefield again and again attempted to rally the 
men, and entreated them to make stand, to fix bayonets 
and charge. An irregular firing was still kept up, but 
the European party continued retreating. ‘For God’s 
sake, come back, men,’ cried Mr. Thompson, ‘ the Maories 
are coming upon us ;’ but the greater number made 
good their retreat. There was running in all directions, 
Captain Wakefield, finding it impossible to rally the men, 
then ordered those who remained to lay down their arms 
and surrender. Brooke, the interpreter, called to the 
Maories—‘ Leave off, enough ;’ but after this some shots 
were fired by those in retreat who had reached the top of 
the hill and were too far distant to know what was going 
on below. When signals of surrender had been made, 
one or two Maories also threw down their arms and ad- 
vanced with’their arms stretched out in token of recon- 
ciliation. It seems that while the surrender was taking 
place by the gentlemen below and the firing by the strag- 
glers above, Rangiaiata came up enraged: he had disco- 
vered that his wife had been shot—‘ Rauparaha,’ said he, 
‘remember your daughter.’ He then with his own hand 
it is said destroyed them all. ‘ Puha, Puha,’ cried out the 
wife of a chief from a distance, ‘save some of the chiefs 
(gentlemen) that you may have it to say you saved some.’ 
But it was then too late. On the European side the num- 
ber of armed men was about 45, on the Maori side about 
40 were engaged—their loss was 4 killed and 5 wounded. 
On the Wednesday following, Mr. Tronsides the Wesleyan 
missionary having heard of the fatal conflict hastened to 
the spot, where he found 19 European bodies. On the Thurs- 
day they were buried, Mr. Ironsides reading at the grave the 
funeral service of the Church of England. On his way to 
the place, Mr. Ironsides met Rauparaha and Rangiaiata, 
and obtained permission from them to go and bury the 
dead. They told him that they had no intention to fight ; 
that it was the wrath of the Europeans that made them 
fight ; that the Europeans had fired upon them, and one 
or two of their number had fallen before they began to 
fight ; and that it was not until the wife of Rangiaiata was 
shot that ‘ they began to'seek for payment’—(revenge.)”” 
The New Zealand Colonist of the 30th June gives the 
following as the complete list of the persons who have 
fallen :—‘' Captains Wakefield and England; Messrs. 
Thompson, Richardson, Patchett, Howard, Cotterell, 
John Brooke (interpreter), William Clanzay, Thomas 
Ratcliffe, William Northam, Thomas Pay, Coster, James 
M‘Gregor, William Gardner, Ely Cropper, Henry Burn- 
Yi —Several meetings have been 
held at London-house the town residence of the Bishop 
of London in the course of the last few days, for the pur- 
pose of maturing some comprehensive plan for relieving 
the destitute poor of the metropolis and at the same time 
improving their moral and social condition, Those meet- 
ings have been attended by several noblemen and gentle- 
men and incumbents of metropolitan parishes, and after 
much deliberation it has been resolved to form an ‘‘Asso- 
ciation for the relief of destitution and the improvement 
of the condition of the poor in the metropolis by means of 
parochial and district visiting.”” The Bishop of London 
will be President of the association, and it is settled that 
the whole of the funds shall be directly applied to the 
relief of the indigent after all proper inquiry has been 
made by gratuitous visitors. The rules and regulations 
will shortly be announced to the’public.—The committee 
appointed at the meeting held in Leicester-square on the 
20th ult., to consider the best method of providing for 
the relief of the houseless and destitute poor, have decided 
that the immediate object then proposed, so far as relates 
to one or more houses of refuge in the-western portion of 
the metropolis, can be most efficiently obtained by a 
junction with the institution already existing in the City 
for affording nightly shelter to the houseless, and tempo- 
rary relief to the destitute. In lieu therefore of establish- 
ing a new institution it has been thought advisable by the 
committee to accept the offer of co-operation made to them 
by the City Society, who are desirous of extending their 
operations to the western portion of the metropolis, and 
who have at the same time the advantage of being assisted 
by those who have had a successful experience of the 
working of such an institution for the last 20 years. 
Christmas Catile Show.—Simultaneously with the 
usual exhibition of prize cattle, the annual general meet- 
ing of the members of the Smithfield Cattle Club took 
place last week at the Horse Bazaar. Earl Spencer, 
the President of the Club, presided on the occasion. The 
meeting was very fully attended by noblemen and gentle- 
men, among whom were the Duke of Richmond, Lord 
Camden, Lord Western, Sir E. Mostyn, the Hon. Mr. 
Clifford, &c. The award of the judges was unanimously 
approved of, and the meeting then proceeded to the 
election of officers. Earl Spencer was re-elected Presi- 
dent, and the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Scarborough, 
Lord Western, Lord Aboyne, Sir J. Scabright, and J. M. 
Cripps, Esq., Vice-Presidents. Mr. H. Gibbs, who has 
held the office of honorary secretary for seven years, thea 
resigned on account of ill health, and that gentleman $ 
brother, Mr. B. T. B. Gibbs, was elected in his place. 
Mr, Druce was appointed steward of the beasts, and Mr- 
Dean of the short-woolled sheep for the ensuing three 
years. The Cattle Show was opened as early as 7 30 
the morning, and from that time throughout the week 
the whole neighbourhood presented the appearance of a 
fair. The implements of agriculture exhibited in the 
galleries appeared to excite much admiration. It is com- 
puted that upwards of 10,000 persons visited the Bazaar 
during the first day, and upwards of 20,000 on Thursday: 
On Friday it was honoured by the presence of Prince 
Albert, Gen. Espartero, and other distinguished visitors. 
Commission of Lunacy.—A commission was sittiDs 
during the greater part of last week to inquire into the 
state of mind of Mrs. Hartley, a lady of fortune residing” 
in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, who imagined herself 
to be Duchess of Cornwall, Viscountess Rialton, &c., and 
believed that a conspiracy existed to poison her. The ju'Y 
found a verdict of Insanity, aud were then called upon W 
enter upon a similar inquiry respecting Mr. W. H. Hartley 
the son of the unfortunate lady. ‘The same witnesses ® 
in the former case proved that though the delusions © 
the son were not altogether the same as those 0 the 
mother, yet the case was more urgent, as the insanity ay 
the son was of a dangerous character and required Hl 
ciate control. The jury returned a verdict that he ha 
been insane since the 13th Sept. last. f 
The Tower.—The Duke of Wellington as Constable 
the Tower a few days since inspected the ruins eh 
ground devastated by the fire on the 30th Oct. 1841, we 
a view of appropriating the site to new barracks for the 
soldiers, It will be recollected that the Brick Tove 
at the eastern end of the Armoury was destroyed i ae 
general conflagration. The outer walls however escape Ji 
and were suffered to remain with the intention it is SUP 
posed of preservation, but this will not now be the case 
as such a pile would interfere with the new arrangement: 
The same space will be occupied by the new barracks tha 
was formerly covered by the Armoury, and it is rumoutee 
that the style is to be the military Gothic. It would a if 
appear that the fire only anticipated the destruction of th 
old Armoury, as extensive cracks had but a short ee 
previously shown themselves throughout the whole of 
eastern portion, and great apprehensions were OAT: 
by the Ordnance for its safety. The lower barracks in ¢ 
Old Mint, on the completion of the proposed cree noe 
will be converted into storehouses. The moat surrouney 
ing the Tower has been filled only half its depth + buy to 
the drainage is inefficient and its depth is unfavourable 
