THE NEWSPAPER. 
d the speech of Mr. C. Buller, re- | the 20th inst., to th senada mit eek following.—In reply to Lord | that motion then, as they S 
enirn. Sia as Karenan t ol The pny pointed against the | Palmerston,—Sir RP xpisined the in ger of interference period had d arrived when they mage tang R hence 
tax altogether; the other merely suggeste modification. adopted Lo =~ British : aad F French M Minis ea t Bu yik a forward a motion—if, indee. eed, they contene prepared to bring 
What would be the effect of one modification suggested ?—that | for the oat e of inducing the ov eram A Bu all—and w ensoe ver they did bring it forward be ee st 
of making 150/.the zero of thetax. It would be equivalent to | and Mon evi eo to suspend hostilities ne a dmitted that Mtr. prepared to vindicate a friend whose condact h 
returning to the 200,000 persons who pay the Income-tax 47. 10s. Mandeville, our Minister there, as well as the Minister of | they had most unjustly and unfairly impugned ton 
each, or reducing the tax in von ogo A —, a million. Go- | France, had exceeded their yapman in peeing out menaces | remarked, that it was not the feelings of a te rd Howe, 
waged = Ayres off the duties o materials, favoured | of forcible intervention, but he sed them 2a plea of the | to consider, but the interests of some 14,000 or Te eey had 
comm pealing the excise i ge remoyed Soya difficulty of their position. he. Tiduer said t tha as this coun- | subjects in a distant colony. Seeing that thes fey British 
ments oi the piitan of capital, science, and skill; ands ry, in concert with France, was xp o make ral ToP eei- session of the proclamations and other acts of the p in pos. 
of those who had smiled at Mr. C. Buller’s sarcastic description tations to those hostile TOSE offering mediation, and i it was a matter of surprise that no despatches had avernor, 
of the small benefit to te derived by the poo the | ploring them to put a stop to their senseless hostilities, he ceived, or that the Government had not before this been re. 
repeal of the cotton duty, nma e a = aiat hoped he would not be pres ed for unnecessa some one to relieve Capt. Fitzroy ia his duties Bath Sent ont 
of those who, in ious deputations, d urged upon | Mr. Somes briefly move for the production ae adenda that ere long ole affairs of New Z aland wouid ted 
him the necessity of its repeal. Though th rade respecting the issue of debentures as a rand riana te impo- | under the consideration of the House.— Saf 
at present pope nok looking to the fact that one-half of the | sition of tax he recent outrages—the lands—Lord | that when the Zealand Compa: Sanctioned the set : 
lared valne orts in 1844 was in cotton manufac- | Stanley’s agreement—and other matters relating to the gan of Captain Fitzroy, i i nce of the fact ‘oon 
e, h nay $] portance of the remission of the duty. | of New Zealand.—Mr. AcLIonBY, as a director of the had been secretly and collusively furnished b t be 
Nor were they to jadge by the opinions of the glass manufac- | Zealand Company, lained of the action of the Colonial with a letter of iustructions, in which the agi bet 
rs (who we g lly favourable) of the value of Office, and pressed for the publication ie ments. | the Co d the Government was entirely explained sone 
abolition of the excise on glass, It w ell g take t| He pointed out particular t issue res to | He went into the details the circumstances con ected wits 
eat capital was required for the ma fact w he amount of 15,000/., depreciating the currency; ti peat i nf the colony in support of his allegations, RE. 
er the abolition of he excise, would se eget Ate danas conduct of the governor, Capt. Fitzroy, in ealing with | I nied that the nye f New Zealand were to be 
strated. Mirth had been made of their taking off the import | the natives after the massacre of Wairau, and the cutting treated = children. In connection with land, they had ideas d 
duties on the 430 seer < of raw materials of the tariff; and | down of the fisgstaff at Nelson; the treatment of the com- of traditional descent whieh went as high as 25 or 39 pas. 
they were taunted with admitting alum, in order, as was said, | pany by the Government, in relation to its own affairs, and the tions, sa in the case of England, would 
to adulterate the poor man’ trae But alum was an import- | general a ion of the colony, which, rad beret bide aor the Norman Conquest. Defending 
ant article in our pattem ctu: and he thought it strange | official mismanagement, was brought to the of ruin, in- | proud riy call his frien 
that they should be derided th having assented to the force nage ` bane biai with its fine timata ane Sen it ought to | nile s be me 
of arguments which urged the uselessness of retaining in the re of the st flourishing settlements of Great Britain,— ety rising a 
tariff articles which only complicated the Customs, and pro- Ho br į that the Colonial Secretary and the | we 
duced nothing to the revenue. Even the repeal of the auction Governor “of 1 New Zealand were attacked rather by insinuation the ‘Com » he put itd 
duty would be more beneficial than had been alleged; and he | than direct state: whi ei mation afforded by docu- | pounds, shillings, and pence ‘al 
thought that the voice of the conntry was, on the whole, in fa- | ments already before the House was overio The issue of | tl wishing t 
vo f n yh pe e. m baer other | debentures had been disallowed by the home Government, and | Capt. Fitzroy on the 
taxes might be named which might be equally more be- | they had been withdrawn. On the subject of local taxation, | to them all—to 
neficial to the labouring papitianton bats looking isok to the | or of the more recent occurrences cansed by he cman of ce com 
distresses of 1340 and other years, and to the rapid extension | natives, they had not received any inform 
of our i 
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cially Mr. Pressley, had been imposed without vexatious re- | sample mismanagement, from the imbecilit ge of a 
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capital, or t cline of the assessed and other tax An intelligent and we ised despotism he did no! 
whole, he urged the House not to enter on the difficult | temn; but he deprecated the idea of the fortunes of English 
ques modification, but to carry forward the Bill in its | men being exposed to a system which had scarcely the shadow 
present shape.—Mr. Suxix thought that if Sir R. Peel would | of a representative body, and where the mere caprice of the ti 
“ tax his ingenuity,” he might find a substitute for the ee oo xelu one m the magistracy, or remove from | t the petition from the rate f 
inequalities of Schedule D, at least on trades and professions, = cil. gers ed speak respectfully of the navy; Rochdale. against we introduction of. the New 
Tax the devolution of property by testament, as legacies were. | but the "genie. aeek did "aor qualify for civil services, and | their district, and m oe hat the petitio fi 
referred to | 
tas were the abilities, the eloquence, and the intellectual ~ man like Capt. Fitzroy was utterly unfitted for the go- | lect committee, —Mr. "Fa RAND seconded the motion, and comi 
station of Pitt, he never threatened his adherents with resigna- | vernorship of a colony. Look to his mischievous and fatal tended that all the pledges which had been made by the promi 
tion; but Sir R. Peel had but to whisper the cabalistic name | blunder of issuing two shilling and five-shilling debentures, | moters of thei Poor Law on nt i pren pror rese 
of Russell, and all symptoms of mutiny we oon There which it was a compliment even to call inconvertible—an act le eels’ fn vies, Bg J. Gra 
was n a hina | evincing utter ignorance, not merely of elementary knowledge 
je Papal arrency, but w w ini d the po 
aliar instrumentality, ‘Co ouservative atatt of the Government at home. He checked the importation | he would hot consent to cute eit. p un 
ce for the o y import duties, which were also laid | Self with opposing the motion.—After 
like 5 Sosed Pee onrum and other spirits; and to cure the derangement of | House divided: For motion, 16; agai sinst ct 
perty, and compelied it to | trade caused by his blunders in taxation, he abolished the | 43.—On the motion of Si rJ 
the funds, was as | Custom-house at Russell, and left the Custo l para wur = amend t 
s in force all over the rest ei 
Aios e- | lig s complaining o mention being oF ie HBQUE 
k k N considered | cultural interests in the Queen’s Speech, and assured his audi- | the Prperty-tax Act tor elie 
that the quietude of the people was o its being cun- | tors that the Government treated them “‘as if t were lont an eee from assessment 
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cotsideration of or geno reduction. colony!” The proclamation of Governor Fit uthori Tg BS ong dee were times she 
Asa free-trader, he repudiated all connection with n | the sale of land by thenatives at a less price than that fixed by 
income- = as this, = - sake of the reductions ti be e, | the 5th and 6th Vic., c. 36, was neith re nor | 
which w ntende up the delusion that the Govern- | ducing, by a stroke of pen, the value of all the comm 
= an | in voi g Se trade. T ol ir R. Peel’s | land in New Zealand, from the fixed price of1/. t . per acre. 
po icy, since he came into power, had tended tothe shutting up ing to the massacre of Wairau, he spoke with much emo- 
o ee of their greatest markets—that of North America, by | tion ofthe memory of his gallant friend, Capt. Wakefield, who — Rope . Duxcon 
al uty on corn; and of South America—the razils—by the | after; many eminent services, had perished under the tomahawk say the 
ne a sugar.—Lord J. RUSSELL, adve: ng to Mr, Hume’s | Of a savage in an obscure t of Ne ealand ; and yet the b 
— that it was no use bothering about the Income-tax | Governor had extended his sympathy, if not his approbation, eee of mines, together w 
ir R. Peel refused modification, thought that if the Prime | to the natives! Forgetting the gentlemanly amenities of es ok ch mier pa 
Minister were the Petruchio of Liberalism, the member for | civilised life, he had insulted ore in p onths igit 
Montrose was unquestionably the Cat rine, as med so| he had deprived Europeans of all nce in the Go- 
— lly tamed by the discipline adopted. ‘Though censoring | vernment; had found a colony of 14, 000 people aise 
e ais plans of the Gov t, he would willingly sup- | a revenue of 36,000/., and had dissipated it; while 
A <k perty and Income-tax three years longer, as a Lodo Island, with its population of 47,000, Be po 
ond fide compensation for reduction of duties bear g on com ned at oe expense 12,000/.; but n Prince Ed- 
Tce and ind - In this view they w o render bomen s Island had a representative govern t. Recounting 
e į as possible.—Mr. VILLIERS urged the free- | the several blunders of Capt. Fitzro > he sai asked for no 
view of the Budget, and contended that Sir R. Peel, who erer censure on him than that he was a very foo! and in- 
Pitas out the» eficial effects of the reduction of th etent man, unfit to be intrusted with t anagement of 
Zl oar a! d of the benefit which would result | t ost ordinary affairs, and who: a s requisite, if 
BACAR Goes Aay -laws, with this difference, that the not for punish ple, at least for the safety and 
tough oddani a greater e: t.—Mr. Muntz, | interests of the colony.—Mr. Rice Trevor reprobated the mo: 
Soga creat ng the Income-tax, considered that a large | extraordinary, improper, and unjustifiable language in w 
s ngiter f the country was due to the | Mr. C. Buller had thought fit to all to Capt. Fitzroy’s 
Teati Sah rA eel; who had got such a hold oyer some | dealings with the colonists of New Zealan It was the mori 
ou ah Sth e ae Pronounced th “free to hang | outrageo fro e circumstance that Capt. Fitzroy was 
H ai a say he was goin the right | absent in the service of that nd the country—that h 
— spt Sesteit 5 S appeared—for the Amend- | Was at that very e Arzon devoting all the best energies of his 
thew brought against it «pee 0; 3 Majority, 128.—Mr. Mixes | Mind to their advantage, and that he could not e an oppor- 
tenable tenant cecapiens m mea Agi ae of which was bt of f defending him ree Sue Range of the distance, before 
k » ON appeal, an e meeting o next year.—Col. op als 
cree Aor vo year to which their income dispropor. | reproved Mr. C ing the entet “ foolish ie in- 
ck Could Not DAER e CHANCEL: ain f the Excuz- | COmpetent” to Capt. Fitzroy, at a time when he was not i 
iuintioned, fx ordo ieee Pala A ge a oe ht t be sition to make good his words.—Sir W. ES expressed his 
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unger 3007. were exempted.—On aan ople oc ont — i eidem that he had acted in any wa 
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o . He admitted that he | 22723! paym 'NcErLOR of the 
‘0,—Mr. Bricur | Could not, under any circumstances, consider the issue of fo ink it oF rmit the exem 
ise i ce assessme at 
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en ma ge A Th SMe 
Viscount t Clive, M Pei EA , Mr, Cripps, | Was possessed by eireag A ~~ reports were no | ch allowed byt ews aa wt 
ce i cimutifn rake a character, 
i i ci S professional merits, were his recommen: 
e knew Mr. Cavendish wasan ious to é| tion and quadiicatices nye = out, actua 
not consent to the substitution. “The ‘ erso : on sre go 
of public duty than o 
—— ided—For the amen: dment, 39; against i it, 65. 
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a bain mas rae | Ean prc Do mass ale tye et Boeretang he | cause Be wa ee 
that he o meet and rebut na was eq 
the Easter should move the a ad- that such a motion should Sete brought forward a peg Baa required | The propositi ion 
ter recess, from Thursday, | period possible. They were as perfectly competent to a tress, and aso 
