THE NELSON EXAMINER. Nelson, November 19, 1842.

Les journaux deviennent plus ne'eessaires & mesure que le* homines sout plus fegaux, et 1' individualiitne plus a craindre. Cc serait dimimier leur importance que de croire qu' ill ne tervent qu' a garantir la liberty : ila maintienaent la civilisation. De TocauEviLLi. De la Democratic en Amerique, tome 4, p. 220. Journals become more necessary as men become more equal, and individualism more to be feared^ It would be to underrate their importance to suppose that they serve only to secure liberty : they maintain civilisation. Di TocauiyiLLE. Of Democracy in America, vol. 4, p. S2O. We earnestly hope that there will be a full attendance at the Public Meeting to be held at the Police Office on Monday next, to take tbe question of the Municipal Corporation into consideration. We need not now add to what has been already said, showing how strongly we are impressed with the important advantages which will result from Nelson being proclaimed a borough. It is only becoming now to express a desire that none will fail to attend who can possibly avoid it, and that all will come intending dispassionate consideration of the subject ; neither allowing themselves to be* hurried into taking part in a proceeding of the propriety of which they are not fully convinced, nor to be terrified by some unreal vision of a state of independent helplessness into the endeavour to check the advancement and. well being of the settlement.

On Tuesday afternoon,' H. A. Thompson, Esq., P.M., and Captahi Wakefield, J.P., accompanied by Mr. Tytler, started in the Deal boat for Massacre Bay, with a party in all of about nve-and-^wenty, sworn in as special constables, with- the intention .of

putting an end, as early and with as little disturbance as possible, to the interference and unruly conduct of the natives at Motupipi. There will be difficulty found, perhaps, in marking the precise lfhe of action most advisable to pursue. Neither humanity nor the necessity for decided measures must be forgotten. There is little fear, however, of the former being neglected but through inattention to the latter. This disease of ill-will between the white men and the Maories must be put a stop to in its beginning. It is a disease certain to spread — frightful in its character — fatal in its result. Real humanity will heal th^e sore at once, even though by the use of the knife and the actual cautery. Saturday Morning. We have not time to say more at present than that the judicious expedition to Massacre Bay ended most satisfactorily, and that Mr. Thompson and Captain Wakefield returned yesterday afternoon with their officials.

We request the attention of our readers to the following extract from the Colonist — " The preliminary and second series of sections comprise about 1 50,000 acres. The possessions of the Company, in respect of the money paid by the purchasers of these sections, are- about 600,000 acres. We would suggest to the proprietors of these sections, especially to those who are resident in the colony, the expediency of considering whether they are not entitled to some share of these immense territories. It was by the expenditure of their money that the Company has become entitled to their acquisition ; and it has been by means of their personal sacrifices and risks that these lands have acquired whatever value they may now possess. Assuredly, themere, they are entitled to some small share in profits which, but for them, would have had no existence. We shall return to this subject." Upon what possible ground is this claim, or idea of a claim, founded ? One would think that there must be some mistake. We should not at all like to be ourselves suspected or accused of toad-eating, nor are we inclined unnecessarily to ascribe a taste for that species of nutriment to any other ; but anything more remarkably like toadying the public of Port Nicholson, and that, too, after the most indigestible fashion, we never read. Only let any one knowing the circumstances under which New Zealand was settled by the Company think of this absurd claim, and try to make. either justice, reason, or sense out of it if he can. It is too absurd.. And then—" We shall return to this subject." For mercy's sake, think better of it and do no such thing.

Last night some of the principal inhabitants of Nelson met, with the intention of raising a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by the fire at Wellington. It was agreed that the following gentlemen should be requested to act as a collecting committee, and Mr. Macdonald was appointed treasurer. We have no room this week for a list of subscribers ; but we believe there was a subscription of one guinea each by all present at this hurriedly got up meeting. Treasurer— Mr. Macdonald. COLLECTING COMMITTEE. Captain Wakefield ' Dr. Spence Mr. Thompson Mr. Valle* Captain Wilson Mr. Sdanders Captain England Mr. Seymour Mr. Macdonald Dr. Cooper Mr. Greaves Mr. Empson Mr. Richardson Mr. Domett Mr. Elliott Mr. Cautley Mr. Fell Mr. Patchett - > Mr. Otterson The Rev.'Mr. Reay Mr. Tod