a greater "Clown" than he proved himself at Auckland. The Speaker, Mr. Watt, is the originator of the Circular, which is in to-day's paper. He has been a Brownite from the beginning, only opposed to the Superintendent I believe, because not allowed a finger in the pie. Therefore his cry is for an Executive Council, and so to get a share in the management. This, Brown has stoutly opposed until now, when it is given out that he is prepared to work with one. A requisition is going the round, for an enlargement of the Council, which has nothing whatever on hand, and therefore requires assistance, like him who helped some one who was doing nothing. But the farce is played out, I trust. We are, by our Government, eternally at war with the central authority; yet we do nothing of ourselves. We are running in debt, and have to borrow for everything; and yet we must spar and fight with those who give us all our aid, from the Governor downwards. Just review their follies from the time they commenced with Colonel Wynyard, to the present. Nothing can be more unwarrantable, to all attached, or more injurious to us as a Province. I was delighted to hear from Richard Brown, who has conscientiously abstained from politics, as a measure of self- conscienceness of his intention to stand for the Provincial Council