about proceeding to Taranaki on a sally forthwith but this I succeeded in preventing some few I understand have set out - but not many. The all absorbing topics of conversation here, are the question of the Hutt and the result of the Committee of the House of Commons deliberation at Home. Rumour says that the report of the Comee. is highly favorable to the views of the Company and condemnatory of the proceedings of the Government It is asserted that the treaty of Waitangi is condemned and regarded as impolitic and unjust and that in future all Lands not actually occupied or cultivated by the Natives, are to be considered as demesne Land, of the Crown. How this is to be reconciled with the whole policy of Government during the last four years I cannot conceive and am quite certain that such a principle cannot now be established but at the point of the bayonet. The "Caledonia" a vessel despatched by the Company to bring out despatches relative to this subject has just hove in sight so we shall soon hear particulars - The day before I left your house I brought a book from Mr. Blacks entitled "The Natural History of Enthusiasm" which belongs to Mr. Clarke, intending to bring it with me, but I came away and forgot it. If he has not taken it himself please forward it to his Father at Auckland as early as you can. The "Hazard" is here from Auckland