COSMOPOLITE ON THE WAR AND THE REBELS.

Auckland Examiner, Volume IV, Issue 273, 16 June 1860, Page 2

COSMOPOLITE ON THE WAR AND THE REBELS.

The meed of praise is justly due to the Aucklanders, especially to her noble supporters from Otahuhu and Ouehunga, for the unexpected display of military proficiency exhibited at the review. I was most pleasurably surprised at the rolling and electric fire of the Militia; the more so when I considered the very short time that they had been under drill. I had fully expected that his Excellency, after his inspection of the different corps, would have, at least, paid a cheering compliment to each. Alas! no; and had not the hearts of those patriots been warmed with the love of our gracious Queen, the chilling frigidity of Her representative towards them would have icicled every heart. Universal feeling of disgust followed the exit of Fum from the Albert Barracks. How

different would have been the conduct of our old friend Wynyard! He had a kind and soothing word for every one; his many, though private, acts of charity are known to those few friends that clung to, and still cling to him; his purse and his advice ever ready to be administered to those who needed either the one or the other ; — More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.

Oh Fum! Fum I Fum! you are truly a hum-—hum — humbug! Four absence of tact has trundled us into a war that, even

now, has stagnated trade, ruined settlers, and promises, unless firm and decisive measures be taken to uphold the Queen’s sovereignty throughout this Fum Colony, that the blood of our countrymen must be shed. Do you know, or will you not know, that this Province is actually bankrupt! Do you know, or will you not know, that the Superintendent is powerless to pay the many just claims upon him ? that the very contractors are kept from the wages of their hire? that the claimants for payment, not having their claims satisfied, are obliged to borrow money at 15 and 20 per cent to support their families? Can the Superintendent lay his head on his pillow—-yes, he may do that—but the real query is—can he sleep ? If a merchant in England be involved, a creditor strikes a docket, and the merchant is declared bankrupt; and by analogy, cannot a creditor of the Superintendent strike a docket against him? Unless justice be perverted he can; but Fum law may torture English law, and delinquents escape. But to the war.

The burst of patriotism appears to have >een. simultaneous among the colonists. No

Lucifer match was needed to fire their ardor. The meed of praise is exclusively due to them as a body ; they have seta bright example to their rulers —not their rulers to them ; they have, indeed, taken the initiative, and if Fum fails to profit by it a child may predict the consequences that must inevitably follow. A blow MUST be struck—now or never —a blow that will make the welkin ring, a blow that will shiver and annihilate the rebel faction. What a pity it was, when missionaries were paid, to instruct the savages, that they should have entirely overlooked the alphabet of common decency in their plan of education ! Tou can beg the question, and ask—how could men unpossessed of the commodity be suppos'ed to impart and tranfuse it into the “simple minded savages But the pseudo missionary can strangle a paradox, and try to slump it into you that black is really white. Refer to all my former letters, and I think you will not find a particle of discrepancy, or a. flaw of contradiction, in what I have held forth as to the Government taking immediate and firm steps to quell the Maori rebellion. My prophetic voice has been trumpet-tongued —through your journal—has been gradually, and it would appear steadily, merging on to fulfilment. An infinitesimal fragment of infantile intellect would have detected and 'divined the motives by which the Waikato’s were actuated. The wished to impress the pakeha with the belief that their sole object was to invest Potatou with the sovereignty of Fum Land. Such was the ostensible reason, reserving to themselvee the means by which the patriotic wish was to be carried into effect. Potatou is a miserable tool in the hands of other chiefs, who use him, to carry out their own dark designs, their object being to gain time, inorder to lull the pakeha by hypocritical koreros into an absence of preparedness, while every effort was actively being made not only to concentrate the Waikato tribes, but others that they hoped to bring over to their cause.

Emissaries were despatched throughout

the colony for this purpose. The Waikato’s humbugged us ivith their koreros until they could ascertain the actual force they were able to bring against us. Evasive answers were given loourquestionsasto their real in tentions. I n short, they were determined to amuse us until their numerical strength was known in

its collecliveness. They waited, and waited, and waited, until they felt fully assured of their power to cope with us. They hoped to spring upon us like tigers, and should we, in the commencement, be but partially defeated, those natives that affected to be loyal before will join their forces against us.

What has been the miserable course that we have, or rather our Fum ruler has. pursued throughoutthis disgraceful business? Splendid opportunity presented itself ; the chance was frittered away. Instead of wisely crushing the eggs of the serpent at the proper time, he suffered the process of hatching to progress until the vipers maturated, burst their shells, and showed their fangs. Fum has still an overwhelming force, and even a Sir Pumpkin Frizzle can tell him how to effectually employ it.

Guns for Taranaki.—On Thursday two 68 pounders were landed from the Iris on the Queen-street Wharf. These guns were taken to the top of Hobson-street on the same afternoon, to be conveyed from thence to Onehunga and then shipped on board the Cordelia for Taranaki. No boubt they will tell well upon native pahs, if taken wishin moderate range. If anything “ big and ugly” is destined to settle our deadly-lively war tbe pair of “ bar kers” yesterday transported to the Manukau stand excellent chance of doing it.