THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1857, 29 March 1869, Page 2

THE ENGLISH MAIL.

We extract the. following from a lstfc* written by the "Argus," dated London, January-89-«—- * - NEW ZEAIAmWAA-.-y The journals continue to .publish thee£' gestions of correspondents in war in New Zealand. "Delta," m - j» Times" of January 2, protests Wto™f against the doctrine that, the bo abandoned by the mother country to uwr own military resource*. He « thousands have emigrated and MWJ/ the belief that they would enjoy the gratocj* of the Imperial Government against, »«»>- ---savage' and brutal cannibals on the lace earth." The settlers have remained mm since the last severe contest under I that the peace agreed upon was use | render them more eecure for M f%; tet Being "men of peace," having education or scientific traimng, ana v -g without competent officers, ' VeM that "a force fully qualified ™* %% n manded is now absolutely., necessary. w. J|& tho settlers from utter destruction. » views are scarcely likely to find favor mv frugal minded Government, who, H fi| mnj be trusted, are bent °» from our dependencies moat of tne present fonnd there. That is one of ftj» lions in which the retrenchment of arffij penditure will probably run. . fe "Young New Zealand" -agreeii preceding 0 writer, that the "a quiet set of farmers and %*f **!',, ■■■#, not Ldv pioneers or not the most suitable to fight tie Jhe proposes the.introduction oi: w f& bf ments of India, to the colonists. But "X.Y.Z., *"' *&«>« ing tho suggestion, insists *"* w om| of urgency, and recommends f • "JM -.Jfe of the friendly Maoris themselves.

~ ZTthat arms placed in their hands ]m <T bftined the colonist, views have been ventilated by our papers, and the limited ex- *?! which thT experiment has already {£SJI seems to have been encouragmgly ea ntn"l George Gawlcr pens a somewhat Colonel weorfe Tim £ f »» insisting that, Weft employ Sikhs, friendly Maoris, f vnlunteers/or British troops again, to d f,ili SVe ff Zealand, "the one peace m universal €/Sn the settlers and the Maoris." Tho £i proposes a commission of five gentle*t of established character, for ab.hty and Sri* to revise and settle all disputed , employing native assessors to aid tfnrSiS P ortb! X comn,i«ionera. This ft Rsg* out the Hon. W Fitzherbert, a k«» nf the Executive Government of S? now in London, who politely told sirinnel Gawler that he evidently knew iSLing about the him that .tribunal, called the Native Lands Court, ?. already in existence j and insisted that the Lndonment of confiscated lands in the face Tm open rebellion would in the mghest Lree impolitic, would be interpreted by the natives as a sigmof weakness, and probably encourage fresh aggressions oa their part. reply to some strictures of "G. G. 0« the conduct of the colonists, Sir George Ore? writes to disavow the letter, lest some of hS friends should be misled by tho similarity If the initials, and think he had, under the veil of the anonymous, maligned the Meiers. There was no occasion for Sir George Grey to break silence, says "Obgoyror" who rushes into the thick of the fray and takes up tho tomahawk in defence of the Maoris, who, he contends, are merely avenging the colonial injustices and cruelties of the past*