THE PROVINCIAL FIX. To the Editor of the Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIV, Issue 1005, 13 February 1857, Page 3

THE PROVINCIAL FIX. To the Editor of the Southern Cross.

Sir, — The present position of the Provincial Government renders it imperative on every right thinking man to give a free and full expression of opinion upon the present state of affairs as they now stand between that body and the Provincial Co-mcil, pirticularly as the plain matters of fact connected therewith have been so represented in the Superintendent's newspaper as do not at all amount to tiuth. For example, in the New Zealander's leader of Saturday last, it is stated "that the Provincial Council met again yesterday afternoon, but separated after a two hours' profitless sitting, without any thing having been done to retrieve the Council from the false position into which it h.is been brought through the ill-judged partizanship of the Speaker, and the factious tactics of th,e opposition ;'• or as he f the editor} gives it further on, "the, intrigues of disappointed placemen, as a conspiracy to prevent inquiry," &c. Now, Sir, let me ask, is not such a statement as the above an attempt on the part of his Honor's newspaper to place the Council and the Speaker in a false position before the public ? It will be seen that the statement referred to is falsehood from beginning to end. Was it not in obedience to his Honor's message that the Council took any cognizance at all of the disputed seat ? and is not the present occupancy of that seat by Mr. D. Graham the plain and most common place result ? How it is that his Honor can thus construe the legitimate ef feet of his own message into partizanship of the Speaker, to intriguing of disappointed placemen, or to any conspiracy on the part of hon. members, I am at a loss to conceive. Perhaps his Law Adviser can solve the difficulty. Instead, Sir, of the Council standing in a false position to the Superintendent, he has placed himself in a false and absolutely ridiculous position towards them. With regard to the second writ, it ought never to have been issu< d, because it is founded upon a resignation which could not in any justice take place. How could Dr. Pollen resign that which he, as being found in the minority, never could have possessed r Who but the veriest ass could not foresee the confusion which, as a matter of coursp, has resulted fiom it ? It is also stated in the same leader, that the General Government will not interfere to settle a dispute which belongs solely to the Province. This is another attempt to throw dust in our eye--. How can the writer possibly know the mind of the General Government upon the subject, unless his Honor has already applied for a dissolution, and, as we have been informed, received no other answer than that, as the Government have got themselves into difficulties, they must just get out of them the best way they can ? But, Sir, how it is possible to get rid of these difficulties in any other way than by a dissolution, I cannot conceive. Suppose that for this purpose Captain Daldy should resign, his Honor would be compelled to issue a new writ for the election of another to supply his place, seeing he has been gazetted as the duly elected member. Or suppose that his Honor resign, the same difficulties still remain which have been created by him. and by him alone. It thus appears evident to my mind at least, that a dissolution is inevitable, and that the Province must soon be plunged into the expensive excitement and demoralising effects always attendant upon an election, not to speak of the injurious effects to the communify w hich must result from the present confusion to which we have been brought by the paitizanship of his Honor, advocated by his unconstitutional partisans. Hoping, "Sir, that a better state of things may soon exist, I have, &c, ? Walter McCaul. : % Auckland, Feb. 9, 18-57.