(FROM "LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.")

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2238, 22 September 1864, Page 6

(FROM "LLOYD'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.")

England has aluajs ,1 nai on hand. She may hold hcisJt apaitfiom Euiopoan conflicts , but she cannot, vpivucntly, keep hei=elf cleat- of little wits At this pifeol time she is engaged in a bloody conflict with llu natnes of New Zealand, that 13 costing liei the bloo 1 of some of hoi best soliliei<s, ami will make a ie?p n ctible figme m tho expenditiue of this and ne\t ytu. home thoimmU of our picked foot suldieis iie doing battle with tho Mnous Ihese M.xous ate not poor, weak and ignoiant ciea tine--, who ate the easy \ictims of the cmhsed and scientific soKhet. Out leccnfc news fiom New Zealand warns uu 3 — and not for the fiist time— th it wo aio engaged in a conflict with a 1 ice that is biave, deteunipcul, and skilful And what is out quaitel with them? We aie h>;htmg to w tench ftom tliem the land they have been bom to legaid as llitu ow n , wo aie the invadois who would 10b them of tho soil that feeds Hiemselves and then childten ; and wo have no other evplan ition of the outnge than th it might is on out side, and must, in the end, pievail. In ICuiopo, we take the pait of any opptes^ed nation that stiugglcs to hold itself upon the soil of its natniry ; we sympathise \\M\ tho Polo, the Magyai, and tho Itili.m; but as colonists we have no pity Why aie we waging a bloody and cosily w ar \\ ith the New Zeahiudeio at the piesent moment ? Wliy aie we called upon to \oto a million stm ling in cuppoll of this wai ? Is it one waged foi the piotection of the people of om i ice who aio settled in New Zealand ' Aie wo fighting to pi event oiu biotheis fioin being dtiven into the sea' The wai has, unhappily, no such justification We ate fighting to satisfy the gieed of the land-jobbsi. To <-ihsfy him, we aio spilling English blood in in unholy ejideivoui to dine the brown man fiomlhe lmd which is his heutagc, and foi whioh he is wilotously contending against n*. The veiy arms winch om 31.10 U enemies aie using me weapons which have been sold to them by the men who would now depnvc them of their land. A justification is sotight foi us in the old dictum that the blown man raiiit loticat bufoic the white man— that tho savage must fdlbick befoie the onwaul matches of civilisation Let us giant with Mi. Roebuck that the Jisappeaiance of the biown man, wheie the white man appears, is a l.iw of natuio , do we, theiefote, instify the extei initiation of the n itive at the point of tho bayonet ' Do we, when we beoome colonists, pait with justice and with moicy ' Because the blown man cannot hold liii) own against tho cunning of the white man, aio we justified m duving cold steel into him? "Make the misety of tho New Zealandeis," sajs Mi. Koebuck, "shott and shaip" Is this the law of civilised ,md Chiistlan men ? Wo are mvadcis and conquoiois of temtotle3 of the New Zoalandei ; and wo aie to butcher him, forsooth, l)i cause we cannot peisuade him to give np the Lmd, which has 1 clonged to his raco from time immemorial, without a inmmur or a struggle This miy be tho law of tho strong, but, mosTassiu edly, it is not that of the just Mt. Cobden took a breeches-pocket view of tho question, when he asked why the mother countiy should be called upon to pay, not only in tho blood of her picked soldieis, but in tieasuie nKo, foi this land wai, that is waged in behalf of land jobbeis He elicited no satisfactoiy answer to his question— no satisfaeloiv answet to it being possible. The wiong we ate dom«' will ba consummated, cost what it ma, ; and the white man will once moie boast th it he lus made the miseiy of the biown man "shoit and shaip."

Consul e usually spates |ho l.ivcn and the owl, b'lt the pool- wlulo dove ludbettci bewaic Woman lost us one Pu.idisc, but the cau easily make another \vhoic\ei sho t;oo3. Mowcis.ue beautiful thoughts that giow out of the giouml, and seem to talk to us. P.itionca 19 Iho f,ti oncost of bliong dunks, for ifc kills lho £»nnt T)csp.nr. Jfc lcriiiucd loss stic ii£;lli of clmactci' to do a grave act 111 souict than to bi.igof it affcei wauls. Why is a glutton liko a, ghost '—Because he's alw >ys a ' A single w oman has rrcnetally a binqlo pmpoao, and wo ,i'l know what tluit i^ Thcio'a 110 uso in youi o\ or taking a lazy niau to taak, He wou't perform it if you do.