THE WAIKATO'S REFUSAL OF TERMS,

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 4, Issue 197, 29 June 1861, Page 2

THE WAIKATO'S REFUSAL OF TERMS,

[ From the Southern- Cross, June 11.]

Theeb was some little excitement in town on Saturday evening, in consequence of a report that news had arrived from Waikato that the natives were unwilling to submit to the demands of the Governor, and had expressed themselves to that effect. Much as we have always desired to see the natives recognise the necessity of submission, and thus save the country from the horrors of war, we were never sanguine on the subject ; and, though we believe no formal refusal has been received by the Government, enough has transpired as to the intentions of the natives, and the line of conduct which they intend to aQopt, to convince us that, whilst hoping for the beat, we have not been wrong in apprehending the worst — that the natives will elect for what is unmistakeably a suicidal policy on their part. A few days will prove that they have done this : that they have refused terms granted in a spirit of liberality almost Quixotic, and that they are determined to abide by the consequences of their refusal. For the present, however, we need not anticipate any overt "acts of rebellion, beyond the hoisting of King's flags in various parts of the country. The natives, whilst braving the Queen's power, are aware of the advantages derivable from their not being the first to strike a blow ; they acted on this principle at Taranaki, where, when insult and provocation had gone so far thst it became necessary to* resort to strong measures, they found Europeans ready to support them against those who, in self-defence, were forced to become aggressors. The Waikatos choose to Consider that, so long as they are not actually in arms against us, we ought to leave them to their own devices — that their country is tapu — that they may hoist what flag they like, so long as they are not fighting under it, with impunity,' In short, they consider themselves an independent nation, lately at war with us ; and they are willing to revert to the former state of things without any formal treaty of peace, because their common sense tells them that we have ( a right to demand some material guarantee that we shall not be subject to any such wanton attacks for the future. They feel that such a right must be recognised if they once enter into negociations, whilst they are totally unable, with all their ingenuity, to raise any counter claim as a set-off. They sullenly refuse to treat, and, misled probably by false friends, imagine that they cannot be dealt with in another and more summary manner.

The natives, however, have learnt from their European supporters the art of defending rebellion with pretty plausible, but very impudent arguments. They actually urge, we are iuformed on reliable authority, that their King's flag is a symbol of an authority and of a law, of which we never would give them the benefit : that we neglected our duty in this respect, and that for their own self-protection they have been obliged to undertake the duty themselves. The" idea is evidently not Maori. It smacks of a document called Renata, and a locality called Te Aute ; but it shows us what we have to expect in the struggle impending. Open savage warfare, and concealed European influence ; murder, and justified on the ground that it is committed by men anxious for social improvement and frustrated in their aspirations after it by the Queen's Government. The natives, op rather those who put their ideas'into shape, are very indignant that European law has not been introduced into their country, although they refused to receive it except in particular cases where it suited their purpose. They taunt the British Government with not having given them laws, and attempt thereby to justify their own conduct io rebelling ; forgetting that it is their own fault that law and order are at present unknown in Waikato. The British authorities in the Colony wisely abstained from attempting to enforce law till they knew that they had the power of enforcing it ; and these clever rebels, white and black, now presume on the unavoidable impunity which has hitherto followed disobedience, to tell us that we have neglected our duty, that we have not given them the. protection of the law, that they are justified in setting up a rival government, and in hoisting a rival flag.

The day has passed for such arguments. The interesting race is becoming a very dangerous race, and their interesting— we will not say interested— supporters a very objectionable set of xnen. We hppe that the Waikatos may soon be taught what it is to refuse the clemency of the Crown, and their European advocates what it is to interfere between the Crown and rebels.

The Dbad ob- I*B6o.— During/the year just closed death has been more than usually busy in the ranks of the aristocracy, the clergy, and men of letters, science, and art. The naval and military professions, too,, have .both lost several distinguished members. The following is a list of soirie' of the most prominent among them.-r-On January 3rd Lord John Scott died, aged 51 ; on the 9th of the same month the remains of Lord. t Maoaulay, the historian, were interred in Westminster Abbey; on the 15th Lord Londesborough died, aged 55 ; on the 20th Sir W. C. Ross, one of our most distinguished miniature painters, aged 66 ; on the following day Captain Harrison, commander of the Great Eastern, was drowned ; on the 23rd the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P. for Leeds, aged 60 ; and on the 30th, Dr. Todd, the celebrated surgeon, aged 66. On the Ist of February, Dr. Alexander, Director-General of the army, died ; on the 2nd Dr. T. Foster, writer on natural philosophy, aged 70 j on the 3rd , Sir T. S. Brisbane, astronomer, aged 86 ; on tbe 4th Captain Moorsom, inventor of the celebrated shells ; on the 12th Sir William Napier, the military historian, aged 74 ; on the 16th the Bishop of Rochester, aged 76; on the 20th Mr. H. Drummond, M.P. for West Surrey, aged 73. On the 12th March Mr. Baron Watson died suddenly, while' presiding at the Montgomery assizes, at Welshpool, aged 64 ; on the 14th the Countess Granville j on the 16th, M. Jullien ;.on thel7th Mrs. Jameson, tbe authoress, aged 66 ; and on the 27th the Earl of Longford. On the Ist of April Colonel Mure, author of The Literature of Greece, &c, died j on the 13th Mr. John Finlaison, the actuary, aged 77 j and on the 18th Dr. -Andrew Amos, Professor of Law at Cambridge. On the 4th of May, Dr. Musgrove, Archbishop of York, died, aged 72 ; on the 12th Sir Charles Barry, aged 65; on the 19th Lady Byron, widow of the poet ; on the 23rd Mr- Albert Smith, on the 30th Mr. S. GV Goodrich, known as " Peter Parley" ; and on the 31st Lord Heytesbury, aged 81. On the 3rd of June Field- Marshal the Earl of Stafford, died, aged 82 3 on the 9th Mr. G. P. R. James, the novelist; on the 11th the Rev. Baden Powell ; and on the 26th Mr. R. B. Brough, the author. On the- 19th of July Lord Elphinstone, late Governor of Bombay, died, aged 53 ; and on the 31st Miss "Vandenhoff, the celebrated actress. On the 2nd of August Sir George H. Ward died, aged 65 ; on the 3rd General Sir H. Wyndham, M.P. for West Cumberland, aged 70 ; on the 11th the Right Hon. James Wilson, Finance Minister of India, aged 55 ; on the 24th Mr. Jesse Hartley, engineer, aged 80 ; and on the 27th the Dowager Countess - of Craven,"" formerly known in the Theatrical world as Miss Brunton, aged 78. On the Ist of September, Mrs. Yates, the actress, aged 61, having survived her aunt, the Dowager Countess of Craven, only three days ; on the 7th Sir G. Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company ; on the Bth Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P., proprietor of the Illustrated London News, in consequence of the steamer Lady Elgin being run into by a schooner on Lake Superior ; on the 13th Mr. Jardine, magistrate at Bow-street ; on the 18th Mr. Joseph Lock, civil engineer, and M.P. for Honiton ; and on the 29th the Rev. Dr. Alexander Fletcher, the eminent Dissenting minister. On the Ist of October M. Ebenezer Landelle, the wood-engraver ; on the 4th Mr. A. F. Chalon, R.A., aged 80 ; on the 12th General Sir Harry Smith, aged 72 ; on the 21st the Duke of Richmond, aged 69, and on the same day Lord Manvers, aged 82 ; and on the 31st the Earl of Dundonald, aged 84. On the 6th of November Admiral Sir Charles Napier, aged 74 ; on the Bth the Bishop of Worcester, aged 77, and Sir Charles Fellows, the arcbEeologist ; on the following day Alderman Wire ; on the 11th Mr. George Scharf, the artist, aged 72, and General Lygon, Colonel of the 13th Dragoons ; on the 24fch Dr. Croly ; and on the following day the Duke of Norfolk. On the Ist of December Si* H. Marsh, M.D., and Lord Rossmore ; on the 6th Lady A. K. Murray; on the 10th Sir T. D. Legard ; on the 12th Major- General Freke Williams, aged 68. on the 14th the Earl of Aberdeen, aged 76 ; on the 18th Alderman Sir G. Carroll, aged 76 ; on the following day the Marquis Dalhousie; oh the 20th ! Mr. Alfred Bunn, for many years lessee of Drurylane Theatre, and Lieutenant- General Willes, aged 71 ; on the 25th the Earl of Wexborough, aged 77 ; on the 26th the Rev. Dr. Thompson, rector of Lincoln College ; and on the 31st the Countess of Eglington. — The Times, Jan. 8.

Ancient Hate-Dressing-.— But the women outvied the men in the exaggeration of their headgear. In early times, the times of knight and squire and historic fable, they plaited their hair into long pendant tails, which they then put up snugly into silken cases, not unlike our umbrella cases ;- a little later, in Chaucer's time, they wore cauls of golden net-work adorned with jewels, and every woman with any pretensions to beauty had yellow hair, which she dyed to the required shade when nature had been perverse, and given them chesirut for gold. They oscillated between flowing curie, or smoother tresses hidden carefully away under golden cauls and hoods with long liripipes like monkeys' tails, until Elizabeth's time, when, with one accord, they concealed their locks beneath nets and caps, save on their weddiagday, when the tresses flowed free and wide, unconfined by coif or caul. Elizabeth powdered her hair with gold dust, cud rolled it over cushions, and heaped up her head with jewels and finery,, till she made herself what women call a fright ; but Marie Stuart knew the alphabet of beauty too well for that, and fashioned one of the prettiest head-dresses ever worn. The ladies of James the First's time wore curls in inverted pyramids, descending in huge waves of hairy increase down to the falling band or collar; and the ladies of Charles the Second's time took a- simpler t.urrij and revelled in ereve-coßurs, and favorites, love- • locks, confidents, and ringlets, as we all know by heart and Sir Peter Lely. Some dressed their heads tavre fashion ; that is, hußhed out at the brow, like a bull's head; and some had" wire frames over which they rolled their hair, till they made huge fat puddings at each side of the face, then they put high plaited turrets on their heads, towering in' three stages; and then came the, monstrous ugliness pf the eighteenth century. Stiff with pomatum and powder, strained and pinned and puffed out in all directions, hung about with huge glass beads, and ropes and coils

of golden cord, and piled up with ribbons and flowers and feathers, the women framed their heads' into objects of utter ugliness, unlike anything in heaven or earth. A lady's head at that time" took many hours to dress, aud lasted from three to nine weeks unopened. It is scarcely necessary to say in what state it was usually found when that period of investigation arrived. All .sorts of strange things were then worn as ornaments. A sow and litter of pigs in blown glass, a coach, a chair and chairmen, a waggon, two or dishes of fruit— nothing was too preposterous for a lady to»wear, lost behind the curls and in the powder and pomatum of her head ; - while a huge hat, top-heavy with feathers and gauze, was stuck on all this ugliness — the gauze lappets sometimes worked with aces of spades, hearts, clubs, and diamonds, which then gave the name of " quadrille heads" to these conglomerations. The more fashionable of both sexes used coloured hair powder; and Charles J^mes Fox went back to the time of the Picts and Danes, when he flourished about town with his red-heeled shoes, chapeau bras, and blue hair-powder. — All the Year Mound.

ExTBAORDINARY CONVICTION OS A CLERGYMAN dt Maitland, N.S.W.— The Rev. ¥m. Chaucer was indicted for having, at Newcastle, on the 24th January, feloniously signed and transmitted to the District Registrar at Newcastle, a certificate of marriage, containing false statements, viz., that he had celebrated a marriage between Samuel Thompson and Ann Kittridge, on the 24th Jan., 1861, in the presence of Mary Ann Kittridge, the mother, whereas the marriage did not take place on the 24th, but on the 22nd, and Mary Ann Kittridge was not present. The prisoner was undefended. Prom the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Chaucer, who was a Presbyterian minister at Newcastle, and registered as a person authorised to celebrate marriage, brought, on the 24th Jan., to the District Register at Newcastle a certificate between Samuel Thompson and Ann Kittridge, purporting to have been celebrated on that date ; both documents were in Mr. Chaucer's handwriting, and on the back of the declaration was a memorandum to the effect that the bride declared herself to be twenty-one years of age, signed by Mr. Chaucer. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Kittridge were present on the occasion. Two days after the marriage the mother, at Mr. Chaucer's request, signed the certificate, Mr. Chaucer addressed the jury, and said that he performed the marriage on the 22nd January, believing that Ann Kittridgewas twenty-one years of age ; but when he heard that she was not that age the marriage was celebrated again, and her mother having expressed a wish to be a witness she was present and put her name to the certificate. The second marriage was celebrated on the 24th January; thecertifi-" cate bearing date the 22nd January was not available to show the mother's sanction, and consequently a certificate was made out for the- 24th; the first marriage could not be undone, and he (Mr. Chaucer) had been imposed upon by the girl and all her relations. What he (Mr. Chaucer) did was to meet Mrs. Kittridge's wish, and with no intention to deceive. The jury returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy ; and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned in Darlinghuret gaol for a period of twelve calendar months with hard labor.

Caxijng a Spade a Spade. — Thc^members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales have fallen into such an objectionable habit of nailing things and persons by their right name, that we shall not feel surprised if the whole tone and temper of the debates in that branch of the Legislature underwent a radical change. The insincere and conventional " honourable gentleman " or " honourable member " will most likely be dropped, and senatorial discussions will probably take the following form : — Mr. A. observed with reference to what had fallen from the hoary old humbug over the way that -he was entirely mistaken. He (Mr. A.) had never supported the proposition for a repeal of the import duty on asses... Mr. B : Not in Parliament, perhaps, but if the pig-headed old pump would only call to his recollection the time when, as a humble costermonger, he retailed his turnips and onions... Mr. C appealed to the venerable bloke in the chair whether that superannuated sweep, the member for Budgerygar, was in order, in alluding to turnips and onions... The Speaker said that according to the recently adopted forms of the House, every member was perfectly in order in saying anything he chose... Mr. B thanked the worthy buffer for his ruling, and proceeded to say that the pig-headed old pump, when he used to drive a moke in the streets of Sydney, was very anxious to enhance its value, by preventing the importation of other donkieß...Mr. A: That's a sanguinary whopper... Mr. B : You're another... Mr. D was of ooinion

that the disputants' were a couple of cantankerous crocodiles, and ought to fight it out in the domain

...Mr. E moved an adjournment of the House for that purpose. He preferred, pugilism to palaver ; he did ; and didn't care a sanguinary rap for the .whole sanguinary boiling of them (hear, hear, from several coves in the benches).. '. Mr. A had no objection to any course that might be proposed. He could give the dirty ruffian opposite a sanguinary pounding with one hand tied behind him...

Mr. B : Walker... At this stage of the proceedings, and just as the motion for an adjournment was about to be put, the House was counted, and the members proceeded forthwith to the domain. We have despatched our sporting reporter to the scene of the fight. — Melbourne Punch.

Pbaotioaii Joking- by' Temg-eaph. — Some ten years or more ago there was upon the New York and Washington Telegraph line, at the Philadelphia station, an operator named Thayer, who, besides being an adept at the business, was a gentlemen 'of culture and wit, and exceedingly fond of a joke, ho matter at what expense. At the New York terminus of the line there was, on the contrary, a steady matter-of-fact sort of man, who was no appreciator of jokes, and never practised them. The president of the line was the Hon. B. B. French, for many years, clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington, a wit, poet, and humorist. Of course, he appreciated humour whenever he came across it. Thayer took it into his head ona day to send a despatch to some fictitious name in New York, for the purpose of enjoying a laugh at the expense- of the operator at New York, Ac-

cordingly he composed and forwarded the following:—"Philadelphia, April, 1846. To Mr. Jones, New York. — Send me ten dollars at once, so that I can get my clothes. (Signed) Julia. " Thirteen words, collect thirty-four cents." The operator at New York, not suspecting any joke, asked the Philadelphia operator for the address. The Philadelphia operator replied that "the lady did'nt leave any ;" and asked him to look in the directory for it. The New York operator replied that he had already done so, but as there were over fifty Joneses in the directory, he was at a losg to know which to send it to. "If that is the case," says Thayer, " you had better send a copy to each of them, and charge thirty-four cents a-piece." The New York operator did so, and I will give the result of the arrangement in the words of the President, Mr. French, from whom, a few days after the affair, Mr. Thayer received the following letter :— " New York, April 4, 1846. Mr. Thayer. — Sir, — A few days since you sent a despatch purporting to be from- "Julia," addressed to Mr. Jones, New York. The New York operator informed you that he desired an address, as there were upwards of fifty Joneses in the directory, and was at a loss to know which one of them it was designed for. You replied that in that case he must send a copy to every one of them and charge upon each : and the operator in New York in the innocence of his heart, did so. Some twenty of the Joneses paid their despatches ; but there was one sent to the residence of an elderly merchant of that name, who, being away from home when it arrived, it was opened by his wife, and was the occasion of a very unpleasant domestic scene. Mr. Jones has been to see me in relation to the matter, and threatens to sue the company for damages, taking the thing \erj much to heart. " Now this is all very funny and a good joke, and I have laughed at it as heartily as anybody; but you had better not try it again, or any of the rest of the operatives upon the line, if you value your situations." — Canadian Prototype. The eeal Chaeacteb of Louis Napoieon. — We have always taken a view of Louis Napoleon's character somewhat different from that which commonly prevails. He is usually supposed to be a supernaturally far-sighted man, who lays his. plans long beforehand, matures them in silence, profoundly calculates the means necessary for their execution, and adheres to them through all difficulties and accidents with inflexible tenacity. We have always maintained, on the contrary, that he is a man of very ordinary capacity, terrible to the world only because he happens to hold the trigger which would fire a destructive mme — restlessly addicted, indeed, to conspiracies, cunning, and, up to a certain point, inventive, but very far from long-sighted or profound in his calculations, wanting in promptness of decision, and somewhat infirm of purpose. The dagger of the Carbonari, levelled at his breast, sent him to Italy : but he never knew exactly what he would do when he got there, as his recent bewilderments have sufficiently proved. The conventional view of his genius required that his conduct towards the Italians during the last six months should be styled "inscrutable"; and it was styled inscrutable accordingly. But it was, in fact, only perplexed and wavering. One line of action was all the time crossing another line of action, and both were marred by the complication. We do not doubt that the Emperor's head is full of schemes — the accumulation of a life of plots and of long broodings in solitary imprisonment ; but we doubt whether he has any grand plan or whether he even understands the Europe in which he is acting, and which is not that of the First Empire. He has intrigues going on everywhere — in Hungary, in Spain, in Belgium, in the Rhine Pro*vinces, in Turkey, in Egypt, with the seditious Irish press, with a factious leader of the English Opposition. He strives at influence for himself on all sides ; but we suspect that, like a magpie stealing spoons, he scarcely knows what use is, to be made of all this influence when it is accumulated. — Saturday Review.

How to put on Coaxs. — The smoke of the million chimneys of London has . stagnated over the metropolis, causing a most remarkable darkness. Of fog there has been little or none, although the phenomenon has been called a fog. Intensely cold, millions of coal scuttles of coals have been thrown on to the millions of fires, and the chimneys have smoked Veil. What would have prevented nineteen-twentieths of this smoke ? This most simple remedy — namely, before you. throw on coals, pull all the fire fco the front of 'the grate towards the bars, fill up the cavity at the back with the cinders or ashes which will be found under the grate, then throw on the coals. The gas evolved in the process of roasting the coals will be absorbed by the cinders — will render them, in an increased degree combustible. The smoke will thus he burnt, and a fine glowing, smokeless fire will be the result. This rule should be enforced from the kitchen upwards. — Letter in the Times.

Death fbom Animax Poison. — On the 14th March a shepherd named James Dooley, aged 55 years, in the employ of Mr. Andrew Loder, of Liverpool Plains, skinned a sheep in his (Dooley's) son's flock which had died during the night. In doing so he cut his left hand near the thumb rather severely ; but although Beveral sheep had previously died, one by one in the flock, no partiticular disease was supposed to affect them and Dooley felt no alarm at the wound. He chewed some tobacco and applied it to the out and shepherded his flock as usual. The wound got worse, however, and the pain began to affect his head, the swelling having gone up his arm and to his shoulder ; and on the 19th, last Tuesday, ha sent to Murrurundi for Dr. Gordon. The doctor dressed the wound and advised him to come into Murrurundi for treatment: he did 60, and Dr. Gordon then advised him to go on to the Maitland Hospital without delay. This Dooley and his wife did by coach, and they reached the hospital on Friday morning last. Here he was seen by Drs. Douglas and Wigan, and they applied what remedies were then possibly although by that time it was seen that the case had become hopeless. Dr. Mullins attended closely to the case after admission, but the poor man sunk and died on Saturday evening. An inquest was held early on Sunday morning and the above facts given in evidence. The jury returned a verdict of "died from the absorption of animal poison." — Maitlani Mercury. , .