NAPIER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 238, 17 August 1864, Page 3

NAPIER.

By tlie s s. 'Beautiful Star,' which aarived from Napier yesterday morning, we have Hawke's Bay papers to the 13th inst. The news of the Tauranga submission and the terms accorded to the rebels had been received in that Province, and had given rise to a feeling of general uneasiness, as a repetition of the hollow peaco of Taranaki. Alluding to the vile attempts made to slander the colonists and their Government, the Heralcl contains the following pertinent remarks : • I " Those people familiar with the home journals need net to bo reminded of the virulent abuse and base inueudocs which are perpetually heaped upon her Majesty's advisers, by journalists th ° odltor of the Da'ih/ Telegraph, or writers ot the stamp o Gold win. Smith, or clerical Thersites, like Oinon I\l '2s oil- Offensive and revolting as this must bo to men who arc conscientiously endeavouring to e*rrc

". "iTl&it. ,io\nitty lo th'o tost of . their ability and judffTOeht'.'. jts niischisvoua results are comparatively ! trlvii»l ''<6 the ill effects' produced in a small and ecAttered population spread over a large extent of country, such as the Northern Island of New Zealand for instance, where onr public men have duties ■ to discharge at this crisis of such an onerous and at fthe same "time of snch a delicate nature, that it is , impossible but that the public service .should suffer detriment, when -our Minister.-" are exposed to such continuous misrepresentation and imalignant slander as we see vomited by the. Canter- : ."bury X'rcss or tho Auckland 'Xeio Zealander,, upon "Messrs. Fcx or Whitaker. Surely it was competent for Mr. Fox.or Sir George Grey, vipon perceiving rthe utter fiiiluro of tho moral suasion s\stem in •governing the Maoris, *0 adopt ft sterner method of .d vith the turbulent aborigines, as it was right .dignified and honorable in Sir Robort Peel to forogo Ihis own preposessions, and nt. at the sacrifice of all lie held dear in private friendship, to obey the undisguised expression of the popular will, to carry out those measures deemed essential to his country's best interest*. Doubtless the Fox-Whitaker Ministry, if only firm to their own expressed convictions -with Inspect to the only mode of settling the Maori difficulty, will meet -with the same reward of public •esteem and affection which ultimately consoled poor Sir Robert Peel for his noble sacrifice. To our poor judgment it appears that thoso porsons who as public "journalists or as private individuals aro for over foroiking the ninth commandment, should be hold in fls ujuii reprobation as the robber or adulterer."