SUPPLEMENTARY MONTHLY SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 541, 7 August 1865, Page 5

SUPPLEMENTARY MONTHLY SUMMARY.

The scheme of taking the pa with the old women in it was evidently planned with the idea of making capital at home. It is to be hoped tho British Government and tho Britisn people will be able to see through this piece of diplomacy. The elaborate despatch of his Eicellency detailing the origination, the progress, and the completion of his wonderful work is evidently written with the purpose of throwing as much obloquy as possible on a British General and on British troops, who faced the deadly heights of Alma, who nobly withstood the Russian host at Inkerman, who have fought, as their colours unfurled yesterday in the procession showed, at numerous other fields of battle, including that strife of giants at Waterloo. What contempt mu3t every true-born Briton have for any and every attempt to doubt the courage and to depreciate the qualities of its army, and yet Sir George Grey's despatch is from the first line to tho last nothing more nor less than this. A high-minded man would have been content with modestly detailing his own acts and successes, and if any blame had been justly earned by another party, would have been content to have allowed events to have clearly shown that. But a rotten and failing cause required some coup demain to rally public opiniou once more around it, and the taking of the pain question is that wonderful exploit. The Weld Ministry and the Governor catch at this straw to save their tarnished reputation, and they hope by the brazen publication of falsehoods to build up a reputation for themselves on the character of honest and able men whom they have traduced.

The late despatches of Mr. Cardwell have evidently had the effect we said they would, and it is felt at Wellington that the only chance of still firmer and plainer language not being used to both Governor and Ministry is to be found in endeavouring meanly to throw the blame of their acts on otherß, and screen themselves by such despicable measures as men only of an inferior order of mind ever resort to.

The ovation of yesterday shows how the people of Auckland view matters. The vast crowd who assembled, despite the weather, to show their respect and appreciation of the conduct of General Cameron is the best evidence that could be adduced as to nis popularity. And if it proves this, it also undoubtedly as clearly and as forcibly proves the unpopularity of' those who have opposed and thwarted him and insulted him in every possible manner. The bravo old General has not been trained in the school of Machiavelli or in that of the Frenchman who declared that "language was invented to conceal our thoughts." The lower acts of diplomacy are beneath his contempt even. He says what he means, and he means what he says, and hence he diverges from those in authority with whom he has lately been in contact. Given a proposed end, the direct and best road to that end is at once taken, and taken in an honest and open manner, by all men of open and straightforward character. Such has been the caso with General Cameron—such has not been the case with others high in office. The praise or blame of the people of Auckland could matter very little to the General, whose honours have been won in other fields than ours, but it must, nevertheless, have been gratifying to Sir Duncan Cameron to see that ingratitude did not reign in our breasts. The thousands of people who wended their way to the Albert Barracks, to witness the presentation of the address, who loudly and lustily cheered the gallant veteran on his arrival at and departure from the scene to the wharf, the crowds who preceded," attended, and followed his carriage, the loud and hearty cheers which were given by thousands of sympatheticvoices, may all have been grateful to the noble and gallant soldier who had driven rebellion from the very bordersoftheir dwellings, who had stamped out the burning embers, from at least 100 miles of difficult country, and who, had his plans been followed, would have secured peace to this distracted colony. " What will they say in h.ngland?" was a question asked by a great man at momentous time. What will they say in England ? we may ask at the present, when confusion gets here every day worse confounded, through the craft and subtelty of some, and the weakness, to use a mild term, of others. It will be hinted that the grand display yesterday was dictated by onposition to the present Ministry. We emphatically deny this. _ _ Englishmen love, above all things, to see fair play. The\ hate the success of mere chicanery and craftiness over straightforward,manly,and honorable feeling ; and we believe one great underlying cause of the great and unanimous display of feeling yesterday was the belief that a mean and dastardly attempt had been made by certain parties to filch away the good name of the Greneral and to lower him hi the eyes of his Queen and cour.iry by untruthful statements and acts of meanness unworthy of anyone professing to be even in the slightest respect a gentlemaji. May right prevail, and trickery and dishonesty speedily meet their appropriate reward. Then we might expect that order be evolved out of chaos, that the sun of peace and prosperity would shine again upon us, and there would be mutual confidence between Governors and As it is> our national character is being trained in a most vicious school. Trickery, deception, insincerity, now occupy the seats of honour, and the character of the people is in danger of being tainted by the virus being communicated from those Who sit in high places to the community in general. We heartily trust that the General j will place a plain' unvarnished statement of the shocking mismanagement of the colony before the English Government, and that then decisive steps will be taken to remove the old man of the mountain, who presses so heavily upon the shoulders of this colony, and that a new regime will be introduced, satisfactory to all, because, based on honor and honesty, and fair dealing to all. —August 2.

The demonstration made yesterday by the citizens of Auckland and by numbers of the country settlers from the surrounding districts to do honor to General Cameron on his departure from New Zealand, afforded an unmistakeable expression of public opinion in this Province. Never in Auckland on any former occaeion has there, wet together,

out of doors, so large an assemblage as tb&fe which from eleven o'clock till twelve, yesterday morning, poured in one continuous stream into the Albert Barracks by its three several portals. Not Less than seven thousand persons, it is computed, were collected yesterday to bid farewell to the General, and neither the muddy streets nor even the heavy shower which fell at the conclusion of the presentation of the address, served in any way to damp the interest of the scene. At the time when the carriage containing the General was half way down Shortland-crescent that street was filled from its junction with Queen-street to St. Paul's Church upon the hill with one [jacked mass of human beings, though for nearly a quarter of aH hour previously the stream had already set in westward to the wharf, where the nest available point for observation could be taken up. Here the horses were taken out of the shafts, and the carriage was drawn by the excited and admiring spectators to the vessel s side as she lay broadside on to the wharf. Auckland at any rate stands clearly and distinctly aloof from the mad and foolish action taken by a portion of the colony, at the instignation ot' the Governor, towards the Imperial Government and the British troops. We neither accept the responsibility which belongs moist justly to the one, nor depreciate the services and the necessity of the presence here of the other. Tne British ai-my in New Zealand has done good service. All will learn to appreciate those services when it is gone—when the duties which it has performed will fall upon each man of us in the Northern Island, in his individual capacity —when the struggle, which has been far removed from our confines, is brought to our very doors—and when the C'Uiparatively civilised warfare, hitherto waged, is changed for one carried on to the very knife. " Taihua ! till the soldiers are <jonl /" We are naturally led into this train of thought, for we look upon the departure of Sir Duncan Cameron as the first movement which betokens the breaking up of Imperial protection to the colonists from Imperial blunders. It is the Ministry and the: Governor who are bringing about this state of things, and the removal of the General was the first step necessary to take in the game which they are playing —the one for the aggrandisement of the South at the expense of Auckland, the other for the establishment of a new field for his peculiar habits and tastes—the formation of distinct native Provinces.

In the absence of the Superintendent ctf the Province, at present attending his duties in the Assembly at Wellington, the task »f presenting the address was adjudged to the Chairman of the Committee, Thos. Macfarlane, Esq. The addreas as well as the reply will be found in its proper place, in another column. We cannot, however, refrain from noticing one portion of the latter, where JSir Duncan pays a just tribute to the patriotic zeal and alacrity with which the men of the Auckland Volunteers and Militia responded to the call of duty and to the valuable assistance rendered at the commencement, and during the most critical period of the war, from the Colonial Ministers then in office, of whom the General speaks in the highest terms as " entitled to " the gratitude of the colony for the zeal, ' ability, and faithfulness with which they " discharged their onerous and responsible " duties, under unusual difficulties." This was the so-called " Auckland Ministry" against which so much has been said by Southern political intriguers. It is satisfactory to find that so high and important an officer of the Imperial Government-, and one so capable of giving a valuable opinion on this point, does not hesitate to put 011 record his views arrived at after mature deliberation, and the opportunity of subsequent comparison. This tribute to the services of the late Ministry is nothing more than the whole population of this Province, with the exception of a small and now contemptible section, ha\e long since awarded them. —.August 2.