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Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 31, 2 March 1853, Page 2

By the Matilda, which arrived here on Friday last, we have our files of the Wellington papers to the 9th inst. They contain a little additional English intelligence by the Alipore from London, via Dartmouth, which vessel arrived at Melbourne on the 20th ult., bringing English newspapers to the 16lh of October, two days later than those by the Beejapore given in our last publication. The English papers are principally taken up with the state of the Kevenue, which appears to be in a very healthy and prosperous state. Notwithstanding the large ameliorations which have been adopted in the repeals of past sessions for several years; the loss of nearly a million and a quarter by the substitions of the inhabited house duty for the window tax, the difficiency shews less than half the amount anticipated. The Times of the 11th October, concludes an able review of this important subject as follows i — "We presume that we shall not now have the improvement of the country denied simply because there is a decrease at the foot of the columns. No reasonable being can expect taxes to be lopped off by millions at a time, and the revenue to be wholly unaffected. If the loss to the reve-

nue is much less llian the gain to the public, that is all the prosperity we can possibly desire ; it is at least all that our financiers ever reckoned upon." Our readers will find in another column the English News brought hy this arrival. Our contemporary the Independent has a short but spirited article on the land question, and utges upon the Governor the necessity of immediately convening the Genelal Assembly, that amplf means may be devised to accommodate the pressing want ; and concludes as follows •.— "We trust, therefore, that Sir George Grey will take the matter seriously in hand and convene the General Assembly without de'ay, for we aie convinced that, if he sets about bringing the New Constitution into operation with a heatty good wi'l, and receives the co-operation of the settlers, he might do so in three months from this time/ We warmly join in the "Amen" to this proposition. We are informed, by authority in which we place inplicit reliance, that the Minerva, from B&ndon arrived at Canterbury on the sth instant, having on board Mr, E. G. Wakefield. she same authority gives us -KWmderstand that that Gentleman, so well known for the inblrat he takes in the affairs of the colony, intends to make the circuit of the settlements previous to the elections, with the view of lecturing on the Con- , stitutional enactment, a/d generally on Representative Institutions.