The unfortunate New Zealanders are living in the profound con-
fidence that no sooner will their promise to pay, on the old terms, for the regiment now in New Zealand be made known to Lord Granville, than all opposition to the continuance of the 18th Regi- ment will be immediately withdrawn. Nay, the Times' correspondent in New Zealand expresses his amazement at the sensation which Lord proposal. This was to elect the Duke of Genoa, a lad of fifteen, Granville's despatch of the 21st May created amongst the friends cousin of Victor Emanuel, to the vacant throne. Of the 300 of the colony at home, hinting that while the colony adopted the members of the Cortes only 180 attended, and of these only 117 self- reliant policy and ignored the 140 per man which they owed voted in favour of the General's nominee. A second ballot raised the mother country for the soldiers, the Government at home was the numbers a little, but the final division showed only 141 in its quite right to deal cavalierly and even sharply with them. Now, favour, 30 less than the 171 required to constitute a bare majority, however, he says, writing on the 4th September, "now that this Prim, however, declared that he would persist, and the Unionists, policy is reversed by the deliberate policy of the Assembly, and who are pledged to the Duke de Montpensier, retired from the payment is proffered for every redcoat who may be stationed here, Cabinet, thus declaring the compromise by which the Revolution we cannot doubt what the immediate result of the further reference was effected at an end. The General has for the moment filled his will be." Unhappy colonists ! Perhaps they will distrust their Cabinet from his own party, and Serrano has not resigned the own insight into the temper of the Colonial Office a little more, Regency ; but the secession of the Unionists leaves the dominant when they receive Lord Granville's peremptory intimation that the party without a majority, either in the country or the army, and very object of withdrawing all military aid is to compel the recog- almost; compels compels Prim to seek new allies. He cannot find them in nition of Maori independence and the restoration of the confiscated Florence, and will, we imagine, be driven by the mere necessities lands !
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