lrm Ssalanit.—War has recommenced in New Zealand. The na- tives
are determined to draw their organization closer under a native king, and threatened Auckland, so that on the 21st of May the Go- vernor issued a proclamation, announcing that he cannot suffer this state of things to continue, and must carry by force the following terms : 1. That every man yield implicit obedience to what the law, which is the same for all, prescribes for the public wel- fare. 2. That rights be sought and protected through the law, and not by a man's own will and strength. No man in the Queen's dominions is permitted to enforce rights, or redress wrongs, by force ; he must appeal to the law. 3. That men do not enter into combinations for the purpose of preventing other men from acting, or from dealing with their own property, as they think fit. Tins is against the law. 4. That every man, European or native, under the Queen's sovereignty, submit to have roads and bridges made on his land, wherever the public convenience requires them. But land can only be taken for these purposes under lawful authority, and on pay- ment of a reasonable compensation.
There are five thousand European troops in New Zealand, and it seems certain that the natives must be finally defeated. A couple of thousand Sikh cavalry imported from India would make the process a very rapid one.
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