28 MAY 1842, Page 11

The Patriot publishes a letter from Mr. Qnaife, who went

out to New Zealand as a religious minister, and editor of a newspaper, (the Bay of Islands Advertiser, we believe,) in which he declares, that, if a native who is in custody on a charge of murder should be executed, "there is every reason to expect an extensive rising of the Natives against the White settlers " ; and he attributes the state of matters to Captain Rob- son's having set up British authority, without intellectual capacity or physical means to maintain it. Mr. Quaife's newspaper was, if we are not mistaken, somewhat arbitrarily suppressed ; and it is to be hoped that his views take a morbid colouring from disappointment.