2 MAY 1846, Page 2

It is said that despatches from New Zealand are in

town ; but all that has reached the public is a scrap of intelligenee through the Van Diemen's Land papers--satisfactory as far as it goes. Governor Grey, it appears, has not fallen into the Missionary trap. He has even rejected the members of that lay religious order as interpreters, and has appointed an old Negro to the post ; probably with advantage to the fidelity of the translations. He was evidently acting with activity and independence. Captain Grey had formerly shown some tendency to aborigines-protection sentiments ; but he is a shrewd man and his attachment was clearly one of the head rather than of man, heart. He was therefore still his own master, not the slave of a passion.