4 JANUARY 1845, page 51

Mr. Stephen.

Is the Twelfth Report by the Directors of the New Zealand Company occurs the following passage, describing the last of a series of tricky proceedings by the Colonial Office :—......

Lord Stanley.

All " Chief Secretaries for the Colonies" are but agents in Parliament and in public for the Colonial Office—that is, for the man who "writes what is written ;" and none has......