The Times is greatly triumphant that the last news from
New Zealand announces everything tranquil, and asks whether this does not vindicate Lord Granville's conduct from the charges of cruelty and imprudence attributed to it. Certainly not. The last news from New Zealand came when the Maoris were getting in their potatoes, when they are always quiet, and was dated a fort- night before Lord Granville's own last peremptory despatch, wherein he withdraws the 18th Regiment, and avows his wish to compel the colonists to acknowledge the inde- pendence of the Maori King. Everyone in New Zealand attributed the calm to the success of the new Government in detaining the 18th Regiment, and when the despatch directly encouraging the Maories to think that their independence is wrongfully withheld by the colonists reaches New Zealand, we shall be able to measure the wisdom of Lord Granville, but not sooner.
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