If this be not done, much future trouble is likely to result, and in tb^ end the Ministry might find themselves outwitted by the cunning and double dealing of the Queen's viceroy. It is not likely tho latter would readily consent to give such a written pledge. Ho does not commit him self to paper unless tho temptation be very great and the necessity very pressing. Cer tainly in some of his despatches to the Co lonial Office which have seen the light, he has set on record his own duplicity, and shown himself in Ms true colors, but this ex posure was unlooked for. It will be found that many other despatches which have been sent home, copies of which exist in the Colony, will not be printed amongst the other papers to be laid on the table of tlie House. It is said that he refused to allow.them to be published, and thus it will be some months ere the Colony can learn how much it owes to His Excellency. But tho information, though not quite complete, will yet be suf ficiently so, to enable the Assembly to come to a sound conclusion on the merits of the quarrel. Meantime, as it has been shown that the Governor is sufficiently unscrupu lous to suppress documents which it is fair enough to suppose would tell against himself,

it would be well that the new Ministry should take warning from the fact, and make^sure, that should a future quarrel arise, they will be in possession of indubitable evidence to show what the Governor had pledged hira se)f to do. There are some minor items of Auckland news which may be briefly referred to here. The recent removal of troops from Wellington and Napier, was solely the act of the Governor and the General. Wliy the removal took place at all is doubtless known to them, but to no one else. The Ministry, in the first instance, were formally consulted, but they declined to advise, conceiving that a matter of such importance should be left to their successors. As usual, his Excel cellencj' took his own way, and without hold ing any further com munication with Minis ters, sent off the Eclip se south. It is as well that in this, as in other cases, the respon sibility should rest on the right shoulders. 