f tliat after all, they " cared for none of these I " things." But we attribute tfr's more to the one dominant motive — the one desire which seems to engross and eat up all othej desires, however noble or patriotic, namely, that of making money. This is the mainspring almost of every act in this oolony. Men have not yot learned to call it countby. It is not their home. Their eyes unconsciously turn far away over the seas to the cradle of their race, and they as unconsoiously asso oiate the idea of liberty and constitutional Government with the geographical limits of the British isles. They are here as strangers and sojourners ; here to make |homes, no doubt, and acquire wealth; but they never bring themselves to think that they permanently belong to New Zealand,' and that this is their country and the patri mony of their children. They are English men, not New Zealanders ; and what are the laws and customs of the colony, its politics or its future to them, so long as they make money ? This feeling has been carried into politics; it has found its way into the pulpit ; it has become a recognised principle of re ligious duty ; and, in short, it pervades all classes and influences all things. Hence it is that we observe somuchapathyregardingmoral delinquency. Hence arises very questionable legislation. Hence it is that the Executive, influenced by the same time-serving principle of Mammon-worship, step out of the straight constitutional grooves, and openly declare in the Parliament of the colony that they will not hesitate to suspend the operation of our Courts, if necessary, to further their ends and aims. Such a letter as that written by Mr. Richmond to Judge Monro, if written by a responsible Minister in England to any Judge on similar grounds, would infallibly have led to his impeachment. The mere dismissal of a Minister for such a gross and unjustifiable attack upon the independence of the Judges would not have satisfied the Imperial Parliament : but in New Zealand, a "responsible Minister" not only assails the independence of the Bench, but justifies his conduct in the Legislature of the country — a free Parliament of a free people — and with the exception of one single member, Mr. Carletou, the representatives of the people are dumb. 