We have spoken seveial times aheady of the course that ought to be pin sued by those in authority regarding the exposed out-settlers, and we can only lepeat now that the Government have never been asked to do more for the best and most trust worthy of English settlers than they are now doing for Maoris, so-called friendly, but who are at any moment liable to be found fight"ig, as so many weie at Taranaki, on the wrong side. Let them — we say it again — give the settlers the levolveis and rifles, and they will not only need no Maori allies to guard them, but will themselves keep the Maoris, friendly or otherwise, in ,i very satisfactory state of quiesoencc. It is the greatest msiVt imaginable to the Jjiitish colonists of this country to act as if they wanted any native to protect them ; give them arms, and they -vullbe far moie than a match, man for man, for the native them selves. Yet this, is not the full extent of what is done when fiieanns are placed in native hands that are denied to English ones. The conclusion at once is that an uncivilized native is a man moie woithytobeti listed with weapons than an honest English settler. Can anything be more insulting to the settlei s % can anything be more disgraceful to the Government '

The news from T«wvnaki, of which the anival of H M.S. ' Eclipse ' has placed us in posses sion, is of but little moment, and will be found in another column. One thing, howevei, we learn connected rather with Auckland than T.uanaki, that the Government have for some leason withdi.iwn a laige pait of the available force at the seat of war, and have apparently given as their only reason for so doing that an outbreak was immi nent at Waikato. This is unquestionably the only reason assigned at Taianaki and f,s un questionably no one here will believe it to be the true cause of the movement. What the real cause may be, whether an attack is medi tated upon the Waikato which seems most improbable, or whether the Government really have some secret cause to foar an attack in foice fioin. 