The address made the Council concur with his Excellency in believing that tha result of General Chute's campaign was to convince the Maoris" that the British soldier can follow them to their fastnesses, and is nowhere to be success fully resisted;" and that the natives will for the future " recognise tftat acts of violence cau no longer be committed with impunity." Mr. Mantell said that if His Excellency had furnished the Council with the doubtless convincing evidence on which his own belief was founded, the Council would of course believe also, and express at ouce a concurrence, with his Excellency. But in the absence of these proofs, he for one was not prepared to do more than rejoice that the Governor could entertain such plea sant beliefs. Mr. Mantell's knowledge of facts, of coarse, must be inferior to his Ex cellency's, who would never have expressed himself so strongly without the best reasons; but till he knew what those conclusive rea sons were, Mr. Mantell could not help being influenced in his belief by the facts which he had hitherto crasidered true. In General Chute's campaign, the force was marched to Taranaki by the bush track behind Mount Egmont, in company with fifty friendly natives. They took six days to accomplish the distance, which is ordinarily done in twenty-four hours. And the friendly natives had told Mr. Mantell that, but for then- help, the soldiers would never have got through at all. This' fact, he said, did not lead him to the conclusion that the frlendiy natives, at least, believed " that the British soldiers could follow them to tlieir fastnesses, and was no where to be successfully resistedat which tho solemn Council laughed. Then, said Mr. Mantell, the force returned by the coast road; and tho natives marked, as was their custom, tho pahsj and property of friendly persons and tribes by which they passed, so as to preserve them from destruc tion. Among others, they so marked the property of William KingTe Matakateu, a most friendly chief, who had remained our ally throughout the troubles, though sur rounded by rebels. Notwithstanding the mark, as Hori Kingl, the leader of the native contingent, told Mr. Mantell, the soldiers destroyed the pah and all Matakatea's pro perty, and alienated that faithful man from us, perhaps for ever. 