We hear of our army being engaged half their time in carrying provisions, shot and shell to one place and another. Just so: the army is crushed by its own impedimenta. The idea of dragging an 80 cwt. gun to the field at Tauranga was utterly absurd, to batter a work which could have been sufficiently battered by a couple of 6-pouuder Armstrongs.' The whole thing is a misconoep tion of how to apply the scientific machinery of war. From the first it was clear that there was a want of brain work. Provisions were carted lip 4ii miles ftotn Auckland to the Redoubt in waggous drawn by 6, 8, or 10 horses, and a man to evftry two horses, which any contracting house in Melbourne or Sydney woul I have put down by the Waikato river at a very small cast. For a longtime 1000 horses were stalled in and round Auckland doing this most absurd work. So it seems to have been throughout The difficulty in supplying the army in the front see us to us perfectly incomprehensible, with anything like iutelligent management. Iftlieamy had been diggers instead of soldiers, and the transport had been effected by ordinary carters and boat men, instead of gentlemeo in the Commissariat or Land Transport Corps, the difficulties would have been conquered. And with the sluggish ness of the Commissariat there has been a cor responding want of "go" in all the movements of the army. The Waikato regiments, of which there was so much talk, have been, compara tively speaking, made little use of. It may be that the policy of tbe Ministers has contributed to this result; and that if General Cameron hud had iv view beating tbe natives rapidly aud successfully, so as to bring them to terms and make peace, be could have accomplished that object as surely as he has the military occupa tion of the country, so as to make good ail he siezes in accordauce with the military settle ment policy. That ths temper of the colony is rapidly changing, and that even the thinking men of Auckland are dissatisfied with even the state of affairs, tbe article to which we have re ferred is sufficient evidence." The Lyttelton Times has an excellent article on the same subject, which if less eloquent, is infinitely more sensible, than those of the Press. 