I have already given you the terms of Mr. Russell's resolutions, aa they were first annonnced ; but it shonld be noticed that, in the second edition, he modified them a little. He had required, before on adjustment of the dobt between "the several provinces" of the colony; now it became " between the North and Middle Islands." At first he had not stated what sort of two colonies he proposed to constitute, but left it inferentially to mean Auckland and Taranaki on one side of the line, and all the rest of the provinces on the other ; now he put in the words "at Cook's Straits," so as to moam distinctly a separation of the islands.
