The fond partiality which the De partment has exhibited for its pet monarch, has been a striking proof of the inhoront snobbery which underlies tho surface of human nature. Native Ministers, Commis sioners, and the whole horde of interpreters and dependants, whose name is legion, have loved to bask in the sunshine of a .savage Court, as if it shed some sort of borrowed lustre on themselves. They have been accustomed to regard the Maori King with a species of llunkeyfied veneration, to magnify his importance in the eyes of Europeans, to mention his name in fear and trembling, and to surround a pig-stye Court with an apochryphal atmosphere of dignity, elegance, and refinement. The notes of interviews of Native Commissioners have been spiced with a vein of the Arabian Nights, Munchausen, or Mungo Park. Native Oifice Officials, from the head of the Department down to the office boy, in their peregrinations into kiugland, have invested themselves with all the mock dignity of special plenipotentiaries to the "Court of Te Kuiti." But there has been a method in all this rank flummery and foolery, apart from the gratification of personal vanity, and the inflated greatness and self-sufficiency that comes of being a guest at Court, and hob nobbing with a King. Tawhiao has been more King of the Native Department than of the Maoris. True, there has been no formal oath of allegiance, but fulsome adulation, secret support, and sub serviency to his every whim and caprice, have made the Native officials as much his subjects as if they had sealed it by all the the oaths known to Christendom. Tawhiao and the half-do/en astute tatterdamalions who compose his cabinet par excellence, have not been slow to discern the position of affairs, and to turn it to good account. Tho Kingites and the Native Department saw that they could be of use to each other, that their interests were co-existent, and, without a word of expressed agreement, they naturally fell into their respective positions, and by a tacit understand in"' played into each others hands. 