A most important document is published in the General Government Gazette received yesterday by the Queen. It is a memoran dum from the Ministry, written by Mr Fox, and addressed to the members of the Abori gines Protection Society, who recently sent a Memorial to Sir George Grey, asking him to take the first favorable opportunity of ter minating the war by negotiation, and protes ting against the confiscation of the lands held by rebels. This memorial was submitted by the Governor to his responsible advisers — the Ministry, — and the present Memorandum is their reply. "We shall republish this docu ment in full on Tuesday, but at present we subjoin a resume of its contents. Mr JFox is of opinion " that the only two points in the letter which appear to call for any remark are. First, the hope expressed that his Excellency the Governor "would avail himself of the first favorable opportu nity of endeavoring to terminate the war by negotiation, and especially that he would listen to any overtures of peace which any of the natives who have taken up arms might make," and secondly, a protest against the confiscation of the lands of the rebel tribes." On the first point he shows very ably and clearly that the natives commenced the pre sent struggle with the expressed determina tion and confident hope that they would drive the Europeans into the sea ; that they murdered the outsettlers in the Auckland province ; that it took nearly five months to j drive them from the wooded ranges in the neighborhood of Auckland, and that now, after having been forced to evacuate one post after another till their main body has been broken up, they still defy the British troops and have made no overtures for peace. He also contends that it would be exceedingly imprudent and dangerous for ,the Govern ment to initiate such negotiations, " as it is a well-known fact that in their inter-tribal wars, the natives invariably regarded any over tuvo of peace as a sign that the party who makes it is beaten, that it is an acknow ledgment of defeat," and refers to the fact that Wm. 