Ministers are fully impressed with the Re lief that no more unfortunate mistake can be made than that the Colonists should at the close of the present war smart under the be lief that they have been sacrificed to his Excel lency's dread of the judgment of his country and posterity, and that injustice has been done ,to them in order to secure to him a character for clemency at their expense. To leave Ihe two race*, when her Majesty's Imperial troops are withdrawn, standing opposite to each other with arms in their hands, one party embittered with a sense of wrongs, and the other con gratulating itself on the easy escape from the expected and well-merited penalties of mis-con duct and defeat, would be wicked if intentional, and criminal neglect if unintentional — disas trous to the European and fatal to the Maori. Ministers are at a loss to understand to what his Excellency refers when he states that if he followed the advice of bis Ministers, "he would have been hereafter adjudged to haye done that which was wrong, and which mast tend to drive a nation to despair." No measure that has ever been proposed by his Excellency's Respon sible Advisers has had a tendency to affect one fourth part of the Maori " nation," or one tenth part of their territorial possessions. Moreover, the two essential points npon which Hi« 'Excellency and his Ministers have differed, have been on the two principal subjects, of the present discussion, 'and Ministers are quite un able to see tbat they have ever proposed any thing which has been calculated to drive a "nation" to despair. Oa the the feeling of the Maori "nation" would certainly ! hold that it is strictly just to deprive men of the arms with which they have made an un provoked and barbarous attack, and that it is certainly generous to give np to such men any of their territorial possessions which their op ponents have the power to keep. Maori usage would fully justify much harsher measures, and those who have had the power have generally inflicted them. 