(rst'i.M a couui«i'om»i:nt.)

Ah hooii n.i it Vtcaiue known in the TiKipeku district Unit the General Govern ment hud w,i v letter of dismissal to Major ci-okiT, groat public excitement was manifcntoil. During Monday last the matter wi-.Muiily hhiU-d at in the shape of a vague report," and o;t Tuesday this gained ground ; but many doubted its* correct ness. On Wednesday, however, nil doubt Vim tot nt rest, and popular chimour then became so Hhotig, thnt it was decided to hold a public meeting in order to ascer tain tho real state of opinion on the sub ject. J>y four o'clock' on Saturday, tho 20th iuslant, th« Commercial Assembly KooniH were well filled, nnd tho Mayor <H B:wting«, Esq.) read tho circular, tnVncd by .'•- lan:» number of tho rate payers, which had been addressed to him, requesting him to convene the meeting It was then proposed and earned, that the Mayor take the chair. ~,-.,, TheChairmanstatedthat the objector too msotuig waa to consider the uxtraordiirary

and cruel act recently committed by the General Government m dismissing Major Crokcr. Ho liad heard it naked, who wore the jiriine mover* in * Isi» matter, and he would reply for himself, that he was one of them. H« did not appear as the particular friend of Major Croker, or in order to oppoito Mb dismissal upon any mere personal grounds. Major Crokcr wsih nothing to him, but he had,joined in ;tjii« a{|iiation-l^«ai«BQ Jio oonci'iveditliat a great anil .h'rortd|'pVinrtpltf .Ihad.beoh done violence to,, and a most cruel arid arbi- I tary act coinrnitted. He had inniVhand tho ktter witirli • Ifajor Crokcr had rc ceivwl, arid "lie* Would' nay that under iio circumstances would he, as an 'employer, dtsintsa'tho lowest menial in such v heart lessß' and* cruel' manner. If any person present could excuse or commend, xfie act, then all, ho could ray wan that, he pi lied thai person,' for ho> imvt .be devoid of all manliness and ordinary honesty.' Ho would now read ihc letter.
