Brannigan, which must end in the •capture and destruction of poor Te Kooti who has so often been killed or threatened with capture that really he soon will begin to attract some kind of sympathy. But in spite of the skill and the combinations, incessantly devoted for seven months, with every essential for success in their hands, men in crowds, money in piles, and no «or£ of difficulty in the way, here is the same thing beginning again and Te Kooti as free as ever and stronger than before. Mr. Fox had plenty of ill words for Col. Whitmore, his men and his employers. But he-bias uover known their difficulties. There was

but one enemy when he took office to suppress, and that but a very trifling one compared with those in arms when Col. Whitmore drew his sword in November IS6S. Mr. Fox had 1000 good tried men already enlisted on the spot. His predecessor could not mus ter such a force numerically till Feb., 1569, and in point of efficiency never had them till they were about to leave office. Every day’s doings of Mr. Stafford's Force were reported and publicly made known; not a days’delay during the whole of that time can be charged to Mr. Stafford or Col. Whit more. If an hour's rest was suspected to be given to the weary men, Mr. Fox’s organs at once raised a howl at the inactivity of the troops. What on earth has been done during the past seven months ? Government has only told us of one skirmish, very badly managed in which though 600 men; were in the field, Te Kooti was attacked' by only 70, and then allowed to retire wholly unpursued. We learu that the arch rebel’s loss on that occasion was entirely confined to his latest involun recruits, those Taupo friendlies whom Mr. Fox abandoned when he came into office, in order to shew how useless he thought the distant expeditions of his predecessors. But even supposing that this is not the case, (though we do not believe it is disputed), why was To Kooti neither surrounded nor pursued on the only occasion he was attacked. All the present combinations may be judicious, necessary, and successful. 