MESSAGE No. 32.

The Oncer administering the Government has received an address trom the House of Representatives, dated the 16th instant, in answer to his Message of the sth instant (No. 25) and has bestowed upon the contents of that document the anxious consideration which his sense of their great importance to the Colony demands from him. He will not permit the character of some of the statements and arguments which that Address conveys to him to disturb the friendly sentiments towards the House of Representatives which he sincerely entertains, and considers it a duty to cultivate by all the means in his power. Controversy between the House and himself on portions of their acidress which he cannot but feel to be objectionable, could produce no god result, and would probably tend to an increase of the evil which he deplores. He will not therefore allude further to the subject. In the hope of securing harmonious relations between the Legislative and Excutive branches of the Government, and in order to meet, to the utmost of his ower, the wishes of the House with regard to the establishment of Ministerial esponsihility, the Officer administering the Governmental an early period of the ssion took upon himself the responsibility of making an important change in the composition of the Executive Council, and he hopes ever to recollect with pleasure the expression of the satisfaction of the House at his prompt compliance with their desire. Avoiding, as worse than useless in the present state of affairs, all reference to' the subject ot his difference with the late members of the Executive Council, the Officer administering the Government is nevertheless compelled to notice, and indeed to take as his guide, the new position in which he and the House are placed' by th ■ new demand now presented to him in the following words :— " We turn to the future, appealing to your Excellency under a deep and solemn conviction of the responsibility which rest no Jess upon your Excellency than upon ourselves under the present critical position of the Colony. Dismissing all that has passed, we pray your Excellency to look at the question as now standing, on new ground, and surrounded with new circumstances, and therefore justifying' new concessions," the concession required being, in the last words of the address, " the immediate establishment of the Executive Government on the basis of complete Ministerial Responsibility." By his Message No. 25, the Officer administering the Government informed the House that he believed himself to be absolutely precluded, by the Royal Instructions, from establishing Ministerial Responsibility in a complete form, and not anything contained in the present address from the House is calculated to lead him to a different conclusion. His sense of duty absolutely forbids him to make the concession now required in terms of the most positive character ; and he has only to rep at the settled conviction of his mind that by yielding on the point of duty he should deserve the censure of her Majesty, and incur the disapprobation of the colonis's of New Zealand. Jt is therefore plain that a difference has taken place between the House of Representatives and the Officer administering the Government which is at this moment irreconcilable, The present address from the House, coupled with his own unaltered sense of duty to her Majesty and the Colony, leaves him without a hope of being able to restore for the present that kind of Ministerial Responsibility which recently gave so much satisfaction, to himself and apparently to the House and the public. Neither adverting to the early proceedings of the House with regard to Ministerial Responsibility, to the whole character of the Address now before him, and to the large majority by which it was adopted, can the Officer administering the Government think it possible that the House should carry on business without any Ministerial communication between them and the head of the Government. He is painfully convinced that, as respects legislation for the service of the Colony, the session has come to an end.