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Auckland Examiner, Volume 1, Issue 27, 18 June 1857, Page 3

(To the Editor of the Auckland Examiner.) Sib, —The humidity of this climate affords me an opportunity not of enjoying oticum cum dignitate, nor supplying a space for the slanderer’s depraved taste, but to look into what Milton calls prime wisdom, the affairs of daily life,” as pourtrayed in the Go-a-head People’s Journal, and to request a corner therein for my observations, though differing with your beloved “Publicola," perhaps with as good reason as a modern blue canopy temple preacher did with St. Paul, when falling upon some of those thing bard to be understood, hesai.d to his hearers. “ I don't entirely agree with Paul on this point. Our poet says there “ is nothing blackens like the ink

of fools,” but printers will have no gall in it as harmless ns the mock devils they employ —hence, Publicola's epistles blacken the Superintendent less than those which bespatter him with fulsome praise, examining them on the principle of Slick's advice to Mammas —“ If you wish your son to marry the gal o’er the way, tell him she’s a nasty critter, and in trying to see this he find out her nice ways ; so 1 find the principled Superintendent, who sacrifices promises and feelings to duty by routing the progress sappers who would be likely to undermine the people’s fortress, and furnish back-stairs intelligence (stink balls) to their boastful engineer to suffocate its defenders. Also when he tried to fix a regulator to the (“ for the. poor too strong, the rich too weak) screw-propeller, which many thought was being affixed at one time to the A 1 Self-Progress Clipper; and finally, when he forgave David, not the

Goliath, but the Fish-Flesh-and-Brandy Destroyer, any of those acts it would not lessen the patriot; the latter, especially, would elevate the saint—“ To err is human ; to forgive divine." The Elected of the People (though possessing only a modicum of genius or talent, which was, is, and will be always preferable to an upner story full of learned lore), has been and will he highly respected bv bvery liberty-lover. Ard the qualities you have allowed to the citizens of Auckland’s choice would be enhanced if Publicola would see in the effort made to save the province from the threatened bankruptcy,—a disinterested which the XI. Commandment observers would be slow to imitate. Such admissions would 'not fail to effect public good. They would be guiding-stars to the future leader of that party without a policy whch the first shock of your editorial battery has resuscitedi ; bu before you give them a second, or propound a policy threaten the Pecksniffs' with a Chuzzlewit caning, or they will tnrn out Progress Frankensteins. It is onlv by emulating each other, and keeping in with the political leaders of the sister colonies in the race of the ncement, that ours can “ make their fives sublime, and dying leave behind their footprints in the sands of time,” or give any equivalent to their Pay-the-Piper supporters, who without a pride’s purge, can now pnt the right man in the right place. Some may say that I see where

better eyes are blind; but they will think otherwise when I assure them that I can never see through the Camera Obscnra of the place-hunter, and would prefei being a Marvel in a garret with a blade-bone of mutton, to an abject, homage-paying, eat-drink-and-be-merry bloated sycophant. Yours, Ac.. Ac., Co. June Btb, 1857.