Correspondence.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 14, 27 July 1848, Page 2

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Anglo-Maori Warder. Mr. Editor,—Let me be the first to congratulate you upon your unexpected re-appearance before the public i will not trouble you will UNKNOWN honored similes about the PhtriTiK, about Anttrus rising refreshed from the earth, or doimice awakmg from their winter's nap, but say at once, that we diu not know how reccssaiy you had become to u-., tdl y.iu retired from the field. "■■ '■"■ Ihe ebbed man, ne'er loved, i\\ ne'er worth lov t «, Comes dear, by being lacked *' (You see that others can quote Shakespeare as well as yourself • we cm allow no monopolies ; they are again'.l the spirit oi the age-) About the leading article n ith which vou supposed yourself to be winding up you? editorial"career, ( wilt say nothing th.it your modesty might disinci ie vou to print; hut I must confess myself astonisl ed "at the commotion which it is said to have excited .ucciiain high quarters. This much I can say. that the King of LUiput, as you call him, has done himself ujore°da* magi; in public estimation, by his weak and tetchy exhibition oi temper, than ever he crutd hare suffered from the ai tide which has rendered him so desperate. It was veiyunkeroic,andeven more impolitic, as tending only to make manifest the force of your sarcasm. One of the characteristics which you rcmatl;t d upon most strongly, was hts want of tact- The observation has since been most fullv borne out- A ma; of tact would have taken nnotner coarse; he would have auietiy complimented the Editor on his performance, siiown him bow a few finishing touches would have heightened the picture, and then *« whipped him to deatii with his fine wit" (if lie had i;) " tiil he were as crest f illen as a dried pear-'' 'I he last remark which I have to make is this; that you have been imzch too careless about forcing your paper into circulation. It is a great mistake to think that newspapers can take care of themselves. You contented yourself with wilting brillLtnt leaders, without taking care to see that they were n>ad; the natarrl consequence of which was, that the Warder, on account of the limited number of subscribers, fell to the around. The last happy hit, however, and the exert'ons of your ti lends,—lor you vourself, the party most concerned, seem to have ocen most superbly apathetic about the matter, have set it euing again, with a quadrupled circulation, which it is now jourown business to keep. To tins end. let me offer van one pieieoi counsel; needless enough, I say, like some of jour own to the missionaries- <jq on, Sir, as you have done heretofore; speak the whole tiuth, and nothing bat the truth; noerturn one hair's breadth aside fiom it to serve any temporary purpose. Such a line of conduct must force its way at ia^t; it is really the most politic course, to say nothing m its being the most honorable; it is tlut which has acquired for you the share of influence winch yon already posses*,. 1 trust that you will pardon my lecturing, and allowuie to subscribe myself, ~ ~ , An Old Subscribe. Auckland, July £Gth, 184S* [Our cm respondent seems to he at a loss for -imthes objecting, very properly, to such as arc trite and over worn. For flic tuition of the Warulr, he may take choice of a couple ; be itfty ma\c it disappear like the apparition recorded by Aubrey, "vita a swe.'l smell nurt a melodious tivaijg," or be mav sa* tb.it " it went oit in a stink, like a ta'low candle/' whichever he may tlniik the most appmpriate Tor jus re-iv.ii, the reappearance of Fnar luck iu Ivanhue, after h-ivm? beeu shut up all night in the vaults atToimi)Ktoue, nr tb..t of I'reie Oi\m des Brother Julm the (\i« ut—in Kabekus, who wu-» sun-|<>-edto bj dead, hut w«w only iu the cellar, might h»e sen ed lus turu* Fur the lecture, nutiv lid. A. M.W.]