Auckland, November 22, 1843.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 32, 25 November 1843, Page 3

Auckland, November 22, 1843.

Charter and Royal Instructions. (To the Editor of the Southern Cross.) g IR) — In the dispatch from the Secretary of State to the late Governor Hobson, accompanying the Charter and Royal Instructions to the Governor of New Zealand, of which Charter and Royal Instructions, be it remembered, publication was therein directed to be duly made at the principal settlements of New Zealand, and, "as far as might be practicable, in the other settlements." These remarkable words were made use of, and will ever remain of record, if not here, in the Colonial Office in Downing-street. " You will find in the accompanying Royal Instructions, rules requiring that the utmost possible publicity should be given to eyery project of a law, which it may be designed to submit to the local legislature. If the counsels which may thus be invited should often reach you, as will probably be the case, in the unwelcome form of party cavil and uninvited censure, you will recollect that these are unavoidable evils in the formation" of public opinion. Without turning aside to refute such remarks, you will endeavour to carry ivith you the good sense and good feeling of the community,' and to impress the conviction on all, that you ace working fob THE BENEFIT OF ALL." A Government copy of the Charter and Royal Instructions exists not, I am credibly informed, at the outside — if even within, the walls of Government House. No marvel, then, if the course of the colonial vessel be erratic, when the chart appointed to steer by, is thrown aside as a useless encumbrance. Yours, &c, - D. Auckland, Nov. 23, 1843. [It is but too evident that the clause quoted in the above letter has been little attended to by the authorities. The people never know any thing about the instructions upon which the local authorities act. We hear that despatches are received by Mr. Shortland, but we never know what they are.-BD.]