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Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 486, 1 July 1857, Page 5

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'LYTTELTON TIMES.' SIR, —I think it will be allowed that the Editor of the ' Standard' has shewn a good deal of cleverness in the manner in which he has reported the debate on Mr. Cridland's petition, in his paper of to day. Such conduct does not surprise me ; indeed, I took the precaution carefully to commit to paper, on the next morning, what I really did say,compiledfrom notes which I had prepared previous to my going to the Council. I trust, that you will do me the justice to publish it as an advertisement, as a justification to my fellow-colonists for the strong opinion I have been forced to entertain of Mr. Brittan's conduct in this transactionIn it will be found the substance of all I said, with the exception of my answer to an interruption with which Mr. Ollivier favoured me, when I was showing that Captain Harvey had not broken his agree went. Mr. Ollivier having propounded the opinion that the Council had no concern with Mr. Brittan's private conduct, I replied to the followingeffect:—That I thought the Council had the right to investigate the private character of public officers; that it was of the last importance that the person filling the post of Chief Commissioner should be a gentleman and a man of truth ; that, if the statements contained in the allegations, and the contradictions displayed in the reply could not be refuted or explained, they demonstrated the accused party to be neither one nor the other; and that therefore 1