To the Editor of the New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 367, 20 October 1849, Page 2

To the Editor of the New Zealander.

Sir,— lt is really too bad that even here at the ends of the earth a patriotic son of the E ma raid Isle like myself must have hit national feelings wounded by those oppression! which the Saxon ruler has been inflicting upon us. ever since (as loyal Tommy Moore has it ) "Ths emerald gem of the Western "World Wai set in the crown of a stranger." I was in hopes that I was after escaping from such wrongs the morning I sailed from Kingstown, repeating to every body on deck Lord Byron's poetry in »« The Iriih Avatar," " —Her de&olate shore, where the emigrant stands For a moment to gaze ere ha flies from hit hearth ; Tears fall on hit chain, though it drop* from his hands, For the dungeon he quits is the place ot his birtb." But just look for one minute at that new Code of Signals which you copied into your last paper from the Government Gazette ! There is in it a figure that means something for every other spot in the habitable globe that i« noticed at all ; but there is only 0 for poor old Ireland ! Now, every school boy knows that 0 signifies nothing ; and the intention evidently is to say as phinly as a flag '•an say it, that nothing it to be erpected from Ireland. Is not tin's a burning shame and a gross insult? In ray private opinion, it is to the full at great a grievance as some of those that Dan of blessed memory expatiated upon, the day he set so many of us tearing mad at the monster meeting at Mullaghmeeu. Beyond yea or nay, Sir George is at the bottom of this. It's no use to tell me about Marryat's code ; Capt. Marryat never dreamed of such an outrageous thing:. And as for the Harbour Master here, he is too civil and considerate a gentleman to give needless offence in this way to the Irish immigrants. One of the first things I heard on landing was that " the Governor is the Government " ; and if Inm not well acquainted with that fact by this time, it is not for want of being told it often enough. Now if the Governor is every thing else in the Colony, I take for granted he is the «• Harbour Department " too. No doubt therefore he

has done this, with all the rest of his mischievous doings. What course is to be pursued by my countrymen in Auckland who feel as Ido ? That they muit in all honour do something is plain, for why should not Irishmen here look after their own interests as well as the Scotchmen? I would not advise them to pull down the flagstafl immediately; but I strongly recommend a monster meeting of the Irish Residents to petition for the Governor's recall. Not that I would openly state such an object at first. I hare learned a trick worth two of that since I came to live iv these parts. It would look far belter to hate it as it were the spontaneous decision of the public assembled for the general purpose of considering what steps should be taken in the case, md then tome leader can have the petition, accidentally on purpose, cut and dry in his pocket, and produce it at the proper time, It wonld get plenty of names, particulaily if some of the lively boys would shut the door to prevent people's going out till they signed it. The first thing of course is to get up a requisition, which can be easily done. But, between ourselves, it might be as well to be sure of your men for that duty. Somehow I do think it would be awkward if any of them afterwards got so ashamed of the whole affair that they would not sign the Memorial ; and I wouldn't swear that such a catastrophe never came to pass before now in this queer world. Let there be patriots as firm as the rock of Cushel secured for that service to begin with, and your paper shall soon have a flaming advertisement calling the '• Great Meetiug,"— that if, if you have type big enough to print "Hereditary Bondsmen, Know ye not &c," properly at the top of it. Your obedient servant, An Indignant Irishman.