ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 549, 19 July 1851, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New-Zealander.

And jou, my critics' in the chequered shade, Adimie new light thiongh holes yourselves have made. • • • * Roman and Gicek grammarians ' know yonr better, Author of something yet inoic t;ie<it than letter ; Wlnle towering o'ei yonr .ilphibet like Saul, Slinds our tligamnia, and o'ertops them all. "1' is tuic on voids aie still our whole debute, Disjiutes of Me 01 Te, or Aut 01 A.t, Io sound or sitik in cano 0 or A, Or gne up Ciceio to C 01 K. ■ Let FiiLnd aflrct to ipeak as Terence spoke, And Alsop nevei, but like Hoiace joke. For me, what Vngil, Pliny may deny, M-irnlins 01 Solinub iliall supply, For Auic phrase 10 l*Uto let them seek, 1 poatli in SuiduS tor uuhccuied Gtefk. Th* Dunciad—Book IV.

Sir, — As "Metoikos" asserts ''nil hutnanum a me aheuum puto" lo be bad Latin, perhaps he will be good enough to explain vrhy Cicero (in C. Verrem, Act If, Lib. 1, Sue. 45) writes "nihil ab isto tecturo, nibii veteratoriuni exspectaTeritis," and again (Lib. 111, Sec 20) '• Nihil >o\iud arbitror falso in istum e^se dictum ab iis," and again (Lib. IV., Sec. 25) "0 tempora, 0 mores ! Nibii nimum vetui proferam ;" — also why in Livy (Lib. 11., Sec. 40) " aed ego nihil jam pati nee tibi tirrpius nee mihi miserins," and (Sec. 43) "nihil dignum memoriil gestum est" appear. The line in xhapute is, I beliere, from Terence, and I have not that book at hand to test its verbal accuracy, but I think the quotations from Cicero and Livy will disprove, to those who do not prefer the authority of " MetoikoB " on such a subject, the charge of bad Latin. I remain, Sir, yours &c, ANOUCU9.

To the Editor of the New-Zeat.andpii« Sir, — I heard, with infinite satisfaction, the admirable lecture delivered by the Rev. Mr. Buddie, on " Intemperance," as it affects religion. I heard too, with unraingled delight, the invitation for members of the various churches connected with the '• Alliance," to subscribe to the principles of Total Abstinence with their own minhters, and I admit most freely, that it is one step in the right direction. But, Sir, (from an experience of eight years, as a consistent and observant Teetotaler,) I must insist that much more is required to be done. The praiseworthy attempt originated by those Reverend gentlemen may, and in all probability will, do much to persuade the " moderationist," but, in Older to convince the " drunkard" public meetings should be held weekly in some convenient locality — the cause should be respectably advocated — arguments of a moral, chemical, statistical, and physiological nature should be adduced — and, (to give a tone and character to these meetings,) I would forcibly urge that one of the Ministers of the lt Evangelical Alliance" should preside on each occasion, for without agitation, be assured, the progress of temperance, as the " hnndmaid of religion," will be slow, isolated, and unproductive of great permanent good. Yours, &c, A Recent Arrival.