ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 576, 22 October 1851, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Keillor of llu» Ni w Zi^atandhi. Sir, — It is not any indifference to purity of flection, hut on tlio contiary my veiy love of it. tint indues trie to {>ivg (i brief expiession to th« sentiments with winch I h.ive lead in ibis morning's boulhrm C>»« i))O letter signed " Scylutus," ni winch it is attempted to fling oilnim on the Requisition (o Mr. Wiiuamsom, because l)r Thomson, o( tlio &Hth tegim»nt, signed it, ami on bi r l iiovm;\ himself because lie dul «<) Dr. 'liiow-i •son's lumio stands on the liur^/^s-roll, and I am m n loss to know on what ground ho should not exercise l.is privilege us lie thinks proper. The deeorou , imputation that he is so " (he>/ in all his movement-." is meant, [ Mi,ipo>-e, to bo a douMe-bawcllcd ';un, firing both at the Doctor nnd through him at the c.uididnte whom it suita llio wntpr'b ]>ui jio^o to dcsonhe as under (government liilluence. Both shots arc, 1 believe, misdnected, and will fad of their insuk. Let me )iist add, we have here a specimen of the way in which tlio C(o.ss wuttis pi.ictic.illy .serve the colony they boaM ko miich about their .services to. 1 know nothing whatever of Dr. 'J hojison's intentions as to In * futuro com vo ; but having before us the case of one niedK.fl officer ol the />!Hh legnnoiit who has seltlfd down hero jviiimuMiUy, forming an nddition to out population siui> -is all 'rue IViendH of the settlement must hail with ddißht, it may bo within the bounds of possibility at least, that Di. Thomson may have something of the land in his mind's eje. What is num; likely to dugust a man of refined feel ings, and turn him fiomsiich a puiposo than attacks hke that of " Scyhirus" and the " Ciav, > " In an}' caso he shows a picsonl interest in the Hoioii"h by giving the aid of his name to tho return of t ho candidate vvldso (p-ial ideations he ajiprGves of, and we should rather thank, than scold him foi it. i &c, A Bunoiss of iiil jMidi/Ll Wai-d. Oct. 51, JfJ. r )1.