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

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 578, 29 October 1851, Page 3

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

SrR, — How stall we not rejoice — Virtue lias reaped its own reward ! The Brave have gained the Fair ! ! and the Southern Cross, having boldly stated " its firm determination never to weary in its opposition to ' the man' "" — to encounter with bold and fearless front the " episodic" " fulminatory," " non-epispastic" attacks of all local Franklins—has brought beautiful Dame " Consistency " lovingly to its side. Rejoice, rejoice, ye silly moths who flutter round the erewhile dangerous blaze of the Southern Luminary — no more shall thy pretty innocent wings be singed by its burning beacons. Rejoice, ye deluded contributors to its light — no longer shall the oil from your cruse be leceived to brighten up the dullness of the expiring flame, that your only reward may be to be spat upon, ridiculed, and exposed, when you shall show no longer an inclination to answer its purpose. No ! no longer can such things be. Has not the Cross taken unto itself '- Consistency ?" Rejoice, ye signers of Memorials — no longer can its enticing parchments, like to the sugared papertraps of the flics, be thrust under your feet, that when ye shall struggle to escape the slough into which you may discover you have fallen, some "goodly muster roll" (always keptyvo terrore?n), may be closed upon you. No! "Consistency" will be at hand and will forbid. i would, by your leave, ask one very simple question of the venerable old lady who has donned the cap of Consistency (which, by the bye, is a most wretched fit). Allowing Mr. lioylan did (and nobody who knows him will for a moment suppose anything else), but allowing that he did, when he put his name as Numero 24 to complain of Sir George Grey's alleged calumnious strictures on "the character of individuals," believe this was a cause so powerful as to call upon him as agood citizen to ask his Excellency's l'eoall. Admitting thai he did not choose, or see occasion, to lay himself open to such attacks as his neighbour, Mr. Rooney, met because he cause!] 'us signature to bo erased, would he therefore, I a ould enquire, bind himself to believe in (-he immaculacy of the Southern Cross for ever? Has he bound h unbelt' never to believe that lie was then expressing more than, on calm reflection, ho would really feel ? Has he tied his tongue to confine ths expres-

sinn of his opinions as only against yourself, whilst be must not touch the holy ground whereon stands the shining light of the Southern Cross ? Or has he precluded himself from the right to say— it does not represent the opinions of the community; we will, therefore, now discard it : it was fostered, petted, and fed, and now that, like a. testy babe, "it will scratch it", rnrse," the erewhile indulgent, but now misuse I a;i ! wounded parent, will withhold the accustomed biead fiom its gruel, and, after the administering of a little wholesome castig itiou, will lay all its thousand beacons once a<jain in ever-enduring rest? I sit — to leave tho newly-acquired follower of the Southern Crou?,— Really, sir, its ostensible Editor should learn that, howe\ er low may be his ideas of the standard of conventionalities of his profession in New Zealand, such shameless depart arcs from its acknowledged usages— such breaches of nil professional faith, as liis Lite unfair peaching on one from whom he has received contributions, will meet witli well-deserved disgust. lie whom he so admires and so frequently quotes, the Weekly Despatch— -little as he is regarded as a standard of respectability— lie even would turn hia back upon him for an action so unworthy the profession. ISTay, 1 doubt if the Satirist would " Mocha" with him at Peel's after this. He must bo indeed pitifully blind if he cannot see that such bad taste is appreciable by society here, aud will meet the contempt and contumely it deserves. A Lover or Kiul Consistency. Auckland, October 21, 1851.