The New-Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 603, 24 January 1852, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

Be just and feai not : Let all the ends thou uinib't at, be thy Country's, Tliy Gob's, and Tiuth'b.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JAN. 24, 1852.

Yesterday afternoon we received, by the Overland Mail, Wellington papers to the 27th ultimo. Our file of the Spectator, however, is very imperfect. The following are the only items of news possessing any interest. Mr. M'LEAN had succeeded in completing the purchase of three blocks of land, containing between six and seven hundred thousand acres, at Ahuriri. This, according to the Spectator, may be regarded as the most important and extensive purchase that has been made from the Natives in the Northern Island. The Bishop of New Zealand had arrived by the Border Maid on the 17th ult. His Lordship was holding a series of confirmations at the several Mission Stations in the district. A Daily Mail between Wellington and the Hutt was to be despatched on and after the Ist of this month. The establishment of a Pottery at Wanganui was spoken of, the clay there being deemed peculiarly adapted for th« manufacture of jugs and similar articles. The cultivation of barley was also engaging increased attention, and a Flour Mill was about to be erected on one of the streams flowing into Wanganui River, by Mr. FIELD, who had brought out in the Simlah the whole of the necessary machinery. In the scarcity of news, the Independent was pouring forth column after column of "leaders" in its usual strain of bitter political invective. In one of its articles the Auckland Municipal Corporation has a prominent place. Our contemporary proposes a number of questions to the New ZEALANDER (which he is pleased to call " the Government Organ") — such as, "how it was that almost every candidate expressed a strong condemnation of the Ordinance, and pledged himself to carry it out in the way best calculated to render it harmless ;" and, " how it came to pass that the only two advocates of the Charter , and the recognised and avowed supporters of Sir G. Grey's Government, per fas et nefes, were rejected by the Burgesses by overwhelming majorities, IN SPITE OF ALL THE INFLUENCE EXERTED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN THEIR favour"!!! Even if the late hour at which the Independent came into our hands did not prevent our making any lengthened reply to such allegations as these (without altering our previous arrangements), we do not know that we should feel called on to do more than consign them to the judgment of public opinion here, whore the facts are fully and generally known. Whether they have been fabricated by our contemporary himself, or founded on the statements of informants in this Borough, they equally exhibit a regardlessness of controversial truth and honesty which it is humiliating and painful to dwell on. That he has had local information seems likely from his mention of a " Memorial against the Corporation," which he says has been " signed by all the leading men in the Borough" When this document emerges from its present dense obscurity into the light, the reader — who perhaps now for the first time hears any rumour of its existence — will be able to judge for himself on this point also. The Independent has another long and laboured article on Mr. Fox's " Six Colonies," — of which, however, lie had, like ourselves, only seen a Keview with Extracts, but which, unlike ourselves, he is, before-hand, pieparcd to swear by. And why not % " We, of course," he frankly declares, "who have for so many years fought in the same ranks as Mr. Fox. * * Who have, equally with Mr. Fox, registered a vow in heaven that we would never lay down our arras until we lui<\ succeeded

both in getting rid of His Excellency's dishonest, corrupt, immoral, and grossly profligate admiuist ration, and in establishing a lull and complete measuro of self-government; * * we, of course would scarcely be deemed impartial critics in any judgment that we might pass on Mr. Fox's Pamphlet." Is not our good friend too modest 1 Who coiJd doubt that the Independent is qualified by " impaifciality" quite as well as by othe^ attributes to do honour to the Press and good service to the Colony %