MAILS.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 675, 2 October 1852, Page 2

MAILS.

The overland Mail for New Plymouth, Wellington &., will be closed on Monday, 4th Oct. at two o'clock. Per Raven, for Sydney, London, &c, Saturday at 4 o'clock.

TO CORBESPONDENTS. We did not notice " Non-Con's" letter at first, because tbe writer had not complied with our frequently stated requirement, by communicating to us his real name. And now although he has done so, we must still decline to insert the letter. Generally speaking, a newspaper is not a suitable medium for theological controversy ; and we should have no chance of escaping controtersy, if we published the letter of a correspondent who denounces as "most appalling and fraught with deadly danger" a statement which (although strongly worded) only expressed the legitimate logical inference from doctrines held by vast numbers of Christians of various denominations, including hundreds of thousands in the Protestant Churches. Conceding that " those who use it should be able to shew its truth or admit its falsehood," we presume that the Preacher whose statement has offended " Non-Con," whoever he may be, (and we have no idea to whom he refers) would be willing to assign bis reasons for it at a fitting time and place ; but it would scarcely be in accordance with the objects of n newspaper that every hearer who objects to a passage in a sermon should be permitted to call the minister to account for himself and his doctrinal views through its columns.