MARRIED,

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 682, 27 October 1852, Page 2

MARRIED,

On the 23rd instant, at St. Paul's Church, Auckland, Francis Beaumaris Bulkeley, Esq., H. M. 65th Regt., eldest son of J. J. Bulkcley, Esq., of " Linden Hill," Beiks, and Deputy Lieutenant of the County, to Rosanna Maiiia, eldest daughtor of Major Cockcraft, H. M. 58th Regt.

It is after much hesitation that I am induced 1 o take any notice of a letter which appeared in the Southern Gross of last week, during my absence from town, from the very gentlemanly pen of Mr. David Burn, the nominal editor of that paper. The letter is addressed to a minister of religion, who has been defending his own character and that of the other Missionaries in New Zealand from the vituperations of the Southern Cross ; but I find so little in it bearing on the question in dispute, and so much of it taken up with accusiitions against myself, that I am forced to conclude the letter in question was got up in the Cross establishment chiefly for my own benefit, and no doubt for a doublepurpose— first, to give Mr. Bum himself an opportunity to vent against me his long pent up wrath for my finding cause to dismiss him from an employment, the recollections of the easily earned emoluments of which contrast vexatiously,to a mind like his, with his present hire, even although that may be the reward of doing "the business" of the Cross — a service which must be peculiarly congenial to his taste, being very much in keeping with his early newspaper connexions; and next, to aflbrd especial gratitification to the proprietor of the Cross, a gentleman who I have the honor not to be able to account among those who are very well disposed towards myself, or to the New Zealand er in particular. Of late especially his anger has burned fiercely against myself, who amongst other individuals, dared to oppose his election, and of course he would annihilate the New Zealander for having the temerity to exhibit some instances of his public inconsistencies and unprincipled doings. Having long employed many a column of his journal (which might have been more profitably occupied, had the real interests of the colony been his &tudy,) to prove the Neio Zealander a Government slave ; but -nevertheless still seeing it enjoy the confidence and support of the community, he at length makes a desperate effort, tries' the forlorn hope, and brands it — I he Methodist organ. Why, how can it survive after this is once told and twice repeated ? Surely a journal devoted to the principles of Robert Owen himself would be better entitled to, and much more likely to meet "with, tbe support of a So"tt?iern Cross enlightened community than a Methodist mouth-piece ! But how is ttiis chaiacteristic to be well fastened on (he New Zealander ? Why, surely none can drive home the nail more effectually than " an unworthy member of the Church of England" who once happened

to be its salaried editor, and who is just at hmd ready to "do the business" of -the Southern Cross. But what a feeble stroke lie gives ! How great must be the disappointment of his master to iind that after building his hopes high enough on anticipated evidence which, when written, must prove as conclusive to, the world as it had ol ten been to his own mind when it fell from the lips of this practiced divulger of secrets never confided to him. I say 1 ,- how great must have been poor Mr. Brown's disappointment to find that the only proof of Methodistic influence his friend could give was, the fact of his articles having passed through the same kind of ordeal in the New Zealander office that Mr. Brown himself subjects them to before they are allowed to appear in the Cross. The fact is, Mr. Burn came to Auckland but ill qualified to conduct a newspaper, especially in opposition to the Southern Cross, — Mr. Biown's kocn hypercritical eye always ready to detect the slightest inadvertance. lie had but little previous knowledge of the political questions of the country ; and however much I shrank from interfering with the duties of gentlemen who had preceded him as editors of tl c paper, he took so little trouble to make himself acquainted with subjects that it was his duty from time to time to discuss, that I found j it necessary, in his case, often to expunge { from his articles the most egregious mistakes and blunders, and sometimes language such as I could not have taken the responsibility of publishing with my name attached to it. And if Mr. Burn had the' candour to admit it, he must allow tint he often thanked me for leaving out some portions and altering others of .his leaders. The gentleman to whom his* letter is addressed has, as my pastor, taken much friendly interes t in my welfare since my first acquaintance with him here, but he, nor no other member of the Missionary body to which he belongs, ever, either directly or indirectly, interfered with Mr. Burn's writings for the New Zealander. When Mr. Bum refers to my anxiety to introduce him to the Wesleyan Superintendent, he should in gratitude remember the object of that anxiety. He is now enjoying the benefits of an appointment which a rocommendation that it was my wish should result, and which did result, from that introduction procured for him* I will not allow myself to be dragged further after Mr. Burn into private and personal matters in order even to justify myself from his accusations. I feel it quite unnecessary to do so ; nor should I have trespassed at all on public attention in relation to this matter but for the dishonorable course Mr. Brown has taken to resist an opponent in the discussion of a public question, by calling to his aid one now in his own employment, but whose well known intimacy with the affairs of our establishment for some time might give sufficient weight to his testimony as to strenghten Mr. Brown's y position. I have no wish whatever by these remarks to shrink from an open avowal of my religious preferences, nor from identification with the denomination to which lam attached. I should feel a gratification in being connected with an organ for the advancement of the legitimate objects of that body — but I would be as much opposed as any one to the upholding of a newspaper in. connexion with any religious community for political objects. I say at once, and without fear of contradiction from any quarter, tbat tbe New Zealander was established for no such purpose — that it has never been the tool of either sect or party. I commenced it at a time when there was but little encouragement for the success of a newspaper in the Settlement— but; it has grown with the growth and strengthened with the strength of our city — and its subscribers' list, which has ever borne the names of clergymen and laymen too of all persuasions, is the best proof of the estimation in which, it has been held by the community. Mr. Brown's hostility to the New Zealander commenced on 1 his return from England — he " saw that it bowed not, nor did him reverence," and then he " was full of wrath," and has kept up incessant railing accusations against it ever since. Still itsurvives, and is self-supporting. I know well that the success of the New Zealander has always been a thorn in Mr. Brown's side He is very envious at the prosperity of a competitor in any of the varioits departments of his business. However, if he wishes his paper to succeed and pay its own expenses, so that he may be saved the trouble of boasting on the hustings at the next election of his heavy losses in carrying it on, let him pay moi'e attention to that which belongs to the ships and commerce of the place, than to the pouring forth of columns of abuse on his fellowcolonists, who perhaps feel quite as much interest in the prosperity of JJew Ze.iland, and show quite as many tokens of their sincerity in that behalf as he has ever done or ever can do by his outlay on the Southern Gross. J. Williamson.