ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 725, 26 March 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander.

S lß) —Your correspondent “ Matter of Fact” has not answered ray first letter,and as he still maintains his assertion it is useless to argue any longer for he is past convincing. lie savs, the shoe pinches. Let the galh d jade wince, ray withers are unwrung.” He has endeavoured to make it appear that I wish him to tilt at other trades. Now, if he had but attentively perused my letter lie would see that “ Live and let Live” was the motto I adopted Hut “ Matter of Fact ’ would as soon think of putting his hand into a hornet’s nest as run a tilt at other trades. The scope of ray letter was to show bow mi-chievous it was for any me Idling busy-hod to interfere with any trade through t e medium of the press; but us he has adopted the word tilt'Dg, 1 can tell him that when a champion enters the ho is supposed to come armed ai all points, and he must not complain if his adversary, Si drag a vulnerable pla e in his gorget, breastplate, or visor, thrusts his lance through and lays him sprawling on the earth where 1 now leave " Matter of Fact.” But tilting is too honourable a name to give “ Matter of Fact’s” attack—‘‘running-a-muck’’ would be the most applicable; and when an individual is in that rabid state it is u-ual lor his friends, if they can catch him, to put him under restraint. Hoping, M r . Kditnr, that his friends will prevail to send for his medical adviser to send him to the* Asvlum, as I believe it is now open for the admission of patients/ I remain yours, See., Am 1-Hu.mbuo. Auckland, March 25, 1853.