ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 763, 6 August 1853, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New-Zealander.

Sin, — 1 notice a letter in print this week signed “ Metoikos,” on the subject of reports and rumours concerning the movements of GovernorGreyaml the first pluce of assembly of the House of Representatives. Hitherto, but li tie attention lias been paid to the tedious communications bea:ing this signature—the writer was known tohave bad an idea, and nothing else to do but re* volve it over and over in bis head, throw it into a two or three column diversified shape now and then for his palron’s paper—and nobcdy interfered in hit) harmless pastime. Now, however, the writer should see that he stands in a new relation to the people of the North, who cannot allow him to prao ice a mockery on them by the continued use of his old signature while meddling with their affairs. If it means anything he ought surely to drop it, or else retire from the post of a Representative to which a few silly people have raised him.

This province will require Its full complement of iinmistaheable men—bona fine residents, men attached to the North hi/ the strongest ties —iiuhe General Assembly. I observe in the Lyt tellou Times of the 28th May that Mr, Hugh Carletnn himself, the well known “ Auckland correspondent’’ of that paper, con'esses the importance to us here of being thus fully represented. In remarking on the question of the sea. of Government, he hints a very hopeful suggestion to his Southern friends, —“ nor can I see anything to hinder Hie Assembly, in •which Auckland will be out-voted, from appropriating the tiile elsewhere— and I know that the question of removing heads of departments to the South lias been mooted at head quarters.’’ Now to say nothing of the writer’s leanings which this sentence suggests, does it not fully admit the danger of entiusting our interests to a man who still styles himself a “ stranger and sojourner” among us —one who if he have any attachment at all to a locality in the country,—over which, for convenience sake, he fiiisabout in quest of the greenest spot —has given many more proofs of his likings to the South than to the North — and not a few in the article above quoted from. One of the first questions to be decided by the General Council will be as to tbe confirma'ion of the Governor’s late Land Regulations, so popular w.th us in the North. Now the fierce opposition of the Southerns to these Regulations is well known—and in order to hold what we have got we must have eighteen men at least in the Council in favour of what has been done—our own twelve ought, therefore, to be above suspicion on this qu stion—that we may not have to rely too much on the support of men from the South svho have been and will be so ranch in contact with Mr. Wakefield and others.

Now wlmt amount of reliance can we place on the representative for the Bay ? Irrespective of his bitter hostility to Sir George Grey, and every measure good or had that emanates from him—let us 8-e what he says in his correspondence to Lyttelton— *'1 he proclamation lowering the price of land was received with joy in the North. Mr. Sewell’s letter, throwing doubts upon its legality (in which doubts I cannot but concur) and Mr. Wakefield’s letter as to the same subject, were published in one of the local papers. But it was preaching to the winds.” From this we may guess what may be expected in the forthcoming struggle between the North and the South, from a man in, no such way identified with ua as to he affected by the issue. Look, again, at his exposure, in the same article of the proceedings o the Auckland working men at their meetings held about the commencement ot the cdection for the Superint ndent, at which meetings he attended, no doubt, on behalf of his patron, M°r. Brown, —fraternised with ihooperativ. s there,and demeaned himself in such a way as to he quite satisfactory to any democrat present. Butin writing to his conservative friends »t Lyttleion, he goes hack iq his conservatism, and, ridiculing the proceed ngs of the Auckland operatives, says,—“At the first meeting, the chair nan put the question as follows, ‘ Those who are for the resolution will hold up their right hands—those who are adveise, their left,’ At the next n eeting he improved his requisition, but did not quite hit t— ‘ J hose who are for the resolution will hold up 'heir right hands;’ but jealousies had, by this time, -prang up among themselves, and little was done. Tim wilfshew what thev sra capable of ds a Conservat ve, and for reasons which every conservative will understu d, I nhou Id be glad to see the experiment tried at once ; it is no use resisting a movement of the sort.’’ At Canterbury, then, he presents himself isa Conser votive, informing ihem, at the same lime, tuat “ There will be a sharp contest for the Superintend n;y. Mr. Bartley came first into tbe field, followed closeupon by Mr. Brown —the former representing the aristocratic, the latter the dsmccratic ; clement Ot the commui jtv.”

Known at Canterbury, according to his own shewing, as a Conservative, the news of the notorious meeting of the democra'ic candidate’s friends at Or.ehunga, with Mr; Carleton figuring in the midst, must have quiteastonished tiie pilgrims! —and tire article from their Auckland correspondent, immediately after that occurrence, will be a curiosity in its way ! It may be said that a gentlemanly sense of duty to his constituency, would secure his support to all measures for the weal of tire north. That might be all well enough if Sir George Grey were out of the question; but it is well understood that Mr. Carleton only consented to receive recompense, in the shape of a seat in the General House, for certain services performed in the Land Claims’ cause of a venerable gentleman at the Bay (which, services, by the way, it is said, were undertaken more with a view to anno;/ Sir George, than to serve the venerable gentleman aforesaid) that he might be the . better able to bring about a union, at last, between the North and the South—a decisive coalition to crush Sir George once and forever! The article in the Lyttelton Times above referred So begins with an encomium on Lieut.-Colonel VVynyam which contrasts pleasantly with a letter signed Metoikos” which was published in Auckland about the same time abusing Colonel Wynyard. The newspaper reading public of Auckland have been so long accustomed to effusions of vanity and egotism fiom tbe pen of “Metoikos” that they have ceased even to excite a smile ; regarding him as the y upon the wheel, be has been permitted to appropriate to himself all the honour of whatever amount of dost its revolutions have thrown up ; hut now that tuo choice of a small and distant constituency has invested him with the dignity of a seat in the House of Representatives, his power of making the “ the little bit ot mischief,’’ —his excessive love for which has been expressly his motive for interference in our affairs hitherto—will be much increased and ought to ha lookid to. If his friends and correspondents in the South are silly enough to believe that he is a person of the consideration and influence in this Province which he pretends, a very short visit will undeceive them ; when ha talks of what the members of the Assembly will be “ instructed” to do, and undertakes to arrange the sort of persons who are to be sent as tbe “dummies” and the “talkers,” he is simply impertinent, and when he favours his aristocratic friends at Lyttleton with a ludicrous account of the proceedings at the operatives meeting in Auckland, he is—something more. The results of the elections prove that it has been enough to ensure the rejection of candidates in almost every district of the Province for them to be even suspected of belonging to Mr. Brown’s party, or of being in any way influenced by that gentleman, of whom “Metoikos” is the satellite. When he takes upon him then to write again in public on our aff airs, let him either come out in his own name* or choose another signature than one which, on its every appearance, must convey a taunting reproof to those who robbed the North of a member by giving one of our seats to a perfect stranger. And if the interest which ho professes to take on behalf of Auckland in the immediate meeting of the General Assembly, be uot affected, let him show his regard for tbe opinion of the Province by giving up his right to the seat to which lie has become entitled, —sore against the will of many of the inhabitants of the Bay district. —Yours, &c., A Northern*.