AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 331, 30 September 1848, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander.]

On Tuesday, the third meeting of thefriends of the Church of England was held at the school bouse, in Eden Crescent, the Lord Bishop of New Zealand in the chair, to consider the establishment of an uniform system of Church government throughout the colony. Some preliminary business was first despatched. The committee appointed to collect subscriptions for the support of an assistant minister to the town of Auckland brought np their repot r, stating tbat they believed that yearly subscriptions to the amount of about £150 might be depended upon, besides donations. The Bishop, when asked bow soon he should be able (o provide the required assistance, observed that a permanent runisterial appointment could not well be made until a permanent residence was built ; that until then the assistant ministry must remain, as it was before, of an erratic character. He likewise added that the report itself was not quite clear, either in manner *or in amount ; tbat until it should become- so he could not see his own w'y ; but he hoped within a very limited time, six or nine months, to be able to supply the necessary aid. Mr. Thatcher was then authorized to commence the repairs of St. Paul's Church, Messrs. Fitzgerald and Berry being joined with him in committee. The local business being ended, the main subject of the meeting was eutered upon. The Bishop developed -his views, which were based on a suggestion made by Mr. Gladstone to the late' Archbishop of Canterbury ; • that the Church of England should be reduced in this colony to a voluntary association — to a mutual compact among members of the Church, enforcible according to the general principle of the law of contracts. It was moved arid carried tbat the meeting request the Bishop to address * pastoral letter to the members of She Church, embodying the substance of the 1 observations which be bad that <fay made ; which request his lordship accordingly promised to comply with.

Zeal of Party. — Doctor, afterwards Dean Maxwell, sitting in company with Dr. Johnson, they, talking of the violence of parties, and to what unwarrantable length party men will sometimes run, * Why, - yes, sir,' says Johnson, ' they'll do anything, no matter how odd or desperate, to gain their point ; they'll

catch hold of the red-hot end of a poker sooner than not get possession of it.'