ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, 22nd December, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 354, 23 December 1848, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, 22nd December, 1848.

Sik, — I do not know whether you will. think wljat I now say worthy of, a. place in your Journal** but the letter of Omi Nomi in the Independent needs an answer, and the manly course.' you: have; taken in advocating-the -true interests of .tke-colony leads .me to hope you will findrgomffflftibis. l.Hesays 'odium would be cast upon the council by every person ex-cept-tbe^asominees?; - tmVJderfy.? a^ito^writer speak for himself and leave, others to speak for themselves . But his reason 1 is sfafange-;-n¥sairs ' everyotbftAp^on wduld yiew it in &e%am& dieMStable light th*y wwald a packed jury, composed of partizans.' ' N6 ijitelligeHt^pej^csaccftlcl'inak'e Buch a foolish mistake, because it appears ftjam th« f^m^ j^urjialithat Ac Go-

vehiolr, so f ar from wishing to have a'packed council of-p&ttizcms, or of 'even seeming to do so, actually offered seats in the council to men of various, and extreme .opinions, persons whom, if he had known them, he could harcfry have expected to accept'setits, but'whom-he appears to have been unwilling to pass over or appear to slight. 2. He nexlasserts that c no temporary measure ought to be c t up, because it would be equ,ally easy to make a permanent one.' What a pity he does not give at le,ast an outline of this easily made plan for governing the (iountry ; till he.gives tos ia sketch of it we must let this boast go for what it is woiith. ' Such temporary measures,' he adds, ' infuse a leaven of rottenness into a state,' and then instances Ireland. It is difficult to giiess what he rneaiis ; lie does not tell us what temporary measure lias injured Ireland; but all the best writers of the flay agree in tracing the evils of Ireland to the fact of representation having been granted to the predominant race — the Anglo-Saxon race — in that cduutry to the exclusion of the aborigines, — the very course now advocated fey the opponents of the Governor in this country. - '8. He next says a nominee council is a complete nullity, as a nominee can not propose any measure tending to tjie, welfare of the community. This is' a misapprehension. A member of the qouncilwill Have numerous ways of bringing any subject he may think necessaiy before the council, in the form of n^otion, resolution, or amend* nVentj he niay ask for information on all subjeets-r-o'fticial corresp'Orid'ence— explanations of expenditure.&c. 4. He denies that the'members of council will be as independents representatives; that is his opinion; Mine is, that in the present state of die colony they would, be more independent. But when he asserts that * the whole tenor of history and the whole experience of mankind' confirms the same, I, not being a universal genius, and not being master, of all knowledge, inns); leave this statement as I find it, remarking, however tliat his own instance Ireland is a sufficient refutation, as a more corrupt^ body of legislators never existed than the Irish representatives for more than a hundred years before the union. 5" He says the members of the council- ' will not discharge their duties honestly and conscientiously, because -when men go forward in pursuit of an "object whi<sh all others aroid, such men must necessarily be weak, supercilious, aud vain.' Even if this were true, he would have to show that * j^ll others avoid it'; but it is ridiculous and absurd, especially when coming from one who can vouch, for ' the whole tenor of history and the whole experience of marikiud' ; for it would be doubtless condeninatory of all the greatest men, Alexander, Caesar, &cj, who evideutly engaged in ehterprizes which others avoided. 6. lam glad I am, not obliged to dissent from him on every point; with the last I can 'cordially agree. If he is -gretotly deficient in knowledge, all must- allow him due praise for his discretion^ in coming to the determination of refusing a seat in the council if offered to him. I am, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, A Loveb or Tbuth.