ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the "New Zealand Spectator" Wellington, May 6, 1852.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 706, 8 May 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the " New Zealand Spectator" Wellington, May 6, 1852.

Sir, — If it were not as rare for busy bodies \ to follow thsir own advice as for Doctors to take their own physfc, 'I should fee] as much astonished at the moralizing remarks of the Independent Editor and his friends as at Satan correcting sin. Alike wanting nit, wisdom, and modesty ; agreeing moreover in bitter hatred of Sir' George Grey and in detesting every rational system of government ; they, with the conceit of otter ignorance, each in turn dash their handful of mud into the quagmire columns of the Independent: If their twaddling sheet of bombast were confined to stating the wild projects of these sucking Solons — or their sage plans for drynursing statesmen — they might, unscathed by word or line from me, rant at pleasure in ' praise or blame of every system of govern- ! ment which man's restless brain has ever schemed, from the Divine right of Kings whimsey of ibe scholastic James the First to the modern follies of Ribert Owen and Prudhon. Scarce a glimpse of meaning appears in the prosy ma*s of words 1 which the Independent pompously terms his leaders! that writer seeming to ihhik an immeasurable jumble 1 of sentences, without object or idea, except a rabid mauia to abuse his fellow >c tier?, will atone by their length for a total absence of wit 1 and judgm«m. Our lackadaisical wiseacte, in glorifying the conduct of our late ju ge (who, for cur benefit, suffered from our desp( t'c government the brutal infliction of a salary of eight hundred pounds a year, with' little or no hing to do, with devoted patriotism that throws Quintus 'Cunius into the shade,) states that he (the writer) burns- with desire to render similar services to the colony, doubtless at the same rate of pay. Whither that writer is learned in 'the law or not is quite immaterial, for ihe talented Faction are equally willing, at the shortest notice, to head annies — cormhaml fleets — preside over law Courts — or fill aDy salaried office from Sheriff's deputy to the Governorship of India. With all the highly vaunted independence and patriotism of* the late judge the settlers saw ! clearly that 'be stock to bis eight hundred a year 1 with a similar devoted regard to the public to that anciently shewn by the Vicar of Bray, or, more recently, l>y Mr. Fox. * Opposed as 1 have always been to the Faction, I must state in juslice' to those noble minded patriots that, whenever new lucrative offices are created or old ones become vacant, they are always anxious to fill them '' — of course purely thereby to mitigate the barbarous role of our despotic government, sagely btfwever pocketing both their opinions and salaries, from mere zaal for the public welfare wliich (s* beyond all praise* ."Their conceit that a writer so skilled in English' composition as Sir George Grey would deign __ to refute the fallacies of writers who in style, language, and argument would disgrace the lower forms of a chanty school is beneath notice. In {'conclusion, I would suggest to the Independent '^Editor that the settlers desife neither his counter * nor his.'desk nuisances, nor.' j wish for rubbishing extracts from waste paper Blue Books, but "would highly pi ize useful information on crops -p-'wdbl— dairy produce — or any one of the resources' of the colony — though of course these merely practical matters are beneath the j notice of our romautic patriots. Hoping that 'the Factious writers will not in future confound the. glorious liberty of speech and pen prized by i all BjWns with the license of abuse which has. n hitherto Usually disgraced the Independent. I remain, Sir, . Yours. respectfully, ■ ■ AN OLD COLONIST.