ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, September 1st, 1854.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 948, 2 September 1854, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. Wellington, September Ist, 1854.

Sin, — The abuse heaped upon Mr. E. G. W&kefield by the Auckland Southern Cross and the Wellington Independent amuses me. Each after its peculiar manner shews its bad teeth and its timidity, but neither attempts to bite. Poor affected Metoikos, whom the Independent two or three months ago called a " pedant," supports his character by quotations from Addison and Shakespere, of which no mortal but himself can discern the applicability, and some Old Bailey Reynard indites a clumsy letter to Colonel Wynyard in the name of Mr. Wakefield, and the Independent publishes it as a genuine production ! These penny-a-liners think to wound the man of whom they are evidently most horribly afraid by such weapons, but it is a vain attempt. My knowledge of the English nature of the colonists of New Zealand tells me that it will recoil on themselves. The only way to damage Wakefield would be to expose the fallacy of his docrines, refute his arguments, or even point out the errors of his statements, but such work requires intelligence and intellect. In general knowledge, practical experience, and moral energy, no one in New Zealand approaches him. So, as, I have been informed by more than one eye-witness, the scene in the Representative Chamber when he addresses it is highly interesting. All he says is intensely listened to because there is a massiveness in it that commands attention. The attacks of his opponents are often flippant and angry.and not seldom spiteful. They are however repelled with the calmness arising from conscious superiority, and so they always produce the same result, namely, they make that superiority more manifest than it was before. His adversaries appear to be unconscious of what they are thus doing, and seem to be never tired of exalting him at .their own expense. One effect of this constant exhibition of Wakefield' s powers as a thinker and a man of business on the Auckland people is his great popularity amongst them. If he wished it there is, lam told, no doubt that he would be returned as Superintendent of the Province of Auckland against all competitors. Of course he has no views of that kind. His mis-ion in New Zealand is to set our Constitution to work as it ought to work, and for this task he possesses almost every requisite, a great fund of the right sort of knowledge, with a happy tact in applying it to the furtherance of practical and useful purposes, and untiring application. Is it not natural that the ignorant, the narrow minded, the sordid, the malignant, the jobbers, and men who trade in patriotism should abuse him ? However, I have no fears as to his ultimate success in silencing, by his deeds for the colony, the pigmies who are now straining themselves to stay hia career. a I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, RESPUBLICA.