me beyond my most sanguine expectations and I hope some day to take you with me to travel over the scenes of my laborious operations when I can call to your mind what took place here, what happened there, how such a spot was alienated to our sovereign and an other retained. Added to this you may see instead of a waste wilderness, cottages with their smiling cheerful inhabitants gratefully acknowledging the advantages they and their smiling red faced healthy urchins may derive from the early pioneer of the land of their adoption. But it is to the Almighty that we have to acknowledge all thankfulness for these innumerable blessings that He in His wisdom bestows on the wicked children of men. How little do we deserve His great and wonderful mercies. The vessel has now cast anchor and I feel quite a palpitation till pussy's letters are opened. I am anxious about my own pet but particularly so about poor Mama. I feel so vexed that there is nothing here I can send her, neither have I got a mat for pussy's kitchen but I must try to get one if possible. There are several of your own at Taranaki. I must enclose you some of the recent letters from there