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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 30 October 1852, Page 7

Colonel Campbell has forgiven us. As our readers will see to-day, he once more uses our columns as the medium of his official notifications. We regret, indeed, that we can give no account of the generous motives which have induced the gallant Gentleman to renew his addresses. His flirtation with the Wellington Spectator appears to have been unfortunate ; but which party jilted the other, we do not know. Since that amour he seems to have coquetted with the Government Gazette ; for we have seen some of his notices in that organ of official communications. But the dulness of the Spectator, and the tame officialism of the Gazette, appear to have ill-suited the daring flight of his wandering fancy; and so, stung with remorse, or compelled by the Executive Gods, or finding that he has mistaken the extent of our circulatiou,\ve know not which, he returns to the columns of his first love—a sadder man certainly, if not a wiser; for his style has lost much of its racy humour, and its ancient vigor. It has been sorely scarred in the conflict with an ungrateful press and a neglectful public. The Commissioner is but the /wreck of his former self ; he has "subsided" into the common place, and has becora,e almost intelligible. Still, such as he is, \ve welcome him back to our columns with all the constancy of early though betrayed affection ; and any little nonsense he • may still, from time to time, have to pubil lish, shall receive all the attention we have ■ ,\, ever paid to his manuscripts. : > h Many-tongued tame relates, however, that £'the eccentricities of this remarkable man, " in proportion as they are withdrawn from , ; tlie wider sphere of public criticism, are concentrated upon the fortunate and retired neighbourhood in which he dwells. Remote from the importunities of squatters and from the turmoil of public business, and cnnuyed with profitless fishing off the half tide rocks—the gallant veteran, returning in imagination from the close of his days to the scenes of his earlier youth, appears anxious to get up a new Peninsula war in this remote corner of the world. Upon . this subject, however, we forbear to dwell further, until we shall have received a report of his recent proceedings at Akaroa, which we hope will arrive in time for our next number.