Origanal Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 328, 14 July 1849, Page 3

Origanal Correspondence. To the Editor of the New Zealander.

Sir, — I beg to thank " Ex-Editor" for the complimenc he paid my coun'rymeu n\ hu let'er of fhmsday lrf»l. lie tl»ink3 represenUtion woul.l " split 'ip the constituency into two most violent parties-— Scotch n»ii L Mi." The Eng'ish, of course, would manure things dtffeivnt'y. Sir, 1 cannot see what Mr. Fx-Elilor would be at. Is he a man v\ln has an inteiesi in the well f>eini< of this co'ony ? If so let lam look at our p aition and prosp ct-. fully and seuch n;ly, and with il disiniereiiediy as an jadnidu >1 ; and, 1 1' car not, tlut lv

will see with me that, under tlie present irresponsible and despotic form of Government, the colony is, with, all its golden fetters, at a stand, stil or even worse. Let the colonists govern themselves, a"d we shall soon have a glorious change in the prospei ts of our adopted land. No half measures will do; lie whole of our internal affairs should be in the hauMs of those who are best neqminled with them and the land would he bought md sold unres ricte lly like my other commodity, Wou'd Mr. Ex- Editor s^t up an occasional elrction ebullition against the freedom and permanent welfare of the country > I am, &c, An EKGLrsHMAtr. [The '■ Ex-Edi or" and the • Englishman" have both overlooked the fact that there is another class of inhabitant! of New Zealand, v»hi> have some inteicst in ill prosperity, as well as English, Irish, and Scotch. Howeter custom my it is for our I'iiends of the Southern Province to leave the aboriginal population <>ut of the question when di.<u sintj ihe subject of re' presonla ive institutions, it is not often that we of the North forget them in connexion with il ; nor would it behove ua to do so, for nothing 'vculJ, nor indeed should, retard our having theB>- lightful prvi'eges conferred upon us, unless it were an appaiei t desiie on our pair to preclude the uadves fiom a voice in the government ol tbpir cnuntrv — Ei> 3