ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Issue 2, 27 October 1857, Page 2

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

« THE PEERS OF ENGLAND." To the Editor of the Colonist, Sir—ln the first number of the Colonist, under the above heading, you give the names of " Lords Brougham, Denman, Langdale, Truro, Cranworth, Campbell, St. Leonards, Lyndhurst, &c, have all started from the people." Will you have trie kindness to inform your readers what portion of the human race do not belong to the " people ?" _ Yours, &c. POPULL To the Editor of the Colonist. Sir—l take the liberty of asking the merchants and inhabitants of Nelson, why. they allow all the trade to slip out of their hands by not encouraging prospecting for gold in the vicinity of Nelson I I have been over all the leading places where gold is found on the Collingwood side, and from the similar appearance, here, have no doubt many available gold fields would be found, were there sufficient inducement offered for respectable prospecting parties. If they are determined to stand in their own light, and allow other parties to benefit by the sale of their goods, Nelson, instead of going ahead, will not in the least be benefitted, but the reverse, as shipowners will see it to ther advantage to send their vessels direct to Massacre Bay instead of calling en route at Nelson. Through the column:* of your valuable paper you may yet instil into the minds of your townspeople the .propriety of adopting immediate'steps to keep their trade at home and encourage their consumption, before many, who must leave, will abandon the coiintry in despair rather than be at the individual expense of prospecting here for the benefit of the public at large. There is, I believe, one party out who no doubt will exert themselves to the utmost j but, from the difficulties of travelling here, very little of the country can be prospected by a single party- ...... ; . , ~ ._..;. Trusting you will excuse the liberty of making the foregoing remarks, .1 am, sir, Yours respectfully, ; _ • -•■; ■■: - X. B; Speech and Silence;— The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers, but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasure received. If, therefore,; the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than ' they are received it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase. But if the receivers take in still without uttera'lice the mind may soon grow a. burden to itself, and unprofitable to others. I will not lay up too much and -utter nothing, lest I be covetou§; nor spend much and store up little, lest Ibe prodigal and poor.-— Bishop Hall.