Original Correspondence.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1805, 18 December 1862, Page 3

Original Correspondence.

Our columns being impartially opeu, we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. #No notice can be taken of anonymous communications. Correspondents must therfore furnish their name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. To the Editor of the Wellington Independknt, Sib, — I observe a letter signed " Alpha "in Tuesday's Advertiser, which for foul invective, vile abuse, and false assertions, I have never seen equalled in any journal, not even in Paul Pry, or papers of that low class. For goodness sake, do not descend to the same level by admitting letters of a similar description. It ie more than sufficient to have one journal, in a small community like ours, th«t will prostitute its pages by inserting such scurrilous attacks upon private character; and, for the credit ofthe Province do hot be tempted to answer such abominable trash. The malico of the writer is evident in every sen • tence, and his unmanly attempts to injure your fame and reputation are too apparent to deceive any one. You have evidently worsted the Editor of tha Advertiser by your triumphant reply to his assertions published in your paper of the I3th inst. ; and that learned pundit being unable to answer your arguments, the low dodge of traducing your character haa been resorted to. But remember the Eastern proverb, "Curses, like young chickens, always come home to roost." The letter bears internal evidence of having been written by a person in the Advertiser office and haa possibly been dressed up tor the occasion by the Editor. No one is deceived by the letter writer styling himself a Constitutionalist. The Editor of the Advertiser was no doubt at one time a member of the Constitutional Association ; but does his abuse of Dr Featherston and the principles he advocates, entitle him to be so styled now ? As to the writer of the letter, lam not aware what claim he can lay to ba styled a Constitutionalist ; unless it ia for his having lampooned Dr Featherston at the Lyceum Theatre by a mock speech he delivered there. This species of ruffianism is peculiar to that journal. You are not the only person who haa been vilified. Mr George Hunter was recently maligned in a similar manner, by a host of anonymous libellers ; and unfortunately the characters of our best citizens are equally open to be assailed by the [pack, should they happen to cross its path. Sir, take no heed of them, for nobody will bßlieva them when they speak ill of you, any more than they would believe you, should you speak well of them. Truly it has been said. — " A free press is a blessing to a free people, but a licentious press is a curae to sooiety. — Your's &c, A Constitutionalist. Wellington, December 17, 1862. [Our correspondent, who speaks from a lengthened experience of political parties in Wellington, need not feur that either now or for the future, we will take notice of any such vile personal attack, as that to which hp alludes. It very rarely happens that any colonial journal with the faintest claim to respectability, ever used such cowardly weapons ; and that the Advertiser does bo, simply-shows-how very low is its position. The bad grammar and wretched style of those letters, not to say their utter imbecility, clearly indicate the source from which they emanate. We agree entirely with our correspondent in his remarks about anonymous libellers, but the public have found out long ago, to use a somewhat vulgar phrase, "that the pack are but sorry curs after all, and the dogs won't hold." —E.W.I. To the Editor of the Wellington Independknt. Mr Editor, — Coroners are paid mileage ; summonses are charged mileage ; juries are summoned within a given number of miles ; M.P.C's. are piid beyond certain limits ; summons are charged according to the number of miles ; and yet we hive no certain Starting point, What would you think of the new Supreme Court for that purpose. I; is in the centre of the town, close to the Post Office and Custom House, and for that purpose I should propose that the Provincial Government purchase the stone column now lying in Mr Garter's yard, and erect it in the centre of two wings of the new Courts close to the foot way. It would then prove of great use in measuring distances in the City itaelf or through the country. Aa it is at present, we say it is five or ten miles to such a place from Wellington, but from where about in Wellington we do not know. It may be from Oriental Bay, or at the Queen's Head, Moles* worth-street, at Burhampore, or Tinakori road. I propose the stone inasmuch as it will last as long as the Courts themselves. It would not disfigure the area ; but it might be made ornamental, and if needed, useful, by having a good lamp affixed to it ; and if the Provincial Government should do it, would be of great utility. — I am, sir, Utilitabun, Wellington, December 16, 1362.

To the Editor of the Wellington Independent. Sib,— l had hoped some more experienced person than myself would have taken up the letter signed W. M. L. ; but as no one has so done, I venture to give my view of the difference, viz*: — The pink has smaller leaves, or grass as it is sometimes termed, than the carnation. They are white red, or white and a very dark red at the cup end of petal, serrated at edge of petal, about 1£ to 2 inches diameter. The clove is always of a dark red color, with strong pleasing scent. The carnation is divided into four varieties, viz: — The true carnation is of a light red color; the bizaree of three colors, generally a whits ground, with two distant colors running through the petals. The flake is of two colors only, red, purple or pink, in a flake on one side of petal and white on the other, and if good, will run thro' the whole flower much alike. The Picotee is the inferior variety ; a white or light yellow ground, edged with pink, red or purple — standard of m^rit. ' The guard petals well refixed, and the others well trussed up to the centre. The petals should be perfect and not at all serrated, the dark colors in all the varieties to have a slight velvety appearance, calyx entire, and when full bloomed to be not less than three inches over ; and to appear when held at the level of the eye as the end of an orange when cut off % of an inch down. The stem should be strong and firm, from 20 to 25 inches high, sufficiently strong to bear itself without tying when no wind. If Sir, you should put this in, it is with thehope, if wrong, it may induce some one else to correct it, and it will then answer the purpose intended. Veronica. N.B. — I forgot to name that there are light yellow carnation, what if bloomed in perfection are very beautiful. Wellington, December 15, 1862.