communication purporting to be that of the name of the gentleman who had furnished him with the copy of a letter from yourself to the bishop of New Zealand which he inserted in the "Southern Cross." 2. You will inform Mr. Brown that after the lapse of time which has occurred, and observing that Mr. Brown treats this as a personal question between himself and Lord Grey, who has ceased for nearly a year to hold the seals of this Department, I do not consider that I am called on to take any steps in this matter, and that I therefore return the sealed letter to him unopened. 3. 1 wish to inform you that although the duplicate of your Despatch was received here as long ago as August the 7th, the original containing the enclosures has only just reached me. I mention this circumstance (which no doubt has occurred through some accident) in order to account for the great delay which has occurred in the correspondence, Mr. Brown's letter being dated the 18th of November, 1851. I have the honour to be,&c , (Signed) Newcastle. Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B. &c. &c, New Zealand (Copy ) No. 95. Miscellaneous Government House, Auckland, July 14th, 1849. My Lord,— I have the honour to transmit a letter addressed to your Lordship by aMr William Brown. I should, under ordinary circumstances, have shrunk from noticing any statement proceeding from this person, and, however gross the 3 charges made against me had been, should have relied upon all right-minded persons feeling the same contempt for them that I do, and should therefore.not have deigned to give any reply to them ; but as this case is a good illustration of the attacks I am subject to from this person, I will notice this one instance ; but for the future nothing shall induce me to reply to his attacks. 2. I was first, about two years ago, accused by this Mr. Brown of having written a letter to the Bishop, requesting him to use his clerical influence to enabte me to accomplish what was described as an unjust political object. I then irdignantly denied, as I do now, ever having written a letter upon the terms of which such a construction could be justly put. I believe every one now admits that ihis charge was an unjust one. 3. In order, however, to support it, a copy of my letter to the Bishop was _ obtained by Mr. Brown in some indirect way, without either my own knowledge . or consent, or that of the Bishop, as will be seen from the enclosed letter from his i, Lordship ,i 4. 1 his letter obtained in this suspicious manner was published by Mr. Brown in his newspaper, and my Assistant Private Secretary brought me the published copy, and called my attention to the fact, that a passage in the letter I had written to the Bishop was omitted in the published letter. I, perhaps hastily, concluded that people who would not hesitate in an indirect manner to obtain a copy of this letter, and to accuse me of having made an application to the Bishop which I should have regarded as disgraceful to his Lordship and myself, would not have hesitated to go one step further,and to omit publishing a passage in the letter alluded to. 5. Your Lordship will see from the enclosed letter from the Reverend Mr. 1 hatcher, who was, at the time alluded to, acting as my Assistant Private Secreo tary, that the fault of the omission in the letter rested however with him, and not with the Editor o( the paper, and this circumstance would immediately have been discovered, it it had not been trom the indirect manner in which a copy of this letter had been obtained for publication, without the knowledge or consent of the

Enclosure, No. 1. Mr. Wm. Brown to Earl Grey, 12 July, 1849.

Enclosure, No. 2. Bishop of New Zealand to Colonial Secretary, 12 July, 1849, with Extract of Letter from Mr. Brown to the Bishop, 27 June, 1846.

Knclosure, No. 3. Eev. F. Thatcher to Colonial Secretary, 12 July, 1849.