(Enclosure/ No. 2.) St. John's College, 12th July, 1849. Sir.— I have the honour to acknowledge your letter of this day, with a copy of a letter addressed by Mr. W. Brown to Lord Grey, and I have no hesitation, in complying with his Excellency's request, that I will '-forward copies of any correspondencs which may have passed between myself and Mr. Brown. So far as I am concerned, I place the correspondence in his Excellency'* hands to use in any way which he may think proper. It will be seen in my answer (No. 2) to Mr. Brown, that his Excellency'! letter to me of 30th August, 1847, was not given to Mr. Brown with my knowledge or consent. The words of my letter in which I enclosed the above letter of His Excellency's, were these. Pursuant to this resolution (i.e. of the Church Missionary Society), I placed myself in communication with his Excellency Lieut. Governor Grey, and have received from him a letter which I send herewith for your perusal, to be returned to me at your leisure. From the above extract, it will appear that I considered his letter to me as the result of communications from the Church Missionary Society, and as having therefore no political or legal bearing whatever. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your most obedient and humble Servant, G. A., TL ti 11 Zealand; Honorable the Colonial Secretary. (Enclosure, No. 3.) St. John's College, ~. _ July 12th, 1849. - le ply to your letter of this day's date, enclosing the copy of a letter addressed to you by Mr. Brown, and also the copy of a letter addressed by him to Larl Grey and requesting me to explain how it happened that certain words were omitted in a letter addressed by the Governor to the Bishop during the time that I was acting as his Excellency's Assistant Private Secretary, while they were entered in the letter-book and in a copy of the letter which was transmitted to the Secretary of £ tale. I have the honour to state that the words in question follow the words "not that I wish to impose upon your Lordship the trouble of even reading this letter, if you do not desire it," and* are "much less of expressing any opinion upon it.' That they were in his Excellency's original draft, that they were inadvertently omitted by me in making the transcript of that draft, which was signed by his Excellency and forwarded to the Bishop, that I entered the letter in the office letter book from the original draft, and that I believe I also wrote from the original draft thecopv of the letter which was forwarded to the Secretary ot State ; but of this last I am not certain, as Mr. Thomas, who was then Private Secretary, sometimes made the copies of documents which fprmed enc osures to espatches. I may state, however, that in forwarding copies of documents to the Secretary of fctate, the responsibility of their being correct ested entirely with me, and that they were never seen by his Excellency, neither if 6 . the Co P les ln tlie letter book examined as to their correctness, except by myffs „ cas 1 c in question, I compared the letter as published in the Southern Cross with the copy of it in the office letter book, and pointed out to nlrt. the , T 1 ? 810 " ° f the words above quoted, which I knew formed 1 ot the original draft which I found entered by me in the copy in the lette r