The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

Extr? t of a letter from a valued and enterprising set-
tler in Nev 7,ealand to a friend in India, which, although
not intended for pubr :ation, is of too interesting a cha-
racter to '•e kept from the inblic :
My dear —, many thanks for your two letters cf
July and August. I must say that you are an nnc, tr_
mon _Tooker. You anticipate all sorts of difficulr:c.
our settlement, and I recollect befwe we left England
your foreboding no good to the expedition. Consider-
ing you). own courage this is surprising; but I think the
tone of your last letter is hater, and looks as if
even you thouelit that we. should succeed. • My own
opinion is, that 1)0 settlement ever went ahead so fast
as this has done. In fifteen months we have a popu-
lation of 2,000 English and 800 natives, all on the most
f 4,0-ms, not one serious quarrel having occurred
during the tine. One magistrate and thirty soldiers are
our only bc,v:Tnment. A large town Ir a sprung up.
Every commodity, and most of the luxuries of life, are
found here at reasonable prices, and the necessaries of life
are cheaper hope than -;_ri England. We i.,!ve always ten
or twelve vessOs lying in the harbour, and every body
seems to be making money. Que voulex cons de plus?
Races I a theatre ! and a variety fair. You Iriians mus
have carriage.,, and palanquins and bearers, and fly-flap •
per , and nurse-bearers, but climate renders us _dile to do
for ourselve7. There has not occurred one death of
an adult from natural causes since we landed. Two
or three infante, and a few persons drowned by acci-
dents, have I,,eun the only thing like casualties. Nothing,
I can assure you, can exceed the salubrity of the cli-
mate. The men can work more than in any country
that I ever saw, and your sex looks more blooming than
in England. I hope before long my Emily will come out,
whom I shall hope to have at the head of my house. I
heard once from , who talked of coming out here.
If you write to him, say how glad I shall be to see him,
and that his fears as to ' roughing it,' aro groundless.
We have several good hotels, and houses are to be hired,-
not quite so fine as at Brighton, perhaps, but good enough
even for an invalid. I hope some of your neighbours
will try this climate, as it probably will be good for In-
dian constitutions. It seems to me to put life into the
most shattered, and everybody grows fat. I really feel
ten years younger in health and spirits since I came
here. This goes direct to Bombay by the Martha, Ridg-
way; it is our short way of sending to England. Our
town is called Wellington."

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Boldenr
dri.l on the 6th of August, the Rev. Prebendary Den-
nis,theChapterof in a learned and eloquent ..ddress, brought before
the Clergy the present state of o:Ir ecclesiastical system,
pointing out the innovations and perversions by which it
has been bo lamentably deranged ; the duties of the
Canons as assistants of the Bishop in the examination of
candidates for orders, an office, now delegated to an exa-
mining Chaplain ; the appointment of Bishops by the
Sovereign—an innovation utter!., at variance with the
principle and practice of the Church of Christ for the
first 1,500 years at least of her existence ; the heavy
blow inflicted on the Church by the cutting off ten of her
Irish Bishoprics •, the tyranny exerted over the Church
by :le silencing her voice in convocation ; the ignorance
of c,..elesia.;:ical law, even in the Ecclesiastical Courts ;
the Ecclesiastical Commission, and the recommendation
of the . suppression of the primitive Bishopric of Sodor
and Kan, which, however, the combined exertions of
the Chutvh. -,ncl the memory of Bishop Wilson pre-
ventea. These, and many other topics, the very Learned
Prebend dwelt on with much eloquence. Prebendary
Dennis has embodied the main points of his address in
a petition.