The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-10
selves as much at home in distant colony a. in tho

The Episcopal system on the contrary having been
80 long accustomed to lean on the Of the State
and to employ the complicated machinery Of govern
ment and nicely balanced laws provided by it, finds in
its position hsre that it has every thing to
anew.
We forced to this strange dilemma that
We have to commence, and yet cannot commence. For
before we take one step in forming ecclesiastical
system we are forced to these easy inquireswhat
obligations still rest upon us by virtue Of descent
from the Anglican stock! How far may proceed
in the modification of our system? And will our mea
sures after all be invested with the necessary sanctions
Correspondence forms a very important portion Of
well conducted newspaper, both in England aud in the
United States. The editor Of the NeW Zeoiander has
whether he be beat equaled in the origi-
nslity with which he carries out the idea
"oRIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
TO the Editor Of the NeW Zeaiander:
SIR Did it ever occur to you what the end will be
OF such an influx of miserable cattle from New South
Wales have been lately subjected to? If the
townspeoplethink they will have beef cheaper
milk they will find out their mistake of what
lean cattle, If they cannot be fattened Every
blade Of natural pasture is devoured by these To-
Gusts anda dairy man told me that he has to milk if
teen cows now to get the same quantity of milk that
eight gave him last spring. None but those who have
enclosure now hope to bring beast to-
not calculate They may say go into the interior find
out But this is not pastoral country; the
land and climate are too good for this region to be
Of poor tracts of open land where you may your
stock for miles, and your sheep feeding ct gallop
but the country is too generally covered with obstruc
tive vegetation. Do you not believe us? Then go
into the bush yourself Truly yours,
RURICOLAn
"Then go into the bush yourself y is excellent; IL
editors OF newspapers adopted this suggestion their
readers would be the gamers of more reliable infor
nation.
The following advertisement bears conclusive evil
dence that the New Zealanders have "NIechanics'
Instituted "scuptorsn and .'stuf'' to make statues
out Of
"THE PUBLIC respectfully informed that there is
now exhibiting, at the Hall Of the Mechanics Institute,
statues OF the principal native Chiefs who figured in
the late northern war, made from volcanic lava in the
seat Of the waimate each
The editor Of the Nev Zealander thus discourses in
leader OF Dec 3d." The Tasmanan intelligence re-
Gently received possesses general interest unless
to those with sympathes to depore the altered condi
ton Of that noble province degraded and despo
cd by the elon brood to whose scourgng it has been
Never since the foundation Of the world, has there
been parallel spectacle to that which Tasmania
most fruitful fields, the most saubrous climate the
most INVITING territorial attractions, all the natu-
desire; to behold such country rendered the moral
cesspool Of the widely extended British empire-how
ever intolerable the curseis no reproach to its be-
aged inhabitants but the deep, the damning, tho 10
eaceable disgrace Of the wings who first devised and
still enforce, that besal conception 1t is stain
will cling to their worthless memory throughout all
time 1t will be written in characters amidst
their gnoble chronicles and after historians will in
all probability denounce them as the Infamous minis
try that paved the crime erewhc destroyed by
fire from heaven.
Tasmania appears to labor with but desire, ono
rally, socially, and physically to earth To achieve
that aim her cooniss have preferred Intellectual pc
tition to the Governor to grant tickets of leave or
passes Of removal to convcts they arrive that
the fostering corruption may be dissipated and dis
persed amidst the surrounding colonies. We cannot
blame them for the DESIRE although cannot but feel
most thankful for the protective Illustration of their
prayer longing and inquiring eye Is turned towards
a ne r .ns
say that cannot but agree that the time has long
since arrived when Van Diemens Land should be freed
from the further accumulation Of pollution.
No country has ever been scendalourly outraged.
Free settlers seduced to emigfate in order to
mariy introduced and when that object had been ef
fectualy and trumphanty achieved ministry OF
terday step into Office reverse the honest and the ho
norable Of their enlightened predecessors and
by turn astern Of the colonial Office puddle Wheel
submerge the fated province with namy Of their
filthy expectation.
The receptions practised upon unhappy Tasmania
have been of the most agtious character Earl Grey
has been guilty either Of deliberate untruth, or Of
prevaricaton and in evidence OF the fact here
our proofs, which quote from the Hobart Town
Courier Of the 18th ult.
nouncs in the most unreserved manner, the intention
Of the ministry to grant free institutions to Van Die
Sir William Denison did So The session Of Parlia-
ment according to the latest received accounts,
nearly at an end and from question put to the mi
nstry it appeared as if Van Dieman's Land were not
get the free institutions which it is intended to con-
cede to the other Australian colonies.
Sir William Denson announced the intention Of her
to Van Diemen's Land
Her majestys government has continued it in
form than
Local institutions have been promised local insti-
tutions have been destroyed.
What conclusion tho people to form-in what
promise arc the people to put their trust! They are
to put their faith in themselves alone. They must
demonstrated they must do everything In their power
peaceaby and constitutonay to their rights.
All our communications, public and private are
couched in similar strains. Murder and robbery
rife Hobart Town, late the most safe and peaceabe
hprN is Uo inf nv
wretches who scrrpie not ut noontide violence Con-
yctism Is the universal blight-the leprous curse.
competition with the free, who are fleeing for
their lives" Many have recently arrived here. and
have obtained good employment, and a friend OF ours
Town to be obtained, and dozen vessels laid on for
this port they would be filled up In less than fourand
twenty hours. Desirable as such contamination
would doubtless be to us, il 1t not deporabe that
prosperous province should be SO destroyed as
mania May thy dark hour speedily pass !"
Those who wish to know more about Tasmania are
informed that 1t Is so called from Tasmans Land,
narrow isthmus
New Zealand, at the end of some Of her campaigns,
has very unequally distributed the awards. The edi-
tor Of the New zealand paper gives his ideas about it.
in the following fashion =
"Sympathizng, as we have ever done, in the di.ap.
pointment which must have been felt by those whose
gallant devotion merited very different acknowledge
ment than that which it has pleased the powers that
be to bestow could not find it In hearts to sup
because Its interest is not quite fresh 30 exciting
as it was some eighteen months since.
Our correspondent has done justice to few Of our
gallant defenders but his list is still very incomplete
one and we conceive that good service in the South
was quite as much entitled to honorable distinction as
good service in the North Of New Zealand.
Unluckily none Of the conflicts, either South or
North found desperate cute chroncler as the Des
patch writer Of Ruapekapeka. II they had, amid an
impartial distribution Of decorations and promotion we
conceive that Captain Edward Stanley Of the Caliope
and Major Edward Last, Of the Goth regiment would
hav nvrth .tan du
ward Holmes without his step, many other brave
men without their hard won need.
We fear the matter is not likely to be reconsidered
but that the award of the Horse Guards, like Lord
John Russcls measure Of reform, carries 6nality in
its face.
Had New Zealand, as the Hum Fums Of China, pro-
duced its chests Of sycee, n medal might have been
screwed from out the capvated tin; but for kit Of
,fui aket Of hmeyas, what better than bcastly
b, ouac with abundance of hard knocks, could be sx
pected or exttrted,
Alas for martial glory when its outward honors are
conferred when terrifying horde OF wealthy pigtais
but withheld when successfully resisting OF poor
but undsunted warriorsn