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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 104, 17 July 1877, Page 2

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(FROM* OUR ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT.^ The apparently wanton assault carried out by a brutal mob, of winch the Times took little or no notice of, unhappily occasioned the death of the late Mr. Bell, M.P., who had been returned to the late House of Commons—at the head of the poll—for the city of London, in the Conservative interest, is supposed by not a few wellinformed Englishmen, to have been premeditated, as his stirring eloquence, sterling honesty, splendid ability, and unilinchiug courage might in all probability have assisted even more rapidly in stemming the pernicious current of political sensationalism then generally so prevalent throughout Europe, and more especially within the British Isles. Although comparatively unknown as compared with other great men, he nevertheless besieged and carried by storm the magnificent stronghold of- the " Liberals," which was generally believed to have become impregnable, both on account of the long tune which they had held undisputed possession thereof, and also because they were then at the zenith of their power through having taken in hand the gigantic job of levelling a church. Neither did it denounce one of the most n'niquitous persecutions which would, if successfully perpetrated, be a lasting disgrace to any civilized country in any age, no matter how unprincipled its government, or utteily selfish its people had become. Then how will be viewed by other of the nations of the world, either Scottish Liberalism or British freedom, since E. P. Bouverie, one of the most eminent influential and independent of the representatives of Scotland in the late venial British House of Commons lost his seat for Kilmarnock through nobly advocating the cause of Father O'Keefe ? Although any patriotic Englishman may naturally be in favour of the present British Government, yet at the same time he may anxiously desire to learn what course of action has been taken by them in this deplorable affair. Being themselves so strenuously loyal to the British Constitution, it is obviously hard for them to conceive it possible that the laws of the land could have become subservient in Ireland to the might of the Church of Borne. I will now pass on after making a few preliminary remarks to comment upon the various acts of the Disraeli Ministry since their timely advent to power. Although Disraeli has ere now been British Premier, this is notwithstanding the first time that, any administration, of which he is at the head of, has acquired both office and power simultaneously. Had the bearing , of this fact been advanced whilst the English people were so unnu'stakeably pronouncing themselves in favour of the British Constitutional party it would have completely annulled the assertion mendaciously croaked in order to delude Englishmen that any change of Cabinet Ministers would result only in the Conservative party being educated by their great leader, todo every tiling progressive that is unjustly claimed, for the Liberal party as their special work when in the gloomy shade of inglorious opposition. If the special work

of the so-called Liberals be that of violently wrenching the British, constitution in. ' every conceivable way possible,.then I imagine any one with the slightest particle of reason could refute the audacious libel. I most emphatically deny Liberal makeshift and Conservative policy to be one and the same, or was even -so when the great Earl of Derby's last administration Was sustained in office with merely a powerful and united -minority to back them, aided by a few trnty independent men ; much less can it be said to be so at the present time. However, this argument was not resorted to, except when all others equally pungent and comprehensive had availed naught. I sincerely trust that this assertion will never again be advanced until such time .as two distinct political parHes do co-exist, which shall as widely differ in minor national affairs, as did the respective Governments of Earl Grey, and of the late Sir Robert Peel, but which in matters of grave Imperial policy, as did the Cabiocta oH these equally eminent British statestnen seek above and beyond all else the welfare of the British. Empire and its best interests.