The Evening Star TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1875.

Evening Star, Issue 3918, 14 September 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1875.

The Extra published by our morning contemporary yesterday, as a solution of the Abolition difficulty, contains so much that is improbable that, although we felt it due to our readers to quote it, Ave have no faith whatever in it. For a majority of two-thirds of the House to. agree to such a compromise, which would virtually concede the whole matter to the opinion-divided minority, is an absurdity too glaring for any journal to swallow, excepting the < Daily Times ' or < Evening Post*' It is inconceivable that even the active imagination of a canard manufacturer could expect those most gullible of all gullible journals, still less the country, to believe a Ministry could be found that, supported by a majority in their refusal to leave a new Parliament to settle the question, should yet practically remit it to their decision. We are quite prepared to think the Opposition capable of making the proposals. They are not very pa£ ticular in what they say or do. There are among them good tacticians, up to all the moves and dodges of Parliamentary practice; but the rawest member of the House would not be led to advocate such a proposal as that a Bill should be passed this session, subject to revision by the new Parliament: that m fact, supposing both Houses agree to ! pass the Bill, the new Parliament shall have power to undo all that has been done by adopting a resolution the effect of which will be to prouounce the time and labor of this session mere waste. Suppose an agreement so absurd had been entered into, with what prospect could the Bill be sent up to the Legislative Council for discussion 1 The inevitable answer would be : we cannot submit to be insulted by being asked to take part in such a farce. Either the provisions of the Bill must become law, or the measure must be rejected : there is no half way between the two. No Governor would consent to an arrangement that would bring everything in the country to a deadlock. No Provincial Council to meet again ! What arrangement will be made for carrying on Provincial works? What nonsense to suppose any Government insvane enough fto 1-eave administrative powers in a state of foe *vw with the best Act oi Parliament it is fto t always possible to understand what

is law, but with one that is contingent for its legality upon the accidents named in the telegram, the result would be inevitable confusion in every • department. No one would know what the resuscitated Provincial Councils, released after twelve months' hybernation, would be capable of doing in the way of mischief. The telegram must have been the work of some practical joker, waiting in the spirit of a broad grin to see how far the innocents of the South can be made to swallow nonsense. Before this article is published, most probably something may be known of what the compromise really is, assuming one to be arrived at. Wo venture to say, whatever it is, it will differ very materially from that which our contemporary was in such a mighty hurry to publish yesterday, and which, in his exuberance of joy, he has assumed to be true, and written about to-day.