The Globe. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1874.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 128, 28 October 1874, Page 2

The Globe. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1874.

Many letters in our columns lately, hliow a widespread feeliug of dissatisfaction with the powers now reigning at the Government Buildings. The general attack is made upon Mr Maude, the Secretary for Public Works, but we think it is scarcely fair to blame him for everything. There is no doubt he works hard, but he is a slow thinker, and with his well known indecision of character it is not to be expected that he can do onehalf the work done by his predecessor, even had he not his hands pretty well full of General Government work. But we think the Acting Treasurer, Mr Jollie, should bear his share of the blame which is attached to that department. Complaints, if not loud, very deep, are made by contractors, and others, as to the length of time they have to wait for their cheques, as compared with with the time when the last treasurer was in office. Then again, there is his Honor the Superintendent, who appears to have abandoned the reins of Government entirely, on condition that he may be allowed to run about the country as he chooses, and have the Bole control of the Hospital, Lunatic Asylum and Immigration arrangements. Bye the bye, we congratulate his Honor on the quiet way in which he has worked that little Quail Island job of his, but we shall have something to say about that arrangement at a future time. There is deep dissatisfaction amongst the mercantile portion of the community with the new regulations on the railway with regard to the removal of goods, and also amongst the general public, from the absurd and unequal reduction in the passenger fares. All this has been working beneath the surface for some time, and the date is not far distant when the usual results of suppressed discontent will be exhibited.

Yesterday we saw the announcement in the shipping intelligence that Mr Kennaway had left for England, and we are naturally led to ponder on the reasons which have led that gentleman to leave the province, and the benefit or otherwise that the public have derived from the breaking up of his Government. As far as can be seen at present, the change has resulted in a general discontent in all the departments of the Government, both indoors and out, and an inefficient aud shilly-shallying administration of affairs generally, at an expense of about treble that of the late Government. Great things were at oue time expected from the saviour of the couutry, the venerable President of the Executive, but those shoulders may shrug, and that wise looking head may shake a long time before the public will have their old faith restored, or their new faith, that there is anything in the honorable gentleman beyond a desire to ride on the crest of the wave of popularity, shaken.