The Globe. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1876.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 724, 14 October 1876, Page 2

The Globe. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1876.

If Sir George Grey and his party ever entertained the slightest hopes of securing the interference of the home authorities in favor of provincialism, the publication of the despatch of Lord Normanby to Earl Carnavon must have dispelled them. Thd whole question at issue is there placed in such forcible terms, and the arguments and misrepresentations of Sir George Grey are so mercilessly exposed, that Lord Carnarvon can have no difficulty whatever in arriving at a conclusion. It is not our intention in this article to repeat in another form the arguments there set forth. We refer our readers to the despatch itself, which we publish elsewhere, only remarking that it is by far the most crushing blows which has yet been aimed at Sir George Grey and his party. The debate which took place on the question yesterday after - noon showed how keenly the blow was felt; no attempt was made to parry it. Sir G. Grey and his followers had evidently had their breath completely taken away, and could only whine in pitiable accents at the unfairness of the attack. When completely placed hors de combat it is not easy to maintain a smiling countenance, and frankly acknowledge the superior skill and prowess of an antagonist. Sir George Grey has on more than one occasion during the session attacked the Governor in person, and had he the smallest spark of pluck and manly feeling, he should have acknowledged that 'in the present instance the Governor has had the best of the encounter. But, instead of that, we are having a miserable whine regarding the general corruption of the human race ; the Ministry, the press of the colony, and even the great Times itself, are, we are told, ail in league to compass his destruction. They have all been bought, and are all bent on ruining him in the eyes of the colony, Great Britain, and her most gracious Majesty herself. Were any other man in the House to talk such unmitigated nonsense, except Sir George Grey, he would be looked upon as having lost his senses entirely, and unfit to be at large.