ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 335, 6 August 1875, Page 3

ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.

"1 it roeriw itt do not think -was dp'' •isrned for the helm of State ; I nm so /nil .of himblo strategern?, that I should have ordered: carried it against the stream -.of. ni fn.ct.ion, with as much ease as a skipper would laver against tho The Goolins. : This week business has been plentiful,' at least the Government measures have .been submitted in their definite shape. Tho Financial S/atement was to close thV fcittingjj last-week.. The..Abolition and j Local' Government Bills wore also to bo | submitted. The rapid progress of thesej.l Measures, It is cohifectttredV Vill not be in-: sisted upon, in order to give the country ample time to protest; if it, is in the humor to do so. Probably the humor will '"fiaYQitp bp /created 'first. Public (opinion: is not apt to be a compound, develftpfpgj a spontaneous combustion. According to telegrams, Sir George Grey and Mr. Maeaware of this, intend to act'the paVfc'bf kindt&rs', of lucifers—not fateel, wq hop©, |ike, their .fiery prototype, to b<j " hfirled Jheadloner. flaming; with' horrid Tuiri and combustiohi'' Poor Mr. P,ey*

holds has been , eiven a hint to go, tortfrtke for Mr. Stafford. . The Ministry, Vpeing already . fullv. constituteflr, .cannot • tyke in Mr.. Stafford, therefore a sacrifice lias to be made, and therefore marching orders are given to the man who is popu:laHy to filVthe trturid 0. Pert haps We best of the fun is that Mr. Bey!'nolflg don't see it,' and stoutly Further, that; Mr. Stafford is riot likely to join the Government: if he is u . nsked—nrti* is it likely bc; aisked. It is not, easy 2 to se'ei wK,at 'eivif !, post Mr. '"RcynoTds could slip, into Jnst a't present. Big n.< "he is, he is hafdiv of size • to fill Mr. Gisborne's shoes as 'Commissioner of

Annuities.—Mr. T. L. ( Shepherd stamped ; the notion of tho'Governmentin re)*arn tp >the late appointments 'o.P'tlie Judges", Wtn his approval, as likely to lead -to their • greater independence : that. settles the ' qrteati6ri.—rThe Opposition, aa\all Opposiare very atixioijsr that every action ofGWernmen t shall be done aijcordih&'tjo the Constitution:—lot ifc be ConstitiHiohal,. and yrp are agreed. ISTot o in wfien the Marquis of Normariby wafc ap- ; ' tainted, Vosel is snidfrtorn thatday tohaVe-. 5 'ljecome Ministerially defunct. In the ttb'..fcfcnce of ,4he lion, every ass 'inay accordiriely.held that, ' according to all Constitutional precedent; a Ministry ceased to exist after the death . c>r. Los» of its ohidf. "As far as Sir J.iV6-

gel's lenvo of ahspncfl was concerned,, they •..r'?-.»won-H he benefited if it extended in- ' flpfinitely, as he had morVr' confidence in . ''•> present Mm 'fee Goven>Vnent still reserve bpiirtioris. a capital device. .Nothing j can 'tie' tetter than to ; endeaVor to .. 4 the Opposition outcry. Device,, indeed, 11 ttf«, thatliP|(JOntin\ipusly will be brHliant'in conception; It is fully to be-.texpeeted that Ministers will continue "to reserve their defencbj their- opinion's,,, trad 'eterything else they may lawfully own,; blr that they may unlawfolly succeed in purloining, sine die. K \ It is. to be feared it will not do—Oppcraitioti leaders al-e plentifully primed ; supplied, with'er with . inexhaustible, wind bags, blowing,hot Or C''cold, 1 accofdipg to order. In truth; v Mr. ' ,lleadej-"W"ood liifc the in ark, very neatly when' stating it was .w-ithi Ministers' as ; put it, " 'Would it werebedtime, Hal, and all were well.' They de- ' „ precated personalities, and discussipp, and indeed everything seemed "fo, make them t , ---The Pollution Bill, hjas' boen allowed to pass a second , reading, l — Mr. Macandrew stating that it did not go far enough, though in the right direction. , proved important..,as. a ;j f Blmleirient fro'ta the feoverament'thai; they had a. wish to legislate in the direction indicated.—The discussion as to the legtd'.Vity- pr illegality of .".'.▼rapes, we neea than.note. Iti is 1 ' "feonietliing lite a decapitated'criminal dp- '' peHling for a right to life after execution, Agaiiist such an active Opposition,'bristling with points, constitutional, emotl'onal, •j ; \ and what not; some stolid qualities; are< of . advantage. Possibly the present, Miniisisters can present the stolid, capacity: to advantage, without having to violate nature; Who can help thinking of Irving'a * ■ Eeadjr Money Jack Tibblets,' "whb main--1 ' tains his stand, in defiance of the radical V and all his works. Who lias- that admirable quality for an arguer 'alsO that he ■Clever knows when he is beat. He has . half a dozen old maxims,.. which he-ad-fttnees on all- occasions, and though his :... aatagonist may overturn them never so . .{. 'often,-yet he always brings them anew! to the. field. He is like the robber in Ari-

osto', who, though his head might be cut pfF half a hundred times, yet whipped it \cA Lis shoulders again in a twinkling, and " returned as sound a man as ever t6 the Vjihargo." The stolid quality is certainly , at times advantageous.—An attempt made by tlie [Reporting Debates Committee to curtail the 'Hansard' reports, and they suggested the reporters should hare some discretion allowed them, being em-' powered to give condensed reports of <le- , bates not havirtg a political significance. Against this there was a howl, Mr. Mer- • Vyri complaining that already, when speaking on a.subject of deep importance .}■ to tlie people of Otago, he had not been reported iully, and Mr. Wakefield in- ;. stanced the use of 4 Hansard' thus : " He «aid fie had spoken on the Address in Ke- . ply for an hour, and had been reported by iour lines in the ' New Zealand Times,' and not mentioned in the other papers." Major Atkinson thought that if members did not desire to see ' Hansard ' rendered bulky by long speeches, they should speak briefly, which really is the gist of the whole matter. The Committee's! report was accordingly withdrawn. ; Sir "'jjQeorge Grey did not mince matters about the late Premier's mission in England: • •" What did they want with the Treasurer or Postmaster-General in England ? They had an Agent-General, a man of great capacity (cheers from the Opposition • benches) in England, and he was able to ■do the whole of the work necessary td be done. New South Wales had an Ag'ent-. ■General, and he performed ,the wholp of the work, and so could the Agent-Getfe"' ral for New Zealand. Sir Julius Vogel had not gone' to England to serve the Coloxly, but ie believed ho had gone for the ;■<: ' purpose of securing political support:and >; He really believed that t6 be : f the object or he would not say it—theob- • jject- wa& solely to acquire political supp .rt. m Great Britain, ana he for one was deto resist, it to the.,very, as !he would the attempt to impose wrorig- £ ' fully a Constitution which was not re- :' quired. If the Government desired to '■employ Sir Julius Vogel in England, he „ would not object t,o a leave of absence, but let them say 1 fio." Let theiii' naino what' aalarythey pleased, andhe wOuldgive the inciter his consideration." In this plea-

sant way the Knight of. Kawau relieved 1 himself.—For-the rest'theVe is not much' to state. The annual hobby-riders are already in the saddlST Mr. Steward, with' -hU Wife's, .Sister ,Bil.l ;, r JIfJ O'Neil, with"liis'Plan'of' Towns tions Bill*; '©largo'- passed two' Land Bills to a second reading, never to get farther : and MrTMervyn has moved! -foiyfeturns. anep.i t saseby,. Works.—The' "law 'Honorable ■ {Legislative 1 - Gotih- : cillors, itaveiaridall .timea-pftdt. '; Having! congratulated their Speaker on his knighthood they seem to-have been considerably! at a loss ,what to .'d0..,., At. last the Hon.! Mr.' Scotland' J aAy one; member of the Council had the right to a passage in any steamer specially sent by ■ the Government Jor 'the v of members to or from any session of Parliament passing by any-port of call to which such member may belong." He (the mover) had factually been"'requested tq beians) last session. Poor "honorable gent.j a couple of notes .trembles you more than the Constitutional question, and so far ydare,honest.'— be emitted that an opinion has been obtained fronl the Minister of-Justice that; the weasels already, in .the Cpl.ony.were not imported in' defiance of the law.—The production of the Government, proposals in. a very com? .pie,te. state has/paralysed members, who aite 'cancusing'. The daily papers ajre full of all sorts, r ,of contradictory statements as to what goes on at 1 these meetings, supposed "to be held in good faith. -The that, to save appearances, forty-five gentlemen agree to a vague principle that abolition ■ is ; . while reserving their right to vote exactly opposite if cir- ■ cumstajieea require -i,t„? ; ... .. .. t) ..., ; -7 "'I "r -j-r I r- i