The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1879.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 175, 24 July 1879, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1879.

Under the patronage of the Premier a moat unseemly proceeding is to take place in Wellington to-night, when an attempt to overawe the Parliament will be made through the medium of a mob meeting. It is in fact a desperate effort on the part of Sir George Grey to stave off the defeat which is so dreaded by himself, and by everybody else is regarded as inevitable. It will be a cheap entertainment, and, should the night, prove fine, the attendance will probably be numbered by thousands, and it is very likely that the sympathies of his hearers will be enlisted on behalf of the poor " hunted " old man who knows so well how to select a role Buitable to the occasion, and, having made his selection, how to act his part. We confesß, however, that we should like to see him in another chracter, namely, that of the leader of an Opposition conducting an attack that held out every promise of being upon a Government, the head 'of which should dare to appeal from the repreaeuta tives of the whole colony in Parliament assembled to a small section of the people gathered togethered on the reclaimed land in Wellington. On such an occasion Sir George would be truly grand in his denunciation of the conduct of him who had dared to intimidate the Parliament by such means. But there ia so much of the chameleon about our Premier that we are seldom surprised either at anything he does, or at his leaving undone anything which he hag promised to do. This latest move of his, however, ia overstepping the bounds of all that is decent and 'seemly to such an extent that, coming even from Sir George, it is calculated to create some little astonishment. Should such appeals to the populace of the town in which the Seat of Government happens to be become frequent, there will be but one alternative left, namely, that Parliament should meet in some such secluded spot as Stephen's Island or ,The Brothers.