The Oamaru Mail SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1880.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1230, 27 March 1880, Page 2

The Oamaru Mail SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1880.

That highly Conservative journalistic authority—the Timarn Herald—has been denouncing "the extremes towhicli even our greatest public men, 31 r. Gladstone and Mr. Bright, for example, are allowing party heat to carry them." It is surprising what an amount of selfsufficiency falls to the lot of some men, and we think that hot Conservatism does not tend in the least to neutralise it. Mr. Gladstone has just carried all before him in Scotland —politically and otherwise. He is a mental giant, head and shoulders taller than the foremost of his compeers. The savants and the intelligent people of that country have been sitting at his feet and partaking of an intellectual feast such as is seldom afforded them. He has told the people how the policy of the Disraeli administration has got into a knot, and denounced the little wars iritich have characterised its career, and on# of which still runs its sanguinary course, having cost millions of money, and not a little of the tlower of the British army. He allnded to the Irish Famine, and if he did so in a manner uncomplimentary to the Government, rfi was not his fault. The Government • have invited such severe denunciations. But we suppose that it would have been subversive of the high principles of Conservatism to have promptly met this great difficulty which had arisen amongst a nation of radicals. Of course they were reaping tta fruits of their political misbehaviour itrul unsubservlence. This is the man whose ears tingled the other day when the Article hi i}le Herald was launched upon an admiring community—may we not sav, an admiring vwid. This man, who has been feted and almost worshipped as the highest of the highest tvpe of the human race ; who has made J more orations than any other man of whom we have record. Who appears to know everything find to have made si speciality—if we may be allowed to Ti.se the terra—of every science and language; who, when Chancellor of the ilxcheqaer, received despatches, made experiments with Sykes' hydrometer, answered the letters of financial amateurs, conducted a well-sustained correspondence with half-a-dozea Greek scholiasts on Homer, translated some scores of "Eynglfeb hymns into Latin veise, aa3 uarotp occasional letters of

•10 pages to a lawyer on some nice legal j>oint. TliLs is the man whom—together with him whose name is expressive of his ability, and who was a co-worker with the lamented G'obden in bringing abont one of England's greatest reforms—the Herald, a paper published in a town in Jsew Zealand that ranks as number 6 or 7, has had the effrontery to Ircture. To what extremes of absurditv, if not absolute mental aberration, the espousal of a policy will sometimes bring some men.