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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 36, 19 March 1873, Page 3

When in 1834 there were dissensions in the English Cabinet, Earl Grey, the Premier, was about to send in his resignation. Then it was Lord Brougham, one of his colleagues, who would have had to follow suit by also resigning, wrote to dissuade him from taking such a step, in the following terms :—- • “ How can I feel that I am justified in putting all those great interests, as well as the safety and happiness of this country, which I am bound first of all to consider, in the utmost peril, because I have not found such concurrence among our colleagues as to enable the measures I thought right to be effectually executed. • » * • The moral of my tale is this : that we must make a wry face and gulp it, —which I feel to bo bitter, but cannot be helped—and if there was ever an occasion in which it was more especially the bounden duty of us both to sacrifice’ every personal feeling it is this time ahd circumstances, ‘when we look at ineviatable consequences to eoanfry, friends, principles, and party.” And how did Earl Grey answer this entreaty? Here is his reply; “My dear Chancellor, I could neither encounter the responsibility laid upon me by your paper, and the wishes expressed by all my colleagues, nor resist the earnest representations of the King. -1 have, therefore, at a sacrifice of personal feeling, and I fear of what is more to be considered' than personM' feeling —greater than I can describe, —agreed to remain. God grant, it may epd well, but I have little hopes of it.’ —Ever yours, Gm.” The greatest compliment Mr. Waterhouse, ever received in his Jif e, arid a greater blie/thata he will ever receive again, is paid him by iA in coupling his name with * great apd honorable statesman and minister like Earl Grey. But violent contrasts are sometimes. useful.— . New Zealand Herald. I ' • -ft dil/i According to the Hawlce't Hag Her/MCs correspondent, the "truly picturesque Vfflagc •* of Waipukurau is becoming quite aristocratic; aad #«.“Mper ten’iiw tetofog fo work, with an eye to what may be made at the has had several men employed making improvearound .had> about 'JtheT Tavistnck Hotel. “The‘Mayor’ bu had heap of tan cases, old casks, and other rubbish removed and bujn*, thus making Bedford. Teripce look better than it has done for years past, ahd no doubt wa will mo that, far-iwia at the cobwebs will be removed from the front windows of his store. ! ; l,! ’ ' « ! -fcthT 1 The ‘Baron’ has been very busy with the new course, the booths, And the letting of the gates, while the ‘Chptahk* has been dancing attendance on the lot.” I «' I rf-nt.L?