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Southland Times, Issue 702, 26 July 1867, Page 3

; In an ably- written article on the speech with. which His Excellency opened the Assembly, the " Nelsoh Exaininer" demands that taxation be reduced,-and -winds -up thus — " But if neither the Ministry nor : the- Assembly- will' see or understand the crying needs ofthe country, there remains only one resource . The . .people bf this Colony must take the matter up. There are, no =dbubt, difficulties in the way of a uniform and harmonious agitation in a country such as this, but we beheve the difficulties are riot; insuperable, arid itis high time the voice ofthe public should be heard. There is ; nothing to prevent pubhc meetings, nothing' to prevent an -irresistible pressure being brought to bear upon Government, if the public Will only be awake to its own interests. We write in no, partizan spirit ; we have no hostility to the present Ministry ; we have defended it-against extravagent attacks, and supported it when we beUeved it to be in the right. But we do not wish to see any Ministry remain in office a day, longer than it continues to recognize the true cause of the public grievances, and a disposition to remove them. We wish to see the public adopt the same view, and insist upon Ministers undertaking a revision of the, tariff, -br giving place to those who will." A Descendant oe ... " Nelson." — The "Melbourne Age" says : — " Tasmania rejoices in having among her inhabitants.no less ari individual than a son of the great Nelson — that is, if an individual named R. W. Nelson, Thornton, of Port Arthur, is in his right senses and is to be believed. He has laid his case before the editor of the " Weekly Dispatch," who treats his claims rather contemptuously. We have no evidence whatever that our correspondent is what he asserts himself Ito be, a . son of the great Nelson, who,, when dying,- commended ' Horatia' to the care of his country. The girl was generally known as Horatia Thornton, and her reputed father was a gunner "on board NelsoriV : ship ; but there is good evidence for'J believing that she was really the child of Nelson and Lady Hamilton. No mention was ever made; of any other offspring ; and our correspondent must be, able to prove his parentage more satisfactorily than at'present before he can hope for public symyathy. •'.' A son of Nelson (even if illegititnate), an aged pauper in a workhouse, would doubtless create some interest. But, as we have said, he must prove his case. '.Surely,' 'if he' could prove that he' is entitled'to £1 a week -in this country, oh the simple condition of .himself receiving it, -the "colonial authorities are not ; § Q7desirous of retaining an inmate, oj the workhouse as not to assist him in" bome I 'manner. We fear there is a delusion ia the cate,"