THE DIVISION ON LORD HART. INGTON'S RESOLUTION.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 60, 23 November 1878, Page 2

THE DIVISION ON LORD HART. INGTON'S RESOLUTION.

T ~ ; i, aning of the late division in tin taken by cith'-r party, To the Govern men! hj is a lull aveptance by the couu try of whit! ■ ; - b"i a •'•„■'.;•■ by them ii the e inntry" name; an indemnity, if oie! wen: needed., for all u11eg,..! infrilig. ni.-nl upon the rights and privileges ~f I'ai liainent; an ann.iuiu.-eineiit in the tins plain terms that ii is with them, and in with their opponents, that the grea bodv of the has made up I: mind tosidedelinitely. Nor i- th- h-=-UI which it conveys to the Liber: :.:... : : -l-dging then -elves with mei .';. i'.t-li'i •:.:.. 'i'liev have hi en askin ijucsttoiis of a kind'the best cilcilhited 1 embarras those who had Iho conduct i aii'airs. They have been putting forwar bitter and almost insulting criticism with a necessarily imperfect knowledg of the eases to which they were appliei and with no great regard to the elf'ei they were likely to produce. Their lan guage in the late debate was, on ill whole, of a piece with what had 1 heard from them before. The division li.is the answer to il all, and the judgiuei pronounced by L'arlianienl upon its at thors. It has come down with the for, and suddenness of a lightning-stmk overjioworing all resistance, and llashiu its blaze into every dark corner and r, cess. Sudden, indeed, in one sense , the word it has not been. There hav been ominous signs beforehand—growi ings and mutterings that have preceetle the storm and have shown what \v: coining to those who have had the ears I listen to them. Now the full storm hi broken, and the most unwilling i ui n longer refuse to acknowledge the disinter it has carried with it. That the Gi vernmeiit had a majority in the I louse i Commons was, of course, well known an calculated upon. What was not know mid not calculated upon was how gre;; the majority would he, and from win unexpected quarters it would lie mad up. The victory has been a crushing om All that remains for the vanquished is t accept their defeat with a good grace. ; ,,, to lay to heart the unpleasant feasons i conveys.--London Times