The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY MAY 15, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1674, 15 May 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY MAY 15, 1874.

The Education--um has been . settled,-^ 6 learn ty telegram, by the consenting to allow the motion for the second reading of the bill to pass on condition that it be withdrawn in Committee. Was ev<>r suGh child's _play ? We did expect that the Executive would make a stand for their principles, but it appears they have none. The Superintendent embodies his ideas on the subject of Education in a draft bill, which is submitted to his resppnsible~acTvisers. They out up the Super's little bill, and from its - mutilated remains they construct another measure, which the Council almost unani- ' moualy rejects. The question suggests itself, what must have been the nature of . the draft submitted by His Honor ? It may hare been a very good measure, or it . may hare been a bad one, but it could not powibly have been a greater abortion than that introduced with so much " preparation " by the Provincial Treasurer. It is but fair to assume, therefore, that the draft bill submitted to the Executive ' by-the Superintendent was a measure - more suited to the requirements of the Province than was the bill introduced by the Treasurer, which we were assured was the outcome of his Honor's ideas after extensive alterations by the Executive. It is to be regretted that his Honor the Superintendent did not indicate to the Council his own views on the question of education in a clear and distinct manner without seeking, the assistance of his responsible advisers. As ..events have proved he would have been quite justified in such a course, because the Executive, while disclaiming any responsibility as a body on the Bill before the House, did not scruple to assert their right to alter and amend His Honor's views on Education. The Executive are evidently at sixes and sevens On educational .matters, and they shirk the consequences which an adverse vote on a Ministerial question would entail by claiming the right to vote individually on a Government measure. We question Yorj much if Ecsponsible Government was ever before rendered so contemptible. For the sake of retaining office the Executive are evidently willing to take any amount of slaps in the face, or even good straightforward blows from the shoulder sooner than risk their billets. They were too lavish in promises at the first, and the disappointment of the public is proportionately groat. The sudden fusion of _ opposite elements in the Executive was always looked upon with suspicion by those who knew anything of the members, and it is unaccountable—knowing that there is the internal weakness of a house divided against itself in the Executive — why the majority will not cast out the Jonah which has brought them into such difficulties. Perhaps before the session is over we may hear more about the matter, but should the Executive succeed in retaining their seats, we prophecy that a disruption will occur—that it can only be averted, indeed, by the Treasurer's taking a back seal and deferring a little more to the experience of his colleagues, who have long since discovered the refractory and unreliable nature they have to deal with in tho person of Mr. G-. M.Beed.