THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Ressurix. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3313, 4 August 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Ressurix. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1879.

Fbom our telegraphed report of the proceedings in the House on Friday last, there appears to have been a lively debate on the question of what measures should jje carried through/before,the dissolution of, Parliament. It would appear,that both ■idea of the House are willing to let the Sttpply r and the Loan Bill pass, indeed the < Opposition could hardly refuse to do that, as such action would tell against.them when they went to the Country. The party manoeuvre of refusing to grant Supply is, at all times, very dangerous^ and especially so on the eve of an appeal to the Country. But the rocks on which the Government and the Opposition seem to split are the Electoral Bill, the Bepresentation Bill, and the Chinese Immigration Bill; The Government desire that these,measures should become law before the dissolution,(and the Opposition, taking umbrage in the terms under which the Governor signed the death warrant of the present Parliament, literally refuse to allow them to pass. This refusal.takes the form of a carefully-worded memo, from the leader of the' Opposition, stating- that the terms of the dissolution prepladethe. Ministry from bringing forward these; measures. In making a refusal, SirWilliam Fox could have, with the: majority he commands, refused point blank; to these Bills, and the reason that the excuse of the Governor's conditions is: made use of ,'is probably because the measures referred to are so popular with the mass of the people that a direct refusal would have an effect similar to what would j result', in. .'the event ol refusing Supply. People, however, should not be hoodwinked. The old maxim, " Where there's a will there's' a way," will hold good in this contingency, and should be made to do so. The Opposition

should assent. to these measures, which we are sure would find favor with the majority of the people; brit If they continue their opposition we feel certain it will tell materially against them when the great day of choice arrives.