THE DARK PETITION.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3585, 23 June 1880, Page 2

THE DARK PETITION.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —The thanks of the public are due to you for directing attention 'o the petition now being signed and having for its object the removal or dismissal of the E.M., and I trust that so long as it is known to bo in circulation you mil endeavour to provide us with the fullest information upon it. A list of the names of the neople who have already signed it would be a treat, and I ventire to say would afford more amujement and create more interest than the celebrated gem 15 puzzle. Were the petition a private one of course the public would have no right to interfere, but as it is not, we must demand that no action be taken upon it by Government until the vox popidi has made itself heard. So far, I think we have no cause to complain of Mr Kenrick. That he honestly endeavors to perform bis duties, end administer equal justice there can be no question. He is not however infallible, and may possibly at times err, but unless some ver/strong reasons are show n proving his unfitness to retain ou confidence it would be the height of foil ■ aot to prevent the possibleadvent of a professional king who might after pH prove to be a professional f stork. Professional men! How I shudder at the absurd pretentiousness, and vulgar insolence which characterises the majority. There are too many of them in this Colony. Wigs will soon be as abundant as fleeces. While their wearers, covered by the emblems of purity and wisdom, abundantly proclaim that a new breed combining the vicious elements of the ass with the craftness of the fox is setting at defiance the theories of Darwin. The matter, air, is assuming serious importance. Something must positively be done to reduce the number. I would suggest that our membeni introduce a bill into tbis present session of Parliament providing that at certain periods they should be deported to a lone island in the Pacific to prey upon each other and not upon us. I feel sure that professional men have something to do with this petition for these reasons among others : It is being sui.eptitiously taken round for signature/ Very few people who are known to be law abiding have been aaked to s'gn it. Only those who have lost cases in Court, or have malice to gratify, are known to have signed it. False representations are made to induce unthinking people o sign without reading it, and honorable men who have real it have in all cases positively refused to be parties to it. Now had others than professional men promoted a petition it „ would have been submitted to the full light of public criticism, and have been endorsed or condemned according to its merits. Let there be light.—l am, &c., •■:■■' Eclipse.