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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3820, 26 March 1881, Page 2

At the Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening the Rev. Mr Neill's lecture will be on " The Immortality of the Soul." This subject having been brought somewhat; prominently before us lately by Mr G. A. Brown, of Auckland, it will be interesting to hear the arguments used by Mr Neill in favor of the orthodox theory. The usual monthly Church Parade of the Nuval Brigade and Cadets takes place tomorrow. Mbs Simpson notifies that she is prepared to renovate feathers, hats, &c, at the Thames Dying Establishment, Brown street. Pabbnts should call at 0. G. Farrar's, Pollen street, and try the preparation known as Turner's Carminative. It is highly Bpoken of for all complaints of children, one gentleman, at present resident on the Thames, having used it for a number of years in his family. The Masters of the Masonic lodges on the Thames notify brethren re the ceremony at the Choral Hall on Wednesday next. Return tickets by the Rotomahana, 10s each. At the R.M. Court yeisterday in the case Verrall v. Onjon and Spencer, a claim of £8 for rent of the Memsahib, His Worship reserved judgment till Monday. The manager of the Queen of Beauty Comyany notifies a call of one shilling, payable on the 15th April. A mine manager for the G-olden Belt Mine, Coromandel, is required. Applications to ba sent to Mr F. A. White, of Auckland. Mb Speight will probably address his constituents on Monday evening next in Auckland previous to visiting Sir George Grey at the Kawau. The Observer 3ays : —Gt-old was so source in one of the Auckland banks the other day that a person who presented a cheque for a very small amount, and wanted it in coin, could not be accommodated. The teller told him there were only two half-sovereigns in the establishment and he did not like to part with them without the consent of the manager.j j The manager was not in at the time: bo the customer had to accept notes.

Aitee the usual weekly parade of the Engineers last evening a meeting was held for the purpose of deciding concerning the Te Awamutu Euster encampment. Captain Small presided, and there were fully 70 members of the company and band in attendance. It was unanimously decided that if Captain Small elected to go, the company to a man would attend. We are informed that as Captain Small has decided to go, the Rangers will probably reconsider their, decision not to attend, and add to the strength of the Thames Battalion. Lieut. Denby proceeds to the Waikato via Auckland this evening to make all the arrangements necessary. It is estimated that the Thames contingent will muster 400 strong, and it is probable a similar number of the Auckland Volunteers will put in an appearance, go that, with the Cavalry and the Coromandel Rifles, there should be over 1000 of New Zealand citizen soldiers on the plains of Te Awamutu on Easter Monday.

The Liberal Pall Mall Q-uzette is publishing powerful articles on the terrible misrule of Ireland. " Nowhere," says the Gazette, •' is regard for freedom and law more vigilant than in England; yet, oddly enough, nowhere is it easier to raise a sharp cry for the suspension of freedom and law in another country. In the ouse of Ireland, many among us are ready to call for the establishment of arbitrary rule sis if we were the Russians or Austrians of thirty years ago." And the Gazette continues: —" We are incessantly told that the great need of Ireland is a respect for law. It is an odd way of beginning to instill respect for law to abolish law. It is not too much to say that nothing has done more to breed the spirit of indifference to law in Ireland thun the fact that she has been so continually placed undpr the iron hand of exceptional coercive legislation " " The Executive," says The Times, "is not strong enough to deal with the agitators; the speaker can shelter himself under the plea that he has broken no law." If this be so, the proper remedy is not the violent one of suspending Habeas Corpus, but an alteration made with proper deliberation in Parliament in the law of seditious or disorderly writin? or speaking. It is assumed tbat if the Habeas Corpus is only suspended, Mr Parnell and his allies will be either silenced or locked up. But it is against the genius of English freedom, and not only of freedom, but of real order, to lock disagreeable people up when they havo not committed an offence against the law. If the law is inefficient for its purpose, call Par» liament together and mend it. Any other mode of aotion is merely a disguised form of that perilous doctrine of public safety against which Englishmen have always been foremost in protesting, whether as practised by revolutionists or tyrants, by Eobespierres or Mouravieffs. We do not want to hear that " order reigns in Ireland" on the terms on which Europe once heard that order reigned in Warsaw.

The old established business of Mr C. Joynt has fallen into other hands, Mr W. Gribble having purchased same from him. In another column, Mr Gribble gives public notice of the change, and asks for a continuance of the support accorded to his predecessor. The new proprietor is no stranger here, being well-known to nearly all old residents, and w« heartily wish him success in his nert venture.

Bx the bye, looking over Hansard, we find that Fox, Fu'.ton, and Kelly, three of the mo9t pronounced Government supporters, were amongst the strongest in expressing their hope that (Government would not remove the proclamation from Patetere uutil the House had an opportunity of considering the whole question next session. Fox was particularly strong on this point,and Hall was so touched by his speech that he promised the Government would not act without giving due weight to the opinions of tho gentlemen " whose opinions they valued and who had generally noted wjfch them." This oocured only on the last day of the session, yet Patetere is already gone and all Fox's harses and all Fox'§ men will not be able to pull Patetere buck again. How will they take the disappointment and the course wbiob the ministers have so promptly adopted P—Objerrer.