Extracts from the Observer.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3921, 23 July 1881, Page 2

Extracts from the Observer.

Some of Grey's supporters, anxious to enable the Government to fill up what they call the full measure of their iniquities and not desirous, moreover, of an early election, murmur the question, what can „.;> we do to save the Government. Eeader Wood made the best speech in reply to Mr Wakefield that has yet been made. Driver has wired that he will support the Opposition. .' , It is hard to conceive the virulence with which the Government hate Ormond at the present time. Grey has had some forty thousand copies of his speech printed for circulation throughout the Colony. The Opposition remind me of Falstaff's ragged regiment, not a shirt of policy to be found among them save to the backs of one or two. A young lady, who has been on a visit to the Thames, says that the stalwart accountant in the Union .Bank is the only fellow worth looking at. It is stated here that Colbeck was waited on by Mini>terial influence before he got out of bed this morning. The Government found themselves in a funny position about Sheehau's Abolition proposal, and treated it as a vote of ' want of confidence. Sheehan had not told all members of the Opposition what he intended doing, and Montgomery got his monkey up because the party was not consulted. ■ ■ ■ There has been great interest felt in the question how Weston would vote. The Opposition, it will be remembered, put Weston into the House against the Government nominee, Fitzgerald. Since Weston's return, the Government have tried to get hold of him by every way they could. It is rumoured this evening that the Postmaster-General's lady has been very assiduous in pursuit of the same gentleman. I have a Southern electoral division in my eye which returns four members to Parliament. During the past week or ten \ days one of its representatives has been compelled to return to his home on private business ; a second has been laid up with illness; the other two have been paying alternate attention to the God Baccbus 4 and the Goddess Venus. Under those circumstances I am inclined to think another election incumbent.