The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Rsurrexi. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4393, 1 February 1883, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Rsurrexi. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1883.

The important political news was received yesterday by telegram, that the O'Loghlen Ministry had asked the Governor for a dissolution and that His Excellency had thought fit to grant it on the grounds stated in their requisition. By the same means oar readers were informed that the Argus, the leading morning journal in Melbourne, had began to shriek in its impotent rage that the Ministry had obtained a dissolution on a sham issue, and the real cause was its fearof meeting a want of confidence motion upon Parliament assembling. Doubtless the Argus in its financial strength will, with glorious magnanimity, begotten of inflated richness, once more smile upon the "tender pup barking at the big dog," when we endeavor to point out some of its remarkable movements in connection with Victorian Ministries. When the Berry Ministry assumed office the Argus commenced to thunder forth at thorn, and, notwithstanding the fact that the Berryites were the greatest parasites Victoria was ever cursed with; their sap porters the meanest set of would-be politicians a colony over allowed to sit in her legislative hall, and finally, themselves and their supporters the most corrupt beings individually, and collectively, who ever wheedled constituencies into returning them, the way in which the Argus went to work simply secured them a long lease of office. The reign of the terrorising heroes of black Wednesday—the Berry Ministry—was prolonged by the strong (P) opposition shown to it by the Argus, and its weekly, the Australasian.. So soon as Sir Bryan O'Loghlen succeeded in turning this Ministry out of office, and assuming its reins as Premier, the Argus gushed over him and his colleagues, devoting leaders to their .wise., legislation; in fact, was lost for words to sufficiently eulogise the Premier, who, according to that newspaper's opinion of him, expressed only a few months previously—when Sir Bryan was Attorney • General in the Berry Ministry—was the greatest humbug they knew of. All the good things attainable by mortals were to be, there and then, placed within the reach of the downtrodden Victorians. The curse of the country had been deposed, the democratic God Berry had fallen, and

All the king's horses, and all the kiug'a men, &c. Shortly afterwards Sir Bryan O'Lough* leu and hia ministers do not please, this oligarchial authority, and it must necessarily attempt to condemn the actions of the party who, a few months ago it could hardly find terms to sufficiently eulogise. It's prescience enabled it to be one of the denouncers of those unfortunates who must give way to another idol, which this success-worship-ping journal waits to bow down to and acknowledge. The Argus is always in perfect accord with the new broom, but like most other early worshippers, as so>n as a strong opposition 'appear. 1)/ so do they, too—for a time— support it- -Perhaps od the same priucipie that causes juries to reaent the interference of the Judge with their functions, the people decline to be too much overridden bjji presuming Press. We will wait for the result of this laoremeut, and

trust that the Argus will refrain from bitterly attacking the weak. Honest and fair opposition has a healthy effect, but what may be desired cannot be obtained by violent or virulent diatribes delivered at a weak and falling party. British fairplay won't put up with it. We can now behold the noble, grand, and naturally endowed colony weeping orer the thoughts of what might hare been, had she been blessed with honest legislation and candid journalists. . " ■