The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1884.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4687, 15 January 1884, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1884.

We learn by the last mail that the recent meeting of the Annexation Conference in Sydney has been very freely criticised by the English Press, and that several of the leading papers attach the importance warranted by the meeting and its expressions, to it. Two prominent journals speak of a "Republic of Australasia," and refer to " Southern United States " respectively, and this is precisely what we, in previous issues, pointed out as tbe inevitable consequence of the parent country's neglecting to attend to the wants of her colonies. Another English daily refers to the disfavor into which Lord Derby's administration of the Colonial Department is falling, and this fact is, without doubt, a favorable result, brought shout by the resolutions of the recent Conference, the persistency with which colonial interests are pushed, the zealousness with which they ape watched, and the general alacrity displayed ,qa behalf of the colonies by the respective Agents-General in London. We have not the laas£ doubt that very considerable good will eemtt from these circumstances, but we would

urge undiminished agitation in favor of our wants being attended to. We ask but little, and that should not require demanding, yet, it would seem that it does. The " United States " and " Republic suggestions of our British contemporaries are not too remote, if the colonial voice be unheeded. The shock-

ing contemplation' of its shores being polluted by the vilest cleansings of a foreign clime, should arouse Australasia's just indignation, and make her feel that " the Lord helps those who help themselves." Without attempting to indulge in rebellious thoughts or seditious utterances, we cannot but express a belief and hope that the recollecttion will arise that, should our just demands not be listened to, or our interests be deemed unworthy of considera* tion, the remedy lies in our own hands ; and—having any "declaration of independence " farthest from our minds—we would simply point out to " the powers that (temporarily) be " the wisdom of devoting some attention to those things now put in the form of prayer, but which may assume the shape of something sterner, with an alternative attached.