MR COLEMAN PHILLIP'S LECTURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 2 August 1882, Page 2

MR COLEMAN PHILLIP'S LECTURE.

.."Ij.. "fabtyin •About 100 persons assembled to listen to,. 'the above lecture in the upper-room btthe' Mtftnte, Mr Grundy (president of the DoibatinuSocioty) in .the ohairi The lecturer, . Ifavihg been introduoefl by the ohairman,';sMd]the*obj6ct was one.with which, per.. 'Npvthey were not very familiar, but fie' ; ■ho|e4-to,,makbthem.so before'he -M. .-f?H' •$ 9 • tsr,uß aD <* Tory lot •Libera and Conservative) first arose in (fat tune] of Oharlea 11, but in ordir to fairly -understand iwhaUwlS tafinVlby partyr V^Twnmea.fth^infistifthmVSfthQ^J*: %aik He would tatottiem backrtolhe -important period 'fptHliem%MrilJd«. ,M»KiP T %w Zealand ther*e»: Jorwing tpwiu. nitp mM6ipalitiej,igM6-: Wf«?litepMpiiweta«i.were.en--40790] in. Master p that dav&:.ThW' %H« $■; wiodjp' pSrtie|«i :-Bntjsfrabd.'the-Homa& patties. ■^•fSP^JSmttfrgteitiStaiim'. RSJtyJunder.;Heni|ifl^. A 9d.!'rloieß.l Thi E l >«Bv(p?.Ma tbeKoraaniaed Saxon-Entrlish partyt'lTfttf' power wifc&b^

ten himlete formed a "hundred," Over both 'hamlet aud hundred were appointed " headlmetu!! f ;Thenrthere were ridings • aud counties over, wliieh .head mon were appointed called Beevea or Shirnreoves, (called by us at this day Snoriffa). In those days Mr Warded would have been balled the Shirereeve.- v. We had tha HagletßJn.New-2ealandßnch B|on lT Which*w«fl¥6t largaeniipeVtn be a mujiiDippy,-Hundradsi;3rei(ted by Sir' and counties 'and Bidjhgarijaje'fa'all .'parts' of Sttmnohf|r the Saxon form WM&M&kffl dfdSr.pt think Major Atkinson could hare thought miioh of ;whai he was doing wlunr he Bont out a to tbift fyiUito) which . had "ourvived bo many the Daqei, just the same m yV cams to: the Forty-mile Bush,- onkjftiW they iJSft^^^i'T'PP 8 bould/jidged/ the effecTtheUaneshadon the land by the name'aeh , dedin <, Bt)n, ,, oainefromthetiorth PblEpglajid.iaudjtfferei-.desoended' from Qine?; ; gtiwas inteiesting' to traoa histotf by .means of names, whiqb Could ,#s* W . 4'Wfi]by •(? |«tuamir M undent Mr Vila was also of Norman (from villa, a village) Mr- Bee,tham w4 puvi)(Sa)io«,'fas all names endingjy.llh,, t)ham! , !WHre,o J Chamberlain waa aißomanname. The leomrer hereg*»e a brief sketch of ifc N ; .r,i»n,.pariol' ErofothornW ; their>ous. button and .thejßecbnd House or House of Peors. He : ■ qfloW .from M. Guizot's work to show 1 Chamber, and Bn.p.*M,how;naturatly tho Chamber was |Ps^s*W% a B«feguard, ( for.the ' .^bpl§i|.;tfas; v He sketched (he calling ■together?! the firat Parliament by Simon ? A B i .pointed ;»ut that.'if tho tort; barons;had remained mi their brads 5 •iuajonly.djialftw'lth their iuferiors whit ;great'power they; would wield, but when githered in-the Chamber they met their j 'equals WdHheir power was limited. M, Guizet showed clearly that r the two ' WteweM ne'cttgary; '• After'glanoing f! *».-prtw*. In. the. wars, of. Moses : .atid the method Henry VIII. adopted to get" hia money bills passed, viz., by , Premier'a head • if they were not, the lecturer said he now : came.to: the greatiWhig'and Tory parties, having oleared up roughly tbs state of ! politioa to. that iime;' He : explaiied the "origin of the word' Whig' as : being the -terra .attached lo the Covenanters or ' Reformers', aud 1 that of Tory as applied to those - "who^iuii'g' tb'Told v fwmß and-' institutions, 'Hb'alladed tol the the T aotion of Gladstone (a-'Whlg)-in expelling tho Irish, reformars from; the House but. claimed that he waa -juatifiod by-" their cinduot' in v jo doing. He gave . the state of parties in the lime, of Charles 11, after the llostorajinn, and said that" now it would be hard, 'to say whether Tory .* Whig looked beat . aMEngland'sintereßtß, In New Zealand they had no party becausothey hadno J late thcmkoKfls, a* «vn'n-ihmr «rrom might ; p'rovoibenpfiqiK. Tliu lut-turur hrioily ' alluded to the Eastern, Question and gaife some anecdotes of great men, desoribed ■. ,thb paMinVof.tne. Habeas Corpus Act, - the appniritmont of the' first speakor, :and 1 the action of the Triumvirate. He said the working of o.iu|d:bin better i'Explained , He .thought it, would be y,ery advantagpoiS . to..the Pooiety, if,these and'other gentle- ; .men. atta'»ded',tha meeting of the Debabng -.Sooiety 'to temper its democratic tendenoy... He had'Mkei)Slr l %nalita.-doso, ajid.wonW|sk J MrßeethiuarH f aHe had ': his time he would not] go fumter int» the paper he had prepared, , but T .thanM them for their attontiou. k The Ohairmaii thanked Mr Phillips on and a vote of thanku wan pa6sdd" by tho meet- • ingrwhioh theii"dispefßed. .