HINTS FROM HANSARD.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 550, 4 September 1869, Page 2

HINTS FROM HANSARD.

THE RELATIONS OF ENGLAITO TO TIIE COLONY. Mr Vogel: I scout altogether the notion that there is any humiliation whatever involved in the fact of the Colony making application to the parent State for assistance. There is none whatever. It is the duty of a parent country to supply assistance to its dependencies. This is not only a common sense view, but it is sanctioned by the experience of all past time, let us look back as far as we like. There is no humiliation in looking for assistance from the mother country—except, in the eyes of the honorable member, the humiliation of not being independent of the mother country. Of course we are not independent—we are a Colony j and while

we are a dependency of the mother country, there is no humiliation in asking for assistance. Those who talk about humiliation—and the two members of the late Government especially—mean that there is humiliation in the Colony being a dependency. Do not let the honorable member dare to talk about our going down on our knees and asking for troops. We are doing nothing of the kind: we are for the first time approaching the Home Government in a straightforward manner, and expressing our readiness to pay for what we ask. We are not going about it in a shilly-shally manner; we are,- I say, approaching the mother country for the first time in a dignified and becoming manner, without concealment or deceit. It might appear more dignified in the estimation of the honorable member opposite, to write impertinent memoranda which would never be read by those for whom they were intended. I think it will be found that the course we propose will be accepted as the dignified course by the Colony and by the bome country.

THE GOVERNMENT'S NEWFOUNDLAND. Mr Hall: We are all familiar with tho engraving, from a well known painting, representing a noble Newfoundland dog, which had just rescued from the water an interesting little child, which it is bringing to the shore, holding by a little garment which I need not precisely mention. The noble instinct of the animal, of which that picture is an admirable illustration, no doubt led to the fact of a member of the House of Commons, who was a warm supporter of Lord Melbourne's administration, and who was often in the habit of rushing in to save that Ministry when it got into danger, obtaining for himself the title of " The Newfoundland dog of the Melbourne administration." The honorable member for Clive seems ambitious of distinguishing himself in the same manner. When the resolutions of the honorable member for Selwyn were before the House, thehonorable member for Clive brought forward an amendment, and, with great cleverness and ingenuity, dragged the Government out of tho difficulty they had got into on that occasion. The operation appears to be about to be renewed on the present occasiou; the Ministry having fallen into another billow, he has announced his intention of courageously rushing into the water to drag them out. The honorable member is fairly entitled to the appolation of the Newfoundland of the Eox Ministry. He has always shown himself most willing and ready to rush into the water to rescue the Ministry when they fall into trouble.