PRINCE BISMARCK AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1969, 19 February 1885, Page 2

PRINCE BISMARCK AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT.

Mk Joiiv L' moivnk publishes in the Jounml <lts Dibits aa ai title on the way Pi nice BKmaik understands the various mcthoils of government. He lays down hi -it of all that the dissensions which have aiiden between the German Parliament and Prince Bisnaiek are not to bo viewed in a tragical light. Taking his stand on the idea, which he states is making rapid headway in France, of substituting representative for parliainenr aty government, he adds • " According to the great Chancclloi, the dilTVicnee between a Monarchy and a Republic dops not lie in hereditary power. Foi instance, the royal power la hereditaiy iv England, yet that country is nothing but an aiistocratiu Republic, with a Pii-sidcut who is called king 01 Queen. Wli it constitutes a Monarchy, says M. de Bismaick, is the right ot tiie King to a will of his own and an effective veto. 1 do not call a State a, Monarchy where the King is compelled to accept as Ministers men whom thy inajonty of the Chambers foice upon him, and where he is bound to latify the votes of that majority, a monarchy. This is assuredly not the p.ulidineutary system, but it is uniioubtcdly the iuprea«utat.i\e system. It exists in Amotica, which is a Republic, 'ihe Government is out of Patliaineut ; Miniateisaie not admitted to the C'nmbera ; and the President hold-, an effective veto, which he has exeietsed more than once. In this point of view England 13 really moieol a Republic than America. A goo I uudi rstanding upon the signification of words is therefoie necessary. Kngluul calls herself a Monaichy, and her Parliament governs. In 1849 France was called a Republic, but Louis Bonaparte, its Piesident, kept or dismissed hi* Ministers as he liked, laughing at the votes of the Assembly, and stating that he was responsible to the country, not to the Chambers. It is tins same doctrine of direct and peisonal H'pivf-eiitition that the King ot Prussia, now Emperoi of Geimany, expressed when he stated, in speaking of the Const tution, "I will have no piece of paper standing between my people and use !' This is perhaps the linpsiidliot theory, the Monaichical Jacobinism that people call r^ptesentalive government. On this scoie Prince Bismaick u thoroughly within his dootiine when he sa\s to his Pailiament, " Your majoiity dies not o ciawe me; no, leally, not at all. You will not trighten a man \\ horn the whole of Europe could not fiightuu?' And when defending the absolute i rerog.itive of the king he added, "Tnat this way of looking upon the matter be contoimablc to theory or not, I care very little. So long as I remain heie I shall know how to miintaiu it. Ido my duty as a faithful scntly in defending the Crown against the cncioachinentsof Pailiament. ilave I then been wiong in lighting with so much energy ? Win. re should we be had events gone according to the fancy of parliamentary majorities?' M. de Bismaick is a mau of facts, r-pccially of accomplished facts. He can treat hit Parliament as did Cromwell, w ho entered the Eughdb House booted and spurred, and taking up the mace, exclaimed, 'Take away that bauble !' Dining the years 18o'5-lSb'(i the Chambers had reI used to vote the war estimates. He did without, levied taxes as usual, and kept up and increased the ai my. With this army Prussia ajhieved Sadowa first of all, and aftcrwauls what we know to our cost. That is w hat he saj sto his Parliament, "Had I obeyed your majorities when 1 should we be?' Tins is poebible ; but of what use, then, me Parliaments? and what is the natuic of the German Uov eminent? Is it the lepresentative Government of which we are told?"

Vamtk ot Thi. Ei cal\pti's.— lt appears that whet ever there is surplus moisture a laige eucalyptus will prove of gieat sen ice, and a group of them will dispose of a vast amount of house i sewage. But where there is water which it is not dcsiiable to exhaust, as in * pood well, it will be wise to put the eucalyptus very far away. The owner of the Hay Island Farm, Alameda, Cal., recently found a curious root formation of the eucalyptus in the bottom of his *\ ell, about 19ft below the surface. The ticca to which the roots belong stand .~>Oft fiom the well. Two shoots pierced tluouglt the buck wall of the well, and sending off millions of fibres, formed a dense mat that compl* tely co\eied the _ bottom of the well Most of these tibies are no bigger than threads, aie so woven and intertwisted as a forma mat, impenetrable and ntiong as though regularly woven in a loom, The mat when first taken out of the well was water soaked and coveied with mud, nearly all that a man could lift ; but when dry, it was neatly as soft to touch as wool, and weighed only a few ounces. This is au excellent illustration of the way in which the eucalyptus absorbs moisture, its roots going ao far to n'nd water, pushing themselves through a buck wall, and then developing enormoutly after the water is leached. It is thought that one of the causes of the drying up of wells is the insatiable thiist of these vegetable monsters. Amvdotk of the Qci.i n*.— One day, some years ago, when the Queen was standing on the public load near Balmoral, sketching the castle fiom a particular point, a flock of sheep approached, The Queen, being intent on her work, 1 took little notice of the flock, and merely moved a little nearer the side of the road. A boy in charge of the sheep shouted at the top of a stentoriou voice : " Stan oot o' the road, 'omau, and let the sheep gae by !" The Queen not moving out of the way quite so fast as the shepherd wished, q he again shouted : " Fat aie ye stan'in' M therefor? Gang out o' that, an' let the W sheep pass !" One of the Queen's attendants, on hearing his loyal mistress thus rudely assailed, went up to the shepherd, and thus addressed him : "Do you know w horn it is you have been speaking so rudely to, boy ?" "No ; I neithei ken nor care. But be she fa 1 she likes, she suduft be i' the sheep's load." "That's tlio Queen," said the official. The boy looked astonished, and, after rccoveiing Ins senses, said, with great simplicity "Te Queen ! Oi, fat way didna she put on claes 'Jiat foulk can ken hei ?"