MR EVELYN ASHLEY ON IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1992, 14 April 1885, Page 4

MR EVELYN ASHLEY ON IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

At the annual dinner ol the London Chamber of Comineiee, held on the 19th lMjnaij, Mi Evil^n Asliky, the Underbeuetaiy of State tor the Colonies, when proposing the toast of "Our Colonies and I'oMjttbions)," said : — The watch wo d of exeiy lovei of the Jii ltiah lace was " Fedeiatiou " He cared not for the name bo long as the thing was done ; hut tiiete wete men in this countty, men wlio ought to know bettei, who said that it w«i& L'topian. Utopian, when within one shoit week Canada, isvw South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand had flashed under the aea olteis of their sons to serve as soldiers to light for the mother country (cheers). Utopiau, when the Queen hatt accepted these offers (cheers) ; ami when we, their fellow-subjects, hud grasped the hands stretched out to us, not bo much that we needed them at present, but because we regarded them as a token of the loyal leeling which had inspired that movement. To the men who called the idea I top.nii lie would answer that tlie day on which Gi cater Bntain sawlit, r so.is called fiom her vauoiia shoies and maiahalled in the face of the enemy — that on tint lay federation was an accomplished fact, and that what they, tlie d.ibbleis in political aiiangemcnts, had to do was to clothe thia new embodiment m agaib ol foitnality ,Cheeis. ) He was ready to do it; but tliey must not be in too greata hurrj. Let us have the gc mine outcome of Anglo-ba,\on common senae. He was r< ady to make federation, but not to cm body it in a cut and dned foim. There was one practical step which he wished to aiiggeat. Two yeais ago, thiough the eouiteay of the late .Speaker, he wsis able to obtain for the High Commissioner of Canada and the As;i nts Geneial of the othei Colonies admittance at all times to tiie Distinguished >tiangeis' and Foreign Ambassadors' Gallery in the house ol Commons. Uut what he would like to ace was then piesence on the floor of the House. They weie distinguished but they weie not stiangeis. (Cheeis). They weie not amb.ibsadois fiom toieign States but welcome messeiigeia fiom our own kith and kin, and while he would withhold fioni them the ngLt to \ote, he should like to see the High Commissioner anil the Agents Geneial at once admitted as a right, to take their place, and to speak in the House of Commons If we once biought tlie leprese-ntatnes of our Colonial Empire into the House of Commons all the other steps would come gradually, for his experience told him that what the Colonies needed was the direct access to public opinion and to the Cabinet (cheers). Sir Ai thm lilyth and Sir Saul Samuel, when replying to the toast, dissented from the suggestion that it would tend to piomote impel ul Fedeiation togi\e the Agents (friici at the light to speak but not to vote in the Cotinii<>n->.

"No," said the ineicliant, "I don't ,nl\eitise now. I ns>ed to, but I got completely tired out waiting on cus tomers. Since I stopped that advertisement 1 have had a continual \ac»tion and been able to discharge two of my cleiks. As English physician warns mothers against allowing b.ibies to suck their tlunnhi, because it lesults in a peculiar deformity of the chest, adepiession of the thorax by pivsure fioin the arm of the infant as it lies with ita thumb in its mouth. Hmie is an amusing story about a small boy at one of the lecent Clui-tmis-ttee entertainments. At supper his mother, yielding to Ins entreaties, gave hi'it two of the painted riguif-s from the twelfthcakes with strict injunctions not to eat them, adding that if he did devour them he would most certainly be very ill, and piobably might die. " I'm not sure to die if I eat them ?'' he asked. " Not' sure,' 1 iephed his mother ; "but in all probability you will ;" and she went away intent upon hospital thoughts. The next day something caused her to recollect the figures, and she asked to see them. Master Lawrence could only produce one, and w hen asked for the other he remarked casually, " Oh ! I gave that to Bertha (his little sister), and told her to cat it, and if she docs not die before to-morrow I mean to cat this one myself.' TtthKE aie few pel sons of w horn it can be truly said that they are "worth their weight in gold ".Such a treasuic, however seems to have been possessed in the shape of a wife by the late Mr Geoige Gaidner, of Boston and Bevoily, in the United ■States, a recently deceased millionane, whose will was filed at Boston lately. Its ptovisions were of a peculiar alul touching natuue. There were no public bequests; but the bulk of Mr. Gardner's propei ty was left in the hands of the trustees. They are directed to pay to his wife each year 1,161 troy ounces of pure gold, and, in addition if she wants it, $10,000 cash. It is stated that when the will was made this quantity of gold represented hiswife's exact weight, which was about 90 or 100 pounds avoirdupois. The remainder of the income of hn estate is to be divided among the relatives of the deceased without reference to their bodily proportions.— Court Circular. Tifh late Lord O'Hagan, for a considerable peiiod Loid Chancellor of Ireland, achieved one of his earliest successes at t'n' bai in 1842, when he defended Mr Duffy, now Sir Charles Gavan Duff}', who was then editor of the Belfast Vindicator. The Attorney-Geneial (aftei wards Judge Black buine) had prosecuted to conviction a man accused of an agrarian murder. There was some reason to believe that the wiong man had been prosecuted, and aftoi the execution of the condemned man the Vindicator did not hesitate to accuse the Attorney General of having procured a judicial muider. The Attorney-General thereupon brought an action for libel against the editor of the journal. O'Connell had been retained as leading counsel for the defence, but lie had Parliamentary duties to attend to in Londou, aud it was on O'Hagan that the burden of defence fell Ill's iloquence elicited the highest compliments fioin the Attorney-General and the court. From this time he mid Mr James Whitesidc (afterwaids Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench) weie regarded as two of the most promising juniois at the bar. At the time of the gieat State trials in 1544, when O'Connell and the leading members of the Repeal Association were indicted for conspiracy, O'Hagan atjain made an able and impiessive speech on Mr Duffy.

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