, 1872-01-27

THE Il - rR s GoPGo S Al 0F MEssRs. McWILLIAM
AND LATIMER.
We had hoped, the ordinance relating to be military
force in this island having Just passed the Colonial
Council, that this important question now was settled
in order to make room for others, and we were just
about making some remarks about. it, and considering
the consequences of its coming into effect, when we
were startled by the pleasant intelligence, that two
members of the Council were about making a propos-
attending to abrogate the ordinance just passed by the
vote of the council, their oWn included.
We wish the soil of the island was as fertile as the
imagination of these two Legislators must be, and that
the treasury-ches was as full of gold as their heads must
II is we'll known by all that the honorable Council
has hitherto reached to only a very small degree of
parliamentary refinery and that many of the members
will have to seek a reward for their political career in
their own good Conscences rather than in the public
q appreciation Of their skill and ability as legisla-
But we never supposed that some members would
reach to such an extreme as to endeavour to kill their
own intellectual offspring.
It reminds one Of Saturn who eat his own children
for breakfast, nay it is bordering on infanticide.
What has become ofthe gravity which hitherto has
been the chief adornment of the Council?
Surprising that the proposal be one OF the wisest
ever bred in q human brain, does it not look like a
mockery that two members ofthe Council, who not a
~ " iii StE ~ EOtC0 " Ub l0iI1nS INV iuh y "
posala 70 the effect that the said ordinance should be
\ ~abrogated
Surprising that we could do nothing better than
Immediately form a militia of the s'burghers" of the
Island and make the two members, who suggested the
idea. BreYet major-generals as a reward, does 1t not
II look somewhat strange that the opinion of these two
members should hsYe radically changed in such a short
d time 4
What An admirable thing the human intelligence
il, as shown this instance.
How proud those two members Of the Council must
feel, that their intelligence has come 70 suce q pchs
of dsvelopment as to despise the old idea, that versa
flllty is not exactly an adornments in the character o,
Il man
@Qt1k people who have not come to that point,
would consider themselves very unhappy, il they should
dnQ thaa1seives of SO little steadfastness as to change
Nell opinion about serious matters in a few days.
They would not trust themselves nor expect to be
*k9stedsby others and they would feel ashamed to-
% the benefit of the island, however, these two
8tf-denying members of the Council do not care
if the vile public should consider them too much
subject TO sudden change in their opinions.
AsSgoo s burghers'' they estimate the public
safety more highly than their own personal pride.
What apity only that they did not make their
ENlNnsakshe~disoussion of the military ordi--
nQnce, In order to-save the Government, the Colo
Nla3 Council, and the Legislature and Government
34 1@4nmark the trouble to pass an ordinance
fwouldbe abrogated before it had come in force.
Thnt Was the reason they did not
81 ii impossible that the idea should have oc-S
a3bi6k fh6 remarkahie and self contradictin
s6x |d Amendment Of Judge Sarauw at the Ind
di166sSdon b. the draft d. the military ordinance
n6f8kE have 6n9endereda some idea or another in
fkak direction even in the slowest brain and the
<oi0n4S4 might have been brought forward then
35F to-settle the question ct once,
IN, it'd cubklesslY very praiseworthy of the
~ d fefs ~ g fhenselves for the preservation