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Evening Star, Issue 6479, 21 December 1883, Page 4

The annexation movement is making converts in unexpected quarters at Home. The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce have discussed the question, and carried by two to one the following motion:—“ This Chamber, recognising the annexation of New Guinea to bo a question of great importance to the future welfare of Australian colonies, and relying upon the wisdom and prudence of colonial statesmen, resolves to petition Her Majesty’s Government to give their best consideration to any representations made to them on this subject by tho Federal Council of Australian Ministers to bo held at Sydney next month.” Sir Charles Dilke, on the other hand, appears to be at one with Lord Derby in his treatment of the matter. At Glasgow the other day he referred to the subject as follows:—“ The bold spirit of our Australian colonists leads them to look on our present Colonial Minister as a bloodless sort of creature, but they may make themselves easy as to foreign occupation of New Guinea. As regards Polynesia generally, I fully realise that Australian opinion ia inspired by a natural dread of convict settlement. It is not reasonable to suppose that Australia will tolerate in foreigners action which they will not allow to the Mother Country, and as they stopped our sending convicts to their neighborhood, they will, I make no doubt, succeed in stopping others. It is natural that they should resent the emptying into the lovely islands of the South Pacific of the convicts of old Europe. They have the ability and power to get their way without its being necessary for them to annex the whole black world.” A Non Sequitur.—lt does not follow that, because a man is able to lie, ho is liable to do so. LSOO will be paid for any caae that Hop Bitters will not cure or help. Poubtnot, See.