SIR JULIUS YOGEL ON MR GLADSTONE'S POLICY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7548, 23 September 1886, Page 3

SIR JULIUS YOGEL ON MR GLADSTONE'S POLICY.

Sir Julius Yogel, says tho Auglo-New Hollander, has written a rcmarkahlo letter to The Times on the subject of federation and Homo Rule. He subjects Mr Gladstone's recent proposals to some very severe criticism, especially protesting against his attempts to dissolve the existing partnership with Ireland before substituting a new one embodying a Federal Imperial Parliament in its place. Sir Julius holds that if a Federal Parliament were established on a broad basis, all tho concessions in tho Government of Ireland Bill might ho granted, and more besides, but not till then. Sir Julius believes that Mr Gladstone abstained from making such a proposal because he foresaw it would be necessary to propose a federation of tux inseparable character with tho colonies, andhe.«italo(l to go so far in opposition to tho traditions of his party. Tho New

Zealand Treasurer, however, expresses his conviction that, notwithstanding all their theories, Liberal statesmen would not permit cither New Zealand or Australia to become independent foreign ■countries so far as England was concerned without resort to force. He holds that a federation of the Empire which is other than mandatory has'no value whatever. Such a federation would have at its command such measureless powers of self-defence, such inoxhaustablo resources, and such vast interchangeable interests, that for most purposes it would amount to constituting a portion ot thoglobo into a distant World. If this dream could bd realised within the year, remarks Sir Julius, what.gi'andercclebratiori of thd fiftieth anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne could be desired, than the . first meeting of the federal Parliament;