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Southland Times, Issue 2092, 26 March 1875, Page 3

Signs of the Times. — In this country, flays the London Examiner, we are preeminently practical people, and we do not trouble our heads much about forms of government-, as long as the result is passably good. We tolerate the Court Circular. We tolerate the House of Lords. We tolerrte the empty forms of the Constitution. We are the most tolerant people in the world. But we do not put up with the practical grievances that everybody feels. We are beginning to find out that the Church Establishment is a little too provoking for our temper ; and that will go soon. We shall soon begin to ask whether a House composed of the sous of their fathers should be allowed to impose the slightest check on a House elected by the people, and we sij Jl suggest that their lordships should stick to their proper work of preserving game The Land Laws will also undergo a rather stern revision, and it may be that a rude hand will be laid on that Civil List which enables the members of the Eoyal Family to walk on the slopes of Windsor.