The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1874.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1829, 12 November 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1874.

" The Superintendent's contemplated visit to England, accompanied by the Provincial Secretary, is condemned by the Gross and Herald." So runs the telegram, and as this is the first we have heard of the "contemplated visit we are completely in the dark as to whether the Cross and Herald are justified in either condemning or approving any yisit which the head of the Province may have meditated. With our present knowledge we should say the Superintendent and Provincial Secretary have a perfect right to visit England,provided they resign their offices before doing so, or appoint deputies whom they can trust to fill their places efficiently during their absence. The matter has come before us in such a very vague shape that we are left in a maze of conjecture as the objects of a'visit to England by the Superintendent and his right hand man. Recent events suggest that His Honor may possibly have been seized with the intermittent petition fever which Sir George Grey has been suffering from, and that, seeing the Governor of the Colony declines to forward petitions on the abolition question, the Superintendent has conceived the idea of going to England with the intention of laying a petition at the foot of the Throne. We say recent events suggest this explanation. If the proposed visit be unconnected with the proposed abolition of Provincialism, then we give it up. We know of no other political question, which could possibly be thought of sufficient importance Jo induce the Superintendent to brave the dangers of the deep—the moviog accidents by flood and field which would have to be risked in a visit to England : and as His Honor's interests are so intimately identified with this colony, in whose services the best years of his life have been spent, we cannot conceive the Superintendent would think of paying a visit to England for pleasure. Until we here something more definite we must conclude that a more than ordinary attack of Provincialismhas suggested the Quixotic idea of an appeal to the Imperial authorities in propria persona.