The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1876.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1994, 26 May 1875, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1876.

It seems to bo generally admitted that the Government will have to meet Parliament without the Premier, whose inopportune illness "will prevent him from putting in an appearance until late in the session, if at all. It is undoubtedly a misfortune for the Government, and the position is such that oven the most rabid oppositionist, if possessed of generous impulses, will be prepared to make allowances for. The Vogel Government have been placed in an invidious position before, when, for instance, the Hon. Mr Waterhouso resigned under such peculiar circumstances. On that occasion the Hon. Mr Fox, true to his party, sacrificed his personal inclinations to the exegencies of the occasion and temporarily assumed the leadership of the Government as Premier. He extricated the Government from' a dilemma in which they had been placed, by the unreasonable conduct, of_jtheir recognised chief, and no great harm came of the escapade. But Mr Fox is no longer here, and the abolition proposals of last session have undoubtedly alienated from Mr Vogel's following some men who would otherwise Tinder present circumstances have remained loyal to the administration of his colleagues during his enforced absence. But making every allowance for the defection of members on the scoreof abolition, there is a strongparty in the Assembly who are in favor of doing away with Provincialism, and who will not make Hie Premier's absence a pretext for fractious opposition. They are also committed to the carrying out of the.Public Works policy, and if they remain true to their principles they will render a generous support to the measures for carrying out that policy (even though the Premier be absent) which the Government may j propose. It has come to be admitted that i any change in the Government must arise out of a question of administration: the policy is-fixed and determined. It would afford little gratification to the opposition to turn out the Ministry because the Premier has been incapacitated, from attending to his parliamentary duties. Such a result would be eminently unsatisfactory to the ; while it would result in the commission of j many errors which, now form the chief ground of complaint against the Government. The policy which is to make the Colony or mar its future is not yet complete, and its practical;working out cannot be improved by being entrusted to prentice hands. A great deal of the opposition to Mr Vogel's aj^ministeajtipi is dictated by personal considerations; and if this opposition should be persisted in to the , extent of turning out the; present Government, the successors will have a hard battle to fight; in which they will have to keep in mind that failure will entail ignominy on themselves. We confess that we should like to see Mr Vogel and his colleagues carrying out their policy to the end. If they achievesuccess let them get the credit of their work; and if the prognostications of the opposition should be fulfilled, on Mr Vogel and his colleagues be! fixed the responsibility. As avowed supporters . of Mr Yogel's policy of Public Works and Immigration from the first conception- and promulgation,; we are anxious that it should receive fair consideration and be left in the hands of the party which conceived it to carry it out; and, looking at the difficulties which attend its carrying out, we do not believe an opposition party will be found anxious to seize upon the Premier's absence as a pretext for assuming the reins of Government. The members of the Government who will meet the House are intimately acquainted with departmental requirements. They cannot *all be, premiers, bufc we believe the sequel will show, that their, administrative abilities are not to their own departments. Not only the Assembly but the country is ' committed to * the policy of progress, and members must have in view the early dissolution of the Parliament ; a consideration which will more or less influence them in their support of or opposition"tcr-the-present Government. In all probability there will be but a brief session, to make the necessary provision for carrying on the Government of the colony arid the prosecution of public works undertaken, with an appeal to the country on the great question, of constitutional changes. Granted this, and we have no doubt of the ultimate triumph-of the Government, and its security in office long enough to carry out the measures which it hai initiated.