THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2050, 30 July 1875, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1875.

Whbk we are told that the law Officers of the Grown have advised a prosecution which willirivolve the "Orton Association," bur wonder is not that they have advised , it mow, but, that" they did nofc advise it - long ago. Their patience, long suffering though it has been, seem3to have given way at last to the "repeated strains put upon it, and a prosecution is to be commenced having for its end—though we at this distance are at present ignorant of

the form the prosecution will take—the - suppression, -or at least abatement, of what may be termed the Orton nuisance. In truth it is time that the tew should

step in and put a stop to proceedings " which, though ridiculous at first, are really , becoming serious now, and must be

chocked, and that decidedly, lest they result in consequences which even their originators may never have foreseen. One can almost afford to laugh at the pertinacity with which Mr Whalley supports the quondam friend for whom he has staked his little all, and the " Hbuso;" may well be good-natured enough to give the time necessary to answer the questions which he with affectionate solicitude asks from time to time after the health of the Convjct,pf,.P?rlmP.°^.9K rs.f l. t." tention to the fact that he has lost flesh enough to make another man of, on account of t. ne laugh with which members can relieve their feelings at thelfeplyr'BuT it is another thing .when,Kenealy, unmatched in abuse even by Bradlaugh the blasphemous, hinds himself to the cause he has disgraced enough already; and goes raging through thje thickly populated districts of th;e midland counties, sowing discontent broadcast, and placing grievances in the minds of those who have ; hitherto been unaware of their existence. Mob meet ings in which one-half of the crowd don t hear, and the other half don't care for" what object they have been called together, can result in no good except to relieve the pent-up feelings of the oratqr; who, with many wavjngs: of his -umbrella,; announces to all . whom •it may £oncern> that they are " slaves," and that he himself has fallen a martyr to their cause, owingj to v the [Benchers\. narrow-minded: enough to imagine it necessary- that those belonging to their order., should haye,- some regard-, for truth j decency, and morality £ 'aid on the other hand may ■nfly,,prpbably—result, in; a < good deal of: harm. It is all very well to picture to > 'trarselves oflti memb"et: of - these: mdnste^ „", Tichbprbe meetings "say ing to another^ member'equally under the influence o^ the cup which cheers, but ,also 'doesi something more, that he doesn't care^ whether the object sof the meeting fbr| ;whom the crowd are howling ihemseive^: hoarse t)e"'"Tichborne or Orton, or-. Castro^ or who he is, but thai;'he don't like "16 "see a poor man kept out of his property." g Punch, |n drawing the picture, was probably not far from the truUi as far as half tlufhabitues of the meetings 'are conceriiedl but'it must also .■befro"membered that a "crowd with feelings^ iniiflamed with alcohol.and,,passages^ from ithe ; Englishman -cannot <;be checked in -moment -^hen^ -smarijing-'^wifch the sense of injuries conjured up for them by,?ome agentiof,■.the, !t Prtpn Association, and may proceed to- <aetsLof !; destruction and violence wMch^ they would, hav^e shrun^ifrom performing in their .calmer moments. The memory of Lord Georgje Gordon and' the dreadful four days wheji .■London was giyen over: to, an^ bloodshed, is alone sufficient to showl us that 1 the fire bnce kindled } ;thej man whb kindled ;it is powerless tp,. extinguish it again ;" and"though, tKa'nkft to Sir Robert Peel, a repetition of these scenes ;is rendered almost impossible, yet; the outrages in Coldbath Fields in 1833, and thie Chartists gfots in 1848, to say nothing of the pullin^|Sp^n of, Hyde Park railings some t#f^el|rs: ag6, are aoiyery far removed'f|on^^fMiemori(es of sjime as not to make it o^evejjy f r^uiidSesiiyable that any thing which may in^the slightest degree conduce to any such scenes as were then presented aKbuldjbe hippedfinl |lie/:bud. Of course the necessary abuse of any Government which 1 may, interfere^'io' prevent the "liberty of the subject" asserting itself in disorder and violence, is sure to follow, and the member for Stoke will again call on ." the' million of'readers" whom he-requires; to' Subscribe to the Englishman not to allow the: fundamental principles of Magna Charta tobe violated; but we all kriow: that prevention is better than cure, and we are certainly glad that the Home Government choose rather to show their in checking Arthur prtpn's supporters in their attempts to. :Wprt : mischief, than their skill in.oyer- . cbming,-the etils when :they : have once "arisen.^:' ";-;;'>::,:;;-'..':. ■■■■ :: -•"■:^}^ ;"';:-r "'\.-

What The Times is to the London, The Argus is to the Colonial Press—the premier, journal. First in enterprise of every kind.for making its columns more acceptable, and ;in the van where capital and extensive resources are-.necessary, to distance its. competitors. The Argus, we were told by telegrams in yesterday's paper, on the arrival of the English mail at Adelaide had a wire laid oh to the office, and with a staff of cijierators.rliad'the whole of its correspon^irts' letters wired, instead;.of v waiting four or five days for Ine arrivals of the letters by the ordinary channel.- ;'in addition to this was sent ■ a ni^agVof some 6,000 words embracing a full Nummary of the mail news : the total ariount :of the; message being ; computed at; 2(3,000 worcls. By this means The Argus wbuldanitibipate its contemporaries in the publication of the news some four da^sr; Rdthat:when^hesotherMelbourne dailies were able to .publish their correspondence 1 comparatively stale. -We are not informed of the pp3t)of^tbis (iriiesya^^ut: it ) would be something. It "is worthy of note, however,; that the proprietors of ThetArgus do not let a question of cost come between them and their endeavors,to keepahead of other newspapers, The' ■ messago*'; set in small type -would about .fill the pages of Star, and its cost at New Zealand rates charged to evening papers (half-penny per word) would be £54 \ By the: rates^ charged to morning papers, for. messages sent between ;the hours of five and eight in the evening, the :icost would be only. £13. This bold stroke on the part of the con due tors of The Argus to distance rivals will, no doubt, induce emulation on the partof the latteiv involving additional outlay to the proprietors. The public

will be largely gainers by tbe stimulus thus excited amongst the purveyors of news.