THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2134, 5 November 1875, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1875.

It is finally decided that the mosfc convenient, if not the most ostentatious way in which*those of Provincialistic tendencies in Auckland will pay honour to Sir George Grey on his return from the South, is by drawing him in state with gix grey horses from Onehunga to Auckland, and on a platform erected out of logs t which the generosity of Mr Hbldship i?ill supply on loan, to present him and nis associated Pjcpvincialists with an " Address." There is a considerable amount of sense in this arrangement, as well as consideration for Sir George Grey. He is, we should think, pretty well tired of banquets by this time, and if the good people of Auckland are particularly desirous of shouting -in honor of Sir George— we do not of course use the word in its colonial sense—it will no doubt, as said Mr E. Graham,be "moat convenient and acceptable" that they should dp so in the open air rather than that he should be stunned by the outcries of a meeting— which we daresay the Auckland Star is prepared already to designate the most enthusiastic on record—in a close room " where the said noisy meeting have just eaten and drunken. Besides, a banquetting hall, however large, cannot accommodate one tithe of those who will "be likely to wish, to be there ; and the cost of a guinea, or, whatever the value i dfSth'e repast may be fixed at, will stand in the way of a good many ready to give "hurrahs" gratis if allowed to do so. It ia also of importance to show how popular Sir George Grey is that the demonstration be a very large one, and this will be done far better by holding out an attractive spectacle such <ftg Sir George drawn by six grey horses and attended by every cab, buggy, 'bus, and butcher's car in Auckland, than if he merely returned thinks in response to being praised for having so bravely fought the battle for Auckland in words which, or the equivalents of which, he must have used half a dozen times before. To be sure the procession may suggest to the ribald, if there be any there, the idea of Cook's Circus parading through a town on the morning of a performance, . with a brass band leading, drawn by as many horses as the driver could hold reins, and the supporters of the company in less assuming vehicles. But, what of that P It will render the procession all the more enticing, and to those who hire vehicles to honor Sir George, will be added those who goto see those who hire the vehicles, and to these again those who go to see them, until, somewhat after the -fashion of the story "This is the house that Jack built," the assemblage will doubtless Bwell to a number which will gladden the heart without affecting the pockets of the most ardent provincialist. As regards the address itself, it will not matter very much that -ninety-nine out of every hundred will nofc be able to hear a word of what is said ; that must expected from all addresses presented, in a similar manner ; but every one will, we presume, be able to read it in the Star of the same day, so none of the Superlative adjectives which the ransacked dictionaries may supply in honour of Sir George Grey will be thrown away. Besides, if these said adjectives be too fulsome, the orator, whoever he may be, sometimes runs phe ri»k of being interrupted by those who imagine that thero are limits even to flattery. Sir Francis Twiss is an instance in point, who, wii*n delivering the Latin rtddress of Iris

University to the Prince of Wales, lauded him with such titles us " illustrissimus," " clarissimus," " bonignissimus," and many more high-sounding titles, which was too much or too little in the way of praise for some one in the-gallery, who. added very audibly, and without leave, the words "et Trarers Twissimus," tof the discomfiture of the orator and the' laughter of the audience and heir apparent. This risk, which might occur as it has occurred in a room, is avoided by giving the address in the open air on a platform in Upper Queen Street, and :Mr G. M. Eeed was wise in his generation when he proposed the idea to 1 the reception committee. Nowi if the reader of the address will tibly bow at the proper time—even if he bow at regular intervals it will do so long as the people know when to shout—=and Sir George Grey will condescend to look gratified when he does bow, the cheering will be forthcoming An wholesale quantities, amply sufficient to justify the words, "Never before since Auckland was a province; never before in the history of the colony, perhaps even of the world has such an enthusiastic and vociferous meeting taken place as that which greeted our hero back again to Auckland once more from that Assembly where he had openly denounced the immorality, vice, rottenness and corruption of the present degraded ministry, and had fearlessly stood up for those great provincialistic principles which are destined ! yet to render the name of New Zealand and Sir George Grey renowned throughout the world," or whatever other paragraph to this effect may be written in the chronicle of Messrs Eeed and Brett. Sir George Grey certainly has fought hard for his side, and it is always pleasing to notice gratitude ■ when it is evinced. Six miles of gratitude is, however, a rather large dose, evenwhen six grey horses help to make the: journey short, and we doubt not that Sir George will be heartily glad when it is over. For oar own part we shall be quite content to read an account of it in the pages of the Auckland Star, and believe what we read when divided by twenty.

By the arrival of the s.s. Alhambra at the Bluff we have telegraphed to us London news up to October 26. The chief items of interest are those which concern the money market, and plenty of money for loan purposes seems to be forthcoming in England if only the lenders can have sufficient faith in the borrowers. Hence we see that for the South. Australian Loan £400,000, out of nearly 2,000,000 tendered for, was allotted at an average of nearly 93 \, but this is beaten hollow by tho amount of confidence exhibited in the Canadian 4 per cent, loan of a million anda-half, for which over two millions and a-half were subscribed, and that at an average of 991 Now, considering that Canada had borrowed from England for railway purposes alone up to the end of last half year no less a sum than close upon forty-one millions, and that, too, exclusive of a loan of two millions raised in 1867 for the Inter - Colonial Bailway—of which sum three-quarters bears the guarantee of England—the fact that the Canadian colonists are able still to get money at one per cent, less than par, with but four per cent, to pay for interest, Bpeaks volumes in favour of the high esteem they are held in at home. It must be remembered that the population of Canada is only about four millions, very scattered as their four thousand miles of railway imply. As regards- Turkey, the only defaulting civilized nation under the sun, England and Bussia have declined to join in a representation urging upon her the evils of her ways in non-payment of coupons, which will not enhance the value of these securities, which we suppose to all intents and purposes are now unnegociable. The Turkish nine per cent, bonds were at 85 not so very long ago, and, in spite of troubles then impending and those actually in existence, still rising. Germany is legislating for the abuses of the Polynesian labor traffic, not before it is time to do so, and pretty strongly too, and the Prince of T\ales, en route for India, has experienced a splendid reception at Cairo. No doubt Dr W. H. Eussell, the only one of •" our own correspondents " whom the Prince acknowledges, will give the readers of The Times the benefit of his impressions of the place—perhaps also those of the Prince. The latter, however, has been there before, so we do not suppbse he went on to the pyramids, but even if he did, any description, even at the hands of Dr Eussell, wotild fall very flat after reading Dean Stanley on the same subject. The second and last great handicap of the year, the Cambridgeshire, has been won by Sutton. The distance is not much more than half that of the other great handidicap, the Cjesarwitch; so pace has almost as much to do with it as endurance; still there are few horses however good whose owners care to see them weighted at anything over 9 stone. : We wonder if any one animal will ever be found to win both these races in one year; often as horses have been kept on purpose to bring off this grand coup and break the ring, it has never yet been done, nor apparently nearly done either. The obituary gives us the names of Sir Charles .Wheatstone, and Dr Hook, the Dean of Chichester. Sir Charles Wheatstone was tho scientific inventor of the electric telegraph, though Mr Cooke is considered entitled, to stand alone, as it was he who practically introduced and carried out the electric telegraph as a useful undertaking. Sir Charles is also credited with having been the inventor of the well-known stereoscope. He was one of the jurors in the class for

"Heat, Light, and Electricity," at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1855. He was born in 1802. Dr Hook was educated at Winchester, and Oxford was for twenty-two years incumbent; of Leeds and one of the most distinguished preachers of the day. Of his celebrated sermon preached on the text " Hear the' Church," at .the accession of Her Majesty., more than one hundred thousand copies were sold in a month. It is by his unfinished work " Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury" that Dean Hook, who was born .in 1798 and made Dean of Winchester in 1859, will. be best remembered.