The question now is what will the Council, which rejected the " old sow," do with the "little pigs." The members are very de monstrative in their professions of an in tention to treat each on its own merits, but I have a conviction that they have al ready quite made up their Eiinds that the Bills have no merits at all. There is just a ohauce that the Wellington Bill muy be squeezed through, as it is not improbable that Messrs Sewell and Waterhouse will sup port it, on the ground of its schedule having already been approved of by the Provincial Council. The other Bills, if they are not re» jected, will certainly be so altered as to en tirely destroy whatever principle they may be supposed to embody, and also so as to render them practically inoperative. If the House will consent, I believe the Government would eat the leek to any extent the Coun» oil might be pleased to order. The Govern ment do not by any means like the position. They are very anxious that the session should be ended as quickly as possible, and have no desire to enter on any prolonged conflict, more especially if the probable result should be dissolution. The Premier would hare no great objection to such an issue, but to some of his colleagues dissolution is a word of terror. Ido not, however, think that the House will be inclined to knuckle under much more to the Council, or permit that body indirectly to defeat measures which they dare not throw out boldly. The various Provinces that see such a pros pect of getting a share of plunder, that have scented if they have not tasted the blood, art) not likely to stand calmly by and see their prize snatched away. The Government will be forced to fight the matter out.
