Governor of Hong Kong, who was tlio • Lord Milner of the day, and who lioltli the samo honest but perverted notions of tlio way to make British ideas ac- ; ceplable to another race, It would: slerllo Lord Milner's "bodyguard" to! read tlio outspoken way in which dis-■ lingiiisbed Tories mid Liberals in 1857 exposed the frailties of his prototype.• Lords Ellcnborough, in tlio Lords,'de scribed him as "the eternal obstacle to' pence," and Sir.James Graham, in tho Commons, as "an officer convicted by himself of that which would occasion the degradation of tlio lowest member of the law in this country," So when we. como down to our own generation, and see the line of conduct pursued by men who are still with us, though not of ns, but who were once the leaders of tlio party, we find the duty of Liber als to oppose an unjust war as clearly: preached and as vigorously practised, fn 1878 Lord Hartington (now the Duke, of Devonshire) was tlio leader of tlio: Opposition, The Tories had plunged, liio country into war in Afghanistan and Zululand. Some people seem to' liavo said then that criticism of the Government should wait till the wars' were over. This is how Lord Harting-. lon, iii moving a vote of censure on the Government, met the suggestion:— "1 trust, sir, we shall not be (old that |io«- that the war lias broken out it is mere waste of time to go back to the origin of the war: that a patriotic Parliament has but one duty to per forin—namely, to ignore the past, and to simply support the Government who liave undertaken the war. If it were necessary lo refer to precedents, I could point lo the conduct pursued by the Opposition at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century in the course of (he War of Indepen dence uii.li the American colonies and tie' Revolutionary War with France, With respect lo the first ease, at all events, there is no doubt that tho Opposition look a wise and patriotic course in continuing to oppose the Gov- ! eminent during that war. ,. 