\y e cannot think tliat" tile Superinten dent" was. well-, -advised in making 1 a -stand at, this particular point. .T/Jie ieal crasli of |)jattle iriust be at the' Assembly, and nowiere eW. ' ' VVs : would ' have liKed the Otago'coritingent to go up to the Empfr-e Gi'ty stolidly determined not to bate an in.eh of_ ground, but able to say s> VVe have given you every- oppo-r --6ift}ily,- v lega''l'{in'd, latterly, illegal, to understand alLabput us ; know as much as we do ; 'now^Ve^re going to have r tliis done, and you ; will have to do it i we, are strong enough to be able to put upon one side all minor considera tions, and stand: upon our legal fights —and stand _ firmly. An after -matter wbiild ' then arise as to Sir ' J ulius Vogel's lawless use of the machinery of ! rule,-. '%• which he will have to be •punished. : ; ; ■" (' Guanlian.') i. :M;r Macandrew has drawn -the sword aud thrown awciy the scabbard, not only metaphorically, but also, if any meaning is to be attached to language, in tin actual and positive sense. No other- construction^ can be placed upon his words when he thus faint iy masks -.the threat, of; resistance to the- lawful decrees of Parliament : — " It is a grand mistake to' suppose that the puople of this province will tamely submit to have forced upon them a system of political communism from which they have everything to lose and nothing to gam j to aid find abet in which, on my part, would be to belie The position which' X have for so many years held at the hands of the people." la so many words Mr Macandrew here asseit< that he and the people of Otago will not conform to the In w, if that law be op posed, to their own will. Any thing more rebellious and revolutionary has seldom been set forth in print within the boundaries cf the British Empire, and assuredly never before was a ' Go vernment Gazette used for seditious purposes, such as those wherewith this precious document is fairly chargeable. 