I have said " What he calls a Ministry," for assuredly nobody else in the community regards it in any serious light beyond Mr Berry him self. Such a lot of seedy, needy, unscrupulous, office-seekers were never scraped together out of the back slums of politics in this or any other Colony. In politics, as in every-day life, we can never say we are at the worst, for it is -uncertain what worse may yet come. But at any rate, the formation of this wretched ragga muffin Berry-Ministry marks the lowest level to which Victorian politics have yet descended, and it is hardly within the range of possibility that we can ever reach a lower. Below Berry, Woods, Patterson, and their colleagues, there is nothing, or, at any ratt, untiring that is yet .sounded. It would be out of pl\ce to write seriou«ly about a Ministry that is a laughing-stock to the Colony, and a libel upon responsibile government. Of course, it will be puffed out of existence directly it meets Parliament. But in the meantime Ministers have to go before their constituents for re-elec tion, and some weeks must be allotted them for that purpose. It is ignominious to think that even for six weeks the Colony should be ruled by such a crew of adventurers as these men. We have, indeed, reason to bless the forethought which provided us years ago with Audit Com missioners, and it is to be hoped that they will now be equal to the heavy responsibility that devolves upon them, It is not a comfortable reflection to consider what is the character of some of the men who compose the Government of the Colony. If, on one side, the position is an absurd one, on the other, it is serious in the last degree. It is a very momentons consideration that under a regime of representative Govern ment, where the constituencies discharge their obligations as thoughtlessly and rockle3sly as we see them, we may at any time have a Ministry called to power composed of men with whom no respectable citizen would sit down in a room. No doubt communities are on the whole, governed just as well as they deserve to be. 