But in Ncav Zealand there Avere 1090 men drilled, armed, and equipped, and everyone of them at the back of the Government in Wellington. The speaker next touched upon the impor tant question of trade, which lift considered should be entirely free in every country. He Avas also an advocate for niauho->d suffrage ; but manhood suffrage, he thought did not go far enough ; he would have "the franchise extended to women; he Avas aware, however, that such an idea was condemned, it AA'as certainly an advanced idea, and he had no intention of pressing it under present circumstances. If property needed protection it would be better, rather than public and individual rights should be interfered with, there should be a property franchise, and a separate chamber where the rights of property might be determined. His views in reference to education were considered peculiar, but lie believed that they involved the settlement of that great and vexed question. According to the Premier's announcement, the subject would be brought before the Assembly in the next session of Parliament. It was commonly said that education must be either secular or denominational. He did not think this division embraced the whole question. He thought the right defi nition was that education should be " unsectarian." He would have the words "secular "and "denominational" become obsolete, for neither of them indicated exactly what Avas Avanted. Neither did he think that the sole educators of the people should be the Government, No doubt that Avould promote the greatest efficiency in some branches of kuowledge, but it implied a possibility that the knoAvledge Avould be of a kind that Avould be serviceable to the Government, and might, in the long run, be turned against the people. In our day, it Avas true that education was falling more or less into the hands of the State, and en lightened Governments were taking this matter in hand. But, at the same time, the Government ought not to be the sole educa tors of the people. Here was the difficulty. One said it must bn secular ; another said it must be denominational. It should be neither ; but it ought to be unsectarian. The difficulty lay in the relations Avhich had sprung up between people of different modes of thinking. A teaching of any particular tenet would be held to he sectarian. 