Conditions of Acceptance.

But, though the remedy may be adequate, its adoption will altogether depend, or very largely, upon what the electors of the Colony in their real thoughts desire in their Parliament, If that body is in the future to continue as during the last fifteen or sixteen years—a huge Board of Works, to which every petty locality must look, through petty local members, for petty monetary votes, for all their needs—whether in relation to their roads or railways, law or liquor, police or paupers, schools or scavengering, births or burials—then our present system is just the thing; its potentiality for jobbers and jobbing is complete;—but we would fain hope the end of these things is looked and longed for. Proportional representation, on the other hand, implies the purification of our Parliament from those inducements to misgovernment which have been so prolific in the past, and have raised a crop of evils which the body politic will have much difficulty in eradicating, even when a reformed governing body, elected by and truly representing the whole people, shall have been called into existence in the form of proportional representation, which is, as Mr. Mill has truly said, "not only the most complete application of the democratic principle that has yet been made, but its greatest safeguard."