A Just Executive.

Passing on, Sir Robert said one thing which he supposed lay at the basic of Liberalism, was that they should have an executive that would administer the laws justly. Ono of the things the Chartists so strongly objected to was that privileges were given to people of a certain class. But the Chartiets could get all the information they wanted, and knew the officers, sinecures and pensions. They could that get any such information in New Zealand. If a Minister chose to give information he might. But if he said 'No' then no information was forth coming, and thus they had never been able to get the list of the officers created and political jobs made by the present Government. Liberalism demandad that there should be equal liberty to all, and that there should be no privileges given to a class. If any executive gave privileges to a class—he did not care whether the class was in a majority or minority—it was not true Liberalism. All should be one level and all have equal rights. (Applause.) When he had been done in this respect. He did not apprehend anyone is that audience would think of propose any man for his religious creed, let that creed be in ever a small a minority. And if that was to apply to religion, was it to be placed on different ground when applied to politics? ('No.') There was no more right to punish a man for holding political views than for religious opinions. And no Government that attempted such a thing had any right to the glorious name of liberal.