The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-09 00:00:00

I DIPERIAL PARLIAMENT

lIOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

RITUALISM.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY asked where the report
of the Royal Commission on Ritualism was, and if it had
been a! nouns d some days ago ?
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The Earl of MALMESItur said that it had not yet all
been sent to the printer. (Laughter.)

NON-ENACTMENT 01' THE APPROPRIATION
ACT IN VICTORIA.

Lord LYVEDEN said that it was with the utmost
difficulty, so much was the public mind occupied with
other exciting topics, that ho could arrange to bring on this
impOrtant matter. He might perhaps be permitted to state
what was the position of the colony of Victoria with
regard to the mother country. It was first ma le a
separate colony in 1850. In 1861 Sir Charles Darling,
who was then governor, introduced a bill called the Ap-
propriation Act. A long discussion took place upon the
subject, and ended in the recall of that governor. He had
served 18 years, and ho wished as far as possible to show
how much ho was entitled to consideration in the matter.
It would be remembered that the Government took from
him the sum of £20,000, and Sir Charles acted with the
greatest propriety. He courted the fullest inquiry into
the matter. Sir Charles comes home, and enters into a
correspondence with the noble lord the Secretary of State
for the Colonle,e, Ho proposes that he should have a perma-
nent pension, or that there should be given to him another
appointment, or that the money given to him by the
colony should be deposited until &thorough investigation
had taken place, but this the noble lord refused to
comply with. It was stated that no colonial go vernor
should receive pecuniary consideration from the people of
the colony during his term of office. It further was
stated that no colonial governor should, when ho quit-
ted his office, receive any present from the people
of the colony over which ho might have ruled.
It would have been far more advantageous that
Sir Charles should have accepted the £2,000 at once, and
quitted the service. He was a man of 60 years of age,
and he would have had about £lO,OOO more than by re-
maining in office for another three years. The noble duke
(Buckingham) succeeded the Earl of Carnarvon as Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies. It was alleged by Sir H. Sutton
in bad to his grace that the Legislative Assembly bad
not discussed the merits of this vote. Why, they had
been discussing nothing else than this vote to Lady Dar-
ling. It was well known and in everybody's mouth. The
noble duke upon this abstained from exprosing any opi-
nion, but contents himself with commending the conduct
of the Governor. He considered that the noble duke did not
submit thoroughly his own opinions to the governor of the
colony. How stood the question ? The Legislative Assembly
seemed of much the same mind as before the election had
taken place. Ile had seen iu the newspapers that the
Ministry had resigned, that showed the bad effect
of the measures taken by the noble duke. If
he had been more explicit they would have
known what to do. What he wanted now to
know of the noble duke was the course about to be pur-
sued. He should ask for the correspondence on the sub-
ject of the non-enactment of the Appropriation Act. The
noble lord then commented upon the Inconsistency of the
instructions which had been given by the noble duke to the
Government of the colony. Ile considered that the Secre-
tary of State ought to have been most explicit in the
matter.

The Duke of BUCKINGHAM said that he quite agreed
With the noble lord that the question was of the
utmost importance, and affected th 3 whole of the colonial
interests of cou :try. The one portion of the subject
affected the interests of the Colonial Government of the
various countries, and the other the honour and dignity of
tho officers OF the colonial eerv:ce. on the one side
they hal a distinguished Governor of the Crown, whose
scrs ices were much valued! and to whom a grant was
abet tto be made. He thought there could be uo doubt of
the impropriety of this grant.
After a short discussion the subject dropped, and their
loreships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMNIONS—IAAsT EVENING.
The SPEAKER took tbo Chair at 4 o'clock.
EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

In reply to Admiral ERSKINE,
The LORD-ADVOCATE said it was not the intention
of the Government to bring in any me tsure on the sub-
ject of Scotch Education during the present session.
BREECH-LOADERS IN THE ARMY.

Mr. HA YTER asked the Secretary of State for War
whether, having regard to the increased danger to life
from tho use of breech-loaders in the hands of soldiers
either insane or of intemperate habits, as evidenced
by the recent occurrences at llorfield Barracks, near
Bristol, he would uniertake to advise with his Royal
Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief as to
the propriety of withdrawing the 20 rounds of ball cart-
ridge now in the possession of all non-conmiissiouod offi-
cers and men of the British army, and of serving out the
same to the troops on parade when about to proceed on
military duty ?

Sir J. PAii.INGTON said he had not had an opportu-
nity of consulting the Commander-in-Chief on the subject,
but he might take that opportunity of saying that ho did
not think that ono crime, however atrocious, would be
sufficient to justify the doing of that which
would be looked upon as a slur upon tho whole British
army. The soldiers had had the quantity of ball cartridge
in their possession from time immemorial, an 1 at present
he saw no reason why it should be withdrawn from their
care. (Hear, hear.)