Imperial Parliament. House of Lords. Monday, March 12
The Earl of LUCAN read a letter from the Adjutant-General, declining to order a court-martial in his case. THE ARMY DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT…
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Imperial Parliament. House of Lords—march 19. Lord Lucan
The Earl of LUCAN moved for a copy of Lord Raglan's report of the affair of Balaklava, and again brought his case before the House in a speech of very great length, stating, in conclusion,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tamworth Election. (From the Times, March 19.)
The acceptance of office by Sir Robert Peel, as one of the Lords of the Admiralty, having caused a vacancy in the representation of the borough, on Wednesday Sir Robet offered himself for re…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Empire. Monday, June 25, 1855. "The Colonies" in Parliament
THE Australian Colonies are still occasionally mentioned in Parliament. Notwithstanding the many important topics which might naturally bc expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons—march 12. the Colonial Sectretaryship
On the motion for going into committee of supply, Sir J. PAKINGTON begged to call the attention of the House to the present extraordinary state of the Colonial-office, and to the condition of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →REVIEW. Further Papers relative to the Discovery of Gold in Australia, (in continuation of Papers presented, February 14, 1854), presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, December, 1854: London, 1855
THIS is another of the Blue Books, which, by some unaccountable accident obtain little notice from the Colonial Press: and yet they contain a great mass of information of a most valuable kind…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, March 26. Postal Arrangemets with Australia
The Earl of HARDWICKE then rose to present a petition in reference to the postal arrangements with Australia. This was an Important subject, and in 1851 it had been recommended that steam vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons, March 27. the Committee on the Army Before Sebastopol
Mr. COBBEN.—I beg to ask tho hon, gentleman, the member for Sheffield, when it is his intention to lay upon the table of the House the printed evidence taken before the committee upon the state of the army before…
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WE are now at the end of three months of incessant revolutionary writing and talking against the governing and administrative system of Great Britain; and really, it is time we should see some results of such an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. House of Lords, March 20. the Court of Prussia and the Congress of Vienna
Lord LYNDHURST, in rising, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the House to the position of Prussia with reference to the approaching negotiations at Vienna, said—My lords, I have been for some time desirous to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"The Stranger" in Parliament. (From the Leader, 17th March.)
IT is a proverb, the contempt of our present chief Ministers for "Parliamentary control:" and under Lord Palmerston's sinister management the fatal farce of representative institutions, as embodiad in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The Stranger" in Parliament. (From the Leader, 24th March.)
THE nation seems quite proud of its Day of Humiliation, in the belief that the sitting of Parliament down at St. Margaret's, on last Wednesday, has placated Providence and induced the favourable turn now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Liverpool Election. (From the Liverpool Albion, 2nd April.)
THE election is over, and heartily do we congratulate our readers on the result. The choice which the burgesses have made does them infinito credit. Mr. Ewart is a gentleman well known to them, and…
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It appears that there is a split in the Tory partv. When that thin end of the Liberal wedge, Mr. Disraeli, got into the party, its wooden consistency was endangered: and now Sir Edward Lytton turns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Punch's Essence of Parliament
MARCH 5th, Monday.—A few of the Lords so far forgot themselves as to waste a portion of their valuable time in listening to some observations by Lord Monteagle on the subject of Education in India. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Parliament House. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—The Governor-General has intimated to the Legislative Council, that provision must be made for accommodation for the two branches of the Legislature, which are to be called together under the New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imperial Parliament. Ho Se of Lords.—friday
The Convention with Sardinia Bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY. The House met at four o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons. May 10. Government of Victoria
Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable Her Majesty to assent to a bill, as amended, of the Legislature of Victoria, to establish a constitution in and for the colony of Victoria."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Imperial Parliament. House of Common's. May 10. Government of Victoria
Lond.J. BUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a bill to enable her Majesty to assent to a bill, as amended, of the Logislature of Victoria, "to establish a constitution in and for the colony of Victoria,"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Imperial Parliament. House of Commons.—april 30. the Vienna Conferences
Mr. DISRAELI.—Seeing the noble lord the secretary for the Colonial Department once more among us (laughter) I take the liberty of inquiring whether it is the intention of the noble lord to lay any papers upon…
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