WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume V, Issue 243, 28 February 1855, Page 8

WELLINGTON.

At the meeting of the Council on; Tuesday last, the Provincial Secretary wasVcMled upon by one of the members of the tnwii of Wellington, to afford information on the subject of providing suitable accommodation for the Proviiicial Government. To this request the/ lion. getUlenian responded, and in describing the unsuccessful application for the/ Goverhirient House, as also for tents to shelter the houseless, —while placing on the table certain correspondence on the subject, he characterizedl the conduct of Mr. Hamlcy, and of Golbuel McCleverty its almc'sOnhunian./ Shoril^ merit of the council, Colonel McCleverty called upon the Provincial Secretary^ arid applied/to hiiri language pf the most unju-^ifi^le^ description. On Thursday^ upon/ -'themeeting of the Council, the Provincial Secretary brought this outrage upon the Council urider, consideration; After the honourable gentleman- had /made a statement as .powerful as appropriafe^itlie/'Prbvincial Treasurer, as a member of Council and not as a member of the Executive Gbvernraent, rinoved the suspension of the Standing Orders, that he might submit a motion at once for the consideration of the Council.. Leave to suspend having been granted, a debate ensued in which the Prov. Treasurer, the Proy. Solicitor, and Messrs. Ludlam, Bel 1, arid Revans took part,— and the issue was that a' committee of enqniry was gran ted. A division was called for, when i t was found, that eleven were for the motion and three were against it. A curious circumstance attended this division. On the right in the Mechanic's Hall, in which the meeting of Council was held for thefirst time,—a portrait of Judge Chapman hangs, and on the left a portrait of Sir Geo. Grey is placed. In the division the eleven members supporting the Constitution and popular institutions, were ranged under the portrait of Mr. Chapman, while the three who were opposed to the terms of the motion, upon which tbe Committee of enquiry as to the course to be pursued, was sought, and who strange to say were all and the only nominees of the late Governor in the Council, were looked down upon most graciously by Sir Geo. Grey's portrait. The speeches were/at great length, and the subject we believe is unsurpassed in importance . by any which has yet been brought under discussion in this Province, and finding that it will be impossible for us to do justice to a full report of the debate in this uumber,*we have determined to delay all the speeches with our comments upon them, and the great principle involved, until our next issue, when we trust we shall produce a paper that will attract the/attention of not only all the papers iv New Zealand, but of all the press throughout the Aus traliau group. •of colonies.— Well. Ind.