WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 478, 3 June 1857, Page 5

WELLINGTON.

By late arrivals we have Wellington papers to the 20th ultimo. There is no news> dP impDi - t ince since oui previous dates othei than the following — , l ' DISAEIOWED ACTS Anothei session pt the Piovincial Council is to be held foittyvith Fiom the notice which appears in to-day's papei ,it will be seen that the Council is summoned to meet foi the despatch of butanes* on the 2nd of ne*t month The sudden announcement of anothei, session previous to the dissolution of the pxesent Council has cieated a very geneial feeling of smpuse, and a desire to know what piosent public necessity has piompted tins -tcp The pimoipal leasou which1 we htve heajd assigned is, that Join of the Aofe parsed duung the last session, viz --the Sciip Extension Act, the Hutt Settleis Compensation Act, the Additional Loan Act foi £25,000, and i b,e J?aswrogei Regulation Act have been disallowed by the (Jin einor The two fiist Act"? wet believe have been disallowed on technical giounds , the Loan Act hap beer, disallowed, we understand,! because one of its chief obiedte was to piovide sufficient funds for the eiPt,tion of a Hghthou'se at the eutiance of the harboui, ,and it is alleged that the Provincial Council has exceeded itspowelsin pas>ginor this Act, because the Conbtitution Act exoiessly piohibite any Piovn^aJ Council, iiom making any law foi " the erection and maintenmce of beacons and ligbthouws on the coast On the othei hand it 1* alleged that an ajiapgement had been made with the Geneia. Government by which the lighthouse to be erected at Pencauow Head was to be ie»aided as a Marhour Light, the cost of'whuh w<,s to be defidved b^ the Piovmcial Go\einment In tne meantime, the loan sanctioned by the Act, it is' mlul, lias been negotiated, and piit of the mo dpv has been advaru edto the Provincial Government, and the lighthouse it is tunenily leported has been oidered from ~EngUn&.-~Sj3eotator, ?he * Independent' sajsi—As/io^aids the Passenger Act, ihe ground of disallowance is stated to be the alleged unconstitutional chawctei of the act and the absence of a piecedent 'in any othei pait of the British dorainiomona Wh^thej the Act be unconstitutional 01 not ought to'be a question ea-ily settled It it be let hit- Excellency's adviseib lefei to some puuciples of constitutional law—some chattel oi act of pailiament—some deci&ion of the comts of law—or some authonty which is usually lecognised as an autholity in sitfh matteis "We confebS that the meie dicttim of Fiedenek Whitakei, Attorney at Law, and At-toinej-General of New Zealand,'on. whose aduce we piesume the act is disaflowed, ha', by no means so 1 much weight with us as to induce us to gi\ c our assent to the piopDbihon. '