IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 557, 16 August 1851, Page 3

IMPERIAL P A R L I A M E N T .

House of Commons, March 31. Lord .T. ]\laxncrs. referring to the instiuctions sent out to the Colonies by Lend Gicy, in November, 1817, by T.birh Roman Catholic prelates were accorded a jAi.k *.nc! precedence before tl.e &uffiii§an bNhops of tho Established Church, by viitue "f their nomination as bishops not by hei Majesty., but by the Pope, inquired of the first Minister whether thre instructions ot Lord Giey v/ere rtiJl in force and whether it whs the intention of the first Minister to recall or modify them. Lord J. Russcll— Thesejinsf ructions ai c still in force, and thcie 5s no intention of" altering them.

Troops in Austr*li\. Mr Mowatt said that it r.ould be the greatest boon to Australia if we withdraw every soldier from that part of the woild. As soon as we took that step, the neces sary lesult would be that our colonies iheie would have the management of their own aft'tirs. and they would flourish in a manner of which we had no idea; they would become the veal outlets of the population of this country, f. r which thry r/ere intended by nature. He thereiore wished to nsk the right honourable gentleman the Secretary at War, whether our troops were to be removed from Australia, or whether, if they remained theie, this country was to be relieved from the expense of maintaining them, — and v.he'her he intended to apply the stme jninciple to our North American Colonies. (Hear, hear ) Mr. F. Maulc said he believed that the amount of troops in Australia \, m s now about 1000 men, and that it was as low as it could be It wa« not, he believed, the intention of the government to withdraw any more tioops from Austiftliti; and he Tory much doubted whether the honourable gentleman rightly rcpre^tntei the feelings of the people there, <br he (Mr. 1\ Maul*:) had always found that pioposals to withdraw troop 1 ., either at home or abroad, were generally pr' toted against as Inking away a considerable source of profit. (Loud chee/3.) With regard to Canada, be must say that it was not the intention of the go*ernment, at present, to j educe the number of tioops in that colony. (Hear, hear.)