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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3517, 3 April 1880, Page 2

Throughout the whole of the Australian Colonies during the past lew years there has been a remarkable aviation in the various legislatures, in consequence of the differences between Upper and Lower Houses* In Victoria this has been notably instanced, and the evil effects on the welfare of the colony bitterly felt. The two branches of the Tasmanian Legislature have been at variance, and a serious difficulty is now cropping up in the Parliament of New South Wales, through the refusal of the Legislative Council to assent to a money Bill. The Premier of that colony our yesterday's telegrams announced, has introduced a Bill curtailing the powers of that body, and the Victorian struggle is likely to be fought over again. In our own colony breaches have been imminent and it is not improbable that we shall witness similar scenes here. This universal agitation will probably lead to the amendment of the constitutions of several dependencies of the Empire, and until colonial legislatures more nearly approach the forms of the Imperial Par* liament, we will have a recurrence of such scenes as those we are now witnessing. _.