ABSTRACT
The accession of Lord Grey to office in 1846 was felt, as has already been said, to be a triumph for Colonial Reform; and the wide range of his measures in his first year of office seemed to justify the hopes of the reformers. By 1848, in short, Lord Grey was already beginning to lose his reputation as a Colonial Reformer. Yet Colonial Reform was if anything more in favour with the public in 1848 than it had ever been. The attacks of the Colonial Reformers were on a wider front. Mr. Francis Scott undoubtedly had New South Wales chiefly in mind, but his motion was for a Select Committee on the political and financial relations between Great Britain and the colonies.
