ABSTRACT
In the Colonies the great cause of strife arose from the rival claims of the Upper and Lower Houses of the Legislature. Under the New South Wales Constitution, the Upper House had the right to amend as well as to reject money Bills. Among the boasts of British Colonial Policy, it is surely not the least, that amidst circumstances, materially, socially, and morally wholly new, it has sought with a rare courage to apply the experience of the past, and, like the wise householder, to bring forth things new and old. The unfortunate interference of the House of Commons caused the system of transporting convicts to Australia to be continued after that it had been condemned as well by English authority as by colonial public opinion. In the fiscal relations of Great Britain and the Colonies, there was still an element of uncertainty with regard to them.
