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was also sent to South Australia! with an assurance that, 
while the Imperial Government had no desire to discriminate 
between that Colony and the others, in view of its short 
experience of representative government, they did not know 
how far the proposals therein contained would be welcome 
in the Colony, and they left it to the Governor to decide 
in what way they should be made known to the people. 
This dispatch crossed one from the Governor, forwarding 
a petition from the Legislative Council to be accorded the 
control over such portion of the revenues from lands as 
was not devoted to immigration, subject to such provision 
as might be necessary being made from the revenues by the 
Governor for the use of the aborigines. 
The New South Wales Bill was proceeded with and further 
discussed in the Colony: unhappily the committee were 
induced to recommend the adoption of an hereditary tenure 
for the Upper House, so as to assimilate it to the House of 
Lords, and there arose a controversy about that House 
which resulted in numerous petitions showing that an elective 
House would be preferred ; others again desired a nominee 
House, appointed not for life but for five years: while 
others desired that the northern portions of the Colony should 
be given a separate existence, a desire acceded to in 1859. 
In the meantime, while the Bill was delayed, the Duke of 
Newcastle, in a dispatch of August 4, 18533 intimated to 
the Governor that he should take care to warn all newly- 
appointed holders of posts which would be likely to be treated 
as political that they could not expect the usual security 
of tenure, and added that he trusted that there would be 
no idea of trying responsible government with a single 
chamber. At the end of the year the Governor sent home 
the Bill passed by the Legislature as 17 Vict. No. 41.4 
On receiving the decision of the Imperial Government to 
permit responsible sovernment. the Legislative Council of 
' Parl. Pap., March 14, 1853, p. 72. 
? Tasmania rejected the idea ; see Debates, dic., of the Legislative Council. 
Pp. 69 seq. Cf. Rusden, Hist. of Australia, iii. 68 seq. 
Parl, Pap.. August 10, 1854, p. 62. ¢ Ibid., pp. 27 seq.