HC Deb 02 June 1862 vol 167 c237
COLONEL FRENCH

said, he would take that opportunity of asking the right hon. Gentleman, Whether it was true that the Governor General of Canada had taken upon himself to dissolve the Canadian Parliament without consulting Her Majesty's Government?

MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE

said, that Her Majesty's Government had received no information on the subject except that which had appeared in the public papers.