§ Mr. SWIFT MacNEILLasked the Secretary for the Colonies whether any peti- 1251W tions to the Grown complaining of the conduct of Sir William Ellison Macartney, as Governor of Tasmania, have been forwarded by him to the Secretary of State for the Colonies pursuant to Royal instructions in such cases; and whether such petitions will be laid upon the Table of the House of Commons?
Mr. HARCOURTAn Address has been received from the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and it will be laid in due time before Parliament, with other Papers on the subject.