HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



The chiefs of the 

 popular party made 

 fierce and violent 

 attacks upon the new 

 Governor in their 

 newspapers (of which 

 they had four); 

 while, in ret u rn. 

 Darling prosecuted 

 the editors and pub- 

 lishers for seditious 

 libel ; and, not con- 

 tent with the heavy 

 penalties imposed 

 upon them, he passed 

 a Bill through his 

 Legislative Council, 

 making a second 

 conviction for libel 

 punishable with ban- 

 ishment from New 

 South Wales. This 

 provision was aimed 

 at Wentworth and 

 his friends, but the 

 Home Government 

 thought it a little 

 too severe, and Dar- 

 ling was obliged to 

 repeal it. His no- 

 tions as to the 

 liberty of the Press 

 may be judged from 

 the fact that the 

 publisher of the 

 . / nst rali an n e w s - 

 paper was fined one 

 hundred pounds and 

 imprisoned for six 

 months for saying 

 that, in a certain 

 case which then ex- 

 cited great public interest, the Governor had substituted his will for the law. Yet not- 

 withstanding the bitter feud between Sir Ralph Darling and the Emancipist party, their 



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