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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED, 



the crisis terminated. Its conclusion was precipitated by the arrival of the mail at 

 Adelaide, bringing the intelligence of the recall by Her Majesty of Sir C. H. Darling, 

 on the ground that he had not maintained that strict neutrality during the political 

 crisis which, as a constitutional Governor, it was incumbent upon him to observe. His 

 departure from Melbourne was made the occasion of a great public demonstration on 

 the part of his political friends, and the Assembly afterwards voted Lady Darling twenty 

 thousand pounds of the public money as a solatium for her husband's recall. The Bill 



for the appropriation of 

 this amount did not 

 meet with the concur- 

 rence of the Legislative 

 Council. An unsuccess- 

 ful attempt was made 

 by the Assembly to 

 force the Upper House 

 to acquiesce in it by 

 means of a tack, and 

 another dead-lock en- 

 sued. Then came the 

 news of Sir Charles 

 Darling's death in Eng- 

 land, and Mr. Fellows 

 proposed that an an- 

 nuity should be granted 

 to Lacly Darling a 

 suggestion which met 

 with the approbation of 

 all parties, and thus the 

 crisis came to an end. 

 The Rt. Hon. J. H. 

 T. Manners-Sutton, who 

 afterwards became Vis- 

 count Canterbury by the 

 death of his father, as- 

 sumed the Governorship 

 of Victoria on the I5th 

 of August, 1866, and 

 held it until the 2nd 



of March, 1873. During his term of office there was a partial lull in the vehemence of 

 party warfare ; the fiscal policy of the country had been settled, the revenue was generally 

 prosperous, manufacturing enterprise underwent a considerable expansion, the railway sys- 

 tem of the colony was being steadily developed, and the absence of any violent strife in 

 politics, after the settlement of the exciting " Darling Grant " question, proved to be 

 conducive to the welfare and progress of all classes of the community. There were, it is 





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