27 JULY 1878, Page 3

A telegram from Melbourne, dated June 11, and received via

Brindisi, states that the Victorian Government have resolved on Constitutional Reform, and indicates that what they wish to intro- duce is the principle of the Plebiscite, whenever a measure twice carried by the Assembly has been twice rejected by the Council. We trust this notion of recourse to Plebiscites will be abandoned. The people at large cannot judge of anything beyond the main scope of a measure, and it would be far better not to sanction the false notion that they should even attempt to decide political issues, except through the deliberations of their representatives. Why not let a two-thirds vote carry it over the heads of the Council ?