The latest telegram from Melbourne (March 10) announces that the
Victorian Parliament has been dissolved, the issue before the country being the extinction of the Upper House. The Government proposes that whenever a Bill coming from one House is rejected by the other, both Houses should sit together and vote upon it in common. This means, we imagine, that whenever a Bill in the Lower House is passed by more than a fourth majority, it -should become law despite the resistance of the Upper House. It would be better to fuse the
'two • Houses for- all purposes, thus making the Conservative element really useful in debate, instead of leaving it useful only -be dam up a current of feeling till it acquires irresistible impetus. If the proposed plan is adopted, the Governor will have to use his veto much more frequently, to the detriment of the connection with Great Britain.
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