The "dead-lock in Victoria" has complicated itself a little farther.
The Ministry not choosing, under instructions from England, to propose the grant to Lady Darling, except in a separate Bill, the Legislative Assembly has passed a vote of want of confidence by a two-thirds majority. Thereupon the Governor, Sir J. H. T. Manners Sutton, sends down a message, saying, that as no promise has been held out of co-operation between the two Houses of Parliament, he shall keep his Ministers in spite of the vote, as a temporary arrangement. This decision greatly puzzles the Assembly, which can only stop the supplies already stopped by the Darling dispute, and does not see what to sio next to coerce at once the Governor and the Council. There is no chance, it is stated, of the Assembly yielding, and another dissolution would be useless ; but we have yet to learn the effect .which will be produced by Sir Charles Darling's renunciation of the grant. It is not quite certain that it will produce any, the Assembly being determined to enforce its sovereign control over .all money questions whatever.
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