The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 80a
The Secretary of State for the Colonies to Governor the Earl of Belmore
The Secretary of State for the Colonies to Governor the Earl of Belmore.
My Lord,
Downing-street,18 December 1868.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's Despatch, No. 109, of the 29tli of September, reporting that on the recommendation of your Responsible Advisers you had appointed three additional Members to the Legislative Council.
Any increase of the number of the Legislative Council is likely to be used as a precedent for further additions, and is therefore to be regretted; but I see no cause for doubting that the reasons for the increase adduced on the present occasion are bona fide and sufficient.
At the sane time I should have been glad to have been assured that the addition was not in fact politically material as altering the balance in any important degree in favour of the Ministry by whom it was suggested by you.
Granville.