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A REMARKABLE political contre-temps lias unexpectedly arisen, involving no less than an indictment of the Governor before parlia ment for a brea.ch of its privileges. Sir George Grey's Cabinet had recommended to His Excellency the nomination of Mr Wilson, a solicitor of Hawke's Bay, to the Upper House. A correspondence ensued, in which the Governor declined to act on the advice, alleging as a reason the want of confidence motion now pending in the House of Representatives. No question has oeen raised respecting the fitness of Mr Wilson, who is a gentleman of recognised probity and standing, and there is little doubt that His Excellency's action is due to known antipathies harboured by him agakist Sir George Grey, and pos sibly with the view of inlluencing the approaching division. We had thought that the odium which the Marquis brought down on his head by his last appearance in the character of a political partizan would have served as a lesson to him ; but it appears that the support which he received from the ; Secretary of State has turned his head, and led the infatuated old nuisance to new acts of intermeddling and obstruction, which actually infringe the coustitutional rights of parliament. ' Our morning contemporary to-day, strings together a number of quotations from " May's Parliamentary Practice," bearing on the responsibilities of a sovereign to the advisers appointed by parliament. Beyond shewing that a King would only under very extraordinary circumstances place himself in antagonism to the Ministers chosen by his parliament, the extracts have not the slightest apposite ness to the^present case, and leave the writer and the reader in an impenetrable fog. Whatever the rights of a Kingi; ■:i.y be, there can be no doubt whatever that t ac Governor jjof a colony stands simply ;*d a represen tative of Imperial interest s, and his direct interference in opposition to the will of parliament, as represented by the constitu tionally appointed Ministers, _ when no question of Imperial concern is at issue, is a grave indiscretion, and one which Mr Travers justly said should be considered irrespective of party. If it is an offence at all, it is one against the privileges of par liament. 