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 supremacy over the Upper. The constitutional deadlock appearing insurmountable, it was decided to send an "embassy" (as it was called) to England to invoke the interference of the imperial authorities with a view to effecting necessary reforms for the liberalisation of the Legislative Council. It was at first intended that Sir Bryan O'Loghlen should form one of the deputation, but ultimately and Professor Pearson went alone, leaving Sir Bryan O'Loghlen to cope with the acerbity of an excited political situation, with the added responsibilities of acting Premier during Mr. Berry's absence from Dec. 1878 to Nov. 1879. In the meantime the Elections Committee of the House of Commons had declared Sir Bryan O'Loghlen's seat for Clare vacant, owing to his having accepted an office of profit under the Crown—viz., the Victorian attorney-generalship—and he did not again contest the seat. In Feb. 1880 the elections turned against the once unboundedly popular Berry Ministry, and Sir Bryan O'Loghlen in consequence resigned with his colleagues in the following month, having previously been defeated for West Melbourne. Later on he was returned for West Bourke, and having in the meantime become estranged from the Berry party, who had come into office again in the interval, moved a vote of want of confidence in them, which on July 1st, 1881, was carried by 41 votes to 38. Mr. Berry at once resigned, and Sir Bryan O'Loghlen was sent for, and on July 9th assumed office as Premier, with the posts of Attorney-General and Treasurer. The new Government had hardly any direct supporters in the House, but by the forbearance of the Liberal and Conservative parties, who were neither of them strong enough to take office, they held on till the general election in Feb. 1883, when Sir Bryan O'Loghlen lost his seat for West Bourke, and his Ministry was displaced by the Service-Berry Coalition Government (March 1888). Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, who was soon afterwards returned for Port Fairy, for which he still sits, remained in opposition to the Service-Berry and Gillies-Deakin Ministries until Oct. 1890, when he assisted Mr. Munro to tern out the latter, but did not himself take office. During the session of 1890 he distinguished himself by his outspoken opposition to intercolonial federation, and especially to the form of it embodied in the Commonwealth Bill which emanated out of the Sydney Convention. Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, who is looked on as the leader of the Catholic party in Parliament, is a supporter of the Ministry. He married on Sept. 17th, 1863, Ella, third daughter of James Mackay Seward, of Melbourne. He was made an Hon. M.A. of Melbourne University in 1877.

O'Malley, Michael, J.P., was appointed to the Queensland Civil Service by the late Mr. in June 1869, and was a police magistrate for several years, and also Northern Sheriff. In Dec. 1889 he was appointed a member of the Civil Service Board, and also of the Civil Service Investment Board.

Onslow, Alexander Campbell, B.A., Chief Justice of Western Australia, is the fourth son of Arthur Pooley Onslow, of Send Grove, Ripley, Surrey, by his wife, Rosa Roberta, daughter of Alexander Macleay, F.R.S., Speaker of the first Legislative Council of New South Wales. He was born on July 17th, 1842, and was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1864. He entered at the Inner Temple on Jan. 15th, 1862, was called to the bar on Nov. 17th, 1868, and went the Home Circuit. He married, on Feb. 4th, 1878, Madeline Emma, daughter of Rev. Robert Loftus Tottenham, of Florence, and granddaughter of the Bishop of Clogher. He was Attorney-General of British Honduras from 1878 to 1880, and Attorney-General of Western Australia from 1880 to 1883. In July of the latter year he was appointed Chief Justice, in which capacity he administered the government during the absence of in England in 1884-5. His relations with that Governor having subsequently become strained, the latter "interdicted" him from his functions as Chief Justice, for the alleged premature and improper publication of certain correspondence then pending between them and with the Colonial Office. The Executive Council unanimously confirmed the interdict, and placed Mr. Onslow on half-pay pending the decision of the Colonial Office. In the result, Lord Knutsford reinstated Mr. Onslow, but censured him. Ultimately, in view of 354