VICTORIA.

Evening Post, Issue 23, 6 March 1865, Page 2

VICTORIA.

irir J. Fisher, President of the Legislative Council, Adelaide, has declined to offer himself for re-election on account of his fi A c. Cameron, the well-known Melbourne cricketer, has been killed by a fall from hia horse. The Shcnandoah was placed on the Government slip, at Williani<town, Melbourne. She drifted from her moorings during a gale on the Bth of February, and drove against the Williamstown Breakwater. In the latter part of January, Mr. Irvine, at Teapot Swamp, near JBathurst, was stuck up by two bushrangers With masks on. They stole about £15 in money. The Southern Ocean, with passengers, is placed in quarantine,having had thirteen deaths. Fourteen steerage passengers will be landed at the Quarantine Station, and the ship cleared belore being released. Alcock and Co., billiard table makers, Melbonrne, offer £500 reward for the manufacture of the first web of cloth suitable to the requirements of their trade. James Clarke and William Sunders have been apprehended, charged with having in their possession bank notes that had been stolen in the Quean bey uu mail robbery. A uueting of persons interested in the formation of a new sugar v growing company is being formed in Queensland. At the annual agricultural show at Toowoomba samples ot wheat shown were the finest ever grown in Queensland. The Attorney-General of Queensland has given notice of his intentiou to institute criminal proceedings against the proprietors of the Brisbane Courier, for a libel alleged to be contained in a leading article in that paper on ihe lOtn January, in which the conduct of the AttorneyGeneral, in hia double capacity of grand jury [? juror] and practising as a barrister, is commented upon. The Ministry have announced their intention to appropriate the sum of £3000 to the widow and family of the late ' Hon. Richard Heales. This mark of regard for the memory of one who did so much for the people of Victoria, and was so deservedly high in their esteem, will secure golden opinions for the Cabinet, not only from teetotallers, but from all kinds and conditions of men. Messrs. Dunn and Co, of Ballarat, proprietors of the VVarrenheipDistillery, have suspended payment. Liabilities, £29,217. The assets show a surplus of £2,0000. The stoppage is attributable to the difficulty in effecting sales, and the large amount of capital invested in the works. Their creditors have accepted one-third cash, and the balance at three and six months. The Melbourne Free Trade League held its first meeting on the 6th of February. Subscriptions in aid of the movement amount to £5000. At Melbourne, a quantity of American reprints of English books have been seized on the premises of the Religious Tract Society. Advices from the Peak Downs Diggings, Rockrampton, Queensland, are very satisfactory. The escort has brought down 46,000 ounces. In the Victorian Assembly a motion has been carried for the to+al abolition of the export duty on gold at the end of the year 1866. Bronze statues, ten feet high, of Burke and Wills, have been successfully cast at Melbourne. ________________

A shocking scandal comes from TurkeyA mariied daughter of the late Sultan jealous of her husband's attention to ladye fair, cuts off ilie offending beauty's head, and has it dished up for the sumptuous cepast of faith* less spouse— Bui the tale is too horrid to be continued ; fit only for the Arabian Nights or similiar entertainments— and fortunately, whilst at my labors, down comes telegram with the agreeable news that, after going the rounds of the European press, the whole tale is a fbtion. What, punishment is in store for its 1-ickless author, we hare yet to learn. —Correspondent of Otsgo Daily Times. Despkratb Struggle -with a Garottbb. Joseph Clarke, a man of garotting appearance, was brought before the Liverpool magistrate, charged with attempting to rob a Liverpool police officer, named Coe, of . his watch. Coe was walking in plaiu clothes along Great Howard street, when the prisoner and another man met him. Clarke seized the officer's watch, and a struggle took place between the men, during which the man who was with Clarke levanted. Coe with great difficulty dragged Clarke into a publichouse, but the landlord and his son declined to render any assistance, as 4'id also any of the street passengers appealed to, Coe, therefore, did his best to convey Clarke to Bridewell, but, while on the way, Clarke drew a clasp knife, and wounded the officer slightly in the neck. Again, Coe appealed to Jthe passengers for assistance, but in vain, and, had not a dock gate man come to hia assistance, the probability is that the officer would either have been seriously wounded, or hare been made unable to capture the thief. Clarke was commited for trial.