MELBOURNE. 12th October.

Evening Post, Issue 221, 23 October 1865, Page 2

MELBOURNE. 12th October.

The state of affairs here, variously described as a "crisis," "a deadlock," and even by somejpersons as a "resolution," remains very much in statu quo. The two houses remain facing each other in determined opposition and without any present prospect of a settlement of their difference. Nor —in the direction of any concession to the claims of the upper House at least —is the Governor at all likely to come in as the Dues ex machina to dissolve the spell which at present paralyses all legislative action here 5 for only yesterday His Excellency, in reply to a deputation from a public meeting recently held in the Ballarat district, besides recapitulating the defence of the financial policy of his Ministers, which he had pronounced in reply to the previous deputation from the exhibition building meeting—further stated, that upon a further consideration of the whole subject, he saw no reason to disaprove of the course pursued by his advisers during the present crisis.—Correspondent Dunedin Times. 1

A formidable ship lias been launched at New York called Dnnderberg (Thunder mountain,) and sensation headers in American papers introduce the monster thus —" The invnlnerable marine Titan — A matrh for the wooden walls of all creation—The Union saving ram—An Allclipper sea-going wrought iron fort—The heaviest armament ever floated —Eighteen 15-inch and 11-inch guns, 5000 horse power, 7000 tons displacement, speed 18 knots —She dwarfs the Warrior and La Gloire to cockle shells —Something ior foreign digestion -A Yankee shipbuilder's chei d'tauvre," &c.; and as we are told that other beauties will follow sharp in the wake of this (air creature, Europe is put on its mettle.