The Evening Post. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1865.

Evening Post, Issue 225, 27 October 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1865.

The following address to the Governor on •the premature dissolution of Parliament was, after a warm debate in the Legislative Council, yesterday, directed to he presented to 'his Excellency by the Speaker :¦— "Mny it please your Excellency— We, the Legislative (Council, in Parliament assembled, desire respectfully to bring to your Excellency's notice the following statements communicated .to this Council, in reference to an alleged understanding between your Excellency and your Excellency's present advisers previous to their acceptance of office : In jmswer to .the question whether the Hon the Premier had asked or received from your Excellency A promise to grant a dissolution of the present Parliament, even if the Parliament should refuse supplies, the Hon. Colonel Ruiiell, as the representative of the Government in this Council, replied that the Hon. the Premier had not made any proposal to your Excellency that the Parliament should be dissolved before the supplies had been atked for, or words to that effect, On the other band a statement has been subsequently laid on the table of this Council, signed by Robert Fharazyn, Esq., a member of the Bouie of Representatives, oE which the following is a copy : 'After I had positively refused to accept office, Mr. Stafford told me that he wished it to be generally, known that under no circumstances could thii house turn him out, as, in the event of a refusal to grant supplies, he had the promile of dissolving without this having been done, and was determined to use it and appeal to the country. He said he did not wish to use this a* a threat, and that it would be highly improper to mi>ke this statement in the house ; but he wished to make his determination known, in order to prevent factious opposition.' This Council is of opinion that it is due to your Excellency that your Excellency should be informed of these statements, because they appear materially to affect the principles upon which the government of the colony is established." The debate on the reception, by the House of Representatives, of the petition from cer- ' tain inhabitants of the town and district of Wanganui, will be resumed this evening. The i.s. Wellington will leave for the South on Sunday next, with the remainder of the members of the Assembly. | Saturday's Gazette contains returns relating to this province. The first it the amount received for the quarter ending 30th June, £54,384 ; the expenditure being 433,760.

The lands sold or applied for in the month of August last amounted to 7954 acres, the cash or deposit for which was £1426 ; in the month of September 24,947 acres were sold or applied for, the deposit £83,982. The customs revenue at the port of Wellington for the quarter ending 30th September was £14,064 ; and the total cu«toms revenue for the province araouated to £20, 165. Shipping : The total number of arrivals for the September quarter was 142 (16 less than last year) of the aggregate of 82,942 tons. The total number of departures during the quarter was 145, of the aggregate of 36,149 tons. 23,830 tons of the arrivals, and 27,408 tons ot the departures, were coastwise. The business of the session in nearly wound up, and it is expected prorogation will take place to-mnrrow. Yesterday the house went into committee of supply, and reductions were made in the different departments for which grants were sought. Mr. Stafford stated he had gone through the estimates carefully, and that in the aggregate there would be a reduction of more than one hundred thousand pounds, without any material reduction in the staffs of departments. Mr. Cracroft Wilson proposed that the item £5380, members' expenses, at £1 per day, be struck out, but in this particular instance the fate of the motion did not depend on the Speaker's casting vote, the Ayes mustering only 5, the patriotic Noes 24. The screw steamer Moa, thoroughly overhauled and repaired by Mr. E. W. Mills, of this city, now lies alongside the wharf, ready for sea, inviting the attention of charterers. At the close of yesterday's proceedings, the Court of Appeal adjourned to Monday next, at eleven o'clock. The extract " New Style of Confession," which appeared in yesterday's publi :ation, is a mere fabrication of newspapers. The rules of confession are strictly the same for Emperors, Emperor's sons, and the humblest from among the people. Public confession, and confession received in presence of witnesses, is severely interdicted by the Catholic Church. —(.Communicated.) At the Resident Magistrate's Court to-day, the following cases were disposed of: — Somerville v. Thompson, debt, £18 16s 6d.— Judgment deferred. Carlyon v. Martin, £4 8» —Judgment for £2 2s and costs M'lntyre v. Harris, £1 19s 3d.—Parties nit in attendance. Folley v. Larsen, £2 9s. Judgment for amount and costs. Strike v, O'Brien, £3 12s.—Withdrawn. W. Tonks' jun., v. Jenkins, £9 6s 9d.-— Withdrawn. j[ ! H. Homer v. A. Mills, £15.—Adjourned to 28th October. J. Rickard v. J. Ruck, £4 8s 2d.—Adjourned for further evidence to 30th October. Pickering v. Spiers, 14s.—No appearance. Messrs Cressy and Aycrs have consented to exhibit their diorama of American and and European scenery this evening. The merits of this exhibition are acknowledged by \ the many thousands who have visited it since its arrival in Wellington. There will be a large distribution of free gifts to night, consisting of a gold watch and chain, silver tea service, albums, lockets, &c. &c. i|fiA want long felt in Wellington, but unknown in all other civilised communities, is about being supplied by the enterprise of Mr. Wra. Taylor, hair-dresser, who announces that he will in a few days enable our citizens to enjoy the luxuries of the warm bathr"** Marshal Bugeaud's observations onthe weather are:—The weather will be eleven times out of twelve during the whole of the moon what it was on the sth day of that moon, if on the 6th the weather continue as on the sth ; and the weather will be nine times out of twelve as on the 4th day if the 6th is like the 4th. The rulo caunot apply to the months of Get bt-r, February, March, and ' April. In these months the 6th day resembles neither the 4th nor the 6h. The Marshal added six hours to the 6th day already spent before he would prenounce on the weather, because of the delay of the moon interposed every day between the two arrivals at the meridian.—(Communicated.) Sv

A telegram from Egypt, dated 22nd August, announced that on the 15th " the floodgates of the Suez Canal had been thrown open," and that a vessel with her cargo had actually sailed direct from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. It now appears f.hat the " canal" opened on the 15th August was not the " Suez Canal," but simply a certain fresh water canal, of very small depth and equally slight capacity. The Suez Canal, so far from being open, will not, it issaid.be open for two or three years to come, at leatt.