OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 3938, 8 October 1875, Page 2

OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

V klbo rne, clober 2. i i o’.dy thcr weiv eu ko is, and nightingale . and t kyu.k-. io oustrali y one might, d ■ nv . pleasant ti.iug : firstly, on - might at d; t nies 'dog dose chaining purt auugs n f v*. ndehsohii’a w ithonl a secret sense of ’ho ah. u i ; so oud y .no mi ht. at this part.c-’ <;inv, f e 1 nre h.d; i( w.v? spring. ■ c-tr. to maite b -Lcvo i. is ami now ami th-.-n we. get a day tlm- h*’ .r » us to no so ; but Mic n- xt Him is-’ fnm rates all onr a - te'.pts, and, genoalv g; taking. e»cb hour -ontrsid t ■ as pr- de-cv or. It would contradict it-. inco ts-r, toy f it knew how’„ but ih'.ro Seems to i <■. rather a difficulty in '.ravei sing a stahment no: y t made, and. whose rn k. r is not y-l v.xivkiit, Ceitainly, there is v. gi-aike as imony canc‘Mi ng the se-soi; ;bm wha' i it wo> th ? If I rero cotidußiing a cause in which it was appealed to, I woul.' object to it at once, b.cause you cannot subject it to the ordinary tests, - ho would ever think of cross-examining a cabbage or insisting that a PtUosporutn tin* dulatum should answer iuterroga tones on affidavit? if anybody thinks iheobje tion absurd, I can justify r- ny pointing to hundreds of “ very Miperior poopL” who argue in more imp nance, dlevertlidei-s, it it undoubtedly spring, and a very wet one too. fur coast at least that portion opposite to asmauia, will, it is to be feared, get a bad name with the underwriters. The loss of the Can bridges' iiv in Banks’s Straits will be connec ed, in that hd’.v way which ignorance of our geography at H mi {ensures, with hose of th- Bieucathra ami British ddmiral on King Islacd. >ut again appears, as in those cases, a great wart i f care. The Court of r.quiry sentenced the Cambridgeshiie’s captain to suspension of certifie d.*, for twelve mouths. Madame Kistoriadvertises thec’ose of her se; son on Tu .‘day next. •> low.y imr popu--1 rdy increased, until ihere was quite a furo e about her. The excellence of her cempany, however has had much to do with it. She is not a star in a com .an of muffs that dim her ra iianc - by inte po ing a mist i f bad acting, but a st.n in a clear nky, with very oppor’uuiiy of being appreciated. Madam • J *ua i-c ek app urn ’o-nigbt. ohe mams her ddbut belme a Melbourne audunce in “ aiaiie Smart,” the ,s;;m. with whieh Bistori cmmit in id. Ja auschek, howevi*’, will ban; around her the usual stock actors of the Koy .l. ''ignor -- C-y bids ’‘farewell to uslrolia’* in a concert on Monday.

Vei\ q..j»tiy a iO d X; rmoat ita-como to au e .u i', family ■*. ymr or two ago some numbers of tlu Young Aim’s basii, a ssociaiion organised a tradtn brigade { r i he “ street Arab'” of Melbourne. The intention was to give the boys mme approach U> a homo, to assist tneai in getting a livino honestly, ami to >ake advantage ot the option uni y thus (Tod d of ‘ringing them uudi r < hnstian infliieiic*. tint i. was f no use. The . omnia ee pretext d their find import this we k. a i ■ recnirmn ed the winding up «i the {.flaia Tiie\ tell utj the tea>ons •: f u;..ro hone tly and ate entitled tointiui.ee edit for to do.tig—it is eo easy am; s tempting to gloss ov. r a fadun , and s . much pleasanter t t. Ip ~ut »t exist, nee unobserved. But, th- r. e ids of fa lire are in their way, e.eu mor «■<» liable hj n those of sue esg, ; nl data on these eut-j ms are particularly wanted the dung fared simply b .cause it wa* not wanted. “ street dabs <1 o want a deceuv home, an no.'est. livc-ih.iO'i, ora ? character. Some of them, covered wt hj veimin, hit the house rather than take a b dh They .'ova ilb it b a nree vguli. !■<•».ir« ara fb if ; ~;i>e;. u't c r.ji ' r: iioi M an i ;i £ U, advoofctw of Sir Jo*hw Oebb’i

woHone ponder such facts well. “The dangerous classes’' are what they are front choice—not from weakness, the tyranny o' ■society, want of opportunity to reform, or any othev imaginary cause. In one lit! L sentence the commutes mention a single fact, on which they do not comment, but whiah Buckle would have seiz cl with avidity and used with effect. The mildness of the. cluoiat'o was pointed out as a groat obstacle io the way of th* ir succors, r •oelter comparatively dispensable, and so tho one groat ho d that can ever »>e got upon our outcasts, i'ho “ enthusiasm of humanity has failed-totally and confes sedly. The enthusiasm of • hri-nianDv. how ever, yet remains to bo - lied. In as quiet a ivay as tho Young Men’s Association pave up their experiment, a sinele go d man is succeeding in one apparently much more di/B <iult. An Evangelist at work amonest the lost women has done much god, and is in hope of still greater success. If Mr Kecs is to !>■' believed, (here arc in Zealand some adep*s in Ling sud corruption ; but I think we can produce th.ir equals here. Reports of deputations and dealing articles in a few of ’he country news pipers would supply instances of both arts •enough to give employcaent to twenty Rees’s. As the political crisis drags on it is remarkable how the moral declines The tn’c’xery developed reacts upon the tricksb rr, aryl they were not particularly good to begin 'with. Neither side is much better tha i the other ; but if eith°r is worse, you may judge which it is hy comparing lira personal eh a ractera of the ’coders. As for the Protectionist newspapers, they are—well just what they always were ; T cannot say a bitterer thing about them than that. The Fre ■ Trade party made several desp rate attempt*. end the strife, but they were hampered by “be squatter# of their party, by the bankers, and by all interested in property in any way. These were free traders in theory, but deter■tniued. to have no property or bank-note tax in practice. The Protectionists followed their usual tactics, and, as usual, were success ful. Divide et impera has always been their rule : it was app ied tho other day, and tae result is an agr ement that virtually ••amounts to this— ’* Protection is to be left alone, so is property.” tio the unlucky public has to go on paying iniquit us imposts under a declining Dade in order that the individual interests of their so-called representatives may not be affected. Who then is f o •pay the deficit? Tlra civil service! It is the old s,tory of the wolf and the lamb, only here are two wolves instead of o e. Protectionists a cl propertied people turn round Bind say, “It’s all your fault—you wicked ■civil servants are a * expensive that we can’t afiord you. You caused the deficit; now we will cut you down .” Door I»mb ! But not a. word about the T 300 avearto members, or the little jobs in local subsidies, nr tho Bionstrous army f ‘‘supernumeraries,” put in by political influence, who arc the real source of expense and weakness to the service. But the Berry Ministry really seem doomed this time. A coalition has be'ii effected between Kerf *rd and M'Culioch, ar.cl though Langton and Gasey are not in it, and at-e therefore used as wedges by Ministers to split the OppoM ion if passible, still •the Left is strong enough to crush them all. It, would be very amusing, if we h-ad not to pay for it, to see how eagerly the Opposition rush into every snare laid in their sight by the fowlers of the Ministry. They never learn by experience, and really seem anxious to bu divided. For th s re eon there is even yet a chance that on 1 u csday night things may present an en’irei y new aspect. The interval between T burs lay night aud Tuesday night is long enough. Tor ac'ive a- d unscrupulous people to hatch any kind of r. plot, and they have proved their a’-ilicy hy doing it twice already Since (the Ministo-ia! elections.