OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4088, 3 April 1876, Page 2

OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

i - March 22.. I think we have not enjoyed sqch amuse* merit for a long time as we have liad over "M 'Kean, > who ; was committed to prison for contempt, of Hie uprorious behaviour, his lugubrious wails, and the determined efforts of the Opposition to release him without expense, have kept him before the public; but his exit was splendid I The House was determined not to let the party of disorder have so good a cry as victimization would have given them, so it was resolved to let the ■culprit have grace to the extent of remitting the LIOO. But since he really did deserve punishment, ’ the,'. further proposition to remit th(s sustenance fees was * J resisted! Gravely the debate went on, when all at ‘once the Sergeant- entered with a 'disturbed mind and 1 made a cbmmunlca&cm • to the Speaker. 1 Up rose immediately that solemn man," and'inform6d~th6'H6&S6' that they might.save themselves the trouble of settling the terms on which M‘Kean •might go, for he was gone ! It seems that as soon as the resolution was passed to remit *the arrest fee and warrant fee, a number of Opposition members went upstairs, surrounded the messenger who acted as gaoler, congratulated M‘Eean on the resolution, talked loud,: “Gome along, did fellow,” : “It’s all right, Mac,” a freeman,” and so on, and quietly walked off with him,. leaving the miserable messenger nothing tb do but to go and tell his superior (the ser-geant-at-arms) how he /had failed in his trust. The consequence pf this “escape " for it is an escape and not a release—is that M ‘Kean does not pay any sustenance fees at all. The* elegant device of the Opposition &• worthy • of “the friends, of the people”—the helpless messenger who can safely be trampled upon : is sacrificed so that they get them own way . —selfish and silly as their way invariably rs. But the circumstances &ave rddm for suspicion that the messenger might be in oollnsidn, so he was suspended till -the House met onTuesdiy, when the Cfierkhkviugcdfisnlted with the Speaker, a reprimand was administered and reinstatement allowed? M’Kean has been very quiet ever since, but more from compulsion than; fedm w® ll * the parish flrith a [garfish and tm egg proclaiming his intention of producing

f^witM to consider the position, was too small to work with, ' His ■ deoiribn was to let the deficit accrue. and i ' morrow, for power to issue Treasury.bills .OMMr tho.Amonnfe. Unmnra , afloat as ~to~ 4 6«lditidh I 'tif - T party and the Servipe,.'party i the Government on »' “ Vote of 4- want

the ‘Herald,* and very iWfoh^lypot hb!’Its political' constitution is ratheruffiooM# - describe, but its leanings are CbnstitutlocraX , and its- general tone* hood. > H'te.«Uttody free fromthe “dangy, hwflriniiih dts-older rival, ; v ' , i A. gipat‘ discussion is gotegon i anm^Amif A# sent to irmladelphia fo T-ouipem fa fafa. propped match i jwere’ asked tp u ' jon condition that ul&^mnountEe ituMw . ■ private BUbfecrThtidh.RutthVp'ri^Tw Boftetibhs db hot'iCQfeft fti I^l#^ jJCS .. : pf shots hiii^^^'-'TOei^ [ be excursionistsivhbee names' 6 H bha^ui^^g>^; I janclwntteg^othe L jari^AM-idisdfeysd l^ by teakteg at sfl; StLft ■- ~ private tediffeteafee,' ahdW^ trial on fee Supreme Court (except of coursp Cotmany. , ", Board ofLaudand Works) is now. * ’lt is an actibn ordered toWe/Aftro . , CourtTOdfaide TOmelseues 'dr feict anarngv ,' jout of a Suit’ there. Bet^ondi; 1 MowEy^ irat district. He. {which one Ixmghite was the sold to. other -parties, .immediately', (after the' Sale the retuim'of and enormouslyincreased. -• liohghlin-ww- : johe of the hew bwrferei r atfd ;lj66nhbnlih r

idfc&tas td revoke theisj|ie tuitheifthundthaV . fowled bis then employefuas r j i • i jaU^^ r some. ia,*, cheerful: condition as to ~ defences, • and; jitis tteomfortto knowifc :.Wa - jguns which cannot bejmoruited because iff* * |have ne beaftiaged whereof to. puWthem,' . land -cannot be fifed 'bOcfitißed they are not f [mounted; and, : r #he- "O&bernß* . | t ■'phr* - costly as plentiful; and j ■ our way even with things as they are.* Ilow ; jmuchless then {with aheavydefencecoetJto; I' [boar t .Torpedoes .the schemes reMinmended. ./But even ?wiue: l; -the report was being prepared ! jWece i M^aMdb^HraM»' - ’. |tp consider it, which seems <to ■rftny■*' line of sunken painespsuch as we should; *' jlmveV to rely upon |a by ÜbtUea&Tsefo tmng,'for either the charges mvistbe Wtotitif' [ [that the erplosion of one hres . jand.so dischaigestlie whole, line, [must be ; so f far apart that; a ship would jhaya. the chances of safely passing greatly ia her, jfavor. . j 'ifim ; WiJ : : :v ' ' 'if.£ concerning, probable pK>ce^^^^ 5n the Divorce jCourtagainsta£cly ßtodto' be very on, and several persons of the highest Wink in Colonial society as Uo-re)9ipo^entß.' ! (!>n > ( dit, that every attempt is being made tohUfih* {the matter flp, and with some probab&tyof success, since one of the persons imphcStejd jis a gentleman yrho in other Colonies a'uptorieW ndthyoupg inarried ladies. JPossibly this case may have been the .occasion of * •cellent article in. Cross’on a cognate subject.' ■ • Some; inscrutable cause • has lately roused the activity of the police against gmuhW bn the principle that a red heriring is the scent of ’ S good fox whom it is desired to spare. At any rate some good -has been done by it, tfbr the Assembhr'have passed Is the Police ;Offences ( Statute aimed. at tho Chinese gambling houses. . If 1 only it ooUld be enforced against the European ones as Well much more good would be done: ’Biff., if a beginning weremhde with the Melbourne Qub. ‘ ’ • »• - ■■ ■ ■

We continue to have fine, diiy weatheiv ■with an occasional. storm. On Saturday wp had aheavy thunderstorm in the. afternoon,: which did some damage by flooding the streets, but it was much worse inGeelohg, and still severer in the country. The good effects on vegetation ore channing to witness, mid the gain to vigneronstnaybe ee:timated bythoofeands ofpounda. ■ Chalmers’Chunh has at last sot aparson. |Rev. J. Beattie was inducted last week. The induction services gavp-occasion. to fthf insertion in. the - Signs ’ or -one of. &<£s> sham letterewhichhave heenlatelyeo oommen, and have made it such adisgr&ce.ltis singular to note how the tone of this prijfe becomes at time£ much exacerbated. Wthp uninitiated .. the changesseem inexplfe. ■ cable. But a close attention to h>i jpr^njv news may hint at a solution. '• Rot weeks ago the arrival from England W unounced of one pf the “Couhou of Editoia” and immediately afterwards . Ids superior went to Tasmania for a Well The symptoms pf anti-religious monomania, :were atjonce oertauiipen, [whose riot "was prflvinnßly wTw-b whenever it was aUoWisd to WtS ! ‘ Argus,’ at once broke out wild as those which, ft had bnty bedd mcfa&t - - to scribble for : the niostdisputable country papers.