OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 4267, 30 October 1876, Page 1

OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

I The news of the dismissal <d^m^ $ ' Jury was received here^th^tfiwf" 1 sorprifle being-obiefiy We** W?SI ductof tte £ltnr affair tolasa beyondffi£nUSL* SdtU?^S duty it is to proCTewS «wS°2 to deal justly with the KiT M ' ' it »P«jJW«d by our:l*gislatnrlSrSecS of a Government official who had beeSnhiSl? . mg charges against his *XJFS*£> ■ could not sustain, and wasSssHl tvJ- ' finite action of that kind wTc^nS Boards of Inquiry, i 8 not usually reviewed® butfaaelect committee of theLo^Susi Jiig heard only the evidence adduced w£L dtsmissed servant, and net havwlo %?t Si ite report shows, even sought i? £^ to0 «vW course, itl that averdici H obtained but it would be interesting to Wfor <*? tam how far the active m thematter, fo7thepertntaent W '-' , and his accuser is, if not an Orahsem3S ; dose communication withj society. The newspapers have wiSwewM strongly against the waste of pSomS overthißman;inde^th e • an article .that rK " a breach of privilege if it. we£ brought to the barTWt the prints has been taken. As the recess approaches politicians are eagerly watching popular tendencies. These are very difficult to discover, but so can be discerned they are favorable. Some : > r alarm a little while 'ago, and on a oa*e»hl -* examination were denfois&T L from our dementia about Protection* Con- - trary to aU medicalanalogy.thesesyinßW V were followed by.a favoSble roacfcTand "'. is abating. The Free Thiers seJmedS have been waiting only for that indication. Seizing the opportunity they formed a verjrxespectable fund together, - set the Prws to werk, and issued many vers' good tracts, leaflets, &c.; Ab usualSdl S possession, the first words; of seemed to aggravate the disease. Great swelling words, furious speeches, terrific, V threats, abundant abuse, biWof C' gate were c*st forth; as a flood to swallow up Wisdom and all her children. As nsuajTlSS * earth quietiy. received the ibsrreaV lid tide »' E^ P !!*, UIMm whfchcannS ; < £? u P"* am » *t has gone already into forgetfulness; Meantime thluttie tracte W worfangtheir way, audi hear onsUrides i ' SSi + **fc* bat ****** »• " -trade. Maybe the wish is father to the thought. On thai I anf not rol£ petent to express an opinion; but sofsx-as • my judgment goes it coincides with that of my informants. It is by thTabA very interesting discussion arose on a proposal to insert in the MectoralßOlfjurt vs passed throughj the to give the IJmversity a member. mSSistandingall arguments, drawnfrotoao^j fromexamSes: and from aound public policy, tlmTffiuse was rejected. Several reaspis. were riven for their votes by the inemberTS the majority, but the principal W £ - capital .Mstence of haps, indirectly, therefore; of \ B^i* 6^ 611 ; , House. It was that the proposed new electorate would interfere with the - * Vo J m^ by Producing "plurality of votes." The existence of such a principle, its exceUence (if it do exist) that it is a £de which admits of absolutely no exceptions, were jumped at as self-evident. How* member for the University would interfere with it was never, even attempted to be The Davenport Bros, have met with a reverse at Inglewood. They refused to allow a certain person to be there, because they said that on a former occasion he did ft brutaUy—stopping the circulation of the blood." But he did it effectually, so that the "spirits" could not set the Brothers free. So the audience howled at them, ant there was a general dissatisfaction. Our Astronomer's report is highly satisfactory. The observatory is better furnished than the European ones, except Greenwich and Paris; our 'star' catalogue has been publicly praised on a great occasion by the Astronomer-Royal for England, Sir George Airey, as the best for the southern hemisphere hitherto published, and above all, our great telescope is successful Its work on the nebulae is very valuable; evidences of change appear in nearly all qf thoße bodieschanges so enormous in some cases that the object is only recognisable by pesjbion and not at all by appearance. The standard of comparison is of course HerecheTs drawings. To the great delight of everybody we are having the most delightful showers, warm, gentle, yet pretty copious, they sink into the ground, scarcely any being wasted as ■ surface drainage, and will be of the utmost value to the crops. Just sufficient sunshine - interveaeß between the showery days to keep the earth from cooling, while the winds ~" are gentle and balmy. As usual, Hospital Sunday (last Sunday) was wet. It seesas probable that the amount collected will noi'.?' be quite to large as in former years. Whether this is owing to the weather, to the novelty having worn eff, er to the kte discussions on the abuse sjnd on the better management of the charities is aa undecided qvetken.