VICTORIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 522, 4 November 1857, Page 3

VICTORIA.

The Uira has brought forward the Drover's mail from Melbourne, containing papers long due from that colony. The dates are to Oct 10th, at which time the English August mail was due but had not arrived. The ' Herald' of the 9th speaking of the current news says :— The^ Assembly is adjourned,—" scotched, not killed," —the English mail is hourly expected, with floods of intelligence from India—perhaps involving the fate of an empire,—and the Victorian public is filling up the interval of excitement, by finding or inventing topics of consolation, under its memorable defeat, on what poets might describe with rapture as "the flower-enamelled margin" of the Saltwater river. We are, like all reasonable people, wearied and disgusted at the recollection or bare mention of the parliamentary debates. We have been sitting, for some time, with pen in hand, waiting for the arrival of the European; but, as we have not yet brought steam navigation down to the nice calculations of horse racing, we may fall to work upon the only topic which naturally lies before us, and—as we did take the trouble to go and see everything on Saturday—we believe that we might just as well give the result of our own observations and reflections on that brilliant and inspiring

scene.