VICTORIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 313, 19 October 1860, Page 3

VICTORIA.

[From the Sydney Mail.) We quote as follows from the Melbourne papers to 6th instant :•— The Herald of Thursday announces that a meeting was to be held on the following day, iv the Town Hall, to take into consideration the destitute condition of the volunteers, militia, and their families at Taranaki. The meeting had been convened by the Mayor, at the request of the principal merchants, and others, and His Excellency the Governor had promised to preside on the occasion. The Age of the 4th instant says:—The resuits of the riot in the Parliamentary Eeserve on Tuesday night are slowly disclosing themselves. On the same evening, a medical man was admitted to the hospital with his arm broken, although it was not stated at the time that he had received the blow in the neighbourhood of the Parliament Houses. Yesterday, a man applied with his eye in a precarious condition, the result of a blow received from a large stone on the same evening ; and several other cases have been attended to, the causes for which have been very insufficiently explaiued. The GeeJong correspondent of the Argus, writting on the 3rd instant, says:—The enthusiasm of the people, in re the volunteer movement, instead of flagging at all, is augmenting. Besides the intention of a number of gentlemen to get up a Scottish company, or an artillery corps, I have now to chronicle a movement set afoot to-day, to organise one or two companies of mounted rifles. The gentleman, Mr. William Fraser, who has initiated the movement, has, in the course of the day, obtained no less than twenty-seven signatures from gentlemen willing to join such a corps. These names are chiefly those ofmembers of the Hunt Club, who; I have no doubt will exhibit as much daring and true courage in the battle-field, if ever their services are required, as they do now in taking " raspers" t while following the hounds. The Government are to provide arms and accoutrements, each volunteer finding his own horse, saddle, bridle, and spurs. 1 think there will be little difficulty in organising in this district two companies (100 men in all) of mounted rifles. The question raised (says the Age) in the action for libel brought by A Cheong, the Chinese intrepreter at Sandhurst, against James M'Culloch Henley, as to whether the proprietor of "a newspaper should be compelled to give up a letter written to him confidentially and only in part published, is still undecided. The case came on again at Sandhurst on Monday, and Mr. Mackey, the proprietor of the Advertiser, still refused to give up the document required by the complainant's council. The police magistrate said that upon the point then raised, the bench were divided, and he consequently postponed the further hearing of the case for ten days, in order to obtain the opinion of the At-torney-General. The same journal of the sth instant states that on the previous day Mr. M'Naughten, the veterinary surgeon, exhibited to a number of persons the luugs of a bullock that had been slaughtered at the public slaughter yards, showing decided marks of disease, resembling pleuropneuiQOiiia. Upon examining the lungs we found them much diseased—the entire mass abounding with tubercles of hard, cheesy matter; but the whole organ was much inflamed throughout its entire structure. The Age adds:—VVe believe cattle are usually driven with great fury from the sale yards to the slaughter-houses, and if such was the case with the animal referred | to, it is probable that & hacd ruo, with lungs so

abounding with tubercles, might have the effect of giving to the respiratory organs that inflamed appearance they exhibited. The whole appearance of the lungs was so like that of the lungs of animals suffering from pleuro-pneumonia, that we" got Mr. Miscatnble to examine them. This gentleman at once, accompanied by Mr. Lyall, proceeded to view the diseased lungs, and, although he did not express a decided opinion, he said that the appearance was very suspicious. One of the female camels left by Mr. Landells in the Royal Park had an increase to her family on Sunday evening. The Argus reports that a matter of some interest to those connected with the shipping interest was brought before the Vice-Admiralty Court of Victoria on the 28th ultimo, his Honor the Chief Justice presiding. It appeared that the captain of the ship Black Eagle, while staying at Rio de Janerio, on his voyage from Glasgow to Melbourne, had borrowed money on a bottomry bond, the result being the arrest of I the ship in February last by the attorney of the obligees shortly after her arrival io this colony. The captain, fearing for the safety of the valuable cargo, had, however, continued in possession of the vessel, with three seamen and a boy, whom he had hired for the purpose. £2000 had been paid into court as the purchase money of the vessel; and among other minor applications, Sir George Stephen applied for the wages and sustenanoe of the said captain and seamen. Various arguments were heard in support of the application, but the court held that the captain could only get his remedy as against his owners,, as he had not been authorised by the sheriff. The effect of decision will be that, if a ship is once arrested, the master is not justified, however valuable may be her cargo, in taking measures for her protection until the sale, except by the speoific authority of the sheriff, or he does so at his own peril.