WELLINGTON.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2121, 8 October 1867, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

Lfkom a correspondent.] Satdrday, Oct. S. Things have suddenly and unexpectedly come to a dead-lock. The Upper House the .other evening madea-series. of alterations in with the Public Debts Bill, emhodyihg. the views of the. small minority of the House : 6f Representatives which followed ■pr.'Eeath'erston into the lobby. Of course .ti)e:;Lower House resented this interference of.the Upper House in a money bill, A .Conference 1 was resolved on, and the Colonial Treasurer,! ;Mr. ''Moorhbuse, about three; of the hardest nuts to crack in iheir.differentways.aithe-House couldfindwere nominated: to conduct the conference, ,rhe three on.the other side w-ere the Hon, Dr Menzies,tlie Hbn.Mrilaptell, andthe UquMii Johnston, none of. whpm.aredistinguished their pliancy;;, .the .conference was taken: last evening at eight o'cloek,, anda.series of long and able speeches were made on both sides. The most notable, 1 am .those ;of'Mr.:Jbhnston and course no cpiiclusibn was arrived at, as .neither side shewed the slightest intention of : ;.ever;giving in. So-the end is not yet. The toWer House ad urned until suppose in the hope of something turning up in the shape of a compromise. Probably the ifacti of the matter assuming the proportion iof;a ; Ministenal crisis will indues the Upper House to retrace its steps. There is a detailed list of the Lords'amendments in the Independent, of to-day, which places the exact points at issue clearly before the public. TheHpuse of Representatives sat extremely late this morning, It was broad daylight before it broke up. The subject was the defence estimates, and the discussion on them was of an extremely lively and exciting character. The Ministry, to begin with, was in a state of irritation at the check given to it by the Legislative Council, and by no means threw oil on the troubled waters. Major Atkinson, who is an authority on the subject, took one of his characteristic headers -right-into the muddiest part of the stream, and managed to irritate the Government to the verge of insanity. A good many salaries were ruthlessly cut away, and the prbvincially charged part of the estimates was reduced to a large extent. Mr Cracroft Wilson took the Canterbury estimates in hand, and used the axe with vigour and energy, Among others, tliei salary of the commanding officer in Canterbury fell to the ground. During the whole of the latter portion of the discussion the Hbuse. goaded on by the MinisterSj was in a most disorderly state, which was not diminished by Mr Armstrong, on the occasion of Beveral items being passed, insisting on making harangues in his peculiar manner on Resident Magistrates, and his parental feelings. Your readers will fail to see the connection between those subjects and the Defence ; --estimates, but there was a connection, which was this. Earlier in th evening the Protection, of Certain: Ant mals Act had gone through Committee, anda clause was added after repeateil divisions, called for by a hopeless minority, to enable the justices towhip.bOys.under fifteen instead of sending them to prison for offences under the bill; Considering what the colonial prisons are, I think that a good: whipping is the best cure for-young poachers. ..But several of the members;were vehemently opposed to increasing the. power. of 'the and among; them, perhaps tlie inoit pertinacious in his! opposition, was. Mr Armstrong. Howeverj the Bill passed the Lower House,..and the Legislative Council swallowed ittatprie gulp..

A great:riiflny of the Southern members were going;tbjeaye,by the Wellington to-day, but most of them have remained to see the upshot of the difficulty between the two Houses. The Upper .Hpußpis sitting now, but whether any arrangement can be come to I cannot say.

T-he Governor held a large and very hot conversazione last night, called the "New Zealand Society's Conversazione." this society appears to be a dillettanti scientific society, the Chief object: of interest and, I hope, pity, Was a poor frog, who was put into ablack bag with one of his feet out, atidkept under the focus of a microscope for several hours, I suppose in time the Wellington sayaiis will make the discovery, that not only baye frogs got blood in circulation, but that [ that blood circulates eVen to the tips of their toei,