The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1866.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 65, 19 May 1866, Page 2

The Nelson Evening Mail. SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1866.

The intelligence from Australia, which has been brought by the South Australian, is more than -usually pregnant with meaning. We in New Zealaud have all watched, with more or less interest, the various eveuts of the important crisis through whii-h the great colony of Victoria has been passing. Al. though it is probable that but few here thoroughly understand the various political questious which have tended towards bringing about the late colision between the two branches of the legislature, and have caused the popular party to appear before the world as protectionists, aud their opponents as champions of the principles of free trade, yet notwithstanding, we have all discussed the merits of the question, and a certain amount of party feeling respecting it has been shewn even at this distance. But on the scene of action the excitement, which is chronic there, has been intense. The party with which the late Governor has been acting, towards whom he is charged to have shewn a spirit of partizanship, and among whom he has always been immensely popular, have shown their appreciation of his character, and their regret at his recall, by the most enthusiastic demonstrations. Numerously attended meetings to express sympathy with him have been held all over the colony, and 20,000/ had been voted by the Assembly as a testimonial to to him. The party whose views aud feelings in this matter were represented by the Council, and who procured the recall of Sir Charles Darling, have taken advantage of the departure of Mr. C:Shauuassy to Europe in the Great Britain, to get up a counter demonstration. The banquet which was given upon this occasion, is described as the greatest ovation of the kind that has ever been witnessed iu Melbourne, at it, allusion was made to the recall of the Governor which event this party regard with feelings of triumphant satisfaction, by the remark of the gentleman in whose honor the banquet -was ostensibly given, "that Victoria had not one greivance to complain of towards the Mother Country." It will be some time before these two parties will work again together in harmony. The news from Sydney is decidedly sensational, those who ars acquainted with the character of the member for East Macquarie, were quite aware that that gentleman could not let pais the recent exertion of arbitrary power which was found necessary for the suppression of the Fenian movement ia Ireland, without abusing the British Government in his usual intemperate manner, and otherwise making a fool of himself. Although a man of considerable ability, a fluent speaker and an effective writer, aud respected for the complete absence of flunkeyism from his character, he occasionally commits himself ia some manner which causes most" thinking people to turn from him. That a lecture on the wrongs of Ireland should be popular in a city which contains a large body of that nation is not to wondered at, but it does not prove Fenianism to exist there, any more than naming a beach on the Okarita, proves that the organisation exists on the West Coast of New Zealand. I