GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 43, 21 February 1868, Page 2

GENERAL SUM MARY.

As to the Victorian crisis, the home papers state tlwt political aff<i''B in Victoria 'lenijuifi immediate ailfcsmion iv Engla<i<l, owiuj: to the dead lock, »nJ the dodging of the Government. in the evasion of the law. They speak highly o.f the conduct ot the Upper House. The latest expedient of Governor Manners Sutton, after the Council had rejected the Appropriation Bill*, in dissolving the Legislative Assembly, is condemned. They also state that the Ministerial speeches indicated revolution against the Cousiitution. The Governor's endeavors to restore pence are not thought favorably of. The opiniou is that he Ims held too much with the Ministry. The Darlinjr Grant of £20,000 is considered a blunder in England. The latest intelligence as to the Postal Service is more favorable as regards the arrangements of the sailing Hates for the Atisnalian Mails ihan is shown by last time ttti'te. The outward mails for China and Australia leave seven <lays later than t!»e dates in the table — tho homeward mails leave one day earlier. The first outward m«il to Australia, on the new plan, will leave Southampton on the 2 1st March. The first homeward mail from Au.su alia will leave Sydney on the 28th March, thus avoiding the delay of the steamer at Ceylon, and shortening the intervals for replies between Australia and Loudou.