MELBOURNE.

Colonist, Issue 53, 23 April 1858, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

■■Friday Morning, 19th March.—-After a protracted period of hot winds and dust, we are now enjoying the.comforts of a country freshened by frequent showers, and by a cooling sea breeze. "This happens: fortunately for the new Ministers, for bad the hot weal her lasted, it i 3 questionable whether the electors would have come forward to. exercise their sweet voices at the hustings, so listless was every one becoming. Two members of the Cabinet, Mr.; Chapman, Attorney-General; and Dr. Evans, PoStraasterGeneral; have been rtvelectedwithour opposition. The elections for Kilmore and Castleinuiue take place today, when Mr. O'Shanassy, Premier] anil Mr. Ireland, Solicitor-General, will walk over the course. The central province is now (12 o'clock), iii the act of re-electing Mr. Henry Miller, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, to the Upper House. Ther Treasurer, Mr. George Harker, is the only member of the Cabinet to whom any opposition is offered ; but his opponent, Mr. John Matthew Smith, has made himself so despised,; for, I can use no milder terms, by bis promising -to.do everything for everybody, that he stands no chance whatever,* while he has damaged his prospects at the next general election. Mr. Duffy, Commissioner of Laud and Works, will-,be re-eiected for Vii Hers and Heytesbury, on Tuesday. The principal appointments in the new Government of Victoria are the same as in the former O'Shanassy Administration. . The changes are Harker in the place of Foster, Ireland in the place of Wood, and Miller in the place of Greaves. Q/Sha'aassy; Chapman, and Duffy hold the same offices ; and the intellect and experience necessary, to-the success of the new Cabinet will be furnished by these gentlemen. The new Postmaster-General is a pqiv so-iage whoou^ht to carry into the direction of af fiiirs some distinctive influence. Dr. Evans, we believe, is a banister, who some few years ago emigrated to New Zealand, and subsequently came over to Sydney, where he resided a shortl time before he finally settled down in Victoria^ He is a man of considerable attainments and experience. For the last two years he has been the acknowledged editor of one of the Melbourne morning papers, the Herald, and his return to the Assembly for one of the Metropolitan'oonstitueuues is a fair proof of popularity as a politician. We .know little of Mr. Miller, except that he is reputed to be an Austrian milllm-a-ire, and we do'not know even this of Mr. H.irker or Mr. Ireland, Mr. Q'Sbauassy is undoubtedly the man of greatest force ofchiracter and controlling power, and we may expect in this instance'to see the impress of the Premier stamped upon the Administration.