HOHORS OF MELBOURNE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2413, 16 June 1882, Page 3

HOHORS OF MELBOURNE.

(IBOH OtJB OWH OOBBB9PO5DBST.) Mblboubxh, June 6. I don't suppose your readers are muoh interested m Victorian politics, but they prssent such an amuiing phase at present that a resume of the state tf things will be interesting. The great question of the day is the signing of that celebrated address to the Irish people at the Grattan anniversary held here. The matter has mode • grsat stir, and Mr Patterson, who has sot up as the leader of tha Protestant, or rather anti-Catholic party, is driving borne his wedges, and awfully ticklish things they ar« for the five members who signed the address celling England's rule the hoof of a despot, and the like. What the upihot may be I cannot at the present time tell, but a strong effort will be made to whitewash tbe offanding member*. la (be meantime tbe Ministry are m a "parlous" itat*. They are too much " bossed." Thi moment thsy score • success th« Argus, or the Conservatives, come down upon and humiliate them. Sir Bryan is dialing over this, aqd I would not be surprised to see him take the bit ia his teeth and obtaining a dissolution from the Governor j and then there will be rare fun, for tbe Catholic party it beginning to split. The Duffy versus O'Sbannaisy spirit reviving, tbe Liberals arc broken like tbe ray* of light m a prism and detire to gtt rid of Mr Btrry, while the Conservatives, though th« most united party, are ill at ease. Should a general election take plaoe under tuoh circumstances, it will be every man for himself and the old gentleman down below for them all. Truly, we aro a community that is never at rest. Tho East Bourka election is developing, and the issue i* to bo wbsther the Catholics or tha Proteitante Me to rule the community. On the result a great deal will depend. At