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MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, including the BERNESE OBERLAND and the SIMPLON, 1.1115 EVENING, and Every Evening at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday) ; and Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Mornings, at Three. St4llB . 3s. (which can be taken at the box-office every day from 11 till 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, ls.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. WILL CLOSE on SATURDAY Next.— SOCIETY of PAINTERS in WATER COLOURS. The Fiftieth Annual EXEIB I ['ION at their Gallery, 5, Pall-mall East, from Nine till Dusk.—Admittance Is. ; Catalogue 6d. JOSEPH J. JENKINS, Secretary. NATIONAL FESTIVAL, in Celebration of the UNION between ENGLAND and FRANCE.—A MEET ING of the GENERAL COMMITTEE for conducting this Festival will be held, by penni.sion of the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion house, on FRIDAY NEXT, for the purpose of taking into consider ation the most convenient period for holding the same. A full attend ance is desirable. The LORD MAYOR will take the Chair at 2 o'clock precisely. By order, GEORGE SE UGWICK, Sec. NATIONAL FESTIVAL, in Celebration of the UNION between ENGLAND and FRANC E.—The object of the proposed Festival is to cultivate the amicable relations now ex isting wi'h the French nation, by inviting to this country some of the most distinguished u•en connected with legislation. arts, science, literature, commerce, and agriculture, and facili. ate their acquaint ance with what is worthy of their obscrvatt , n and admiration, and demonstrate to the world the great advantages of the alliance now happily subsisting between the two nations, an alliance the con tinuance of which is eminently calculated to accomplish and to pro- Mote, in all coun' ries, the permanency of peace and its consequent blessings, order, Prosperity, and happiness. Subscriptions alreidy announced, 4.7501. 10s. The arrangements for the Festival must depend upon the amount of the subscriptions, which will he received by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (the Treasurer), and by the following Bankers:—Master man and Co. ; London and Westminster Bank ; Smith, Payne, and Smiths. London Joint stock Bank ; Banburys and Lloyds; Davies and Co.; Twining and Co ; Berries, Farquhar, and Co. ; Scott and Co.; the Royal British Bank ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; and the National Bank of Ireland ; also at 20, New Bridge-street, Dlackfriars, Where every information of the proposed Festival maybe obtained. By order, GEO. SEDOWICK, Sec. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN and MIDI, AN D RAILWAYS. NOTTINGHAM RACES, On THURSDAY and FRIDAY, 20th and 21st July. Express Day Tickets, and Ordinary Ist and 2d Class Day Tickets, issued on the 19th, 20th, and 21st instant, from the Euston t&tation to NOTTINGHAM, are available for return by any train on the 20th, 21st, and 22d instant. The 6.15 a.m. train from Enston arrives at Nottingham at 10.0 a.m. and the 9.30 a.m. at 1,15 a.m. By order. July 11, 1854. ISLE OF WIGHT CHEAP EXCURSIONS.- SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—By the Excursion Trains every SUNDAY Morning at 7.45 from Waterloo Station, THROUGH RETURN TICKETS are issued to the ISLE OF WIGHT, via SOUTHAMPTON, for COWES, or PORTSMOUTH, for RYDE. Fares:—Closed Carriages, Bs.; Seated Open Carriages, 55., which include all pier dues and s'emnboat fares, but not conveyance between the railway stations and piers. The Return Tickets from Ryde will not be available via Cowes and Southampton, nor those from Cowes via Ryde and Portsmouth. THROUGHOUT TICKETS betwixt LONDON and RYDE, via PORTSMOUTH, PORTS EA, and GOSPORT, available for Four Days, are also issued daily at Waterloo Station, at following fares, which include all pier dues, omnibus and steamboat fares. Ist Class, 365. Bd. ; 2d Class, 275.81 Single Journey Fares—let Class, 205.6 d.; 24 Class, I bs. 6d Waterloo Station, July, 1854 ARUM. SCOTT, Traffic Manager. CONTRACT FOR KNAPSACKS AND KNAPSACK SLINGS FOR THE ROYAL MARINES. Department of the Comptroller for Victualing and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 15th July, 1854. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain Cod Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on FRIDAY, the 21st instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with each persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualing Stores at Deptford, KNAPSACKS AND KNAPSACK SLINGS, I'or the nee of the Royal Marines, under a Contract for 12 Months certain, and afterwards until the expiration of 3 Months' warning. The conditions of the Revised Contract may be seen at the said office, and Patterns of the articles at the Ilarine Office, New-street, spring ~ ardens, between the hours of 11 and 2. No Tender will be received after One o'clock, on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, Unless made on the printed farm provided for the purpose, and Which may be obtained on application at the said office. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Knap sacks, &c.," and must also be delivered at Somerset-place. RAMPANT HORSE FAMILY and COMMER CIAL HOTEL.—CHRISTONIER TW [SS, on Betirinc from the above Hotel, begs leave respectfully to return his most sincere thanks for the support he has met with for the last 26 years, and to Solicit for his successor, Mr. ROBT. LOUTH, a continuance of the same favours. ROBERT LOUTH, late of the ANGEL HOTEL, Abergavenny, begs respectfully to inform the obility, Clergy, Gentry, Agriculturists, Commercial Gentlemen, and the Citizens of Norwich, that he has taken the above Hotel, and hopes by strict personal attention to obtain the honour of their patronage and support. He proposes to give the utmost attention to the quality of every article supplied to his customers, and no effort will be spared by him self or Mrs. Louth to promote the comfort of the guests who may Stay in the Hotel. The sitting rooms and bed rooms are airy, lofty, and commodious, and the stables are not to be surpassed for room, ventilation, and convenience Rampant Horse Hotel, Norwich, July, 1854. LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms, (Lessee, Cues. C. LAITHENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-road), —The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON. and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S CELEBRATED BAND. Constantinople Quadrille, Sultan Polka, Pair Star Waltz, and Overland Mail Galop, by D'Albert ; also, by H. Laurent , the following Waltzes - La belle Frangaise, Leonora, Villi klns and his Dinah, Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8. Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and terminate at half-past 11. PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. 1 E-OPENING of the ROYAL POLY TECHNIC INSTITUTION, Under Entirely New Management. Mr. J. 11. PEPPER, the Resident Director, begs leave to inform the Public that the Institution having undergone great Alterations and Improvements is again open to Visitors. Among the most prominent of the New Facts in Science which will be Lectured on by Mr. Pepper, are Mons DUROSCZ'S splendid EXPERIMENTS in OPTICS with the ELECTRIC LIGHT. LECTURES by Dr. BACCHHOFFNER on the r URALITY of WORLDS, il!ustrated by ASTRONOMICAL DIAGRAMS. —Courses of TACIT R CS are being arranged for the INDUSTRIAL CLASSES, whowill be admitted on advantageous terms. —A PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY for taking PORTRAITS, and for TE HING the ART, is now open, miler the direction of Mr. SCOTT. The CHEMICAL LABORATORY is open for Pupils and Analyses. The OXY-HY- I:MOGEN MICROSCOPE and objects will be explained. A new Series of DISSOLVING VlEWS—after TURNER—illus trating the Scenery on the banks of the River Loire, in France. The Views of the Seat of War in the BALTIC and the BLACK SEA Will also be shown. Demonstrations in Mechanics, and Explanations of Models by Mr. JOHNS. The Venti Mien and the Purification and Combustion of the Gas have been perfected under Mr. LESLIE'S PA TENTS and his personal direction. A Band of Music, conducted by Mr. WAIID, of the Royal Italian Opera. Stalls have been erected in the Theatres which may be re tained the whole day or evening. Admission, Is. Stalli, 2s. Schools and Children under Ten years Of age half-price. Open daily from 11 till 5, and every evening except Saturday, from '7 till 10 o'clock. QIJESTION EASILY ANSWERED.- It every question could be easily and satisfactorily answered, the business of the world would be carried on with half the ordinary trouble and expense. Questions often require vast outlay to answer and time to settle. As Russians have not satisfactorily answered questions of national right, they must pay dearly for the experiment It would be difficule to answer for the weather—Wet or Dr y ?—but it is easy and inexpensive to prepare for it at the establishment of X. MOSES and SON. As everybody knows how far E. MOSES and EON can excel all others in their line of business, and everybody else asks what that line of business is, allow us for once to answer for them. E. Moses and SON make tho'e kinds of Dress which display the highest order of fashion, taste;comfot t, and economy—they sell, in suite or single•garments, the Attire which is approved by every one, and suits the season in every respect. They are the Tailors of the 4 , rimy, Navy, and the Professions, the Manufacturers of Liveries. attesting Dress, Ladies' Habits, &c. In each branch E. MOSES and Sox have the lead for Style, Elegance, Comfort, and Economy. They have the greatest variety of fashions in Juvenile Attire, and beyond any question they have produced the most popular and satisfactory articles which were ever offs•red. They are Hatters and Boater, having the newest fashions, the richest and most useful goods ; there is, therefore, no question about every one being able to snake the most profitable selection at their establishment, or their r e st - end branch. They are Wholesale Merchants, Outfitters, and zporters to all parts of the world. They have the 'argest Stock o,f Clothing, Shirts, Boots and Shoes, &c.; for the Colonies or the Yome Trade ; and the question of profits, without the possibility of :2 8 a, will be easily Fettled by Merchants, Captains, and others inspect ""Ft their goods, which are unrivalled for superiority and Cheapness. • Full LISTS of OUTFITS for Ladies and Gentlemen, with ship. Ong information, gratis on application, or post free. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the Public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like falseh ol of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have • No CONNEXION WITH ANT OTELEZ noose IN OZ OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minorles, 84, 85 , and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, and 3, Hart-street, all commuicating. Bradtord (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street. Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Wholesale Branch, Melbourne, Australia. tleerchant Tailor& Clothiers, Hatters, Healers, Furriers, Boot and ISh____Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. exicZOßeZANT.—Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be withouf hesitedesired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned pek e , i rem tt on- All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest which he abatement can be made Establishments are The on Saturdays, when closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, with illustrations, entitled" The Echo of Public Opi nion," containing full lists of prices, our system of self-measure- Ment, &c., &c., may be h a d letl'on parte Francais. on application, or po s t-f ree . Hier spricht man Deutsch. Qui si parla Italian. Aqua ea liable Espalier. THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. Just published, price 25., illustrated with cases ; free by post for 30 stamps, NERVOUS DEBILITY; Its with' Symptoms, and Cure.—An Essa on amoresafer successful mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative System, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and di stinguishing, by urinary examination, the real eause and effect of every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits, excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded on twenty years' experience in the treatment of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre eautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, and on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on these important disorders. By ttAMUEL LA'IIIERT, M.D. Doctor 37, R BED FOD-SQUARE, LON DON, of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Ilonorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of A pothecaries' Han, London, &c., itc. Theessential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con- Sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man hood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any other class of diseaae known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condition, and who are conscious of haying hazarded the entitledhealth happiness, an d Privileges to which every human being is It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are principles of Personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate seldulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of Physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. TheAnthor has for a series of years ... -• -- - 8 - een engaged in an extensive Practice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which are Unfortunately been too generally ex:melded to the care of ignorant empiries, who Indict great injury on those who are induced to place faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had, price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, Brothers, and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Borne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for thirty stamps, to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bedford-equaro. At ol.z PI how.° fai Cron:saltation daily from Elena till Iwo, and from mat (: G' C NO. 19,285.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, J ULY 18, 1854. PUBLICATIONS. AUSTRALIA, to mark its attainment by a demonstration that might have awakened ill-feeling in what is now the minority of the population. The Swan River, or Western Australia, is now the only part of the continent to which transpor tation is continued. " The Turon Golden Ridge Quartz-crushing Company held its adjourned half-yearly meeting on the 25th April, under new and peculiar difficulties. A dispute as to tenancy has occurred between the owner of the premises the company occupy as offices and the Sydney Build ing Society, which sublet them to the Turon Golden Ridge Quartz Company. The landlord' has locked up the Looms and locked out the company. half-a-dozen actions and cross-actions have been commenced in the Supreme Court, and, till they are decided, the company is deprived of its books, share-list, accounts, and papers. Under these circumstances, the directors could only pre sent a supplementary report, which, in itself, was not very promising. The first opinion taken of the speci mens of the quartz from the ridge was unfavourable, and the directors, therefore, doubted the expedieney of spending any more of the company's capital. But an other professional gentleman, by whom they were as sayed, having reported that they are likely to produce an average of 31- oz. to the ton of quartz, the directors asked the authority of the shareholders to purchase one of Berdan's crushing and amalgamating machines, by which it is believed the ridge may be worked at a profit. The shareholders present were disposed to accede to the 1 proposal, but as no ballot could be taken without the share-list, and that could not be obtained, the meeting was adjourned till June, when it is hoped the actions at law will have been settled ; the company itself has no thing to do with them. Now Ready, in Two Vols. Bvo, with Portraits, 235. bound, MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL SIR W. NOTT, G.C.8., COMMANDER OF TILE ARMY OF CANDAHAR. " This work is at once a graphic picture of Sir W. Nott's career, and a noble mcnoment of his fame. The volumes form a valuable contribution to the biographical stores of the age. To the young sol dier in particular they will form a most valuable guide, worthy to be place 1 by the side of the Despatches of the great Duke of Welling ton."—Messenger. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. By the arrival of the Royal Mail steam-ship Mag dalena at Southampton we have dates from Syd ney to the 11th, and from Melbourne the sth, of May. This news is considerably later than that hitherto received, and is most important as being brought by the first steam-ship that has yet crossed the Pacific Ocean. The steamer Golden Age, Captain Porter, ar rived at Panama on the 19th, also from Australia, vi el Tahiti, in 38 days. She brought 200 passengers, $200,000 in specie, and about $lOO,OOO in the hands of passengers. Among her passengers are Mr. J. C. La Trobe, late Lieutenant-Governor, from Mel bourne, and Mr. Hargreaves, the discoverer of Australian gold. The General Screw Company's steam-ship Crcesus reached Sydney from Southampton on the 19th of April. The following is from a letter just received : " SYDNEY, MAY 10. "To an American company will belong the credit of making the first attempt to open the direct communica tion between the Australian colonies and Europe by the Pacific Ocean and Panama. The large and powerful steamer, the Golden Age, sails hence to-day for the Isthmus, and, if she catches either of the `Vest Indian steamers, it is possible this packet will be one of the first letters delivered in Great Britain within 60 days of its date from the antipodes. The Golden Age takes above 100 passengers for Europe, a greater number than was expected on what can only be considered an experimental voyage. Among them is Mr. La Trobe, the late Gover nor of Victoria. "The Roman Catholic Archbishop of New South Wales, in consequence of letters received by the over land mail, left by the Chusan on her return for Malta and Rome. It is supposed his Grace has' been called to the centre of Catholic unity,' to answer or explain certain charges made against•him there respecting his administration of the affairs of his diocese. A few days after his departure a public meeting of the Catholic in habitants of Sydney was held in the cathedral, at which some of these charges were described and disproved by the Archbishop's friends, Mr. Justice Therry, who pre sided, and the Attorney-General. Reports, it appears, have reached high places at Rome, and received credence there, that Dr. Polding has shown a reluctance to re ceive Irish secular priests into the diocese, and that the 'mission' is, consequently, in a state of spiritual destitu tion ; also, that he has supported institutions not con tributive to the true and best interests of religion. The worst part of the case is, that some person unknown has been base enough to break open the Archbishop 's desk and steal various letters and papers, of which garbled extracts and copies have, it is alleged, been forwarded to Rome. To this fact Mr. Justice Therry referred in a tone of strong indignation. He said the mere entertaining of charges, without disclosing the names of the witnesses supporting them, was`revolting to every man's sense of natural justice.' But he might have added, for the instruction of his audience, that it is a very usual Roman and Italian practice. The Attorney-General spoke quite as strongly, regretting that the informer and purloiner of s s p e a c p u e t r i n w f a o s r adopted by the meeting, praying the Father of the not fel o k h n y o . wn A n p d e t p i l t a i o c h e d to t h h i s e h n a l d y s s f e o e r pr waso Faithful to decline the acceptance of the Archbishop's resignation, should it be tendered,' in consequence of these accusations, as it is supposed it will be. "The judges of the Supreme Court have suspended the license of Mr. James Husband, a solicitor, formerly practising in London and Devonport, in consequence of some circumstances that appeared in evidence in an action, Husband v. Gilchrist,' recently tried here. Mr. Gilchrist had arrested the plaintiff in England, had fol lowed him to the colony, and sued him for debt ; the plaintiff brought a counter-action for false imprisonment in England, and got only a farthing damages. "At the half -yearly meeting of the Bank of New South Wales, the report stated the sum of 66,4971. 17s. was available for division. A dividend of 10 per cent. was declared, amounting to 40,0001., the sum of 20,0001. was added to the reserve fund, and 6,497/. 17s. was car ried forward for the equalisation of future dividends. The notes in circulation amount to 577,479/. ; the de posits on the 31st of March were 2,064,204/. The re port adds that the business of the bank has steadily in creased ; it has established a branch at Kyneton, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Victoria gold fields, and a new agency at Sandhurst, the township of the Bendigo diggings. " If, as we believe here, from the tenour of the last intelligence, England is now engaged in the operations of a great war, with France as an ally, we must expect our distant politics to be thrown into the shade by events so much more exciting. Our gold mines, however, and their prospects must still command some degree of atten tion ; they are our permanent security from oblivion. "The most important public event, since the departure of the last mail, is another strong and overwhelming demonstration on the part of the citizens of Sydney against the New Constitution Bill. It has been again condemned and rejected by the most numerous and influ entialcommunityin the colony—the electors of the capital. When Mr. Wentworth sailed for England, at the end of March, he of course resigned his seat for the city ; as the Council was not sitting, his resignation was forwlrd (ld to the Governor-General, then on his northern tour. This caused some delay before the Speaker could issue a new writ; but the election for the vacancy wee finally fixed for the Ist of May. It was for some time doubt ful whether there would be any contest at all, but at last it became a very sharp one, not only between the Con servative interest, including the party of the Government and the Constitution Act, as it stands, and the Opposi tion, now in so small a minority in the Council, though every day growing in power out of doors—but between two candidates identified with the journals that are the organs of these parties—Mr. Charles Kemp, late pro prietor of the Sydney Herald, and Mr. Parkes, proprie tor and editor of the Sydney Empire. Mr. Kemp has .just retired from business and been made a magistrate ; he stood on what may be called the old interests of the colony, official and social, the Herald being, by many years, the longest established paper in the country. In politics it professes neutrality, or independence of party, but it was a strong supporter o f Mr. Wentworth and the Constitution Act in every particular except the un lucky proposal of a peerage ; it has also been the con stant advocate of the Squatting interest, the only insti tution, if it may be called so, with respect to which a profession of • Conservatism' is intelligible in this colony. In religious questions the Herald supports no particular sect, and from its standing it has a very large commercial connexion. It is necessary to describe its position, because it has been so mixed up with the recent contest. The Empire has only been established three or four years ; it has endeavoured in that time to stir up the somewhat sluggish disposition of the colonists, and rouse them to a sense of the necessity of improvement and pro gress, more self-exertion, and less dependence on the Go vernment for everything. It contends for a totally dif- _ ferent distribution of the franchise ; that the capital, which contains one-third of the population of the province and the greater portion of its wealth and intelligence, may no longer be paralyzed in the Legislature by three or four districts containing scarcely a human habita "The quantity of gold exported from Sydney to Great Britain during the first quarter of the present year was 82,6340 z. lthrwt., which, at an average of 31. 19s. per ounce, gives a va l ue o f 326 , 4061 . ss. ficl. In the same period produce was exported to the value of 812,0631. The chief exports of produce to Great Britain were— wool, 6,121,6441 b., valued at 397,7551. ; oil, 202 casks, 11,3601. ; and tallow, 531 tons 19 cwt., valued at 16,4851. To Victoria the largest items, in the list are bottled beer and drapery. " The Duke of Newcastle's despatch, containing, it is to be hoped, the final interpretation the Home Govern ment puts on the orders of 1847 on the occupation of the Crown lands, and giving the substance of the regu lations to which the holders of leases and grazing licenses will in future have to submit, has naturally excited con siderable discussion in the colony. All classes, except the squatters, are satisfied with them, and the disposi tion they indicate ; even the interest most immediately affected by the terms laid down has received them with more resignation than it would have displayed a very few years ago. The change in the social condition of the colony since 1851 has convinced even the most ob stinate that the time has arrived when some modifica tion of the present system of managing the public lands must be made. In this province (New South Wales) the squatting interest has not attempted even to remon strate collectively against the arguments and conclusions of the Duke of Newcastle. In Victoria a meeting of te t tmot eh h hxuri e e tetsmeec g rnspoi brtgureoehoantf contemplatedtbtwt rato l eyh e bfe a el nbe s p cecrwhiekrnh-oojeeal kept t e r ynpt r l.ht s oibetoc l yy l oknT a ea s thdohscest b eoyuehu e repa e fl trod u dfrmaor ninr h rni eoet e ts rt l eot d trhhb , oel aoesreattdintrs orders, r s M rai ,gpte exercisedhTl the b nterhs o oi eourydr to o c oint eth a ihrde t : which it was resolved to endeavour to obtain a compro mise of the country caused by the discovery o ' therefore, to abandon the right of pre-emption, the more readily, perhaps, that they perceive their right to efaelgdtoeltrdhe,de, leases eosldisposed there t ordersop sell rion m Council so a eu n dn de areithe Government insists pur chase must at last depend on whether the Government it has on this point a full discretion. They protest the date when they are actually against the interpretation given in the despatch of the i w s o o r r d s t i s h o o f not l t e h of Newcastle insists that y made out. when a license is changed into a lease the latter must date retrospectively,and include i all the period of the actual occupation lic opinion of the colonyhas elapsed under the original license,ot on which commenceT theyil oDs con tendrookme Onth point,t iatteo the üb enjoyed under the license,is office. The lease Rives no - advantagethe that was not fered the slightest wro the' but • parties r t n o me h n o t, a to h squatter blind ~ indeed, on the part of but would be convert what d a e n " d ided i l s ywth the ' ColoPnial was understood by all c o o ld n i v n for 14 has not suf years, into an actual occupatio n of 20, by dating it from squat ters a gift of seven years' occupancy 1854 instead of 1848. It would be ing the original compact. They ma., .s protest against the inter pretation if they please—it is the most harmless form of opposition, but they w ill is on the condition of receiv able have to accept it. On the disputed right of the Crown over m and above the to make ' reserves h p o u t b li purposes, they also offer to i ng ' compensation,' a forrnidable word, which will re quireto be carefully considered or half the money paid by the public for freeholds may scarcely suffice to buy the squatters off their square miles of surface. In the words of the resolution of the Victoria meeting, . concede f l a n d something, a meeting, they concede to the Governor the right of making for other purposes than those contemplated in the 9th section of the orders in Council, upon compensation be ing granted for the actual loss sustained by the occu pant.' And, again,equitable leases being taken to run from the Ist of January, 1852, it is also proposed that where one-fourth of a run is included in a reserve, it should be optional with the occupant to give up the entire license and claim compensation for the whole. The compensation proposed is the difference in value be tween stock sold with and without a run, for the num ber of sheep or cattle This the l ch and included in su c h reserve would carry.' This will not be clearly under stood, perhaps, but in substance it means, if the whole run will carry (or feed) 20,000 sheep, and a fourth of it is reserve' or resumed by the Government, the difference between the price of 5,000 sheep sold with a transfer of the lease, and the price they would fetch without it, is to be the amount of compensation. With the lease as t theyhe are chief advocate of course more of val the grazing i uable than without it. If, Ands, the Syd ney Herald, admits, ' the squatting interest h as re ceived a blow that will mak e it reel, the said interest takes the blow very quietly. If its leases are to date 1848, it leaves nearly seven years of the term still un expired, and seven years of present prices may well be a consolation. The runs in the more remote di a ., tricts are tolerably safe from the invasion of purchasers for a much longer period, and those more liable t o b e broken in upon by reserves, venture to put in a claim to compensation. The Government having let th e squat ters large tracts of land at nominal rents, cannot regain possession w ithout buying them out at their own t erms. The danger of creating a ' vested interest has never been more strikingly demonstrated than in Australia. The practice of grazing cattle on the uncultivated lands of the colony, at first actually illegal, and only winked at from necessity, was next permitted from year to year by annual license ; then came the more formal occupa tion for a term of years ; now seven years in addition are demanded, and the Crown cannot recover the land it has leased at absurdly low rents, without combatting a claim to compensation for quitting possession that, in most cases, will quite equal the whole amount of rent ever received from it. The political power of the rote rest may be estimated by the fact that 11 members of ' the Victoria Legislature are among the squatters who' have signed the resolutions of the meeting. Either con vinced or intimidated by the influx of population, they now offer a kind of compromise; but formerly they would have paralysed local Government rather than yield a single paint. They are strong still ; there is no in- stance i n history of one class obtaining such a complete tion, or as many nominees of the Crown, who cannot be said to represent anything. It is one of the chief objections to the constitution itself, that it leaves the anomalies of the electoral system only slightly modified ; the principle is unchanged. The Empire opposes the Squatting interest, because, by the land regulations it necessitates, it prevents the development of agriculture and a more equal distribution of the population, while it has virtually got possession of nearly all the political power of the colony. If these details seem too local in their bearing, it must be remembered that on them turned an election decisive of the opinion of the colonists on an important measure now probably before the Im perial Parliament. Mr. Kemp was the first in the field, on a requisition signed by 400 electors ; it was not till a week before the election that Mr. Parkes was brought forward. The nomination was held on the Ist of May ; Mr. Kemp was proposed by Mr. Mort, the leading auctioneer, and seconded by Mr. Mackellar. Mr. Parkes by Mr. Campbell, a wealthy merchant ; seconded by Mr. Montefiore. The show of hands was in his favour, and on the poll, taken the following day, he was returned by a majority of 648 votes, the numbers being —for Mr. Parkes, 1,427 ; for Mr. Kemp, 779. At no former election have so many electors ever been polled by one candidate, and Mr. Parkes received about 100 more votes than any member yet returned to the Colo nial Legislature. The election was conducted in the most orderly manner, and, though the crowd at the nomination and the declaration of the poll was unusually numerous, there was no display of bad temper or ill feeling on either side. The result is the strongest pro test against the new constitution yet. made ; on every opportunity offered, in every way, by petition, by public meeting, and by their votes, the inhabitants of the metro polis, the only large constituency in the country, have expressed their condemnation of the act framed by the Council, and the electoral system it includes. Some days before the Sydney election another strong opponent of the bill, Mr. Lang, had been returned for a county in the Northern District. " The Lezislative Council was to have been opened yesterday ; but as the Gov ernor-General has not y et returned from his cruise, though hourly expected, it merely met from its prorogation , and adjourned. " A return of the expenditur e of the Government of New South Wales for 1 854 , as est imated and voted, proves that the Executive has been eit her too frugal in framing the estimates, or that the Cou ncil is unusually _ generous in voting more in almost every case than the was required. For the whole service of the y ear Go vernment asked 562,731/. ; the Council voted 590,1 35/, an excess of 27,4041. For the supplementary service of 1853 the Government asked 49,8471., and the Council voted 82,5031., being a surplus of 32,6561. The aggre gate amount estimated was 612,578/. ; the amount voted was 672,6381., an excess of 60,0601. The revenue returns for the quarter ending the 31st of March are favourable. On the total receipts of the Treasury the increase above the corresponding quarter of 1853 is 87 per cent. The amount of the increase from every source is 126,325/. The increase from Customs duties is 26,7421., or 3J per cent. ; tea, sugar, and coffee are the only articles on which there has been a decrease. The importations of ardent spirits still furnish the largest portion of the revenue ; in the last quarter duty was paid on 255,510 gallons, giving a gallon per head for the consumption of every man, woman, and child in the colony ; it exceeds the quantity imported in the cor responding quarter of last year by 62,982 gallons ; to this must be added 41,184 gallons distilled in the co lony, that quantity having been taken out of bond during the quarter for consumption. The duties on in toxicating drinks have yielded an increase of 26,5651. on the quarter above the return of the first quarter of last year ; while the duties on tea and coffee show a decrease in the same period of 1,6331. The revenue from gold r /. ;to r the licenses, roy a lty an d escort foes, shows a falling off of 10, 532 for the first quarter of the present year it is only 6,486/. In the territ or i a l revenue there is, on all the principal heads, The lan of d s a 7 1 6 e , 5 7 , B i o n l c . l ; u d t i h n e g G d o e . - posits for the purchase of land, amoun t e d i n t h e l ast quarter a tola9g2:Bionocelrn:dassoenf March, 1853, it was 17,0181. ; . advance vernment has recently sold some spots of ground in the city of Sydney which fetched very high prices. "The value of the exports from New South Wales during 1853 was 4,523,3461. ; far thegreater portion of this amount is, of course, to Great Britain and British colonies. The ex ports to the - United Kingdom are valued at 2,980,763/. ; to British colonies, 1,245,9471. The United States figure for a very small amount, only 3,0281. On the total value for the year there is a decrease of more than 80,000/. " In the same period this province has imported Bri tish manufactures to the amount of 4,679,435/., and goods from all countries, Great Britain included, to the value of 6,342,7571.; this is above 4,500,000/. more than the consumption of 1852—a rapid rise in one year. "The Chamber of Commerce has agreed to present a and the de fence memorial to the Governor , representing the necessity o f the Government, both he r e a nd at home, taking some measures o greater f the security oolo o colony e of g it Sydne y, ee any pos s ibl e at tack. It suggests that a volunteer force of 1,000 men should be armed; that the naval force — a very inefficient ofthibert h trade e one—now on the station should be retained, and increas ed by a screw line-of-battle ship and two steam-frigates from England. "An order of Council of the 29th December last hav ing finally declared that no more convicts are to be sent to Van .Diemen's Land or Norfolk Island, the Anti- Transportation League of all the Colonies has been for mally dissolved by order of the executive committee. It has been inactive for a considerable period, the step n ow taken by the Home Government having been long ex pected. It was resolved, however, to keep the body to gether till transportation to either of the settled colonies of Australia should have been officially declared at an end. The committee bad intended to celebrate the dis solution of the League by a grand banquet at Sydney, but the idea was some time since abandoned. The great object had beau fully goaued, aid it WM tligught units Yt ~7 ~~~ "4*11:V:31-7::It * 4 , 40, e: it‘ 0 i ; , r , . 40 0 • • - o• 41,1 - 1,1 • - • ;44f V. 41) \li . - 4 1iN k k i e OA, _ .41r - 430441M -pri t #4". , .%.s 0 1,4 , - • -0, 6 ,Di er z t • ?„, grasp of a country and so complete a control over all its interests. The paltry terms that must be employed in describing or discussing the system of tenure in Aus tralia have in some degree averted attention from its magnitude and power. Under the almost ignominious name of 'Squatter,' by which is generally understood the rniseratle encroacher on the skirts of a common, or the small settler of Western America, it is difficult to figure the holder of hundreds of square miles of territory, and a member of the numerically small body that keeps in its hands, for pasturage only, an area containing 26,000 square miles more than the surface of Eng land, Wales, and Scotland, together. The present number of Squatters in the province of Victoria is stated to be 666 ; in 1849 the collective body, then pro bably rather less in number, held among them 73,360,000 acres ! Again, the lands in their occupation are, even in official despatches and orders, very impro perly called waste,' which means rejected and in ferior, and creates an impression that they are valueless; that impression the Squatters themselves have not dis couraged ; but it is notorious the stations include mil lions of acres as good as any land in the colony. When the cattle of a run are to be sold (the lease of the station going with the stock) the land is described by the lessees as of the highest quality; rich alluvial tracts, fertile plains, green savannahs, and thousands of acres of the most luxuriant grass, are heard of in districts supposed to produce only a scorched and scanty herbage, of which it requires five acres for the existence of a sheep. The colony requires exploring in the pastoral region as well as in the perfectly unknown interior, for the very nature of the soil in the intermediate' and unsettled' dis tricts, is still a subject of controversy. To the public, as it contains the unwelcome purchasers of freeholds, the organs of the Squatters describe the soil as arid and unblest, on which any attempt to settle would be lunacy; yet every station has its cultivation paddock,' often more than one, producing good crops ; and to most of the houses a garden is attached, ' well stocked with fruit trees,' and frequently with vines.' The gardens of the Squatters in the hitherto unknown district of the Murray were, when discovered by Captain Cadeil's expedition up the river, described as sections of Paradise, teeming with an abundance of produce that the inhabitants of the two capitals, with all their wealth, only see in their dreams. It may be supposed that these gardens and paddocks are not only the spots among thousands of acres capable of cultivation, yet in the official and legal language of the colony, all the surface is alike waste.' Even the Go vernment, which has its own surveyors and district land a▪ i head commissioners, appeared to have accepted the Squatters' axiom, that the laud is useless for any purpose save pas turage ; and there is a kind of fear of a better opinion of theo o quarters.in his tour i Colonel o n 1 e 8146 M, utnh de they states in hie work, Our Antipodes,' that, when ac companying• the rich lowlands' of King's-plains, after a heavy rain, and it was easy to see that the Squatters Were alarmed lest the new governor should imbibe too high an idea of the natural wealth of the soil, and thus form too low an estimate of the risks and difficulties of their position, with reference to his future legislation.' " This, it is noted, was before they obtained the addi tional privileges as to tenure, &c., they enjoy under the present regulations, on which they have founded the still greater claims that have had to be checked by the Duke of Newcastle's late despatch. In short, it may be re marked, that the character and capability of the soil of the colony vary exactly according to the position of the Squatters in relation to it. When they are seeking licenses, leases, and privileges from the Government, the land is perfectly useless to any one else. When fairly in their hands, it is necessary to deter purchasers and prevent being inconvenienced by 'reserves;' the land is then worthless,' and will not pay for cultiva tion. When retiring from business and selling their lease, the soil is surprisingly good and productive, as above stated. If they could have changed their tenure to fee-simple, there cannot be the smallest doubt Aus tralia would have been held up as one of the finest agri cultural countries in the world. At present, its general character is the reverse ; but it is better than its repu tation, and in this respect neither from the Squatters nor from the Government has it had fair play. "The latest items of intelligence from the gold fields are not very important. The gross produce, as proved by the export returns, keeps up to the average, though particular localities rise and fall in popularity with re markable rapidity. Of many new diggings opened since the beginning of the year none have yet developed themselves into rivals of the largest and oldest—Balla rat and Mount. Alexander. One of the richest of the new spots has been the valley of the Buckland River, but it was so unhealthy that many persons abandoned it when doing a good stroke' in the diggers' phrase, glad to escape with their lives. The mortality from dysen tery and a fatal kind of low fever has been frightful. The river flows through a deep ravine, in which, as the high mountain walls on each side excluded the wind,the air was stagnant and, from the scorching sun during the day, intensely hot. At night the temperature rapidly fell to a piercing cold, so that the inhabitants of this unhappy val ley were always either in an oven or an icehouse. As the holes were in the bed of the river, the miners generally worked to their waists in water. Constitutions that bad borne the hardships of other fields without injury broke down here, and hundreds have perished, dying unat tended and unknown. The little levels between the streams and the base of the mountain wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded with graves, that the river appears to run through a churchyard. It was known the field was unhealthy,' but those tempted to it by the reported heavy finds' could only estimate the excessively fatal nature of the place on settling in it. One new comer having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day thought even gold might be bought too dearly, and left the place instantly. Many abandoned it after a somewhat longer trial, but the greater number remained in defiance of disease, and took their chance,' with what result the numerous graves of the valley testify. In addition to the peculiar fever (of a typhoid character, the doctors say) the miners suffered severely from eye blight, and were at all times half devoured by myriads of flies. The general bad diet, and the want of vege tables, were among the causes of sickness that could not be removed. Garden produce of any kind commanded enormous prices—onions were 6s. a-pound, and cabbages were cut up and sold in portions, by weight ; from half a-crown to 45.-per lb. were freely paid for them. Physic, or what passes for it, rose even in a greater ratio to its cost than food ; Holloway's pills' were vended at ls. each, or a guinea per box. Where there are no coroners or juries the degree in which medicine has contributed to mortality will never be ascertained. But it is well known that medical impostors abound and flourish on all the gold fields, and on the Buckland River, one particu larly fatal practitioner has been named, who, among other less prominent exploits, killed off a working party of nine, by mistaking their symptoms. By the last accounts the place is described as nearly worked out ; those who had the courage to stay, and the luck to survive, are said to have done very well. Forest Creek is recovering something of its old celebrity, the population having re turned from some of the late rushes to spots that have proved disappointments. Ballarat and Bendigo are in full activity ; but heavy rains rendering the roads impas sable, carriage of stores is rising to the rate of last winter; on the first-named field horse stealing is practised to a most inconvenient extent ; drays, too, are so fre quently stolen, that the owners, as a means of security, commonly take off one wheel and hide it when they lay up for the night. At Kingower, a nugget of 220 ounces has been raised. Another of 182 ounces from Ballarat has been purchased by a Sydney dealer. On the Turon field no improvement is reported ; population does not seek it, and the returns are comparatively small. On the Lower Turon, a sharing party is being formed to work the Baldhill Quartz Vein ; this plan of partnership appears to be extending. The local reports state that the party has the advantage of being disencumbered of a large retinue of salaried offiers, whose credulous employ. ers felicitate themselves on having secured the services of those who disburse their money on a magnificent scale, leaving results to Providence.' At Tambaroora, above 1,000 diggers are at work with varied success. Many could do well who neglect their work from drunkenness. This curse of the gold fields, and indeed of the colony generally, is steadily increasing, and it is feared the wealth of the mines will leave fewer perma nent results behind it than the hopeful anticipated. The question causes much discussion, but the evil appears to be beyond the reach of legislation. " The quantity of gold brought down to Sydney by the escort from the Ist of January to March 31st was 53,920 ounces. The return shows a large decrease compared with the same quarter of 1853. "By a recent experiment a greater difference has been found in the value of various samples of the gold_ at Victoria than is generally supposed to exist. Su_ samples tested at the Melbourne Assay-office varied from 3/. 13s. sd. to 4/. 4s. 7d. per ounce, a differencealof lls. 2d. Some of these samples, however, were small, 31, _ not above 1 ounce in weight, while another weighedivens ounces. The average value of the six samples standard g at 41. is. per ounce—considerably above the price. " The Council of Victoria was prorogued after a busy session on the 12th of April. In the address with which he dismissed the members from their labours, Mr.La Trobe C. formally announced that the Home Government had Sir cepted his resignation, and that his successor, The speech Hotham, was on his way to the colony. a mere allusion, passes over the Constitution Bill with but the other chief measures of the session are referred to at considerable length. The act for the management of the gold fields is stated to have completely secured the • results it was intended to obtain, as under its operation number of gol d licenses the there has been a large increase General Education Bill having passed its last stage.i licenses issued. The in the Council by a majority of one in every other excited a very vote only, and having strong opposition, the Governor did not feel justified in it, and the act has fallen to the giving his assent to ground. religious On this question feeling appears as cable in this now country as in the old strong and implacable approves * " The Governor warmly several measures that have just been passed—among them an act legalising partnerships with limited liabilities, and another to give protection to the originators of new inventions in arts and manufactures , • but he administers to the Council a kind i of rebuke for having introduced into the act directed against offenders illegally at large provisions that bad already been disallowed by the Imperial Government as ▪ infringement oxi the prerogative of the Crown. The ~2~ i ~~~ t ~~-~ /1 // G 2I; G' ~, [PRICE SD. colonial executive had proposed a measure in which this difficulty had been avoided, and the Council had carried against it the amendment which made the bill on this point as objectionable to the Crown lawyers as the for mer one. Mr. La Trobe has therefore referred it home—. most likely to meet the same fate. The financial condi tion of the colony is treated very carefully in the ad dress, for it appears rather anomalous ; with an enor mous revenue the province is running somewhat reck lessly into debt, is increasing taxation, raising its tariff, and even repudiating some of its implied engagements, on the simple plea that it has not the means of fulfilling them. No less than 1,300,0001. has been voted for pub lic works in the estimates of the present year, over and above the provision for the ordinary expenditure, though that alone is described as large and liberal.' Taking the revenue at 3,000,000/. sterling, nearly half that sum is proposed to be spent on undertakings, some of which are more magnificent than useful, and others that, how ever useful, might b e d e f erre d . This seems to have been the opinion of Mr. La Trol • himself, for he takes care to state that the votes were inserted in the estimates mainly at the instance and recommendation of the Council.' The Executive is now evidently desirous of fixing the responsibility of this more than regal extrava gance on the representatives of the people. B ut the real check came from that region of reality, the money. market. As soon as the Government . found it w ou ld b e necessary to borrow a round million, is discovered that many of the items of expenditure could be dispensed with, and they have been, in effect, cancelled accord ingly. The Gov e rnor says, 'it will be found inexpedient, if not impossible, to attempt the completion of the whole of the undertakin g s pr o jected, at the present time,' on account of the 'scarcity of labour' as well as there not being required ; thus the 'real' excess of the expenditure over the total revenue fcr the year—an excess that is still to be provided for by extraordinary means, , i. e., a loan—' will fall very greatly short of the sum now con templated.' As the necessity of the suspended works and the price of labour could have been calculated long before the estimates were framed, voting hundreds of thousands for schemes now found ‘ impossible to execute was a great error. The general state of the colony is described in the address as highly prosperous ; the yield and export of gold continue steady, ',chile the returns of the export of wool from the port of Melbourne shows a considerable increase, instead of the decrease that was predicted as a consequence of the discovery of the pre cious metal. The other measures have only a local interest. "The decrease in the revenue of the province alluded to above is 102,0001. on the first quarter of 1854, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1853. Of that sum, 99,0001. has been lost by the reduction of the gold license fees. This may be recovered on the year, as the territorial or land revenue shows a healthy ten dency to increase, proving that more capital is being lin vested in freeholds ; but the increase of revenue from the import duties that continued throughout nearly the whole of 1853 has perhaps nearly reached its limit. In that year the revenue of Victoria was rising at the rate of nearly 2,000,0001. per annum. Judging by the quarter just elapsed, the increase of 1854 will not ex ceed the rate of 272,0001. per annum, unless English and American speculation again pours in goods in un limited quantities. Mr. La Trobe thinks the present rate of imports ' excessive,' and 'caused to a great extent by an imperfect knowledge of the commercial arrange ments of the colony' (commercial requirements is the term intended). Quicker communication between Eu rope and the colony will, hi s E xcellency supposes, rec tify the miscalculations that have been made of its power of consumption. Th ere i s no danger of the revenue being permanently diminished so long as ' gold is raised and the diggers consume at the p resen t rate • but it was ' impossible it could c on ti nue to i ncrease to the' amount of a million and a half a-year. This enormous rise in 1853 probably dazzled the Council, and produced the kind of intoxication in which it voted money more lavishly than the Government wished, and contemplated gigantic works with a contempt of expense almost worthy of a Louis XIV. The design for the new Houses of Assem bly was put in during the competition, with an estimate of the cost ; it amounted only to 2,000,0001. sterling, for a community that does not number 300,000 souls ! This plan was certainly rejected ; but the mere proposal of anything so monstrous shows the spirit that was abroad. Other works, as they were urgently wanted, would have equally involved a waste of means. As the construction of magnificent houses of Parliament may well be post poned till the population becomes something greater than can be represented by a pretty compact parish vestry, so it would be a scandalous extravagance to sink indefinite thousands in building a viceregal palace, when the first half-dozen governors will probably be very well satisfied with an elegant mansion as a residence. For the next ten years, at least, the expenditure of the colony should be strictly limited to works of necessity, the construction of roads, bridges, and drains, and secur ing the city a good supply of water. The tendency to begin at the wrong end, and waste the public resources on what is showy and splendid, while the capital itself is neither drained nor lighted, and there are not 100 miles of sound road in the colony, ought to be checked by every influence that can be brought to bear against it. / of New South Wales. The southern bank is in the province of Victoria, and, a similar reserve having been already made for that province, the land on both sides of the river is thus thrown open to agricultural settlers from Albury to Goolwa ; the present holders of pastoral licenses, however, are to be allowed free right of acme& to the river side. The land will be put up for sale as soon as the necessary surveys can be made. Till the Murray was opened to navigation by steam the district was exclusively occupied for cattle runs, under the usual licenses ; a tract of land four miles in width and 500 in length is now to be thrown into the market, and the facilities the river furnishes for communication with the coast will soon render the allotments valuable. " The last lettings of the Burra-Burra Copper Mine had been more favourable than any since the suspension of the works by the rush of labour to the gold fields. " The public land sales for the first quarter of 1854 show an increase of purchases to the amount of 24,0001. above the return for the corresponding quarter of 1853. " Complaints are still made of the scarcity of labour ; thousands of agricultural labourers and miners would find employment at high wages ; a thousand of the last named class, it is said, could be employed at that quarry of copper,' the Burra-Burra Mine, alone. The Adelaide Times says, every colonist is now anxiously inquiring where sufficient labour to supply his neces sities is to come from.' "A bill had been brought into the council of Van Diemen's Land to extend the electoral districts and in crease the number of representatives. The papers sug gest that the Constitution Act should be suspended for some time, that it might be ascertained how those of Victoria and New South Wales would work. "The revenue of the colony for the first quarter of 1854 shows a surplus over the expenditure of 66,4291. lls. 3d. The total of the receipts is 257,872/. 15s. 6d., against an annual expenditure of 191,443/. 3s. 10d. "At the last sitting of the Supreme Court at Hobart Town there were no prisoners .for trial. It is the first maiden session' ever held in the colony. " On the 22d of March Hobart Town was visited with another inundation, the second within a short period, by which immense damage was done to houses and buildings. Three men were drowned, two of them con victs. The lose of property by the two floods is vari ously estimated at from 50,000/. to 120,0001. The order in Council of the 29th December, 1853, re pealing the former order of the 4th of September, 1848, continuing Van Diernen's Land and Norfolk Island as penal settlements, when New South Wales and Victoria ceased to be so, had been received in the colony, to the great satisfaction of the inhabitants. " Business has not been so much stimulated by the warlike intelligence from Europe as anticipated. Stocks are very large, and though the holders retain them a little more firmly, there is not likely to be any great rise in prices from anything but actual consump tion. The bank has raised the rate of discount to 6 per cent. The insurance offices are demanding war risks for England. "The price of gold in Sydney, on the 4th of May, was 31. 17s. 6d. to 3/. 18s. per oz. The stock of gold in the city was small," " As in private, the man of extravagant habits often descends to what approaches the shabby Victoria' being with all its wealth a borrower, thinks itself forced to re pudiate some of its implied engagements. It is rumoured certain benevolent institutions have received notice that the usual allowance from the Treasury must be with held ; and it is quite certain that the Council annulled the labours of the committee appointed on the motion for granting a reward of 10,0001. to Mr. Hargreaves, as the discoverer of gold in the colony, by which discovery Victoria has profited the most. At the time the com mittee was appointed the Council did not wish to be behind that of the sister province in justice or generosity. When the report, which was in favour of a grant of 5,0001., was brought up, and it was moved that it be received, count out' was managed, and the question shelved for the session at least. It had then been dis covered that the Government had already undertaken too much, and had no money to spare for such purposes. The question, however, is to be brought forward again next session. It is to be hoped the reported resolution as to the benevolent societies is unfounded, or will be reconsidered. The new taxes imposed have not been happily devised; with the large revenues of Victoria, they ought not to have been required. The Squatter members of the Council, who voted the expenditure freely enough, did not consent so easily to the increased rate on their cattle ; they cut down the amount proposed by the Government nearly one-half, and shortened the period over which it was to extend. The postage of letters is increased, and a oostage is also to be levied on the local newspapers. Neither of these sources of revenue will be very productive ; they are both retro grade in policy, and an unfavourable contrast to the practice of the other provinces. "Some important alterations were made in the Victoria Constitution Bill after the report was brought up. The qualification for a member of the Upper House, or Legislative Council, was reduced from 10,0001. to 5,000/. freehold, or 5001. a-year. They are now to be 30 in number, elected by six constituencies, called electoral provinces ; they are to go out by rotation, 10 every two years. The electors for the Upper House are to be freeholders of 1,0001. or 1001. a-year, and the graduates of any university, qualified surgeons, physi cians, lawyers, clergymen, and officers of the army and navy. The Legislative Assembly or Lower House is to consist of 60 members, with a qualification of 2,0001.; to be elected for five years, subject to dissolution by the governor. The electors are 50/. freeholders, 101. leaseholders, or persons receiving a salary of 1001 a year. The electoral districts are to be 37 in number. A civil list is reserved for the payment of salaries and pensions to actual and retiring officers of the G?vern ment. Seven of the high officers of the executive arc made liable to removal, and are provided with pensions in that event. An annual sum of 50,0001. is reserved for the encouragement of public worship. " By the distribution of the representatives over the electoral districts, it is calculated the predominance ; it of is the squatting interest in the house will be ha stated it will not be able to command the return of more than 11 members out of the 60. Fromalittle incident that occurred in one of the last discussions, however, it is probable the character of so me of the proposed dis tricts was not clearly understood. Mr. Goodman pointed out to the committee that if the M urray boroughs were left asthey stood in the e l ectoral schedule, the principal cons tituent would be an intel ligent aboriginal,' commonly known by th e name of Bogalong Jack.' Beech wortfhurwniassh afe theref o w re a a d d d d it e i d on t a o l the Murray boroughs, to electors, and lessen the undue borough influence of Bogalong Jack, the intelligent aboriginal, who has been swamped by a schedule as unceremoniously as if he had been merely a British peer. "The New Customs Bill for Victoria provides for the collection of duties on goods imported by land from the province of New South Wales, at Albury, and also on the South Australian frontier. In course of time the Australian provinces will have to form a kind of Zollverein, or 'commercial federation. Unfortunately, the richest province, Victoria, is, by mismanagement, the most in want of money, having contrived, on an enormous revenue, to run in debt, and is setting the bad example of raising its tariff and imposing new taxes, some of them of doubtful advantage. Victoria and New South Wales now confront each other on the Murray, at Albury, in the persons of their Custom-house func tionaries, like France and Germany on the bridge by Strasburg ; and in time, with the help of official zeal, the right of search will be as great a nuisance there as every where else. " The reports from the surveying party at Port Curtis state that the blacks have lately been very troublesome at the new settlement, and are daily be coming more aggressive. Three of the native police. sent out to make a marked tree line, have been attacked and severely wounded. " The General Screw Company's steamer Crcesus is laid up in Port Jackson, undergoing some repairs. She will be ready for sea in three weeks. "The South Australian journals announce that the Governor-General of New South Wales has consented to reserve from any pastoral lease all the land on the north bank of the river Murray, for a depth of two miles from the stream, from Albury to the South Australian frontiers, a distance of about 500 miles, The north shore of the Murray ie, for that distance, w ithin the territory TRADE REPORT. A larger business has been transacted in our import markets during the last few weeks. We subjoin the ruling prices of a few prominent articles of British importation. Brandy—Firm at lls., with a disposition on the part of speculators to purchase. Rum—During the last week some heavy transactions have been entered into. West Indian, ss. to ss. 6d. Geneva in Cases—Firm at 19s. 6d. Wines—Stocks in general are heavy. Draught Ale—ln great demand at 11/, per hogshead. Bottled Ale—Not much inquired for; Byass's held at lls per dozen. Oilmen's Stores—Though some large sales have been recently effected, the demand continues good at a fair advance on invoice prices. Drapery—ln consequence of excessive importations, and the compulsion to sell, which in some cases exists on account of advances made on the English side, many classes of goods are largely accumulating on the hands of vendors, and the market has an overdone pressure. Still descriptions in season are realising 30 per cent. on invoice. Ironmongery —Importers are obtaining 30 per cent. on useful assortments. Saddlery—Advance about 30 per cent. Boots and Shoes—Heavy winter goods have been doing well. In some cases 50 per cent. on invoice has been obtained. Furniture —The market is full, and large quantities continue to arrive. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS AT SYDNEY. March 20th, the Crescent City, from Liverpool; 22d, the Speedy, from London ; the Bland, from London ; 27th, the Annie Armstrong, from Liverpool ; 28th, the Queen of England, from London ; 31st, the Ann, from London. April 2d, the Abboylands, from London; the Tamar, from London; the Pelham, from London; the Charles Ross, from Hamburg ; the Eena, from London ; the Scotia, from Plymouth; 16th, the Daniel Wheeler, from London ; 17th, the Harlequin, Dutch bark, from London ; 18th, the Wilhelmina Lucia, Dutch ship, from London : the Amato', Dutch ship, from London ; 19th, the General Screw Com pany's steamer Crcesus, from Southampton, Cape of Good Hope, and Melbourne ; 24th, Her Majesty's ship Fantome, 10, Lieutenant Fitzroy, Commander, from Wellington ; 25th, the Vernon, from Dundee ; 27th, the Catherine Ja• miesun, from Falmouth ; 27th, the Cyclone, from London ; 28th, the Proserpine, from Bristol ; 29th, the 'Cathay, American ship, from the Downs; 30th, the Coringa, bark, from Liverpool. May Ist, the Collaroy steamer, from Liverpool ; sth, the Lady Hodgkinson, from the Downs; Bth, the Black River packet, from London. DEPARTURES. March 19th, Her Majesty's ship Torch, for a mils* ; 20th, the Royal :Stuart, for London ; 21st, the Samuel En derley, for London; the Adelaide, Australian Royal Mail Company's steamer, fur Launceston, for repairs; the Lord of the Isles, for London. April Ist, the Leonidas, for London ; 20th, the Nile, for London ; 29th, the Gladiator, for London ; 30th, the Eclair, for Havre. AUSTI?I AN DELAY AND PRUSSIAN DUPLICITY. Whatever may be the motives which appear to have sus pended the direct action of the Austrian Government and the German Powers at the very moment when it was confidently supposed that General Coroniniis division was about to enter the Principalities, the first and most important consideration for ourselves and for the world is that the operations of the Turkish army, backed by the forces and the generals of France and England, are not in the slightest degree de pendent on the intrigues of Berlin or the hesitations of is not to be envied in the discharge of the duties he will have to perform. But the Cabinet of Berlin still hopes to play the game of Russia iu Germany, and it is zealously seconded by several of the petty Courts. From what is passing before our eyes, it is not too much to assert that if the policy of Germany had depended on the secondary Sovereigns of that country, and if Austria had not advocated a more independent line of conduct, the whole German nation would have been sold to Russia in this contest. It is felt throughout Germany that the Emperor Francis Joseph is the only Prince who has shown sense and spirit at this crisis, and that he has been thwarted by every influence which could be employed to warp his judg ment and to shake his courage. We can conceive no event so fatal to the interests of Germany and of Europe, no resolu siou so disastrous, no treachery so suicidal, as a decision e on the part of th e A u st r i a n G overnmen t t o rece d e f rom the engagements it has contracted on these momentous questions_ with the belligerent Powers. Then indeed the war cease to be a struggle for the existence of the Ottoman to Em ts - pirewould ; it would ere long shake every State in Eur e oze ceed l in p sl l i i i c f e t s in a g n t d he hi pe s v ri i l e s ti t m o s 7hich he is now exposed his accom plices of the Austrian Hitherto, although the expected army into s i i i . i l t y o 2 tl 3 i t e ) ‘ g d on ed det, he an i d )re ir the and Transylvania, has provinces of Gallicia, the ,010'101 Principalities i o t n ies o tt h e o ne , A vi h ul o t , i na ia r n eL‘ .o ß o a i n ,s - d i osaalustad.o.ynegfiaettaounetehaepwaosritionitis time , exercised presence c e e r o - f importanttc troops fortified by t E h m e p t e -a ro ug r e of o rt f o t s h e c Carpathian iaeodii is(eh M eral outta s i ta in r s which itainal compels the the finest troops of the Russian army iu the kingdom of Po land, in Podolia, and in Moldavia, iu CO much that only a part of the 3d and 4th corps can be said to operate a t all under Prince Gortschalcotf iu Wallachia. The last accounts state that he has not at this moment more than 60,000 men, and very probably this estimate is correct, for each of these two corps is supposed to be reduced to about half that num ber. With this force, already much discouraged, weakened, and shaken, the Russian commander may have to fight a battle ; but the reason that he cannot look for any effi cient reinforcements is that the bulk of the Russian army is kept in check by the formidable array upon the Aus trian frontier, and this obstacle can only be removed by an assurance that Austria accepts the humiliating and insecure position in which the policy of Russia would place her. Until Austria enters the Principalities not only as the declared ally of the Sultan, but as one of the declared antagonists of Russia, we have no desire to see her move at all. A neutral occupa tion would only be a general embarrassment, and must give rise to distrust and animosity on both sides. In the mean time, the course of events has become so rapid, and thus far so successful, that the decision of the Austrian Government is losing the important influence it seemed likely to exercise a few weeks ago over the results of the campaign. In the pre sent state of this campaign, with Omer Pasha advancing on Bucharest and the allied armies ou the Danube, it is a mere puerility to address another ultimatum to Russia demanding the evacuation of the Principalities in a month, for in less than that time the fate of the invading army ought to be decided ; and, although the weight of the forces and influence of Austria iu the war must still be 44 ?,_ siderable, every day that she loses in giving effeeLtfl_ L t7 Convention of the 14th of June transfers to the. se w.77; Powers a large share of the power she might exercise eastern provinces of Europe. communicated ulsiaievaeteid•eastoonthtoe Ministers re tha o t f tFhrkeaeßeweussein'adn Englandauswer wa on s . Wednesday and Thursday in last wee that the Conference would be summoned t but that Austria could (in pursuance of a former agreement), oithdealinheirantteimoatnieint m not n taffectsoftheto belligerents. exercise The announcement, to the effect Government contained a similar rimperfectly rydeetdthibys must t s of ia official a t u he or the A ry u lno stai r a e ; satisfies the de influe that, although the Russian answer alone as the basis of g oaanndceithrtsw,ouvrldho peace, yet the ane decision of the Western Powers, wands of the Court of V o i t e i u o n t . i i o , n a f n o d r course depend on the e tile as height of p That undoubtedly tion is in any degree or by in the the ca je e n , yet incuriedrenenomnepof the risk or responsibility of the war, to any means deter suppose . that o th r ey le ca ss the allied Governments of England and France from the course 'l to share in the glory and the advantage they are resolved to pursue. It rests with the Cabinet of Vienna more of this alliance—to shorten the war or to prolong it—to strike a blow which shall at once restore the Imperial army to its ancient renown, or to bumble it by a useless demonstration. But, although the German Governments may regulate their own conduct, and may sacrifice even their national indepen deuce to their jealousy of each other and their servility to a foreign Power, their policy, be it weak or resolute, false or s i n cere, will neither obstruct nor control us. We are ready to advance with them in the only course which can speedily terminate this war, but theirlesitation will not induce either England or France to relax their ezertions or to retrace their 0AP:5,721M. Foolscap Octavo, 45., LE TELLIER'S FRENCH GRAMMAR adapted for English Teaching. By J. WATTEZ, one of the French Masters, King's College School. Second Edit'on, 2s. 6d., COLLOQUIAL EXERCISES on FAMILIAR IDIOMS of the FRENCH. LANGUAGE. By J. F. WATTEZ. London : John W. 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LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Stone, from Boston, brought informa tion of the loss of two first-class Liverpool ships— the Trade Wind, of New York, from Mobile to Liverpool, and the Olympus, from Liverpool to Boston—with a loss of 24 lives. No further particulars were received ; but the arrival of the American ship Empire, from New York this morning, has placed us in possession of a more detailed account of the unfortunate disaster. Captain Zeraga reports having, on the lst inst., in lat. 42 N., long. 58 W. fallen in with the foremast of the Trade Wind, with one man upon it, who had been in that position for six days, and all he had for nutriment during that period was a small piece of tobacco. Capt. Zeraga immediately lowered the boat, which being manned, put off to the wreck, when the man swam off to her. He reported that the unfortunate ships came in collision at 10.30 p.m. on the 24th June, and that both vessels had finally disappeared on the 25th, at 7 a.m. He states that the first and second mates, with about twenty hands and all the passengers of the Trade Wind, got into the long-boat. The captain and several of the crew of the Trade Wind were picked off pieces of the wreck during the same evening by a barque bound to the eastward. Two men took refuge on the foremast with the man saved, but they died before relief came, of exhaustion. The rescued man does not know how many parties were saved from the Olympus, but immediately after the collision the captain and crew jumped on board the Trade Wind. In a short time afterwards the captain and four men endeavoured to return to their ship in the Trade Wind's jolly boat, but the Olympus sank before they reached her. These are all the particulars at present known, but in all probability the arrival of the Atlantic from New York, due on Wednesday, will place full information in our hands. The Olympus sailed from this port on the 23d May for Boston, with a general cargo, 24 passen gers, and 20 seamen, under the command of Captain Wallace. The Trade Wind, Captain Smith, cleared from Mobile on the sth June with a number of 'Anon pro and 051 baleen of ootto) ea freight. t :,