The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-12 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The South Australian Register (Adelaide), of
December 26, mentions the return of Mr. Stuart
from his expedition to the northern coast as the
most important item of news to be transmitted by
the present mail. This explorer, it will be remem-
bered, left Adelaide in the beginning of last year
to complete the exploration which be commenced
in 1859, and which, fur the second time, he was

unable to finish in 1860. On the first occasion he
was turned back by hostile natives, and on the
second occasion by a dense scrub, which separated
him from the Victoria River, after be had reached
as near to the °oast as latitude 17 deg. and longi-
tude 133 deg.
We are now glad to announce that in this third
expedition Mr. Stuart has been completely success-
ful. Atter crossing to latitude 17 degs. upon his
old route, he found in the course of a lengthened
examination of the country that the belt of scrub
which had seemed to hem him in hopelessly from
the coast beyond was penetrable in a northerly
direction ; and instead, therefore, of further seeking
to reach the Victoria River, he pressed forward
through Arnheim's Land and came out upon the
coast near Point Hotham, opposite Melville's
Island. Thus there is now a direct route from Ade-
laide to Port Essington, and more than three parts
of the country through which it runs has been
traversed by Stuart and his parties six times, this
being the third consecutive year that his expedi-
tions have crossed and recrossed the continent.
From these facts it will be seen that the explora-
tion is one of vast importance to all the Auatralian
colonies. The journeys of previous explorers who
have crossed the continent have terminated at the
Gulf of Carpentaria, where the country is low and
swampy, and where ships trading with India and
China would meet with difficulties in navigation.
But a route is now opened from South Australia
to a point on the coast six degrees beyond the head
of the gulf, which was the place reached by Burke,
and afterwards by M'Kinlay ; and this route is
found traversable during the driest of 1.811101116
QUEENSLAND.

ARRIVAL OF MISS RYE AND THE
FEMALE EMIGRANTS.
Qaussuartg °CARMAN Ottloe,
&Mace, December 18, 1862.

The third anniversary of the foundation of the
colony wee celebrated on the 10th inst. with the =nal »-
Joking'.
An address to the explorer, Mr. William Landsborougb,
wee presented to that gentleman from the public of Queens-
land by his mosleney the governor, at a meeting held in
Brisbane on the Bth inst.
The proposal of the irnrerial government to annex North
Australia temporarily to Queensland does not and much
await f. this mks,.
It is expected that the amble telegraph will be =tended
northward next year as fax as Rockhampton.

The Queensland Steam Navigatios Company are sending
Captain Patullo home by t►is. .oath's mail to superintend
the oonstruction of several new steamers.
Telegraphic intell4enes from England to Nov. 7 was re-
ceived in Brisbane rid Adelaide on the 12th instant. The
man has not yet arrived.
The ship Conway, with 400 immigrants (including 140
single females sent out by Miss Rye), arrived from South-
ampton on the Ist inst., and the new comers were wall
received. The Wendell also arrived on the 26th ult. with
300 immigrants.
The trying drought from which the colony suffered en
many months seem. at length to be at an end, rain baring
fallen lately in considerable quantities.
Mr. Penton, merchant, of Ipswich, states him profile on
tee acres of lest sesson'e cotton at 4271.

Labour is still so Douce in the colony that in tome district,
as much as 21. per week is paid (or ahepherda.
_ _ _

At the November Brisbane Criminal Sessions there were
no prisoners for trial ; this pleasing state of affairs has now
occurred three times.

The Young Australia sailed for London on the 15th
instant, with passengers and a large cargo of wool, cotton,
and other produce.

(Riuna's museum.)
AMERICA.

QIIMXSTOWN, Fin. 12.

The Inman steamer Kangaroo, from New York
on the 31st ult., has arrived here with the mails,
900,000 dollars in specie, and 50 passengers. She
has heard nothing of the China.

NEW YORK, JAN. 31.
(Per Kangaroo.)

The Richmond Dispatch warns the democrats and
conservatives of the North to dismiss from their
minds the delusion that the South will ever consent
upon any terms to re-enter the Union ; and says
that if the North allowed the South to write a con-
stitution, and gave every guarantee, the South
would prefer the government of England or France
to re-entering the Union.
The New York Tribune says the people want to
see the government make war in earnest. If they
cannot make war, or if they make war and fail, and
shall therefore be satisfied that the struggle is hope-
less, the people will next wish to ascertain if the
government is equally incapable of making peace.
The New York Herald and the Times favour the
continuance of the war until the Union is restored.