The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

CREPti DIGUIIIOII.

iv,. (*.hart new Gazdte) have received the fol-
graphic description of the diggings, from • gentle- t
men At Mount Alexander
lairh.-e's Creek, Mount Alexander, Feb. 7, 1A52.
Ms that Mr. - Having a few minutes' leisure, I
ee4. as t a As 10. s able, give you the news of this wonderful,
place. In the first ulace I have been here
months, I have worked like • brick, and my sham I
„, it, gold in that period comes to little above half an
*hob wilt convince you that it is not all gold that
teen ?h party have sunk $ hide, and the result is ° nif."
recent that hundreds are leaving Van Diemen's Land
fa on. place, hat if they knew as moth of it as Ido they 4
wield rather die than live here. The ',glass yeeterolay was
lei ,hig. and to day it is :AI deg. Typhus fever is
sieY,, tug tetii.lly, and I leer there will be sad
• Mn betort many weeks. • • • Where we are
-,,i4it there are great number of Ili minders. • •
ce,Mrs t, the quietest part of the do:tinge ; Friar's Creek is • ,
robberies are of it illy occurrence ; of coupe
Ja have Merl of the fatal isecithint Mr. Champion's POW
• awl ht. mate mat with ; uud when the wet weather
wpm the fe wltf he accidents daily. as the walls between
tit: halm when saturated met give way. Some cf the
Are 20 nen them and when you get to the bottom
they art like rabbit hole., you may go from one to another •
ox a er, at ebetance. There age people from all nation.
Mrs ot.y grog shops are not so plentiful as fornierly —the
tomunttionent vitro to Friar's Creek this day week and
hum? thin Jona, Snit smaohed all ehe pots, pans,
• in the place; at another, large entre he smashed a cask
0,..,,e•ihm1) of 32 gallon. and two of 5 gallons each, and
hind the owner. The storekeeper% get the nugget., also the
hlnk.esitho, two pounilo for shoeing a horse and the mine for
karat; cart tires. It is impassible for is man to lee lazy
hem far the flies will keep your hands moving like a wind-
mill all day ; they get into your eyes, and if you opm your
inenth without • veil on yuu may expect to swallow two or
theft st the knot All the people shout me, and in fact all
the awe, is, hove been and are suffering from dysentery
and toil ay, s ; lam one of the few who hat escaped. The
etifil from the numerous butchers' establishments being
eep,ned to the nun fur a few days emits s most delightful
odour. and is in my opinion the principal cause of so
meek Pickets., as well as eating the meat before it is
• hat it you do not it will walk into the bush to
grim. . . I sin sick of this Ham, lam off to
Ballarat on Monday. In some of the Ogees I base been at
work ethers have been wetting gold in large amotities,
sh.,te I could not get • speck. I bought • hole
et Ado., and whits. I went to get the stoney another
rain gave 21. fur it and got 71bs. weight of gold out of it
which disgusted me ; I can assure you there is • vast diffe
note between handling • pick and a quill, it in only fit
rk for otonemaoons arid brieltmakers. . . . I have
heard of two men who have been fortunate. one got a piece
weight, and the other (as it is reportetit 27 lbs. weight
in • lump. . . I was almost settled about a fortnight
tuck, I was en•cting a tent for • doctor who was ill, when
the ridge pole gave way and struck me in the corner of the
cc.. Omit, and nose, and I was fearful that I had lost toy
ei:ht, but I am getting round; there were three out of
the four of as on our backs—one blind, another with
rheumatism in the head, and the other suffering
tom Mod . . . If a man makes a fortune here
h.• will r3lll it, when you eoneidcr the miserable
life he leads, and the chance of being laid on a sick
hod, without any one you know to do ens thing for you,
sail the doctor's taproot s, he. It is calculated that there
are shove 20,000 persons on Friar's Creek alone. I went
up the ditteirc:s yesterday, to where I was encamped about
a fortnight tiller; I slid not knew the place—bills and
'unite then untouched are all torn up; a person would
think it inipotaible to turn up so much earth in so short •
tribal.. There are many doing well, and there
eight to be, when you consider the many mile. of land or
ratl earth which has been dug. . . . I suppose
llobart Town is dreadfully dull. It is *musing to
we neon of the horsemen here—they work their
home hard all the week upon a small portion of
food, and met thin on Sunday by galloping them all
over the disrgins. A gentleman was walking in his sleep
a few tights since at ltior's Creek, but went to the wrong
tent. upon whim I) the owner shot three of his Ikons off, and
took him to the commissioner, who forwarded him to Mel-
bourne for the bt4nefit of his health. I must leave off for •
short time, a. the flies are almost enough to blind you.
Foot. err from If. to It. ss. per pair; maize, 13.. per bushel,
and iiAt. V. After being here • month or two, a person
will he enabled to apmeriate the comforts of Van Diemen's
Land I would not live in Port Phillip if I could own it all ;
the flies, hest, and dust would soon make a person Scent-
than J to VAn Pitmen's Land climate a fit object teethe Merri
Cre.k establishment (mad house). I often catch black Ash
of a hi;ltt after we knock off work, but they are getting
whir. You cannot hove a bathe, as the creeks have too
many leeches in tht m. Yours, he.,

•
11/Met, CHESIL DIGGINGS.
Th. weather is fearfia.ly hat, and the diggers are perforce
comp. !led to take short to ells. With the ezeeption of two
'Bahr holes, the creek is dry, and those diggers who lie fur-
ther cap the nag. s are necesaitated to cart their stuff three
and hoar milts to the Loddon, which still runs, but very
slog.i.sbiy, and with • most pea-soupy hue. The tracks
are ankle-deep in impalpable dust, much worse than
the highroads of a great city. An air of lassitude per.
vides all. The feed is burnt up, and ere lung those .
who are pertinacious enough to persevere in mining
op. rati.us must either push un to the Murray, or retreat to i
the Loddern, and Jim Crow, at which place there is • spiels- ;
did running stream of excellent water, dignified by many
with the title ..f a river, one of the tributaries of which,
called the Spring Creek, report asserted that there were
digging. richer than met worked. I started thithee
with a trii cd yeah and found rep vt to have been a
ryas PZ.I./14.14t,r. There were about 12 tents pitched there,
but no yield ..f any magnitude had been proeured ; but from
the aspect of the place there is every probability that, with
careful working, • rich field might be opened up, bat
last trefiecanti iswisaser. a mane otmherofPlopinl aces Fyring Creek
ic defieeot is wa'er. am of opinion that there
arc many ranges betwes n the Mount and Ballarat equally
as pro;.nc as any yet worked. Many are leaving the
%oat, ra .ny are arriving, and many are off prospect-
ing. or laukiag for heal for castle. Our society here
beta very mined deseriptian. We are more numerous
than select whi'st to prevent
.monotony two or three
fights are got up every working nay, and some half dozen
on Sunday, which, combined with pilfering &nights, and
an orcarioaal savage assault, !clads • strange diversity to the
whale. See. eel tents have bees robbed during the last
hat dap. One man is report. d to have lost 401 be. weight.
!met an .44 Bonloyoug digger who had been dreadfully
Irma out by his mates, and robbed of a pound and a half
el g. 1.1 It ishoves all wheat the present time think et start-
le; fur the diggings to ponder well, and name before they
tar that step. Oold digging will be far less ressunera-
tire daring the hot weather than in the wet Sal-
ves. A en it deal of time mast be lost in res-
pecting, and coesequent expense will follow, colds, sickness,
sad dywratery preyed ; blight is very pr Talent ; hundreds
may be seen with their eyes bunged up, as though they had
been engaged in a boziag snatch ; myriads of flies tease
pus themands of musquitoes sting you, and clouds of dust
choke you, Ve sun females, and the hot wird. bake you.
It drink, drink, from morn to night, and there is no ap-
Immo one's thirst. Sleep Is the only solace left, and the
mews find, you is a perspirathm preparatory to another
day's cooling. I would advise parties to remain
at home foe the pr. sent. Occupation in lowa is
fir prep fable at this season to gold digging, and
these who will attempt digging, bark their health
alienist wealth. Ballarat is deserted now, but I prophesy
that the approaching winter will see It occupied again with
a lreannit population, the whole of the mond that
tsveured spot must and wdl he worked, and I feel eonfident
that tin y will be work. d profitably. The yield here is very
anesetam, end many of the statements of quantities are
mere LIM., bet many are doing well. This evening then
bar been several more departures, our emagow.itv is thin-
aim fit, and many an returning to town.—Geelong Ad-
Mr Wt.

HANGING RUCK 1)1111.11N(1,4.
We are happy to learn, from a gentleman just come
down horn Mart di. that the sec ounu fruit the Rang-
ier Rock continued highly favourable. Thia gentleman
hal sees 'event small samples of the gold brought beck by
Prispettere,:and from one young man he bought, fur 61.,
11 on. of god, obtained ky the young man and
a iannpanion with tin dishes in three days. From this
limas man, PAM COMP over from the Turort, and front
other parties well known to him, some of whom had
al, been at the Turon, our informant learnt that
the prospetters at the Hanging Ruck, both on the
(Flit and on the ridge of the bank, had every
o ie-on to be satisfied with their sector. In fact, so
eetetieel were all the pasties who had been there,
that they mily retuned to obtain ermine.. atid otb• r
tool, to set to digging in good earnest. According to
their Lelief, from CA to 200 prisons were on the ground,
mottly peapieting about with tin dishes. &c. Great
numbees of rode., he., were being mails in Marrurundi
51.4 the othi r ioseshipa shout there, and numbers of per-
mit, were on their war to the flanging-rock. From the
he'd informs'ion •e have vet obtained, the diggings arc
now progres.int nn a small creek below the precipitous
Pin of the Liierpoil mote, known as the Ilan-ing-
pick. This creek, it i. believed, flows into Bungowan-
eri. k, and from that into the Peel. I' be ennntry about the
Idingeng-rouli i- well watered sad reined, °emeriti+ small
creak. rimer in the revue, and finding their way into
the Peel. Ihe distance from Maitland to the Hanging-
lurk by the neared good dray route yet pointed
out is about 160 mile Thu., from Maitland to Sturm-
tooth i• , from Murturunni, crooning the Liverpool
Range by the usull road. to Terry'. Inn, is 10 mile. ; •
slilrberma Terry'. turn Witt. the right, making for Cony
Creek, Mr. Loder's station, which is shout four miles
bons Terry's ; from Colly Creek to Mere. Martyn and
f'neahe's Maths, i. 10 miles; from thence to L der'. Old
10aeleyanl, on the postman'a track. 6 milt +; from the Old
itoekvard, make for a station of the A. A. Company's,
whirh our inform nt believes is named Britton, painirg
filo., or rust toil.. to the right of Loeke'l station, this di.-
lance being live i.e 141 Mika; from Britton, mako by the
most direct track to the Ranging Itock, diatant acme 12 or
I', hole.. Tln er diaLiaces are only given as approximate.
• -.Voitlntol '5.

THE labiss num. Yesterday Messrs.
11-emrt, Norton, aied 'Fri. t multistate I, at the Mart, the
of iho Irrowl por,ioie of lfe ar'trl. toil c! ,I by
-• is•tiA l'srapsloy m:.l rxhiojled i.. th• Cr‘.: 1.11^0,.
1., re w.. • aiiiatreeusatteadaitte of rial
1411,1 the haldings visa. brisk. The ilety's sale consisted of
.!`a; t f raise. haat owe ertielee, realised about 154/
A ,:ally tas•ii Friday.

TILE ELECTIONS.
FINSBURY.

At a numerously attended meeting of the eleo-
ton of this borough, held last night in the National
Sehool.rooens, Denmark-stnet, Islington, it was unani-
mously resolved to use every exertion to return Mr.
Iluneumbe at the head of the poll, and free of expense.
Mr. Duncombe addressed the meeting, and professed his
utter inability to understand why the liberal intere•t was
'spout to be split up by so many rival candidates fur the
borough.
A numerously attended and highly respectable
meeting of the eh clues and friends of Mr. Chaliis was held
at the Crown TIMM, Clerkenwell-green, last evening. The
worthy alderman was present, an.a eddremed the meeting at
ennsiderable length. The statement of his political senti-
ments which he laid before the meeting gave great satisl.te•
lion ; and resolutions were adopted pledging those present
to untiring exertions in his twhalf.