The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-21 00:00:00

THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.

NEW SOUTH WALES.—SYDNEY.
Sydney journals, to the beginning of May,
replete with the all-agitating sub set, anti-transportatio,
which has called forth the warmest energies of the colony.
To such • degree of public reprobation has the system of
transportation reached, that should it be resumed, and a
convict vessel arrive at Sydney, • public meeting is arranged
to be convened ea the ground adjacent to the Circular-quay,
" there to protest spinet the shame, injustice, and tyranny
of gals making New (bath Waage penal settlement."
' PORT PHILLIP.
Melbourne jotirnela are to hand to the end of April.
The quantity of wool exported from Geelong during this
Imes is set down at 19,000 balsa. or 3,700,000 lbs , to easel
ply whisk no less than 1,233,333 sheep wen shorn. Ia
esemple of the ill mann of the system of sending exiles to
thellliesies, one of the Melbourne:jouroas remarks that at
the last criminal solllliooll at that oboe there were 34 prisoners
be trial; of which comber 11 (nearly eta-third) was
ose of whom wee asavicted and executed for mar-
dm. Up to the last skated wasions 1,368 exiles bad boss
Soled at Port Phillip, or about me-fifteenth of the
whole adult mistake ; sad yet the exiles furnished
owthird of the shaman shagged with the most seri-
me assess. This resat ought to satisfy Earl Grey of the
total failure of the experiment. Aa amphitheatre and ortez
afar the aeons of knotleree is s„ w course a insist
Kolhourne.—The whammed in thiseoloey has enamel
highest degree of wativation, mad is not excelled by the
sprlateat Many other 'many ; bat se plentiful has Use the
hermit that the farmers in theneighbourhood of Ow
hog demists the warrant prices of whneeat so low as bendy le
seer the camases of raising it (the market rate for the lest
Mhele being Sa. W. per bushel), and as a remedial
mmetare, the farmers had proposed forming as memiaties
to eapert their modems to • British or other moism,
•
Ohba mai Java. In the month of April, at Mal.
himenne Geeloog, the atrocities committed by
Salim set only on the whites, but upon them-
gjcpsr eke or on neither withholding the talk:dog,
nor ellering security against wounds, were almost of
daily occurrence. To such ea extent had ;hese native suicidal
acts proseeded, that the settlers in the north. eastern district
of tie colon y bad presented a petition to the Borer
nor, is which they not only detail grievances, but
boldly grasp with the main difficulty, end ask for
a law for the more immediate control, sad more summary
punishment of the offenders.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Swan River (Perth and Freemantle) papers are to
dos middle of May.
ills rapid and retrograde movement in Western Australia
sad tbe unwillingness expreeeed by the colonial department
eSfmg le augment the anima of the parliamentary grant er
te simmirad even the present
go ems being eontinued snah
lentelk Itm breed the vernor, Captsia F itz
to Osseo same is order to reduce the expenses
the isiwiy. The wretched state of Swan River dmaces,
trialthelendlag the *Sons are ill-pad compared to
Sher Austrailas settles's% orb
mused much pale
to the misdate, and is a soros of anxiety to the
govenor, who has beet called on to clip the existing low
salaries of the various fasetionaries conneeted with the ma-
chinery of government. The task, soda any circusstances,
ineuxecioas Gm, but in the instant* of Swan Biel r it is
v e
mire pailful by the coadderatios that the salaries
woee lame to the nature sad amount of service re-
ed, es yas the knife has been applied to the in-
r sea It is degas to observe the perversity of
the Colooial.oSee is keeping up the useless department
connected with the earveyor.graeral ; far, although the ire
Insists (even the first settles), after expending their all in a
fruitless attempt to settle, are forced to suit the place and
seek a livelihood elsewhere, sew townships are laid out, huh
espeditioes of discovery are undertakes apparently for no
ninthly use thee to keep up an sales end ezpassive establish-
ment for the seke of the passage appertainieg to it. Rock-
iest's% Williamsburg, and some kalf.dessa mks town sites,
are knows wily in name ' • their area is but rarely trodden
by natives, erg have not revived the imprint of an Enro.
Mtkr yeas. With the view of augment-
Celfbe revenue, the Governor had announced his
intention to propose to the Legislative Council the
imps ins of an additional day of two shillings per
gales ea spirits, an increased duty ca cigars end snuff, but
a Malden was to be made on leaf tobacco. The latter re
levities is owing
-to the externem me of leaf tobacco in
abominating. The local government have at last resolved
on remising the native prisms' from the wretched island
of Bottsest, and in future they are to be employed on puSlic
works at Perth, FIVIIIIISSar, sad elsewhere. From
the government Gautts, April 10. we gather that
the liabilities of the Bank al Western Australia,to Morn
31, amounted to 16,7761. end the meets to 25,5101. ; notes