The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

JAPAN.

From Japan, the following intelligence comes to
hand by the Japan Herald:
Our het information from Zak° informs us that the
Diamio who has lately represented the Shiagooog at the
imperial court u Shaskidei, having fallen into disivace, has
ended his days by the honowable means of suicide. He
has fallen a victim, it is believed, rather to the duplicity
and untruthfulness of the Gorogio than to his owe
misdeeds. By the advice of some of the Kokoshioo,
the office of Gotatio or Regent has been revived. This
was at Brit done by a joint commission to two officers
—Hats Daira Higho no Kami and Mate Daira Etneren no
Kami. The latter was appointed in 1859 the custodian of
Yokohama and foreigners, bat he fell into disgrace through
the power of the late Gotairo, from which he has only
lately emerged. Since hislast appointment, however, he has
again fallen into disgrace, and the regency remains in the
hands of Matz Hairs Higho no Kami. But the title has
been changed from Gotairo to Sodang ait6 ; the officers who
hold it now being of higher birth than those who have held
the position of regent in times past.
These, then(says the China Mai/),are the changes
which were making the stir at Yedo that so need-
lessly alarmed our people some time ago.

AUSTRALIA.

VICTORIA.

The latest advice. from Melbourne extend to
August 25.. Rain and floods bad characterised the
month and the winter just ended throughout Vic-
toria. The storms had extended into South Aus-
tralia, and been intensified in Western Australia,
where the floods had exceeded in violence any
similar visitation for the last thirty years, destroy-
ing roads, bridges, crosaing-places, houses, farm-
buildings, farms, a:c.
The chief secretary had appointed the gentlemen
who are to form the new Education Board, to work
out the Common Schools Bill. The various re-
ligious bodies in the community, without excep-
tion, had agreed to give the bill a fair trial, and
the preliminary steps had been taken to carry out
the provisions of the bill.
We find the following among the parawaphs of
news in our Melbourne cotemporaries :
During the recces we despatched a special reporter to the
gold-fields, to examine and report upon their state, as well
as the condition of the miners, and the position and pros-
pects of mining generally. Eleven of his letters have
since appeared in the Amos, and, so fat as they have gone,
they are entirely reassuring, showing that, even on our
oldest gold-fields, mining is only at its commencement.
The alluvial fields are still unexhausteci, and auriferous
quartz-reefs without number lie untouched in every dis-
trict, for want of capital and labour. Attention hay also
been drawn to our mines of antimony, silver, and iron, of
which little or nothing was popularly known previously
The effect of these letters has already been to assist in
restoring confidence in the minarets of the colony, and to
stimulate enterprise in new mining directions.
The efforts of the Acclimatisation Society, we are happy
to report, are producing gratifying results. Lanka aid
thrushes are reported as having been beard and seen in
districts far apart from each other, and embracing almost
the whole oolouy. The society Arad is io a highly Batistes-
' tory condition, and is spreading its ramifications over the
colony and the east.
Landsborougb, the explorer, has arrived in Melbourne,
after having crossed the continent from Carpentaria, in
nearly a straight line, with a small party, including two
►boriginals, natives of Queensland. His journal has not
I yet been published, as he desires to verify some of Waal-
isolations ; but the cira yore description which he gave at
a meeting of the Royal Society confirms the impressions
I formed from his letters dated from Warrego, announcing
I hu return from the settled district& He describes the
r country north of Cooper's Creek in glowing terns, and
. gives it as his opinion that pastoral settlement will proceed
, so rapidly on the newly.diacovered lands that, before
, twelve months pass over, it will be possible to pass from
l Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria without camping out
in the bosh for a single night. The country througgh-
• out is well watered and paned ; more rain falls
to the north than to the south. of Cooper's