The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-17 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Adelaide journals have been received to the end of ;
September. Owing to the frequent occurrence of
severe floods, which bad destroyed the standing crops,
the unusual quantity of rain, and the low lying
buds having been under water so long, meowing I
was prevented. Anxious to compensate for the de- ,
struction of a portion of their corn crops the farmers
were turning their attention to the cultivation of
maize. l'ublic attention was also drawn to the state,
working, and effect of the existing tariff. The Cham-
ber of Commerce and many of the colonists had me-
morialised the Legislative Council on the neces-
sity of revising existing. imposts. Some of
these duties arc oppressive in the extreme.
The
.principal changes suggested arc a reduction on
Spinto from 10s. to ss. per gallon ; on tobacco, 2s. to
is. per lb.; on cigars, of ss. to 2s. per lb.; and the
substitution of a general rate of 5 per cent. ad Talo-
n'', instead of the present scale of duties on mer-
cluLlise. Wine is retailed in Adelaide at a higher
price than in London, where the duty is about 300
per cent. more than in South Australia. The Aus-
tralasian League ii firm in its determination to oppose
the continuance of convictism. On Sept. let a large
Meeting was held at the Commercial Exchange, at
which about 1,000 persons were present, when a se-
ries of resolutions were carried by acclamation, de-
nouncive of the system. These resolutions were
forwarded to the local government, to be sent to the
Steretary of State; and in the letter that accom-
panied them the council pointedly remark, " Could
by any possibility his lordship Earl Grey have wit-
nessed the enthusiasm displayed by the vast as-
semblage, and listened to the stubborn facts
as stated by Alderman Bell, and the eloquent
and feeling remarks of the Rev. Mr. West on the
horrors and crime not fit to bo mentioned engendered
by transportation, his lordship Earl Grey would
Cr ever have set his sign manual against a conti-
nuance of so abominable a system." The address to
her Majesty originating with the meeting was for-
warded
by Sir Henry Young to the Secretary of
State, per ()mega, to Bombay and overland. Governor
Young has earned for himself unenviable notoriety
bp instituting a government prosecution. A Mr.
bloorhouse applied through the Advocate-General to
the Judge of the Supreme Court for a rule, which
was granted, to show cause why a criminal informa-
tion should not be filed against G. A. Anstey, Esq.,
for wiling Mr. M., when acting as a returning otter
at the Yutala election, "a sneak." The new Legisla-
tive Council had met ; after three weeks it was fairly
bl.iwn," and was necessitated to adjourn to enter
upon committee business, every member being on
sonic committee or otherwise employed.

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