The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-29 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

PROGRESS OF AUSTRALIA.

MaLBOUENE, Mar 1.
To export one hundred tons of geld per annum is
dome to be looked upon as the duty of this oolosy,
oil well has she yet performed that duty, for, with
the exception of 1854, when the quantity was only
musty-one tons, we have regularly exported more
this the first-named amount. Lest year it was 106
teas : this year it is certain to be 000siderably more,
for we have already, during the first four months, or
till the end ot Aprii, shipped the enormous quantity
a 45 toss. In other words, in oce-tbird of the
time we have performed one-half of oar allotted task,
mai this, too, with oar population almost stationary—
in feet, it is not too much toenail that concurrently
with a decrease in the number of miners, our go
prodeoe is increasing in the ratio I have indicated.
The following is a weekly account of the amounts
met down by escort during the last five weeks, with
the total ot the corresponding weeks of last year:—
Week* ending Total es .1866 Tote oz.. 1866.
29
April 6
„ 12
, 19
26

217,402 287,040
The quantity sent dowel by escort varies meordieg
to the price at which gold is selliog. During the
list three week. included in the above table the sell-
ing prior was 31. 18s. dd. to 31. 18s. ed. Daring the
pet fortnight it bee not been more than from 31.165.
is il. 168.6 d. This fact ieditstee the comfortable
alearence that the miser% ea • whole, are so well aa
that they tea afford to hold, and do hold meet peril-
sesiosoly, when they do not get what they believe
the fall value of the product of their laborious in-
fantry:
Daring the fret three months of the following
Teas the amounts received by Newt, sod Sapp /4
sere—

alleehtli 07
'waft eatr. Om
1163
1164
1866
1666

no following allipowato lave boon sods ninon a 7
let :

Ones el
Wen. SW. Dielkiles. Oa
lime SP Mae -.......- lelet de Oda 6,014
WI 6...... Mime& ....... , lleiree Mel
ape le-- liernme . Illebes SOW
M• .e --. Pow 01114 MINIS LIMOS 46,75
‘4Oll It-- ensue Weep Ledge 106.273
aloethe-... LA et sollis 1.104040001 SLIM
4011 21...... esime4
Ape =Wee S SG-- Timm Aso Gin 4017 AM
Aire K.... Cry Of Nrsalmez liealey 4,766
Apra Se Ogee Wee. 166411061 Km
At the beginning of the year ear population was
denhlly rammed hem offieial papers at 326,000.
Darns the four maths whin have elm elapsed the
balms of snivels over departures him bees
liellows :--Jeasary, 1,437; February, 1,469; Marsh,
333; to April 26, 1,906—in all 6,034, or at the rate
at 16.102 foe the year. The numbs: darintstarelyk
sa wee smeller than for y math sines the '
el geld ; it has not bees below 1,000 before dyeing
the lest fear years. Your readers mast aot omit to
amiss that the above austere gin the total is
been cf imalgratios from all—eves inaladbg cob-
Mal—poets. If I had ally taken the arrivals sad
oispertares from and to Oren Britain and (onto
perm I should have bed to exhibit a basses to the
milt of migration. It will be sees, therefore, that
the above assesdee bur predation has been derived
onkel frees the elfells/e. selesies, a bet which is
to Menet sum Monis& If say of year
mein attempt to sedaishe ass paint mobil=
his the Opus tribe I haws glen, they sisolii be.
ware of the lailmiess seesit whit they mold sib..
The Oldness, IBMs, sae
to
skied spinet thus by
ths lespaidss eta 01 las el 10i. Nab, are seriving
in essaideenble sinless at Adak* wholes they
=she their way wallah eves the tail of sash a
jesisey dose sot provost the immigration at this
Ampler roe*. It may ressombly be doubted it
this sherd issitseent will, altboath it has shrieked the
bemired.' of Chines to this port, nestaally fail to
seem theoloset he which it was paned. Nay, more, it
is pobable test the very difficulties which are placed
is die way el their arrival ben may form an addi
Real! routines; to them to ems. Those who
ohm to Chies are amerces, sad 'family *mina
'Mose who have bees the most loettutate ben.
The sleet of thin will daelitime be that we shall
lave them Nokia' for this obey, either directly or
% siedinally, la read la aumbirs. Carleton
intelligent kola len, Steppe', a, in-
hume as of 26 ship bid la at those porta for
Andras, the while whisk it is proposed to
freight with Osistielle. As be se I have bass able
to see, anon have watelesd the question with great
ieneest, es the sal was ea letringement cpon my
bee-trade nethess. the grounds aad allegation epos
whisk it was to exclude them have bees
strikingly Is beton& an their heathenism.
Wean Imt dat,is peopled= to their num-
hen, they sestribab by far the mellent pee comp
of Mania of aay slam in the nifty. A Mamas
is beabb is almost • cariosity, and it may safely be
saddled • stili greater rarity to And ose in sash a
whin be any of those Wiens Grimes which are
still of (request acourreses meal* se. This may is
part, but not wholly so. be spewed fee by the lace
that they are coed sed to thmesine in separate est.
damns ce the gold Saida Usk isdaeay and
esbeiety are highly esismatib)bialffieffielli the latter,
mermaid se they are by the strosgut temptations
wad the most frightful extent of example.
Takes as a whole, I have as hesitation
' is asserting that they are desirable immi-
grants, sad that, therefore, their arrival amongst
se should be soccourageet rather then disometed, as
at present. Besides the overland immigration of
Chinese, there is a onstant Mean of arrivals from
New South Wales, where, althwagh they have so
esatensptible resources, they have not the almost
Zal megnillont indeesonsate which this colony
I have said that the question of immigration is
attracting attention hers. The Chamber of Com-
ment have appointed a enunittes to dories some
man of ameleratieg it, sad there can be no doubt,
hem the sekaowkdged ability of the gentlemen coa-
peeing that committee, that some practical scheme
will be evolved by them. As it is at present,
we may almost be said to be swindling oar seighboars
sae of that population, the expense of whose convey
sass they have either paid la whole or is part. To
South Australia, Tasmania, sad New Sooth Wake,
milted immigration still takes pleas; bet to this
missy the system is no longer applied. With the
emorlien of the 100,0001. sent kenos for female is-
ealpsties, it appears that at permit the govern-
ment of this colony do not contemplate forwarding
mg mere fends to the Park-street officials.

bees I wrote bet, trade and ,00mmeroe, if they
Imea sot been as active as some were disposed to
risk they would have bees, have, as I led your
Ilimiers to expect would hs disease, beet steady, safe,
aml bestrew speculation. Oar advion per Royal
Obarbor gratify us with the essuranos that shippers
wk hems are at last studying statistics on Jour side
(set forgetting the amber of people hers), and that
She rates at meant ruling for most staple articles ot
Import, satiefactory as they are, mast coatings for
same hoes yet to come. Do not let me, however, by
these °bimodal*, ledges any ot your readers to sap
pose that we are likely to be short supplied, or that it
will be a safe thing to repeat the isondation ot im-
parts with which we were visited in 1834. Ceatioa
was ewer more osocesary than at this moment, to
mere melee either in trade or commerce. At the
asap time I woad observe that, as far as oar inter-
nal trade is coacerned, we are in a thoroughly sound
usadition.

The following tables will, to IMO extent, illus.
bete oar position :
Imports in the fray 1866 to the 261 b April .... C 4 104 900
'wpm do do .... 6,670,702

Bsloon of sop >lts om imports dui', lb
wren, yeas L1,486,882
Newly a nillioa sad • Ulf.
In poets sod exports to same date o(1866 °palpated
with the above:
IMPOST/. ZIPOITS.
1866 1‘64 I 1860 1868.
Z 11,426,321 .. L 1,106,900 L 11,613,442 .. L 6,670,782