The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-13 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

CANADA.—Oar dates from this province are to
the 2lth ult. The intelligence is nut of great moment. The
Ilievernor.General left Montreal for Quebec on the 22nd of
June. The appointment of M. Bedard as a Puiene Judge
of the Court of Queen's Br Oct with precedence of the two
puisnes previously on the bench had given rise tt some cavil-
ling on the part of the opposition. It appears that M. Bedard,
in his capacity of provincial judge, had uniformly taken
precedence of these gent!, metrwhear ver they acted together,
on the ground of seniority. There is also some crowing in
the opposition papers because ministers had caused M. De
Sales La Teniera to he gazetted as Deputy Judge Advocate
before they were artain that he would accept the appoint-
ment. Two casualties are mentioned iu our Montreal tiles ;
the wreck of the steamer Down at the Lachine Rapids (ap-
parently without any loss of life), and a fire in Montreal.
The crops throughout Canada promise to be abundant ant
good ; teid the season in the upper province is unwontedly
forward. The pasoengets by the America reached Montreal '
in twelve days from Liverpool ! The ship fever has re-ap-
peared among the emigrants at Grosse Isle ; and the Rev.
William Thompson, an exempt wry clergyman who had de-
voted himself to their service, has fallen a vic!im to it.

AUSTRALIA.—NEW SOT:Tit WALES.—From this 1
colony we have papers to the 20th of March. The burden
of their columns is as usual, the want of labour. Tha Sidney
Morning Berald of tilt) 18th of March states: " The peti-
tion praying for protection from the oppressive jurisdiction
of the Vice.Admirelty Court has been signed by up-
wards of P!I hundred persons, including, we be-
lieve, every mercantile firm in the colony, several
members of the It gislature, and a large number of the most
respectable colonists. It has been entrusted to the care of
Mr. C. D. Loins, the secretary of the committee, who is
about to proceed to England." The same journal published
on the Sth of Much some extracts from a letter from Dr.
Leichhardt, Cat. 1 Canning Downs, February 26. That
distinguished traveler was then on the eve of starting on
his arduous journey. lie had received the news of Mr.
Kennedy's discoveries.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—We !lave been favoured
with the following interesting extract of a privato letter re-
ceived at Southampton from Adelaide, and dated January
14, 1848 :
It is astanshlng hoc quickly people make money here. In my lost
I m: aborted the profit a man made on the Pale of a piece of land. I
will now ir.ve you another instance. We prepared a conveyance,
about a couple of mouths alp, for the sale of an acre of land in a
village near Adelaide, in which the consideration was not.: another
solicitor in the town hvg just prepared another cm:reprice of the
same piece of land for 3001. This will be en amazingly rich
colony ultimately—copper of the richest quality is being dis-
covered in all parts of the country; and in places
where there was not the slightest idea that any would
be founeL There is also an iminease quantity of building stone here.
Marble also has been fount. A gold and a slicer mine have been dm-
covered; the latter has patd for working, but the former hats not yet
proved profitable. Money is very valuable here; a perm can easily
obtain 20 and 30 per cent. on ample freehold security- for hie money.
You will be able to conjecture what wrists South Anathalians are.
I wish I had a few lotheireas to depase of in this way ; I could Mauro
myself extremely profitable return. What astonishes me the moot
L to see how :he labourers get on. Many by employ log themselves
and others in carrying ore from the mines to the part, in bul-
lock drays, rear 141. and IS. per month. In fact, many
clerks Lava left their situations to join the less respect-
able proteriens of bullock-driven., hutkeepers, shepherds,
Etc. Things, however, cannot long remain in this state; the
enormoua prise el labour will decrease; for it is to he hoped
that thousands of wretched creatures who are dragging out
a miserable exietence in the old country will emigrate to South
Australia. What a pity it is that the maps of individuals that now
fill the unions of Great Britain cannot come out here' It to as-
tonishing to sec bow quickly females get married in Adelaide. When
people obtain good servants they are afraid to let them go to church
or chapel, for fear of their getting engaged. Weddings are a daily
occurrence. There is mike • rush to every emigrant refer that
arrives, in order to secure servant. So independent are the latter,
both male :mu female, that the Legislative Council have intruders-el an
°rein:once by means of which • servant gets severely punished for
neglecting to perform duties he or she earthed to discharge. It in
right to state, luarever, that i y the same ordinance • servant can have
a master punished for in treatment, or a refusal to pay wages. This
ordinance has the effect of pirserv.ng a good understanding between
morel s and servants.
aline's make a great deal of money here. All of them earn
from 21. to 31. • week; and in many MEM, where they have
taken a portion of a mine On tribute, one person has
cleared • lee,/. in a couple of months or so. All keep
their harem; few of them are, however, awing character. They
;V.?, 4rceoplornothiPt%otr".-2..' you may
PMrwtheettllt
a reapeetabe ',creel left all under-seeretarythip worthY:l34:ll. a year to
keep a tavern. Iles predecessor in the tavern came out heretic° years
ago as a common emigrant, and has now made his fortune. The
burrs-burrs, e r monster mine, has made the for tunes of several. I
suppose it has Call 441 a deal of talk in England. A man named
Graham, ales was one ol the earliest settlers here, and who
was a grocer's shopman, invested all his earninge in this
mine the shares of which originally were M. each ; the mine has
only been discovered two years, and Graham le already enurniouely
ricls. The land of the company formed to work this mine rivers a
square mile, and which entirely abounds with copper of surpassing
relines.
One way of making money here, and which is mach in vogue, is by
getting conaignwents d articles that are required by the colonists;
for matance, a consignineat of stationery would pay exceedingly wig:
a t.ersen might realise full • hundred per cent. after payment of
freight and other expenses.
Life and property are exceedingly safe here, although we border on
Van I eiemen's Land. Three months elapse between each session, and
the calendar is in general very light. alto have had ono es ecution
since my arrival here. The culprit was an Englishman, and his
crone was ,hat of murdering a native. The government affords the
utmost protection to the nhorigines; so much so, that it is thought by
many to be too partial to them.
Oar bishop bus just arrived In the Derwent ; the Adetadlans arc
already pr. pewees-sr in his favour. Ills lellow-passengers speak
highly of him. From what we have Wen of him, a better mien could
not have been selected. Ile arrived in town on 27th Dec, and it hap-
pened to be the very day of the anniversary of the formation
of the province. An entertainment was given in the evening at
Government Donee, at which the bishop, of course, was present. Ile
preached at Trinity Church, which is now called the cathedral church
of Trinity, last Sunday foe the [Pettier. Ills text was, "The knowledge
of the Lord shall carer the earth as the waters cover the Kea." in
glancing ut the native children, most of whom are able to join in the
responses as well an the charity children in England, he remarked
that "it was not merely. civilisation that tendod to the rellatoun ad-
vancement of people; emir Aeon might refine vice, but it could not
eradicate it." The bishop has brought out hie wife and are young
daughters; also there clergymen, the archdeacon of the {wo-
re°. his lordship's ehaphan, did another. It was amusing
to hear a passenger in the lierwent describe with what glee, during
the voyage, the bishop, and clergymen who accompanied him, booked
and hauled tip an immense shark. They were practising, doubtless, In
Order to be "fishers of men." We expect our new governor shortly.
It is quite clear we arc thought something of, now, in Downingsstroet,
time we are to have a titled governor, and oar spiritual wants amply
provided fur.
We have disagreeable. to put op with in Adelaide, such as hot
winds,. The heat is sometimes very oppressive, and ie quite equal to
that of India; we hove it now (14th January) uncommonly hot, and
have bad many tremendous hot days this season. The thermometer
for the lest two days has varied from 105 to log in the shade; this i 3
reckoned the hottest weather ever known here. Rome screams have
been laid up, and one or two hove died frorn the effects of the heat,
tripled, perhaps, with that of drink. You may guess, therefore,
that we hare some regular scorches at times. The heat has
knocked up the bishop, and must, I think, asteeish him
and the rest of the new comer,. We scarcely aver ex.
Weis:nee, however, more than one or two very hot
dap at a time; and they are invariably succeeded by cool, refreshing
'bower. sod • beautitid change in the atmosphere. When I left
Engird the weather, I recollect, was very hot; several people were
hid up; the paper, were teeming with complaint. The thermometer
however. did not rimed 06 in the abed,. What was this con
with the weather here, which is 90 after the sun has gone down fa
But
there is nomethir about the purity of the atmosphere in Adelaide
that render" the brat is some degree supportable; but what we have
DOW la • great deal too much for us, and, fortunately for South
Artralia, a rarity.
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.ow I think of it, I must tell you that the letters you sent me,
no noutirematon," did not reach me so quickly r those cent by a
pn rale vessel. It appears that they first reached Singapore, where
try remained some lure, to wait until a vessel sailed to the colonies;
try were then despatched to Sydney, where they remained until a
Tenet sailed from thence to Adelaide. The best plan is to watch the
r*Noll sailing direct for this place, for until there
Ere regularity established, rho orerland route as far
ns Both Australia ismockery,i
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a awe.
cern established between this. and India ; shortly
lve a steam
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