The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-30 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

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The White Star clipper Red Jacket, Captain
O'llailorae, belonging to Meseta. Pilkington and
Wilson, of Liverpool, arrived in the Mersey yesterday
afternoon from Melbourne, with advice. frees Mel-
bourne !o the 2od of October, making the voyage in
eighty-tight data, She brought 200 paesergeee mad
133,000 °mice, of gold, valued at 632,0001. The
latest advice, from England were to the Bth of Jell,
brought out by the Royal Mail ship Morning Light,
Capt. Gitlin, of the Black Ba:i ::ce, which made the
passim lc 73 days.

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The following vessels had arrived out :—Sept. 6:11,
°aiding Star; 7th, Viototy and Rimini; 10th, Tem-
perly and Brilliant; 12th, Murcia; 14th, Vic.oris ;
16th, Czar, Admiral, and Athlete; 17th, Moses
Davenport; 22nd, Derwent ; 24th, Collie Mulzi•
sad Itlotintain Maid, all from London. Sept. 4;h,
Ellen; 5:11, British Trident ; 9:la, Stn. De Salaterry
and Griden Bra; 10th, Tornado; 12th, Almirn and
&mash; 17th, Saldanha (RM.S.) and Morning
Light, from Liverpool. Sept. 6:h, Quern of the
btu, from New Yak.
The dates per the Red Jacket see—Meibourne
am. 2; Sidney, Sept. 24 ; Adelaide and Hobart
Town, 22 ; Launceston, 23, and New Zeeland, Sept. 3.
Tne uews by the N. d Jacket is • fortnight later
this by the True Briton.
The Medbourne Journal of Commerce says:
From British and from foreign pert' arrivals have been
ea a Kale !sips without precedent eine. 1853, and there was
a period during the month when :he enormous itflaz of
ipping which a suceeesion of Lvostrable winds brought I
into port dry after day so paralysed both seller, and buyer
as almost to induce fa panic, and of a sadden and
serious reduction in the vellum mc! of our staple imports.
The season of the year, and the local incidents of a general
election, were features peetiliarly unfavourable tuwarda
re-usuring holders, who hued stocks suddenly increased
beyond all caleolation or espeetstics, at a time when bad
roadie, heavy weather, and electioneering incitement had
gat as emire stop to balsam. Well-timed entidenee I.
the refSOTCOM of oar market, and prudent diacritics on the
pert of car large importers, restored confidence, and then
tears gradually masers as an me:sional glimpse of Rae
weather, 05W and again throughout the mouth, eel oa hot a
partial so.crentry descend, and ineutrd a belief that the
spring tcsle had communed. Thin cheered by as over
swam resumption of &mond, our market has dragged ea
through the dullest scum of the year, ander the pressure
of very heavy arrivals, without giving way te anythiag like
that sit et which might have been impacted ; and it may
fatly h. pr. lamed toot the grins which have cool the Gat
01 PO Inn! a season of inactivity will now rally and hordes
ender tae Balance of a steady, wive, and legitimate
demand frm the Istria' districts. Such, indeed, is our
opinios, bet we meet modify it by simnel; that a bat very
few cruel., do we lock for any improvement es today'.
value, and those acieles are mostly of Enter., not British,
prodtee. We aisle it, iedeld, wonderful that penes are
nalutsined at the pretest point, and it must chlrfly be
attributed to the Annum sad spirit of out large import
Inane, ribs, by withdrawing and storing a very Inge
quantity of goods, have encouraged and strengthened
'miller end feebler holden, who would otherwise Lan
nine 1 the market by forced minion sales. which, Ming
into arenas the large snivels, have been comparatively
few, it we malt the two ankles of better and boots sad
show
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Sash beteg the ewe, lead Ist' shiniest@ not having pee
fate idea: eine...pion, ft may esely be inferred that
soaks in town ere inassally and eatreordicadly levee—
heavier, radian*, than at any former period of the edit.
ease of it. eilooy : and as arrivals will teatimes large, it
will he matter *sough for cospetelatioa U without any
peoportiorate increase of immigration prices are =demised
at the pretest pint. It is oar opiolos that they will der,
sad we believe Ibis opinion to be generally eonearred la,
altheegh with typed to the spirit Market views differ, it
bdag stated that exports have been se lug* that prices
mast fall. We think, however, thee the much diminished
stocks of spirits is Sydney sad Hobart Town will an
expert from this eoloay the Roamed prim here give way ;
sad notwithstandieg the expressed views of many parties
who are capable of jade's& we do not believe in sty se-
rieesfell. Formerly, under the impressioa that sharps
were exorbitantly high la Heiken', and property
not so safe here, nor commercial stability as
✓icer* as is the older and aelglitoariag colony of New
South Wales, very ;erg* shipmeats were made to Sydney
which eventually found their way here. It has now bosoms
recognised fa Europe, as it has loop slam bees la the
United States, that bedsits hare Is conducted (Dojo* ea safe
a basis r in the other colonise, whilst !Aldine articles always
erimeasnd 16 to 20 per mat. more, and that thls city a by far
the most drivable market. The import trade is sow andel-
going a very grad change, the effect' of whieb have sot
bees perceived, and are not fully developed. Oar imports
from the neighbzurieg colonies are declining every wish is
vales, gad oat *sports are Amassing, sod Holborn* is fast
becoming the central emporium for the *apply of the 'sigh-
boating colonies, instead of being, as heretofore, die general
terminus towards whisk • very groat portion of the imports
of New booth Wales, Tanzania, and South Australia was
eventually attracted. The diminution of exports from
Orest Britain to those colonies will account fee the lemon
to Victiria ; and, looking at it in this light, we do set reel
90 much alarmed at the greatly-ietreased operettas' to this
colony, and thick rather that they will iodate to the greater
stability end prosperity of Victoria, by renderleg bee the
chief emp.Aisna of commerce in the Astral m, and to which
she is fairly entrled by bar central 'Audios, greeter wealth,
*Ad larger ooesurnleg Fewer,.
The aseoupentent of the resamption of steam communi-
cation with England, by as independent MITTiCIP by way of
Saes, has been received here with satisfastioa, but so
puled expression cf opinion with regard to die mods, of
file particular lip has trenspired, as the public tavoar
whisk this service most enjoy will doped more es the
efidesey of the steamers employed this is the Wadies
of say particular roots.
Daring the month another distract for 'railway play, ea
tangs identical with the last, bat to an swam% et 200,0001,
hssbeon disportel of by leader, by the railway board, sad
le this ice:ascii Messrs. De Ems Brothels have again
been the succeeefal teaderen—payleg the goverameat a
seminal bonne of 1061. for the adjadicatient of the oestreet,
aad thus bulldog the prat. arising thereteena to the eon-
minion resulting fret the ship' besieges is seasealom with
it, sad which ire estimated at faUy 6 tAr sash es an smut
pasty approaching to that of the extract Itself.
By the Wooga Wasp, wraith had arrived at !labour's,
Sydney papers to the 214 k Septestscr had been reseived.
There ere not say disuse reported in the markets, bat
mach Incitement was minima smug the =manta* inte-
rest by the propeaitioa of the givernment to emend the
Caelown Miff over timber, from, odd, oil, Sear, psis, tar,
besides an imposition of a general duty of 10s. per ton es
peeksger, without diserindeation. At the Chamber of
Cesionroo a public meeting had bees held, sad • issoletion
unaiumouely adopted, to the effect that to most the preset
eakencies of the public service, sad until the tariff can be
miatueely revised, direct tamales would be Isle objecticsable
than the 'Miaow now proposed.