The Express.
London, England, 1856-09-12 00:00:00

AUSTRAL TA.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
TH3 NEW GOLD YIELD.

By the packet ship Sardinian we have advice' from
Sydney of the 21st of June, a date 14 days later than
that of advice* previously to hand. The chief intel-
ligence from New South Wales is that of the disco-
very, in the first week in June, of a new gold field in
the Wellington district which promises to become
one of great importance. The Sydney Horning
Herald states that for some mouths previously parties
had been digging on Stoney Creek, and the Splitter
Gully there paid very well, as also did the surfacing
in mental places ; but owing to the small population
the place never got properly prospected ; a hole wad
put down here and there, and the place pronounced
"no good." About fifty people were on the Creek
when the new diggings were struck : by June 10
the population was over 300, people were arriving
from all directions daily, and a great deal of gold
wu being got. The locality ot the new " rush "
is the head of the Stockyard Creek, about five
or six miles from the old Iduckawa Dig-
ging', and twenty-five miles from Wellington. In
the first bole bottomed was found a nugget weighing
eight ounces, and several ounces of smaller gold ; the
next hole down got nine ounces off the bottom, about
four feet 'quire (the sinking is about five or six feet);
in the latter claim a day or two afterwards was found
a most magnificent specimen, weighing 25 entices,
and containing, at the very lowest, 18 ounces of pure
gold. Nuggets are found in all directions up and
down the principal gully, varying from a penny-
weight to 13 ounces; and so far as the gully has yet
been opened, a distance ot over a mile, five boles in
every seven will pay for working. Besides the chief
diggings, several other gullies have been tried and
very handsome prospects obtained. Water will be
in abundance for the next few months, and there is
every prospect of a very extensive and rich field for
the enterprise of the miner.
A correspondent of oar Sydney contemporary
write" from tne sew diggings :

During *me years past7in the trainee of Victoria, tkia
writer never saw • finer lookieg gold country than 'gists
between Ophir and Stoney Creek, both for the simple gig-
vial operations and the more scientific machinery required
for the quarts reef. The abundance of the quarts is truly
anacishirg ; on every ridge and every spur the quartz reef
crop out on all sides ins manner calculatid to turn the brain
of a Mount Blackwood man. Hundreds upon hundreds of
most promising studies are to be f.unel with the turf un-
turned ; try almost where you will you find specks of gold
upon the surface; every indication of vast auriferous de-
posits awaiting the entert rise of th 3 miner; and in the
midst cf ell this not five thousand miners in ten hundred
miles Oh, that twenty thousand of ,he hardy and teethe,
men who are toiling in the ezhausted filets of Part Phillip
were here, and • gold fiel l would yet be found in New
South Wales that would astonish the world.
. .

The Lang party bad sustained an overwhelming
defeat in the result of the Sydney Hamleteelection,
which shows a &majority of 3;0 votes fur Mr. Do-
naldson over the reverend doctor's candidate, Mr. J.
Campbell. At the nomination, the show of hands
was in favour of the prime minister. The lleraid
remarks : " The result is, that the most populous
metropolitan district is in favour of the ministry
two to one—th►t it, in favour of a fair trial." Two
other members of the new ministry had been re-
elected without acontest, viz., Mr. 0. R Nichols, for
the Northumberland boroughs, and Mr. J. Mscarthnr,
for West Camden. In the North Riding of Cumber.
land Mr. Duvall was opposed by Mr. Patrick
gan, and the result of the contest was not known.

GOLD IN TASMANIA.
By an advertisement which appe.rs in our columns, it
will be observed that the committee which bee been ap-
ported in Hobart Town, to conduct the prosecution of the
search for gald in Tasmania, is in want of lot) practice/
diggers worried to work at the Finual gold field'," like.
in return for their complaisance, are to receive all aorta of
things, and ell gratis, tied more than to ie, etc to keep all the
gala they get, and more than tti, "gUn, ere to hate the
co•nee of a .lire of 10 0001 , • reward fund. N ,w, here's •
cheer. f, r Bend g r e g.ors, with no particular attachment
to the place, and an enormous aequirviveneAp. They may
bate all the g.ld they get at Fiegal. Why, the Hart taps.