The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-02 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The members of the North Australian Expedi-
tion have returned to Sydney. There does not
seem to be any particular discovery made by them,
geographical or otherwise. They pronounce the
Victoria river navigable, and the district available
for colonisation. But the great interior remains a
terra incognita. The " Australian mystery " re-
mains unveiled, and the field is still open to future
enterprise.
The Melbourne Age says :
We have heard, through a private channel, of the failure
of an establishment in Sydney, xv;icb, if true, will cause
some little stir in this part of the world. Though
we have no reason to doubt the accuracy of our information.
we refrain from more specific reference to it until wo see i
announced in the press. We may add that the catastroph
has been expected for some time:

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ORIENT.

The Orient, Captain Lawrence, which sailed from
Adelaide, South Australia, on the 24th December,
has arrived in the Downs The Orient brings the
following cargo :-2.396 bales wool, 2 194 bags
copper ore, and 3,350 ingots, and 5,347 cakes,
copper, 332 cwt. bones, 20 bales hides, 10 bundles
whalebone, 202 bags bark, and 51 tons loose bark,
5 tons horns, 5 casks tallow, 70 cases wines, and 1
box gold dust.

Our files from Adelaide extend to the 24th Dec.,
from which •tive compile the following summary of
news :

His Excellency the Governor, Sir Richard Mac-
donald, had been very ill, but had slightly recovered,
and, when the Orient left, was progressing
favourably. As announced some time ago, the
South Australian Legislative Chamber had been
dissolved, and it was understood that the
intention of the govenment was to issue
the writs for the new elections in the
first week of February, and to fix the nominations
for the 2nd of March. The Adelaide Despatch
noticing this fact, adds :
Only one day for ALL THE ELECTIONS ! Such is the
arrangement of the Government. The whole of the candi-
dates for both houses are to be balloted into greatness in
the course of or.e happy day ; and this plan of making short
work of it is no doubt the best, considering the dismal kind
of business it is likely to be. No speeches, no brass bands,
and no beer. The glory of the hustings is gone for ever—
" In Venice 'l'asso's echoes are no more." How soon the
writs are to be issued is not stated, nor do the public seem
to care a great deal. If they did, they would show them-
se'ves a• Utile more alive to the necessity of having an
interview with their candidates whilst there is still a chance.

Captain Cadell had finished his task of exploring
the Edward River, and his opinion was favourable
in regard to its navigation. The intrepid explorer
had the Dower from the company, whose agent he
is, to put on a vessel as soon as he thought proper.
He says that there are a great many snags in the
river ; that a thousand pounds would enable him
to get rid of the most prominent, and make the
river capable of navigation for some time to come.
Captain Cadell was highly pleased with the
beantiful district through which the river runs; it
is, to use his own words, " the finest he had seen
in the colonies."

The citizens of Adelaide were agitating the
propriety of having a now powder mugazine.
The shipping statistics of Adelaide, for the year
ending October, 1850, show the arrivals during the
year to be 387 of a tonnage of 106,32 S tons,, with
16,912 passengers. Of these arrivals, 03 ships and
38,738 tons were from Great Britain; 300 ships

and 58,436 tons from British colonies; and 24
ships and 9,154 tons from foreign States. The
de,,,rtures same period ,von. 370 ves.sels, of 99,829
:-.1 5,29'3
0 t,... -roc' w
17, t .no Ago. 5 893; colonial vess, is 318. toinis4.;e,
70,951 ; foreign vess.is, 35, tonnage, 16,881.
With respect to the harvest, a paper of the latest
date says .
We have been informed that some of the farmers to the
northward of Ade!aide have been disappointed in the yield
of their crops. Fields of wheat that looked healthy. anl
heavy when growing, have proved to be seriously injure
by smut and blight—in some casis to such an extent that
at least one..third of the crop has been destroyed. The
particular localities which have been named to us as the
,
scenes of these attacks are the northern portion of
the
Hundred of Porte Adelaide Munn° Para Mudia
and Port Gawler. In the, two last named hundreds a
disease which the farmers know as " ball. smut" has been
particularly destructive. We have been given to unde
stand that none of the diseases mentioned made their
appearance until within three weeks of the ripening of the
crops. The smut appears to have been most prevalent
0
I
crops growing on heavy low lying ground •, the blight
the best high ground, especially were the land has bee*
richly manured. .

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
ADELAIDE, December 29.—The 1 ite advance in sperol
candles in Melbourne has.renewed the enquiry for thecti;
and some are unwilling to take tho same prices that wer,
current a month back. A fair quantit of West India 11't
has lately changed hands, but at low rates, and the marl,
is well supplied. The fl )ur market has settled down to a
reduction that was pending at the close of last wes‘t an
may be quoted at £l6 10 to £l7 for present delivery.

TASMANIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ANTIPODES.

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In
The Antipodes, Captain Grey, has arrived is,
Downs. She sailed from Hobart Town, Taetnita
on the 9th of January, and has made the run h°
in 82 days. Her cargo consists of 92 tons sperm

oil, and 1,907 bales wool. 9th
We have Hobart Town journals to the the
January. Parliament had re assembled after4Bii
Christmas holidays. The business imgledi'oe
before it was of the utmost importance t° no,
colony. The ways and means were under Cn°,oo6
deration, but from all appearances the g0ver117,05%
would meet with much opplsition to its PVSI3.
tions. The Hobart Town Times of the Stu
says fitted for
Some expedient, however, will have to be suhrAitets
meeting the expenditure of the colony. The exlw,ii-theor
is an excess of the receipts. Two methods suggeta-teres
selves. The one is that of borrowing money 012 deb toles'
and at interest • the other is the imposition of net nbjer
Of the two, we 'believe the latter would be much leesh-et.the,
tionable. Either will prove unpopular at firstt,r,--ors'
latter is the cheaper and the better plan by tar. 1,-w/et
otherpt' o ma a tt er
is a perpetual incubus; the other can be removed riot
necessityßesis for t
h therethe iarem
come before the Parliamentspeedily. We do bob
very .
that valuable time will not be frittered away la „in-
t*
discussions of valueless topics raised by professions".gitto
tore, but that the members will lend their untired envies to
to the work before them, allowing d.
no Is
tractio
intervene. 0 Pr°.
of th
A Hobart Town paper, in a resume
gress of the year 1856, contains the following iati▪
oo
In Tasmania the year has been marked by a relt,erte
greater than any other ever likely to occnr in its b 1430-
erfect Loidett
Its polity has undergone a complete and P
formation. Since the beginning of the year ttle4utill
incongruous, and unrighteous polity—with its el`„ as('
irresponsibility, its contempt of popular privilege', the,
denial of British birthrights, its hybrid legislatupasq
mays
oftepoftasysjehlAci,i:
vote
merest mockery of popu:ar covernmenti-3129,0,
away, and is numbered with the things that COI
are not now. A. much sounder and more liperjos °
of government has passed from the realibich
theory to that of active exercise. The princiPlecs
underlie the more approved and truer polity °' th park e
mentary government have not only been asserted
u/000.
people's representatives, but are become the !eye 00,
lodged principles of our government. We "'got°
hybrid legislature now, where crown nominees °„"istifee"
the stronger, and outwitted the weaker rePrese" p rer,r
—we have not now a Legislative Council, Whotnttic
gative may be disputed with impunity by presiliaber '
officials ; we have a Parliament whose every lee,'"of tb°
elected, and by which virtually the Governmn!re hge
colony is carried on. The year that is now closl t'sorOt:
seen this 'evolution effected, not, it is true, withennoie,w
difficulty and at some cost, yet, on the whole, as 4 Ve
as could have reasonably been expected',4ooo_l
already reap some benefits from the 04,'03,
We have but little fear for the future. The 01011
had much to contend ." ith during the last twelleetioo,if
b
Tee depression in commercial circles, the sta erti.lturs4,
our trade, and other such difficulties, t,lned
tended to make men captious, quarrelsome' do 7,00
fled. But the colony will right itself. Tia3e. -c„ffers " 0
,
to effect a cure for many of the evils that 100,0$0
at present. The operation of known nature. „
improved land system, a greater modificatimht eedfi;i;
Masters' and Servants' Aet, patience. and earn it to be fe
yours on the part of the colony itself, cannot fa —e bs
about a far better state of things. At any cannot
not now a government to blame, except for past
for the future we shall govern ourselves.

NEW ZEALAND. ,he 161/1
D jeJ. We
haveeNm.b amadpvbi ceselilsv,
e Efrom
sci New Zeal a n d t ° i'..
tat
Auckland, and Major Nugent had left
land on a visit to England.late • halo Oil;
ri The provincial council at Taranaki l'
alised the superintendent for dissolat oport
was anxious to give the constituency aiw
rcii ol
tunity of considering whether they W° al ansaf
the working out of extensive denartgle" of 1)%0
financial alterations to the present, or a no tliro
of provincial representatives. The cause 6alieh
tv
e
changes was the cession by t bod
Assembly of the control over waste lau S to
provincial assemblies.