The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-01 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

The following particulars are from Mr. Khull'e gold
circular of the Ist and Bth of September :

WEEK ENDING SEPT. 1.

The escorts have brought from—
Mount Alexander and Bendigo 20,716
Ballarat, including Geelong 16,515
Mary borough
The Ovens 6,881

Daisy-hill
M`lvor
Avoca

1,83
1,743
278

5G,394 and year 1,331,933

Gold shipped in 1855 1,585,626
Per Wong& Wonga, to Sydney
Per White Star, to Liverpool
Per British Trident, to Calcutta ..
Per Lady Bird, to Launceston . 8
Per Burra Burra, to Adelaide
Per City of Sydney, to Sydney

WEEK ENDING SEPT. 8.
The escorts have brought-from—
Mount Alexander and Ben- oz.
digo
Ballarat, including Geelong 19,•232
Maryborough 8,04
Daisy-hill .
Avoca BOO

1,671,879

-- oz.
Amount this week 51,361 and yoar 1,383,344

Gold shipped in 1855
Per Hannah and Hong Kong
Per Telt graph, to Sydney ,
Per Merlin, to Calcutta

1,671,879
822
2,000
1,163

1,675,8 4

The difference between 56,394 ounces and' 51,361
ounces is not a falling off, as the Ovens escort is only
once a fortnight, and you will observe that the Ovens
escort added 6,884 ounces to the first amount. The
averlke makes our export of gold about 11,000,000/,
a-year.
Freight, exchange,. and insurance remain unchanged.
The price of gold is 765. to 764. 3d,
The White Star had on board 85,196 ounces, of
which the following amounts were shipped by the seve-
ral banks :

Bank of Australasia

Bank of New South Wales
Union Bank of Australia
Bank of Victoria
London Chartered Bank
Oriental Bank Corporation

Ounces.
20,000

_ 15,016
_ 15,000
_ 11,001
_ 9,189
- 3,467

73,702

The net increase of our population by excess of
arrivals over departures has not been very great during
the test two weeks. It was 816 for the week ending
the Ist of September, and only 313 last week—making
41,201 for the year.
Since the above particulars repeating the last week's
arrivals of gold per escorts were made uo, the Ovens
escort has arrived with 6,691 ounces. The shipments
by the Kent will be about 130,000 ounces, and it is
generally anticipated that exchange will decline 1 or 2
per cent.
On Sunday evening an extensive fire broke out at
Sandridge; where the Bay terminus of the Melbourne
and Hobson's Bay Railway is situated.
The fire broke out in the upper floor of the Ship Inn,
a brick building, and soon spread to a long wooden
bowling-alley attached to the inn, These bowling alleys,
by the way, introduced by the Americans, are as popular
here as in New York. From the bowling alley it spread
to a large shipchandler's store, also. of wood, the pro-
perty of Inglis, Adams, and Graham. Here a large
stock of goods was destroyed. The other buildings de-
stroyed were May's butcher's shop, Brown Brothers'
shipchandlery store, the London Restaurant, the Chusan
Boarding-house, Dawson's hairdresser's shop, two cigar
shops, a general store, and some smaller buildings. All
these, except the Ship Inn, were of wood. Liardet's
Hotel bears a charmed life ; it was licked by the flames;
but, having ()lily one window on the side nearest the con-
flagration, the engines kept it from igniting. The value
of property destroyed is estimated at about 20,0001., of
which not more than 6,0001. or 7,0001. is covered by
insurance.

Within the last week a little note of preparation for
the new constitution has Veen sounded. Orders have
been issued to the colonial engineer to inspect and sur-
vey the Queen's Theatre, with a view to its conversion
into an " Upper House."

NEW SOUTH WALES.
(Prom, the Sydney Morning Herald of the Bth of Sept.)
With the opening of summer the produce of onr gold
fields promises to be more abundant, and the full prices,
according to careful assay, given at the Sydney branch of
the Loyal Mint, offer every encouragement to our gold
miners. The western and southern escorts arrived
this morning, and delivered at the Colonial Trea-
sury the following quantities of gold dust :—From
the western fields, 1,626 oz, 18 dwts. 16 grs.
—namely, from Bathurst, J 27 oz. ; Sofala, 546 oz.
19 dwts. 16 gni. ; Tambaroora, 211 oz. 19 dwts. ;
Avisford, 683 oz. 16 d wts. ; Louisa Creek, 57 oz. 4
dwts. From the southern fields, 1,378 oz. 9 dwts. 6
grs.—namely, from Goulburn, 489 oz. 13 dwts. 12 grs. ;
Braidford, 849 oz 15 dwts. 18 grs. ; Major's Creek, 39
oz. The total amount of go!d dust received by both
escorts was 3,005 oz. 7 dwts. 22 grs.
The amount of gold dust imported into the Sydney
Branch of the Royal Mint, for the purpose of coinage,
during the week ending to-day, has been 1,699 ounces.
The Mint issued to-day 13,000 sovereigns.
In tallow the market is extremely dull, presenting a
marked contrast to the activity, attended with high
prices, which we have so lately reported.