The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

THE GOLD REGIONS.

The further accounts from Australia yesterday
created great interest, and are fully borne out by the
private advices received in the City. Both in New
South Wales and Victoria the general success of the
miners seems to have been uninterrupted; but it
is in the latter colony that the most striking
results have been realized. In the week ending
the 12th of December the amount of gold brought
to Melbourne under escort was 23,000 ounces,
and, coupled with what was also brought by
private hands, the total value was supposed
to have been equivalent to little short of 100,000/.
New deposits of great richness had been discovered, and
it was found almost impossible to retain any one at an
ordinary occupation. A recommendation from the
Lieutenant-Governor for a large increase in the pay of
all the inferior Government employes had been carried
by a vote of 17 to 12. Instances of disappointment, it is
alleged, were hardly known. The daily influx of new
comers, however, promised to put the permanent na-
ture of the yield to a strong test. Under the
circumstances the Government had resolved to double
the charge for license fees, and it was now therefore
raised to 31. It was also to be enforced from all persons
in profitable employment at the mines, such as tent-
keepers, cooks, &c., irrespective of their not being en-
gaged in the search for gold. Some doubt was enter-
tained whether these alterations would be submitted to,
and it is obvious that even if such should be the case for the
moment there will be ultimately great risk in carrying
attempts of this kind too far. From Sydney the
dates are to the 19th December, being six days later
than the previous advices. There was continued
activity at the old points of operation, and at the
same time the experience of each day seemed to
show more conclusively the large extent of the lo-
calities yet to be occupied. Mr. Hargraves, the
original discoverer, had returned to Sydney on the
12'eh December, after an abEence of six months on a
tour of exploration, during which be had gone over
about 3,000 or 4,000 miles. His report was in the
hands of the Governor, but its nature had not trans-
spired. Among some new regulations issued by the
Government was a clause specifying the terms upon
which, as regards license-fees, steam might bo employed
in working a claim. An engine of one-horse power was
to rank as equal to the labour of seven men. The most
remarkable piece of gold discovered within the last
few days has been a " nugget" of 281 b. 505.,
which lied been purchased by Mr. G. A. Lloyd
.for
1,155/. The amount brought by the present vessel,
the Alert, is 128,000/., and large sums would follow by
each succeeding. opportunity. Within the last few
weeks there had been a better demand for flour, in
consequence of doubts whether supplies would not be
wanted in Victoria, from an inability to secure the
crops in that colony. In New South Wales the
wheat had been got in after a very fine
season, and it was also believed that the clip of
wool would be secured. Labour, however, was be-
coming very dear, as the average yield at the mines
was 31. per man per week, and persons could obtain 21.
per week and ratioss by taking hire there. A dispatch
has just arrived from the Home
lsa place Government, revokingtoh
whie
the order making New South Wales
convicted criminals might be sent. It was immediately
forwarded by the Governor to the Legislative Council,
and was received with loud cheers.

" THE RUSSIA
we are
haunted by an epidemical.
Every now and thten. NS ARE COMING r
w some one starts up and calla
newspaper press joins in the
fright in this country. "iris coming!" At this, great alarm
out, "Old Bogy
ad the
spreads abroad,
earsa ago it was` The The Russians !" " They
pal" some„y.d
are coming by the Dardanelles!"
some, " through the Kattegat!"
re are about to strike a blow at our Indian
.12gT.beYsel
q h•v are coin'
coming through the Khyber Pass!"
Empire! .2-4CRusso-phobia the alarmingly set in, until it
And then
replaced by the Franco-phobia, which seized upon
Oat)rttehheerrcsso,,n3,i,
...bey
was
the nation so soon as the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Francis Head had penned their famous " alarms."
Then the cry changed to " The French are coming!
They
aro coming across from Boulogne! From Har-
fleur! From Calais:" That alarm, too, passed by, and
it has been stilled for a time by the pacific influence of
the Great Exhibition. What the next alarm may be,
who knows? Perhaps " The Russians" again! Some-
thing in the Old Bogy style from afar off. Yet " The
Russians are among us, and we know it not;" or if not
Russians or Cossacks, then something even more dan-
gerous. They are in our midst! In the streets! In
the bye-lanes! In the market-places! In prisons!
Everywhere! We mean the dangerous classes ; in
other words, the uncared-for classes,—whom well-con-
ditionedeet people shun, whom few but policemen
police-courts know anything or care anything
invaded
These are " The Russians" who have alreadye
found .
menabout.
our great towns and cities, and who areetowebede atmid-
night even remote country places, scouring th
as they do,
way into the workhouse, but hating restraint,
0,4 .
mg abroad
those Cossacks of civilization prefer wis
.....
for game. Many of them occasionally fled their
Journal.
in all the freedom of vicious ig
_____.—.....
heeanee. Eliza Cook's

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon. at Buckingham Palace.
The Earl of Malmesbury had an audience of her Majesty.
Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., had an audience of the Queen
and kissed hands, on being appointed her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation. Sir Charles
was presented by the Earl of Dialmesbury, secretary of State
for Foreigh Afairs.
Her Majesty gave audience to Sir John Pakington, and
the Earl of Lonsdale.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Frat lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
the President of the Board of Trade, the Postmaster-Gene-
ral, the Chief Commissioners of Public Works and Build-
ings, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and
, the Master of the Horse.
Sir John Dodson, Dean of the Arches, and Judge osfwu _t_hrne
Prerogative Court, was, by command of the Queen, ,
of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and too.
his eeat at the B giving A
proclamation was ordered to be issued for
cur-
rency to a new coinage of florins.
i t appointmenttee was
approved Education
in Council.
"was the Clerk of the
' The Honourable William Bathurst
Council,
Colonel
Committee
e
Council in waiting. After t_il,3
Derby had an audience of the
byeQhe Treasurer of
ot:
theof by membersher Mat If tthve new
the Home-
lier Majesty was attended ~
CL'amptroller of the Rouse-
hold, the Vice-Chamberlaine,
1 Gold Stick in Waiting, the
hold, the Marquis of Aug _ejsYLug,
Earl of Verulam, Lord in w
N. Hood, Groom in Wiln6.ce Albert, accompanied 3 prince
His Royal Highnesce
Leopold of Saxe c
Serene Highness Prim _ . g
(Master-General
Coburg, and at-
Viscount Hardin e aster-General of the
tended by
and Lieutenan- Colonel Fr '
Ordnance), . alum Hugh Seymour,
ham Palace at
ten o'el I,
left Bucking clock yesterday morning
for Woolwich.
thethe 1 Icon. Ear, l
A.
The two Princes returned to Buckingham Palace soon
after two o'clock.
Committee of the Royal
A Commi Commission for the Exhibition
of 1851 had a meeting yesterday
afternoon, at half-past four
o'clock, at Buckingham Palace; his ' " Royal Highness Prince
Albert presiding. The other Committee
were Earl Granville, the • members of the
M.P. Sir William C h*
e, Right Hon. William E. Gladstone,
u itt, and Mr. Thomas F. Gibson.
The meeting broke up at a quarter-past six o'clock.
Queen had a d'yesterday at Duckingham
rAwc. dinner party