The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

WHAT THE SIDNEY PAPERS ARE

FULL OF.
The file of a Sydney daily paper, since the cone,
mencement of gold discoveries, is quite a study for phi.
losophers. . . . In one week, fur example, twenty-
five thousand pounds worth of gold has come to town,
against which uprises a whole ale and retail grocer,
who advertises that " Economy is a sure road to a Gold
Field," and requests the public to look rather to his teas
and coffees. Then our English eyes do, indeed dwell
a little on his list, when we remember our own taxes,
and see that the gold diggers may buy gunpowder tea
at two shillings a pound, and sugar at twopence. No
wonder that they make their tea in kettles. The next
weekly Gold Circular tells us e‘f fifteen thousand pounds
worth that has come in by Government escort—an un-
popular, because a dear conveyance, the charge being
one per cent.; and, as for the gold privately transmit-
ted, adds the Circular, " When we know of one man
bringing down a thousand ounces in a horse-collar, it
is impossible to state correctly what may come into
town." On the same day, a draper declares that he is
determined to sell ten thosuscarnidficpeo,un„distwbeoirnthg epfehriaebeetlry-
dashery at an alarming a
evident that at the present time it is the only means by
which a trade can be done, "—and so on. In the same
a
paper there is advertised number one of a new perio-
dical, to be called the Golden Age; and another book-
seller announces as the only readable
book ever
published in Australia, ' The Gold Calculator; or,
Diggers' and Dealers' Ready .Wekoner.' " That being
tiA
the humour of Arai ho
an autrs,
musician u-rs, in the same good causen " The Ophir
of
Schottische;" while the public is
s ainnd ye
raaridolus e
places
e s
strongly recommended to buy pumps
In another paper we are told of the first passage of " the
gold coach" through a private village, and of the
conseq tent defection of the labourers. In the same
paper we have news from Mount Alexander that might
well turn the head of any villager. One person left
Melbourne on Saturday, and returned on the Monday
week following, bringing fourteen pounds weight of
gold with him, dug up by himself. Another man,
after working ten days, brought batik twenty-two
pounds weight. A friend of mine, a gentleman who
only went to see, was anxious to try his luck, and
begged a dishful of earth, to have, as he thought, a few
grains to take home with him ; a few minutes washing
gave him nearly two ounces of gold." 'lhe gold at
Mount Alexander, the richest field discovered yet, lies
near the surface. Two men there obtained four hundred
ounces in three weeks. As for the weekly Gold
Circular, at Sydney,
shipment, we could counitt gets
thevalpuoeectifcal poetical:—" In ouro‘ldinpoufinrdsat
sterling by hundreds; in a few weeks it rose to
arehu fastndr hundreds
o f
thousands."
thousands; in a few weeks more it became tens of
approachingthou-
sands; a period
Awt htheen e
timeha cand
shipsa n d
wills;
and
we
convey
when that was written—on December sixth—in the very
few months since the digging was commenced, there
been shipped from Australia, gold to the value of three
hundred and twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and
ninety seven pounds; and since that time the yield of
gold has been increasing. At the same time, California
and the field of gold in Russia
choans
ei nun,
aersg
endn.e_x hpa uicskteends,,
s llousehold Words.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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