The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-12 00:00:00

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

We have Hobart Town papers to the Ist April, by
the Tasmania, and Launceston to the 28th March, by
the T. and 1. Crisp, arrived at Weymouth. The
principal information furnished in them is ample de-
tails as to the gold dascoveries:—
" All doubts (says the Hobart Town Guardian) are
now at an end; the sparkling gems of Tasmania are not
inferior in quantity or quality. According to latest ac-
counts the latter prospect is such as to warrant and en-
courage extensive mining operations. We are the last,
and may nut be the least, in respect to gold discoveries
in the Australian hemisphere. Wo have seen a beautiful
sample of the gold found at Tulloclegoram, sent to town
yesterday; and a Scotch shepherd, who had been to
Mount Alexander, and a little experienced in washing,
got an ounce of gold last Wednesday, a few pieces of
which were as large as cherry stones, at our new dig-
gings. There are now at least two hundred men at
work, and we have little doubt we shall be enabled in
our next issue to lay some cheering news before our
readers respecting our new discoveries. Parties who re-
turned on Saturday evening trom the Fingal diggings
bring no favourable report. There is, however, a con-
viction in the minds of some that gold will be got in
safticiant quantities to make mining operations for gold
a regular business, this climate not being subject to the
vicissitudes of Port Philip. It is admitted there are
indications of the precious metal from Fingal to Avoca,
and, under proper and judicious management, gold in
large proportions would soon be discovered. Some con-
tend teat the best plan would be to raise a fund of some
two cr three hundred pounds in Launceston, and send
out four working parties properly equipped for every
emergency, and let them work with a combined concen-
tration of purpose. This plan would succeed; but those
who
on tiore." wrk and go a prospecting at their
own expense
so

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An assosiation to promote
daring the Exhibition of the Works ohiect was formed
of Industry of all
Nations, ineluding among its ks
rnmeetabers many of the
Foreign Commissionnra. At a
Tuesdeating held at the house
of the SThoicty of Arts, on
August loth, the
adopted:—
following resolutions were unanimouslyy
cuiaintiornavthat all the argu-
" That it 4ppears lo this association
ny..nts used by Mr. Rawland
of an unif,;rin rate of. poAtige apply eer°t:ki.r2r the justice
of lett R —rd.
and pronatq to fore;gn correspondence. l'ul
to "I°aial
6, Dint the east of coareyance, as watt proved by m
Rowleid Hill, depends noon the number
not upon the distance; and' that therefore the jucts..-1 and
uniform rate is evident. -10 a of
" 11.-it the I.loCCiAtion welcomes the recognition of
this principle in the recent adonticioof unilorm rates for
printed papers to BOCC, cf our cni:n7s.
" That the simplicity end coDvonionce of prepayment
also appear to apply to colonial and foreign corre-
spondence."
Tho Right Hon. the Earl Gr inville has consented to
become president of the association.

SCOTTISH CIOITHAL RAILWAY.--TraffiC for the
ending Aar, 8, 1852
_ .

Passengers (19,727), parcels, horses,
and carriages 16
2.4
Goods, cattle, &c. 749 1:3

Total .. 2.538 9
Corresponding week in last year... 2,0.i6 2 0
Perth, Aug. 11, 1852.

I" ' -
(aTb2.IOUTH RAILWAY AND DOCJ
ACCONLUODATION.
(FArtomth:hte, Portsmouth Times and Naval Gazette.)
by two
moment the town of Portsmouth is
sambas,)._.•!vo_lines of railway, the South-Western
. statal,eoast; rhe former leaving Waterloo-
britißema Wiehester anal
taking a circuitous western route
95 miles ; the latterßishop's Stoke to Portsmouth, in
takinglt leaving the London-bridge sta-
tion
not. Brig Both I.lllreeluidistant eastern route via
se approach Portsmouth by a
common route from
diverge, the one to p:),: "iii, at which point they
the other to Hiving.
As far as Havant, clit, nott.;.aul
a Portsmouth and London line. the South Coast is
making the
by means of a
we and the South-Wester_ 'ee• On the London side
bbereiziaentothGatodtoalwaininagn,amLoitndgonthe distance 34 miles
projectedmore between
that no
Portsmouth and London would
Railw;:y to Havant Or Bedbanapton, and t?nnthsCoast
Weqern frAn Goda!ming to London. " The distance:l)ntli-
between Havant and Godalming, following
the
/east expensive route to most
practicable and
east of PeterAeld, is 31 miles over an easy tract 1
of country, eingularly free from objections arising
from resident proprietors. Tile line would
accommodate p,t„,r3licid, Midnurst, HaFlenacre,
and Petvvorth,d
to eitherbe place at a small cost-. A
branch to Alton would meet the wishes of the Great
Western, in exten.io of th,3;r lint' from Basingstoke,
and
would at the same'ntime go' lar to devolop the pro.
ject a the North-We
from Fenny Stratford4e•rri7orderinei'avoid the carriage
of goods through Lontioinn. r to
dPrstood that an
arrangement, or rather a
tacitt 19 un -
q iescence, exists
between the South-Western nd Southaca C(.iast Com-
pani?s to the effect that neithera
v shall origi-
nate aline of railway, over the ehemparilh,ermediate
country; but the interests of the South-Westernetitra i.
~....,
so immediately concerned in the n_a21.121:
t4nance- of a proj-ct which woulddopation and m. I a
large amount of traffic over 34 raili.sef
their tonce bring
to the permanent exclusion of the South Coast
trunk line,
though bey may ": personally ,_ uoast, that al-
"'° disposed to take