The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-27 00:00:00

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.
By the clipper ship Marco Tolo, Captain Forbes,
we have advices from Melbourne to the 11th of
October. The Marco Polo sailed from Liverpool
on the outward passage on the 4th of July, and
made her run in 68 days ; she sailed from Mel-
bourne on her return on the 11th of October, and
has thus made the voyage out and home in the un-
precedented space of five months and 21 days.
The screw steamer Australian sailed from Mel-
bourne for England, with the mails and 156,0001.
of gold, 11 days before the Marco Polo ; she had
arrived at Adelaide, and was to leave that port on
the 4th of October, with an addition of 65,000 oz.
of gold dust. The Marco Polo passed Bank's
Straits on the 12th of October • on the 17th sighted
the Falkland Islands, thence -Co Cape Horn, which
she sighted the 3d of November. Had fine weather.
The sth of November passed Staten Island • the
19th of December passed a longboat painted ;tone-
colour, with a red riband and black gunwale ; same
time saw a bark apparently abandoned, showed
blue lights, and fired six 'rockets, but receiving no
answering signal, proceeded. The longboat hailed
from Leith, the name of the ship she belonged to
commenced with the letter L.
The floods on the Turon had not subsided suffici-
ently to allow the proprietors to commence opera-
tions with any degree of spirit. The mines shoived
no symptoms of exhaustion, but, on the contrary,
every week announced the discovery of some new
locality containing gold. On Church-hill, in dry
diggings, some claims had yielded, while others
barely paid expenses.
At Tambourara the yield continued good not-
withstanding the difficulty arising from a super-
abundance o water. At Tuena many parties were
making from 60 to 70 ounces per week. The num-
ber of miners was increasing, and success appeared
pretty general. Major's-creek diggers were realis-
ing well.
The accounts from Bingara are contradictory ;
some personshadbeen exceedingly successful, whilst
others were disappointed.
Not less than 30,000 persons had arrived at
Forest-creek in a fortnight, many of them from the
Bendigo diggings. This influx was occasioned by
the discovery of at Moonlight Flat, a gully
about a mile and three-quarters from Forest-creek,
which had proved richer than any previous.
Every consumable article was rising at Forest-
creek ; oats were selling at from 3/. ss. to 31. 10s.
per bushel ; flour, 141. to 15/. per bag ; and sugar,
is. 6d. to ls. 9d. per lb. ; for stools and cradles ex-
traordinary prices were asked.
At Sydney exchange on London was as fol-
lows :-Draughts against gold 10 per cent. ; dis-
count by the Bank of New South Wales, on an ad-
vance of 40s.
The total amount of gold shipped from Sydn
to the 2d of October was 2,474,6271. The escort'
from Braidwood had brought in 489 ounces ; from
Azalrun, 260 ounces ; Bell-creek, 50 ounces ; Goul-
burne, 12 ounces 2 • Sofola, 102 ounces ; Bathurst,
47 ounces ; and Nass, 45 ounces.
At Melbourne hay was selling from 161. to 181.
per ton ; Hamburgh butter, at is. lid per lb. ;
bacon at ls. Id. per lb ; Glocester cheese, at ls. 6d.
per lb ; tobacco, 3s. sd. per lb. ; silver watches,
41. 2s. 6d. ; serge shirts, 375. per dozen ; axes,
3s. 3d. each ; draught-horses, from 701. to 90/. ;
drays and harness, from 821. to 1301. • working
bullocks from 171. to 351. per pair ; much cows,
from 41. to 81.
Adelaide advices of the 4th of October state that
there had been great excitement in the market
that day. Numerous orders had arrived from
Melbourne. The price of flour at the opening of
the market was 26/. ; it rose to 301., and at the
close was at 291.
Most of the expired licences to work at the
Echunga diggings, near Adelaide, had been re-
newed and many fresh ones taken. The number
of diggers amounted to about 500.