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AUSTRALIA.

The arrival of the remaining portions of,the
Australian mail, overland, furnishes details of the
markets and of general affairs.
The fifth session of the Legislative Council was
opened on the 2d of August. The following was
his Excellency's address :--.

" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Legislative
Council—ln meeting you on this occasion of the ordinary
annual session, I am well assured, from the general
manifestation of the public sympathy which is now in
progress, that you entirely participate in those senti-
ments of devotion and loyalty to her Majesty which so
cordially animate every breast on the subject of the just
and necessary war with Russia in which her Majesty
has engaged, far the maintenance of treaties, the honour
of her Crown, and the welfare of her people.
" 2. All the official despatches which have reached
me from her Majesty's Secretary of State, together
with a satisfactory communication from the naval Com-
mander•in-Chief, through the senior naval officer on this
Station, will he laid before you. These documents and
other public intelligence indicite, in my opinion, how
very improbable is the contingency that hostilities may
be extended to this remote part of her Majesty's
"dominions.
" 3.- I has-J, however, to inform you that the rumours
of war which reached this colony through the publicjour-
nals in January last induced me to send an application
at that time to England for additional arms, and also
for one of her Majesty's vessels of war to be stationed
in Gulf St. Vincent, in order that, whilst confiding in
the superiority of her Majesty's forces by sea and land
as an ample safeguard against any open or serious attack
from the enemy, tLe bravery and loyalty of the colonists
might be furnished with a timely supply of the most
efficient and approved description of arms, to repel any
marauding aggression of their hearths and homes. To
this application no answer has as yet been received, but
may now soon be expected.
4. I have directed a bill to be laid before you for
organising volunteer corps of rifles and artillery ; in-the
event of legislation for this measure meeting your con-
currence, the military, as also the armed police, will,
in case of need, be enabled to receive such an augmenta-
tion of force from the patriotism, zeal, and manliness
of the volunteers as will ensure protection against any
hostile assault. The bill also provides for the eventual
formation, when necessary, of a general body of militia.
" 5. In closing the last session of this council,
.1 ex.
pressed an opinion that the present meeting of the Legis-
lature might probably take place under the new •conati•
tution which you had framed. I have not, however,.
yet received any communication on the subject. The
delay which has hitherto taken place may, with great
probability, be ascribed to the European events which
were imminent when our local legislation was trans.
mitted.
_

F' 6. I have much pleasure in informing you that the
public finances continue in a prosperous condition. The
remittances in 1853 for immigration were 140,1681.,
and in 1854 they will aeon reach to 265,000/. ; whilst
the remittances for 1855 will probably not be less than
162,000/.

"Daring the current year, 4,344 Government imrsi•
grants have arrived. The population of the corony is
now 81,752. The increase during the last 18 months
has amounted to rather more than 13,000.
" The Crown moiety of the Land Fund, after provid-
ing for the survey and other local charges appropriated
to that fund, contributes in 1854, in aid of the general
revenue, 144,000/. ; and in 1855 the aid may be reek-
oned to be 60,0001., exclusively of the previously men-
-1 tioned quota appertaining to the Emigration Fad
" The general colonial revenue in 1854 will amount to
`about 190,1361., and is reckoned at 228,6511. for 1855.
" 7. The estimates of revenue and expenditure will be
duly submitted ; and I have directed a bill to be laid
before you to constitute a trust for Port Adelaide to
raise a loan of 100,0001. for certain purposes of improve-
ment in deepening the harbour, and in removing its
outer and inner bars, as set forth in an address which
reached me at the close of last session. It is proposed
that, in the first instance, the loan should be provided
for out of the general revenue, and afterward be repaid
by such means as may appear most appropriate and
effectual.

" A bill will also be laid before you to raise 250,0001.
for the construction of a railway between Adelaide and
Gawler Town.

" Also a bill to make the deposit of original deeds
equivalent to registration ; and another bill to amend
the Supreme Court Act, as recommended by their
honours the judges.
"Some other legislation, comparatively of less public
importance, will also be submitted to you ; and on other
subjects which I may have occasion to bring to your
notice, I will communicate with you in the usual form
by message.
" 8. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen, I
would offer to you the expression of my cordial desire
that the mutual co-operation between. the Executive and
the Legislature which has kappily characterised our in-
tercourse throughout the whole period of my admini-
stration of the Government may continue uninterrupted
to the end of it, which the rules and regulations of the
service lead me to expect will now shortly be attained.
" H. E. F. YOUNG.

" Government•house, Adelaide, Aug.2,1854Y
The reply to the address was, as usual, a mere
echo of its sentiments, and was passed without op-
position. The mast important " measure that has
been before the council is one to provide for the de-
fenceof the colony. The Governor had already written
to E n eland asking fora steam frigate for the protection
of the colony, andalso forsome pieces of artillery and
2,000 Minie rifles. To this request a reply has already
been received, stating that the exigencies of the
rervico do not enable the British Government to
spare us a frigate, and that the Imperial arsenals
have been exhausted of their Minio rifles to supply
the wants of the troops, but that two field pieces
and six howitzers would be sent out forthwith, and
that our order for 2,000 rifles had been forwarded

to a manufacturer with instructions to execute it
as speedily as possible.
The market for cokonial produce was dull, and,
notwithstanding the accounts from England of
better prices for tallow, there has been no rise.
This is, however, accounted for by the difficulty
experienced in obtaining vessels. Prices ruled at
501. to 55/. for prime mutton, and 451. to 501. for
beef tallow. The arrivals of wool were scanty, and
prices were from ls. to Is. 6d. per lb. The labour
market was better supplied, except for domestic
servants and suitable bands for the agricultural and
pastoral districts, for which class of persona the
demand continued to exceed the supply. The rates
of wages ruled as follows
" TOWN WAGES. -Printers' work, per week, from 31.
6s. to 31. 129. ; compositors on the stab,' 41. ; Herald
morning paper, long primer, brevier, and nonpareil, equal-
ised, is. Bd. per 1,000, and is. 91. per hour overtime; the
Empire's rates are about the same; at these rates men can
earn, according to competency, per week, from 51. to
8/. ; painters, per day, 139. to 16s. Bd. ; carpenters, 15s.
to 1/. ; joiners, 17s. to 1/. ; plasterers, 1/. ss. to 1/. 10s. ;
plasterers' labourers, 12s. to 15s. ; bricklayers, 11. ss. to
1/. 10s. ; ditto labourers, 161. to 18e. ; masons, 1/. Se.
to 1/. 10s. ; ditto labourers, 10s. to 12s. ; carters, Bs.
to 10s. ; quarrymen, 18s. to 1/. ; blacksmiths, 14c. to
16s. ; male servants, as cooks, an found, per week, 1/.
to 21. ; grooms, 1/. to 11. 10s. ; gardeners, 1/. to
1/. 10s. ; general work, 16s. to 1/. ss. ; female servants,
ditto, 10s. to 12s. ; cooks, 12e. to 15s. ; laundresses,
12s. to 15s. ; housemaids, Se. to 12s. ; nursemaids, 7s.
to 10s.
" COUNTBY WAGES.-Farm labourers, 401. to 501, a
year, with rations ; married couples, 601. to 801. ditto ;
hut-keepers, 251. to 301. ditto ; shepherds, 301. to 401.
ditto ; stockmen, 401. to 501. ditto ; bullock drivers, 401.
to 601. ditto. The rations are-flour, 101bs. to 121bs. ;
meat, 'Gibs. ; sugar, 21bs. ; tea, ilb. weekly.
SEAMEN'S WAGES.-Coasting, 91. per month ; New
Zealand, 9/. ditto • England, 121. ditto ; California and
back, 81. ditt• • China ditto, Si. ditto; South Sea Islands,
Si. ditto ; whaling, 120th lay, and 61. advance."

We have been favoured by Captain Pascoe with
the following approximate return of copper and
lead ores raised in South Australia since the first
discovery of our metalliferous deposits :

Tons.
Berra Burra .....
Karkulta
Kanmantoo
Ditto (leased portions)
Pariuga
Ditto (leased portions)
2,000
liontacute 5OO
Adelaide......'
200
1,200
Enterprise
Reedy
200
South Saptinda
Creek
12,650
Kapunda
Princess Royal
100
North Rhine
Port Lincoln 550
50
DRouyttoaln MineininCompany 6O

MINES (COPPER).

Strathalban)
I3readalbyn
Glenalbyn

115,520
MINES (SILVER-LEAD). Tows.
Glen Osmond
Wheal Watkins
1,000
Wheal Gawlor
90
Wheal Grainger
Wheal Margaret
Wheal Brothers ........................ 40
Belvidere

2,429'
The faille of 115,520 tons of copper ore, at 151 per ton,
would he 1,732,5001.; and of 2,429 tons of silver lead or
at 121, per ton, 20,145/. •

SIR THOS. TROWBRIDGE AT INKERMAN. Se` era
letters as!well as the despatch have noticed Major Sir T.
Trowbridge'e firmconduct in continuing to give orders
after he was severely wounded in a battery. But the
public are thus only half made acquainted with his heroic
fortitude. His wound was indeed severe. Both his feet
were knocked off by a cannon shot, and in that dreadful
condition he continued to give his orders as if unhurt.
REPRESENTATION OF FERMANAGH.—AII the local
" talk " of a contest for the seat vacated by the decease
of Sir Arthur Brooke has died away without leaving even
an echo of the loud noise it made for a few days past.
Lord Henry Loftus is to have a quiet walk over the
course. This resolve was taken at an influential meet-
ing of the gentlemen connected with the county, held
on Saturday last, at which a resolution was adopted, to
the effect that it was " inexpedient" to force on a oonteit
it prepent.