The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-24 00:00:00

NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA.

The ship Eagle, Captain Boyce, arrived at Liven
pool on Saturday morning from Melbourne. 7i;
he
sailed on the 28th July, and has consequellZ
made the passage in 84 days, during which time s."O
was three weeks becalmed, and encountered qo
very severe gales after entering the Channel.
brought home 150 passengers, and 77 bags of let
ters, containing 45,000 letters and newspaP'i
with a cargo consisting of 120 packages gold duet
(weighing 63,952 ounces and 10 dwts.), valued :4
256,000/. ; 2,070 bags rice (in ballast), 3 1301cj,
apparel, 1 bale whalebone, 2 boxes specimene9,o
box documents, 1 box watches, 4 octaves 3 I°'
wine, and 1,895 loads of flour.
Amongst the specie per the Eagle are the tW
celebrated nuggets so long on show at Melbourni
weighing respectively 217 ounces 11 dwts., an
1,011 ounces 15 dwts.
The royal mail steamer Chusan arrived at , the
bourne on the 20th of July with the mails 0 Ist
4th of May from England, and sailed on the 2""

for Sydney. °
01
Tile screw steamer Cleopatra was to sail Good
Melbourne for Liverpool, via the Cape of
esselo
Hope on the 31st of July. The following Irpare•
had arrived at Melbourne :—The Ituna, *WOW&
dee ; the Urania, from London ; and the foi•
Barton, and the Unity, from Liverpool. 1-11- 1-.0 0-
lowing were the projected departures :—For r
,
don—the Elizabeth and the Madaasear, the latter
part of July ; and the Roxburghebastle, the 15th
of September. For Liverpool—the Cleopa,tr:
steamer, the 31st of July. For Southampton-I'i',
Argo steamer, the 14th of August. For Lima'
the Woodstock, the 28th of July.
Accounts had been received from Melbourne °,l
the total wreck of the barque Tory on the 15th of
rt
July, while on her passage from London for Po
u. 4
Stephens. The Tory was bound to Port Step
with 280 passengers, principally for the Peel
Gold Mining Company, and machinery for !Po
same parties, and had reached to within saves
miles of her destination when she met with n,
disaster. All the passengers and crew were sa./,_',A,
The box, containing). 10,0001. in gold, which 01;
been lost overboard from the steamer Osmanli,
sij,
Melbourne harbour, had not been recoveruj
although a diving-bell had been constructed,
every attempt had been made to recover it. „_,31
A person named Quin, who absconded
Messrs. Train and Co.'s, of Liverpool, in J'e,
1852, with 1,3001., was captured in Melbouril
and has been brouht back in the Eagle. IV9l' Two Government escorts had arrived at :65
bourne on the 22d of July—one with 1,737 eunt'Let
of gold dust from the Ovens diggings, and the OtL
with 3,100 ounces from the Mount M'lvor diggiego
Great excitement had been caused at Melbonf" ,
in consequence of the M'lvor Private Escort CO6
pany's gold escort having been attacked and rot
on its way to Melbourne of a considerable arao.ll,,
of gold dust and gold coin. One account states I,;st
the escort was robbed of 2,390 ounces of gold t',.10111.
and a large amount of gold coin, and that A
men in charge of the escort had been killed.
later account states that the escort was attac_lo.'',oo
20 men when about 15 miles from the Ni°,11,4
M'lvor diggings, and that the amount of gold cl,o,
stolen was 8,000 ounces, and 4,000/. in gold c°l
No official or satisfactory account of the robbt,
had, however, reached Melbourne at latest advie'.
The produce of gold at the mines was stated to
e
be greater than ever, though little was cowl
down to Melbourne, owing to the impassable state
of the roads.
'
The accounts from Geelong state that a demd eij
improvement was observable in the yield of ga't
from Ballarat. The last escort that arrived
Melbourne brought 6,000 ounces, besides leaving
large quantity behind. • 6j,
The value of gold at Melbourne was 31. 17e..,
per ounce, at which rate several sales were effeen4,4
A large vessel, apparently an American,
wrecked July 26, between Jarvis Head and Shoff'
haven, New South Wales.
A brig, from Liverpool, was reported ashore
Port Philip Heads on the 26th July. A S'
The latest accounts from Perth, Western 11,,t
tralia, are to the 10th of July. The operati onL,
the coal shales on the Preston river were to ..be
continued, in consequence of the workmel
ployed not being able to sink deeper without 'Olio
materials for the purpose, and the boring apparatif
sent down by the Government not being suffinD3rr'ijo
equipped to go down the required depth.
of
circumstance was much regretted, as the ralsioNti
coal in that locality must have been attended
the most beneficial results.
In addition to the gold dust on freight on 1.14. i,
the Eagle, there is a very large amount ii 1 f
hands of passengers. A passenger has a nugpcfet%
gold weighing 45 lb., which is not included
in the
freight list.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT PLYMOUTH.—A fatal ace' a&0
,
occurred in the Sound on Saturday night when a e-re geant and private of Marines and two watermen
drowned. The sergeant, whose name is Hooper r
ad
been sent from La Hogue, in the Sound, on sh°red
Devonport, to bring the
private on board, who hre broken his liberty, and after apprehending biro rto
ceeded to Mutton Cove, and hired the waterraakfiaxe
take them on board. They left at six p.m and °dal
not been heard of since. The boat was found yester
eif
morning bottom upwards. The weather was extrerlio
boisterous throughout the night. The Geelong, Iv 11
j
arrived here yesterday, lost three men overboard l,
gale of wind on Thursday, eighty miles off the Liza rali
The Coldstream arrived on Saturday afternoon tbr°oll
stress of weather, bound to Madras with the '
Highlanders on board.
s'
WINCHESTER GAOL.—At the Hants Michaein)--0,, cA'
sizes, held last week, Lord H. Cholmondeley took at f'
sion to deny the truth of the statements made 'tie!,
recent coroner's inquest in London, respecting ortle bog'
practised in Winchester gaol. Lord Palmerstoa,o
sent down one of the inspectors of prisons to rl'ehol'
quiry ; he went over the prison with himself (Lord,
~,i-mondeley),
mondeley), and Mr. Taylor had expressed himself :601
fectly satisfied, and it as was expected that some PPP' of the proceedings would come before the court to: the
Mr. Williams told him that he might state that
whole was an unfounded charge. He must be a' rooet
to express his surprise that a public officer like a efe tiss
should have felt it to be his duty to read and In pro'
of an anonymous letter, when there could be no 00°od
sent on behalf of the visiting justices to answer it, 001 ,
one of those visiting justices he was bound to skY4
had no fault to find with that indefatigable an
mane officer, the govertior of the prieou.' •