The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-15 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

TO THE EDITUIY HE SUN.
OF
SIR—I wish through the medium of your
culated journal to inform your numerous re widely-cir-
culated
fthire-
great demand that has recently sprung up in this colony
for gold, which commands a premium of from three to
five per cent., therefore
persons emigrating to, or trans-
witting funds to South' Australia, should bring or send
out sovereigns, there being no other channel of remitting
cash to this colony that will be found near so advanta-
geous. Added to which, money may be placed out by
way of mortgage on first-rate securities, equal jeL
every respect to freehold land in Middlesex, at fifteen to
twenty per cent. per annum interest; and second-rate
securities, such as freehold and leasehold houses, twenty
to thirty-five per cent. per annum interest; but on third-
rate, or inferior securities, money cannot be obtained ;
and as no loan societies, money lenders, or pawnbrokers
exist; in Adelaide, the dread :Al loss sustained by persons
requiring temporary pecuniary assistance in times of
emergency exceeds all belief ; fur when money has to
be raised in such cases on goods, plAte, watches, guns, or
any articles of value, they must be sent- to the auction-
rooms, and sacrificed at whatever they will sell for,
loss of 200
which is often done at the almost incredil!

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realising immense profits. I have known a buytx at one
of these public auctions purchase nails at one farthing
per pound weight, and afterwards sell them in 10S shop
at the rate of one shilling per pound.
Such are the truly disastrous consequences 3'0.•
ing to parties who are obliged to raise funds I.*
their
mexs o etremity; and I think these facts alone speak
voluf the great absence of money in this colony ;
And I know of no quarter of the globe where capital can
oe employed more beneficially.
Copper coin is also very limited, and in great request;
and an importation of 4,0001. to 5,0001. sterling, con-
,isting of pennies and halfpennies would prove a great
noon to the colonists, and remunerate the importer
equal to his most sanguine expectations. But silver coin
:s in abundance, there being a sufficiency in circulation
in the colony.
I have no doubt, with the combined influence of ca-
pital, suitable labour, and shipping, that South Australia
be eventually one of the most valuable colonies of'
the British Crown.

The introduction of money is the first step to-
wards her advancement, then suitable labour, by which
I mean labouring persons adapted to the wants of the
colony—such as miners from Cornwall, and some agri-
cultural labourers from Suffulk, Norfolk, and Essex.
And to show the scarcity of farm servants, it need only
be stated, that bullock drivers employed in driving the
bullocks and drays loaded with ore from the mines to
Port Adelaide, are receiving one pound sterling per
week wages, and their victuals. As to good working
miners from Cornwall, they may be sent in any numbers.
tor such are the vast mineral riches of the colony, that
no bounds can be set to the employment required in this
department. And, although her agricultural and pastoral
prospects are extremely good, they will never require
such an influx of labour as is now in demand for working
he numerous mines ; as, owing to the paucity of labour,
Several of the copper mines are only partially worked,
and some not worked at all.

Indeed, her Majesty's Land and Emigration Commis-
6ioners can make ❑o mistake in sending- out as emigrants
working miners from Cornwall to any extent, as the
wants of the colony in this respect are of the most
pressing description ; for the working miner of South
Australia is, at this time, actually getting paid for his
iabour five times the amount paid to the working miner
of Cornwall.

And before I quit the subject of suitable labour
required in South Australia, I would not omit stating
the great lack of female servants in the colony ; sad if
two thousand to three thousand young females of the
working classes,from fifteen to twenty-five years of age,
were sent out here they would obtain situations imme-
liately, for such is the demand for cooks, nursery-
maids, laundry-maids, dairy-maids, and other domestic
women servants, that they can get almost any wages they
ask, and many of the settlers cannot obtain servants of
this description on any terms, as the scarcity of female
iervants at this present time is without a parallel since
the foundation of the colony.
In conjunction with capital and suitable labour, the

other requirement is shipping, there existing a great
want of vessels to take away the mineral ore, wool,
corn, gum, bark, and other produce of the colony, as the
merchants' warehouses are breaking down v.ith the
weight of their burdens, for ships are not to be obtained
for freights.
The journeymen trades who do well here are, wheel-
wrights, blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, tanners,
and malsters. These descriptions of persons readily ob-
tain 7s. to 10s. per day for their work, which is nearly
double what they would get in England. But as to
artists, clerks, agents, engravers, Spitalfields' weavers,
and cork-cutters, they will get little or no employment,
and had much better stop at home.
I am afraid, Sir, I have already extended aiy letter
much too long for Insertion in the columns of your
valuable newspaper ; but I trust you will pardon me
when I state the only motive I have in sending you this
communication is to enlighten the British public as to
the immense capabilities of this very surprising colony,
and to acquaint them with the foregoing facts and in-
formation, in order that some of your intelligent and
wealthy subscribers may turn it to their advantage.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, G. B.
Adelaide, South Australia, Feb. 5, 1847.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 14.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties,
20&—East Lancashire, 1 di..—Ditto, New 44 dis.—klud-
dersfield Canal and Railway, 13% p.—Leeds and Thirak, Pre-
ference, % dis.—London and North-Western, New Quar-
ters, 10% p.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late Hud. and
Sheff.), 2:y4 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), X
p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, 2 dis.,
—Midland Stock, 1281,4—Ditto, New, 41% p.—North Staf-
fordshire, 274 p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 (issued
as Third shares at 6 2-3), 68. 3d. dis.
thiaoso7arid
dis.
—Birmingham
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MANCHESTER, JULY 14.
Epß.x_osTioiAna,Nckci
—Derby, Stafford, and Worcester, 1% di '
s.—Eastern Coun-
ties, York Extension, 1' dis.—East Lancashire, New (scrip),
3-16 p.—Exeter and Exmouth, dis.—Great Northers,
London and York Extension (scrip), 1%, dis.—Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 31%—Ditto, 1 18-16
p.—Leeds and Thirek, Preferentials, 11-16 dis.—Leicester
and Bedford, 1, dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction, 1% dis.—London and North-Western (Manches-
ter and Birmingham), Quarters (C), 61/s p.—Manchester
and Leeds, 32/. Shares, par—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland, Ili dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% p.—Oldham
Alliance, par—Preston and 'Pyre, Halves (B), 1/4 p.—South-
Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 5-16 dis.—South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole, par—York and Newcastle, Preference, 4 p,

SHEFFIELD, JULY 14.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Manchester and Leeds

(West Riding Union), ls. 6d. c. p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire (Grimsby and Sheffield), 201. Shares, WA
dis.—Ditto, 12/. 10s. Shares, 395. dis.—Ditto, Docks, 414 dis.
—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 34 dis.—Leeds, Wakefield,
and Midland, 235. dis.—South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole, 35. dis.

LEEDS, JULY 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, 275. Gd. n. dis.—East Lancashire, 15s. n.
dis.—Ditto, New, IA
dis.—Ditto,New (scrip), Is. p.—Great
Northern, 345. dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 134 n. p.
—Leeds and Dewsbury, 4% p.—Ditto, Halves, IFB p..-
-Leeds and Thirsk, 614 n. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 129. 6d.
dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and lNlidand, 11,8 dis.—London and
Brighton, and South Coast, Consolidated Eighths, 3 p.—Lon-
don, Oxford, and Cheltenham, 158. dis.—Manchester and.
Leeds, 321. Shares, is. n. p.—Ditto, Fifths, n. p.—Ditto
(West Riding Union), 4s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Berwick,
8% D. p.—Ditto, New, 3 p.—North British, Quarters, 26a.
6d. c. p.—North Staffordshire, 2 n. p.—North-We,stern,
1% n. dis.

EDINBURGH, :lux 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 301.--:
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sp,
Quarters,l7
New
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10.165c6:::E d
Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. IN.-Arbroath and Forfar, 261.
10s.-Ditto, Halves, 14/. IN.-Ayr and Galloway, 2L
snluici
-Caledonian, 30/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 2L-Caled
Deeside, 31. 55.-Dunblane, Donne. and Pail
Ditto, New, No.
-Dundee and Arbroath, 37/. 10s. ex div.--Dina
ex
div.-Ditto,
Dumbartonshire, 1/. 13s. 6d.-Clydesdale
..Jejannderctio,
It
7421.67.
I, '29/. 10s. ex div.-Ditto, New,
131. -Ditto,
11 s. 6d. -Dundee and Perth, 3 -
6d.-East
Lothian
Fife. IL 18s. 6cL-k.•
Quarters, 3/. 63.-Eas.t. of , and Bathgate, 8/. 55.-Edin-
Central, 11. 1713.-Edinb.urgonitto,
Halves, 22/. IN.-Ditto,
, 71. Bs.-Ditto,
New, No. 3, 31. 10s.-Dundee 11.
burgh and Glasgow, 2 Leith, and Grantors, 191.
Preference, 201.103.-Ditto, New, 21. la. 6d.
2s. 6d.-Ditto, Prefa.7-Edinburgb and Northern, 18/. be.
6d.-Edinburgh and Perth (N Co )
641211 b. ar2sg. bi--Ditto, Halves, No. 1,
ditto, New, 2/. 11‘. 6
(Nei, . ,
Halves, s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayralairea2ol.
IL 3a-Ditto, Ha
3/.
6d._ Ditto, Newport
158.-Ditto,
6d.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2,6/. I ls.-Glasgow, Dam-
fries,9l. 75..
and Carlisle, 5L 7s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.
-Ditto New,
_Glasgow General Terminus, 121. 155.-Glasgow and Gree-
nock, 19/. 51.-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 10s.-Ditto, Preference,
8/. 2s. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 3/. 12s. 6d.
-Great North of Scotland, V. 17s. 6c1.-Great Northern
(late Direct Northern), 4/. ss. 6d.-Ditto (late London and
York), 11. 125.-Newcastle and Berwick, 29/. 10s.-North
British, 331.-Ditto, Halves, 151. 17s. 6d. -Ditto, Quarters,
4/. 10s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 165.-Ditto.
Thirds, 2/. Ils. 6d.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10s.-Scottish Cen-
tral, :;31.-Scottish Grand Junction, 195.-Scottish Midlands
18/. -Shrew sbury and Hereford, IN.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry.
and Chester, 9/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 1/. 2s. 6d.-Stirling and
Dunfermline, 4/. 17s. 61-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 55.-•
Wishaw and Coltness. 491.-York and Newcastle, 881.-
Ditto, New, 171. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Preference, 12/. 17a. 61..
of -:
Direct Bombay and Madras, 2s. 3d.-East ndian,,sa ..
Great North of India, 2s. 6d.-Great Southern
2/1.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, is. 6d,

GLASGONV7.Iur Ly 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 2914
Dundee and Perth,33L—Ditto, Quarters, 66s.—East
4s. 9d.--East Lothian Central, 378.—Edinburg
aanl ads ,
22s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 121 L—Ditto (5 per
cent. guar.), 421A--Glasgow and Greenock, Halves,
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 75s.—Great North
of India, 2E4—Manchester and Southampton, 14s. 6d.
Ditto, New, 21s. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 518. 6d.

burletta just
ADELPITI
thisT 1---leit -EtAheTaßtEre7called one-act
Ot Gil the 21y, deals
audiences—that of a gamesome husband escaping
gliaentmatter that has long been familiar to thea-
tricalfrom his wife, upon a fictitious plea, to play incontinent
pranks elsewhere, and meeting with her when least ex-
pected and when most inconvenient. The present illus-
tration of a dilemma of this kind is, however, no less
producedW th s
at tla
amusing than those which have gone before, and the
audience sanction its repetition every night with great
apparent good humour. Mr. Selby, a ready hand in
constructing farces of this character, is the author, and
upon him also devolves the task of playing the hero.
He is AN;ell seconded by Mr. Munyard, Mr. Worrell, Mr.
Itulmond Ryan, ?is Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Frank
Matthews.

FRENCH CATTLE.—The steam-ship Harlequin,
arrived from Boulogne, has brought 35 heifers, Wa tI!?
first importation of live cattle into the metropolis wow
France during the present season.