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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Letters and papers have been received, by her Ma-
jesty's ship Fly, from Port Adelaide, up to the 21st of
January.
The Hingston, from Falmouth in October last, arrived
on the 18th. of January, and the Enmore, from the
Downs in same month, arrived on the 19th of January.
From, private letters we learn that the John Hayes
was to leave on the 18th of February; and was to bring
the first shipment, of copper ore from the new mine dis-
covered in the Mount Barker. district.
Bat the Opic exciting the most interest in Adelaide
at the date of the Fly's departure was the return of Cap-
tain Sturt from his exploratory expedition nortlaward.
On this subject it will, perhaps, be in the recollection of
our readers, that the gallant captain left Adelaide in
August or September, 1844, for the north, under the
expectation of discovering a vast inland sea in the inte-
rior of the A'ustrafian continent, and has, consequently,
been absent on thi's mission a year and a half. This
search, it seems, has been fruitless, as far as can be
gathered from his dispatches ; although he himself is of
opinion that important additions will be made by his ex-
pedition to the stores of geographical knowledge.
Extracts from Captain Sturt's dispatches are pub-
lished in the Adelaide papers, with brief editorial com-
ments, which we here subjoin:—

RETURN OF CAPTAIN STURT AND PARTY FROM THEIR

PERILOUS EXPEDITION.

"Dispatches have been received from Captain Sturt,
stating the probable arrival of himself and party at
Moorundee this day (Jan. 17th), Mr. Brown, the bearer
of the packet, having left them at Lake Victoria, and
himself arriving at Mr. Nation's station on the 12th
instant. The letter from Captain Sturt is dated 21st of
December last. On the preceding day he had reached
the Darling, after a most perilous journey from the
depot, a distance of 270 miles. He effected his retreat
with great difficulty, the first water being 115 miles from
the depOt. He was absolutely forced to make the at-
tempt, for the only other alternative was to remain
and rot at the old post.' The heat was perfectly
horrible, and had they not been providentially visited
with a change of wind, and a shower of rain, which
cooled the lilt- and ground, they wqtald have perished..
They did aotias it'turned out, lose evdi'ii sheep. After
this account or the retreat, Captain Sturt proceeds to de-
tail the transactions from the time when he was last
heard of. It may be remembered, that it was his inten-
tion to proceed to the north-west, in the hope of finding
an inland sea. He says :
" I went from the old depot to Lake Torrens,
hoping to find a country affording a practicable route
to the north, but was disappointed. I returned to the
depot to make a more extensive excursion to the north-
west. On the 14th of August I left the camp with Mr:
Brown and three men, taking fifteen weeks' provisions,
but after penetrating to lat. 24 deg. 30 min. and lon.
138 deg., I was obliged to return from the failure both
of water and grass. Dr. Brown also suffered greatly
from scurvy, but was too high-minded to complain. He
is indeed an inestimable young man, and has been as a
brother to me. _ _

"' We passed over a country of alternate sand-hill and
flats, until I struck upon a creek, beyond which the
country was more open, and more subject to floods ; we
crossed over extensive plains, subject to deep inundations,
but won again got on sand hills. From them we de-
scended to a stony plain of boundless extent, on which
the horses left no track, and where no object was visible
on the horizon from which to take bearings. Crossing
these, we descended to flats, like a ploughed field, on
which water had subsided, stretching to the north• east
and south-west farther than the range of vision, and with-
out a blade of -vegetation. From this we again ascended
sand ridges of most formidable description, and found
the country to the west so bad, where we attempted
to penetrate in that direction, and surface water so
scarce, that we were obliged to turn to the north at fifty
miles, with only two small puddles to depend on. I struck
a creek which I traced up sixty miles, when I got on a
country of salt formation, covered with samphire and
other salsolacious productions, with numbers of dry beds
of lagoons, as white as snow with salt. Passing this,
we once more found ourselves among sand ridges, per-
fectly insurmountable, so close that the base of one
touched the base of another—the whole country sand.
The sand-hills were of a fiery red, and they ran, for
miles and miles, in parallel rows, with points
like the vanishing points of an avenue. But there was
neither grass nor water to be found, and after trying all
points of the compass I gave it up, and returned to the
depot, after an absence of seven weeks and a ride of
924 miles.
" The men were all knocked-up, and the horses per-
fectly leg weary; but I was dissatisfied with this journey,
and there was little time for hesitation. Therefore,
after giving the animals six days' rest, I left the camp
with Mr. Stewart, leaving Mr. Brown in charge of the
camp, whose readiness to do anything I wished lightened
my labours. I took two men, and nine weeks' provisions,
my objects being to try to enter the tropics, to ascertain
if there was any water between me and the north coast,
or if the desert extends to the very tropics. I went due
north, and struck a most splendid creek at 123 miles
from the depot. Here I had a thunder storm 'that
lasted half an hour, and left some surface water, de-
pendent on which, I crossed it, and ran out 170 miles
without finding a single channel for conveyance of
water. I dug five wells, but had little hope of benefiting
from them. I was at length brought up by astony desert,
that stretched before us in absolute boundlessness.
Where there were sand-hills in it before, the sand-hills
were now covered with stone, similar to the plain itself.
I was in the centre of a dark and adamantine sea, with-
out an object by which to steer my course. I was 41
miles advanced in this gloomy region, and 52 from
water. My horses had already been one day without
water, and I could not hope to reach the other water
under a day and a half, including part of the night;
yet I hesitated to turn back. It was an irresistible
influence that drove me back, certainly contrary to my
own inclinations. I was well nigh too late. I lost
three horses, but that was of no consequence on such an
occasion. I got back to the creek, after having reached
latitude 25 deg. 45 min., and longitude 139 deg. 13 min.
" From the creek on which I was, I had seen high
and broken ranges to the north-east, and I now deter-
mined on examining them and the creek. I therefore
went up the latter 120 miles, but I found that it was
leading me away from the ranges, and I ultimately got
to its termination, or rather head, in some extensive
plains. The creek was as large as the Darling, and was
flanked by a box-tree forest, in grassy land, to a con-
siderable distance from its banks. Here I fell in with
a numerous population, passing three or four small tribes
every day ; but the news of our kind treatment of them
had spread through the country, and they evinced no
alarm, but did all they could to serve us.
" On the 3d October I was at the head of the creek,
and all at once found myself in presence of about 270 or
280 natives, encamped on a rising piece of ground, under
a large sand hill I had descended. On seeing us they
set up a great shout ; but when I rode slowly down the
hill, there was a dead silence ; then I dismounted, and
giving my horse to one of the men, walked over to the
natives, who received me very kindly, brought me
troughs of water and baked seeds, and invited me to
sleep at one of their fires ; but observing a small clump
of trees about fifty yards away from the native camp,
I told them that I would sleep there, to which they
gave a ready assent, and carried over fire-wood for
our use, which was very scarce. These people were the
finest I have seen in Australia. Many stood six, several
more than six feet high. They were
well made, and
had not the pot bellies of the natives in general. They
were frank and merry people, and told me all they could.
They assured me there was no water to the east or
north, and were quite distressed when I persisted next
day in going to the eastward. The Women were engaged
to a late hour in bruising seed for (cakes, and the noise
they made was like the working of looms in a manufac-
turing town. At ten, all was hushed, and, for the re-
mainder of the night, no one would have known that
there were so many human beings near.
" From this point I turned westward, and turning
up a branch creek, went towards the ranges ; but 1 got
into a terrible country, and found the effects of refrac-
tion had deceived me with regard to the ranges, and
that they were nothing but masses of sand or rock,
three to five hundred feet high. I saw that I was get-
ting near the scene of the greatest turmoil, where the
water passed over this dreary waste, and left the shivered
fragments of mountains behind it. . Here again water
and grass failed me, and I was forced to abandon this
trying task on the 9th of November, being unable to
contend against the season and country.. I had done all
that I could do, and had again run the risk of being alto-
gether cut off ; indeed, so near was it, that I drained the
last drop of mud—for it was not water—out of a pool that
four weeks before was 150 yards broad, and 200 to 300
stehnece 17th,, in choanrsienqguernidcdeen of
843 the
miles
long. I lost two horses, and regretted them very much.
I reached the depot (which Mr. Brown had been obliged
pu-
tridityt o move
of
d theurinveatgmery) on absence,
in five weeks, less three days.

" had been exposed for twelve weeks to an exces-
sive heat, had had insufficient food, had drunk loath-
some water, and at length my iron constitution, under
disappointment, anxiety, and weakness, gave way. The
day I made the camp I was eighteen hours on horse-
back ; and when I dismounted the spasmodic action of
the muscles of my thighs was so violent as almost to
throw me forward. I had, in truth, ridden all day in
great pain. The next day the scurvy, latent in me for
eleven months, seized me. The muscles of my thighs
contracted, and I was laid prostrate on my mattrass. I
am still unable to walk or stand, but I am otherwise
well in health ; and I hope, that with all the good
things my friends have sent me, I will get round.'
"Another gentleman, says the South Australian
Register, from which the above is extracted, has fa-
voured us with the following note from the Gallant
Captain, which forms an appropriate pendant to the
foregoing communication:—
" • The Ana Branch of the Darling, sth Jan., 1846.
" 6 I have, as you will hear, done nothing but toil
through a desert that I believe is unequalled in the
world. My investigations, however, were geographical,
not with any direct view of finding good land, and as
far as the geography of the interior goes, I think there
will not be much difficulty, from the data I shall be en-
abled to furnish, to make a pretty good guess as to what
the greater portion of it is. All I can say is, that this
has been one of the most difficult and anxious tasks that
could have fallen to the lot of any man.
" ' For myself, thault God, I am getting better. Six

weeks are quite long enough to be deprived of the use of
one's legs; but I am yet thankful it is no worse.
" ' I hope to be in Adelaide about the end of the
month. I cannot at present ride, but shall be able to do
so ia a week or ten days.' "

Later dates, that is the 20th 'and 21st January, re-
present the Gallant Captain as having arrived in Ade-
laide, and as being about to be entertained by tl-e
colonists.

On the subject of the mines, there seems to be no

diminution of interest. Every vessel that It‘avesii
bringing home copper ore to this country. At one mine,
opened in October last, private letters inform us that
850 tons have been already raised, and of this a large
quantity has been shipped. One extract on this subject,
however, must suffice. It is from the Adelaide Observer
of Jan. 17:—

BIIRRA BultßA MINES.—The wealth of the Burra
Burra mines, now so generally acknowledged, receives
additional confirmation from the occurrences of each
succeeding week. -Six hundred and forty-one tons of
copper ore have been put on board the vessels now
about to sail for England ; the great capabilities of the
mines are more apparent than ever, and the favourable
preponderance of public opinion, influenced as it is by
almost unanimous report, has been further exemplified
by the recent sale of Mr. Solomon's forty 51. scrips,
which realised 1,0001., being 400 per cent. advance. It
is asserted that shares arc now saleable at a still higher
price, and if 251. is henceforth to be considered the mini-
mum price in the colony, it is impossible to foresee the
effects which may be looked for beyond it. The Burrs
Burra men who came into town, on leave, to spend the
Christmas holidays, have nearly all returned, and we
may expect soon to witness a large augmentation of the
already wondrous weekly production."