The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

neighbourhood of the golden claims, one is aston
shed to find quite a new feature presenting itself
:)arties with a couple of boxes washing the head-
ings and tailings of what were the richest claims .
A.ltbough wages may not be made in this Bendi
gonian manner, still sufficient may be obtained to
pay for rations and form the foundation of a future
'rise. The late floods have caused more activity in
dry diggings, which seem to be turning out
fine prospects. It is astonishing to find the num-
ber of little places on the banks of the creek where
good wages may be made. The more they are
tried the richer they appear. A small flat large
enough for half a dozen claims was struck this
week, with two feet of very good washing stuff."
A correspondent, writing from " Sebastopol," is

te same journal, remarks : ______.
" Some of the claims on the dry diggings are

turning out well ; few only have bottomed. A
party of four men obtained 6 ozs. 14 dwts. in a
clay and a half by driving. Many fresh faces ap-
pear daily. I have every reason to believe this
flat will be the leading summer dry diggings. I
have seen some good prospects taken out of one or
two claims. Since writing the above, it has been
communicated to me that the bridge opposite the
Sunbury Hotel, Woolshed, has been washed away.
Two men who have just come overland from the
Stony Creek Diggings, and are now working hero,

have informed me that, from the flattering re-
ports they saw in the newspapers, they left Ben-
digo for the Stony Creek diggings, via Mel-
bourne. They took the steamer for Sydney, tra-
yelled from Sydney to Stony Creek, and on arriv-
ing there a singular scene presented itself, viz.,
that of a fire, resembling a bush fire. On inquirh
it appeared that the diggers, maddened by finding
themselves duped and being misled by false reports,
were actually burning cradles, tubs, Acc. ; in fact,
all their working implements. These men travelled
overland, and are new working on this flat."
Dunolly, a newly discovered field, was attracting
much notice, and the usual " rushings" from other
localities. The locale is thus described by the cor-
respondent of the Sandhurst Courier :
" The road to Dunolly lies past Campbell's Bul-
lock Creek, thence across the plain on Kaye's run,
over the Loddon Bridge, past Sandy Creek, Jones's
Creek, and then on to Dunolly. At present there
are about 54,000 people on these diggings ; the
great rusk seems to be towards the Burnt Creek
and the Alma. The extent of ground which has
been covered in such a short time is surprising ;
they spread over a surface of at least five or six
miles. The sinking towards the Burnt Creek is 35
to 40 feet, and the ground is very wet ; the aver"
age depth is 25 to 30 feet. There are very 631/
complaining ; certainly there are some, but to take
the average they are all doing first rate. The gold
is very nugetty, and several large nuggets have
been found. There were rumours yesterday of a
nugget 101ilbs. weight having been found heret
but one 181bs. and one 201hs. weight were fen°
the other day. A party bottomed their l'^la
yesterday, 32 feet, and took 47oes. off the bottion'
Most parties think that these diggings will be per-
manent. Public houses, grog shops, b,,, abound
to a great extent ; but most of them are in an 11°-
finisbed state. Stores of every sort are going: 0P
every day, and the place looks as if it was not merel
one of those mad rushes, " come to-day and rile
tomorrow," but has got a look of permanency
about it. The people on the whole are YerY
of
derly. There are two banks opened—the Bank
'Victoria and the London and Chartered Bank-
Provisions are not so dear as I expected ;
eci ever./
thing is very reasonable. Mechanics, esp
al!
carpenters, are very scarce. The Bank of Victoria
opened on Saturday, and could not buy all the gold
that was brought to them, as they had not so-
cieut cash."

FINGAL GOLD FIELDS.
The H. T. Advertiser has the following :--Great
excitement was created in town yesterday by the
arrival of Mr. Maning, of the firm of Messrs. Mali:
inn Brothers, New Wharf, from the Fingal gold
fields, with specimens of about 4 ozs. of gold, an
a large piece of quartz weighing upwards of 40 lbs
se.,
supposed to yield about 10 ozs. of gold. Tho
exhibited at the Gold Coi'll
Office, Royal Exchange, where they nave mpanbeen
inspected by numbers of our citizens. Private letters
from Fingal hold out great hopes of success to
bein-
dustrious diggers, but whose operations have
en.
materially impeded by the recent inclement state of
the weather. The new quartz reef promises well,
and the crushing machines are anxiously looked for.

MELBOURNE LABOUR MARKET.
There is still a good supply of men in the market,
approaching.
but they are unwilling to hire under the present
shearing, and general bus
notations,
and are shy at making longengagements.
Skilled labour is
abou the same, and not a groat many unemployed'
at
ismt
eh the
is sheep pi Washing,dlidly
Females are in demand and wages, if anytbink
are rather on the advance ; few will take lean 011
30/. per annum.
With Rations. £ £
Married couples, without families 70 to 8°
Ditto, with families ••• 70
80 to

Gardeners V 65
Grooms
°L;
„
Storekeepers, per annum 5O to
Shepherds
...
Hutkeepers, per annum ...... ....... 25 to a°
Ploughmen, 20s to 25s per week
Farm labourers, do. 22s 6d
Shearers, 16s to 203 per hundred
She3p-washers, 25s per week
Mowers, 8s to 10s per acre
Reapers, 20s do.
Threshers, 8d to 10d per bushel
Bullock-drivers for roads, 30s per week
Do., for farms, 25s do.
Horse team drivers for roads, 25s to BOs to,
Hay cutters and truesers, 35s do., or 70 Per
•Male cooks, 20s to 45s per week
Waiters, 208 to 30s do.
Blacksmiths, 508 to 60s do.
Carpenters, 21. per week
Rough do., 30s.
Without Rations.
Blacksmiths, 4/. to 4/. 108 per week
Carpenters, 12s to 15s per day
Masons, 14s to 153 per day
Bricklayers, 143 to 15s per day
Plasterers, 14s to 153 per day
Quarrymen, 10s to 14s per daydel
Labourers, 88 to 103 per daY„ roads, 101 Per
Able pick and shovel me°
and tent accommodation yard
'
Btonebreakers, 6s 6d to 70 Per '
Compositors, is 4,1 per thousand
Pressmen, 41. to 51. per week
FEMALE DOMESTICS. 30 to 35
25 to aq,
.
Thorough servants .......................
Housemaids ............................. no to 35
3°5 to 40
Laundresses ..............................
Cooks ....................................... is to 30
Nursemaids ................................ • ao
Needlewomen .... . .........................

DEATH or death or [es
great Oriental HAMMRR•`The , paa•
BsA7...thz7.
imiii7AintEeßr...N.lrgb:
on the 26th ult., at Vienna. Baron von
balt.ilro,nwiendlt7oi7ng-isr,tl.attti
gratify
ratain Sty tier where lii 8 father c'eic:'
From
an honourable' position in the pu ,Alinebile WI 0
From
who availed 12. imh
istoiwnaciriclusattihuensEabsyt,
seemed to draw earliest. childhood a rassterious 2:Z,, pas
recently rep.
where hheis attractedu
himself of his services in the P A boot
tionof hie
this
tlt n time he produced several poems, both origie2.soo
slated, from the Eastern languages. In 19r 00
sent a-
,, dragoreau to Constantinople, whence Pe the
transferred to Egypt and employed as interpreter toot,
English army in Abercrombie's campaign. il° We° ate
ct oot
sequently attache to the Austrian embassy at ‘,°-403e
irate
pr, and Consul in Moldavia. In 1811 be he
ote
instituted t h
e Oriental
notice
of A i
hc ae dceerienyibt:reijarl
altiittn;T:Pitooho
hoej
interpreter to the Vienna Chanei-ry. Iu 1817 -ere lie
made a counsellor, and in 1835 a baron. Of late YeAkio oe
had retired from the public service, and lived en Pt" iat,
lutes in Styria. His works are numerous, the 03,°e•eetfri
portant beim! his " Enclycopdic View of vfoi6i
Science," 1304 ; "Glance at, Turkish Literature, of
licit:lb:li
002)s
unt7ogg-3rhoy4th
i;otifo,niPhbßeeiruts4ltsioassirsnaye,nl;eefldt
08l eb4styot
ora:me,pta, inTroephrseei': 'email:So:1;8;0;3.18s 3
i0n.38 peg
hl.
ae,j,
0 oistor9:o '
tht_;. AK:a9sins," 1818; "History Of the Ottoman VI/lief
1343. The value of these works is great ,but it bee 'ert.
undue,
ation, and in the case of the Ottouiair
of dye,, though not unnatural, bias iia favour of e Were
est'ikeeu'tria. The baron's philological labours 7o°4
been being considered to display more learriT :00,
reseamrcehd,
worlda. than philosophical depth andlogical exa so ,0
Or
Baron Hammer was ex president Senior Pit ~/.
of the •
Vienna Academy of Soience and is said to po,
won the d • . ' bricrtoarTlytiheitil,
decorations of 20 different orders, apa t? 0,,,
. .
were borne to the grave woo,
remainsmHemisber of almost every literary societY 1., the
students of the Oriental Academy, of which, "Ile VS.'"
mentioned, he had been one of the earliest Auden
Literary Gazette,