The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-19 00:00:00

GUILDFORD.

The returning officer received the writ on Satur-
day, and the nomination is appointed for Friday
next. The only candidittes in the field are Mr.
Guildford Onslow and Mr. Evelyn.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.

The Cesarewitch settling progressed most satisfactorily.
No great winners are reported beyond the immediate
" party" of Rocket.
The Cambridgeshire betting took rather an extensive
range ; the animals most in request being Blanche of
Middlebie, Zouave, and Ignoramus.

CLOSING PRICES.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
9to 1 agst Blanche of Middlebie (taken)
12 to 1 agst Leontes (taken and offered)
14 to 1 agst Zouave (taken)
14 to 1 agst Ignoramus (taken)
20 to 1 apt Prioress (take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst The Brewer (taken)
25 to 1 agst Goelette (taken)
25 to 1 agst Satinstone (taken)
30 to 1 agst Rocket (taken)
30 to 1 agst English Rose (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Physalia colt (taken)
40 to 1 agst The Farmer's Son (taken)
40 to 1 agst Eclipse (taken)
40 to 1 agst Nelly (taken)
40 to 1 agst Tricolor (taken)
50 to 1 agts Lambourn (taken)
50 to 1 agst Kelpie (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Barbarity (taken)
800 to 100 agst Prioress, Rocket, and The Brewer
" mixed" (taken)

The following lot were backed at evens against the field :
—Zouave, Blanche of Middlebie, Gouvieux, Nelly, Eury-
dice, Beacon, Prioress, Leontes, The Brewer, Physalis colt,
and Lambourn.

DERBY•
12 to 1 agst Promised Land
2.5 to 1 agst Cavendish (taken)
33 to 1- agst Viking (taken)
33 to 1 agst Gaspard (taken)
40 to 1 Liget Gamester (taken)

AUSTRALIA.

SYDNEY, ATM. 11.
For a considerable time past commercial affairs
have remained in a state of great depression, in
consequence of the warehouses being overstocked
with English and American goods. It is quite
evident that until a great part of the stock in hand
is cleared off the imports continually arriving must,
if sold, lag disposed of at a price disastrous to the
shippers. The evil long complained of—great irre-
gularity in the mail service—has tended to cr/mp
the ordinary operations of trade, and efforts are
being made to procure the adoption of the Panama
route instead of that by way of India.
The presence of a considerable naval and military
force at Port de France, New Caledonia, the French
station in the Pacific, has occasioned some uneasi-
ness here, lest the three ships of war, two war
steamers, and 1,000 military, should be assembled
within a few days sail of Australia, with hostile
views. The advices just received, contradicting a
prevalent rumour of a rupture between England
and France, has quieted the alarm.
A new electoral bill for this colony has for some
time past occupied the attention of the House of
Assembly. Manhood suffrage and vote by ballot
has been affirmed. The effect of this large exten-
sion of the franchise will be to give a preponderance
to the town constituencies over the " squatting"
interest—the pioneers of Australian prosperity.
The electric telegraph from Adelaide to Mel-hr
bourne is in full work. The line northward, from
the latter capital to Sydney, is in a state of forward-
ness, the work being in progress on each side the
border, the junction to be at Albany. When com-
pleted the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria,
and South Australia will have the benefit of rapid
communication to the extent of nearly a thousand
miles.

The new lighthouse at the entrance of Port Jack-
son being finished, a bright fixed light is nightly
exhibited. The lighthouse stands on the edge of
the cliff, forming the Inner South Head, at an ele-
vation of 60 above the sea level.
A new gold-field has been discovered in the north
of this colony, which is said to be the seat of a rich
auriferous deposit. It is in the Port Curtis district,
about 30 miles from Rockhampton and seven from
the Fitzroy
.river. The diggers, who are as yet
only " surfacing," are well satisfied with their earn-
ings. What are called the old gold-fields, though
so long and diligently worked, exhibit no falling
off in the produce.
The Yass mail-coach was stopped about three
weeks ago by two highwaymen with blackened
faces, who robbed the passengers of money and
valuables to the amount of £2OO, and carried off the
mail-bags. One of the latter has been found,
unopened, and an active search after the thieves
has resulted in the capture of a man supposed to
be one of them.

We have lately heard of serious outrages com-
mitted by the aborigines on the borders of the
settled districts, who have murdered some of the
whites, and committed felonious assaults on females.
For a long time previously the natives had been
peaceable towards the settlers.
Mr. Roberts, civil engineer of Sydney, who has
been for several months engaged in surveying the
squatting district of the Bar wan, lately fell in with
a party of the " hairless savages," whose existence
has recently been made known. They comprised
a family of six, a man and his wife and four chil-
dren, all totally destitute of hair. Their complexion
is of a copper colour, less dark than that of the
North American Indians, and partaking more of
the Mexican tint. It is supposed that this family
is the produce of an admixture sf the Malays and
the north-western black tribes of Australia, driven
from the interior by continuous and incessant
drought, or that they are the remnant of some
extinct race.

The winter, now on the eve of giving place to out
Australian spring, has been unusually severe this
year. Snow has fallen in some places, to the vast
admiration of many a colonist under twenty years of
age ; and the creeks in various parts have been
covered with numerous flocks of swans, ducks, teal,
widgeons, and other wild fowl. Nevertheless, an
extensive drought has prevailed in the southern
district, causing great destruction among the cattle
from the want of food and water. The price of
meat is consequently high in the Victoria markets.