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Witness had to examine that, and if correct
obtain the sanction of the commissioners, accord-
ing to act of Parliament, and make out dupli-
cates for the collectors, who had no authority
to collect any taxes until they had received
them. The prisoner would no doubt have received
the duplicate in December had not defalcations
been discovered by witness. They amounted in the
whole to .E 713 Os. lid. A portion was collected by
the prisoner with the old printed receipts, and the
remainder with the new ones for 1857 and 1858.
On the 10th of December last the prisoner was com-
mitted to Horsemonger-lane gaol, by the commis.;
sioners, for these defalcations.
In cross-examination by Mr. Thomson, witness
said that the assessment produced was made for
three years, and expired in 1860 ; but although the
prisoner was the assessor, he must be annually re-
appointed as collector. In June last the prisoner
came to him, and asked for the blank receipt books
tiir 1857 and 1858. Witness told him it was un-
usual to give the collectors receipt books before the
duplicate of the assessment was delivered. The pri-
soner told him he only wanted them to fill up the
dates, &c., as that would save him time. Witness
handed hm the books, telling him not to collect
any taxes with them until he was appointed, or he
would be liable to heavy penalties ; on the 2d Nov.
he believed, and, in fact, he ordered the prisoner to
collect taxes due by Mr. Cogan, a bankrupt, but
that was done under special instructions, as under
such cireumstances he could indemnify the prisoner
properly appointed collector.
Mr. asked whether the commissioners
for t
Thomsonbei being a
had not treated the defalcations in the nature of a
debt ? _ _

Mr. Sells replied that Mr. Burbridge was com-
mitted to the debtors side of Horsemonger-lane
gaol by them until the defalcations were satisfied.
Mr. Thomson inquired whether they had not re-
ceived his balance at his bankers, as well as the
amount realised by the seizure of his property.
Mr. Sells replied that he believed all he had at
his bankers' was £4O. That was given up, and he
had an account of the property realised.
Mr. Hurrell objected to this mode of cross-exa-
mination. All they had to do was his obtaining
divers sums of money without authority.
Other cases of a similar nature were brought for-
ward. Mr. Johnson then summed up the evidence
with great minuteness, and the jury, after a short
consultation, returned a verdict of acquittal.
Mr. Burbridge was, however, detained at the suit
of the Crown,' and was again removed to his old
quarters in Horsemonger-lane gaol.
CONVICTION OF A NOTORIOUS HORSE-STEALER.
Wm. Kelly, 40, described as a horse dealer, but
well known as connected with a notorious gang of
horse stealers and " coupers," was indicted for admi-
nistering a narcotic drug to Jonathan Fisher, a
greengrocer, of Lewisham, and stealing from him a
• horse, value £l3. There were other indictments
against him for obtaining other horses from several
persons by means of false pretences. The particulars
of the case have appeared in our police reports.
The jury found him guilty.
It being proved that he had been previously sen-
tenced to four years' penal servitude for similar
!offences, the Court sentenced him to six years'
penal servitude.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH -4T CAM
WELL.

uring the past fTe---ar-i-lays considerable excite.
went prevailed throughout the districts of Camber-
well and Peckham in consequence of the discovery
of a man lying in a garden, near two pools of blood,
With his throat cut almost from ear to ear. Mr.
Woodman, the summoning officer, having been ap-
prised of the finding of the body, at once waited
upon Mr. Win. Carter, the coroner for the Eastern
Division of Surrey, and an inquest was accordingly
opened by that learned gentleman in the vestry
Mall of Camberwell parish, when the following evi-
dence was adduced
', Thomas Conner said that he was a dealer in fish,
and resided at No. 6, Zar-street, Deptford. Last
Friday evening he went to supper in Charlotte-
street, New Kent-road. He got there between 7
and 8 o'clock, and he left the place in from eight to
ten minutes afterwards by a way called Roll's-
road, running parallel with the Kent-road. He
arrived at the toll-bar near the Newington-road,
Rotherhithe, when a man came up and said that
he had heard a groaning noise under the hedge.
In consequence of what he said he went with him a
distance of 20 or 30 yards, and he then also
.heard
the groaning noise spoken of by the man. He
looked through a cluickset hedge and saw what ap-
peared to be a white jacket' on the ground. The
man who was with him, and whom he did not
know, said" Let us jump over." Witness got over
the fence, and he saw that the object his atten-
tion had been called to was a man lying on his
right side, with his head on his right arm, and
blood on his sleeves and jacket. He raised his
head, and found that his throat was cut. He was
then alive, but did not speak in his hearing. He
told the man who had first addressed him to go for
the police and a doctor, and he (witness) remained
with him, as well as a man with a horse and van,
and the deceased was placed in the vehicle, and
removed to Dr. Hooper's surgery, but he died in
the course of a few minutes. He looked about but
could find no weapon, and he did not notice any
braise or injury on his person.
Mr. T. Watkins Hooper, surgeon, of No. 1 Maise-
more-place, Park-road, New Peckham, said that
on last Friday, about 20 minutes past 8 o'clock, the
deceased was brought to his surgery, the last wit-
ness being one of the peraons bringing him. He
found him to be alive, but quite pulseless, and his
face blanched. There was blood about his jacket
and shirt, which had flowed from an incised wound
in the throat. The wound was in length six or
seven inches, which had been done by a sharp in-
strument. There was only one wound, and clean
cut, commencing at the right angle of the right
jaw, extending across the throat above the/larynx,
which was exposed, and the pharynx and jugular
vein cut through. The superficial veins were also
divided. The wound itself was mortal, and. was
the cause of death. He did not detect any other
injury on his person.
By the Coroner—The situation of the wound was
in such a part that he could have inflicted it him-
self by using a razor or other sharp instrument. He
did not notice any blood on his hands. The wound
was deeper on the right side than on the left, which
led him to believe, if done by himself, it must have
been done by the left hand. He was searched in
his presence, and a comb and spectacle case were
found upon him. He thought that he was about
40 years of age. Had there been any resistance'on
his part to another, the wound would have had a
more jagged appearance. His inference was from
the appearances that it was an act of his own.
At this part of the proceedings the learned Coro-
ner directed the doctor and the beadle to go and
make a more minute examination of the body by
having it stripped and washed. Whilst that was
being done other witnesses were examined, when
William Tweed said that he was a police-consta-
ble, No. 218 M—On Friday last he was on duty at
20 minutes to 8, and when between the railway
arches and the wooden viaduct of the Bricklayers
Arms branch, he was met by a man, who said that
some other man had cut his throat, and was taken
in a van to Mr. Hooper's. He went to that gentle-
man's and found the man dead. After a short time
he met a man named Carpenter, and borrowing a light
they went into a piece of garden land on the right
hand side of the New -road from the Kent-road, and.
on proceeding along the side of the fence, 20 or 30
yards in the direction of Rotherhithe, he found a
black cloth cap on the bank of the hedgerow, and
within 9 inches thereof was a pool of blood. About
three feet onwards was another pool of blood, and
within a foot of that he found a razor, which he
produced. It was open, and had blood on it. It
had a black handle, but no name or initials except
that of the maker. It was six feet from the cap,
and near to the place where he got over he found a
leathern apron carelessly rolled nu, nearly new,
and such as coopers or smiths wear.
Edwin Kent, a fireman on board the Antagonist
steamboat, proved hearing the groaning proceeding
from the ground on the left hand side of the road.
He got upon the rail, but not seeing any one, he
waited till he heard footsteps. A person (the first
witness) came up, and he made known to him what
he had heard. They got over and found a man,
who appeared weak, and he went for a policeman,
and on getting one, and returning to the place, he
met a van, and understanding that the man was
therein, he went to the surgeon's. He did not meet
any one near.
By the Coroner—He had no recollection of see-
ing any female
was at the time going up to the Lyndhurst-road,
pass along as he proceeded. He
Peckham. He did not hear any noise of persons
passing up or down the ground before he heard the
groans.

Mr. Hooper, upon re-entering the court, said that
he had made a further examination of the deceased.
There were no marks of violence on the body ex-
cept the throat. He found a tattooed mark o?
" k 8., born May 28, 1802," encircled in a mar-
ginal line in the shape of a heart. The left hand
appeared to be much more hardened than the right,
as if he was left-handed. On his pocket handker-
chief, which was of cotton material, with puce or
lavender colour figured border, was a figure of 6
and the word " Cullen," and under that two figures
of 5. He had on moleskin trousers, an under flan-
nel shirt, a blue slop shirt, flannel jacket, and cross-
boots, and pair of new cotton braces.
stage of the proceedings the inquiry was
alialjAroruteditih-ineisedeierchief, white cotton stockings, blucher
atill next week, in consequence of the
want of identity and for further evidence.

A WIZARD'S VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA.

LETTER FROM PROFESSOR ANDERSON.
Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 1858.
Dear Sir,—Books about Australia have been
issued from the press in plenty ; and letters from
emigrants, diggers, squatters, farmers, traders,
literary men, operatives, soldiers, sailors, loafers,
anybodies and nobodies, have appeared in English
papers so frequently, that it would almost be pre-
sumed, on a first consideration, nothing more re-
mained to be said about the country, and that no
new ground remained to be broken.' A wizard, how-
ever, is generally supposed to be a being of another
class to those usually met with every day, and as
such, would be likely to be a different sort of corre-
spondent to the run of correspondents in general.
Hence, I venture to send you a little news about the
other side of the earth : in the first place, because, as
a wizard, my points of view will probably be unlike
those of correspondents who have already commu-
nicated with you ; and, in the second place, because
it is quite out of the question for any one to have
told all that can be told of this great country. How
are you to do it ? Before this letter reaches you
there will be more changes in Melbourne than would
happen in Aberdeen during 20 years ; and the
Australia of yesterday as different from the Aus-
tralia of to-day as Balgownie Brig differs from
Princes Bridge over the Yarra Yarra. The informa-
tion that I send you inthis is reliable, because it has
been all gathered on the spot, and carefully noted
for transmission home ; and, as some of it may be
valuable f rom its affording a true account of the
colony of Victoria so far as regards its prosperity,
the price of labour, and the character of the people,
you will not object, I hope, to give it a place in
your columns.
I must premise, however, that what I have to
say chiefly relates to Melbourne ; for that is nearly
all of the colony that I have seen at present. I
left England, as I believe you are aware, on the
11th of last March in the ship Monsoon. I sailed.
from Liverpool, and arrived in Hobson's Bay, Vic-
toria, on June 10. A voyage to Australia had been
pictured to me before starting as one of the most
pleasant it was possible to make. I regret that I
did not find it to be so, though I have no doubt that
my disappointment in great part originated from
sailing in a chartered vessel. It was imperative
that I should, leave England at the date I did, so
that I had no alternative : the vessel advertised
was the one I had to go by, and I went. So far as
the ship herself was concerned, or the seafaring
qualifications of the captain, there was no cause of
complaint. ' No better sailor, nor any more trust-
worthy ship, do I wish for when next I go to sea,
than was our skipper and the vessel he commanded.
But the lesson I learned was this—that it will be well
for my northern friends who are intending to emi-
grate to remember it—never sail in a chartered ship.
If you do, you will make the following discoveries:
First, that the charterers care very little about the
comforts of the vessel they charter ; secondly, that
the owners of the vessel look after the ship,
but have nothing to do with you ; thirdly, that the
servants, being the servants of the owners, and not
the servants of the charterers, look after the in-
terests of their masters, or perhaps their own in-
terest in preference, caring very little about that of
the hirers of the ship ; and, fourthly, that, between
the two stools—charterers and owners—you are
very like :to fall to the ground, and, paying first-
class fare, find that you have third-class accommo-
dation only. All the usual incidents and accidents
of an Australian trip, of course, befel us as we
sought across the seas for the Continent of the
South. We met ships in the Channel, were sea-
sick in the Bay of Biscay, saw porpoises in
plenty sighted Madeira in the distance, sweltered
on the line, were half-frozen in lat. 45 deg. S., en-
countered a hurricane and saw our ship with all
her canvas furled, and her masts bending ready to
break, about a fortnight's sail from our destination ;
caught albatrosses, saw sharks, smelt icebergs in
the distance, and beheld no sign of human life, ex-
cept that which was to be seen. in • our own ship,
from lat. zero to long. 143 deg. E. If we had had
all the good things which were promised to us at
the outset, we might have been better pleased ; and
if we had not encountered two pretty respectable
storms on the way, everybody, perhaps, would have
assented to what I believe is a very popular belief at
home—namely, that an Australian voyage is as
smooth as was that of the baro-e of Cleopatra, de-
scribed by Enobarbus, instead of being sometimes,
as it was with us, more like the voyage of Ferdi-
nand and his friends when they found Miranda on
the Enchanted Isle. As a matter of course, the
fact of the Wizard being on board was accepted by
some as sufficient explanation of the cause of every
gust of wind and every roll of the sea. The first
morning that I appeared on deck I was recognised
by a score or two on board who had witnessed my
performances in some one part or other of the
three kingdoms ; and many of them appeared to
have grave doubts as to whether they had done
rightly in sailing' in a ship which carried the
Wizard of the North. However, before we had
left behind us many of the 16,000 miles which se-
parated us from the shores of our destination, all
fear on this score was fully removed. My Scottish
friends rallied around me and chatted, with plea-
sant recollections, of the
Heather that empurpled blooms
On the hills of Caledon,
as they paced the deck with me at night ; and my
Irish acquaintances accepted my invitation to drink
to the success of old Ireland on St. Patrick's Day,
with all the enthusiasm which characterises Irish-
men, meet them where you may. My English
friends had seen me either at the Strand, Adelphi,
Lyceum, or Covent-garden Theatres ; and having
at length caught me shut up with them for three
months on board a ship, felicitated themselves on
their lucky chance of being able to learn how the
great gun-trick was effected, how I contrived to
pass half a dozen watches through a man's head,
and in what way I commanded the spirits who
deliver their oracles through ,the medium of my
rapping table. lam afraid that the information
they received from me will not make any one of
them a conjuror.
Ninety-one days after leaving England, I stepped
on the soil of Australia. I had reft myself from
lands where fortune had smiled upon me from my
boyhood, and had to seek my fortune on land
which I had never trodden, under a sky which I
had never seen. Strange and puzzling was it,
therefore, to me, as I rode on the car from Sand-
ridge to Melbourne, to pass faces that were as fami-
liar to me as if I had seen them but yesterday, and.
to recognise five or six good men whom I last met
when I played at the County-rooms in Union-street;.
Aberdeen. This is the first thing that strikes you
on arriving at the other end of the globe—that it
is almost the same as being at home. Your long
three months' voyage appears, in the course of 24
hours after landing, to be nothing more than a
dream to you, and you walk out the next morning,
not to stare and wonder, but to shake hands and
say, " How d'ye do im just as you would have dong
the next morning after leaving England, if the ship
had put back and you had never gone to sea at all.
Not but what you may be altogether disappointed
with Melbourne ; for, if you have heard of it as a
dingy, dirty, ill-built town, with rough, rude in-
habitants, ...very little pretensions to civilisation,
and peopled with diggers, walking about in red
skirts, with revolvers in their waistband, pickaxes
on their shoulders, and a huge nugget of gold in
each hand; you will find, upon arrival, that your
information has been as erroneous as it could well
be. What Melbourne is, is simply a large well laid-
out city, covering many square miles of ground,
built on two hills, which rise to the west and east
of the city proper. But to describe it, suppose we
go back to the bay, or still further back, as far as
Port-Philip Heads. Entering them you have one
or two facts to remember. First, that 100 years
ago, no vessel, so far as history records, had applied
for admission at that unknown gateway of the
south—that no hardy adventurer from the shores
of Britain had asked of the rocky janitors permis-
sion to enter the well-guarded precincts. Secondly,
you have to bear in mind that 30 years ago, he who
lived undisputed master of all that lay within those
gates was the black. man who claimed to be the
aboriginal—that on theiland within the great
dinorius had lived, died; and become extinct, the
kangaroo lept, the opossum sprang from bough to
bough, the tall grass waved, the gum-tree flourished
in undisturbed possession of the primeval forest, and.
the Yarra-Yana flowed onwards to the sea, un-
marked on any map, and without a place in any
geography., Now, when you arrive at the Heads,
your coming is telegraphed up to Melbourne imme-
diately by:the electric telegraph, and before you
land the arrival of the ship in which you sail is
notified in the morning's newspapers, and is a sub-
ject of interest to 100,000 inhabitants, in most part
natives of those British Isles which lie so many
thousand miles away. Well, you pass through the
Heads and enter Ho'bson's Bay. A magnificent one
you find it to be. Melbourne is thirty miles
from you, and the bay opens up around you
like a sea. To your right, placed among some
umbrageous scenery, is a large, white, hand-
some looking building, which you soon learn to be
the residence of the avernment Medical Inspector,
and away to your left, the water of the bay flows
up to the town of Geelong, the port of Ballarat.
There are three channels through the bay. Your
pilot takes you along one that is well buoyed, and
as you sail on you descry Williamstown in the dis-
tance to your right, and pretty St. Kilda to the
left. You drop anchor in Port-Philip Bay, and
around you are as many ships as you would see in
Leith harbour, and most of them of much greater
tonnage than you would see there. A boat takes
you on shore at Sandbridge, and a railway conveys-
you up to Melbourne. It costs you at the present

time £1 for the boatmen, if 'you specially engage.
But six years ago, and it would have cost you five
times as much. Six years ago, and you would have
ridden on no railway, have seen no Sandbridge,
have beheld nothing of that large sugar factory,
built of grey-stone, which you see in process of com-
pletion near the beach. There were none of those
pretty villas which you behold everywhere around
the bay—there was no car to take you up to town,
if you preferred being drawn by a horse rather than
being whirled by steam, and there was no brick nor
stone building, even, in the town to which you are
going ; while even the suburb, three miles distant
from it, has its substantial hotels and stores at the
present time. When the railway has landed you
m Melbourne, you find yourself in a city the streets
of which are laid out at right angles, each of them
as broad or broader than George-street, Edinburgh
—all of them lighted with gas, patrolled by police,
having apple and orange stalls at the corners, and
the telegraph posts planted at equal spaces beside
the curb-stone. One thing that strikes you is the
iron bridge over which you pass from the pave-
ment to the road when you wish to cross the street.
Every crossing has its iron bridge, and these iron
bridges across the gutters are an institution of the
city. The water, in rainy weather, flows down the
streets which tend to the river, not as a mere stream
but in one great torrent, frequently so broad and
so strong as to sweep away the iron bridges alto-
gether ; and—in Elizabeth-street, for instance—so
to deluge the road that, if you wish to cross over to
the Post-office, you must do so on a cart and pay
Gd. for being taken over. This is one of the de-
fects of Melbourne which will be remedied when a
thorough system of sewerage is adopted. At pre-
sent the town is entirely without sewers, and labour
is too costly for anything of the kind to be attempted.
Now that I have spoken of labour and its costli-
ness, it may be as well that I give you some idea
of what it really is, and what you have to pay, if
you wish to have anything done in Victoria. Let
it be borne in mind, to begin with, that living is
comparatively cheap, though house-rent is fearfully
dear. A small four-roomed house readily lets at
£lOO per annum; and "this house to let" is a sort
of notice which you seldom see anywhere in Mel-
bourne. Except in the suburbs very few of the
original wooden houses remain. Most are built of
brick and many of stone. The majority are of two
storeys only, and with few exceptions all are self-
contained. A single gentleman may lodge at
a first-class hotel, and have the best of board
far £3 per week, and a working man may
get his board and lodging for 255. weekly ; the
.
single man has to pay more in proportion than the
married, because provisions are exceedingly cheap
if you buy and cook them yourself. You can get
a dinner for ls. at any of the common eating-houses,
but you can buy a pound of the best beefsteak for
5d., if you like to take it home and cook it your-
self. In BOurke-street there is now a magnificent
establishment, known as the Cafe de Paris, sur-
' passing in elegance and luxury of appointments
anything that London possesses among its restau-
rants. For a chop at the Cafe you pay ls. 6d., and
for a basin of soup, ls. You may dine in style for
about 7s. 6d., not including your wine, though
you may have a bottle of Burgundy for ss. Drink
of any description is comparatively dear ; nothing
can be had under Gd. To get drunk, and to pay for
getting so, is as expensive a pleasure as a Mel-
bournite can enjoy; for, should he get into the hands
of the police, no ss. fine, as in the old country, will
free him from durance vile. Yet to drink is a fashion.
Large American bars are to be seen in every quar-
ter of the town. Indeed, Americans seem to have
had a guiding hand in the social arrangements of
the city. "To nobblerise" is the verb which you
most frequently have to conjugate in Victoria; and
it means that when you transact business, or meet a
friend, you must drink strong drink of some one
kind or another. The noun "nobbler" signifies no
definite quantity, of liquid. It means a glass and a
decanter of spirits, out of which latter you pour into
the former what you consider to be a sufficient
quantity for a single draught, and you pay sixpence
for it, and that's a " nobbler." A glass of ale costs
sixpence, just as a nobbler of brandy does. At the
diggings each costs a shilling. But leave off' nob-
blerising," don't smoke cigars, nor ride in cars, nor
enjoy any luxury, and living in Melbourne will cost
you very little. There is a most excellent free
library, containing about 10,000 volumes, into
which you may walk at your pleasure without any
one asking who you are or whence you come ; and
if you are rational enough to find your amusement
there, it will cost you but the trouble of going. If
you require amusement of a more exciting charac-
ter there is Anderson, the Wizard of the North, at
the Theatre Royal, Miss Emma Stanley at the
Princess"Theatre, a circus in Lonsdale-street, and
an Argyle Rooms for dancing farther up the same
street. It is easy to find something to see and to
hear any evening that you may. wish. For at the
Mechanics' Institute you may listen to a lecture,
and at the Exhibition Building you may hear a
concert.

But you may not care about amusements,
and may wish to work and to trade only.
Very well, trade is dull just now, but is expected
to be better soon, and work before long will
be plentiful. Railways, on an extensive scale, are
not only projected, but in process of commence-
ment. The tenders for the Ballarat railway have
already been accepted, and people are looking out
for the Leviathian to bring out 5,000 navvies to
carry out the'work. The first sod of the Suburban
Railway was turned by his Excellency the Gover-
nor a few days ago, and before it is completed other
iron-ways .of ten times its length will be begun.
Men are wanted, and wanted in any number. Who-
ever has a strong back and a stout arm, who is will-
ing to work, and who likes hard work for the fun
of it, is wanted in Victoria. No idlers are required,
for there are already more than enough of that
valueless class who lay themselves out to " do any-
thing." It is true that if you go down to the Post-
office at any time you will -see groups of unem-
ployed men loitering about and professing to be
wanting employment ; but go up to one of them, tell
him you want him to work eight hours a day for a
week or two, and ask him how much pay he will
expect. " Ten shillings a day" will be his answer,
and if you offer him five you are very likely to be
told, in not the most courteous manner, to go to
a certain place which it would be equally uncourte-
ous to name. It must be remembered that this glo-
rious southern land is one where there are no beg-
gars and no poor-houses. There is a large and laud-
able institution, called the Benevolent Asylum, to
which those may go who are incapacitatedfor
labour ; but for him who can work there is work
enough to do, and he must do it. To stay in Mel-
bourne is not the right way to obtain it. He must
shoulder his pack, and turn his face towards the
up-country. Work and money, plenty to eat, and
independence in the future await him there. For
the information of those at home who are looking
for a home elsewhere, and who think of trying their
fortunes in a new land, I give you the most recent
quotation of the labour market. As it is not made
up expressly to send to England, I think that you
may take the Wizard's word for its being pretty
correct.

Government temporary labour in relief, that is,
employment given by the Immigration Aid Officers
to those who on arrival can find nothing to do im-
mediately, and are in want, 4s, per day and half
rations ; road-makers, that is to say stone-breakers
(and on the road leading to the race-course there is
a clergyman's son at this work at the moment I
write), from ss. to Bs. per day
Masons and bricklayers . 14s to 168 per day
Carpenters
Policemen
Compositors is 4d per 1,000
Farm labourers
Gardeners £6o to £6.5 per year
Grooms ... 52 to 60 „
Shepherds
Female servants (in great request) 25 to 35 ~
Married couples, without families 70 to 80 ),
Nobody moves for you in Melbourne under half-a-
crown. A gentleman gives that much to a boy for
holding his horse ; and a lad of twelve or thirteen
for running an errand or two during the day will
ask and expect five shillings. Washing is among
one of the dearest -items of necessary expenditure.
You cannot get it well done under 4s. or 3s. 6d. a
dozen, even if it be only a dozen • shirt collars,
Whenever you have to employ labour, and when--
ever you have to get your fellow-man to lend you a
hand, you find the value of a man as an article in
Victoria. You may buy a pair of ready-made Wel-
lington boots, imported from England, for 18s., but
if you order a pair to be made you will have to pay
£3 or £4. You may buy a ready-made Newmarket-
cut coat for 355.; but if von insist on having one
made to measure, you will have to pay £5. All
articles of wearing appal-el can be bought ready-
made, as cheap, and in some instances cheaper,
in
than you can purchase them Great Britain, but
when you desire a thing to be made expressly to
suit your fancy, y-ou bargain for the dearest thing
there is in Victoria, and that.
is human labour. And
give
here, by the bye, I will a word of advice to
home, those of my friends at ho
who, knowing nothing
of the Australian market, may be inclined either to
send or to bring out t what they think will be for-
tunate ventures: Ten o one the result of their
speculation will be that their goods will go to the
auction-room, and not realise their original cost.
It is one of the strangest markets in the world to
cater for. There may be a demand for some parti-
cular article just now, and advices to that effect
being sent home, in a few months there will be a
perfect glut of that particular commodity. Then
again, there may be some special items of trade or
manufacture selling at a loss on. the export cost
just note, owing ''to the plenitude of its supply.
Presently the stock. will h e exhausted, and no one
having thought of advising their correspondents for