The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-11 00:00:00

ISSUE DEP.

Notes Issued ..... . • 23,045,180

423,045,180

Dated the 9th day of April. 18;

BANKING DE
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ................ 3,842,182
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 9,019,533
Other deposits ......, 9,419,012
3(ven Day and other
8i115........ 743,049

£37,576,776 437,576,776
M. MARSHALL, Chief enabler.
Dated the 9th day of Aptil, 1857.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending April
7, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on. the importation thereof into Great
Britain : s, d.
From the British Possessions in America 39 5
Muscovado, tho produce of the Mauritius....
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 3O 54
Average of the above descriptions.

THE LIINDHILL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—The adjourn-
ed inquest was resumed yesterday, at the Brampton
Bull's Head, before Mr. Badger, the coroner. Several
additional vvitnesses had been examined, and the Court
Was sitting at the time our parcel left,

From the files of newspapers brought to England
by the Jura we extract the following
'(From the Melbourne Argus of Feb._l4.)
•

The corn crops being now secured in all but the
very late districts, the demand for farm servants is
not so urgent as it has been ; still there is work to
be had by all who really seek it. The farmers and
settlers all want more hands to carry out improve-
ments and extend their operations, and are willing

to engage as many as they can get at the Ordinary
rate of wages,. which men would not accept during
the time of shearing and harvest. While the busy
season lat 4, wages for short terms of engagement
rise so much above the usual rate, that all other
works on. stations . and farms. are at a standstill.
Now that the work whieh•adinits of no delay is over
and employment at these extra rates is no longer is
be had, masters are. anxious 'to engage men for
lorigzr periods at the standard wages, and resume
their suspended improvements ; but so long as the
restless characters who always take advantage of the
unsettl• d state of affairs during the spring and sum-
mer months to indulge their rambling propensities,
and at the same time reap a harvest for themselves,
have money in their pockets, they are net inclined
to settle down to work fore which.. they will receive
a-Smaller remuneration. Ferahis reason the labour
market is rather unsettled at this season, and will
remain so fora, few weeks. On the gold fields the
diggers and quar: z miners are gradually becoming
more settled and more systematic in their mode of
working. The consequence is that those who have
not sufficient funds to enable them to work on their
own account more readily find employment, and on
some of the diggings at a very high rate of wages.
On the Ovens golSfield, where the American sys-
tem has been adopted, and the work is -mostly done
by men in large parties, the regular wage for an
ordinary labouring man is twenty shillings a day.
On the other gold fields the parties engaged in
washing the alluvial soil are generally smaller and
mostly composed of men working in partnership,
so there is not so much demand for labourers for
that purpose ; but there are very many quartz-
reefs now worked on all the diggings, which afford
plenty of employment both to• labourers and me-
chanics. A great deal of machinery is constantly
sent up from Melbourne, for which the necessary
buildings have to be erected. Very much capital
is also expended in improving the inland towns, in
which large hotels,' theatres, concert-rooms, and
substantial shops an 1 dwelling-houses have re-
placed the calico and canvas covered erections of
the early days of gold-digging.
Besides the amount of work afforded by private
enterprise, there are all the public works of the
colony, such as roads and bridges, public buildings,
; and in addition to those already in progress,
the main lines of railway to the interior will soon
be commenced on a scale commensurate with what
we may expect our requirements to be a few years
hence. These railways alone will afford employ-
ment to a great number of men for a longer time
than we Can look forward to ; and every new line
will open up and give increased value to a fresh
track of agricultural land ; so that notwithstanding
the alarmist views of many persons in the old coun-
try, who do not understand high wages, and who
believe that they must ruin either individuals or
communities, who are obliged for long to pay them,
we belieVe that we may safely promise their 'con-
tinuance here, and that without the slightest
danger of our being ruined. The expense of living
is now very moderate, and the labour of every
working man, unless sadly misdirected, adds con-
siderably to our wealth ; so that we really cannot
sea from what quarter ruin is to assail us.
The export of gold from Victoria during the
year 1856 amounted to one hundred and twenty-
five tons.

The vessels which have, sailed to foreign ports
with shipments of gold during the current year are
given below.

January 1. Orwell
6. Good Hopo
7. Auqtral (Geel ong-)... London
13. Copenhagen • London
13. White Star
15. Marco Polo
15. Telegraph Bombay ... ..... 976
15. Royal Charter ..
22. Canton
27. Oneida
2T. Podesta 'Hong Kong ... 7,215
27. Thames(Geelong) London
February 1. Anglesey
3. South Carolina...... Liverpool
3. Sydenham . . London
3. Star of the East ... Bombay 1,591
9. James Paton Hong Kong ... 7,210
12. Morning Star Bristol ......... 48,380
12. Seringapatam
A proposition has been put forth by Dr. Lang
for the establishment of an independent territory,
to comprise the extensive tract of country lying be-
tween the Murray and the Murrumbidgee, to the
north of our own colony, and, at present, including
in that of New South Wales. The district referred
to contains an area of 30,000 square miles. It is
peculiarly favoured in respect to the possession of
two noble rivers, equally valuable for the purposes
of navigation and irrigation, and of a Vast breadth
of alluvial land bordering the rivers ; while, in
other districts, the soil is said to be favourable for
pastoral purposes. Dr. Lang suggests the Tumut
river as the eastern boundary of the proposed ter-
ritory, but the Border Post (a paper published at
Albury) contends for a coast line about 100 miles in
length, extending between Cape Howe and Point
Dromedary, and including the settlements of Eden
and Twofold Bay, as the more natural boundary ;
while Albury is indicated as the future capital of
the new province.
In reply to some objections which have been
urged against the proposition on the ground of its
prematurity, and of the, inability of the population
to support a Government. Dr. Lang observes :
" As the separation of Port Philip was not granted
till ten years from the time when it was first asked
for, and as the separation of Moreton Bay has only
been conceded after it had been expressly provided
for by Act of Parliament six years before, it surely
cannot be too soon to agitate for the separation of
the territory intervening between the Murray and
Ithe Murrumbidgee. As to the ability of these new
colonieS (in esse and posse) to support a Govern-
ment, it has been ascertained that the export from
the Moreton Bay country, even without gold, ex-
ceeds 30/. for every man, woman, and child in the
district ; and it is estimated that New South
Wales draws about 600,0001. per annum from stock
exported to the southward, chiefly, of course, to
Victoria. , Now the greater portion of this stock
comes from the Murrumbidgee country."
The " theatrical world" of Melbourne has been
barren of incidents since the date of our last sum-
mary. The season at the Theatre Royal terminated
on the 31st ult., when the manager, Mr. George
Coppin, took his benefit, as Sir Peter Teazle, in the
" School for Scandal." • There was a very large
attendance ; and in a valedictory speech, retrospec-
tive of the business of the season, Mr. Coppin stated
that he had lost 4,0001. in his endeavour to make
the Italian opera a colonial institution, but that he
had retrieved his losses by the gains accruing from
the performance of the regular drama.
Mr. Brooke, with Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Heir, are
still playing successfully in Sydney ; and Madame
Anna Bishop appears to have fairly turned the
heads of the people in Tasmania. Miska Hauser has
returned to Melbourne from Adelaide, and pur-
poses to give some farewell concerts in this city,
and will immediately afterwards take his departure
for Europe,,visiting Vienna, eat route for London ;
whero wo shall be.very 'much mistaken if he does
not excite a sensation second only to that occasioned
by the extraordinary powera of Paganini.
The bill for abolishing the property qualification
of Members of the Legislative Assembly has passed
through that chamber, flilcl been read a oecond time
in the council.
On the 12th of It ebrualy a debate of groat im-
portance took place iri the Legislature of Victoria on
a bill which then passed through committee—a bill
to provide for the establishment of an emigration
department in England to manage the funds pro-
vided by the colony for emigration purposes—funds
which have hitherto been administered by the com-
missioners appointed in England.

(From the Melbourne Weekly News of Feb. 13.)

The New South Wales Government seem to un-
dervalue the importance of electric telegraph com-
munication with the interior of that country, or
perhaps, and indeed probably, there are no inland
'owns sufficiently energetic and important to war-
rant the Executive in expending the public re•
venues in works not likely to prove productive.
We are glad to find by the following conversation
oh the fitthject, which recently. took Ow in the

" Mr.. Hay said that he .might state -that the
Government did not intend to take any steps to-
wards introducing lines of electric telegraph into
any other districts of the colony, except into those
towards the southward, so as to form a telegraphiJ
communication with Victoria, and to meet the line
now forming there. The Governmfmt would aloo
be prepared to call for tenders very shOrtly after
the vote for the purpose should be pas§ed by the
House."

The following accounts of reported mineral dis-
coveries are from the Adelaide Weekly Despatch of
Feb. 7 :

GOLD AT LAST.

Two men, just in from the country, called upon
Mr. Tinline, at the Bank of South Australia, late.
on Thursday, and deposited with him about four-
.teen and a half ounces, which, after much search,
they had obtained in some of our quartz ranges.
The men's account of the matter is, that in sinking
on the ranges, they came upon a load of reddish,
brown quartz, evidently of a gold bearing charac-
ter, and that they had, in one day, r used ten
buckets full of stuff out of the hole, and by the aid
of logs of trees and hammers 'had crushed it, and
obtained that quantity of gold from it. Mr. Tinline
brought round this gold to our office, about half-
past ten o'clock in the evening, in a basin' with a
solution of sulphuric acid, for our inspection. It
is of a thready and foliated character, just like what
would be crushed from quartz. The men's state-
ment was, in all respects, a straightforward and
apparently truthful one. They believe the gold
fields to extend over a range of half-a-mile in
width by thirty miles in length. Mr. Tinline fully
believes the gold left in his charge to b 3 South
Australian gold, and he is confirmed ir. this opinion
by Mr. Mackinnon, of the Argus, who is now on a
visit from Melbourne, and who was present when
the men brought it. Mr. Mackinnon had never
seen gold of that description obtained from any of
the Victorian gold fields, but its quattzose matrix
exactly corresponds with that- found at Bendigo.
From an examination of the hills, beyond Brown-
hill Creek, Mr. Mackinnon, moreover, islof opinion
that gold will eventually be found there. The men
report themselves to have lodged their claim with
the Government for the gold discovery reward, but
until that is acknowledged they will of course say
nothing about the locality. Prom all we have
heard and seen, we believe a paying gold field has
at length been discoVered ; but a day or two at
farthest wall decide the matter.