The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCE.

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We have been favoured with a sight of a private letter
which conveys gratifying intelligence as to the improving
piste of this important colony. The prospects of the
ise !tiers are very promising at present ; wool alone will
realise about 1,250,000/., and tallow, sperm, and black
oil. hides, whalebone, gum, &c. will yield an amount
hich cannot be valued at less than 550,000/. A friend
cf the writer was making preparations for boiling down
Et male cattle, and old sheep, to the extent of 24,0001.,
including the value of the hides. It is on the whole ex-
p cted that the exports this year from the colony (owing
t. the present system of economy) will exceed the imports
bv nearly 700,000/. ; about two thirds of last year's
ti.-p had been shipped. The following extract from
the Sydney Morning Herald of 26th of April last, being
the day when the last accounts left, will afford some
idea of the flourishing state of trade :—" By the ships
which leave the port for London to-day, produce worth
100,0001. in the colony, and at least 150,0001. in Eng-
land, will he exported. *The General Hewitt takes by far
it•e most valuable cargo that ever left the port. the
priu-
ci pal items being four hundred tuns of sperm oil, which
is
now worth 901. a tun in London, sixteen hundred and fifty
bales of wool, ono hundred tons of tallow, and two thou-
sand four hundred hides. The Palestine takes fifteen
hi.ndred and thirty-five bales of wool, sixty tons tallow
and four hundred and sixty hides. The Autumnus takes
home thirteen hundred bales wool, thirty-six tons tal-
low, and five hundred and eighty hides. Previous to
these vessels, there have been exported this month, by
the Herald, two thousand five hundred and fifty bales
et wool, one hundred tons tallow, eighteen hundred
bides, and one hundred and nine tons black oil. By the
Bright Planet there were exported one hundred and nine
vtos sperm oil, and four hundred and seventy hides.
She English value of the exports to London for the
ja, ,nth of April cannot be less than 200,0001."—.0 o_
11'01i Mercury.

JACK KETCH',4 PERQUISITES.—After the late exe-
eaion of Benjamin Ellison, at Bodmin, Jack Ketch sold the
tope with which he was hanged to great advantage, obtaining
a shilling for the smallest bit of it, from persons who bought it
to cure fits and the King's evil.
RAILWAY DAY-'RICKETS.—The following letter,
dated Shoreditch Station, London, Aug. 25, 1845, has been
received in reply to a memorial to the Directors of the Eastern
Coenties Railway, requesting the adoption of the system of
day-tickets, now so general on other lines.
Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 16th instant, accompanying a memorial from the inhabi-
tants of Colchester, which have been laid before the Board of
Directors, and I am desired to state that the subject to which
the memorial refers bas receatiy received the attention of the
Directors ; and that they had come to the determination of
neuing first and second class day-tickets, et the rate of a fare
and a half, arrangements for which will be immediately made.
" I am desired to add that the Directors derived much satis-
faction iu having anticipated the wishes expressed in a memo-
rial respectably and numerously signed. I have the honour
tojx, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" ANT. BULKELEY, Secretary.
/4 t:" ; • Gfeen, gsq., Colchester."
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