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TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18,1854.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.

THE commencement of another spring, the
season of hope for the future, seems to have
revived that desire for emigration which a short
time since received such a stimulus from the glow-
ing accounts of gold discoveries in Australia.
Much that then led to day-dreams of large for-
tunes acquired with almost magic rapidity, has
been since considerably modified by counter tales
of great distress, and the paucity of prizes com-
pared to blanks; but still the tide of success has
rolled onward, and reflection has served to con-
vince the many that, even without undergoing the
toil and hazard of gold seeking, there are fortunes
to be made by steady industry in Australia which
are worth the long and hazardous voyage to the
Antipodes to gain. The Norwood, one of the far-
famed Black Ball Line of packet ships, has just
left 'this port with a full complement of passengers
for the thriving colony, and we understand that
Messrs. GIBBS, BRIGHT, and Co., the owners of
the majestic steam-ship the Great Britain, and the
Eagle Line of packets, arc now receiving applica-
tions for passage as numerous as when the first
rush to the gold diggings induced the belief, or
rather the fear, that the population of Great Britain
was being transferred to 'the settlement of 'a new
empire in Australia. In a few days, also, will be
despatched two of the finest sailing vessels which
perhaps ever left any port on purposes of com-
merce—the Lightning, belonging to the Black
Ball Line, commanded by the captain •who twice
took the Marco Polo to Australia and back again,
and the Red Jacket, purchased by Messrs.
PILKINGTON and WILSON for their celebrated
White Star Line of packets. A rivalry between two
such vessels, into/idea to start about the same
time, must not only create considerable interest
here, but in every place where improvement in
navigation is appreciated ; and we have-no doubt
that the celerity with which the passage will be
performed will leave the question still undecided
whether steam has the advantage over sailing
vessels in so 'long a voyage. We can anticipate'
considerable benefit to the export trade of this
country from the continued emigration Ito Aus-
tralia, and the further development of the resources
of that colony; but the want which is chiefly felt
is the establishment of a regular postal communi-
cation by a line,of steam or sailing vessels,at fixed
intervals. Some arrangements are already:in pro-
gress for the promotion of this object, through a
London Company ; but we should hope that the
capital and enterprise of Liverpool will provide the
requisite means, and secure, if possible, the mail
business to this port. It might tend materially to
draw other trade into the same channel, and per-
haps restore some of the wool business which of
late years has been diverted to London, though the
change must beef great disadvantage to the York-
shire manufacturers, who would find Liverpool a
far more convenient market than the metropolis.
The local government of Melbourne are particu-
larly anxious for the establishment of a line of mail
steamers, and should not be disappointed at find-
ing them at this port, which has fitted out .the
finest steam-ships and the fastest sailing ships•that
traverse the ocean.