The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-27


appear in Monday issue
The ssme Journal of the 26th OF August, TINS sums
m the latest news from the digglngs:-So iresh IN
telligence Of importance has arrived fr in the gold
8elds OF Mount Alexander or Beudigo; but the ovsr-
lsnd mail briggs part ;nars of large meeting at The
Ovens at which speeches of the usual tenor were de-
vered and the feeling against the license fee seems
there, too, to be very strlDg.
We perceive however from our correspondents
letter that far mole temperate tone perSades the
public mind in that locality than has shown itself at
some of the other digeiDgs, and pacard issued py
the committee recommends the dggers to continue
10 pay the license fee till the result Of appeal ID
the Legislative Council be known.
IL is TO be hoped that the same moderate course
viii be pursued at the other gold fields, when tae
miners have had time for reflection, ana tne urs'
feeling OF evaporation has worn on al Inc most I'm
polite behaviour Of the Lieutenant Governor, n MS
late interview with their delegates
Yankee enterprise was going ahead in Australia,
- reported by the Bavaria.
There were American anction marts circus ex-
press wagons boarding. houses named after the vari
ana States and Yankee newspaper, the Express,
had been voted the organ OF the diggers.
A southern barber had arrived from America,
bringing his mirrors arm chairs, lounges, and keen
shaving razors, to the great relief Of the inhabi
tants.
Competitors received Is and 2s Cd. per 1000 ems
on daily papers, and Is. Sd. on weekes--fve hun
dred American ems equal to 1000. Freshmen get
sc per week and ma sbinists from CT to fl2 stone
to 30s.; lab0ren from los. to l5s
Lawyers are very numerous, but Americans find
great difficulty in being admitted to the BAR
The Government and the Diggers.
From ,he Melbourne Argus, Aug. 10
NO further news OF Importance has arrived from
the goa-6elds since publication of yesterday; but
it may easily be conceived that the events Of the
next few days looked for with some anxiety.
For our own part, confess that the result Of the
AFFAIR at the Goudburn diggngs tends still further to
mi In Md a Ilnar yNnI-
ltion at that some other OF the gold fields still
more probable than We lately thought it. The gov.
eminent appears to think too the whole Of the
military have been sent up from town, and the guards
af We treasury &C., are now composed OF the ordna
ry foot police.
A great deal Of what may now arise will depend
upon the temper, GOODNESS and discretion of the
officials; but there is denying that each day their
task Is becoming more difficult one. The commits.
sioners and other officers the gold feel Is of New
South Wales had to face somewhat similar difficult
ties, and did 30 with such success, tina; they were
very highly and deservedly complimented for the
6rmness, elaboration, and tact that they displayed
There. however the d.ggers were mu,h less numer-
authorities were less TOO; although they had to op
pose what recent events have led us to Believe de-
iberate scheme for their dlsperi n-another Offering
to the selshness and avaeice of the Wentworth fac
ton. the squatters Of New South Wales.
But while We urge caution and drmness upon those
In the employment IF the Executive, we still more
strongly urge moderation upon the dggers. In their
present excited state, they will be but too apt to pre-
sumo upon previous successes, and fancy that be-
cause they have gained their point several times
they certain of triumph still In their resistance
to the three pound license feein their attack upon
the camp at the Oveus-in their release Of the pri
BeneTs ct the Goulburn-they have been successful;
but the very nature OF these successes shows tn at
there must be limit somewhere The authority of
the government cannot be allowed to be set aside
continuously and the point of resistance will be
reached at last at which nothing short Of fatal
suit seems possible And in this instance the dggers
viii do well to recoect that public opinion is against
them, and that if they guilty of any nfractlon of
the law, under the plea OF passive resistance,
other se they will meet little sym Bathy from any
one, whatever be the fate of those whj encourage
them in their prosecution Of an illegal coure.
We beg OF them to read carefully and dis passon-
atey the document lately circulated by the Leu.en-
ant Governor, and our comments upon the subject
under discussion, contained IN the edition for the
diggings which Is this DAY completed and copies of
which will shortly find their way into every gully
upon the goldfelds- In the multi plicity Of advice
OF every tenor aud hue which is obtruded upon them
In exciting times like these we think that we can
urge no ordinary claim to favorable and unpreju-
toretod this crisis and have bored daily and hourly
to avert 1t. In every summary which ne have pre-
pared for transmission to England, we have warned
the people there Of gradually approaching forces
which snnld not meet without q CRASH We have
inceseantly urged upon them that the condition Of
vas,alage to which Great Britain has hitherto CON
demned her Australian colonies utterly incom-
patible with The tremendous development OF the
popular principle, arising from the gold discovery
Times out OF number we eonjured them to discon
0nue transportation; 20 remove a Lieut.. Governor,
atonce 30 unpopular and 80 incomplete Mt as Mr. La
1fobe; and to hberaize Institutions 50 far as TO
secure for them the confidence of the people, and the
BY little and with the unweldy Hardness cha1ac-
teristic Of the movements OF great nations,
she is granting all we ask ; but her slowness
nsn for which she had to pro7ds and e sas
when We ask an excited people to look to the new
constitution or the present Legislature, we feel
that they are but too apt to turn from US with q
sneer. And while thus urging q ready adaptation
to the circumstances Of the times upon people at
home, We have been still more frequent in our de-
mands upon the authorities here, that they should
endeavor to assImiate themselves, much as posi-
BILE, to the state Of ,hibgs by which they have been
surrounded that they, too, should populari-e their
measures; that they should employ the best men,
and none but the best men, obtainable, in every
department OF the public service; that they should
link the people to the country by leading the to
settle as legitimate colonists upon the land; that
they should tet in the respect aud the affections of
the inhabitants, appealing TO their reason not ex
citing their passions; that they should pay deferen
ta regard to public opinion sgitimaely expressed,
and not increase the too common conviction that
there ia no real redress OF grievances ny force
And If now we, who have borne the burden and
heat Of the day, and have steadily and honestly
fought in the front ranks Of the popular cause for
years before four fths Of tho present coonists of
Victoria ever saw its shores-n we mo- turn to the
miners and warn them that they are misled we
have . claim to be heard with patience; and We d.
but act the part Of the honest sur nalist in plainly
telling them that they are wrong.
We had hoped that oy combination Of good
luck and good management, crisis might have been
eyerted and that prompt and full concessions from
the British government might have so timely met
half way the popular tendencies recently developed
smongst US, that we might have attained harmo-
NOUS blending of the wnole; that We should have
witnessed the glorlous spectacle Of rapid passage
from state of serfdom to that Of liberty, the most
enlightened, without jar To the social ia brcon
stain upon our annals We had believed it possible
that the time would shortly come when we should
have seen active, Jealous and faithful executive,
gracefully bending when required. to q public
opinion, calm, GENIAL and intelgent We had hoped
that amongst all the toying circumstances around
we might come pure from the fire az last: and sho
TO the world that English colonsts could pass through
even the ordeal of gold discovery, without faint
upon their better nature We had fancled that we |