Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-01-06
AUSTRALIA.
Extracts from the Lecture of Meagher the Irish
Patriot.

Patriot.
With respect to this discovery, all the
credit Of it is due to Mr.. Hargraves, a col
onist of New South Wales, who on his re-
turn from California, at the end Of 1850,
being greatly struck by the analogy that ap-
peared to exist in the geological structure of
the two countries, was induced to enter
upon the enquiry that led 10 the discovery.
It will not be required OF me to enter closely
into this subjcct--to show, for instance, how
IN one place the mica slate is intersected
with broad and well defined veins of quartz
how in the bed Of the Turon, for nine
miles, the gold appears to be, according to
the report ofthe Commissioner Of Licenses,
cs regularly sown as wheat in sown field
how in the Golden Gully, nugget"
worth $4,000, was found-how in Spicers
Creek, man and his wife, rocking the era
die, in five weeks realized e263-how, in
this week, the escort from Mount Alexan-
der, brought down 10 Adelaide, @G5O,000
worth ofgold-how, for the last two months,
ending May l4th, the arrivals OF gold in
Sydney, Melbourne and adelaide, yielded
an aggregate sum of 1885, ,OOO-how the
"Hoog'y" sailed for England with 6,643
ounces Of gold--how the st. Vincent, ="
bound for London, stood out from Hobson's
Bay, on the 18th April, with l,452 ounces
on board--how from the first discovery Of
the gold in The colony CT Port Philip Or
Victoria, in November, 81, down to the
l7th April in the present year, the value Of
the gold exports from the port of Melbourne
alone, amounted TO :Cl ,235,326, thus cX-
cceding, in value, by el,039,755, the entire
amount of bullion imported in 1886 into
England from Mexico, Bolivia and Peru, it
will not be required Of me to enter into
such particulars; neither is it necessary for
Inc to specify the regulations issued by the
tGovernor General, Sir Charles Fitzroy,
with the consent and approval of the Leg
islativc Assembly, for the management of
the gold fields TO set forth the terms of the
licenses, without which, no person is per-
mitted todig, search FOR, or remove gold on
or from any land, public or private, through
out the colony--to set forth the license fee,
which has been fixed at thirty shillings per
month--to be paid in advance-the dimen-
sions of the claims allowed to each person
on payment Of such fee-the regulations
specially appertaining to private lands, and
lands under pastoral leoses--and the pen
alties attached TO any and every intraction
Of such regulations. These particulars
would take to much time TO enumcrate, and
l fear the enumeration would prove exceed
ingly tedious. They are easily mastered
from the cheap and excellent hand-books
and pamphlets, by Bentham, Fabian, and Dr.
Jameson, which have been lately published
in the city of New York.
1t will be enough for me to say that this
country, which has had so humble an origin
had suffered so much-had, for many a
long year, been spoken OF with reproach by
the proud and lustful cities that communica-
ted to her the ieprOsy with which she was
visited-it will be enough for me to say, that
this colony, which in 1912, contained only
l0,454 souls--2l 900 acres in cultivation,
and IA 900 under pasture--sheep not SUI
ficiently numerous 10 make wool profta-
bic export, whilst the currency of the Gov
ernment was in paper and copper, and wheat
and cattle were recognized in the courts of
justice as legal tenders in the discharge of
all debts, and liabilities-now counts within
its limits two millions Of free people-en-
joys an export of CO ,89s,6 ,6OO--an import of
e2,078, 8,3OO--has 100000 (some say l2,-
900, ,0OO) sheep, feeding over her broad
plains, and up through her wild forest lands
= and for the discharge of her debts and
liabilities--for the fitting out OF a fleet more
costly than that which went down before the
Grecian fire at Salamis--for the equipment
of an army far more numerous andfar might
ier than that which, in Apulia, made the