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received more than double the sums paid in France ; while for day-work 
the advantage is gi-eatly in favour of the former. In France, the pay- 
ment remains the same, insufficient, while the cost of living and food 
increases every day.” 
The liberty which the English workman enjoys, and which, says the 
report, he knows so well how to use for his own interest and improvement, 
naturally calls forth the admiration of the delegates, who say that none 
but the masters are allowed to combine in France, and that the consequence 
is the reduction of wages, the deterioration of the product, and the ruin of 
the trade. The French visitors found the English lithographers bettei 
lodged and better fed than those of France. Lastly, say the reporters : — 
“ The English are stronger than we are : they do not kill themselves at 
their work.” 
AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION. 
T HE extension of our geographical knowledge forms one of the most 
interesting features of the present day, and the adventurous spirit 
for which the Anglo-Saxon race are so famous finds constant food in the 
fields of discovery which yet lie unexplored in distant and difficult 
regions of the globe, hut which are by degrees being opened up by the 
indomitable perseverance and unflinching energy of brave and daring 
men. The discoveries of Livingstone, of Speke and Grant, and Pethe- 
rick, are results of successful exploration by men who have been so 
fortunate as to achieve the end they contemplated, though they carried 
their lives in their hands in order to attain it ; hut the mind recurs with 
gloom to the sad fate of others not so fortunate, who, like the ill-fated 
Burke and Wills, overcome by the inhospitality of the regions they 
traversed, succumbed in the wilderness, and left their bones bleaching in 
the far interior of Australia. All honour to such men, to whom the 
sweet reward of a safe return to the abodes of civilized life, and the 
acclamations of their appreciating fellow-men have been denied — who 
have thus offered themselves as sacrifices to scientific investigation and a 
thirst for knowledge of the unknown. 
From such a sad picture it is a relief to turn to the success which has 
lately crowned another attempt to cross the vast continent of Australia, 
and the return of Mr. Stuart’s party to Adelaide. This explorer, it will 
be remembered, left Adelaide in the beginning of the year 1862 to com- 
plete the exploration which he commenced in 1859, and which for the 
second time he was unable to finish in 1860. On the first occasion he 
was turned back by hostile natives, and on the second occasion by a 
dense scrub which separated him from the Victoria River, after he had 
reached as near to the coast as latitude 17° and longitude 133°. In this 
third expedition, however, Mr. Stuart has been completely successful. 
After crossing to latitude 17°, upon his old route, he found in the course 
of a lengthened examination of the country, that the belt of scrub, which 
