286 
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By tho Sydney steamor wo liavo received intelligence 
from Australia to tlio 7th of December, some days later tlmn 
the dates by (be Great Britain, it appears that the lowest 
license fee in the Victoria gold-flolds, under tlio new act, 
is twico the amount of that levied by the last regulations oi 
the Government of Now South Walos in that province; and 
the rates for licenses of throe, six, and twelve months are 
33 per cent, higher in Victoria thun in tho northern fields. 
Tlio Government escorts that arrived at tlio Treasury, 
Melbourne, on the 29th of November, brought tho following 
quantities of gold From Casllcmaiuo, 25,283 oz.— the 
lust number wus 11,013 oz. ; from Golden Point, 41 oz. ; 
Fryer’s Creek, 1,012 oz. ; Mount Franklyn, 177 oz. ; Sand- 
hurst, 22,907 oz. ; Euglc Hawk, 497 oz. Tho M’lvor es- 
cort brought from M‘Ivor 2,209 oz. ; and the Ovens escort 
4,193 oz. Tho hut number from M'lvor is 2,000 oz.; from 
Wnrungn, 383 oz.; from tlio Ovens, 3,104 oz. ; Snake 
Valley, 00 oz. ; Rofd'B Creek, 4 oz. The Ballarat escort 
brought from Ballarat to Melbourne 4,210 oz. of gold, and 
left at Goelong 0,089 oz. ; bringing In all 10,904 oz. The 
last number from Bullorat la 3,200 oz., and from Creswick’s 
Creek 2G0 oz. 
Tlio Mount Alexander correspondent of the Artjus writes : 
“ Two Americans left here on Tuesday morning last, having 
realised 401b. of gold from a small spot of ground on the far-famed 
1 led-hill. Tho approach of Olirintniua is causing a homeward 
movoincntoinongstour oldest diggers, whuaro anxious to get book 
to Adelaide and Vail Diemen's Band to spend the season of festi- 
vity with their friends and relatives. It is the intention of many 
of (ho number to return and seltie among us, with their families. 
So much for tho cnoourngomont which (ho new law is likoly to 
hold out for settling' here. “ Forost Creek, Nov. 23. 
“ Tho accounts from tlio Pyrenees or Avnca diggings nre of 
tho most exciting nature, but at lliosnino time very conflicting. 
Hundreds lire leaving hero for that moro favoured locality, 
mid hundreds of others oro awaiting boiuo more oonfirmntory 
accounts. Tlio reports which liavo already vouched mo oro so 
contradictory, that I must refrain ontoring upon them. The 
distal) co from For out Crock is about 50 milo9. Those diggings 
lire on (lie direct Adelaide routo from Casllomainc. There are 
thousands nlrcady located there, and hundreds oro arriving 
every day. Our own digginga nro progressing very favourably. 
Already tho (lata nro presenting the appearance of a determina- 
tion for a thorough working. Tho flat immediately in front of 
the old Hod-hill is now being thoroughly turned up, and, with n 
very few exceptions, tho Holes nro yielding favourably. On 
tho flat at tho back of Joshua's store tho chums now at work 
arc yielding very favourably. Tlio system of draining tho 
Ante and gullios with Californian pumps has answered admir- 
ably well. l’lnces which could not bo worked any part of 
Just Buiimior can bo accomplished now with tlio greatest enso ; 
""oi , no “ ou ^» beforo the floason oloses, (lie old diggings 
will bo worked from one oxtrcuio to tbo other with very good 
Biieeess J ° ^ 
$0mp Intelligence. 
The Parisians expect Lord Raglan on the 1st of 
April, or very soon nAcr, so ns to coincide ns nearly ns pos- 
sible with tho departure of Marshal St. Aruuud, which is 
mnv fixed for tlio Oth, ns that of Prince Napoleon is for tlio 
15th. The division of tlio Prince, which was originally 
termed the reserve, is now spoken of in tho official organ 
of the army as tho third division. It is stated on good 
authority that it has been also decided that 3,000 British 
troops, consisting of cnvnlry and artillery — viz., 2,000 of (lie 
lormcr and 1,000 of tlio latter — will puss through Franco, 
to embark nt Toulon or Marseilles, and that the first de- 
tachment is expected in Paris in a week or 10 daysfrom the 
present dale. Reports to the same cfToct liavo been current 
for some timo past, and it Is added that lids mode of coii- 
veying u part of the English troops lias been decided on in 
official quarters. Somo curiosity has been expressed ns to 
the sort of reception the English would meet in Franco, and 
particularly In Purls. There is reason to believe that 
tliolr rceoption will be of tho most friendly character 
A St. Petersburg pater of tlio 10th gives dotuils 
Jrom London ol the attempts now making in England to 
raise forces cnpnble of meeting thoso of Ilussln. According 
to tins authority old men of 00 are ordered on board to make 
up til., lull complement of a ship’s crew ; the recruiters havo 
1,1 . ,ll0 t b’fealcst difficulty in l, rating up volunteers; then 
again, children ol 9, 10, and 12 years liavo been coaxed into 
the uuvai servico; “ huge ” bounties liavo been offen d to 
native and foreign mariners as an inducement for them to 
enter Hie royal navy; never has it boon so difficult to 
' " ® ct 8 " ,Iors iu fct'b'to'Hl, a»d never were there so fow seamen 
•• at present ! 
l me Mu i» rig, Ulemas, and Cadis op Algiers recently 
assembled in tho gw«* m... .. - 
THE FIELD. 
Singapore and Laduan. — Tlio advices from Singapore 
by tlio overland mail are to the 3rd of February, at which 
•lute the demand for imported articles was exceediugly dull, 
and tho stocks of cotton goods heavy. Large remittances ol 
specie had been attracted to China, and complaints aro made 
of the want of sufficient banking accommodation. From 
Labuan the accounts were to the 17th of January. Her 
Majesty’s screw ship Encounter hod called at the island to 
coal, and it is mentioned that the collieries now establishing 
by the Eastern Archipelago Company in Borneo and Labuan 
will shortly be capable of supplying whatever quantity may 
ho required for the purposes of steam navigation in that 
quarter. 
Banquet op the East India Company to LonD 
Harris. — On Saturday a magnificont banquet was given by 
the directors of t ho East India Company at the London 
Tavern to Lord Harris, tho recently appointed Governor of 
Madras. Tlio banquet wa6 on the usual 6calo of splendour for 
which the merchant princes are celebrated, and all the resource# 
of the London Tavern wore called into requisition. A military 
band was in attendance in the ante-room, and in the gallery 
wero many Indies, relatives and friends of tho guests. The 
chair was taken by tho Chuirman of the Court of Directors 
(Mr. Itussell Ellico), On the right of the Chairman was the 
guest of tho evening, Lord Harris, together with the Duke 
<>f Hamilton, the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Elgin, 
K.T., dm Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.I\, Lord Justice 
Knight. Bruce, Sir James Weir Ilogg, M.l\, Lieutcnunt- 
Oenorul Sir George Pollock, G.C.B., Rear-Admiral Sir G. It. 
Lambert, K.C.B., and the Solicitor- General. On the Chair- 
man's left were— the Lord Mayor, the Deputy-Chairman, 
(lie Marquis of Brcadulbnno, K.T., Earl Grey, Viscount 
Canning, Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, Right Hon. E. 
Strutt, M l 1 ., Mr. Loch, Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., 
Lord Justice Turner, Vice-Chancellor Stuart, Sir T. N. 
Rodington, K.C.B., Sir Henry Wilcock, nnd Mr. Lowe. 
There were also present— the Hoti. Colonel Bovle, M.P., 
Right lion. S. It. Lushington, Mr. Mills, Hon. R. II. 
lemple, Sir E. C. Dcring, M.P., Lieutenant-General Sir 
J. L. Lushington, G.C.B. , Sir J. Campbell, Hon. \V. H. 
Leslie Melville, Hon. J. C. Erskino, Mr. Masterman, M.P. 
Hon. Arthur Ilnrris, Sir M. Meux, M.P., Lieutenant- 
General Sir C. Pasley, K.C.B., Sir J. Melville, K.C.B., and 
many other gentlemen. 
West India Mail. — Southampton, March 22. — The 
Royal Muil Company’s steam-ship, Trent, Captain Richard 
Itovctt, arrived this morning at five o’clock, from tlio West 
Indies, with tlio usual moils, in charge of Lioutenant George 
J. c Gurdner, Admiralty agent. 
Nevis, Fob. 14. — Intelligence from this island reports 
that cholera had entirely disappeared. 
Antigua, March 1. — Two attempts had been made at 
St. John’s to burn the city, but fortunately no serious damage 
was sustained. 
I R in i dad, Feb. 25. — From this Island we learn that the 
weather was nil that could bo desired, and the making ol 
sugar was being rapidly proceeded with all over the colony. 
I here was n fair supply of labour, and the crop promised to 
equal that of last year ; at any rate, it may ho safely set 
down at 30,000 hogsheads. The prico of freight had in 
consequenco already risen to four shillings, and it is feared 
will go up much higher. Tlio same scarcity of tonnage ap- 
peared to prevail in all tlio neighbouring British colonics, 
ami even iu Martinique and Guadaloupe. The Gazette 
S) ,y 8 ; “ Wo trust mercantile gentlemen in Britain con- 
nected with the colony, will, on the rcceptof this untoward 
intelligence, exort thoimelvcs to the utmost to influence tho 
despatch of the noces-ury quantum of shipping to this colony. 
If no oilier outward freight offers, we may mention that the 
islund market is quite bare of coals, nnd that several ship- 
loads of coals packed in sugar hogsheads— tlio materials tor 
mnking which hero nre unprecedentedly scarce and dear- 
are sitro oi coming to a remunerative market." 
[Saturday, 
,m,l ,, . MoM l uo of tho Malekis iu that city, 
ami usohed to present a standard to the corps of native 
riflemen which Is about to embark for Constantinople. This 
stundurd is to be made of red and green silk, one tho colour 
of the ancient standard of Algiers, and the other that of th« 
prophet of the Arabs. Iho following inscription is to be 
embroidered on It in gold letters This standard is given 
b) tho Mussulmans living under the French dominion to (I... 
corps °l Riflemen about to light for the cause of the Sultan 
Abdul Mnljld, whom (Jod protect.* 1 
A letter prom Malta of tho 15th states that three 
Eng Isl, ships of war had left on tho evening before to cruiso 
in the Archipelago, where some suspicious craft had been 
SJi?!..! 11 WM , tWught ,liat «»>e vessels In question wore 
laden with arms for the Greek insurgents. 
COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
ihS^ NTKni ! l ’| MY ’n Z " ALAN » — H may be stated that 
there are not leu Mumi 100.UU0 sheep in tlio province, nor 
will*? « 8 o 1Q, .‘ V 1WO l } ! ead of ciml °aud 400 horses; that 
within the Canterbury block alone abovo 1,000,000 acres are 
t e . • v "* v - » u «vo i,v/uu,uuuacios are 
whihSii u P , " ra *°’ l' ro,1,lciu e; » rent of £2,400 a-voar, 
wldeh will id four years havo increased to abovo £7,000 n- 
Indibs.— From Bermuda we have accounts to tho 
Hoi Majesty's ship Cumberland arrived thero on 
!«., with Vice-Admiral Sir Georae Seymour. 
West Indies. 
25th ult. 
the 17th ult., witli Vice- Admiral Sir George Seymour. Sir 
George did not land, however, but sailed noxt day for Hull, 
lax, in consequence of despatches from Engluud. About you 
persons had died of the cholera at Nevis during the visit of 
pleasant* 61 ”* 0 " weuther at Bermuda was cold, but 
, u U ™r ,, ' A8 - W * 1,avc ad vices from Honduras to tho 10th 
nit. Die Government had, without notice, advanced the 
tonnage iat< » 100 per cent., and tl.o American Consul had 
i 1 , pr0test *“ * h0 c “ t0 of the Helen June, which was 
beforo t ho°fi 1>0y ’ a 1100611 11,0 veisol had dropped anchor 
betore the decree was promulgated. 
AUSTRALIANA. 
Australian Emigration. — Southampton, March 
20.— The ship City of Manchester, Captain W. S. Baker, 
1,108 tons register, belonging to Messrs. Brookes and 
Worthington, of Liverpool, sailed to-day for Geelong, hav- 
ng embarked 410 souls, equal to 354J stutute adults, from 
(he Government Emigration depot in the Southampton 
Ducks. I ho number of passengers was increased this morn- 
ing by the birth of a boy immediately before getting under 
weigh. 1 ndependently of the City of Manchester being pro- 
vided with commodious butlis for the use of the emigrants 
and a bakehouse for supplying soft breud twice a-wcek, she 
isiltt. d on an entirely new principle, by which the berths 
aro divided off into sections of 12 persons, with tables in tlio 
open spaces towards tl.o portholes, which hoist up at night 
ami render each section as private as if in a separate cabin! 
cm talus being made to fall down over tlio sleeping places, 
and providing a clear pussago all round the interior of the 
ship. Tlio City of Manchester was despatched by Mr. George 
Drysdale, the Government Emigration ngent at this port. 
Several other ships which have been chartered by her Ma- 
jesty s Emigration and Lund Commissioners are expected to 
depart from Southampton next month. 
Tenders. Tlio Emigration Commissioners have adver- 
1 , for two vessels to curry emigrants to South Australia 
mid to New South Wales. One is to bo ready, for Ade- 
hiide, on the 25th ; the other, for Moroton-bay, ou the 28th 
of April. ’ 
News roR Sawyers. — There are groat speculations 
going on in sawn timber, in anticipation of the rapid increase 
m building on tlio contemplated townships of the Bendigo 
A number ol sawpits ure established on various parts of the 
diggings, for the purpose of supplying boards cut from tho 
box and other trees growing in the district ; but tl.o supply 
is not equal to the demand. Some of the sawyers are 
earning as much as £30 or £40 per week ; but they spend 
tl.e.r money as quickly as they get it. They are, with few 
exceptions, the most drunkeu and dissipated class ou the 
goldlields. 
Discovery or Coal.— T hreo cartloads of coal have 
recently been paraded through the streets of Melbourne, as 
tho first raised in tho province. Tho blocks, which were 
very large, were found near Capo Paterson, close to the 
seashore ; they appeared to be surface specimens. 
Sydney, Dec. 5, 1853.— “It will novel- be Christmas to 
me until ngum m dour England. Everything here is so 
different that I forget tho season of tl.o year. Fancy not 
being able to keep cooked meat from ouo day to another in 
December ! Lost Saturday, ns usual, hud the joint cooked 
Sunday , and in a few hours it wns alive; and yet tho 
weather was not so very hot. Wo had two days last week 
is quite chilly, and yet thundering and lightning, ’TbiTT,-, 
bus done nearly every day for tho last wc^k— tho morning 
perhaps very hot ; at noon either hot or cold wind • 
ing, rain and thunder. Can you fancy it a nice clinrat^ 
Above all, with such weather, do you think I can fancy t ' 
Christmas G.”-_ Extract from a Letter. ~~ 
DbFARTURE OF M R8. CHISHOLM.-This ladv, to who.* 
philanthropic efforts in the cause of Australian emigrant 
many persons have reason to ascribe their success m 
those colonics, is on the eve of leaving England to join 1, 
husband, Captain Chisholm, in Melbourne, the country Tr 
their adoption. Mrs. Chisholm’s passage has been taken on 
board tho Ballarat, Captain II. Jones, which vessel win 
positively sail for Toil Phillip ou the 3rd proximo. 
FOREIGN MISCELLANY. 
Naples, March 4 — Several earthquakes havo just taken 
ploce in Calabria, and have excited great alarm. The 
dumoge done is immense. The number of persons kittl.i 
exceeds 2,000. iea 
Cotton Oil. — A n establishment for tho manufacture 
of oil from the cotton seed has been started in New Orleans 
It is assorted that tlio oil is of a bland, pleasant taste n os 
sessing all tho qualities of olive oil, that it burns with grea't 
brilliancy, and is peculiarly fitted for using upon machinery 
on account of not gumming or drying. If thtf oil is really 
valuable, the manufacture will soon become an important 
one, for the quantity of raw material is unbounded. 
Columbus not the First Discoverer op Ame- 
rica. — Huron Humboldt rightly assigns an earlier date than 
that of Columbus to tho actual discovery of tho American 
Continent. Rejecting as exploded the tale of tribes speakin^ 
in n Celtic dialect having been found on tho coast of Virginia’ 
wc arc bound by very sufficient proofs to admit that tlio* 
coasls of Labrador and New England wore known to the 
Icelanders and Norwegians through their intervening settle- 
ments more than eight centuries ago — that they partially 
settled in Vinlnnd, as they called the country forming the 
New England States— and that a bishop went on a Christian 
mission to the colonies thus established. Theso narratives 
hitherto known and accredited by a few only, havo of latu 
years received ample confirmation from the’ researches of 
Rafn, tho greatest northern scholar of our times. The docu- 
ments which he obtained and has published attest not only 
the act of discovery, but, indicated by the course and length 
of voyoge, by the times of 6unriso, and other curious par- 
ticulars, tlio exact coasts discovered, including Newfouud- 
* and .' ^ UVft Scotia, and Massachusets, &c. Humboldt speaks 
of Lief as the discoverer of America; and perhops lie may bo 
so legarded from tho extent of his southern course, though 
we find reason to believe that Labrador had alreudy been 
visited in A.D. 1001 by Biom Heriolfson, an Icelandic 
navigator. The records of this event, both numerous and 
authentic, come to us from that extraordinary island of Ic- 
land > which, during the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth 
centuries, created and maintained amidst its snows and 
volcanic fires a literature which would have honoured the 
happiest climes of Europe. Succeeding the period thus sig- 
nalised to us, a series of physical and social calamities ex- 
tinguished this great northern light, at which later time, and 
m the same storm, we lose sight of the lnnd of Vinland, and 
all traces ol this remarkable discovory disappear. Should 
wo ever regain them, it must probably be bn the American 
coast itself. But the simple Norsemen left behind them no 
temples or palaces like those of Nimrod, to be disentombed 
lor the admiration and instruction of distant ages, and tho 
written records alone remain to attest this ancient discovery. 
— Quarterly Review. 
Discovery of Murder.— A man named Lipmann 
residing at Phalsbourg (Meurtlio), left liis house a few days 
since on some business, and not returning at the time expect- 
ed, although lie had been seen by a neighbour on his road 
home, his family began to be seriously alarmed. Two days 
elapsed, and although every search was made no clue could 
be found of him. A gendarme at length conceived the idea 
ot making use of a famous dog belonging to a person in tlio 
neighbourhood, and with which he proceeded into a wood, 
and had not gone far before the animal, by his barking, gave 
notice that he was on the scent of something. On the gen- 
uarme coming to the spot, ho saw the dog scratching in a 
place which boro marks of having been recently turned 
up, and on digging, tho body of Lipmann was found buried 
there, after having been murdered. This is not the first 
time that the dog has rendered similar service to the gen- 
darmes. A short time sinco a prisoner had escaped from 
them, and tho dog was turned on the scent and soon dis- 
covered the fugitive, whom ho kept fast hold of, hut cure- 
I'ully avoided injuring. What is singular is, that the dog 
will not allow itself to be fondled by any one but its master 
and the gendarmes, for whom it uppeurs to feel a strong 
partiality. The police are actively endeavouring to discover 
tbo mtu deter or murderers of Lipmann Galigmni. 
PROVINCIAL. 
drendfnllv hot • i i , , 3 gicui mi inner oi persons assembled i 
areaaiulJy hot, we could scarcely breathe. This evening it | ol the uovic e.-Buche Advertiser. 
The Preston Strike.— [B y Electric Telegraph.]— 
Cowell, Grimshaw, Ga Halier, Lang, Gardner, Wood, and 
Brockiehurst havo been committed for trial at the Liverpool 
assizes. Bail, however, has been accepted for their appear- 
ance. The town remains quiet. 
CfiBLBPiELD.— M ad Dogs. - — Caution. — The sur- 
rounding country for many miles lias been, and is at the 
present time, infested by dogs, and it is feared that serious 
consequences mnv ensue when tho weathor becomes warmer. 
— Maidstone Journal, 
A \ lesbury. — A memorial to the Queen is in course of 
signature throughout Hie town, praying her Majesty to 
commute Hutto’s punishment to transportation for life. If 
llatto had made no confessiou of his guilt, we have been 
told by very high legal authority that the Secretary of State 
would have hud to consider whether a manslaughter could 
not have accounted for the whole tragedy; and now that 
thero is a confession, and if that confession can bo relied 
upon, it must be plain that it was murder produced by the 
impulse ot the moment, excited by the querulous dispositiou 
of (ho unfortunate woman, and the burning of the body, 
about which so much lias been said, was nothing more than 
the first suggestion of the guilty man to obliterate the truces 
of tlie tragedy . — Aylesbury News. 
Pedestrian Feat — On Monday last, Mr. Charles 
Fowler, landlord of tho ltcd Caps Inn, High Wycombe, 
undertook to jump 1 ,000 hurdles In five consecutive hours. 
I lie task was completed hi au hour under tho given time. A 
gi cat number of persons assembled to witness the perfoiinauce 
