A NEW BRONZE. 
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our other agricultural and horticultural produce would raise 
up that to £2,500,000 sterling. Over our unsold lands roam 
6,000,000 sheep, 700.000 head of horned cattle, 70,000 
horses, and sundry other stock, from which the pastoral 
tenants of the Crown, besides enriching themselves, furnish 
us with exportable and consumable produce—with wool, 
tallow, hides, and skins for export, and with sheep, cattle, 
and pigs for slaughter—to the value of between £3,500,000 
and £4,000,000 sterling. These facts are patent to all, and 
not to be controverted or gainsaid by any. And truth, like 
beauty, we all know, “ w T hen unadorned is then adorned the 
most.” We leave the foregoing, then, to speak for itself, 
and proceed to another series of facts, deducible from the 
same official source. In less than ten years, with a bona 
fide gold-mining population never exceeding 60,000 to 
80,000 souls, and now believed to be much less, owing to the 
withdrawal of the people to other pursuits, without a corre¬ 
sponding increase by immigration, we have raised between 
21,000,000 and 23,000,000 of ounces of gold, valued at 
between £90,000,000 and £95,000,000 sterling, which has 
stimulated every branch of trade and industry in the colony, 
and otherwise tended to enrich it. We began with a gold 
export of less than £600,000 in 1851, and raised it to more 
than £10,000,000 in 1852. We dropped it to between 
£9,000,000 and £10,000,000 in 1854, and raised it to 
£11,000,000 and upwards in 1855, and continued at that 
rate until 1858. We then came down to £9,000,000 or 
thereabouts in 1859, and this year it will in all probability 
not be much less. 
A NEW BRONZE. 
Aluminium is now being obtained in large quantities at 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, and unexpected results have been ob¬ 
tained from it as an alloy. Twenty parts of aluminium and 
eighty of copper form a bronze which has the appearance of 
gold, while ten parts of the former and ninety of the latter 
will give a compound that is singularly hard, and may be 
used for the bearings in machinery. 
Is not this an exemplification of what science enables man 
to accomplish ? When the new metal, aluminium, was first 
discovered, the question asked M as, Of what use is it ? 
But, in the above, and many other Mays, is its utility now 
shoun. 
