The accounts just received from the principal Australian Colonies are
in their general tenour exactly of the same kind with those which we have received for the last few months ; only that at every new arrival we have to readjust the scale of our statement. The number of the gold-diggers, for example, has now increased, awl there are 100,000 in the Victoria diggings alone. The yield was producing at the rate of ilearly 15,000,0094 annually ; and the general report of the dahlia Delay breughtitte °Oration- is that they at least support the illiaracter of the refit for richness. The last cargo arrived in this ntry Is valued at /100,0001. IC general. business, the colonists still preservelheir keedness and entfigy. In South Australia, it was the middle of the wool season, and shearing Was going on most favourably ; no less than 60,000 acres were. under corn crops in that colony alone ; and the fears respecting a short supply appear to have subsided altogether. In New South Wales, great satisfaction had been occasioned by the arrival of a despatch giving up the gold-revenue to the colonists. In South Australia, -the legislature was transmitting a petition to this country for the establishment of a local mint ; tokens authenticated with a Government stamp serving in the mean time all the pur- poses of coin. In short, the social condition of the Colonies was healthy, with active preparations for present work and a steady foresight for the future. Melbourne remains somewhat agitated by the irregularities of its gold-seeking population ; but the appre- hensions on that subject have subsided like the fears of scarcity, and the colonists are anticipating an immense export of gold for next year.
