15 OCTOBER 1853, Page 8

News from Australia to the 19th July has been brought

via Panainq by the La Plata. There was a deficiency in the gold-supplies, inconse- quence of the bad state of the roads and the recent heavy rains. Therts were in Hobson's Bay and the Yarra 8 steam-vessels, 73 ships, 89 barques, 55 brigs, and 58 schooners, all lying at anchor, either delivering or taking in cargo, in the port of Melbourne alone. The whole makes a total of 283 vessels, which, if averaged at 390 tons each, would make a total of, no less than 84,900 tons of shipping at one time in that harbour. The first shipment of gold to the United States by Panama had been made, in the English ship Glance ; it amounted to 40,000'dollare.