17 JULY 1852, Page 10

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It is stated that one eminent Queen's counsel has already received twenty-five retainers on petitions against election returns, for undue practices. The election at Liverpool is reported by the Liverpool Albion to have cost the Derbyites 23,0001- and the Free-traders 40001.

Sir Richard Keane, brother of Lord Keane, is mentioned as the officer commissioned to organize the 2000 of Irish Constabulary to be sent out to the Australian Gold region.

By the overland Indian mail there is intelligence from the Australian Colonies to the middle of April—from Port Phillip to the 17th. The gold- finding reports continue very favourable, and the extent of the produce was daily increasing, new spots being constantly discovered of extraordi- nary richness in various directions. The produce of gold for the Victoria district for five months is given at 663,270 ounces, or about 2,600,0001. money value ; and the exported produce of the Bathurst and Turon dis- tricts to the 20th March was 1,125,317 ounces, or value 4,500,0001.; in all, about seven millions sterling.

The Eastern Steam Navigation Company have resolved to establish a line of steamers of such tonnage and power that they will go from Lon- don to Calcutta without a stoppage, and make the run in from twenty- six to thirty-two days. By making the entire voyage in this way from point to point, the cost of fuel is reduced from 40*. to 46s. per ton to 12s. to 13s. per ton—an immense gain. Mr. Brunel is the chief engineer who has been consulted, and we have heard that the vessels are intended to be of the enormous size of 600 feet long, giving a tonnage some four times greater than the largest vessel ever yet built.

Policemen are in future to perambulate the Government offices night and day. On Monday relays of them were on duty at the General Post-office for the first time. The introduction of this principle shadows forth great integral change in the public departments, not only of an administrative, but pos- sibly of a fiscal character.—Shippin Gazette. The King of Saxony, who is passionately fond of botany, has gone to Dal- matia to collect plants. The Roman correspondent of the Daily News writes that "the Cardinal Vicar had spent 60,000 dollars on the Newman trial." " John Doe" and "Richard Roe," gentlemen so familiarly known in our law-courts, will cease to exist on the 24th October ; an act lately passed having sealed their fate. It is enacted, that "instead of the present proceed- ing by ejectment, a writ shall be issued directed to the persons in possession of the property claimed, which property shall be described in the writ with reasonable certainty." It has lately become the practice on the Austrian railways to place a look- ing-glass on the top of the locomotive inclined in such a way as to enable the engine-driver to see the whole train reflected, so that he can at once stop in ease of accident. This plan has just been adopted on the railway from Brussels to Antwerp.

The Zoological Society have just received from Sierra Leone a female chim- panzee, said to be one of the healthiest specimens ever brought to this coun- try.