WHERE IS THE AU$'l'RAL1c EXPEDITION?
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TAFT begin to be made when ie xpedition for the explo- ration o Northern Austral; to depart?' It is new di months since the expedition was proposed, and, as ever body believed, sanctioned by the scientific world, authorized by Government, and reinforced with a punt of money from the Treasury; and yet it has not set out. We have not heard any statement that the Go- vernment is to blame for this delay, although the delays of the public departments are proverbial. It has been well understood that the Colonial Minister had lent to the enterprise the support of his active aid in recommending it to the Treasury. The Trea- sury is not in want of cash, and the Geographical Sooiety has not withdrawn the support which it gave; on the contrary, the reasona for sending out the expedition appear to be stronger. The more the subject is considered and the better it is known, the more it
finds favour with the public. In Australia, while details in the expedition have been freely criticized, some -competition has been shown amongst the colonists for the honour of giving the starting- point to the adventurous band.
Those Australian criticisms appear to us to have been in part based upon an imperfect conception—not so much of the utility to be derived from the eitliediticin, of the field Whinh it may traverse, or of the practioatiOsults whidh comm ..• as well as colonization may anticipate ; but of the Meiine and appliances. Let Us take one single point. There is no subject uPektiihieb good authorities are in greeter concert than the expediel4 `.: of reinforcing the titbit:port( ; Ower of the eickititien, netiiiitil viitli',builecks and hiii'6613,, .. ,o familiarly used' iti'Anstralid,) b.* also With Camels i a , lAdit at Once capable of bearing a la • ilitirdeti than either of the Othefrittia, and.peseessing the ' powe itit-ftiregOing . the use of water: its Mriploy,thefit wOuld`'heononliitt? the provision store,-- -a most valuable iteMdertittrzafit.# ciiiiiittrlikb that whitb 'act large' a. portion of ' fdrnairligititilta9 elieVY. -WW"kiii-.4"that the very
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highedt iti onlid lit. `qtd: A ltiAliii'erd4ies, even: in• Western ' Austialig ali1WIE IL Itroph 1,i; ,Iiiiiie ethifirnied the judgment' whielb lea &In We'aidiel.146-11iii'a itibittldeiritlible auxiliary. More : i*J1MividirS,V6 'Already carried to a great eXtptif (14 !,, %Act Artstiaitlikittrcing upb4i.' this point: Gitptitio" Stilt 't 7iiiii_ili(the'liitrgreat diffietilties against ViP4` ' I I III' ',/ ' leislit M-k itiOn, hcfltitif to contend,' ' the t: . :str4 'Ph 'f, 'idt mit of Water. cr,liorses were ' 1E7 iilto th i.rats•.hid•;he " cannot •helP" thinking' ri.k) indeed, be- would have used tlig. ' ..‘., ifeV ' tligniFt: Captain' Stoles ' reached ' thr-,, ; f 1 6•`• iiii' ithata "`g3' ,kaLlit, Of qtreenWicb, within . , Z181'...' , '"ettrieiidniiritlile point Of ' 'the 'eXpedition could'. i - tWiater." "In . ièts fli have been el t . ' AV: •''') &lie that i - a idiA 'Money.", MP. , A.. el niithb' Southern ' .. ititielitiatir to this ii8 I I I ' ill titifidCliiigis, Who are &I .Vt the mntrirPithneting On their' k.• itthhii illgPie6iiIiiir Wants of the - • ' liAin otitSlied. ditts Of Spriey , . I I poitr
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4the anini t:e included poEt'Of the stOr4 I VOUS or place oft I • have been difficult eaLiii the speciallitiniSh eluded in, We head, therefore ilak •3:3 "contingencies," orcso
Captain Stokes, wli Ewe been thus rendered .. .
doubly valuable, fori 9 A4ellition on a shore which he
knows so well, and of,iur ' the hitherto omitted portions of
the Northern coast of tilt bl Carpentaria with the rivers as yet 'undiscovered falli4s008,' he' TOM Tea. There is no rea- son to suppose that - ' 410616 itiVIllinister or any other
of the official ' it 1
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assistance; arid- 0? 'T 'Alit the strength of the
expedition, ei _11 ii 111'!
be dinait#Sbecl-.. 4 ' , 'iiiintific capacity, will
49itertain 'a hope that
the Why *Sioil fa ó dda i'egtil tir_kfning *the expedi- tion even,greater iigtkrin4-1 imyrin fstin :i r ps, with
a still higher autboritj and' se „ y extending the field which it is
to place within the '4,0 ir:eagrapty of the great colonial con-
tinent. '. .
forgo the reason. or se- e concurtèsee of colonists in in this othintry; and with the g. It iS'shareely less interest- & 1n London joins in this coin-. yir. S. Lindsay in the Times rstation of this feeling ; but we o 2iletirts the only man in commerce rhighly practical manner lib- secure 84;,' It has been thought -desirable al grantr-1000/. mere than the ,, tananntin mciney, is ingmented; èrientsnaftibY'Were origi- ineirds ascribid3lelp any de-' I there is fin redilini to sup-- tairtinents did not antici- 11, Coil. The original esti- er -forth, such as the trans- 6t Oxpedition from the rendez- cot, of departure; but there trtititlinglihat we may call assistance in g-is*titted for other pnrposes, and • 'irePel Might entail an expense not in- leiltary estimates under the naval
Ceded, grant in the form of N 'definitively fixed by an- .
ticipatton. At one94,11,Liir_sti ibp..1 ea that a steamer now in the Australiantua b‘ycza' under the command of or Oq 11,32f4 lecting 1 Australia ExecutiVe' oie file ki, ia ing to see that the cordinep mon, a mpat,bv. A le i ly
who ir forth& to
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