Advices have been received from Melbourne to the 8th August
: the whole of the intelligence may be told in a few lines picked out of the Melbourne Age summary for home readers-
" We are now on the eve of the general election, the first under the new constitution. The new Parliament is expected to meet in October. "The character of the Lower House will be decidedly Democratic ; but anything like extreme tendencies in that direction is not to be apprehended. The Duffy Qualification Fund has already reached 50001. ! and it is expected to reach 6000/. before the lists are finally closed. "A meeting has been held in behalf of the Nightingale Fund, at which his Excellency the Acting Governor presided. He headed the list with 1001., and several other large sums were then and there subscribed. Similar meetings have been held in Sydney and Hobart Town : at the latter-place it was resolved to limit the subscriptions to one guinea a piece, so as to make it as universal as possible. " Mr. G. V. Brooke and Mr. and Mrs. Heir are starring it at Sydney. " The yield of gold for the last month has been rather under than over the usual monthly average."
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