NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 671, 18 September 1852, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Xl\ thoWdlington papcis we have news from Sydney eight or ten iliiys Jatyr than any which hart roadie I us directly. The following .statement nude in the legislative Council on the 4th of August possesses considerable colonial interest: — " The Colonial Secretary stated, that he had received by tin* C'liium, ;i communication from the Luid and Immigration Commissioners, to the effect that they wore taking measures to eonlinue emigration oh a large scale, and had already engaged one ship. A communication had also been received from one of the Commissioners addressed i to his KiXcclli'iujy the Governor-General, wherein it whs) stated that the Botir-1 had made arrangenicnts to send out ton slript per month between this country anil Victoria. (Chum.) Jfe would add that information h.ul also been received that a lvginu'iit of in Din try was to he sent here from llong Kong, as also a man-of-war to be stationed in thi.s harbour and another in flobsoif.s Hay. (Clioeis.) Tliis was extremely important intelligence ; because it would give the Government the means of controlling- seamen, and preventing the desertion which now prevailed ; and also afford facilities for the prom-i" guarding of ships laden with gold. (Cheeiy.)" The following lint gives Sydney Trade Prices, , dated the Oth of August ; a week later than the last published here :—: — Exchange, on London. — Drafts against, gold, 12 per cent, discount : against wool and tallow, <i per cent, discount ; U.iuk drafts, 00 days' sight, (5^ po 1 cont. discount. Tea. — KairCongou, (a), ttos. lo i).)S. ; 11 ) .son skin, („> Ms. to DOs. Coffee is veiy much on the (lodine in eonsof|\ioncc of the arrival of I idle, Creole, from Ceylon, with HOO bags ami o(> casks. Good samples arc, however, worth 5 , ! (J. to lijd.; these rates were not expected to be maintained. riuqm . — Slocks vci y moderate. Vampang.i may be quoted (a) fIV.) to\l'2o; Zebu, CM to I'M*; loaf, .£42 to X'<M, with a tendency upwards. Brand ij. — Small parcels have realised »vi high as 14s. Oil. in bond ; iate«arc notunlikcl} r to rally and go higher, as stocks of all spirits both here and in the other colonies are lower than at any period in the la->t five years, and with a greatly increased consumption going on. Jtwn.—W. 1., 10 0.0., (a) A,. 7d. to 4s. !)d. ; 10. 1., '}0 0.0., IVom 2s. f)d. to 'M. TViuex. of good quality, fis. to Os.Od. per gallon. /•'/ our was from ,Vl'.\ to t'2s. Gold. — 07k- \w ounce, with a probability of an advance. Candle*. — Colonial 'moulds, 4|d. to fid. ,#, # Belwont spiTin, I -Is, (id. to 1.55. fioap.—Uusl colonial, f2O to JC2B. Wo may appropriately introduce here an extract fromju private letter, descriptive, so far as it goes, of an intelligent writer's impressions respecting the state and prospects of the Gold Field. Its date is Sydney, July 111, and ifhns been for several days in our hands, but a prebsure of other matter prevented Us insertion :—: — " The language of ama/,enicnt meets you at livavy turn. I'copJo can only wonder at what is taking place ; mid as for the future the most startling speculations are hazarded. Some wiy that in twelve months we shall be swarmed with pooplo from all quarters, but principally from home. Already, it is tine, ships are arriving ■ fulJ of p is^'Dgors — self- p. lying immigrants; fmir have come in within the la-,1 lew days fiom I'aig- . land and Stotlanrt, biingii.g 1000 jmsscugers. Tlie commotion is said to ha very great mid increasing ; one young follow who gave up n good .situation as gardener in Wiltshire, with the Marquis of Laudsdownc, said to my that in every lane, field, house, the talk is of our gold, and of resolve, by one means or other, to conic out. Half of Knulnnd, he said, will be bore in twelve months'. Our settlcn arc thinking that the days of boiling down an> numbered, — people begin to to talk of od. or Bd. for meat as a likely thing. What will be said nhen the events now occurring are told at home i h"ov the last four or Jive weeks, the public escorts convoyed into Melbourne from Mount Alexander, at the rate of 100,000 | ouuiTS a week, th" rate of tweniy millions a year ! j And then thcie is J,he pioducc of our mines, besides the large (|u:iutity by private hands. Tin; history of the uoild ail'nids no p»iallel to this ! They vi} thai Mtlboiiruc is a hell on cnth ; the

slrcvti swarming with dniiilcon disorderl}' rufiian\ w) us to be iinsiilb even in the day for decent in. -11, and as for women ! . It is remarkableHi. it a Luge pioportion of the last p us-scngeis by tlio Witralah from Melbourne were women. Tho piicvi ol horse-sdown there will surprise you, ,l.">(), £'(50; ovi'iy drunken di<><>er is ready «ith his money for u horse, it this holds, we shall probably spare, them some from— . 1 hope that we shall stiJl liavt- this execs-* ol' excitement at a distance. I have no wisli to soo Sydney at such a iKi-n. r J'he p'ijxts will tell you that we uro to have a HiMiich of the Uoyul Mint here, and J)onahKon propose in Council an escort for conveying to Sydney, us the (Jraud Depot, all tho gold i'joii) the Southern I)i r 'L,'im><3, 1 mean from Mount Alexander. This will promote business here aina/in»ly, but it will introduce — chaos."