SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Australian.] Adelaide journals to the 7th October have

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA. [From the Australian.] Adelaide journals to the 7th October have

come to hand by the last arrivals* The Register of the 6th October states J — " The most gigantic combination ever hazarded in South Australia has been organised within the last few days ; and it is proceeding at a railroad pace. It is neither more nor less than the formation of the Royal Mining Company with a nominal capital of £100,000. Some of the most clever men in the colony are its projectors ; some of the most wary and fortunate its managers ; and almost every man who has a penny to spare (captivated by previous successes in mining speculation) is pressing forward, with breathless anxietyj to infuse blood inco the yet inanimate monster's veins, one of the leading features of the scheme being a kind of universality which is to enrol the whole colony iv one mighty phalanx. In a word, the object of this combination is to raise a fund so enormous, and to include interests so numerous, that no man shall have at the ensuing mineral sale, or at any subsequent one for years to come, the desire to bid against another ; its principles of absorption and ramification enabling this veritable * League' to walk through the land sales un- j opposed and resistless ; and so to obtain every section of land which happens to ekcite the collective cupidity, by circumventing the purchase at the lowest possible advance upon the upset price, when unopposed ; or, couie gui coute, if any unlucky wight, with only a few hund.eds or a few thousands, happens to become a competitor. *•*♦*♦ " Our mining interest is already described far and near as injuriously predominant : and although, up to a certain point, we have not 'participated in the fears of the alarmist, we teel the po'nt of safety is about to be passed ; and that a Maelstrom as perilous to credit and honour as that of Norway is to the hapless mariner, already yawns to receive the reckless and the Unwarned." Wheat yesterday was sold at 7s. to 7s. 6J. per bushel ; oats at ss. 6d, to 6s, 6d ; Cape barley, at 4s. to 55. ; English ditto, 6s. to ss. 6d. ; fine flour, £18 per 2000!bs, The 21b loaf, 4|d. — Register, October 6. [From the Melbourne Argut.'] We have, via Portland, South Australian journals to the 13th instant. The most important, indeed the only intelligence is the complete triumph obtained by the colonists in respect to tLe Governor's attempt to obtain the sanction of the legislature to the imposition of a royalty on the minerals of the province. We noticed in a former number the fact of the whole of the non-official members of the Council vacating their seats the instant that the Governor persisted in carrying the obnoxious measure by his casting vote. We have now to record the complete success of that spirited proceeding, the Governor having after vainly trying to persuade the recusant members that their duty to the Queen required them to sacrifice the colony, seen fit to withdraw the Bill. In the course of the discussion it was stated that the Governor, in that one session had neutralised the votes of the non-official members three times as often as his predecessor had done during three sessions. The colonists of South Australia (says the Adelaide Register), have been taken by surprise at an arrival generally unexpected, that of the ship Pauline, 500 tons, Stelljer master, from Bremen, to the consignment of H. C. Stakeman, Esq., the Bremen Consul. In the cabin were six passengers, and in the steerage two hundred and five men, women,

and children. Many of the men are mechanics and handicraftsmen, and not miners as first reported. Mn Dixon's able report of the Burra Burra Mine had been translated into the German language) and extensively circulated oil the Continent, and the effect had been to induce considerable numbers of miners and others of the labouring population to determine on emigration to this colony. The ship Patel, full of emigrants, was to sail from Bremen three days after the Pauline; and a number of persons had already engaged passages on board the ship George Washington, destined to follow close upon the. others. Indeed the excitement in favor of South Australia is said to be as strong in Germany as in England ; and Captain Stelljer predicts that during the coming season the tide of emigration to the United States will be turned towards this country.