INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Southland Times, Issue 744, 1 November 1867, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

(From the Argus Telegrams.) Sydney, 14th Oct. The markets remain quiet, pending the arrival of the mail. The Catholic clergy have commenced a series of meetings in aid of the movement for educating the Catholic youth without connection with the state. The captain of the Eliza Blanche reports having seen a schooner, name unknown, founder off the Dromedary on Thursday. The Diamantina has returned from the wreck of the Telegraph. She was unable to save any of the cargo, as the vessel had broken up. A 30oz. nugget has been found at the new diggings on Clyde River. The Bruckley Castle has cleared for London with 2045 bales of wool, 458 casks of tallow, and 6469 hides. Arrived. — Pacific, from a whaling voyage. The Gfovernment and the Opposition both gave picnics on the Southern Railway to-day. Mr Anderson's benefit was crowded. Crowther's mills, at Woollombi were burned down on Friday, 15th October. A considerable quantity of breadstuff's was destroyed. In the Assembly, a motion in favor of the payment of members was met by the previous question. The markets are quiet. Small sales of Patna rice are reported at £30. Sugars are dull. Brandies are firmer. The Strathdon has cleared for London with a full cargo of produce. The Cricket Association last night decided not to entertain the proposed intercolonial athletic contest. The annual report of the Deaf and Dumb Institute is favorable. Adelaide, 12th Oct. The Summer meeting of the Jockey Club takes place on December 17th and 18th. The Adelaide Cup will be run for at the Autumn meeting on the Bth April. The Jockey Club has refused to accept Coglin's offer to transfer to it his interest in the lease of the old course. Public opinion is in favor of the old course. The Assembly has confirmed the grant of free railway passes to members of that House, in spite of the Speaker's ruling. Captain Douglas, the collector of Customs, has resigned, owing to a doubt thrown on his survey* of Eucla Harbor. The corn market is very firm, but quiet. There is no change in prices. 14th October. The G-overnment have not accepted the resignation of the President of, the Marine Board, Captain Douglas. The commercial news is considered good. "Wheat is quoted at 5s ; flour, £11 10s to £12. The Mayor denied, in the Town Council to-day, the truth of a telegram from Melbourne, stating that the Town Hall was positively engaged by Mr Coppin for a theatrical season. The matter is still quite undecided. Preparations for the arrival of the Prince are rapidly progressing. Cornsacks are very firm. 25,000 bushels of whaat were sold yesterday at sa. Flour, £11 10s to £12. Liyeepool, N.S.W., 14th Oct. All the machinery of the new paper mill was privately started to-day. It worked admirably. The works will be officially opened on the 28th instant.

M. Veuillot, the well-known writer of the Universe, has just fallen into a trap. The Phare de la Loire, in &a article signed Baron de Ponnot, maintained that it was impossible to demonstrate the existence of God. The argument was not to be borne, and, naturally, M. Veuiilot launched forth his thunders againßt it. Unluckily, the article in question ia by St. Thomas Aquinas, and is extracted textually from bit Summary of Theology.

Chinese in the Colonies. — The Sydney Legislature has recently been discussing the question of Chinese immigration and a bill introduced by Dr Lang, to repeal the Chinese Immigration Act of 1861, which imposed a tax of £10 on every Chinaman landing in that colony, was read a second time. In commenting upon this the Empire remarks: — "While it is admitted that the present act was passsed under exceptional circumstances, to protect ua from a danger which now no longer exists, we cannot accede to the views of those who maintain that under no circumstances is it just and honorable to restrict the immigration of any particular people. If there should ever be a real danger of such an influx of Asiastics as would give them an overwhelming preponderance in numbers over the people of British and European origin, it would be the right and duty of the colonists to interpose some limit on this immigration For it concerns the future welfare of Australia and of all the countries that border on the Pacific ocean, that British law and civilisation should be perpetuated and extended over this va3t island. It is a charge committed to the present colonies to see that nothing shall be allowed to deprive the eastern world of the benefit to be derived from a people animated by the spirit and governing themselves through the institutions of Britain adapted to the circumstances of Australia. It would be a wrong of inexpressible magnitude, a crime against civilisation and humanity, to allow the spirit and the institutions we derive from the mother- conn try to be overborne by tli©^ inroads of any other race.