AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 272, 29 May 1860, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

(From the Sydney Herald, May 14.) [by electric telegraph.] MELBOURNE.

Saturday, 7 p-m. ; The resolution of the opinion of the House in favour of opening telegraphic communication with India was carried unanimously last night in the Assembly^; f The announcement of the intention of the Sydney Legislature to abolish the Gold Export Duty led to a discussion. The impression is, that the abolishment jn New South Wales will lead to a great exodus to the Snowy River towards the spring. The Treasurer said he was alive to this, and would bear it in mind^in his proposed reconstruction of the fiscal system. PKOM THE MELBOUBNE PAPEBS. Mr. Handle has brought forward a scheme for the construction of a tramway through Collingwood to Melbourne.. A meeting has been held of gentlemen interested in the formation of a Stock Exchange Company in Melbourne; the capital required being £5000. : flit appears from a return just issued, that within the last twelve months the register of wrecks within Victorian waters comprises ten vessels. The total tonnage of these vessels was 5968 tons; and the estimated loss was £25,750 on the vessels, and £17,000 on the cargo. Mr. Nicholson has announced that the. Government intend to abolish the ticket-of-leave system, and to so regulate the ex-? tension1 of indulgence to prisoners of the Crown, that the judges shall in future "exactly know the nature and effect of the sentence pronounced by them." The resolutions respecting the establishment of telegraphic communication between the colonies and Great Britain (and which are based upon Mr. Gisborne's offer on behalf of an English firm) were introduced j to the*notice of the Assembly by. the Post-^ master-General, and affirmed without opposition. Eushranging seems to be unpleasantly on the increase in the neighbourhood, of Ballaarat;

Campbell's Creek.—A correspondent of. the Western Post says,.:—There is a rush, at Long Creek, at the back of Mr. Wigrarn's public-house. The diggers are at present working on the tip of a spur issuing from the main range forming the head of Ithe famous old Nuggetty Gully. I have seen some pretty samples of gold obtained by •Samuel Miller and mates, the parties who caused the rnsh. The nuggets vary in size, weighing from two and a quarter ounces downwards, and very much resemble Nuggetty Gully gold. Mr. Charles Foster showed me a small nugget weighing, I should suppose, about .thirteen dwfs., which he had just picked out of the slaty rock at the bottom of the shaft adjoining Miller's ground; no other holes were bottomed to my knowledge when I left. ~•,'...; Execution of Frederick Clarke and Ellen Monks.—On Tuesday morning the extreme sentence of the law was carried out on these two criminals within the precincts of the Goujburn gaol,' for murder. Shortly after nine o'clock the culprits appeared, after having been engaged in devotion with their spiritual attendants. The woman Monks came first escorted, in fact almost literally carried; by the Rev. Mr. D'Arcy, and Mr. Foster the gaoler. Another Roman Catholic clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Lanigan, was also with them. Monks appeared dreadfully thin and attenuated, and it was with difficulty she reached the scaffold, supported as she was on either 'side. Clarke, folio wed, and was attended by the Rev. W. Sowerby and Rev. R Leigh, of the Church of England.- Throughout the whole of the dr'eadful;scerie sheidispfayed no shrinking, nor even changing color in the least. The executioner having completed his preparations, the fatal bolt was drawn, and the two were launched into eternity. After being suspended the usual time the bodies were cut down and subsequently interred. In the same coffin with Mrs. Monks were deposited the charred remains of her husband, for whose death she suffered.— Abridgsd from the Goidburn Herald. The Mount Alexander Mail states that the inhabitants of Campbell's Creek, unless soon protected from robbery by law, propose protecting themselves by the appointment of a " vigilance committee."