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glad if you will go to Joseph S—; — -and ask him to be kind enough toy write to Birnringhain or London , tp knoTthe price of a first-rate swivel duck : gun , to leased in a boat dor wild-fowl Bhooting ; and in your iletter ip ine , gaj . tun bold enough to expect one from ; j 5 ou , please to state the price , jtKen I will send the monejr ? , with directions for shipping it for the celebiated . Australian colony , "Victoriaj of which Geelong forms a portion . I vish I had Tom A is $ | X ^ r-he 4 : puldg « t hui living with fishing ; there are eeiUrW abundance ,, which sell for la 6 d , per lb . I ^ uck , shotting is , Qapjtal , sport , but hard work . I
liaj % an Qxford collegian with me for alout a month , 4 £$ although rg » Te-ihim , all the earnings , he cried « ll % ! ai ) id could ; not stand it . Tell Joseph W—— > ibe carter at print works ,. At is harder . than grouse bo ^ t | tkg r as . you cannot eh down always , unless xpghtf jgato the -water ; and mind , there are some iwblg birds , too , of the snipe speejies—one kind is ilWlyicaalarge as a woodcock , others less , and much the same as . in England . There are pleaty of plover , and an . immense quantity of quail , which , hy just like avpartridge . Afl soon as tie hay and corn is cut , I don ' t think it will be difficult to kill lOObr ^ ce pef d «* . ^ A person 2 in Melbourne killed In one week
nearly 800 ; brace of quail ,, and on one ? day he killed Msjif trace ... rig 1 ^* ls « each _ tfor quail , bat I have not ha&ia fairway at them , in the best of the season ; b , ut it ; 3 B ^ first-rate shooting—they Hy faster than par--^ dfi ^ Sf And , only they are smaller' in other respects , iftm quite ; equ # to any parjtridge ' ; slxqoting ; but a ^ tor : a person has shot as much qs } I hare since o ^^ ^ e ^ . ittbegins to rajifcT something short , of •^^ r ^ t cryii » gi ;| bs m& ** BU . u X ^ Mf .-killed . , qve ? if ^ A ^^ Asides swana , pelicans , snipes , plover , ai ^ q ^ ilfuin fact , you inay blaze ftway at one thing of ^ tl ? er ; until -you are ^ ted . Buck shootirig by nibonlieht I ana verv fond of . I am onlv lost for a
that is , the society of this country ; whatever I have said in ray former letters has been from my impression at the time , and whether I should afterwards contradict it or not will be through experience ; the society in this country is not generally good , but what bad there is is <> f the very worst description ; up at the diggings alt 5 a very well , the people being mostly good , honest people , but the convict portion being so small in proportion to the other inhabitants —well disposed ; the convicts do not make the diggings the scene for their depredations , or they would be shot down like dogs . Any honest man can find a friend at the diggings if necessary , when imposed on , or likely to be abused : but the villains lark
about t the woods , and pounce on their victims with as much regard to human life as a tiger would have . W « were very bear being attacked going up ; I got the guns ready , and should have slaughtered some , I know , had they attacked us . I will tell you how they do ; they often go up to a drayman ' s fire , look round , and when . they have ascertained no more are about , they pull out their pistols and demand them to stand and deliver ; but the way we were going to resist it was , that X was to remain in the tent with the guns charged , and keep quiet ; if they should come up to the fire and demand them to stand , then to fire-on them ; the dog growled ,
and we could hear sticks break , and the draymen said they were positive it was the robbers looking out for ; outward-bound diggers , as diggers going up to the diggings are all supposed to have some money necessary to carry da digging for at least a month or two ; but , jhowe / ver , we must have been too strong a pattyj , t ^ ey . di < i riot venture . One night they rpbbed twenty-five drays ,, 6 ne after the other , and tied the draymen to trees . ' They -went up to another dray , when a strange ? was passing , and asked to be allowed 1 o stay all night with the / dray ; which was granted ; , and die robbers coming up , as the stranger was arranging his bieel unperceived , they demanded
the draymen at the fir * to stand ; the stranger seeing this , having a loaded double-barrelled gun , shot one dead , and the drayman and bun rushed oa the others , took them : < priioners , and t > bund them oa the dray witli the 4 ^ ad man , and broiight them to town . So we should most likely have brought some dead robbers tad they attacked us ; transporting a villain does hint no good , and the present system of convict labour is very bad , Two escaped Che other day , from Van Diemen ' s Land ; who admitted they had shot , no less thaa twenty-three persons ; they shot a policeman who was assisting to apprehend them 1 and when condemned , they thanked his lordship , . and
said , " Quicker and better the execution . " There has been no less thsia twelve persons hung in Melbourne since I arrived here In April last . The population for the whole polony © f Victoria dews not exceed 25 Q 3 OPD people , or about one-haU" the population of Jay ei ^ ol and its suburbs ; it is a fearful number to b « hung in so short a time , a , nd out of so few inhabitaqts , but they attacked . the escort with six mounted troops , shot down four , and carried off 10 , 000 / ., and these were convicts who had not served their time , but had got tickets ojf leave , and one was shipped for England when apprehended for the robbery , and would have spent part of his time as &
convict in England had 3 . ot he committed the robbery ; so transportation ucler this system is only a farce . J > - — met a person whose name was B , who was transported from Houghton-green , and who had beea at liberty many a year before his time was expired . There are convicts hired out in Van . Diemen s Land at this time by masters , and who allow the conrict a handsome premium for his labour , and who dispose of it afterwards at a remunerative profit , that can afford to give the convict wages when he can earn eight pounds p « r week—it is admitted convicts
in some capacities are earning for their own private use wh 31 st doing wlia-t is substituted for Crown dutyso much for Lord Grey ' s arrangements ; but the people of Victoria will not admit any more unless actually free—no ticket-of-leave humbug will do here again . Ninety-nine cases out of one hundred are all convict depredations , and you may pick them out by their villanous looks as they walk the streets . If ever they attempt anything at me , I'll shoot them through the head in a minute ; and where cases of that kind occur justifiable homicide is always the verdict .
" Mjr respects to all old friends , and of course to yourself ; and don ' t forget to write and let me know the price of the duck-gun . I "beg to say we are all exceedingly well . —Believe roe , yours truly , " J . W . "
cgmpapion ^ -such a $ I co ^ i ^ ^ 8 hoi ) id : be amopg the happiest , of people ; but old £ ^ b ^ d , ' I love thee still , and should I ever return t © jit , -. I 8 halLr reflect t ba ^ k with pleasure on the ups a ^ dpwin 8 ^ Vand experience I have Iiad by sea and l ^ l ^ 'T ^ dn ^ lea ^ ng ^ me- ^ af a peraon . £ an be jjjfyXj&Af jtrjed J > y jhardships . y The hardest ^ stage I ^ aa ^ jfc )| i-: M ^' yc 5 ft ^ yiiig my 8 w&& £ sti > a 0 i f a tosket or tiilul ^ - ^^^^ ca ^^ ptgi ^^ i ^^ ' , &c . a ; Eiverpoot j ^| ti * wS ^{| t ^ inj 3 e * . aander : * irarajngr fui , without seeing . Tpr any pQssibility of being relieved by , anj : WM&e $ UandiWithout ^ any moisture of ' . any Mnd . Th ^ impoctan ^ ofisfater I . shall ever remember so long jwhen this any
• P' ^ l-liyj ^ travelling in or strange cpwqitryf but I neyer have enjoyed health equal to ^ P ^ pBtow ; de , djiring ^ he last t ^ eiye ye ^ rs , and I fij ^ d |^ ttle' inospvenienceKl ' roTO of my luijptsit allowancte of drink ; I seldom taiste ii , though dl ^ Bbnging ^ for a droppf Ale , ^ rhich is a scarce article IW (^ ¥ if" ^ jwai 0 ! :, S » , jfo ^ to , iTan I % men ' fl Iiand ! r < i ) ne of t ^ ese idays ; a friend ( pf mice tribes [ therJe > iu ^ a ship of ( bb , and , has invited me to sffdadiiy&ttle -time on a voyage wjth ! him ; , one day or , olherjI shall embrace it . I am i ; pldL , it is far sup « - rk )? jio Australia—plenty of : gpoi . prater , and the RK&tn and fruit have , a magnificent apnearance .
Cultirintion of vegetables or fruit in Melbourne or Geelong is very much neglected , and the consequence is tfeatipotatoes are 6 d .. per lb . A cabbage , such as would sell in England for a penny , here is Is . 6 d . ; apples , onions , turnips , &c , all sell at high prices . StJUU it is not caused by the incapabilities of the laud , aeib will grow anything j and if any . one ask tlie reason everything is so dear here , they cannot give any satisfactory reply , except they don ' t know , bat ittie so . I shall , however , give you a true accouat of < i what I think about it when I have been , if I should live and go . I often think of John S
Sampson O , Eskey S—— , and the old school of * vegetable and fruit growers , when I see such fine kinds as there are imported here from Van Piemen ' s . Land . *; Ocelong , Melbourne , and Sidney are all to a certain extent indebted to Van Diemen ' s land for their market produce of that descriptionand Adelaide produces the finest flour in the world , and it will command 5 / . per ton more than any other kind on that account ; l > ut Adelaide is destined to shine as one af the brightest of Australian colonial capitals . Th-e river Murray , which empties itself into the sea at Adelaide , and branches over a
great portion of the southern part of Australia lik « the Mississippi of North America , 1 ms been found within these two months to be navigable , for a distance of 700 miles into the interior of the country . They can supply the diggers at most of the diggings with goods cheaper than they can from Melbourne , as land-carriage is about lL per mile per ton ; and by steam it can be transmitted to a considerable distance for that sum ; and Adelaide ia the port which can , from ita natural advantages by inland navigation , extend the settlement of the hitherto ims © i ; tW > d districts ; as previously , the enormous amount Qtcarriag *; over such a perilous laud journey , many stations had been abandoned , but all again retaken , ivntl in a few years tlio wool produce of South Australia , of which Adeluido is the capital , will be extended considerabl y . "There ia one thing I must not forgot to mention , as it was much talked about when I was in England
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The Indian mail brings no news . Of course there are the usual Jittle affairs with the dacoits in Bunnah ; and it ia said that the " war prince" of Ava has poisoned the king his . brother . Additional cavalry , irregulars , have been sent to Rangoon . No news from China . , The most recent accounts from Australia show that there is no great diminution in the quantity of gold produced , bat considerable fluctuation , especially in New South Wales . Railway matters are improving . It is anticipated that the line from Sydney to > Paramatta -will be opened ia 1865 . The Scotch farmers are again turning their attention to the growth of flar , stimulated thereto by the stoppage of supplies from Russia . Professor Sowerfcy , who has recently returned from oui African colonies , reports the existence there of coal , iron , coppet , silver , and other minerals , of which he has brougb . 1 home specimens . On Saturday morning the workmen were engaged is digging the foundation for the Wellington Clock Tower , at the eatrance of tho London and Brighton Bailway . Th . e tower will be seventy feet in heiglit , and forty feet at tlie baso , with four illuminated clocks . A labouring man at Coleraine has found an Tirn containing 1937 coins , and Ml ounces of silver in ingots of various sizes . TUo coins are Roman , and no two bear the same superscription .
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Soino time back , a gentleman « f Sherborne , in behalf of the inhabitants of that town , not members of the Church of England , filed an information before the Rolls' Court for thu purpose of obtaining the opinion of the master on the question whether persons dissenting from the doctrines of thft Church of England aro entitled to have the benefit of tfaa Free Grammar School at Sherlx > rne ; and if so , to what extent , and under what conditions . The Master of tha Rolls , in delivering judgment , showed that the school waa founded by Edward ill . for the purpose of educating youtha belonging to the Church of England . But it did not follow tJjiit Dissenters should he excludod . The information connpluiued of four of tlio ordinances of 1851 . There were first
the compulsory uso of prayers an tlio school which wejo specified in the ordinances , fuid which implied or asserted doct rinoa disapproved of more or less by various classes ot Dissenters ; secondly , tlio compulsory attendance of scholar * nt the church ; thirdly , thu religious instruction which tlie scholars were compelled to receive , which included tlie catechiHtn of , and instruction in , lh « doct linos of the Established Church ; fourthly , that exhibitions were eatablishod exel tiai valy for scholars ficing to Oxford o > r Cambridge . TIu'hu ordinances were not a brciuih of trust , but moro exclusive Umn tlio « nao required , On a petition presented , ill
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We understand tlat Count Bernstorf , now Prussian Minister at the Court of Naples , and previously employed at the Court of "Vienna , is appointed to the post of Minister to the King of Prussia in this country , upon the resignation of Chevalier Bunsen for political causes to which we have previously ad ' verted with great regret . —Times . A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on Saturday when it was resolved that a statue should De set up in that city as a permanent expression of th-e feelings with which the Scottish people regard the character and genius of Professor Wilson . Among the speakers were the Lord Provost , Mr . Robert Chambers , Mr . Adam Black , and Mr . Inglis the Dean , of Faculty . Lord Stair and Sir William Hamilton sent apologies . We regret to say that of the latter waa illness * .
Mr . Lockhart , the editor of the Quarterly , has been staying some time in Italy for the benefit of his health . The EdwZburgh Advertiser reports that it has greatly improved . Some apprehension is felt for the health of Mr . Samuel Rogers , tlie venerable ; poet . He is now in his nintieth year , and recently suffered by a fall . The constituents of Earl Beauchannp , formerly General Lygon , including , of course , prorain&nt local men of all parties , " gave a dinner at Worcester , on Saturday , to
celebrate bis . accession to the peerage , atod to present him with a portrait , their testimony to his worth . He represented West Worcestershire for thirty-six years . We tjelieve he commanded the Second Life Guards at W-aterloo . . . The Limerick papers announce tha death of . the Knight of-Glin , John J . Fitzgerald , who expired of the prevailing ep idemic , and after a few hours' illness , at Glin Castle , on luesday . The deceased was Lieutenant-Colonel of the county of Limerick Militia , and one of the oldest magistrates of the district .
At a meeting held 5 ft Liverpool , on Tuesday , M r * L . Heyworib , M . B ., uvtbe chair , it was resolved to petition Parliament against the tests in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . . ^ : TheEoman Catholics of Ireland have issued a" Declaration , " signed by Dr . Cullen and man j other bishops , but not including Dr . M'Hale , temperately bat decidedly inveighing against the nunnery rneasures now before Parliament , which they regard as a wrong and insult , demanding equality before ; the law , and . expressing their , determination to use that power which gained Catholic emancipation to defend their rights . .
* An association was last year established called the Church Penitentiary Association , to provide a refuge for penitent female outcasts of the unfortunate class . ' The , first anniversary meeting was held on Thursday . Among tlose present were several ladies , the Bishops of London , Moray arid Ross , and LLchfield , and several eminent clergymen . Branch institutions are to b& established , and 327 have already been established throughout the . country . . ..: The education movement in Ireland has . itaken another step forward . A deputation , consisting of the , presidents of the , Belfast , Cork , and Galway Colleges , waited upon the Lord-Lieutenant on Saturday , to lirge upon Jnta . the establishihcnt of schoals intermediary Between the . Queen ' s Colleges and the national schools , so that the space left vacant by the downfall of the old middle-class schools might be filled up . The Lord-Lieutenant is favourable to the proposal . ¦ .
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court returned to town on Monday , a . rul tho Queen held a Privy Council to rectify an error in thu proclamation itpjpoint ' tho Fast Day . On Tuesday , taking the children with them , thu Queen and Prince visited the Crystal Palace ; going to the Ilaymarket in the evening . It waa the birth-day of the Pjincess Alice . Wednesday was duly observed within Buckingham Palace , as without , and divine service was performed in tho private chapel . On Thursday the Que « n held a druwing-room .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 29, 1854, page 396, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2036/page/12/
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