Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 637

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submitted to a practical Legislature; it is a cabinet of curiosities from all the disorders of political architecture - the Greek, the Roman, the Venetian, the styles of Louis XIV, and Napoleon - a supreme minister at home, a vice-roy in India, nine nominated and nine elected members. The Coming Man has had his beau moment, and this is what he has made of it.

The bill is, generally, an imposture. It provides for everything except the better government of India. It establishes an invisible despotism under the mask of an elective franchise. It creates a council of nullities whose only office would be to screen the Minister. It erects a home government to fetter the local authorities with whom the real responsibilities of Indian administration lie. It leaves totally unsettled every great question rising out of the recent mutiny. It destroys what worked well under the late system, and substitutes nothing better. To state the matter fairly, we will admit that it is a more plausible measure than Lord Palmerstone's. It professes to provide for the representation of various important interests in the home

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[obscured] VICTORIA
[obscured] DECEMBER 29th 1855
[obscured]old has been seventy five shillings per ounce
[obscured]count of Gold brought to Melbourne and Geelong by escort
[obscured]corresponding quarter of 1854

	1854	1855
	ounces	ounces
October	160:570	194:646
Nov	134:911	210:847
December	145:318	243:732
	440:799	649:225
Last quarter of 1854		440:799
Increase on the quarter ending 1855.		208:426
Do on the year		370:740

Number of persons arrived 1206
Number that have left 370
836 and year 47:843

The escorts have brought this week 41,451 ounces and year 2 177.887 ounces or 110 tons 8 cwt 3 qrs 6 lb 6 oz at 80/- £10 602 :312.
Exchange on London Drafts [indecipherable] gold purchased at 2 per cent disct
Freight 4½d per oz delivered at the Bullion office Bank of England London.

STATISTICS OF VICTORIA 1855

GOLD EXPORTED 1855 110 tons 8 cwt 3 qrs 6 lb against 88 tons 8 cwt 3 qrs 8 lb for 1854
POPULATION 1855 three hundred & twenty five thousand persons
IMPORTS 1855 £10,222,294 EXPORTS 1855 £12,706,853 Showing a balance of exports over imports of £2,484,559.
WOOL SALES Weekly public wool sales are now fully established. The mode of Sale was to dispose of the whole flock inclusive of the lambs wool, which is, paid for it at the price of fleece, the pieces taken at two thirds and the [indecipherable] at half the price of the fleece.
1855 REVENUE The gross revenue amounts to £2,744,594
1856 The revenue was estimated at £2,738,600
1856 The expenditure estimated at 2,792,152

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