GLEANING8 F30! LATE PAPERS.

MELBOURNE IN 1854..

The City of Melbourne, the ca ital of Vic- toria, comprehending a mnnicipa ity and u- burbs, is situated on the banks of the river Yarra Yarra, and on the shore of l1obson’s Bay in the harbor of Port Philip. The muni- cipality extends over 9000 acres, upwards of 3000 0 which are public parlss, squares, and

reserves. The suburbs comprise about 7000 acres. Like Rome, Constantino le, Moscow, and other celebrated cities, Mel urne boasts within its precincts no less than seven hills. These are the Eastern and Western hills, Batman‘s llill, Emerald llill, St. Kilda llill, South Yara Hill, and Richmond Hill. Part of the muiiici alit is divided into wards, these are Lonsda e, a Trobe, Bourke, Gipps, and I-‘itzro wards. The first four form the old city, t ic last is also called Collingwood, or the

ow Town. The municipality likewise com-

rises East and North Melbourne, Sandridge,

‘merald Hill, and St. Kilda. '1‘hc three last

will probably be formed into separate munici-

palities. The suburbs are East Collingwood,

ichmond, and Praliran. At a reater dis- tance, but still in a measure surbur ian, may be likewise mentioned the seaport town of Wil- lamstown, and the thriving and beautiful rural township of Brighton, situated on oppo- site shores of IIobson’s Ba . A number of villages, such as Hawthorn, F emiugton, Bruns- wick, Footscray, &c., &c., ma almost be said already to form part of the rapidly spreading metropolis.

The po ulation of these various portions on 26th Apri , 1854, was as follows :—Melbouriie Municipality, 49,722; EastCollin wood, 8,738 ; Richmond, 7,061 ; Prahran, ,667 ; total, 71,188.

. The exact position of Melbourne has been re- cently determined. Batman's Hill, on the western boundary, is in lat. S 37° 49’ 28”, lon. E. 144° 58’ 35”. , Melbourne is a corporate city, and boasts of ' a mayor, alderman, and councillors; a town clerk with a large stat} of minor ofﬁcinls. it is the destin of most corporate bodies to be heartily abused, and that of Melbourne is no exception to this rule, as it is anathematized to an extent that would crush anything incor- porate. But it may fairly be uestioned whether the corporation is open to tie charge of ineflioiency. it can, at any rate, point with pride and satisfaction to the streets, well metallcd, curbed, and side paths incourse of being paved, so as to bear a coinﬁirison with any modern city. Gas will soon be supplied, the foundation stone of the company’s extensive works having recently been laid with Masonic honors by the worshi ful the mayor, and money has been voted anzf] preparations are being made for a complete sewerage of the city. Would it be beneath the notice of the cor ora- tion to take into consideration the desira ility of erecting public fountains now that a large supply of watu is promised? In a semi-tropi- ca climate like Australia, nothing more grate- ful and refreshing than public fountains can be imagined; and the hint is thrown out that the subyect may be considered. Public markets, flap are muchhneeded. It is superﬂuous en- gin u at enecessit existin in a - ions agd iriealthy city foi)-' such biiildingsiwgllo one who perambulates the streets can fail to

see and feel the necessity.

_ Err-‘acre or run BALTIC BLOCKADI-1 or 185-l.—Ths Borlcnhalle of Hamburg is in- structed by letters from St. Petersburg, that from the opening to the close ofthe naviga- tion in .1854, only seven foreign ships enter- ed the port of St. Petersburg, and there were only twenty-seven departures. The coasting trade was not interrupted. In consequence of the advance in the rates of carriage, 10,000 oukops of tallow remained unsold, and prices have fallen greatly. The advance on imports is most felt in the article of cotton. Instead of some millions of poods, the importation of ordinary years, ‘n 1854 only 900,000 poods imported, and many mills are standing still for want of raw material.

A grave event has just occurred at Mos- cow. The lar e bell of the tower of Ivan Velik, in the remlin, fell to the ground at

s moment when the ceremony of swearing

allegiance and ﬁdelity to the new Emperor was going on, and by its fall crushed nearly "100 runs. For a people so superstitious as the Russians, this disaster has appeared A most sinister omen, and the letter which glivss an account of the event states, that 1 e effect on the public mind has been that of great consternation.

Bairisn Aim Fenian Bisns Socisrr.--The an- niversary of this society was held in 1-.‘xeter- lisll, London, on Wednesda , the 241, under the presidency of the Earl of S sftesbury, who, in

I-1ASZARD’S GAZETTE. JUNE 6.

meeting on the fact, that, notwithstanding the pressure occasioned by the war, the income of the society exceeded that of any former ear. except on the occasion of the Jubilee, an the total circulation of copies of the Scriptures was greater than during any previous year of the society's existence. The secretary read the annual report, from which it appeared that the amount received during the year for the general purposes of the Society was £64,878, being £5221 more than the preceding year. The amount received for Bibles and Testaments was £59,600, making the total receipts from the ordinary sources of income £124,478. There had been also received £3,694, further contri- butions to the Jubilee Fund, and £7,860 to the Chinese New Tesiament Fund ; making a gran total of .t.'l36,032. The issues for the year have been as follows :—From the depot at home, 1,018,882 copies: from depots abroad, 431,994 copies; tota , 1,450,876; being an in- crease of 83,348 over the circulation of last year. The total issues of the Society now amounted to 29,339,507 co ies. The expendi- ture for the year was £1 9,041.‘, being an in- crease on the payments of £29,732. ’1‘lie meet- ing was then addressed by the Bislio ) of Mouth, Lord Ebrington, Ma. Wy ie, the Bis iop of Mel- bourne, the Ilon. and Rev. r.l’elhani,the Rev. Norman M‘Lood, the Rev Mr. Farrar, the Rev. Mr. Harrison, the Rev. Mr. Gill,l'rom Raratonga, and hit. '1‘. Farmer, and resolutions were passed,approving and commending the objects and operations of the societ . A _vote of thanks was unanimousl accor ed to'tho chairman, with whose repy the proceedings terminated.

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All the steamers for Europe are taking out large fares of passengers, en route to the Paris Exhibition.

Dr. Brown, wounded at the Norwalk bridge catastrophe, who sued the New Haven Rail- road Coin any for $20,000, has been awarded $16,000 amages.

Mr. Soule, late U. S. Minister to S ain, has visited New Orleans where he met wit 1 a_ warm reception. He made a speech during his stay which was loudly applauded by the multitude present.

The Canadian steamer Huron, loaded with 4000 barrels of flour, for Montreal, when leav- ing Oswego, night of 19th inst, ran on shore and sank to the main deck. The cargo will be mostly saved, in a damaged state. The steamers plying between Oswego and Toronto are crowd- ed with freights and passengers.

A art of two hundred Mormons, mostl Wels i and English, arrived in Pittsburg on the l0tli inst., on their way to the city of the Lat- ter Day Saints, in the valley of the Great Salt Lake.

A Soxiisa Tair -ro SEBASTOPOL.-Ono of the New York steamboat Commodores is thinking of getting up a grand excursion to the Black Sea, to start (say) about the first of Jul , and return home by the first of November. rice of Tickets, $500 each.

The entire edition of the Albany Evening Journal of 21st inst, was printed upon paper made from Bass wood. The aper is said to be ﬁne, strong and handsome, ut seemsa little too stiff. A very slight yellow tinge is attribut- ed to impure water in its manufacture.

§' A gentleman lately returned from Canada and the United States, had the happiness of travelling from New York to Nia ra in one , a distance of 500.miles. and t e misery of being detained on the Journey between Windsor and Halifax, 45 miles, about the same space of time.

A special commission has been instituted at St. Petersburg by the Emperor Alexander to consider all matters relatm to the eastern question. It is izlcémpolsepd o (the Grgnitl gage Lonstantine, M. esser e ount ro . . . Kisseleﬂ, Count Bludoff, and Trince Dolgoronki. The war party has a majority in the commis- sion.

The Journal of the Academy of Medicine at Turin, contains some curious statistics on human life, among others the statement, that married men live longer than bachelors, and

rent men ion or than those of small stature.

be two mont s of the twelve, in which most marriages are celebrated,are June and De- cember.

A Russian eagle, Balaclava, bron t to

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. troph ca tured near ‘England by liiar Maje

shi Von co, as been sent by Captain E. guns to London, as a present to Her Ma- jesty.

The number of petitions presented to Parlia- ment in the present session against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday is 213, si ed by 50,248 persons ; and 81 petitions have ecn presented or a re eal of the Sale of Beer Act of last year, signe by 154,716 persons.

The emigration to the United States is fallin off this year. There is a decrease of 0 for this year up to the 27th March over the same period last year, at the port

opening the proceedings, congratulated the

of New York.

d biting raflling, gift enterprises, and lotteries,

y mention that an immense conflagration was

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UNITED STATES.

Fnoii CA1.1I'0IN1A.—TlIe steamer Illinois arri- ved at New York from As inwall on the 7th. inst., with the passengers t at left San Francis- co co the 16th of March, making the trip from that port to New York in 22 da s. She bus I $710,167.27 in gold. Californians are slow y recovering from their late ﬁnancial pr_ostration; or rather, they are getting used to it. Page, Bacon & Co. are preparing to resume, but they do not say when. The other bankers do not even talk fintteringly. A bill prohibiting nois sports on Sunday has passed the Legislature, an awaits the (iovornor s sanction. Another suppress- ing houses ofillfanie, and still another prolii-

hnd passed. while laws prohibiting public am- bliiig and the sale of liquor are ver like y to receive f'a'roural)lc action. The 01150. 1103- witlistanding great opposition, had assed a hill to l'und the .{~=‘.Z,000,000 floating dc t ofSan l“l‘1t1iClSC(). Neither of the hills facilitating the obtaining ofdivorces will probably be passed. The Chinese are still coming. About 250 arri-' red on the 13th ult., in the ship Alfred from llong Kong. Ilcav fresliets were swelling all the rivers, and the progress of the rising ﬂoods was marked with close attention at Sacramento city, in view of the great destruction done at the same period of the ear 1852 by a flood. '.l‘lie American River ha swollen with unex- ampled rapidit to a great height, overflowin the low groun s along its margin, and ﬂooding the Sacramento River at Sacramento so, that the current became too rapid for the steam ferr boat to cross. North Front street was invaded b the ﬂood, (.‘arev's mill was surround- ed, and tireatened with destruction, and much other dama e done. About twenty-ﬁve men were at wor strengthening the levees in the weaker places with gunny bags ﬁlled with earth. FOREIGN Eiiioiu'rioN.—Durin the first three months of the resent year l§,677 emigrants arrived at New ork from foreign parts, against 23,718 for the same period of the previous year, and 26,544 for a like period of 1853. )uriiig the month of March this car, the num- ber arriving was but 2069, of w cm 912 were Germans, 445 from Ireland, 335 from England, 102 from France, and 9 from Switzerland. According to the Journal of Commerce, a shrew observer. who has paid much attention to the subject, and has recently returned from a Eu- ropean tour. calculates that during the whole of the present year the German emi tion wil be about 175,000, and the British 7 ,OOO, mak- ing a total of 250,000. C

Foiissr Fiass.-Recent advices from Texas

raging at the latest dates, in the cedar forests in the vicinity of Austin, and that many thousands of dollars worth of property had been destroyed.

Ssmsx 1N Diuuiin.-—Seamen are so much in demand for the United States navy, that the head of that department has, with the appro- bation of the President, offered, in addition to the present liberal pay, a bounty of twenty dollars to all competent seamen who shall within the next sixty days, enlist for three years service.

Tiis Gniaixs on KNOW-NOTHINGISI AND run hlsixs LAW.—A meetin of German ado ted citizens was held at Washington Hall on un- dny last, when Know-Nothingism was denounc- ed ns anti-American and a resurrection of the dry bones of the Tories of the Revolution. The denied the existence of any “ Native American, ’ and resolved, that the true American was he whose heart is bent on promoting the common welfare and per etuatin the blessings of civil and religious iberty for all, and for such only won d they vote. The Prohibitory Li uor

w was denounced as equall pernicious with Know-Nothingism, and bet were to be resisted, “peaceably if we “ can, forcibl if we must." To these resolutions, the a ed their names, and in the words of the eclara- tion of Independence. pledged their lives, their fplrtunes and their sacred honors to support t em.

Bl7llNID AT A '1‘iin-rns.—A dancing girl named

enham was very badly burned last night, at the Bowery Theatre, by her dress catching fire from the foot-lights. She will probably re- cover.

STAIVATION AT rna Fivr. Poisrs, N. Y.—Ths ladies of the Home Mission in New York, have issued a stirring appeal on behalf of the desti- tute poor at the Five Points in that city. They

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“ It is well known to those who are acquain- ted with that localit , that hundreds of families have sold or pawne the last article of furni- ture or apparel to procure food, and are now left on the bare floor, without bedding or fuel. and not knowing wherethoy may get the next mouthful to eat. Persons in these circumstan- ces (many of‘ them sober, industrious people) are thronging the mission-house daily, and from stern necessity many are denied relief. This state of suﬂering is increased daily, and the starving must be fed.—It will require not ess than one thousand loaves of‘ bread daily to

keep the destitute from suffering with hunger.

" llicn Paicss.—The New York Courier and Enquirer after enquiries respecting the pm. sent supply and quantity tocome forward of agricultural products, hazards the opinion that

rices ma be maintained two or three weeks.

he Courier bases its opinion on the fact, that there are one million ve hundred thousand barrels of flour, to come forward before har- vest from the Western States and the Canadas, which are waiting the opening of the canals in that State. Fifty thousand bushels of potatoes are on their way to the New York market from Nova Scotia, under the Reciprocity law. The crop of potatoes in Nova Scotia, last year was very large. Free trade has, within a few weeks, opened this market to consumers, and the chances are, that a liberal supply will come forward, under the present hig prices. We hope. for the benefit of consumers, that these

redietioiis iiiny he realized. The hi h prices of food aflcet many kinds of business injurious- ly, as it takes nearly all the mono the labour- ing population can earn to fin themselves in food,which they cannot do without.—IIaIi- for British Norzli Anicriran."

Fi.oL'ii.——A correspondent ofthe N. Y. Tribune makes the following estimate of the number of barrels ofllour in the country at the opening of Lake iiavigation, reckoning ﬁve bushels of wheat as equivalent to one barrel of flour; Lake llliehignn 656,000; Lake Erie 300,000; Canada 500,000 ; total 1,456,000. This allords little prospect for famine. The Tribune adds .

Sn pose 4:36.000 barrels to be absorbed by the estitutc points in the interior, and we shall then receive at tide-water one million barrcls—cnougli at the rate of winter consump- tion, S000 barrels per day, to last one liundrod and twenty-ﬁve da s, or until the middle of next Septeiuber. V 'ith a favorable prospect of a good crop all over the country, there is not a shadow of reason for any alarm about a short supply.

The American papers all agree in statin that the Wheat Crop never looked ﬁner, an that a large yield is confidently anticipated. This clieerin news has already had a serious effect on the ﬁour market.

Tm: I-‘isnimiss or i\1siii;Li:ni:.\n.—Tlie People’s Advocate says—“ We shall send to the Banks this year about double the number that was sent in 1847, (the year following the great gale); the business has again won the confi- dence of the public, as a promising source of wealth and prosperity to the town. Seven vessels will be ad ed to the fleet this year, most of them being new. We have been informed that some vessels stocked from six to eight thousand dollars last year; and if this be true, together with the fact, that no lives were lost, it, very gratifying to those who desire the pros- perity ofour citizens and the town.

ATorsi. Wascx.--On the first of January, 1854,a ntlcman doing business in the city of New- 'ork, was worth with what he had invested in business, a hundred and ten thou- sand dollars. At the same time he was blessed with a lovely and intelligent wife, beautiful and promising children. He was surrounded by friends who esteemed and res- pected him. His business was lucrative, and

romised to continue so. Indeed, his position as well as his prospects were seemingly, all that he could desire, to render his ha iness perfect. How complete the wreck whic the year closed upon! The first misfortune was the transfer of merchandise to the amount of eighteen thousand dollars to a California deal- er, for which not one cent was ever received. The next were two successive robberies, by which twenty-five thousand dollars were lost. Soon after this, the unfortunate man made an investment in real estate to a large amount. The next and crowning misfortune was a tri with his family to Europe They embsrke , on their return, with thirty-eight thousand dollars in goods, on board the steamship Arctic, and all shared her luokless fate! In settling up his aﬂairs, his real estate was sold under the hammer at a sacriﬁce of forty thousand dollars, making the aggregate loss of his property during the our, one hundred and eighteen thousand do] are, ei ht thousand dol- lars more than his assets. is friends were obliged to make good the deﬁciency! Was ever destruction more complete! Father, mo- ther, children, and fortune, all gone-swept from the face of the eai-th—-‘nothingloft to show that they ever existed! We doubt whether, among the many wrecks which the past year has witnessed, there has been among them one more melancholy than this.

A Gun EvsNr.—0n Thursday, the 8th iilt., a locomotive for the first time crossed the Niagara Sus nsion Bridge, having on board John A. Roe ling, the architect and builder. and a few other persons. The engine was decorated with the flags of the two nations, now for the first time united with bands of iron; and upon reaching the centre of the bridge, it stopped above the roaring chasm through which, at a do th of two bun red and fifty-eigpt feet,wererus in the foamin waters of the iagara, and ming ed its wil shriek with the roun of waters and the cheers of the spectators. The engine then continued its