open lists for mutual protection. At this moment a
Captain Harrison rose, unfurling a flag, which a digger
planted in a tree—"That flag," said Captain Harrison,
"is the destiny of Victoria. Every man must see that
Victoria will soon have a flag of her own, and the sooner
she unfurls her flag the sooner she will go ahead as she
ought." (Cheers.) The cuckoo sang God save the Queen
merely because she was Queen; but our Queen deserved
and enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects of every
rank at home, although her beneficence could not be
felt in this colony. They were under a complete
autocracy—they were the very serfs of Downing Street
despotism. The disarming of the people was talked of
in the Council. ("Let them try that on.") Captain
Harrison gave some useful advice respecting the firing
of arms at nightfal in the diggings. It should be a
rule on the diggings that no man should discharge his
fire-arms after nightfal, unless his tent or person were
assailed; and then the report would be an understood
signal for his neighbours to rush to his assistance. They
should even be careful of their lead; it might be wanted,
and there was no use in wasting it; at present, the
practice of firing at night was so common, that if a man
discharged a gun in self-defence it would attract no
attention or help, although plenty of friends might be
within hearing of the report. The memorial was adopted
without Mr. Taylor's additional clause; and they also
agreed to a petition against the proposed gold-export-
duty. Both documents were moderate in expression,
and well written. The University of Sidney was opened
"with some ostentation of ceremonial," says the Sidney
Empire, on the 11th October. The matriculated students
were twenty-three in number. The yield of gold in all
the settlements was as great as ever; and some new
fields had just been discovered. There was still a want
of labour for agriculture, and a rather too plentiful
supply of unfit men.

Accounts from New Zealand state that coal has now
been discovered at Wangarai, as well as at Waikato and
Nelson. The vein is said to be of good quality and of
considerable extent. Copper has been found near the
Dun Mountain, about eight miles from Nelson. It was
thought that the great current of emigrants setting
towards Australia would only last for a time; and that
compensation for the loss of population would be found
in an increased demand for New Zealand products. In
fact, many vessels from New South Wales and Victoria
had arrived and were loading with provisions.

Intelligence from Van Diemen's Land has been
received to the 26th of October. The following is an
extract of a letter from Hobart Town:—"Provisions
are getting very dear, owing to the vast emigration into
Victoria. Flour is now £40 a ton, and likely to be high
for some time, which is all against the diggers, and in
favour of our farmers, who, if they would abide by their
usual avocations, would do as well as at the gold fields.
It is estimated that at this season almost one-third less
land is under crop, partly from the very wet season we
have had, and partly from the scarcity of labour, and
many of our small farmers neglecting cultivation for
gold-digging, so that the imports of flour into Victoria
will require for a time to be considerable. We think,
however, that a good portion of emigrants—those
especially who have families—will settle here eventually, as
our island presents many advantages in soil, climate, &c.,
for agricultural purposes; and, in spite of the Convict
Prevention Act, most of that class will find their way to
the diggings. We feel much the want of labour, and
could absorb many thousands in Van Diemen's Land
immediately. The girls that we had out last year from
the Irish workhouses, although ignorant beyond belief,
and Roman Catholics, were sober, honest, and
industrious, and have been of great benefit as domestic
servants, and all of good character, able and willing to
work. We hope it may not be long before we get a
fair supply of respectable labour. Gold is produced in
increased quantity as the population increases. The
price here is now 70s. per oz.

The accounts from the Cape of Good Hope are to the
18th of December. Few events had occurred since the
previous intelligence, which can be regarded as indicative
of the prospects of the war. None of the proscribed
chiefs have yet been given up. Another of those
unfortunate "surprises" by the enemy which have so often
during the war proved fatal to small parties of our force,
has lately occurred. About twenty of Montagu's Horse,
under Captain Villiers, were passing between Chumie
Camp and the Kieskamma Hoek, and the road being
steep they had dismounted and were leading their
horses, with their rifles incautiously left slung in the
buckets attached to their saddles. Suddenly about 100
rebel Hottentots fell upon them and commenced firing,
upon which the whole party fled, leaving five guns and
ten horses in the hands of the enemy, besides two which
were killed. Captain Villiers was slightly wounded
and one of his men dangerously. A party from Chumie
Camp, under Captain Rennie, 73rd regiment, at once
proceeded to the spot, but the foe had vanished with his
booty. The captured Slambie chief Seyolo has been
brought down by sea to Cape Town, and lodged in the
town prison until arrangements are made for his safe
custody in the neighbouring village of Wynberg. When
the sentence of the court-martial by which he was tried
at Graham's Town was read to him, condemning him
to be "shot to death by musketry," he is said to have
betrayed no emotion; but when informed that his
sentence was to be commuted, and that he was to be
carried over the sea, he was overcome with alarm, and
appeared to regard this doom as much more terrible
than that first pronounced against him. He is
accompanied by one of his wives, a counsellor of his tribe and
his wife, and a female servant. The governor has
proceeded with a force of 2000 men into the Orange River
territory, having first issued the following
proclamation:—

"Know all chiefs and men of all classes and tribes within Her
Majesty's dominions of the Orange River territory, that I am
come among you to administer, in the Queen's name, justice and
right equally to all. I am come not to make war, but to settle
all disputes and to establish the blessings of peace.

"I therefore order and command you all to remain quiet, each
of you within your own country, and to await and abide by my
judgment and decision.

"I have with me sufficient of the Queen's troops to inforce
obedience, and to punish with rigour and severity any chief,
class, or tribe who may dare to resist my lawful authority.

"All loyal subjects of the Queen will be ready to join me
should I deem it necessary to call upon them for their co-operation
against any contumacious offenders."

His Excellency crossed the Orange River on the 30th
of November.

A letter dated the 5th of December, gives the following
description of the den of the formidable chief
Macomo:—"We went on an expedition the other day
to Macomo's den, which is situated at a short distance
from this fort, and as there were only twelve of us, you
may infer that the Waterkloof is completely cleared.
This den is a number of caverns at the top of Fuller's
Hoek, and the approach to them is most difficult from
the rugged nature of the ground. We found several
skulls, one of which seemed to be that of a European.
There were also old karosses, leather, tobacco, bags,
pumpkins, water-bottles, and a good knife. A skeleton
was found there a day or two ago wrapped up in a
kaross, with the skeleton of a dog lying at its head.
Another skeleton was near it, also wrapped up in a
kaross, and from the material about it, was evidently
that of some one who had been killed by a rocket.
There are plenty of graves of the poor soldiers about,
many of which had been dug up either by jackals, or by
Caffres in order to get the blankets."

Accounts from New Brunswick state that a public
meeting was held at St. John's on the 23d November,
to take into consideration the negotiations now pending
between the English and American Governments, and
to protest against any settlement of the question until
New Brunswick shall have been fairly consulted in the
matter. There were present probably 150 persons. The
prevailing sentiment among the speakers was, that equal
privileges in the fisheries should not be granted without
receiving a full equivalent,—such as the registry of
province vessels in American ports, the privileges of the
coasting-trade, as well as an interchange of commodities