s, or more properly speaking, the gross errors
connected with the Victorian Expedition, have led to results that
amply compensate for the loss sustained. It is truly painful to
hear, and not very easy for those who are deeply interested, to
believe this; and I think the majority of all readers will consider
that these losses might have been easily avoided.

The relatives of the sacrificed explorers have to mourn their fate,
and the colony of Victoria has spent large sums of money, not for
her own benefit, immediate or indirect, present or prospective.
She, too, may exclaim "Sic vos non vobis." Lucky Queensland derives
the benefit; her boundaries are extended to 140 degrees of east
longitude. A great part of this country, formerly supposed to be of
a doubtful nature, is now known to be the finest land in the
Australias, capable of producing cereals, wines, and tropical
fruits; also a vast extent of ground fitted for the growth of
cotton. A source of unbounded wealth is thus opened to that
fortunate young colony: coals had previously been discovered there.
She is also better supplied with timber and forests than the more
southern districts. Victoria, with her capital, Melbourne, will
have to wait for the extension of railways, marking her position as
the centre of commerce, and will in time reap her well-merited
reward. Melbourne will always represent the metropolis of the
various colonies of Australia.

South Australia, so happy in her abundant produce of corn, wine,
and mineral ores of copper and iron, is a most desirable colony,
but a great portion of her interior being yet unexplored, her full
capabilities cannot at present be estimated. There is no man more
likely than John McKinlay, with his robust frame, his energy and
activity, to carry out this great object, if the opportunity is
supplied to him.

The Australias altogether comprise a country capable of conferring
happiness upon countless thousands of the Saxon race. Everything is
to be found, if the right people only are selected. Let them
comprise youth, vigorous health, temperate habits, persevering
industry, and morals based on sound Christianity, and their success
and advancement in life is as certain as anything can be pronounced
in this world of uncertainty.

While these pages are going through the press, the last mail from
Melbourne informs us that Mr. Howitt was expected to arrive in that
capital towards the middle of December, 1862, with the remain