of Melbourne and Geelong now. Is not the change, and in so brief a space of time, wonderful?
Read the details of the progress onward, in the following Statistics, taken from the "Illustrated Australian Magazine," which we give in order that the astonishing resources of the Province of Victoria (over which Buckley trod for thirty-two years, the only white man,) may be known, whenever, and wherever, this History of his Life and Adventures are favoured with a perusal.—
The Census, which came off this year as usual on the second of March, has not in its results disappointed even sanguine expectations. In round numbers Victoria contains 80,000, colonists, New South Wales 192,000, South Australia 68,000, and Van Diemen's Land the same number. The respective capitals of these colonies are rising by rapid but sure gradations into cities of even European magnitude. Sydney contains 44,000 inhabitants, Melbourne 23,000, Hobart Town 20,000, and Adelaide 15,000. Geelong, the second town of Victoria, is the largest of any of the second towns of the Sister Colonies, and contains upwards of 8,000 souls, and claims the additional pre-eminence among these towns of Municipal Institutions.
The condition of the Public Revenues correspond with the general prosperity and extension of the colony. There is a satisfactory increase in the various departments of the "General Revenue," as distinguished from the fluctuating items of the "Crown Revenue." The total receipts under both heads have been for 1850 £261,821, against £206,799 for the previous year. For New South Wales, exclusive of Port Phillip, the amounts have been £317,291 for 1850, and £290,847 for 1849.
The Commercial results for the past year are still more striking than the Financial. The export of Tallow from Victoria had risen to the unprecedented quantity of 4,490 tons, of the value of £133,000. The export of Wool has now advanced to the immense quantity of upwards of 18,000,000 of pounds weight, being four millions of pounds more than the quantity of this staple produce exported from the older and larger colony of
