PROGRESS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XVII, Issue 1437, 20 September 1861, Page 4

PROGRESS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

The fourth pailiament of New South Wales was opened on the 3id September, by the new Governor, Sir John Young, bart , late High Cormnissioner of the lonian Islands, and formerly the Irish Chief Secretary under the coalition cabinet of Lord Aberdeen, and subsequently of Lord Palmerston's first government. From his opening address we extract the following paragraphs which show conclusively the rapid progress of the sister colony of New South Wales • — " I have much pleasure in announcing to you that the condition of the revenue is satisfactory, and that the important portion of it aiising from the Customs continues to increase. The gold fields of the colony are still advancing in number and productiveness. " The result of the census which has ]ust been completed, shows that, notwithstanding the severance of Queensland, there has been during the last five years an increase of nearly one hundred thousand in the population, which now amounts to upwards of three hundied and fifty thousand. It is an encouraging fact that this large increase is substantially in the suburban and country distncts. * "From the tenitory which New South Wales originally possessed, several important colonies have been created, but she still comprises within her present limits a larger area than any other Australian colony In the vast extent of her pastoral, and the richness of her agricultural lands, in the value and abundance of her aunfeious and mineral resomces, some of which are peculiarly her own, and in the intelligence and enterprising spirit of her inhabitants, she possesses all the elements of a great and prosperous nation. Much may be done by her legislator to secure her rapid advancement and permanent prosperity; and I piay that the progressive improvement of the colony, morally, socially, and politically, may, by the Divine favour, be tho lesult of yonr deliberations."