MELBOURNE

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2211, 22 August 1864, Page 4

MELBOURNE

Out dates from Melbourne iio to the 11th instant. The Aign^ of that date i^poit-< — I'lic ;urh il of the bi inch ni ul steamei at Adeliid* dining the nii;ht caused an almost cnLiie suspension of b.iiiii(.ss to daj Pnvate tcl34l.au)-. .is to fiom and tobacco, especially with lefcience to the lopoi ted nnpiwtiou of in cxpoit duty on Ihe 1 itlci aicielo by the United States (!o\ eminent, \\t_ie anxiously looked foi , but, so fvi as \\e cou'd .i-pjitan, none weie leccived The absence of pin ite inclination his led some of the l.ugest hokleis to think that thue is s"ine mista'ic in the Califorman nowi, and little will be dono 111 to bacco until the lctteis bv the mail ate dehveied. Theio weie, boucvei, a few speculitue s lies m ule, though not of lar_;c lots, at the ad\ mca established on the preceding d iv, 01 <siy fiom 5N 01. to 3s foi Wi'stoin twist. It m\y be stated — a^, vai.i us miiioiiis have been afloat — that tlie 'A^incoui t,' fiom Ncv Yoilc, biing-, no flom, and only .a little ovei 500 cisos, packages, &.0 , of tobacco The lloiu maiket has been still fmthei ilepiL-^ecl by the turn ll of tbo oln,) ' Alice T!ioin<hke ' .tt the ITeidi, fiom Vilp.ai mo, with a cugoof o\ei 1,100 tons oi" lnoi''.stu(l-i Tnis c.n0,0, re believe, is not consigned to my (inn, but is in eh irjjo of a snpeicii!,'o. The steamship 'Albion' has ilso lepoiteil the amxal of a laicro scboonei— the 'A 3 Harnos ' — it Dune lin, fioin Vilpaia so, flour on the 3id iu-,t The nniLi't hw been still finther perplexed by the nev -i telcofi aphed fiom S\dn.?y of thoattivil of the ' Roynl Albeit' theto fiom London with neaily 10,000 bushek of wheat No notice ot this sbipnifut appeals in the ciicnlu of jNlessi?. Stible", Bti.ikei, and Co 'Plie shipments foi the month, as ie,)oitod by telegiaph, seem to be hea\y 'I bey aio st.ited as exceeding by o"ei £^00,000 the shipments in the piownus month At this heason an inoit ise is filviys expected, opooia'ly 111 summei tjoorls, boots ,iml shots Ka , and it 1- to be finembeted thatthe vahu-of thcf.ibiics piorluced by the mills li) Lancashiio and cKowheic is consuleiably gieatei this be-ison than it «as list jeai. In the coi l.'spondinij month of 18(53 howevci, the inciea3e to Melbouine o\er the month of May was lepoited at only £70,700, while on this occasion it amounts to ifilo^.SJG (Jai'dles aie stateil to be shoit shipped, but the 111 foi niation con\ejed by the May cueiil.us shows that tbeie is a Kii;e quantity at sea IMty oases of .Scotch gahani/»d comijtated imn weie sold undei the liimmoi, at pi ice-- 1 intjmg fiom X 24 10s to €29 5s poi ton foi difieient si/ps. AEauiitius sngai-,, at auction, fetched au mciease ovei lite puces of about 40^ pei ton foi lihon soits mid 20-i pei ton foi countoia. We shall piobably have little business to leport till the mad is dehveied.