THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES
... VICTORIA. The arrival of the Great Britain enables us to bring our intelligence from Melbourne down to the 27th of October. An outbreak at the gold fields, and an anti-convict demonstration in Melbourne, had thrown the colony into an unusual state of ex- citem ent. The riot which took place at Ballarat arose out of the acquittal of a man named Bentley , upon a charge of murder, alleged to have ...