Washington Sentinel

Americans in Australia.

The Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune contributes the following extract from a private letter written by an Englishman in Australia:

"You, who have been so much in America, will not be surprised when I say that the Americans are by far the best men in this country. You know well their enterprise, but even if you will be astonished at the following piece of statistical information. At Ballarat, according to the census commission, the population is 22,000, of whom only 240 are Americans. In order to drain the water from the deep sinkings, and also to wash the stuff, there are seven steam engines and machines; of these four belonged and were worked solely by Americans. All the great contracts are taken by them; the lines of stages to and from the 'diggings' that are accessible to wheels, and few are not, are all Yankee; the coaches either Troy or Albany built; the harness and all from the same country. In coming into the bay you will notice that all the fine ships are American; the best of hotels are theirs; in fact, they are improving our population out of the place altogether."