Excerpt from Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines in 1857: With Notes on the Overland Route From Australia, Via Suez The railway system, in this sifting of the political machinery, is likely to receive a reconsideration, which may induce the colonial Government, with its ex panding cares and obligations, to alter its proposed policy of constructing and owning the main lines, and to avoid the dificulties alike of a cumbrous public debt, and of a decision upon the cheap or costly principle of construction, by leaving the whole ques tion to the readier solution of private interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.