To-daYs telegrams show that this " tfn-' employed" difficulties in South Australia are getting extremely urgent.- Recent newspapers from Adelaide show that_the distress thero owing to the want of em ployment is something terrible. The pressure is lessened by several thousand men having gone to Melbourne, but thero are hundreds left who cannot get work and cannot get away. The Government have put a large number on at relief works at 4s a day, but are unable to meet the great demands made on them for want of money, the colony being in extremely straitened circumstances, and a lot of most necessary things having to be done with out. The letting of contracts for new Houses of Parliament has been hurried on to provide work. The look out for Ade laide working people is most gloomy. The unemployed when recently waiting on Ministers openly threatened in the plainest terms to resort to violence if their de mands were not met. The Sydney un employed lately did the same. Some hundreds of them went in a body to the Ministers, and it was found that many of the poor fellows had been sleeping in the Domain for weeks, and had barely got enough food to keep them alive. Their wants were so pressing that the Govern ment immediately issued orders to give one thousand men two meals each at the city restaurants. The men used very menacing language. The Sydney Govern ment, however, are more flush of money and have provided relief works ; some of 1 the men, though, objected to piece work, and wanted a fixed rate of day wages for all alike, which, was refused. There, are GOO immigrants about to laud at Sydney, but the Government have now promised to sto.p:immigration for a time. At the present time the Governments of three colonies—of which New Zealand is one have to provide relief works at subsistence wages for some thousands of men, yet Lord. Granville is asking the Agents-Gen eral what the colonies would give towards the passage money of English unemployed emigrants. Of course the colonies will give nothing, though they can (with a fellow feeling) sympathise fulfy with those distressed in England. Three colonies aye <nuw providing relief" works, and a fourth, Victoria, is too protectionist to swamp the local artisans with huge impor tations from England. 