The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

THE GOLD FIELDS.

(From the Syduey Homing Herald, of April 20.)
After the excitement of the previous month, the
marchings of troops, the rumbling of field-pieces, and
ammunition carte, "the pomp and circumstance of
war" which marked it--the past month has been dull
and uslifiteresting. Telegram after telegram brings the
moue news" All quiet at lambing Flat;' until now hon.
members of the Assembly, in the spirit of coonomy,begin
to ask when the troops are to return to Sydney. It
seems, however, that notwithstanding the pacific nature
of the news now invariably received, to Government
officials at Lambing Flat do not consider it safe
as yet to withdraw the military.
The Chinese question bids fair to be settled by the
will of Providence, since the great scarcity of water,
that is so severely felt upon the chile of this gold-field,
not merely preventing the washing up of the dirt, but
, even abridging the necessary supply for the ordinary
purposes of life, falls still more heavdy upon the Chinese
than upon the Europeans; and as they are almost out
of funds, from their long compulsory abstinence from
work, and as they cannot wash their dirt to procure a
supply of ready cash, they must shortly, it ie said, quit
this for a more promising part of the country. The
amount sent by escort, though small as compared with
the large numbers of diggers on the ground, still keeps
up its usual average, despite the lack of water; whilst
all ooinmunioations received from thence concur in
stating that there are innuinerable heaps of wash flirt
that only await the first fall of rain to be turned into
golden ounces.
In the western districts the gold-fields have shown a
steady increase daring the past month. Here, also,
large numbers of Chinese have gradually congregated,
and set in to work, no less than 500 or 600 being re-
ported to be located on the Belnbula river. A large
number of thew are also out prospecting around Mount
Macquarie. Quartz-crushing machines have been erected
at the Back Creek, and it is projected to turn attention
once more to the old Sammerhill Creek, the spot on
which Mr. Hargraves washed his first pan of dirt, as
very rich quarts veins are said to exist there. A quarts
reef has also been opened on the Morrendee diggings,
but the produce yielded only di ounce per ton; it is
expected to get richer as they get down on the reef. A
company of Celestials have purchased the engine claim
on the Toren, for 11,000,from a company of eight share-
holders who owned it. It is rather remarkable th..t
one of these shareholders who thus sold to the Chinese,
was Mr. John Torpey, the chairman of the Lambiug
Flat Miners League, whose opposition to the Chinese,
when self-interest was not concerned, has been so vim.
lent and unthinking. Good payable ground has been
opened at Cesspit, and about 100 persons at work there
are snaking good wage..
From the northern district we have the intelligence
of the discovery of two new gold-fields on the heads oi
the Clarence the one at llsmilten's Gap, and the other
within sixteen miles of M'Orath's, and on Mr. Ogilvie's
run. As yet there are not users than 150 diggers at
the latter place, and hardly so many at the former;
and no certain information in respect to them has yet
been r..ecived. The Hanging Rock diggings go on
quietly and steadily, the amount received weekly by
escort being the only new.; respecting them which
reaches Sydney. At the Rocky River very little is
doing, though some parties have set in to work the bed
of the river; the rain that has recently set in here will
to some extent prevent their operations, though it will
favour the washing up that has been so long delayed for
want of water. The necessary machinery for quarts
crumbing Isms arrived at the Ironbark, and as the requi-
site buildings are nearly completed, the value of the
recently discovered reef here willowy be ascertained.

"EscusiosTh is perhape the most popular idiomatic
which even a Longfellow's genius has commended to
universal competive aspiration ! To rise higher, —to
improve pcsition,—to overmome impedimenta,—to
EXCEL. The idea elevates the standard of mercantile
integrity. Why should not every article be, whoa it
seems to b.—One of our table necessaries, TEA, (as
I proved by Parliamentart. Evidence). is, with a view to
I profit, mostly covered y the ( hinese with fang of
mineral Colour ; this deceives the consumer by giving
a fictitious value to brown wintry leaves, and enables
foreign traders to pt rid of otherwise unsaleable stock.
In order to " rarer both in quality and wholesomeness
Hemlines & Co. find it necessary to import all their
Tea wholly pure—Green a dark olive, and the Black
not made intensely dark. Elm-plied gni/ in pockets,
by llornianan's Agents, as advertised in tins paper.
UN PARALLELED LEAP. —A short time since while Mr.
Esupsou. surgeon, was visiting • patient at Lower
Coombe, on the grounds of J. Y. Billafant, Esq., he left
his horse and phaeton near the doorway in charge of a
young gentleman who accompanied him ; but Use latter
while standing by the horse, accidentally dropped the
reins, on which tbe high spirited animal, alarmed per-
ham at some sudden sonud, ran off at full speed, cud
presently coming to the entrance gate, cleared it at one
bound, dragging the carriage after him, which strange
to my orooliotlituo injured, neither were the bars of
the OM ellitasbed. The horse, tam, afterwards took the
orninennte
_of the crs.rieins hook to Crechtou, wither*
497 sPmPlosPo d bar or rentletoese, —Wester*
eaten lieraid.