The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

THE PRI4ISS.

P•111.111ii a bill to the Council for abolishing the licence
fee. anal it wan conjectured that a gold duty would
take its place. It was also slated that the t aovernor
proposed levying a duty on sugar. Some of the
claims about Ballarat were yielding enormous qnan-
lilies of gold. One party at Prince Regent's tiully
washed out in six hours ninety pounds weight of
gold. and in three days had obtained LINIO ounces.
The th.eiong .11/eertbeer states that the hole was IA
peeled by the party to yield at least ten to (webr cwt.
A splendid nugget, weighing II I 011111'es 1111
had been found in this gnib, rill depth. The
yield of gold for the week ending ••tfith August had
been 1111111VeCtlettiVil. In the neighbourhood of the
Canadian tautly, observes the local journalist, such a
quantity of the metal had been taken out, that we
feel a diffidence in quoting it. From t bibs, tea
Va)lbs. base been Obtained in a short time from
in this quarter. In nelditilan he this the will
at the gravetpits has been recovered, and times.
weight WAS taken from one bantam without driving.
The Legislative Council of Sydney had *coved to
raise 11111,000/. on debentures, sceinval on the (earl
torittl reVelitlis, Which Witiohill Was to he vs,penefeel ill
keeping up the Mrt`lllll of immigration to the colony
to supply the great main of. labour. This wham.
were crowded with gissbi, the rate Of storage
extravagantly high, and several vessels hail been at
anchor one month, with fall Cargoesl on bonr,l, with
ont any attempt being mode to discharge them

SEMiol'g apprehensions tof the total loss of a tine
sit ffluell', with a large number of persons on I.
are entertained at Hull. The ors off, of :UM lons,
bt aiging to the Elbe and Wandler NuVigHtilill coin
pull, lett Hamburg on Saturttay and the Elbe on
Sunday last. Besides a valuable cargo and crew of
eighteen men, she had 1541 emigrants on board.
propel. coarse she should have armed in Hull on
Monday afternoon, but wanobit UllsSUlg yesterdo.
Fridnyl evening. One of her boats was picked up
in the North Sea by a fishing-smack and brought
into Hull. The crew of the Woodhouse( 10111.1111 C
tnors. that while on the yAvage from Stockholm, at
a fide hour on Monday night, ond with ocressitely
thick weather, they came into violent collision with a
screw steam-vessel, making apparently for the Hutu.
her. Alter the shoek they hailed the steIMIIV, but
got no reply, and suspected that she ins( gone down
headforemost. The dense Aug prevented them seeing
anything. Altogether it is much feared Mit this
steam-ship was the missing Morpholl, and that Atie
Rusk at once with all on Want.

Tirr. for bread at 'Aimed firieen isainsl In the
'shaming elmsrshy the untilicipstlttire4 tot PHI iS 111111 ..1114,r
tovram have been totted tO Is. I.xelintipli at tlic cabarets foi
intoxicating A notice llKSaecowitiligi liven issued
War • g all keels la of such Atou that Sa.rl.ll' loveisities
will be enforced against any tone shoo ifs detected
receiving hrcwl tickets as isi3 orients for articles supplietl.

TY, Tw•o ceekek.

Consols, 94Z ; ditto for January account, 145 ;
Mexican, 24 5 ; liusslan Five per Cents., 111 113 ;
ditto Four-and a Half per Cent., 107 9; Spanish, 45f
01 ; ditto Befentsl, 211 ; Birmingham, 1021 ;
Leeds, 601 E ; Midland, 011 Greet Western, 82111;
Caledonian. 271 E ; Yorks, 211 1 ; Brighton, 49101 ;
Northern of France, 344 1 ; Strasbourg, 321 1 ; Lyons,
10 1 pm.; India Stock, .250; Exchequer Bala, 36;
Bank Stock, 217 19.