The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

cultivators, as well as of the clergy °fall denominations, that
the apprehension was groundless that it could not be done
without inordinate cost or without injuring individual
interests. We must hope that, considering its import-
ance with regard to all questions affecting the food of
the people, this inquiry will not only be extended to
England and Scotland, but also to the Continent gene-
rally, wherever it may not already have been instituted.
Our trade returns will exhibit the great effects pro-
duced on our commerce by the changes in our com-
mercial system; our colonial delegates will exhibit to
you proofs of the wonderful progress of their countries,
and proofs at the same time that elaborate statistics
have rendered them conscious of that progress. And
I have no doubt that the foreign delegates will
more than repay us by the information which
they will give us in exchange. These returns will,
no doubt, prove to us afresh in figures what we
know already from feeling and from expression—how
dependent the different nations are upon each other for
their progress, for their moral and material prosperity,
and that the essential condition of their mutual happiness
is the maintenance of peace and goodwill among each
other. . Let them still be rivals, but rivals in the noble
race of social improvement, in which, although it may
be the lot of one to arrive first at the goal, yet all will
equally share the prize, all feeling their own powers
and strength increase in the healthy competition. I
should detain you longer than I feel justified in doing,
and should perhaps trench upon the domain and duties
of presidents of sections, if I were to allude to the
points which will there be specially recommended to
your attention and consideration ; but I trust that
it will not be thought presumptuous in me if I
exhort you generally not to lose yourselves in points
of minute detail, however tempting and attractive
they may be from their intrinsic interest and import-
ance, but to direct your undivided energies to the
establishment of those broad principles upon which the
common action of different nation; c be based, which
'common action must be effected if we are to make real
progress. I know that this congress can only suggest
and recommend, and that it must ultimately rest with
the different governments to carry out those suggestions.
Many previous recommendations, it is true, have been
carried out, but many have been left unattended to, and
I will not except our own country from blame in this
respect. Happy and proud, indeed, should I feel if this
noble gathering should be enabled to lay the solid foun-
dation of an edifice, necessarily slow of construction, and
requiring for generations to come laborious and perse-
vering exertion, intended as it is for the promotion of
human happiness by leading to the discovery of those
eternal laws upon which that universal happiness is
dependent. May He, who has implanted in our hearts
a craving after the discovery of truth, and given us our
reasoning faculties to the end that we should use them
for this discovery, sanctify our efforts, and bless them in
their results.
Lord Brougham immediately rose, and amidst much
cheering said,—May I be permitted to say a word, and
I will not speak as to the address which we have just
heard, but of his- Royal Highness who delivered it.
(Applause.) I rise to give vent, or to enable you to give
vent to your feelings of gratitude and respect to his
Royal Highness for his most able, comprehensive, well
reasoned, and most useful address. (Loud cheers.) It
is unnecessary for me to say one other word, for I know
you will at once testify whether or not you will duly and
heartily express your feelings to his Royal Highness on
this all-important occasion. (Hear, hear.) I will only
ask you to hold up your hands, and I am sure if you
bad three hands each you would as readily hold them
all up. (Laughter:) I cannot but feel that we ought
to be greatly indebted to his Royal Highness, for the
St. Swithin of yesterday has kept his word to-day, and
yet that has not prevented his Royal Highness from
coming, nor has it prevented this large assembly here
to-day. (Cheers.)
The thanks of the meeting were then most warmly
accorded to his Royal Highness, who having in a word
thanked Lord Brougham,
His Excellency the Brazilian Minister addressed his
Royal Highness in the French language ; and, on behalf
of the foreign delegates present, begged to thank his
Royal Highness for the great amount of valuable infor-
mation contained in his able inaugural address, and also
—and most warmly—for the kind and cordial reception
which had been given to himself and brother delegates.
The Prince Consort assured those gentlenpri who had
come from distant parts that they received a most hearty
welcome personally, aAallo because he was sure the in-
formation they would impart in their different sections
would be of the greatest value to the subjects they had
met to discuss.

Lord Brougham directed the attention of the meeting
to the fact that they had a coloured delegate presen,t,
and hoped Mr. Dallas, the American mihister, -would
not feel any scruples on that subject.
Mr. Delaney, the coloured geutletuan alluded to, rose
and begged to be allowed to, express his high respect to
his lordship, who had always been the uudinching ad-
vocate of the negro. (Loud eheers).
The Prirde Consort then formally announced that the
Congress was opened for the transaction of ordinary
business. His Royal Highness expressed his intention
of being present on every day of the congress, and o
visiting each of the sections during the morning.
The proceedings of the day then terminated.

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION OF 4
MURDER AT MALTONt

A most strange confession of a murder, alleged to
have been committed at or near Malton in February
last, has been wade by a private, named Roberts, of the
30th Regiment, now undergoing an imprisonment in
Dublin for desertion. The man's statement is to the
effect, that on the night of the murder he was drinking
along with two others, also deserters from another regi-
ment, in company with a cattle dealer named Shea, with
whom they afterwards proceeded on the road to York,
and, after going a short way, murdered and buried him
in a wood on the left of the road, first robbing the body
of £6O in notes, after which they went to York, and
afterwards to the West Riding, when Roberts obtained
work as a miner, but eventually delivered himself up as
a deserter. A persistence in these statements caused the
North Riding police force to be put in possession of the
facts, and Superintendent Smith, with assistants, of the
Mallon station, have since been assiduously engaged in
examining the locality, and also the river, but no trace
of the body can be found. The man, however, still
states that the murder was committed, and that they
buried the body in a little wood near Mallon, on the
left of the road. The self-accusgd murderer desires to
conduct the police to. Ow place of burial, at the ex-
tiort of 41.4 inWrisonment, if permitted to do so brae
military authorities. The man is said to be of perfectly
sound wind, which renders it difficult to believe the
thing a mere delusion, especially .as the description of
the road between York and Malton is correct. The
police, however, have hitherto failed to trace a man of
the name of Shea. The Secretary of State has been
communicated with, with a view to re
the opportunitynioving the pris-
oner
by habeas cerP4s, in cTelieto, give`
of bringit\g him to. MAton, to clear up the mystery.

' An old lady, named Mrs, Sarah Ann Bull, residing at
Lewes, has been poisoned by au overdose of prussic acid,
administered by her son, who is a surgeon, but who was
intoxicated at the time of pouring out the liquid. He
has been committed for manslaughter.
SPOTS ON THE SUN—At no former period of obset-:
vatiou, according to the bulletin of the Paris Observatory,
have so many spots been seen on the sun as (luring the
last fortnight. They are not oniy remarkable for their
number, but also for their maguitade. ney occupy for
the most part two zones parallel to the solar equator,
along which they are disposed in from feu to twelve
groups, containing about sixty spots.
GOLD.—We hale before us some pretty specimens of
native gold, and auriferous quartz of exceeding richness,
from an important vein lately discovered in the town-
ship of Granby, C.F., one of the townships of the great
mineral basin of Lower Canada, to the south of the St.
Lawrence, in continuation of the Acton formation.
This gold is found on the property of Mr. William
Hungerford, lot No. 18, in the tenth range, of Granby.
It occurs in a vein of quartz in, a greenish state, associ-
ated with a viti:ecys aulpburet of copper. The gold
presents itself Most particularly in disintegrated portions
of the quartz lode in pieces from the size of a pea down-
wards.—Portions of the quartz are very rich, but what
proportion these bear to the whole mass we are not yet
prepared to say. From the information, however,which
we have received, the discovery appears to be the most
important yet made in the Canadian Gold Region_ This
region in Lower Canada 'eludes 10,000 square miles,
as demonstrated in the geological survey, The source of
the gold is undoubtedly here as in California and Aus-
tralia—quartz veins. If then, as we are warranted in
believing, one of these veins has been discovered at
Granby, we may expect that it will be largely pro-
ductive, With unlimited water power, cheap
fuel and labour, in a healthy country, where law
and order reign, auriferous quartz far below the
standard of that crushed in California and Australia
will pay for working. If the quantity of the auriferous
minclal is large and easily wun, a very small amount
of gold, with cheap labour and skilful manipulation
will pay for working. Thus in Hungary the mix-
ture is raised from a depth of 200 fathoms, ;Aid although
yielding only one-tenth of an oun,c‘a. to the ton, is pro-
fitably worked. The gold wipes of, Berchenstein in
Silesia affording less tin half an ounce to the tot), all
lel
also advantag-ously, wrought. In quartz, crito
half au ounce to the ton co;q.ered. Ant‘
• tralia and OalifOruia as good axe
sk ; tind
in such' quartz the 01 c4l/git 'iMa
naked eye. IA 4e. GPI*. (1,49A1it * seen by the
visible, 'aunt it beans la • not only is the gold
w
;„ ole.ipOin,kcpt% ;.0.-) a proportion to the matrix
per, et nt .:cied, of course, before us, as ten
otwor tourse we do not mean to say that any
of this average can be obtained, but only to
~aow that the enclosed gold is unusually coarse, and on
that account the matrix may be expected to be more
largely productive than where it occurs in fiver par-
ticles, or under that yet unsolved chemical condition
which frequently renders quartz in which the metal
cannot be seen more productive than that in whichits
spangle% are visible,--.3firntrfal Cithohercia? 404.1710".•