The Express.
London, England, 1855-11-01 00:00:00

ANGLO•CALIFORNIAXGOLD MIA ING

CU 31 PAN Y.

The fourth annual general meeting of the pro-
orietors of this undertaking was held yesterday at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. Gauttoz Curran-1, in the chair.
The following report was presented, and at the threes-
tion of the chairman, it having been in the hand. of the
shareholders for come dayr, woe taken as read.
Your directors, deferring to the wish expressed by the
eh ireholdets at the last adjournment of the annual g I
meeting, that a committee of shareholders should be called
together for the purpose of adusiog with the hoard as to the
best eosins to be adopted with r. lettuce to your affairs, suns-
moiled such a committee ; the reports and circulars issued
so recently by that committee have, in a greet measure,
superseded the object of the ordinary report of the direo-
tors. The annual balance-sheet and accounts show you that
the debt in California with which the property of the com-
pany at the last meeting was encumbered, and which then
threatened the existence for useful purposes of the company,
has been discharged upon fair ned advantageous terms. S.r
Henry Huntley is entitled to guest credit for the sstisfactory
arrangements ha accomplished with reference to that trans-
action. By the united exertions of the board and committee of
shareholder', we have succeeded in disposing of 12,000 shares
which at the last meeting remained unissued. There shares
have been issued, in conformity with the resolution of the
lot general meeting, as preference shun, bearing a gee-
ranteed dividend out of the profits of the company of 25
per cent. over aid above and in priority to the
other shares of the company. The issue of these shares as pre-
'nonce shares has not increased the permanent capital of the
company (they bring forfeited original sharer), whilst the
amount obtained foe them has enabled the board to die
charge liabilities to as agent exceediog 2,( 004., and to leave
a balance of 3.6001. in the hands of the managers in Cali-
fornia for working purpous—a sum sufficient, as the beard
hope and believe, to place the works in a satisfactory posh.
don for the approaching wet /team The board entertain
sanguine expectations that the seal, economy, and manage-
meat of Mr. Praakerd (who has now the control of the
works) will bring that success which the patience and
liberality of the shareholders so richly merit. The amount
▪ of the last season, en untoward accident to the
teary, and an exhausted exchequer, coupled with an
ailleirmat for debt upon the property, all but paralysed the
egamisal of the last season. Tee next meath, when the
Wm
may be admit expected, will, we trust, find us maanci-
geed hem elf awe evils, and enable us to recommence
wain owe favourable auspices than have hitherto
awadd iii dispeay. The accounts show that we ob-
tained lanifs Meta of gold. This was obtained from 20P
reduced 1' -

kind of cuirass cu. They might hers been arrested immk nos of quartz, and ~ is 171 hours. 0.1.01( to the -. ---------- -.-- - -
sten
well. It appeared that deceased sod some other , named lead ; but itmalt be borne .._ many __, __ _
diesel), but as it was .f importance to discover the receiver, !torment laterrnptions in crushing, the espouses of übtaising
this gold us scarcely correctly estimatel, but the amount Brown end Mew 11, had been employed to lower a parish stances connected with the social customs and habiu of the
who is called rg jou at, or mistier, they were dogged, and actually expuided on the reduction of the ore we. 35.3 i. well at Patcharn, which was 130 or 140 feet deep, and dry. petals bays to be taken into account, before it is possible to
sun to enter the shop of an apparently respectable dealer. 1
to The manager of the works has been directed to erect the They had worked four days, sad on Tuesday demand was make a fair comparison between the :tetras applicable to
This man carried on his trod. with the greatest giressaspee stamp', pat the crushing v•llers in good working order, let down by hie companions to bricg up their tad& He sat the two °pastries.
ties; the stoles goods be b nett were always immediately and to use the Cuhran's crusher as an auxiliary if advisable. across a pickaxe, sad declined to be lashed. bet
bethere wee a •A few ohs he
tors,.registras for itance, attribute the
conveyed to the shop of a friend in a distant quieter, so I Daring the wormer mthathe, when, for the remake bike. re_ Woad rope for him to Folded. be
carried andle, which demean in the marrians (rein( the young and able.
premises for (erred to, no remunerative operations could be carried cm, the
that he never had any stolen articles on hiscontinued bunting till he was near the bottom. In reply to boded emigrating in great numbers to Australia ; and their
more then • few minutes. l• the present Isstanns he was I establishment and eapens.s in Cnitternm have been reduced questions pat to him during the descent, he continually notes os this subject possess • peculiar interest at the present
caught in the fact together with the turnings: police agents to the lowest one oche Sir 11. Huntley, Mr. Prankerd, the called nut "AU right;" but when at the bottom he said moment, when such warm disputes ere being cursed on as
established themeive• in the shop, turning it into whet is captain, asil one other miner being the only bands retained it would not do to be there much longer. Hie companion, to "Amber the Copulation in the Highlands is increasing or
called a souric,are, or trap ; and in the course of a short upon tb.• works. The ord sorry serums of management in Brown, then called nut, " Bold tight . a mind the dintirishieg.
time other lisueousisers arrived with their ill gotten goods, England have been kept as low as possible, but the somber !cannonto°' 11 pall yea up." Deceased 2:ade " reply. end
es
sod were arrested like their fables, and were all committed of gssaral and other meetiegs held. satiate and circulars on eciag to draw up icy found that he wee red
is thediffersut counties and divisions of Scotlead, w
port rial. The receivers do notspa,
pay the thieves ono•sixth issued, end which the hazirdoss position of the company on the rope. In a quarter of an hour John Steer, a all deridlug the question of the assumed depopulation in
ert of the value but th• letter hove their revenge when in readered imperative, coupled with the fresh inns of shares, labourer, went down (lashed) to endeavour to tie a rope the Highlands, will yet tend to throw some light on this
prison; for by Diritateniag the receivers with detection, they have added nearly 20W. to the expenditure. Messrs. round deceased, but De could not succeed, sad ho wes much lisputed subject. Taking Scotland according to its
form them to minister to their wants, cad alleviate their &Mud and Felder retire from the directory by rotation: drawn up gasping for breath. Notwithstanding this, John division, the west midland counties had the lowest pro.
disagreeable position. Kr. Fader doss not offer himself for re.eleetion. The Graham wheelwright, descended in • like m aaaaa , and for portioc,vik, 42 manriages per snouts. in the 10,000 ponces ;
ALLEGED MURDER AT ATLESEUET.—Three rasa, board, at the suggestion of the committee of shareholders, a like purpose; be succeeded, bat on befog draws up he and then follow in order the north. eastern end the southern
remained inaudible a quarter of an hoar. Deceased was aunties, which had respectively at the rate of 43 and 44
gamed Jobs Prost, William Auteuil, and Risksrd Ione• end acting upon the power given them by the deed of con.
drawn up dead. The verdict was" Accidental Death." The marriage per annum is the some population. Even the
ridge, with a woman named Sinned% Allen, have bean ninnies, appointed Captain Winos, Mr. Sari, and Mr.
jury complimented Steer and ()misuse for their humanity sestb-eastern counties had only at the rite of 49 marriages
examined before the Aylesbury magistrates, cheered with Williamson to set as directors until the ensuing annual
the minder of a man teemed Willies Wiles. It appeared general meeting, when they retire, but are meligible." anti bravery. Deceased has left a wife and two shildron.— per annals in every 10,000 inhabitants ; the east =Wand,
that Allen kept a beer-shop and lodging house of &disorderly The stetsons% of mourns showed • gross receipt Suites„ EzPftli. 6l • the mot .western, 62 ; the northern, 6.5 ; and the
kiad, and collabiled with decreased, end the prisoner Prost. for the year of 15,821 L, including bataneta nusount. LETTERS FOR CANADA.—GENEEAL POET-0771CE, no;tls.weeens, the large proportion of 77 marriages per
Frequent
_quarrels *sued between the two nen. All the Mg to 5,8671. 19s. 10.1. in land on the Ist Oct., 11506 —The postage ispon•lettar, not esceediag half as anima la every 10,000 of the population. There
sight of Wiles' death a great uproar was heard in Allen's of September, 1854, receipts from gold sold 1,0981., ounce, addressed to Canada, and forwarded through the fees, tles. do not seem to warrant asp such go-
tten, followed by • heavy fall, sad the mead of blows. A share contributions 1,3001., eubseriptione cm preference United States, is 81. when mimed by British packet, nand stateliest as that the Highlands, as a whole, are
woman who turd is tits has" sad returnd about this rharies267l. 10a., and all other items, the
d, 3n being la. 24. whenebeirrgveried by %Jolted States packet; heavier being depopiated ;is fact, en so far as one quarter's
period found deceased lying souriess os the Sooto of the tap- 12,7721. 7s. 1041., sad the banners is band, 3,0481. 16s. 6d. letters being is proportion, wording to the ergs of returns of the marriages can prove anything, it would
room, his clothes covered with dirt, and his heed and face The lialities of the comoany Woro stated at 10,3211. weight applicable ne inland letters. Hereafter, unpaid rather appear that the population in the Highlands
bet...wand with blood. Ho 11119 Oltaloolld to One of the rooms 12s. Bd., and rite meets at 6,66214. Igs, Id., slats:ye of the letters will be sent by the cheaper routs, lulus apssislly is , seeing that the proportion of murder*
upsu and left all sight without mediae' aid. The follow- minims property, meeisinery, plant, hog about 1.000 ems of !addressed "By United States Packet." Prepaid letters will was greater many of the Highland counties then is those
, lug day he MIS talons to the infirmary, where be died Ore. raised, butes, and calcined at the gate of last accounts be forwarded by the roan indicated ths postage paid in which the population is known to be rsPidiellußnsentinf•
shortly afterwArde, bowleg been insensible to the last. The The report and acenets were Teemed and
ma
sties 1 uterus. At present the Width sad Laud States packets Thus Caithnes, Sutherland, Res. Cromarty, Inveraiss,
fan parties above gamed, alleged to be Implicated is de. TM Manias of auditors and some other formalities OW loose Liverpool alternately on the Saturday —4O2wIAND ant Ban hasten of them • Pro Portie• of hive
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emood's death, ban bass remanded *Oll &Sudsy. Plea OS esssisiliss Wises el tits sisstimr. limy essretary. sidassbly absrstitessetsim ler all esstissi.

dteerve the thanks or every true-hearted
Briton for the rend you have taken in this matter. For
what purpose have we allied ourselves with France ? la tt
not solely in order to prevent the triumph of Ruasian despot-
ism abroad ? What then shall we gain, if in order to ac-
complish this we allow encroachments of ',retch despotism
at home ? This w.,uld be sacriticiog the end to ga n tbe
means, and I reck•m that we are not exactly in such
desperate straits that we most " commit suicide to save our
lives." N', air, better far had we tackled Russia mingle-
handed, than purchase Louts Itiapsleou'a assistance by corn.
plicity in biaoppre►sions ; but there is no need; the Em-
peror is too wise, I think, serious:y to risk our alliance for
any such question; and if cur government act a mean ard
subservient part, they will bell their own reputation and
their country's honour for nought. —I am, &c., S. S. T.