The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1852.

them a report somewhat diffsnat from skews which they
had made es previews measiele. They had the farther
emeletiew benikel Mgt Ws they obtained the
MUM of imitsibi Ns leeks all the reports
whisk they bad mode were befits out by sob
eirummt cututosemmmi. At Use first miseries they
daalered that they would at owe take steps tot
L= any easesessery expenditure ; and the
en were wallower* of the state of their eoaosira
ia that respect. Apts. Obey stated that they would seed
rag Ma alive and intelligent agent, await his return, and
ties meet to the elsaretueldun. The time for 'liaise the
'report bed hew arrived, amid the directors had felt very
great grams in peruke the portion of their report
which referred to that subject. They had formerly de-
clared that they believed they had • good agent in Captain
Hitching, and it now appeared that their belief wee well
fouaded. Thou who had gone through Captain/Mu-hiss:l
report must have seen various matters alluded to which
had beea tested since that gentleman left Aus-
ualia, the malt of Mr. Foster's creations having
been so far to bear out Captain Mitehins's views.
The directors regretted to have to iaform the shareholders
that copper mining was again suspended ; but, although
actual operations had been deferred, it was impossible to
perceive the extraordinary prices of copper to London
without feeling that their property was in fact considerably
improved in value. (Hear, hear.) There could be no
doubt that gold had been discovered in South Australia in
considerable quantities. Parties had been prevented from
siukiag pits by the winter rains, and therefore it was only
near the surface that gold had been obtained ; but, never.
choices, gold had been found within seven miles of the
company's property. As they were informed in the report,
they would be very favourably situated in GM gold should
be found in quartz, as it was to so large an client in
California, in a state which required crushing operations.
He need scarcely tell there that when the day labourer
could obtain tram Ids. to 11. per day, the expense of tran-
sporting and erecting machinery must be very great. But
for all this the company wee quite prepared. (Hear,
hear.) At one period the directors felt sorry that so large
an outlay had been made for machinery, but thee now sp.
peered likely to benefit by that circumstance. There was
already erected at the compruay's mines a stamping ma-
chute fully adequate to stamp 30 tons of quartz per day ;
and there was at the port crushing machinery quite ready
for removal to the spot. Captain Hitchins had made no re-
port on the state of the colony generally ; but the directors
bad informed the shareholders that there was one particu-
lar property recently secured, and he had no doubt it would
prove advantageous. With regard to the state of the
copper mine, he had that morning had the pleasure in
showing some specimens at the °Cur to the largest ahare•
holder in the Barra Burrs. That gentleman on smog
them at once exclaimed, " Oh, these are Burrs Burrs. '
He (the Chairman) answered hies that he was mistaken,
and offered to refer to Capt. Hutchins, who happened to be
present; and when the specimens were put side by side
with some Burrs Berra specimens the two appeared of pre-
cisely the same character. (Lsughter.) He would not
have the shareholders to imagine that they were going to
work the copper mine directly : but they were in this
happy position, that if labour came, and it must come unless
a large quantity of gold were found in the colony, they might
prosecute copper mining, and if gold were found either on
their property or in proximity to it, they were better pre-
, pared to work it than
hatal other company in the colony.
They had agents, they land, they had never-faille{
streams of water, and they bed cleellent machinery. The
next question which he skould introluce had reference to
the amount of the shared It was felt by some gentlemen
that 201. shares were too large in amount, and ought to be
redwood. On that subject he must observe that when they
had este got ander • legal deed, it required a great
am if he might so express it, to get round. If
they went to the west-end to request that their
shares might be reduced to 61., some difficulties
might be raised; and on the whole, therefore, it had been
thought best to postpone the matter. When, however, the
directors had ascertained the exact terms upon which the
gutter could be arranged, they would, with the sanction
of the proprietors, take such steps as might appear best for
the interest of the company. (Cheers.)
Mr. ANDERTOX salted what was the state of the finances?
The C11•111MAN Said at present the directors weft not in
want of money. They had certainly come loan notes oat,
but some of tee largest holders had offered to renew them
at • reduced rate of interest.

Mr. ANDIRTON said he had never attended a more satis-
factory meeting, and he thought all present must feel
highly indebted to the directors for their very able manage-
must. He had great pleasure in moving the adoption of
the report.
Mr. Asstwam., in seconding the motion, congratulated
the shareholders upon the excellent manner in which their
again were conducted. He had been enabled by friends at
the board to ;earn nearly all that had pawed, and he mast
say that everything that he had learnt had tended to in-
crease his confidence. He found that the location was even
more favourable than had been supposed. They bad access
to the southern portion of it by the River Murray, which,
according to Governor Young, was about to be navig teed
with a steamer, and which might one day occupy • positioe
seisewhat similar to that of the Thames between London
I and Gravesend. The depth of water in may places was
Not lam_ that 3 or 4 fathoms.

TIN CHAIRMAN observed that the Peel River was oat of
the tributaries of the Murray.
Mr. Amtwatt continued—Their property consisted of
more than 20,000 acres, which if they did not yield gold,
wield @Mord mow, and which would be highly valuable
he What it would become when Adelaide was
wield not pretend to say. He knew Captain
miresisally and was cony need that the company
selected: is
a better man to represent it in the
whey.
MT. Awoinvox Hiked how far the property was from
Adelaide ?

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The CHAILWAN replied that the distance wu forty

reply to (tuitions from Mr. Ludo,
The CHAIZXAN said that the actual extent of the aim•
puly's lead wu 22,000 acres, put of which was let oat as

• astAngetimmin said that some late advice. which he
MI meshed kiwi Meads at Adelaide bore very high me
thaw t• dm 'endue of their present agent, Mr. Foster,
sad UM see Um as it appeared on reasonable grounds,
ok ease pegM> would prove very valuable, whether
011 won apse It or not. There could be no doubt
Oat mbar sollosin would look to Adelaide to supply them
with a Wee gematity at Sow ; and he was informed that
snivel awn of Mad, which • short time ago would not
bars Moiled awn than V. or U. per sere, bad recently
bow said at Mum 101. to 151., and even 181., per sere.
Assam -

laid he believed that ins
be M.d ea the estate, and wished to know whether OM
*iron did not think ;hat if labour were abundant lela
i.e *IN be profitably worked ?
Tbe Murmur' said that having had some experiethe
el inn we, be was consisted that if they were to be
tooted as amit, they meat be in private panda.
Kr. iingit would be glad to know whether the thew
Esini.ngli nth get Chinses labourers. He hal herd
Mill idle were ingsreed tuned oat very thesUsat

TM—Czeinmax was vary happy to mate that the
Arnelies Want* won et ant time raaking as Wort to
gotObitene labwarion Madre_ poootat anamemento all
Ms army raised tor kaweatbe Meer men be lownrdod
to Ragland, to toed est lingthenten. The matboreewatry,
however, was Isle: preen that Imeldmen es
the other sido o th• are quite anal& KMale(
ohm their rim a ; .ad Idris the ealesiets were
allowed to govern themeless they would be alio to import
Chinese quite as cheaply and as ruddy u the Yankees of
California.

The report woo Dna adopted.
On the =aim of Mr. ANDIZTON, sotteadod by Mr.
Batson, • vote of thanks woo given to Captain Kilobits
for the mammy is wbieh he bad peohrosod his dative.
Tho Camammt said it was dee es Mr. Foster sad Ms.
R. Davenport to seeks siseilor asbnoldedgeosate to
As regarded the Wee reithwas Well Awns that
whoa Cieptala Hitsbla4balsa hi the eel.:l, with perms
teeepsegurill,itge weritisjeLsr,eir tirealt.egielative Oatiort,
aad fries Ids he teedved dodos hi: stay the Waded and
mot moral aid.

111110kTlitert.t1OM TOW to Mr. Foster end Mr. Daven-
port respeedvelend subsequently to the ehalrman sad
the beard. after*Welt the webs separated.

CANADA COMPANY.

Yesterday the half-yearly general court of pro-
piston was held at the Canada Heine, St. ;
Kr. FRAMs' is the 'hair for the purpose of declaring a
divideed. The minutes if the previous macaw of the
&Luton having been read and esefinsed,
The CHILI/ULU! proceeded to give a ranneary of the
progress of the affairs of the onapany from the Ist of Jan-
uary In the 10th of Deeentber, 1&52, front white it ap-
peered that the
,Litad sold to 10th Dee... 22,430 aorta, at 14e. 2d. per sore.
Lea lased „ ..66,356 „ 19s. „

77.786 acres, at 17s. 9d. per acre.
Receipts in Clanado. to 10th Dee. .... 61,9481. its. 3d.
During the aim peeked is 1861 the total number of acres
sold was 21,11 ell Us. 18. per acre, showing an inerease in
the year 1862 OM. thillailli Miel sold, and of le. per
aare in pries. The lands lamed in 1862 were less by
61,000 urn than in 1861. Tbde arose from the fact that
they had km land be dhpese et, but it was matter for sow
rmaimittlhey bed pa lb ld. per sere more for the
. leneeL The pumbese mosey received in 1862 was
1 3901. ; In 1661 16,3081.; hag ea Mamas of 8841. under
• head of porthole mew received. Bills re.
eitivable and interest of am) foliated in 1452
16,868/4 in 1861 21,3041 ;,)eisy eAsareme of more than 4,0001.
But it was lobe recollected that the amount so to be col-
lected had dimmed considerably in amount. The rents
received in 18.52 amounted to 14,2041., in 1861 to 16,6011.,
being a decrease of 1,3971. under this head. The result
was, that the total sums collected in 18.52 amounted to
61,9151., as compared with 56,3811. collected in 1851, show-
ier • decrease of 3,4361. ; but still the amount of money
collated was large. la 1862 the lessees of 17,082 acres
paid the pure:ham money, amounting to 11,4971., of their
trmuolds, before they were required to do so, as compared
with the lemem of 10,617 acres who paid 7,1611. in 1851.
This showed a very prosperous condition of the colony.
The funds in the bands of the company amounted to
13,4801., besides a considerable balance in the hands of
their bankers in Canada. The liabilities amounted to
dioool., which left 10,0001. in hand for the payment of
vidend. The only additlestal feet ho bad to water*
was that during the year they had diehiritet 11,411/01. of
the &beaten debt. The etas it the meta* simony

waa one of the greatest prosperity, and when the railways
in Canada were completed, they would add materinLy to
the value of their property. With respect to the our
: nagement, be had to aasounco that they felt it to be
their duty to dispense with the services of Mr. Jones so
commissioner, and that Mr. Widders was now their first
commissioner, and Mr. Robinson, a member of the Irgida•
tire and executive councils, their second commissioner.
Mr. Wiettusa moved that a dividend be declared at the
rata of six per gent. per annum on the capital stock of the
company, paid up free of income tan.
A PROPJUSTOII hoped that the services of Mr. Jones,
w►o had been in the employment of the company twenty-
three yean, would meet with due appreciation from the
court. . . .

The CHAU/MAK said that the court were disposed to dod
kindly and fairly towards Mr. Junes. (Hear.)
The ai...tios wee then put and carried, and the meeting
separated.

IRELAND

DCBLIW, DPW. 29.
The undress morning reception at which the Earl
and Countess of Eglinton propose to take leave of
the citizens of Dublin has been fixed for Tuesday
next, and the noble earl and countess take their de-
parture from these shores on the following morning.
A steamer will be placed at their disposal to take
them dire ,t from Kingstown to Scotlaud.
Yesterday, in the corporation, the question of pre-
senting an address to Lord Eglinton on his departure
came under discussion.

It was ultimately resolved, by a majority of 33 to
4, that the house adjourn to this day, for the pur•
pose of receiving a report from a committee of the
whole house on the address.

Another instance of the manner in which au Irish
landlord can treat his tenantry who have dared to
exercise their franchise according to their conscience,
is afforded by the following letter, which appears in
some of the northern papers. The writer of it ap.
pears to be an under agent of Mr. Stewart, of Ards,
a gentleman who figured in a similar way in the
now papers a few days since. The letter is as
follows:

Laurenectown, Banbridge, Dee., 1852.
Dear Sir,—Captain Bowen desires me to say that he has
received inetnietions from Mr. Stewart to call on all his
tenants, who plumped for Mr. Crawford at the last election
of the county Dawn, for the immediate payment of their
respective rents in full, without any abatement whatever;
and, if not paid, to proceed against them. As you are in
the list of those who did so, Captain Bowen now requests
that you will, on receipt of this, pay the rent due out of
your holding in Clare to Mr. Stewart, and, if you do not,
he must, however painful it may be to hint, proceed
against you fur the recovery thereof, agreeable to his in-
structions. Ile gives you this informatioa to prevent your
being put to any coau.—l am, dear sir, your obedient
servant, Janes DEACON.
Mr. George Lockhart, Lurgan.
Tho Lout/s and Doren Pilot, a liberal protestant
journal, in some remarks upon the preceding letter,
" :
r. Stewart seems determined to bring odium upon his
class by the arbitrary exercise of his power so a landlord.
and we think that clan an bound in self-protection to
reprobate such conduct. We could point to hundreds of
landlords who would feel themselves degraded by the
slightest attempt to coerce the consciences of the humblest
persons on their property. To men of this character Mr.
Stewart has done a grievous injury; for the general public,
especially in the niter country, are but too much in the habit
of classing all manner of landlords under the same head. W.
have a strong disrelish to the system of voting by ballot, as
cowardly and ten-British, feeling that every man should
be allowed the privilege of avowing his political convic-
tions without let or hindrance ; but while we have such an
exhibition of authority perverted from its legitimate pin.
poses as is evidenced by this latter, we really can discover
no ether protection foe the tenant than the ballot. We
hops some independent Irish member, if a landlord so much
the better, will bring this business before the House of Com-
mons. It would do more towards the adjustment of the
vexed relationship of landlord and tenant than many elo-
quent and argumentative speeches, and considered in this
light, Mr. Stewart has become, though inadvertently, the
friend of those whom he would reduce to the vilest bondage
—the bondage of the mind.
A Limn& paper attributes similar conduct to a
landlord of that county, whose tenantry would not
be dragged to the polling booth to vote against
their own convictions,

The following private communication respecting
negotiation. for a commercial treaty between Eng-
land and France, appears originally in the Evening
Post of last night :
Paris, Dec. 23.
I have learned that the Emperor Napoleon and the Bri-
tish government have been secretly engaged upon a treaty
of commerce ; and, from the facts that have reached me, 1
think it neeassai7 to urge that a stir ought to be made in
the interest of Ireland without a moment's d,lay. Accord-
ing
to the proposed terms of this treaty, England will be
served in her coals, her chits ware, her cutlery, and pro-
bably her cotton stuffs; and she will not, probably, insist
upon the abrogation or diminution of the duties—prollibi-
tory in effect—imposed by France on Irish linens, and
which are rendered more injurious to Ireland by the rivalry
of Belgium. There is not an instant to be lost. That such
treaty is in progress you may rely.
Saunders' News Letter says :
We have observed a paragraph going the rounds of the
ppaaper darts, the last week, to the effect that Lord St.
Leotards—the late Lord Chancellor for England—had dis-
posed of all the business in his lists, and lilt no arrears to
embarrass his successor ; and we have great pleasure in
making a similar announcement, and stating that our own
Chancellor (Mr. Blackburne) rose nearly a fortnight since,
after hearing every ease entered Ur his adjudicate n. The
lists of the last term were much heavier than usual, and
his lordship not only disposed of them within a very short
period, bet during the three terms which he has occupied
the Chancery bench he has got through a large amount of
arrears.

The Countess of Eglinton and her daughter, Mise
Cockrell, accompanied by the Private Chaplain, the
Archdeacon of Rsphoe, and Admiral Montgomerie,
paid a visit to Guinness's Brewery yesterday, at her
Excellency's special desire, and were taken all over
this great concern by Alderman Benjamin L. Guin-
nee&

The Lord Lieutenant has directed D. B. Franks,
Esq., R.M., to take charge of the district of Mary-
borough, in the Queen's County, under the peon-
eions of the act 6 Wm. 4, e. 13, in the room of Thomas
Cannon, Esq., retired from the service.
The Rev. William de Burgh, B. 1)., of Bt. John's,
Bandymount, has been elected Donnellan Lecturer
for the year 1833.
DCIILIS, Dec 30.
The boisterous weather still continues. The wind
again rose yesterday to something like a gale, and
during the night it was only a little leas in violence
than the great storms at the beginning of the week ;
not, indeed, sweeping away roofs, and tearing up
tress, bat quite sufficient to affect the navigation of
the Channel disastrously. The English mails have
been constantly two or three hours late for some
days past; and the express parcels due in Dublin at
11 o'clock last night were not delivered until half-
past 3 this morning. For the last twelve hours, the
gale has blown from different points between the
west and south. The provincial papers are filled
with accounts of the injuries inflicted by the gales,
but fortunately no great disaster seems to have
occurred on the Irish coast.. In the western
and southern ports there are several
vessels. A great many small boats lava
swamped, and a schooner belonging to Peiheaddaelty
sad bound from Slip to London, was dashed t•
N=on the rocks near Kilrush, the crew easskig.l
and other property along the western ease
have also suffered .more or less damage hen the
gales and floods.
The new ministerial elections in Ireland are not
likely to pass without opposition. The moving of a
new writ for Cavan has been the signal for raising
sundry war-cries in that quarter. On the one side
the constituency are called on to elect "an honest
Mod to tenant-right," and to reject the new Chief
Bowstasy for Ireland, who is pronounced a traitor to
the mem ; and on the other side, the tories breathe
sat desperate threats of opposition. The Moil
swears that Cavan must be contested, and says:

There are three men of undoubted fitness, one or other
of whom will step in to prevent the county from being
disgraced ►y the return of a tenant-righter of the eve or of
the morrow of en original Roman brigadier, or of • rens-
pd. Orangeman, who, when necessary, would see no more
difference than Lord Aberdeen between Pio Nono and
Queen Victoria. The lion. I:',avendish Butler, brother of
Lord Lanesboro', Mr. WM. Humphries, of Ballyhaise, and
Mr. Robert Borrowee, of Btr•done, are each ready to come
into the field, and each willing to combine with the others
to strike • blow at the distinetion-without.difference ad-
ministration, similar to that which was inflicted upon
Lord Derby's in the county of Kildare. In this con-
test will be, to • great degree, involved the determination
of the question of whether this country shall be permitted
to proceed in its present course towards presperity and
permanent quiet, or be again made the battle-field for the
conflict of base English factions. To the true and prote'-
tent men of Cavan we say—Oust Sir John Young. a. d you
will de, the state good service.

The Freeman denounces its old friends Mr. Keogh
and Mr. Sadlier, and raises the old alarm•cry of
centralisation. In its leading article of this morning
that journal says:
One of the leading principles on which the coalition cabi-
net is said to bars been formed is that of centralisation, not
only as regards the higher functions of government, but
liwwtsa witl% ream, W tha surttgr cants of natty sad

law. When these projects were saner.ed before, we had
the happiness of being ruled over by • •Yie•rel who had
the way for it. abolition. The man is chant
actually accepted office for the purpling of„ preparing
but not
the purpose. Lord St. Germans comes to Irvin,. 4 with the
/Me understanding as that upon which Lord t.'ler'ed°4
came. He is to hold himself in readiness to be sup "ee4"
at any moment that may be oonvenient fez the perpet.'""e•
of the old job. Like his whig predecessors, he will . bees
the assistance In the noble work of sapping and mint. ig,
from which he means to draw is the interim 20,000/. •
year—of a chief secretary who is pledged by his rote lapse,
hament to the centralising scheme. Sir John Young sup-
ported the bill introduced in IWO by Lord John Russell for
the extinction of the local executive government of Ireland.
And this, no doubt, is ooe of his chief recommendations
for the post, to which neither his abilities or services in any
way entitle ham.
And elsewhere, through the pen of its "special
correspondent," the Freeman endeavours to arouse
feelings of hostility to the new government, and
especially to the Irish members of it.
In the corporation yesterday the draft of an
address to Lord Eglinton wan brought up, and, after
some discussion, adopted by a majority of 37 votes
against

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