The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

. SATURDAY,

Loss estimated at 52,000 dollars. Fourteen hundred
acres of wheat were burned in Suisun and Vacs
valleys on the 7th July. Four hundred acres of
wheat were burned at San Bernardino on the 28th
June. Twelve buildings in Sonora were burned in a,
conflagration on the night of the 3rd July.
Accounts had been received in New York that the
French war-steamer Phogue had captured a Russian
vessel at Valparaiso.
The inhabitants of San Juan (Greytown) have
commenced rebuilding their town, but most of the
influential men have left for other places.

OREGON.
Intelligence from Oregon to the Bth of July has
been received at and from San Francisco.
Very rich gold diggings are said to have been dis-
covered at about twenty-five miles from Port. Orford,
at which the miners are said to be realising not leas
than fifty dollars a day each. One party of four men,
it is reported, had taken out 0,000 dollars in two
weeks. The inhabitants of Port Orford had gone
en masse to the new diggings. Other mineral trea-
sures are in course of discovery in Oregon. A valu-
able lead-mine had been found in the vicinity of St.
Helen's. Some specimens of the ore yielding 75 per
cent. were exhibited. A rich vein of bituminous.
coal had been found on the coast near Rogue river.
The wheat crop of Oregon this year will be very fine.
The Oregonian reports that negotiations are going on.
for the purchase of all the interests of the Hudson's.
Bay Company in Oregon. The Indian difficulties on
Puget's Sound are not yet settled. The Pioneer says.
that the Indians are rather formidable in point of
numbers, as well as possessing a grod supply of
arms.

CAN ADA.
A proclamation was issued in an extra edition of
the Canada Gazette of the 9th, convoking the colonial
Parliament for the despatch of business on the sth
proximo.
The Quebec Chronicle of the 9th says :
"Tee returns for 123 constituencies have been realm!,
leaving only the counties of Chicoutane and Gaspe to be
heard from. The following may be considered as accurate
a statement of the result of the general election as it is
possible under the circumstances to procure:—ldinistr-
rialists, 47 ; anti-Ministerialists, 81 : majority against
Ministers, 34."

INDIA AND CHINA.
The Bombay steamer brought the July overl and mail
to 'Neste on Wednesday, having sailed from Alex-
andria on the evening of yesterday week. The mail
had been waiting in Alexandria since the 15th inst.
The dates are—Calcutta, 14th July ; Madras, 21st;
Bombay, 20th ; Canton, 4th ; Hong-Kong, oth. The,
anticipatory advices transmitted by telegraph report-
only from all these quarters that "there is no parti-
cular news." Trade in India is dull.

AUSTRALIA.
In the course of a few months Melbourne is ex-
pected to be lighted with gas. Mr. Antony Gabrielli,
a capitalist, who has been in 'Victoria for some
months, has lent 500,0001. to the corporation of
Melbourne, and 200,0001. to the corporation If
Geelong, for local improvements. The interest is at.
the rate of 0 per cent., Mr. Gabreilli being also
allowed 5 per cent. discount on his payments.
From the returns lately presented, the amount of
money at the command of the Australian colonists
must appear truly amazing. The circulation and
deposits amount to 8,070,1601., which for a popula•
tion amounting, in the first quarter of this year, to
about 250,000, would give upwards of 321. for esery
man, woman, and child in the colony. Comparifindng
with Scotland, the birthplace of model banks, we
that in that country the circulation of notes, in 1851
was 3,350,000/., for a population of 2,000,000, or,
about 11. 3s. per head ; while in Victoria the circula-
tion is 2,080,9111., fora population of 250,000, or tnors
than Si. per head.

THERE are now ready for embarkation, at Wool-
wich, two waggons, fitted with large reels of tele
graphic wire, covered with gutta percha, and
intended to serve as a means of communicatihereon
between the camps of the army in Turkey. T
is a small two-wheeled carriage for each waggon,
and a hand•plough for oper.ing the trench in which
the wire is to be laid as it is rolled oil one of the
large reels. Each of the reels revolves horizontly,.e
and contains about a mile length of the wire. 1 h
plough is so constructed that on the wire being de-
posited it is immediately covet ed over without fur-
ther labour. On the camps changing their p
tions the wire can be rolled on the reels again, and
be made available on the new ground.
GENERAL PAIXHANS, who has given his name to the
formidable shells of his invention, died on Saturday
last, at his estate near Metz, in the 72nd year of hextil-
ie
age. The deceased was long celebrated as an
lery officer. He was general of division in the
French army, and at one time deputy for the depart-
ment of the Moselle in the Chamber. His funeral
took place on Mondby, and was attended by a mui-
titude of officers of all ranks.

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