The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-12 00:00:00

able saving, sad bees indeed, heat already partially
adepted in London ad sense other tetras mom that
aesseat, smi the legidatere might mime and extend
the advesbAt by senselidating the rates themselves;
Bid a wwwadoilwa of tits authorities and ditties ci
bed gamma& mid be a fur rooter boon to the
rails. We bop to prove that neither this Woo-
genesis elands, nor any other Malty el detail
will mow say insuperable but to ire aseemplish.
twat.

WE always thought that if the Brutish race wan
good far anything, it was toe dimmers; geld mines
and working them. Is Mexico especially, from the
Ems of the imam of Corns to the mardakm of
EOM, Id4DMO, sussed the ally bearich of indus-
try to se the ffidalso race would condescend or
would apply._ And yet here have the Spaniards been
some bred year! poeseesica of a trait of country
when geld is band to be like " fish, of mow," and
they saw it not. "Jomathen " coveted North California
simply fee its hides, and for its harbour of San Fran-
ciao. But no opener does he get possession of it
than hie keen scut soca discovers the great object of
homes pumait—gold.
There apemen to be little doubt that considerable
quantides-el the petiole metal have been found on
the Rio Saereassato, which empties itself into the
Bay of Sea Prudent and, as may be supposed, the
discovery has had a magical effect on the population.
The WAWA of this malatioa and their trade are
umbels better des~ than in the graphic pages
of Two Years before the Mut." It would require
DANA% pea to depict the present metamorphosie.
The coast and its towns are deserted of their popula-
tion. Hide curers and beef jerkers, padre and
hidalgo, the luy Indian and active Sandwich
, men, women, and children, have all met off
for the Sacramento, with every house utensil that
Gould hold water, or serve to wash earth, for the fled-
ing the precious metallic sediment. Never did
pots and pans reach such a rice. Earthen-
ware is worth its weight in silver. A
wooden bowl is quite a fortune. A revolu-
tion similar to that which has affected the
human race is so many European capitals, notably
in Paris, Bodin, and Vienna, bas befallen Californian
crockery. And whilst printer's devils have become
atationee, and taken to represent in the one, mugs,
jegm mad perdition's have sold and been prized as
molly plate In dweller.
Imbed. the Neembleses might be carried farther,
the Oillhandia Nulatiss not having been confined to
enskay. The ilhavrery of gold in the Sacramento, like
that ef eammenim ea the rteine,has produced a great
entails of soak mod a startling degree of equality.
The pane awl Ilse mendicant, the Indian and the
Deaf the essigankis Tsetse, and the subject Lew,
stead side by elik ap to their knees, in the sands of
the rim, geoplag, poking, scraping, washing, all
intent ea the one great object. Meals are neglected,
and, when had, paid toe at a price that distances the
Cieffeemien—wastment dagotten, dignity thrown aside,
the Name and the &Boucle of life alike lost in the
deed= Pasesius. Eves politics have disappearedi
sad sepablheehm feed to be preached
dlissehZ
mese I fee tee newspaper editors have
themselves without readers, and have deserted pen
sad alma floe elide and bowl.
We moat boar mere of this El Dorado before we
bedew apes ft serious attention. There are some
textures which will not bear many weeks'
sad the gold mines of Sicramento may bewail/
them. It may even happen that this discovery et
geld may in the and produce poverty, not wealth.
The vessels which are weekly crowding in grout
annibus the harbour of San Franciaco, will be
toe samaras to export the gold, while they
may DO kart get the she Him
the praise% which they sought. Old hew
well- what it is to have a population lbe
culdvatios el the soil, in order to wander forth in
imeli drill, the psainimla having not yet recovered
the effete of that mania. Population, however, will not
fog is the lheramento, for the Americas press is so
buy *irking the mine of wonder, that we should
net be surprised to find the population of whole state
laraties over the Rocky Mountains into the fabu-
lous regime of North California.

Ms working of the act lately need, gel ' the
Been of Health power to tae the steps
negessory by the uiLmg out of the cholera, must
ybe a matter of deep interest, although
ketestely in the place where it was first found
secemsey to test the efficacy of the nun there I.
se mins okra end no reason to believe that the
yls~ue will mks a deep inroad on the population. It
Is sin that the cholera hes been in Edinburgh since
Tkuraigy at least, bat it is equally sae that what are
Win the better ease of citirens—the honest men
gime Wined a the chin, " broad cloth without and
a wens hart within," have so fear that it will select
so many vied= from their fraternity as to giro
them reennie ground of penal alarm.
Bet nom the stern and tatted dwellers in
the mast, crumbling, filthy ins of the old
tows, among the city !savages, who in the dun
prey at
_gro evil infiegnoe that as Asuet inanity,
a esaidegneg amber will, doubtlem, be sand,
and of then a Imp propcetics will die, if
tinny measures be not taken to pin them
=srneedy as they can be plan in fY lame
with the favoured class. The asemegligh.
ant Odds eldest snot be a goring task with limes
who have II in abargo. The sanitary mann of
lilaborgb-4b ponies as to eleanlinem and gslos.
fist—is- at ell tame Medal; and it nen
a Irene aspect then iI ins at preen
hero and there bins el ruing he., eat
for all the Pepsi. that enannfilli the sir end
Tenor a asiglibenesi undisabie. Walk sing the
ifigic-nen oats nee et lb, sysmdraia es Mar
darns net sustain lie Wiwi bold is nein
Thin is an inveterste pespneity thumbed lie*
den to peeing Ind diet Se operation te whisk
se deified an intelligent apse* might be apnea
to devote eginplate edifices-. They en to tether
that the 'Biala el sash salines would be a met of
Ind and Ail asionisdauent et Ask ilabilifg
is asessidee ken whisk nosed the bung nee en
fir and they nage sine est the Await sad
=allekellany whin ell their inn an= end
alluja need st ink liability to this imam
frailty inn sentio, them that any such absiantial
end serious itelpseht of it. =inn es a
visible bediisg, dad' nosh the eye.
It is fortune that while such is the many nig
of the (Sty, a new police act has been passed, with
Inn powers he the removal of everything dasserne
at Wombs to the community. It im also anenale
that the powers of the Board of Hod* sodded la
the Epidemics Prevention Act, shin, titesak_not
very dinctly mt forth, be so wide en in es
they are. linieekleft from the bans with whin
it Sae penal, this ingessre is he has bong
e
what it &said be
rovidea fa
But the mei
of Win pinn
win the mean win seeding his ea a cri-
tical memo want lime to give him special in-
es/enemy invade him with a wide diesetin bag for-
=Vega ben applied. The Ira dproceeding
set legs down, sad nick ought to be fol-
lowed who Sere is time to ad deliberately, is that
the Bon et Health shudliabribabririfisktim sad
transmit tin to the keel d the peer
law to be missed. The Ind admintrann of the
poor law in Edinburgh consist et several Min
inks, seek ensing a lugs ember st megelmes.
The sodden. to then bodies of
el thanes= et
the Board Heal* the innessery
enabling the rennin bodies, the disenden
el the mend in which the repletion. skein he
pet in lice, wind have conned time new
to be redeemed. It wee fortunate, then, that the an
oestaised, as every act relating to emergencies and
poodble esigensies shouldcontain, wide general powers
to ths Bead of Health to perform the objects of the
act is say manner they might deem expedient. Under
this peonies they were able to invests local board
—formed of the hens of the various public bodies in
Edinburgh, which sight be expected to act for the
publics safety ea the breaking out of cholera—with
powers to put the sot in force. The provisions of the
new local Polies Aet for Edinburgh, and of the Epi-
demics Prevention Act, are thus at the present mo-
nd easing into alive operatics in Edinburgh, and
a a few days the dark and huge edifies of
the Old Tows may be expected to become as unlike
what ney have hitherto been, as Bann, the groat
Swain kande, with his powdered hair, clean
inn, end egsall-elothes, was unlike tbe sallow, un-
shaven, filthy victim al disease end starvation whom
the lapin end end not believe to be a
Honshu.