The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26.

1r ,is very natural that, in a crisis like that of
the -Lancashire distrem, distant observers should
conin.to one of two conclusions which seem to be
more tenable than they are. On the one hand,
we bear that political economy has broken down ;
and •en the ether, that political economy is out-
raged by what is done in the direction of relief.
Tbis latter allegation was made the other day by
a correspondent, who thinks us remiss in not
having pointed out the indefensible character of
the•existing method of relief.

Pf the drat complaint—that political economy
has broken down—we shall say nothing now, be-
yond referring to the truth, which cannot be too
clearly understood, that the system of alarm./ is
itself such a violation of all the principles of pol;-
turd economy that the real breakdown is in get-
ting involved with it as we did by depending on
the Slave States for our cotton ; and tFat the
miserable consequences of such a dependence are,
in 'fact, a vindication of political economy. There-
fore it is that the manufacturers have been wrong
in trusting to demand and supply as a remedy for
evils created by a violation of the primary laws of
demand and supply. When such a case occurs, is
is always safe to conclude that political economy,
in its great laws, can no more fail than gravita-
tion or numbers can fail, and that any apparent
failure must be due to the intervention of some
mistake. The mistake of trusting to the perms-
nem° of American slavery for the maintenance of
four millions of our people is one which will be a
blot on our day and generation through all time
to come.

As for the complaint that we are vio-
lating economic principles in our methods of relief,
it seems to us that the remonstranta overlook
some of the main points of the case. The
case is • perfectly singular one. It bears
no resemblance to the distress which follows a
long strike, the remedy for which is a return to
work under impaired conditions. It is unlike the
distress consequent on A financial panic, by which
the capital of the employers is to a Certain extent
destroyed, leaving behind it the certainty of a
diminished amount of manufacture. It is widely
different from the distress caused by a failure of
the food supply, which leaves the sufferers feeble
in body, as well as ruined in their fortunes. It
is a sudden arrest of a manufacture from known
causes, certainly temporary, and clearly reparable.
The occupation itself is peculiar, requiring quali-
fications which unfit the workers for moat of the
ordinary methods of industry. These are the
features of the case, the singularity of which 11 in-
creased by the vast number of workers who are
struck idle at onoe. Now, what does sound poli-
tical economy indicate in this unprecedented state
of affairs ?

It is, above all things, necessary to feed, clothe,
and warm this great multitude of people without
the loss of a single day. We cannot stop to look
about for methods of employment by which the
people may earn the means of supporting them-
selves. Next, the great object is to keep the
people in fit condition for resuming their employ-
ment as soon as the raw material becomes avail-
able. Thirdly, as the pressure brings down into
distress all who depend on the activity of the
manufacture for their employment—the shop-
keepers, the artisans, the labourers—nothing
must be done which can interfere with their proper
work and pay. After these come several smaller
considerations, which we may pass over here.
As the distress is circumscribed and calculable
it would be bad politic/0 economy to sacrifice the
future prospects of the manufacture to any pre-
sent chance of getting money by irregular and pre-
carious industry, or by any encroachment on
classes already in possession of fields of
industry. It would be bad economy to set the
operatives generally to work on any digging opera-
tions, which should spoil their hands for their pro-
per work ; or on any business like buket•making
(already overstocked) or ta'oring, or other work's
pursued under cover, and already insufficient for'
men who are skilled in it. It would also require
some time to teach and practise the spinners and
weavers in the new business, and before they can
reach the point of sufficient earnings the mills will
be opening again. It is necessary that the suf-
ferers should be employed, in order to save them
from moral deterioration and from the hopelessness
which attends upon involuntary idleness ; and
therefore it is that so many adult schools are
and that as many as possible of the best
engaged as visitors and messengers. The im-
gain of money is not only an inferior con-
in, but it is not a good object, if it requires
sacrifice of any qualifications for cotton spin-
or if it adds new classes of workers to the
itude of tho distressed. The very best economy I
preserve the number whom the mills will
require in health and heart, though their
lintcnance for a certain number of months
borne by the rates sad by private charity.
be observed that we limit this charity by
consideration of the number that the mills will
're. It seems to be quite true that a large pro-
of the distress has been cansed by a rash
,k of the manufacture beyond any existing

years .
ally at best, and the circumstances of demand will
have changed. We may therefore admit (and we,
for our part, have steadily insisted) that a conside-
rable number of the operatives of both sexes should
at this time be permanently removed from the
cotton manufacture. Those who are to be trans-
ferred to other fields of industry should clearly
be the younger members, leaving for the
mills the trained and practised hands,
who would find it hard to succeed in
any other business than that in which they have
paned their lives. If, hereafter, more should be
needed, there will always be plenty of young
people growing up to meet the demand.
What shall be deem with those who may now
awe bo be Lancashire operatives?
Our readers are well aware that we consider a

kigration

the best method of relief,
the moat economical use of our money. It will
clear the labour market in Lancashire, and supply
that of the Colonies, which clamorously demand •
continuous supply of new hands. We rejoice to
see what seal and liberality there was at
the meeting in Birmingham Town-ha", when
Leading citireas from most of our great colonies
were present, and when the offers of money were
so large as to open the prospect of an emigration
which would really relieve the Lancashire labour
market very effectively. A scheme so begun would
soon become self-supporting, as the emigrants would
be more able to repay the expenses of their transfer
than the borrowers from loan societies at home,
who are generally very faithful in fulfilling their
obligations. Let, then, the Lancashire young men
and boys, and young married people and their
chodren, and young women who are fit for domestic
service or are willing to learn it, go to the colon'es
in any number that the funds will allow ; and let as
many of the poor overlookers who pine for • home
in a new land get conveyed if they can. We have
given oar encouragement to every scheme of emi-
gration, migration, and industry which has been
put in action, whether by Miss RYE, Mrs. Parma,
or the organizers of sewing schools, kitchens, or
industrial schools for men and boys. All these
are good, but the reading-rooms and ordinary and
adult schools are good likewise—economically as
well as morally. We shall approve of any new
sort of employment that can be proposed, pro-
vided it interferes neither with the future
working of the mills, nor with the existing occu-
pation of the workers, who have as much right to
live by their labour as the operatives ever had.
Wages are • great consideration ; but when profits
and the means of producing them fail sudderly,
other requisites rise into higher proir'lence ; and
if any one doubts this, let him go and look at the
public works in Ireland, begun in the famine, and
ending in being the grave of vast amounts of the
money, even though the people employed were
used to handle the spade instead of fingering the
fibres of cotton.

Some authorities say that the pro-Teets of Lan-
cashire will improve in two months ; sore say
four, some six, but nobody now doubts the ; many
countries will send us more cotton every year.
The true economy is to provide for the best use to
be made of it when it cornea.

TO-NIGHT, at all oar minor theatres, without an
exception, and at moat of our West-end theatre:,
the oldest drama in the world will be revived for
the gratification of thousands. Every stage will
unfold its pictures of fairy land, and will become
a vast keotto of ever varying delights. The Prin-
ciples of Good and Evil will be arrayed against
each other; and the first, represented by hun-
dreds of sparkling fairies, will always overcome
the red-eyed demons who represent the latter.
The waive of a gliCeiing wand, or the smack of a
harlequin's bat, will unfold the gilded glories of •
theatrical Paradise.

That rampant humourist and active cynic whose
organ of veneration has not been properly deve-
loped, who dashes into the portly stomach of
humbug, and tears off the hundred and one masks
of deception and fraud, will roll upon the stage
once more with the diamond-painted cheeks, and
preach b;s practical lessons to mankind. His life
is short, but it is merry and useful. He is always
dying, he is always being born. He is as old as
the Pyramids, and as fresh as the youngest child.
' We welcome him at Christmas, and in March we
bid him an affectionate farewell. Over his grave
we may say with more appropriateness than over
the graves of kings—The Clown is dead—Long live
the Clown.

,c wit , society. We may
say of him as hundreds say of their pet rogues,
" Poor fellow ; his heart is in the right place,
" though his hand is often in the wrong pocket."
The taste for Pantomime with all its daring ec-
centricities is never likely to die out while the sun
rises or the earth revolves on its axis. It cannot
be smothered by a generation of bad clowns, who
sure throwing flip-flaps when they ought to be
Ong faces. Performers who think more of the
tricks of the circus than of the traditional humour
of GRAMALLI, who neglect the substance of butter-
idides to hunt the phantom of acrobatic excellence,
caa hardly destroy a drama of such merit and anti-
quity. They may encumber it for a brief season
with features which have no affinity with its nature,
but the appearance of the first real Clown—a
Clown born and not made—will relieve it from

these encumbrances. Every season, as surely as
the Christmas time comes round, we look for the
advent of this chi'd of inspiration. We are not
diverted from our search by all the bril-
liant glories of elaborate transformation scenes, nor
by the display of verbal fireworks in the burlesque
openings. True to the ancient faith of our fore-
fathers, and possessing a talismanic test which
reveals to us the true Clown the moment we see
bim, we roam restlessly from theatre to theatre,
ever on the watch. If we meet with nothing but
disappointment in one season, still we begin the
next with fresh energy. Hope lives eternal in
the human breast. For this reason we welcome
the feast of healthy folly which opens to-night, and
feel inclined to sing its praises in the spirit of
Disarms. We know what it will brirs us ;we
know what a vast amount of labour, thought, and
capital has been devoted to our amusement. Per-
haps in the crowd of clever and
.hardworking pan-
tomimists rolling before us, we shall be able to
detect that idol of old and young—the genuine
Clown f

fbe Court.

No satirist that ever wrote—no Swirr in his
study—no DIOGSNES in his tub—hu • truer in-
sight into the philosophy of linch-pins than this
Christmas jester. He seems to know exact'y
what eve►/ man is worth, and where those
linch-p;ns lie which sustain the whole shoal, bust-
self-important fabric of humanity. With
ronicking humour, and unostentatious design, he
draws out these sustaining atoms, as • dentist would
draw • tooth, and chuckles with Mephistophelian
mirth when he has exposed the hollowness of all
earthly appearances. He trips up the carcase of
bloated dignity ; he divides the real from the unreal ;
he shows us what is padding and what is solid flesh;
he is the sworn enemy of wig-wearers, cheek-
painters, and sailers under false colours; he is
never so happy as when he is exposing an adultera-
tion in food, or any other trading deception ; he
likes to know exactly where the clean shirt front
ends and the dirty shirt begins ; he cannot keep
his hands off any dandy who has not been fairly
and honestly turned out by the tailor ; he fears a
policeman, but he despises a beadle ; he has •
supernatural ignorance of the value of money, and
a supernatural disregard for the rights of property.
If the Clown were not accepted as a great teacher
—a practical satirist who exposes our smallest and
our greatest faults for our instruction and improve-
ment, he would be arrested as • robber, and
hanged as a murderer. He claims, however, the
usual privileges accorded to lecturers, and if he
blows up half a street while playing pretty expe-
riments with gunpowder or other explosive mate-
rials, he is no more punished for the act than rail-
way directors after an aocident are punished for
manslaughter. If he kills a baby and divides it
in many pieces while strigling with the Panta-
loon, he is regarded like a demonstrator of ana-
tomy at one of our hospitals who is strongly
addicted to the vivisection of animals. He merely
shows us how easily murder may be committed, and
work provided for well-paid judges and lawyers.
If he failed to commit murder, robber f, arson,
and illegal pawning, he would not be such a true
representative as he is of human nature.

OSBORNE, Die. W.

Yesterday afternoon, by her Majesty's command,
the ehih'•en belonL'og to the Whipp;ngbam Boys' and
Girls' Schools attended at Osborne, where Christmas
trees were prepared for them, and each child received a
present of clothing.
The Queen awl Royal family were present on the own-
aloe, and personally distributed the gift to many of the
children.

The Ladies and Gentlemen r- Waiting, and the Rev.
George Prothero, Mrs. Prothero, and family, had also the
honour of being invited.
This morning her Majesty, and Priam Louis of Hems,
Princes. Helena, Prince Arthur, sod Prince Leopold at-
tended Divine service at Osborne.

The Rev. G. Prothero reed Prayers.
The Prince of Wales and Princess Louise attended Divine
service at Whippingham Church this morning.
Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at
Osborne yesterday, from Greenwich Park.
The Judge Advocate-General had an audience of the
Queen on Tuesday.

The salary of Mr. Maguire, M.P., who has been
re-elected Mayor of Cork for the ensuing year, has been in-
creased from 6001. to 9001., by a vote of the COl3llOiL

The total amount of the Ceylon relief fund for the
distressed British operatives has now reachei 1,0241.
The screw steamer Calcutta lately took out a
peck of hounds for the Madras Hunt. The dogs, thirty-one
A number, araibe►utiful specimens of their race, and have
received a thorough training in their work. A'ready they
have been tested at Madras, and found fully up to the work.

The Madrae At/tem:rum of Nov. 28 says :
" The °paving of the Emit Indian lianway to Patna, distant
403 miles from Calcutta, is an acoomplisbedffact and marks
an important are in the history of railway enterprise in
India. Ere our present issue is io the hands of our English
readers, a further section of 137 miles—the distance be-
tween P►tes and Became—will also be opened ; and it is
anticipated that the extension to Mirzapore, distant 572 miles
from Qalcutta, will be completed easiest the end of January
next. How largely the public interests will be advantaged
by the opening up of these important districts and bringing
them into close oonner'on with the sea, it is impossible to
over estimate."

The Madras papers of Nov. 28 chronicle the ap-
pearance in the Madras roads of the " first vessel " of the
Meassgeriss Imperials Company. The fares are, first class,
RS. 1,100 ; second class, Rs. 900 ; third class, Rs. 450. The
first and wood class passengers share the sans table,
and the only difference is in the dimensions of their respec-
tive cabin room. A single cabin is allotted to two first class
and to four ascend clue passengers.
A letter from Siam says :—" On the 18th Octo-
ber the Major-King of Siam completed his 58th year, on
which occasion, ma is customary, a grand banquet war given
to the whole of the foreign community. On oar arrival at
the royal grand palace we were conducted to an apartment
where we found the dinner laid oat in perfect European
taste, though the table was covered with Asiatic fruits and
sweetmeats. There was, however, a profusion of all the
good things of Siam. Everything was singularly neat and
comfortable; when his Majesty entered the room we all rose,
and his health was proposed, which was beartilydrunk with
three times three. The royal fireworks on the river, oppo-
site both Kings' palaces, came off on the nights of the sth
sth, and 7th instant. The display was in a manner grand."
The present King and Queen of Madagascar are
first cosine, and both were also first cousins of the late pre-
tender, Ramboualama, • man of retrograde ideas, whose
death last year has probably been a turning point in the
destinies of this magnificent island. They are both of
smaller stature than Europeans in general, and are sin-
gularly easy in manner, and dignified without stiffness. The
King speaks English remarkably well, havieg been educated
by the present Minister for Foreign Affairs, who spent eight
or nine years in England ; but her Majesty le sot acquainted
with any European language. The King is very partial to
foreigners and European civiliaation. Though not professing
Christianity, yet he and many of his nobles, too enlightened
to bow to the gross superstitions of the country, encourage '
and Wanda all sects that unite the practical duty of the
secular education of the people with religious instruction.

A correspondent, writing from the Madagascar
capital, speaks of a visit to the execution ground at Antho-
hipotsy, or the Tarpeian rock, where so lately the native
Christians were tortured to death. "To an English mind
(he says) It was scarcely possible, in this age of the world,
to realise the hard, dry fact that the dump of wood at the
former place was the foot of across on which our Christian
brethren had been crucified, and that the bleached
and lifeless bones in the ditch were those of men sod
women who had died but • few years ago for the
name of the Saviour ; that on the spot where we now stood
on its bank, and surveyed one of the noblest panoramas is
nature, had knelt these martyrs 'of whom the world was
not worthy,' while a spear was being driven through either
lobo, inflicting mortal wounds that did not kill at once, but
made the wretched sufferers roll in torture into the ditch
below with the spears still fixed in their bodies, while not
even the nearest or dearest relative dared to soothe one
dying struggle, or evince by a look of sympathy • doubt of
the justice of the punishment, under pain of • like fate."

The Italian government has despatched a remon-
strance to the French government on the subject of the
arrest at Rome of Madame Mastriegola, wife of the Prefect
of Rieti, who, being a Roman lady by birth, WS visiting
the city on family affairs. The lady was provided with a
special afe•conduct from the French government ; but
when she arrived at the frontier she sod her two daughters,
one aged eight, and the other thirteen, were arrested and
conducted to Rome by the Pontifical earbineers, and put in
prison there au secret.

If humanity were a little more perfect than it
is the Clown would doubtless be less reckless and
criminal, as he shows nothing which is not put
before him to be reflected. Supposing, however,
that he could be regarded u a distinct and respon-
sible being, a thousand apologies might still be
made for him. His thefts might be referred to
" kleptomania ;" his murders to " lunacy." Like
many more mapegracsi who are industriously de,

&truely a week this sown has passed at Paris
without the world bibs startled by an advertisement that
at the auction mart will be disposed of the marvellous
collection of bljouterie, forming part of the expeueive
toilette of Dome fascinating daughter of Eva This week
the celebrated Taglionl, who for years was the admired
goddess of the demos, devotes to public competitima the
wetly promote even to her by kings, prison, and asedelers
of the pirouritc,

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENTWO, DEOMBERIII6,III62.
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demand. It is our opinion thektbaugh Hsi mik fended by adadsittionds, he has " rush spirits I" • • LATZEr INTELLIGipon.
may soon be getting gradually to work wain, Hvnli He it as much en to bare the crime of what
be very long before they will matisranythipg iip he does /overlook . for thy ansming manner in
the number of operatives HIM were in them two which he does it, as a vatfeki of clever funny TE: OVERLAND aun.
ago. The cotton *elf mai increase gradtt. numb whom we meet with id -
. ...

INDIA.

We have advice; from Calcutta dated Nov. 22,
and from Madras dated Nov. 28.

The unexpected death of a faithful ally of Eng-
land, the Rajah of Puttiala, is announced. The
rajah excused himself from attending during the
present session of the vieeroy's council on the
ground of ill-health, bet the sudden termination of
his illness was wholly unexpected. He is succeeded
by his son, a mere youth.
The wild tribes in the Cossysk and Jynteah dis-
tricts are again in open revolt, and give promise of
causing much trouble. A police battalion has been
despatched to assist the troops already there,
and it is understood that the government are pre-
pared to send off additional forces, if it should be
considered necessary. The volunteer movement at
Calcutta may be said to be fairly inaugurated.
Three hundred effective members are on the roll,
and drilling is the order of the day. Cholera, we
are happy to say, has entirely disappeared at
Peshawur. The number of fatal cases has
been great, particularly among the 93rd High-
landers, several officers of which corps are among
the number. The Lancashire Relief Fund is
daily increasing, and a further remittance is made
by this mail. A subscription ball in aid was to
take place early this mouth, and will add materi-
ally to the assets. As soon m a response is ob-
tained from the Mainsail, a considerable addition
is expected.

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1 AUSTRALIA.
NEW SOUTH WALES.
We take the following from the Sydney Remit(
of the 21st of October :
The money market cautious' without alteration, and the
rates of discount charged by the banks are the same, viz.,
7,8, and 9 per cent.
The rates of exchange rule u follows :—Buying rate for
bills in London, at 60 days sight, par; selling rate, l i per
cent. premium.
There have been no failures of any importance during
the month, and the insolveacies have been rather below the
average.

The miners generally are suffering very severely from the
long•cootinced drought, the want of water preventing the
washing up of stuff that would be payable were water bandy.
Although the question of water supply bas been more than
once mooted upon several of the diggiogs, so apathetic have
been those more immediately interested, that as yet no step
has been taken towards the desired object, and the result
is that now, after an unusual period of drought, and with
every probability of its continuance for the next three or
four months, the great body of the diggers will End their
labour unproductive until the next rainy season sets in.
The speculation that has heretofore been so rife, more
particularly at. the Lachlan, in the buying and selling of
shares, ham lately received a severe blow. One of the so-
called leads, the Eureka, has turned out to be a dead sell,
it having been proved beyond the possibility of doubt that
neither a lead, nor anything in any way approaching to a
lead, existe on the spot, and yet claims and shares in shims
on this supposed lead have been sold at fabulous amounta,
and hundreds have been victimised. One Red Jack was
the originator of the swindle, but he took care to clear out
before the bubble bust, and so escaped the vengeance of
the numerous victims whose time, money, and labour have
throngh his means been ao long thrown away. As some
satisfaction to their irate feelings, the sufferer, burnt Red
Jack in effigy, and proclaimed a reward of USX for him,
dead or alive—a Californian rather than Australian mode
of procedure under such circumstance*,

THE 800THISILK OOLDPIILDR.

At Burrangong mining matters are exceedingly dull,
hundreds leaving for the New Zealand or other goldfields,
driven off by the scarcity of water, and the consequent cost
of carriage for the washdirt before it can be made available.
The rush to the Wheddie Mountain is reported to have
turned out even better than was at first expected ; whilst
the Wombat rash is fast extending, with army promise of
a pet manent paying field being established there.
We have occasionally noticed the Gundagai diggings es
being likely, at some future day, to turn out good paying
pound. There is now a probability of its being tested
somewhat more extensively than it has yet been. A nugget
weighing 3.5 oz. was found there • abort time back in com-
pany with several smaller nuggets of from 2 on. to 6 oz.
This discovery has caused a rush to the spot.
The Braidwood diggings are suffering very severely from
the want of rain, so much so that in some places water for
domestic use is running short. Many localities are now un-
workable through the drought, in which the miners have
heretofore found the chief difficulty they bad to contend
against to be the over supply of the element that is now
wanting. The Jernbalcumberie Swamp, however, is an ex-
ception to this tale, as the miners can now get at and work
places which • few months ago they would
dreamt of touching.
A very magnificent nugget, weighiog2l3 ounces, has been
unearthed at the Gulf Diggings, within • few feet of the
surface of the earth, sod is now being exhibited in Sydney.
The fortunate finders, whoare in town, inform us that there
are about 1,030 diggers on the ground, and that all are doing
so well that no complaints are heard. He must be getting
something satisfactory when the digger ceases to punthle.
Nelligen is reported to be all bdt deserted by its male
population, they having gone forth in • body to test some
new ground that his been opened between Nelligen and
Medulla. No particulars have as yet reached Sydney, nor
have we any information in respect to the grounds they have
for the rush.

THE WESTERN GOLDFIELDS.

Mining at the Lachlan is
some excitement has been caused there by the Eureka lead
swindle. The assort returns have not been so large as had
been expected; but this is owing to the little waahing-
np that is being dome. On all the established leads the
chifinholders, as they bottom, are striking gold more or
less payable, and this very materially tends to enhance the
confidence now felt in the permanence of this important
goldfield. Robberies and outrages of every kind are !still
very prevalent, although the police ►uthorities deny their
existence ; sod, as there are no better judges of good pay-
able ground than the bushranger, the thief, and the rowdy,
we may conclude by their continued presence and active
operations that matters must be in a thriving state. Eight
toes of quartz from the Pinnacle reef turned out, on being
crush(l, 16 on. of gold.
The Wellington diggings have not answered the great
expectations that were entertained respecting them. Of the
numbers that the lint rush brought on the ground not
more than 70 mania, and, though a few of them are
doing wen, the great balk are hardly making wages. From
Avisford we learn that a party of Chinese have made a very
heavy find of gold, although the amount has not bass
stated. The Louisa Creek, however, has maintained
• steady population for some years past, during which
period the escort returns have not fluctuated very mate-
rially. A very rich yield was obtained at lifereedee • few
days back. A bucketful of earth, picked stuff, taken from
the casing of • quartz reef, yielded no leas than 96 ounces
of gold. We need hardly add that the whole line of the
reef was taken up immediately upon this becoming known.

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THZ NORTHITUI GOLDPTILDS.
The parties who expected to strike the old' bed of the
river on Maitlard-point have been so far successful that
they have struck a run of good wash-dirt, about 12 feet wide
and 1 foot thick, that has yielded 9 oz. gold to 72 buckets
of stuff. Our correspondent, however, declares from an
examination of the gold, that it is not from a river lead ;
and that the parties have, consequently, struck upon some
independent lead. The want of water is here operating
very hardly ripen the miner, all work, except in the river
claims, having entirely ceased. The tunnelling parties and
those working the hills have knocked off, and taken to
moister localities, their wash-dirt being stored to await •
more propitious state of the weather. A couple of Chinese
have been doing • rare stroke of business by the manufac-
ture of gold out of old brass candlesticks. The celestial in-
genuity and skill were so great, that many persons were
victimised before the imposture was discovered, and by that
time the delinquents had made their pile and cleared out.
The Peel River diggings are in • state of great dowser
*ion through the continued drought. Little, if anything,
is doing. A considerable area of auriferous ground is re.
ported to exist at • spot on the river about 30 miles from
the present diggings, with several extensive quartz reefs
intersecting the Ground.
Mr. Commissioner Dalton has been making some in-
quiries into the yield from Wood's Reef, at the hauberk,
and he has been informed that, since the Ist of January
last, 211 tons of qu►rtz from the reef have been crushed,
and that the yield has been 637 ounces, or rather more than
3 ounces to the ton, an amount that pays handsomely for
the labour bestowed on the work.
Some parties have set in to work upon the Crow
Mountain, near Bingera, and are reported to be making
fled-class wager. The country for miles round is said to be
very promising, and to very much resemble the beet ground
of the Ovals.

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