The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-22 00:00:00

The recent inforetation, which justified we in =ti-
s bee from 0.4 Ballarat news of peat discoveries, was
net unexpected. A thervugh knowlee*ef the legality kw
W as slwaye to poiat to the Haarlem. reap ge the ghee
where gold would be found is the pester* *sissies.
Prow the esintneseiniest of theheSZ
ISA, the heaviest gold wee mom
dialers approximated to Buninyosg. At Poverty Point
sae piece weighing 13 os. was found is slay about Sew feet
deep , another piece weighing 8 es. was found at the same
depth, sad in the same stratum. Batiespiest dieoneries
et the Csuadian Golly developed masses onboard of berseo
la the Napoli of diggings—mmese of the peesious metal
that were weighed by the hundred, and when vales was
eskelsted by thousands. The diseoveries of tda are
worthy of their predecessors. The amount and
le doubled in one week, and upwards of 12,000 ovum
skew as the product of 8,000 &grin' labour! Ballarat
steads out in bold relief from the other gold fields ea being
pre-eminently the best and the most indaring. The first
discovered, it is the most lasting. It has gradually improved
*army the last seven months, and the yield fur August is
greeter then during any month since December lest.—
Greemst Adrertiser, Sept. 1.
Ballarat, Angset 26.
" A bole is sunk not far Irons my teat 90 feet through the
este, and the parties hare come upon gold is very great
abandsoce. They took out of the hole last Tuesday 1021 M.
weight. They are now paying two min one ounce of gold
each per night to watch the hole, so that it must be rich to
nable them to do that. The parties were three maths is
sinking the hole which has turned out so fortneately."—
Sydney Lovire, Sept. 9.
" Ballarat, &pt. 5.
" The quantity of gold (nand is perfectly incredible.
This week's escort re 16,227 as. Besides thia, there are
9,000 or OD deposit, which will be left behind, I saw
shun sea (Oarratt's Arty) start for Geelong on Satarday
with two carts, taking with them 1,0231b5. weight of gold,
obtained in seven weeks.

"ONE HUNDIIEDWILIOUT tic • Loter.--' I, John Lon.
of Geelong, geld-digger, working in Prince It•onst's Gully,
Ballarat, where I have a claim nearly bottomed, and expect
to drop upon the stuff in the Jeweller's Shop, do declare to
my own koowl-dge, that I saw 100Ibe. weight of gold taken
from s ten-gallon keg, half filled with staff, taken front one
claim in Prince Regent's Gully. I saw the gold weighed,
and the weight was 100Ibe. avoirdnpoise. The digger to
whom it belongs I know also ; his tame is Wilson, and he
was lately servant to ;Mr. Harrison, formerly landlord
of the Shearers' Arms, New Town. I do not care who
believes it. I saw it, and bandied it, and God bless the
diggers
A ' Baitte or OOLD.—The ' Jeweller's Shop,' as the
newly-discovered strata of gold at Ballarat are called, are
of surpaveicg richness. A Geelong correspondent states
that people were arriving after a month's work, with from
200 to 100 ounces of gold. The rich new discovery is de-
scribedas being • ' basin' of gold. The gold is fouod in an
=mean circular patch, or monster pocket, and suready
about a doses holes have been sunk into it, every one of
which has hit. So uniform is this rich stratum, that its
value, wherever tested, has been found is range from
1,2001. to 2,0001. per superficial foot. From other parts of
Ballarat, the anernints are little lees successful. It is said
that the miners earn, on an average, from 2./. to 31. a day.
Groins of gold were found in sinking • well at Emerald
Hill, beside Melbourne."—MsHourns &raid.

WASHING 11Y STEAN.—The French Minister of
War has addressed a report to the Emperor, recommending
the adoption in the army sad military hospitals of th,
system of washing linen by steam, which has been for some
time practised in the military hospital of Nancy. That
system, it decline, has ban proved to be not only more
expeditious (six hours sufficing in place of 24), but las ex-
pensive, the coot of washing 100 kilos. of Ilan being re-
duced from llf. 10c. to 6f 70e. The same proportion of
saving would reduce the sum of 170,000 f. now paid on an
average each year for the washing of linen in the hospitals
of trance and Algeria by a sum of 69,000 f. For the
general washing of toe army, the qualm is declared to be
more c in:loex. At present the shirt and pocket-
handkerchief of the soldier are alone washed regu-
larly by means of a weekly payment of 10c. each
person. The washing of the drawers, canvas trousers,
wen, and other articles, is left to the ear* of
the soldier himself, and cats not less than sc. per week in
the infantry, and Bc. in the cavalry. In addition, the
rough means employed by the soldier and by the troop-
washerwomen are such as to necessitate a most rapid de-
teriontion of the articles cleaned, and which, in the end,
falls on the state when the said offsets have to be renewed.
The report proposes that, for the future, all the washing of
the army shell be effected by steam, from a fund set apart
for the purpose, at a oat of 65c. per quarter for the foot
soldiers, sal of !fr. sc. for the cavalry. This system calls for
the atablishment of wubing-house by steam in all the
poison-towns of France sad Algeria. The expense of
such lastalletion is animated at 1,000,000 fr., whereas the
annual saving for the army, independently of the edam-
°Wl is a sanitary point of view, will not, it declares, be
less than 2,000,000 re A decree from the Emperor follows,
"P"Tiliff of the sugations of the report, and directing
than to carried into effect teas the let January, 1854.