The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-31 00:00:00

TEE EXPRFSS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 31, 1858.

to get it into working gear among digger, and
Indians, without a little of that material force which
42 anzione Colonial-offios in now, of course, busy in

gDo Court.

providing. It may be nothing more than en exciting
romance to Sir Burson LYTTON., but it must be a
somewhat stern reality with Governor Dot:GI-as.
The exodus from California is described by writers
on the spot as exceeding in extent and rapidity as,
emigration which even that very go-ahead quarter
of the globe has yet witnessed. The San Francisco
correspondents of the New York journals rise
into the dithyrambic as they record the dramas
sad startling spectacle. " San Francisco looks likes
• mining city, just as she looked ten years ago. Her
• streets are alive with red, blue, and gray ahirted men
• —rough stalwart fellows, ranging about in squads,
• with picks, shovels, guns, blankets, and primitive
" little rockers on their shoulders. Nothing is
" thought of but the new mines."—'• Down the Sacra-
" mento night after night pours a torrent of emigre-
" tion for the new El Dorado. Every steamer from
" the interior reaches San Francisco loaded to the
"guards with a living freight. From every town
sad mining camp they come, hardy sons of toil,
" daring adventurers, the bone and sinew of the
State. Oar streets are crowded with them, our
" hotels swarm with them, and our wharves almost
" groan beneath their weight. It is useless to attempt
"to stem the tide. There is a universal stampede
" northwards. The fever rages, and those who have
" become infected with it will hear of nothing, think
" of nothing, dream of nothing bat Fraser's River and
" its golden sands. The question is no longer—
"' Are you going" but, 'When are you off ?' "
Bo write " our Special, Correspondents" from
Ban Francisco ; not without a certain afflatus of
dithyrambic excitement. Exaggeration is the pre-
vailing weakness of the fashionable Transatlantic
style, and we might suspect it here, had we not been
supplied with statistics as well as rhetoric. Here
are the hard facts. Before the end of June, 9,216
registered passengers had left Ban Francisco
for Fraser's River. The actual number may be
fairly taken as exceeding the registered number by
about a fourth. Thus the Cortes, which sailed on
the 17th of June, had only 900 registered, but 1,100
actual passengers. The Panama, which sailed on
the 14th, had really 900 passengers, bat only 570 on
the register. It appears a fair computation that
between 12,000 and 15,000 adventurers had left
California for British Columbia before the end of
June, and it was considered by no means impossible
that ere the season expired the aggregate number of
emigrants might reach 40,000.
The reports from the new gold fields were such as
not unnaturally to stir the activity of this mobile
and excitable population. A couple of miners,
nosing one rocker, made 1,340 dollars in ten
days. At Hill's Bar, those ►t work had
for some time averaged about fifty dollars
▪ day. Thia is on the hers, which supply
the richest yield, and where the gold lies
think* minute sand-like particles. When the waters
me at their extreme height, which they were at
the date of the last reports, resort is had to the
river banks ; but even then the yield is not less
than from ten to twenty dollars a-day, with " big
" strikes of from 60 to 250 dollars frequently re-
" ported." Down to the receipt of the latest de-
spatches only one fatal collision had occurred with
the Indians. More most, in the nature of things,
be soon expected. The aborigines are fully as avid
for gold as the strangers. They are well aware of
the money value of their labour, and refuse to work for
isse than from five to eight dollars a day. At Hill's
Bar, there are some 600 of them, under the com-
mand of a chief who has, for some mysterious reason,
taken the name of the excellent and learned Chief
Baron of the Exchequer. Chief POLLOCK divides
the Anglo-Saxons with whom he come, into contact
into " Boston'," and " King George's men,"—play-
ful names by which he is pleased respectively to
designate the Americans and the English. The
" Bootees " tell us that he is in their favour, be-
muse they are better pay than the " King George's
" men." This is probably fabulous. At any
rat* it is too much to hope that, when
the Ban Francisco torrent has once peeped
in, causes of offence will not often arise.
How the vast multitudes are all to be fed—how
POLLOCK and his subject aborigines are to be induced
to keep the " peace of our Sovereign Lady the
"Queer'," and to dwell in happy fellowship with
the roughs and rowdys of the Sacramento--are
practical problems for Governor DOLIOLAB to solve.
One thing is clear: the Home Government cannot
be too prompt in furnishing him with inch reedy
amass of solution as an adequate British force can
slow supply.

OSBORNE, Jotw 30.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Primus Alice,
Princess Helena, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Ditchers of Mecklenburg StreSty drove out in an open car-
riage and four yesterday as far as Ryde.
Sir John Pakington arrived on a visit from Londm, and
left to-day.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess and Prince
Adolphus of Mecklenburg Smelts left Osborne this morning,
attended by Lady Caroline Cust and Baron During, sad
cowed over to Gosport in the royal yacht Fairy.
The Royal dinner party last night included the Hereditary
Grand Daks and Dualism of Mecklenburg !heaths, his
Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, Lady Caroline Cud,
Lady Elizabeth de Ros, Sir John Pakington, and Baron
During.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this day at Osborne.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :
The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke,
the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir E. Bulwer
Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, and Lord John
Manners.

The Rev. Fred. Treatrail and Mr. Edward B. Underhill,
secretaries of the Baptist Mission, transacted busing:es yea-
Grasp at the Foreign -.Atlas, on the subject of the recent
occurrences at Fernando Po, by which public worship has
been put down by the Spanish government.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to
the Governors of the North American PrOVIIIOII,.

Its now announced that Her Majesty's Theatre
will close co &words, sad, the 701 of Anon. Till that
time perecreaseces at retkainA pram will be given every
evening, consisting of repeltkee of the nacre favourite opera.
of the NNW& The company will thee proceed to Dublin.
Yana Tithes will mks her last appearesee this season en
Teseday nest, aa rho leaves Loudon far Vissos ea the fol-
lowing day.

We (ithenaues) are told the Mdlle. Piccolomini
boa been engaged for America by Mr. Barnum, and that
Madame Viardot intends W pew the does of this year in
Hungary and Austria.

lioni. JuMen will give his concerts at the Lyceum
Theatre during the winter meson.

PESTH.—Friar Liszt is engaged to write a religi-
ose oompoolUota in honour of Selat Encased+, to be executed
by the Stephen Society.

Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams have fulfilled no
ha than twenty-eight anooserive engagements in two years
and a aeont►, and on Monday depart in Nardi of net and
natation amid the lakes Ind neennins of 81.4111111NN1.
They will return to as, however, la October, beteg owed
artha Aral More at the °psalm of the new Adelphl Thsetre
by lb. B. Webiter.—ire,

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momessate.—desers Lyrae.
THE REPRESENTATION Or MANCHESTII.—Mr.
Thomas Parham bee toga au addles*, in which he an-
ages hie laughs af ementleg the borough of Ilan-
abetter when a hammy sews. He dates that hi.
Inimical *alias are " timer* and truly lima,"
bat that ite la wa " a eadied." He is opposed to
the ballot, and does not darns edger mamma at
suffrage but " would emimilabe the freaddes la amiss sad
bor tower the mesa ellaiird, sad si twee agog
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Goma* of Tuss, the ilth a lay. Yes lid of °Man
mmelatedCoesene in the military dlka the Order of
the Bath,_ Usateseal-Coketal James Peter Roblusee,
ram, read Limiteemat-Cogiel James Peter Robert.
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PASSIONS FUR AUGUST.

(Prom Le Pellet.)

At the commencement of the present season we
expressed our decided opinion that the carmine besquine
would be again considerably worn during the summer
months. Our expectations are more than realised; for,
whether the material be black taffetas, quilting, white jeconet,
or coloured muslin, this is the shape universally adopted.
It is even worn over double skirts, and is very convenient in
warm weather, the toilette being complete without either
shawl or mantle.

Clew muslin burnous are also worn. They are edged
with a bouffloone or beat, lined with a coloured ribbon, and
have a vary good effect over a pink, lilac, or blue muslin
dress. Of come, the ribbon in the burnous must match the
colour of the dress with which it is worn.

Square muslin shawls are also very pretty. Some of
these are richly embroidered, and trimmed round with a
deep frill also embroidered. Others are surrounded by a
delicate wreath of embroidery, or only with bouquets in the
corner.

A very simple, and, at the same time, elegant shawl may
be made of muslin, edged with two tacks about en inch
wide and one inch apart, crossing each other M the contere,
and trimmed round with a frill about sit Mohan deep, with
a hem and one tack to match the sheet The upper peed
should be fastened in two large plaits.
Quilting dresses in all colours, wit► csaaques to match,
are the mmt distinguEes neadigtes walking dresses for the
country and the sea-side this sesaon.
The Antoinette fiche, with ends crossed either before or
behind, is very much worn with muslin, barke, or jaconet
dresses. This fiche supplies the place of a high body, and
makes a variety in the toilette, being composed sometimes
of white muslin and sometimes of either white or bleak lace.

In taffetas, Ts Ni scarcely any other colours than drab sad
black.

Double skirts are quite as much worn as Bounces. The
former are ornamented by borders woven in the material, or
with a plaiting &la veins. Quills@ are much In favour ; how-
ever, they are still sometimes seen on taffetas ; then they are
in velvet, either Ist into the drew or woven in the silk.

There is little change in bonnets duce teat month. Black
is still elegantly worn on rice-straw, Leghorn, and other
fancy straw licannts ; sometimes the front and curtains are
only edged with it, but the wade are still worn. The strings
and Bower. should be of bright oolours. Crape and tulle
bonnets are much trimmed with a wreath of fiJIVINS round
the front edge, and ►lso inside to meet those on the outside.
Craps is more worn than it was last month, and is gene-
rally trimmed with a flinch= or wart of blonde, with
bright-colouted flowers or fruit. White and pale green are
most in favour.

Flowers still form the favourite evening coiffure; these
are principally wronged in wreaths, sometimes quite round,
but generally fuller behind than in front. The flowers most
used are wild roses, daisies of various colours, white and red
amine, ivy or hollyhock, acacia, and water-lilies. Nat
blossom, ebonies, and currants, are also formed into elegant
wreathe.