The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

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ihencelliesireQs of the miner were increased by
Us cost of cartage for miles across country of lugs
quantities of ► washing-stuff, with which the metal
is surrounded; Even now, although we are blessed
with an early whiter, complaints are general of
the want of such g fall of rain as would ensure an
abundant supply for mining purposes for months to
come."

The great event of the current month bad been
thediscorsry of a monster nugget of pure gold, at
Ballearat, weighing 2,217 ounces. This, the last
and the largest man of the metal yet discovered, is
thus described in the Ballaarat Times:
This wonderful nugget is about 20 toothed' long, by Ws
or seven broad, and nearly as much deep. It toed a narrow
reaper from being two nuggets instead of one, for at a point
one-third from the old, its continuity is only maintained
by • narrow neck, which is so slight that the men
were afraid to handle their prize much, lest they
might break it In two. In shape, it has a grotesque
resemblance to a skeleton horee's head and shoulders—
the narrow part we have mentioned representing
the neck. Or It looks like a continent with a pertinent&
attached to it by a narrow isthmus. It bears upon its
sides the marks of several hard blows front the pick. The
fortunate owners are the Red Hill Mining Company, owners
of the Engine-claim on Bakery-hill, beside the Imperial
Hotel. They are a party of twenty-two, all working part-
ners. They have been long together, and ware among the
first to istrodnoe steam-propelled machinery upon this gold
field. Before taking up their present claim, which had been
worked previously by another party, they were mining at
Crerrick, and were not very successful there. On Bakery-
bill they have done well, independently of this immense
nugget.
A telegram in the Melbourne Age states the value
of the nugget to be about 11,0001. The Ballarat
Star says :
The company which has met with this piece of good
lack consists of twenty-four men all of whom are
Cornishmen. They have been engaged in their present
olalm—which is about 190 feet deep, and is, we need
hardly say, " old ground "—for seven or eight moentait
and since they occupied it they have met with .v
nuggets varying from 12 to 46 os. The one of 46 oa.
was found a few days ago, not far from where the pm-
sent one wee lying, and in ail probability more may be
in the vicinity, as the Madera were so overjoyed with
their good fortune that they did not spend a moment
in remising the ground around the bed of the
valuable waif, but get it to the surfer without delay. Tha
mars on being weighed by a pair of steelyards, proved to be
1751b5. avoirdupois. From this a deduction of say
sin or eight pounds may be nude fur the clay'
and quartz sticking in the interstices. At a rough
guess, therefore, the mass will be about 2241 be. troy of
pure gold, thus makingi it by a long way the biggest nugget
that has ever yet been found. The owners propose to call
it very appropriately the Welcome Nugget. It we within
160 yards of the spot where this one wits found that Messrs.
Victor, Seeant, and party discovered a large nugget of
about 47th.. shortly after the outbreak at the Eureka,
The following is a list of the gold ships which
have sailed from the port of Melbourne since the
Ist day of April last :
The F'ornioris, for Calcutta, April 9, 2.655 oz. of gold;
Royal Charter. for Liverpool, April 10, 93,733 ore; •
Caribou, for Calcutta, April 15, 1,962 oz.; Cornwall,
for lisogkoog, 16,104 oz.; Victoria, for Suez, 85,428 its.;
Shooting Star, fur Liverpool, April 2L, 41,598 es. ' • Tudor,
for Liverpool, April 23, 27 oz. ; Printer, for Batavia,
April 28, 298 oz. ; Heather Bell, for Londoo, May 6,
70.792 on. ,• Eagle, for Liverpool, May 13, 23,946 oz. ;
European, for Suez, May 15, 38,300 oz.; Bengal, for Hoag
Kong, 10,608 oz. ; Hougoumont, for London, May 20,
33,497 oz.; Bier, for London, May 22, 61,084 es.; Avon,
for London, June 10, 107,008 oz.
The following is from Messrs Mackay, Baines, and
Co's. Melbourne Commercial Report

Me!beam 14th June, 1858.
It is our singular fortune this month to report the arrival
of the Mail steamer Emeu, we day later than her appointed
time. But for a delay on the European side, she would have
landed her mails before they were due. We Mast this is the
commencement of a new era in the management of the postal
arrangements of these colonies. Hitherto there has been'
much cruse for emeplaint in the irregularities and delays
oonstantly taking place. Now that the West India Royal
Mail Company have the entire working of the line plaited in
thee hands, we look forward to greeter punctuality and dia-
path.
The adobes are stasis* ry, inasmuch as shippers seem
disposed at last to heed the admonitioes of merchants here.
The diminuttno In the amount of shipments will no doubt
have the effect of improving the prices of many articles of
which the stocks are not inordinately large, but it should be
bores In mind that in future operations great caution must
be exercised, and that say repetition of former heedlessness
will be met by corresponding disappointment and Ices.
Our stocks on hand in very many cases, are still heavy,
and some time must elapse before any decided and lasting
improvement can take place ; but increased shipments would
speedily annihilate the improved towed' oar markets.
The railway works are now in action; the contractors for
the Melbourne end &multiunit line hays commenced ope-
rations.

Fresh lenders were invited by the government for the (3sr
long sad BsHearst line, sod eleven erns respcoded ; the
highest amount being 1,347,792 L, sod the lowest, 1,2/1,8411.
The decision of the government is not yet known, but will
be declared la a few days.
The tenders for the Hallway Loan have resulted in the
scorptanoe by the government of that made by six of the
banks, at the minimum price of 1051. for each debenture of
1001., to the extent of 1,800.0001., bearing interest at the lute
ale per oent. per annum. Other tenders were received from
Mr. Childers, ea the agent of Mews. Baring Brothers, from
Kr, Gabrielli, Messrs. De Pees Brothers, and Messrs. E. F.
edcbel and Co.

The yield of gold for the month shows a falr a
Considerable excitement has prevailed oa the Balla=
gings by the discovery of • nugget said to weigh 2241b5. troy.
It was found in deep slaking, on a claim owned by twenty.
four miners; sad several nuggets of more than ordinary
size were found before this mass was revealed.

We ere helms to be able to advise a continued roundness
in commercial credit, no failure of say moment bee occurred
since our trot.

The money market limey, and ft is difficult for capitalists
to invest at the °anent rates of interest on first-class securi-
ties. The banks have wisely esdesvoured to check tho specu-
lative feeliog lately existing, by • restriction of discount ;
this being accomplished, good bills an non readily nego-
tiated.

—The works el the New Sager Ftefloing Company mensal,
oimpleted. and whl, ft le expected, be in operation within a
month. This company is much required hem, art wUI tend
to regulate our sugar market. Hitherto we have been alma
entirely dependent upon Sydney for our supplies of relined
sugar, for which we hare bad to pay dearly. This will now
be remedied, mid the demands a our large and increasing
population will be supplied dirge& hem ear own rednecks.
The great Seellities kr the speedy unehippisr and delivery
tie goods affords! by the extension of the Ni. Railway Pier,
are bellbirds( to be kit and appreciated by the merchants.
Ships of the urges tonnage een now lay alongside.

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THE Passe IN Ausrastis.--A newspaper has
been started at Sandhurst, under the same of the Bevadige
Telegraph. At Geeleog the Advertiser Us a conmetiter,
under the tide cf the Daly flew.. Thies an now three
morning papwrisatiffe eveniog paper In Melbourne ; toi
dailies at Ocsiong; tot at Balboa • two at Bendigo; and
two at Batt balYla ethers p-M at intervals of
two days idem, ihstimmeheer Mary; Portland, Bel-
fast, Wansepelleh
THE Elistftly TILIOHAPH IN A theenALlA.
Telegraphki ennaradealicia is now all bet effected between
New South Wales and Victoria—only a few miles of wire
hawing to be erected Wows Alban, an the Murray, and
Gultron. The line baa ales tea oteepheoll between
bootee and Adelaide, the opted et llsoliAmitteNs; but scene
alight impeder:eine in • sakes et tbs. seat s hennaed
the peak opining to be deferred for a few dart. When cos-
sanitation is complete the event is tr be celebrated by the
trenenitasion of compliments between the governors of the
respective colonies. The distance Unversed by the line
between Melbourne and Adelaide is ever 400 miles. The
New South Wales Legislature an entertaining favourably
the proposition of the Engliah °unsay for the
formation of • submarine telegreph between Great
Britain and the Australia. The able intended
for submersion beneath Base's Straits so as to
comet the island of Timm& wide the rest of
the atomise, la now in anima manthelene to Raglated.
The line of telegraph between 01:3s. sad Cap Geway has
not yet been pat to atesji. Oat wiR reedy by the dme.the
cable arrivee. th• city of Viebods
long been in full onnettudeatien, sata eat" with
ong evonizeat
her interior towns, but with enteed Ie on the
Communicationis likely to be iambi Unrest Mynas,
Adelaide, and Sydney before the okra of the par.—my
Morning Herat JIM. 10.
RAILWAY IVIDENDE IN AMITHALIA..—Shere.
holders In British railway companies will appreciate the
FFitton of some of their Australian contemporseles, after
a perused the half-yearly report of the Meantime sod
Una e Bay company. That thriving corporation made a
profit on the half-year ending gist Hey, of 29,9721 17e. 6d.,
or at the rate of nearly 19 per oast. upon the pald-up capital
of the company. The meeting took place on the let, and •
dividend of 14 per cent was declared, the surplus to be oar-
ried to the polite of flee earned hid,. year. The total receipts
dusiag the period amounted 107,0231. 14e.—MeiFerffrat
herald, Jane 16.
FATAL DAUB OF A 8010ICAL EIPERISIENT.—We
feast to learn that the paint as whom Professor Syme
performed the novel and difficult operethan for the care of
sanest of the tongue by eacialon, on &garde', and of whole
ultimate recovery the highest topes wets eatertalned, died at
the Royal Lateran es Thursday eftwoote. The name of
the pineal was Charles Retches. He wog about 58 yeas of
arm was a shoemaker, sad, as we fiwinerly mentioned, belonged
to Northumberland. He undyed to be of • good (oaths-
Um', and, notwithstanding the eloareire hemorrhage which
' attended the operation, did not seem to be greatly a:hooded
by It, and up till Theredsy morning he was considered to be
geieg on welt. From that time, beware, he gradwellyeank;
and lull, wired about eve o'clock In the afternoon. Pro-
tenor Spat watched the cue with the preheat intern to
the end, and lied the pe3ent newly all the time with *own
lasea4a.-141140t1h Cfith"4 ' •

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GRI42 WEBTERN 22.41LWAr.

IiALI,YEAALT Accouwrs.

The half-yearly account, up to 30th June Let
present a total capital receipt of 23,787,4761.65. 10d., and as
expenditure of 23.223,7791. 13s. 6d., leaving, therefore, a
balance of 683,6961. 13e. 6d. The following are the Items of
the capital receipt and expentlitureup to the date mentioned :-
The consolidated stock is stated at 8,161,1351. 6a. 2d. ; calla
on Windsor Railway shares, 7,7841. ; Berke and Hants ex-
tension shares, 53,3321. ; and adeince on the same, 6,1601.
The local subscriptions to Henley Railway have been
10,0001. ; the preference stock amounts to 4,779,0671. Bai $4.,
of which 1,341,979!. fs irredeemable 4 per met ; 129,000/.
redeemable 4 per oent.; 1,780,4571. redeemable q per
cent.; 1,289,0291. redeemable& per cent., and 229,6921.8 x. 3d.
for advances redeemable under special agreement with parties
so advancing. The amount received on debentures, loses, fin.,
tailgated at 10,779,1071. 13s. 6d. With respect to the ex-
penditure, there is pat down under the head of railways, &,.,
completed, the sum of 10,877,5321. 12a. lid., in addition Is
which there is a balance of 77,3631. la. 3d. of estimated
liabilities still otdatanding for liquidation. This expenditure
applies to the Great Western, Oxford, Becks and Hants, and
"ether lines," and for locomotive stock, &c. The Uxbridge
and Henley Railways have had 167,9801. 19e. Bd. expended
upon them, and the " Oxford to Wolverhampton and Dud.
ley," which, we presume, is confined to the portion of the
railway Wane Fenny Compton and Dudley, with the ex-
ception of the third line of rails which has been laid, bas cost
the enormone sum of 6,729,2631. 2.. Id. There hes
been expended upon the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth Railway, 1,669,4741. 6e. 7d. ; on the Dideot
deviation line, including new engine-house and sidings,
44,9531. 15e. 9d. ; on the narrow page rails from
Oxford to Basingstoke, 136,3721. Os. 4d. ; on the western fork
at Reading, 33,6641. lc ltd.; on Reading Junction Railway
(narrow gauge), 6,2301. 3a. 10d.; on bridges in lien of level
canoeing', 15,6471.18 e. Id.; modem the Acton and West London
Junction, 3,2061. Os. bd. The subscriptions and disburse-
ments for other undertakings are set forth-the sum of
1,976,6971. 7.., to which is to be added 844,2341. 13e. 105.
for new rolling stock, 644,761!. Os. 7d. for the new station at
Paddington, and 84,9591. 10e. 2d. for Bull's-bridge and
other new station accommodation. The accounts include the
capital receipt end expenditure of the Shrewsbury railways,
as well as the revenue account of those railways for the past
half-year. The total capital receipt of both lines is set down
at 3,359,9111.75. Id., of which the aims received on loan for
the company's separate objects have been 690,3321. 16s. &I,
and the loans raised by them for joint purposes are stated at
219,2701. In addition to the gross receipt stated above,
there is 160,2531. 18a. 10d. under the following heads To
1 accounts, including balance (73,6991. 16a. ltd.)
personal
tr Great Western account." The total expenditure
has been 3,472,4681. Os. 11d., to which is added 63,6971. 6s,
ender the bead of " by personal amounts and sands of the
company." The revenue of the (heat Western lines foe
the lost half-year has yielded in the chap, of trans
718,0171. 17., 10d., %bile the rent received for the Bristol
and Birmingham Company, including dividends on Chelten-
ham and Gloucester trumped, the use of plant by other
companies, interest on cash balances of the revenue account
during the half-year, rent of Great Western Hotel and
other estate., cottages, &c., including property on the Eh,
mitigham lines and registration fees, make up a total receipt
of 744,4461. 16s. 2d. The working expenses, including
government dirty, rates and taxes, arid parliamentary and
legal expenses. amount to 320,8301. Bs., leaving a balance of
423,6161. Bs. 2d. The revenue account of the Shrewsbury
Railway shows a total receipt for the past half-year cd
106,6631. 13s. 105., and an expenditure of 72,5691. 124.
loavinor therefore,a balance of 32,948/. Is. Id., to which b
added 9,2601. receivable on seemant of Wolverhampton high-
level station expenses, including interest on the oat.sinee
January, 1854, or together 42.2341. Is. Id. Bat against thin
there is on the debit side 20,2771. Os. 9d. Wanes of Interest
paid on debentures, loans, &c., and 48,9871. 16e. for dividends
for the half year on preference shame and teed stook
and shares, making together 69,2641. 16a, ~ Loving there-
' fore a sure of 27,0301. ls. Bd. to be paid to the Shrewsbury
shareholders out of the Great Western earnings for the past
half-year, and which will be found so charged in the general
revenue account of that company. The revenue account of
the Kennet and Avon Canal for the past half-year shows a
net profit of 2,7401. 3s. 7d., which will be found on the cre-
dit side of the general revenue account alluded to. From
the general revenue account, it appears that after
payment of all liabilities and preference charges, the balance
disposable amongst the owners of ordinary stock is 37,1741.
6s. Id., while the amount on which dividend is payable is, in
the analysis of the consolidated stook end Arms capital ap-
pended to the amount., stated to be 8,237,276/., eo that the
company are able to pay a dividend at the rate only of some
three-quarters per cent. per annum for the half-year._._ Of'
this 37,1741. (the profit for the past year), 20,2521: it
brought forward from last December account, so that the
atonal net surplus applicable to dividend on the ordinary'
share capital is 16,9[21. only. Daring the half-year then
has been an inmate of 186,3.361. in debenture debts.

JUSTICI TO THE JEWS.-BANQUET AT :
USWORTH BALL.

David Jonsatkohn, Esq., of Haworth Hall, enter:•
tithed at dinner, on naffed., last, a large party of neigh.:.
noun and Mende, invited to join with him In cornutsterr
rating the completion of civil and religious liberty by the'
gaming of the Jews Bill. The banquet was of the rimer
sumptuous description, and the meeting to both Jet thd).
Chrlstian assembled under the worthy host's hospitable rootii
was ass of great interest and gratification, showing, es r
did, that the elevation of our fellow-subjects, the Jaws,
that position In the state—to that perfect equality, both chit •
and religions, to which they are so justly entitled, and
which they had been so long denied—is calculated in every
way to promote mutual confidence and co operation, h
strengthening' and consolidating that atroegert of taller:l
watts of a constitutional government, the moatmeons ant.
unbought allegianos and attachment of a united amid NIP"
tented people.
Perhaps one of the moat gratifying Incidents tithe
was the hearty concurrence in its object and in the V,,
of ita donor, which was engraved by the Rector of W '
ington (the Hon. end Bev. L W. Denman), who, ithiet -
congratulating the Jew on the justice that had been km
them, bore testimony to the alacrity with which NW
Jonamohn assisted him in those efforts which, as a pariah ;
priest, it was his duty and his pleasure to make for
ameliorating the social condition of the large population in .
whose midst he had been located. So honourable a testimony
from a Christian minister, sitting at the local hoard els -
Jewith neighbour, to the worthiness of his host, and free tho
eon of one of the greatest of English judges, to the justice et..
the Jewish claims, was a triumph indeed for both—to demi
Chriation whose exemplary character could commend swit
d
eo-openatioa, and to the Jew whom) truly-religious peinciple
amid supply it.
The address of Kr. Jonaseohn, in returning thank, &WI
his lasaßh bed been drunk, wits feeling and foreib:e-ad
lass as an exposion of gratitude to those who, through
evil report and through good, had all along supported his
his fellow-religionists in their claim for justice, than as an
assurance that the Jews as a body, although firmly &Maid
and devoted to the ancient faith, are implicit believers &ant
efficacy of that charity, in its most extended masa,
Christianity teaches, and in the gismos of which cont;a7o
ties may he said to be unblessed.
Among the or 'v who had the pleasure of partaking ci
Mr. Jonamobie• • and v-• with him in the

company v..
hosptality, . uniting
t0c05a55......-stke to which they were invited, wee, elides tom' a
Rector of Washington, the Mayor of Booth Shield., Ik.
Peva, of Eightsa Cottage (coroner for Chatter Ward), MA.;
Simon (barrister), Alderman Philips" Mr. Elliott, Mr. ,;
Clay, Mr. Eidson, Mr. Brockett, Mr. Moore, Mr. Daglishat
Mr. Otani, &c., who were all delighted with so happy and—
auspicious • cslebration.—Gatorltra Odserver.

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127•IdAREAtoBLZ FA
beceute MILY.—Di
tlmab happy
thappy chancel 1
~ reepeotable 1
who was born in a cartes° bland, which is pronounce7ot
the first gem of the owes by, no doubt, impartial joists 410
maritime jewellery. The Mertes which that permit !WI
parted to me regarding his relatives who inhabited the pia:•;3,
above meetiosed, ware such as mad to make my 3,,,i
blood curdle with honor, in think there should he se 1,
wickeder' in the world. Every crime which yea as t.
of the antireTen Commandments broken ie a gassed "mesh' ti,
sash rogueries and knaveiles as no story-teller could lid. .
vest; es* murders and robberies aa Thutlell or TM*
starsozLezver srpetrated • wen by my informant accerreal
sod freely related, respecting his esseast
biserit4 le asy use who eh= to hear him. It *as a
woad* hew any of the family still lived oat of the has
Wit brother Tina had brought Ye Ilawther's gres lashe Alt e
sorrow to the 'reeve; rue bleeper Mak had 991011dfilt• it
parah cher* npaytedly ; ms Ammer,* am Prairl
the Caritas sad runoff with the • firgeilizi
mothsa's rig, aid Mole iheepoese, 9
boy. was baeged for. The family, of AD111114.10, ei:4011110
compared to the race of 0' Whatayseslieek, ken ~ N al)
hided "prang; but no power on ml► voslik, ef seasillke 11l
indeee ma to name the =Wry whence he asses lira glagit.vo
this used to bt my nay sat gment to fled them IDID‘Zt V
ragrAtroparraikides, habitual forgers of bills of
so every now and then writing to each eozilletnesn'ilrl
dearest er," "my dearest sister," and for montswo Ea
tints !Wag on the moat amicable terms! With beniSlZ taw
lag with the blood of his murdered parents, Tim . el
mix a screeching tumbler, and give Maria a glom from 11. • el
With lice black with the perjuries In bad, sworn la t a
respecting hie grangmothere abstracted Seaford, or ~...1
murder of hie brother Toady's helpless orphans, ~ ut
would kiss hls Julia's booby cheek and they a n
k
haws t, and ay as they talked about old thiZit. d
: Castle Whatdyet&illeat where dm „ 9.4
**flag Onetyooeth Bing guard:mad ..a
fro;46lllt=sieg fur Cjaroloine, and the tomb A
(who had chayted thee, opt of a 4
• 1111.21110 her soul ! They used to weep tit
she at meeting and puling, that It was $Oll . 1
fag It . non. At the eight of their embraces one ice- {
gat allefirldigal little stories, sad those repeated previous
atrium ibii, did they tdl all, awl, Sega hang tech aim
loasi.-14/fi }*thliftr, 74 IN ,
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