The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-18 00:00:00

Ti. N.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
ltentra. ',attendee' and Smith report that tate demand
for bye is extensive, at fully late prices, and fine ones very
SCUM

COAL MARKET.—{THIS DAY.)
Huddle's Minim 14e. 9d.; Bell's Primrose, 11.. 6d ;
Lemberes West Heaney, 14e. 9d. ; Tanfirld Moor, 12s. ;
Greys Hartley, 16s. 31. ; Wylaso, 14.. 6d ; Welk
End Acorn COW, 17s. ; Wills End Maros, 16e;
Haswell Cies, 13e. ; Harrell, 14e. 9d. ; Mooing= Gsresilsid,,
11..; liorety 114. 6d.; Eden, 175.; Wells End Hellos,
18.. 6d.; Wes End BraddyEs Hat on, 17s. 641.; Wells End
South /lotion, 18.. 3d.; Will. End %warts, 16e. lA.;
Walls End Ca•sop, 17s. 6d. ; Wells End Hough Hill, 17s.
Wells End Whitworh, Hs. M.; Games Anthracite, lis.;
—76 ships at market.

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning were hinted the Board of Trade
returns for the month and the year ending the
31st of December, 1838. We subjoin a statement
of the total declared value of the exports of British
and Irish produce and manufactures during the
month and eleven months, including only the " enu-
merated" articles :
For the month.
For the year.
1886
£9,380.848 .... .£107,450,195
1857 6,615,979 .... 112,886,926
1868 9,475,231 ... 108.670,863
Including the " unentunerated'articles," the sggre.
gate exports stand thus:
For ,he month. For the year.
1856 X 10,048,226 .... £116,226,948
1857 7,148.041 .... 122,060.107
1858 10,068,769 .• .. 111,614,331

THE LATE DL BociLAND.—Nothing Game
maim to him—msie, arethitertore, literature, agriculture,
general end enissee, band In hist m eloquent
end nl*. Bs moored to
tefaVi:
the power of u dry. Ile ma to be mesas art is his
*Oa 11111 a COMMUIdOOI, of sewers, on sanitary
latent; distributing the prime at Bt. George's Hospital—
ler be loved the healing art, and held its preelitioners in
high esteem—at the British Museum, at the College of
Bargame—bere, there, and everywhere; tusig down in
the midst of hie multifarious engagement. to lecture at
Ozford, sad attending a scientific or other meeting in
London the same evening. If be had not the coat of dark-
ness, be seemed to poem. the shore of @wiliness ; and
indeed the quantity of labour which he got *mesh wen
eeeepleteptuzie to those who de net know that three who
have moat work to do led most time for doing It.
Bet yradatirm aura. It was evident that the worn ma-
chine waa crushingly overtmoked. The tbreetened chartist
mama gave him great stalely ; and be not unfrequently
spot the greater peel of the sight is walling about and
comideting how to protect the noble building oommitted to
his ear% sod It. Invaluable emerge from the apprehended
Yet he dill wetland his labours with snaksted
ma; but with a deficiency of power. To a Mind who saw
this, as many did, and who Inculcated the of test,
me, rest, the dean replied in tome sever to be
" The night °meth when no me an mirk." Ws are
made of adamant. He broke down. It wee isepoleibis to
know him intimatelr and not to love him, and when the
cloud descended which veiled him from his Mende sad the
yogi& there was many • and heart beyond the Mole of hie
eceeoties hail). •It friar, te gob r amp


Bitll!bit COLUMBIA.

trawl A coaanaompiorr.)

VICTORIA, V imcorvaa's Isthes Dec 21.
The Beaver arrived last envier from Fraser
Weer with another large troop of half-famished
Laws with 10-g and well-hi:id purses, who bring
done fresh tidings of suffering and death. They
leaked up seven bodies frozen stark on the trail, and
were essetrained to lease behind others disabled by
inasities and exhaustion from midair any exertion ;
bat they candidly confess they all exposed them-
selves to a Smiler fate from the reckless way is
which they bung oa to their claim, in the face of
obi ious danger, and without say reasonable MOW
of avcrt.ng the torninitet ed. A.a last resource
each past, ctubbal what clothing and provisions it
eau'd possibly spare for its hardiest member,
who wee selected to remain behind in the wilier
sees a solitary sentinel, guarding, at the risk of
life, the hidden tames now under the trans seal
of the mama. Those mitered, isolated heroes are,
it is believed. the only men at resist in the gold
beide of British Columbia on the Upper Fraser;
and a here men voluntarily comet to incur such
fearful risks and undergo such awful privations
they must be well assured of their reward.
0' °inner Douilam is • most popular man with all
claws ; even the Americans an loud in his praises,
swearing "he would make a first class Governer
if he bad Sun for his master." The may
drawback to their admiration is his Indian policy,
which restricts them, on pain of death, from
selecting the aboriginals am rifle targets. "He has
• beep of humanity." one of them remarked, " bat
its clean agia Dater' to waste it on the red hides."
The India. policy of the Hudson's Bay Company is
certainly in direct contrast with that of the Amen.
can people, and the fruits of each are equally oppo-
site for while the former, since the reign of Charles
the Second. have bees living on terms of amity with
the poor children of eaters, initiating and ISOM-
raging them in pursuits which, if of no very else'
eating tendency, at least contribute to the commerce
and comfort of the civilised world, the latter have
beim in constant contlict with them. shooting them
down like wolves, and perpetuating • deadly ben-
laity, which constitute, the principal scores mar-
tial glory for the greet American army of Welters.
Mr. Edward Rice, President of the Bt. Panic end
Minnesota Railway, • gentleman who has hod
• large Indies experience in both British and
American territory, in a late report, bean the follow-
ing honourable testimony to the policy of the
Hodson's Bay Company :—" The Hudson's By Com-
pany's poste occupy easily every commanding situa-
tion. Their police ever Indians is admirable, no dif-
ficulties having occurred with them for forty years.
There is protection to the traveller in all directions."
While talkie!, of Indians, Ima remark that the
tribes in this island an et a w class, without
any Sae physical denlopment,or prepoesessing physi-
°grimace] trait.. They live in a state of abject
mithor, and possess • canning unworthy any other
dengnatioe than animal instinct. There an several
Charlotte Islanders wintering in the neighbourhood
of the town, who seem to be quite a superior class ie
bodily and mental endowments. They are of fine
stature, robust and symmetrical, with intelligeses
beaming is their looks, and a great degree of rade
taste and decoacy is their garb. I saw one of the
men engaged in melee an ivory bast, which he
finished in beautiful style, bringing oat a most ex-
cellent likeness of the gentleman who employed
Hs gave us to understand that his father i. mach
superior to him as an artist, and that he will
bring him down next summer to practise his pro-
fession. I was not a little amused, as the bust was
being exhibited to • group of people in m 7 hotel, to
hear • rebuke administered by the artist, in quits •
dignified style, to a Chinaman who offered • critical
remark during the examination, which ens trans-
hated by a gentleman on the spot. It ran thus,
alder shadow of • severe frown—" Be silent;
the image is not for pear eye, bid for that at Zing
Owes man "—delivered with a significant Imo
and gesture whisk showed when the Chiniellie
Islander " draws his line" of respect. There is en
impression abroad that this islands to be visited in
the course of next rummer by parties of settlers and
penspecters, under the sanction and protection of the
gineenment ; for there is strong reason to believe
that it is much richer in all mineral resources thou
British Columbia. Captain Mitchell, of her Majesty's
ship Recovery, went up there last year, and dis-
covered an exceedingly rich quarts reef cropping oat
upon the beach, but found it impossible to work its
from the interference of the natives; for, whenever
he • blast, they rushed in, and snatched
op ali the detached fragments. He, however,
succeeded in carrying away • few specimens of
extraordinary richness, which are at present in
the hands of the Hudson's Bay Company, aid
picked up in the scramble as they were, there is fair
ground for supposing they were not selected speci-
men.. On the contrary, it is much more reasonable
to imagine that they mat far below the general
average in rictuses, for the eye of an indite is much
quicker in a grabbing match of such a character thus
that of his civilised brother. It each is the case,
se a region for remunerative geartx mining it Nasals
transeends either Australia or iC•ltimsi,.The great
plenary difficulty to 'neonate, is the jealous hosti-
lity of the natives, who are, as I before remarked, •
powerful me, mustering, it is said, 10,000 warriors,
armed with muskets and their own rade weapons.
But judging from the character of the Islanders
hen, sad from their desire to traffic and ears
mosey, I have no doubt, with judicious management
and conciliatory treatment, they may be induced to
meet to the working of gold mines in their island
territory.

D ac. 24.

Nothing mew in either business or mining; hat
after a week of slop and rain we have had another
fall of snow with indications of more severe frost,
which reminds me of the augury which I heard
10 San Franc'eco. Old hands here say there are
no two 111•1101:14 eikc. A warm open winter may
he followed by one of perpetual frost and snow,
which seals may be succeeded by one alternating
with heavy rains and hard frost. In fact, the season
here, an an average. is very similar to that which
prevails in Great Britain, bat the present state of the
t borough fares seed the appearance of the extemporised
dwellings predate as inpressias amosget the new
easels that the balaaes of rawness sod rigour is
largely sgainet the Pacific parslleiL However, a
water at hoses may be very differistly estimated.
The thermometer, suspended in a well-stoceoed,
warm, carpeted parlour, with its sesceal fire and
list-fringed doom, differsweiti in its figures from
that hung in a weather-bc methonse, where the
atmosphere may get as roll as it pima. having ne
barometer to cheek it. Bat ere masher winter
overtakes as OW domicils, here may be able to
boast of most of those counteracting comforts which
make winter so bearable, nay enjoyable, is the
mother country. As you have already had weed
pictures. pencil sketches. and photographs of Victoria,
I shall not beet you with a fresh east. It is moan
to say that the city stands on a gently swelling emi-
since. which renders it wily susceptible of perfect
drainage. Its port themes of three harbours—the
outer, the inner, and the upper—the two former
bring deep and capacious, aid the latter easily fitted,
at comparatively small outlay, for the reception of
huge vemels. I am given to understand that the en-
trance to the port ran be deepened so as to admit
ships of the heavaet draught, the only obstacle that
promote itself being a long sand spit, which projects is
en easterly &metier,. This bank is saboaerged at half
tide, its ocatisaatioa forming the bar, over which
there is an average depth of twelve feet at low
MOON bat a Clyde dredging-boat could clear a
charnel through it in a few week'', which can be
readily kept open. and when this improvement
is carried into effect the present site of the
capital will be in every way preferable to that of
flopriosult. For over sad above the pieturesque
charms of its situation, Victoria pommel the advan-
tage of having en ionassatible roam of water
supply from a lake, which is only eight miles
distant, standing at an elevation which will command
the tope of the hidheet edifices which may be erected
Is the city.

A geni!rran vented is poen] natietionil staid
the fall detail) eseeputes the total aotooot If gold-
dot—a aaJoe--ezported bees Califon& duke( the
Ant ii months of fie anthem at 140.000 &le.,
eh& from Fraser River datiag a like period, the

following amount eau *Lipped by the ,
house of Wells, Fargo, and Co. :
till ToS
lZ Cs
21.212 •••• 121V1
laTy 6 UM ....
o 111
•IS WS SON
M
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s.seo .... WM
" 14
.. SO
27
8.41. ! Asa .... AIM
- kW •••• HOMO
~ 21
• n
• 26
Seth* iramo's
Gets 8
„ 12
„ 19
le
&wog iamb
Watesee owl fighonle 9,760 .... 20,000 i ~,,0•0
Portaged -
4 646,000
Besides which, the amount of dog received by the
Hudson's Bay Company since April haa been 160,000
dolt, making an aggregate of 605,000 dole., without
computing the large quantities carried away as
the persons of misers, which, if ucertained, veal
probably swell the total product of British Osimbis
to the proud figure of 1,000,000 dots., or mu. then
four times the amount realised during the as BO
period, and under more favourable eircumatumens, by
bar vauntiog neighbour.

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