The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

GOLD DISCOVERIES IN NOVA SCOTIA.

Further gold discoveries, more remunerative
than this» first announced, appear to have been nude
in Nova Scotia. The Halifax Cl/4runicle of the Ott UM,
contains the following amount of their pwition, which
is near Lunenbiug, and has been designated " The
Ovens": _ . .

Considerable excitement bad been caused, and difficuL
ties bad crises among the adventurers who had gathered
i time. Some members of the Nova Scotia government went
duels to restore order, but tumid the trimints as reported
bad been greatly niaguified. Regulations were prepared for
the management of the • diggings,' and all parties are now
working harmoniously. Mr. W. Cunard, of liable; among
others. visited • The Ovens' by the Nimble. and returned
with the party. The beach washings are yielding very &bun.
&idly. One man by the crudest utechinery washes los. of
gold a day out of the sand on the seaside.
" Lots are laid off 33 by 30 feet. Mr. Cunard, we under-
stand, took up 70 iota, mostly is the rear, paying at the
rate of 51. fur each as a yearly rental He returned home
with the party on Sunday evening, bringing sonic beautiful
specimee; about the else of what is commonly called
duck shot, only flatter and all kinds of Ampex, more re-
sembling slugs than shot. We saw a small phial of these,
heavy as so much quicksilver, in Mr. Canard's possession,
pihered by himself, though somewhat intermixed with
dust and gravel.
Lest evening Mr. Cunard left Again with one of his own
steamers fully equipped for operations, taking a house
frame, 20 feet square, all fitted, a picked met of men, a
dredging machine, and every imaginable appliance. About
150 men are busy at these diggings, and 200 lots have been
already disposed of. From the lay of the laud, it is sup-
Vcoasttliat they extend for fully a couple of miles along
" There seems to be ao longer room for doubt of the
value and richness of the gold deposits in Nova Scotia. The
miners at Tangier, which is perhaps 60 or 80 miles from
' The Ovens.' are said to be doing well"

EXPLORATION OF LABRADOR.—TiIe expedition
which was sent out in June under the auspices of the Cana-
dian government has returned. The party consisted of Pro-
fessor Hind, of Toronto ; blesses. Omelet and Coyle'', from
the Crown Lands department ; and Mr. W. Hind, who
landed at the mouth of the Moisie Liver on the 6th of June.
A few days afterwards they set out in canoes for the bead
waters of that river, which is suppceed to take its rise from
Likes on the summit plateau of Labrador. la three weeks
the expedition re.icheila puiut wr noir the height of hind that
the canoes, although not drawing morn than six inches of
water, were unable to noosed any farther. The country is
described as very nionataiuous, soil to a great extent adj.
tuts of trees. The Moinie River is a rapid torrent, absolutely
unnavigable for canoes or other craft. The route some.
quently lay through an ancient path, long pursued by the
Indians, from the interior to the coast. It follows • chain
of snudl lakes exteuiling from the main brunch of the Maisie
to the east Manch of the same river, thence to the height of
land. The entire plateau of Labrador, which is vary broad
will uniform, is full of large and the rivers flow for
more that three hundred miles on this plateau or table-laud
into the Atlantic ou the north-east coast of Labrador,
having a general direction parallel to that of the coast on the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The information which has boco ob-
tained by this expedition respectiug the hitherto unknown
interior of Labrador will be an additiou to our goopraphical
knowledge of British North America of much intermit.—
Ca Radian New.
Dix Dzoi.—Good sport, we aro glad to hear, is
being lied iu the forests. From ltalniacaan we learn that
on the l9th the Earl of Sea field brought down a flue stag of
fully 164. in the Iker Forest. On Saturday his lonbhip
and party brought down three stags and three roe—all in
flue condition. In the forest of lilenavrn. on the 20th
and 23rd, Lord Henry Rentiock killed six fioe
,tap—tbree of them, un the latter day, at " one stalk."
A royal stag also fell to his lordship's rifle on
Saturday. Lord March has brought down five or six line
stags in Gleididdoch during the week. The deer (says a
Glenavon correspuutleid) have not been in such good con-
dition at this season of the year for a long time, and such
beautiful heads are rarely to be seen. —Banffshire Jotter's&
A Muw. von Loan NORMANDY.—'the Turin cor-
respondent of the Tempo relates that during the provincial
government of the ,Eniilian provinces in 1859 Colonel Fra-
pelli„ an officer of remarkable energy, was engaged in raising
with the utmost despatch a national force ; but the ques-
tion was how to dress and equip the recruits as feat as they
were raised. In this emergency a contractor gent in a tender
to lit out the whole force at a very moderate figure. The
contract is placed among the aims' archives. The con.
tractor was the Duke of Modena himself, treating with the
usurping government through the medians of a well-known
Linking-house. Nor was the speculation • bad one ; far
either the usurping government would last and pay it. way,
or the Duke would have hie own again, endsink the cle4hisr
and contractor in the sovereign.