The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-23 00:00:00

LONDON, THUItSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1855.

r 11HE CHANCELLORSVILLE FREEHOLD
GOLD 11INING Co \IP Y.

No I, GREAT %VINCI:LESTER-STREET.

The Directors have now the p easure of informing their Share-
holders and the pu,,lic that tht.y have just received the following
adrices from their agents, Messrs. Stanford and Company, of No\
York, riatedJist July, 1855 _ . .

We have tbis d .y shipped, per the cli•lrr Quickstep, bound
d rect for London, 4 3 barrel, of your Gold Ore."
This large irnportatmn of one hundred t. ,he may be expected this
month, and the great care that has be, n observed in previous tests
made by Messr.. John•on, and Matthey. Mitchell. Claudet, Ryan,
Wright, kc., on ore brought by Mr. tlenwood, F. R.S., F.G &c..
warran's the conclusion that the same results—viz , an average of
at least 5 oz. of gold per ton, will be realised by the present consign-
ment. Many hundred tons are ready to follow.
By older of the Board.
W. S. TROTTER, Secretary.

August 16, 1855.

SALES BY AUCTION.

Lindley Hal, Leicestershire.--The Excellent Furniture and Appen-
dages, Library of Books, Carriages, Horses, Harness, Cows, Model
25-gun Frizate tor a Lake, a Stack of Meadow Hay, and the Grow-
ing reps off 5 Acre•.

MESSRS. ROBINS beg to announce the fol-
lowing Arrangement of Sale of
THE SUPERIOR FURNITURE AND APPENDAGES AT
LINDLEY HALL, IN LEICESTERSHIRE,

3 miles from the Nuneaton Station, at 12 o'clock etch day:—
On TUESDAY NEXT, August 28, the library of literary and law
books, a splendid edition of tlaydell's hakspeare, 7 vols., Ree's Cyclo-
pmdia, 44 vols , the Delphin Classics. 1 vols., and numer,ms illus-
trated and standard works ; also, the best Law Reports, from the
earliest period to the pre,ent time, the Statutes at Large, &c.
01 WEDNESI).-ilt- NEXT, August 29. the furniture of 8 bed-
chamb rs, morning, diri q, a td billiard rooms, a capital 12 ft G in.
slate top billiard tabl, a 6 octave rosewood cottage piano-forte, 11. Y
CAlard, an exqu.s,tely sculptured mat,le figure of a reclintt; boy, by
11,bnes, a noble 6 ft. con,cal rosewood and ebony Elizabethan
cabinet.

On TiII.M..DAY NEXT, August 30, the furniture of 4 bed-rooms,
drawing-room, am! boudoir, in suites of rosewood, elegant wh'te anc
gold Louis Quatroize couch and 8 chain, chi ney glasses, alabaster
flgur s and vases and ornamental horns, In the h ill, a large model
of St. asburg Cathedral, bracket and upright clocks.
On FRIDAY, August 31. the furniture of 4 bed-rooms and library,
china, Wass, a few pleasing pictures, fowling-pieces by Manton and
others, a small quantity of wine, a to• n-built chariot, a barouche
pony phaeton, excellent harness and saddlery, 2 carriage horses,
cat hors,,, 3 cod ch cows, pigs iind poultry. light market cart, a ditto
waggon. a dung cart, noble artificial stone figures, vases, ani tazza
for lawns, a b.-i.utiful large model frigate, with 21 guns, fully rigged,
an in,eresting object tor a lake; a fur-oar skiff, a punt, a stack o;
meadow limy, and the growing crops of what, balky, beans, tur-
nips Ste , off h acres.
On sATURDAY, September 1. the furniture of the domestic
officea, kitchen, dairy, bre whouse, laui,dry, a patent mangle, and out

on view the day prior and mornings of sale, when catalo-ues (at
d. each) may be had on the "remise, the principal inn at Rugb,
None ton, Leicester, Tam,, orth, and Coventry, and at Messrs. ru,
hiss's Offices, Covent-air P.S. Cata'ogues will be forwarded m.
the receipt of 12 postaae stamps.

FREEHOLD FARM IN.GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HOUSE PRO
PERTY IN LONDON, AND FEE FARM RENTS IN THE
NORTH OF ENGLAND.

TO he peremptorily SOLD, pursuant to a
Decree, of her Majesty s i'ourt of Ex hequer, and an Order of
he 'igh Court of Chancery, made in a cause of " Ni,el v. Lore
Henley," with the approbation of Ri hard Richa ds, Esq • on,
of the )tasters of the said Court of Than eery, by Messrs NOIZTO
tiOGGART, and TRES l', at the Auction Mart, Bartholomew-lan .
in the City of London, on FRI D ‘Y, the 7th day f Sentemher, 865
at 1 z o'cli ck at noon, in 7 lots, a FitEEllOi.D FARM (land tax
redeemed and su ject only to a certain sin .11 rent charges in lieu of
tithes, which have been c mmuted), consisting or a well built silt,-
staniial firm-house, with °riven!, nt out-buildings, and 2'4 acres o
aah e, meadow, pasture, and wood land, k 'own as Upper Clopton
Farm," situate in the parishes o ickleton and Quinton. in thi
county of Gloucester; an undivided fourth part of several frePholo
messuages, and othei- buildin:s. situate in Fetter-lane, in he City n
Lilltoo, and in Nlilforit-lane. Doke-street, and King's Head-yard,
Linco'n's-inn-tields, in the county of v iddlesex ; a fee farm rent o
48/. 6s. Bd.. issuing out of the Manor of Ettal, in the couniy o
Northumberland ; and an undivided fourth part of several fee farm
rents (the entirety amounting to 5811. 3s Id per annum), Issnitiii
out. of divers manors, and other h.-reditaments, in the counties 0)
York, Durham, and Northumberland, asd in the town and county 01
the to n of Newcastle upon-Tyne.
iiarticuiars whereof may be hat in London, at the said Master's
Chami,re in South mpron-huildings, Chancery la e ; of Messrs.
I.aw, Hussey, and Iluthert,solicitors, No. 10, New-square, Lincoln's
ion ; Mes re. Wharton and Ford, solicitors, If, Lincolies-i. n-flelds ;
Mess,. Bischoff; Coxe, and Bowls, solicitors, 19, Coleman-street,
City ; of the Auctioneers, No. 62, Old Bro id-street, • ity; of Me srs
Banister, solicito s, Shipston•on-Sour; and in the country at th
principal inns at Shipston upon.' tour, Stratford-ni on- ‘yon, Eve-
sham, and Newest le-upon-Tyne ; and of .51r. E. F. Boyd, Urpeth,
near Chester-le-street.
Dated this Bth day of August, 1855.

LAW, HUSSEY, and HULBERT, Lincoln's-inn.

FREEHOLDS.—CAMBERWELL AND NEWINGTON.
—PO BE SOLD, pursuant to a Decree of the
t High Court of Chanc, ry, made in a cause" vvebb v. Berrinam,"
with the apnr bation of the Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, by sir.
THOMAS FULLER, the person appointed for that purpose, at the
ction Mart in the City of London. on THURSDAY, the 30th day
of August, 1855, at 12 o'clock in the foreno,m, in Fourteen Lots,
FIVE FREEHOLD FAMILY RE,IDEN• ES in Peckham-grove,
Camberwell, in the county of Surrey; Freehold and Leaseholl
Buildmg Grounds in Wells-street, Camberwell; and the Freehold
Reversion to Premises adjoining, let on lease to the Camberwell
I i,,hting Trust ; Two Dwelling-houses and shops in Wells-street,
Com'erwell, partly freehold and partly leasehold ; Six Leasehold
Dwelling-houses in the Leip.,ic r ad. Camberwell, held on lease for
an unex i red term of 13 years from Mi haelmas next, at a ground
rent of 121. ; a Leasehold tiesiden, e, No. 14, Do Idington-grove.
Newi-gton, in the county of Surrey, he'd on lease for an unexpired
term of 40 ears, less ten divs, from Midsu rimer last, at a ground
rent of 87 15s. ; a Leas' hold Family Residence, No. 11, Devonsh,re-
place, Wandsworth-road, in the coup y of Surrey, held on lease for
an unexpired term o' 85 years from :Michaelmas last, at a ground
rent of 51.; a-Freehold Slut,• ant Pea, in PecThain C. pel, Camber-
well ; and a 4 opyho4l Dwelling•houFe, Strop, and Premises at Sel-
borne, in he county of H nts
Par or ...Ai, may he had gratis of Vasa'e. Hooke, street
aisd Outteres, soliclorS pi.tinot line; Messrs. Wilde, Rees. num-
phrey, and Wild., solicitors, ollege 0111 ; Mr IV. 'ngram
solicitor, 5, Furnival's-irn, 1..0nd,n; of Mr. William Bern iman, Al-
bion-cotta ,es, Well,streo.t, Camberwell ; of Messrs Fuller and
Horsy, 13. 11.11iter-s. rest; /V the Auction Mart; and at the Rose•
miry Branch Tavern, S rithampton-Areet, Camberwell.

IIA•4. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
HOOKE, STREET, .end OUTTERES, Philpot-lane,
Plaint ,frs Sol` C 7 tors.

K

TO BE SOLD, pursuant to an Order of the
High 'mat of Chancery, made in a cause, "QUESTED versus
NI IC ELL," vit! th the apnriihation of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard
Turin Kindersley, the Judge to whoseCoind the sail cause is att ached,
on aTuRnaY, the Ist day of Sept ember, 1855, at 2of thii clock in the
afloat() w p.'ecisely, at the Auction start. Saint Margaret's-street.,
litertniry, in 18 Lots, by 11r. THOMAS WHITE COLLARD the pc, son
oppninted t ar the purl, 'Se, th Valuaule FREEHOLD
comprising highly cultivated Farms, with all requisite
agricultural buil dugs attached her, to, sever I Messnagf sor Ten -
m.itits. nn other Es' ales, situa'e in the sever 1 parishes of Wicks
hambreux, ,roiltnarsh, and Littlebourne, in the county of Kent.
Lot 1. A flop Oost and Cottage in the parish t Stodmarsb, and now
eil with " -uppertott Farm," in the tenure or occupation of the
executors of Th alias Hat her Bing Lot 2 A 11,1:Ring-house.
Shop, Cottage, and Garden in Stodmarsii aforesaid. Lot 3. Two
ottagcs and Gardens in stodtnarsh aforesaid. Lot 4. A House.
Barn, Li dge, and Yard, with a Cottage and Gar en. and sea rat
p'eres of Ara' le and Pasture Land. containing Jana 59 acres, 3
roods, and '2, perches, in Stoiimar-h aiore-aid Lot 5 Three un-
divided fourth parts of and in a Farm house, Barn, stable, and se-
,eral peces of arable, Marsh and Word I.and c attaining about 41
acres, 2 r itda, and 14 perches, and t e entirety of several pieces of
ra,le. Pspture, and vood Land, containing about 12 acres, 3 roods,
and 3 perch's, in the parish of Stoclmarsh. Lot 6. > Dwelling•
house, called Ki ogsley Rouse and several tiii c s of Gat den and
Arab e L ind, containin, about 4 acre and 13 ti rehes, in Wiethatn•
brettx afor said. Ld 7 A piece of Marsh Lied, containing anout 4
acres, 1 rood, and 35 perch s, in Wickh mbreax aforesaid. Lot 8.
Four Cottages, called the Sandpit Cottages, in Vicklismbreux afore-
said Lot 9. A Farm, forming p ,rt of Supperton Farm, containing
a•-out 199 acres. 3 roods, and 19 perche , situate in Wickham'. eux,
now in the orcupat on of the said exciiutors of Thomas Hatcher
Bing and others. Note 1 is 2 to 7 inclusive, are now used as part 01
Support n Farm, and are in the tenure or occupation of the sal,'
cxecut rs of !Thomas Hatcher Bing. I.ot 10.. A M ssuage and Gar-
den in Littlebourne, in the occupation of Hobert maker Goshy. Lot
11 A Nlessuage and Garden in i.itt ehourne, adjoining last lot, now
unoccupied. Lot 1-2. a Ntessuage and Garden in Littlehourne, in
the eccnpaiion of John Hart. Lot 13 A Nlessuage and Garden in
Littl,bourne, in the occupatnin of Miss Ituke. Lot 14. A Messuage
and Garden in Littlebourne, ir. the occupation of Miss Joiner. Lot

15. A Mes-uage and Garden in Littleourne. in the occupation cf
Jam. Sun, h. Lot 1 A Mes.uage and Garden in Littlebourne, in
the occupation ofJohn Jarvest. lof 17. Four Cottages,l, ing under
one roof, in Littlet,ourne aforesaid, in tne occupa ion of William
Br- dley, Thomas Morgan, Charles Ilouben, fri Valentine Austen.
Lot 18. A carpenter's l'ainter's Shop Blacksmith's Forge and
Shop, and other buildings, with the la d thereto belonging, in Litte-
bourne aforesaid, in the ceopation of Messieurs Jarvist and Sisley,
William Smith, and - Foreman.
Iti..ted particulars and conditions of sale may be had (gratis), in
Londen, of Mes-ieurs Kingsford and Dorman, solicitors, 23, Essex-
street, Strand; of essieuN Bower and Son, 46, Chancery-lane; of
Mr. Alfred Richard Cocker, solicitor, 23, Gower-str et, Bedford-
square ; and inthe country, of Messieurs Kingsford and Wightwick,
solicitors, Canterbury ; of Mr. Bathurst, solicitor, Faversham ; of
the auctioneer; and at the principal hotels and inns at Canterbury.
The Estates may be viewed on application to the respective tenants,
CHAS. PUGH, Ch. Clerk.

AUSTRALIA.—Advises have been received from Aus-
tralia, dated Melbourne, June 1, which give a mode-
rately favourable account of the progress of business.
The markets were still oppressed with goods, but less so
than for some months past, and such trade as was car-
ried on was for the most part safe and remunerative.
Grain and farm produce generally were in great demand,
and the prevalence of high prices had caused a large in-
crease in the breadth of land sown with wheat. The ex-
port duty on gold had come into operation on the Ist of
May, and, owing to the forms connected 'A ith it, a tem-
porary diminution had occurred in the quantity brought
into Melbourne, although the rate of production was
understood to be undiminished. The efforts made
previously to send away as much as possible had
also contributed to a reaction. The totals received
by escort in the seven weeks from the 14th of April
to the 26th of May inclusive had been 44,356,
41,732, 52,174, 13,151 (the first week of the duty),
29,276, 30,364, and 47,402 ounces. The success of the
Chinese had been reraarkable, and several of them were
returning to China with large amounts. In the previous
week 38 bad sailed with 7401. each in gold-dust, besides
specie and other valuables. Violent opposition was being
raised against them as settlers, and a public meeting had
been called to demand measures to put a stop to their
arrival. Opinion on the point, however, was not unam-
ITIOUP, and the Government wishing to adopt a moderate
course, bad proposed measures to place them altogether
in a specific locality, under the supervision of persons of
their own nation ; but the bill on the subject, which was
still under discussion, bad 'been so altered by the Assem-
bly that it was doubtful if it would be proceeded with.
A clause bad been introduced, by which vessels will be
allowed to bring only one such passenger for every ten
tons of registered measurement, and which will also
impose a rate of 101. per head. Meanwhile, the influx
continued heavy, and 700 are said to have landed in the
Preceding week. The price of gold was 755. 6d. per
ounce. On the 23d of May the Melbourne banks in-
creased the premium on the exchange on London from 1
to 2 per cent. The produce of the gold duty for the
four weeks it had been in operation was 14,4191. A
plan of Mrs. Chisholm for the erection of shelter sheds
the roads to the mines, at from five to nine miles
apart, had been adopted by the Government, and a sup-
ply had been ordered for the first 80 miles out of Mel.
bourne. Mention is made of the death of Sir Robert
'';i3kle, the Commander of the forces at Melbourne. The
Eagle had sailed for Liverpool on the 31st of May with
43,979 ounces of geld, valued at 175,916/. The Essex
was to sail on the 3d, the Northumberland on the Bth,
♦ cad 4,41 Boomsrauga wit 4 • 1, " Bth} of J_Wa%

STATE OF OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(From the Times of this defy. )
We shall be thought very great bores ; in fact,
we have a sort of instinct ourselves that our line is
vary boring. But there is really no help for it,
unless we abdicate our functions altogether, and
retire to fly-fishing, landscape-gardening, and the
ihteal s
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tuenndai gs
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se
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lo tuei
roefa laanr
dm
t.osfo ;rue-
paration takes its place. Nobody now doubts that
d
resources of the circulating library. We cannot
Weill h notemus t
we are in for another winter campaign in the Cri-
mea. It need not, however, be put so strong as
that, for if everybody doubted it, but allowed that
it was only possible, that would be quite enough
for our present purpose. There is much more rea-
son to expect a winter campaign now than there
was this time last year, and the excuse, " Oh,
everybody expected we should be in Sebastopol be-
fore Christmas,' is now thought a very bad one.
The hope then was the first rush, the eclat of a
successful landing, the surprise, the ardour of new
corners, and all the freshness of a youthful war.
Now, on the other hand, hope is concentrated and
defined on one point—the chance of the next forth-
coming bombardment and assault. On this point,
however, experience forbids us to be too sanguine.
It is true that we have pushed our trenches almost
up to the fortifications of the Redan, and the French
.till closer to those of the Malakhoff. We are so
near that we lose 30, 40, or 50 men a-night in
-he trenches, while cur allies are said to lose 100
a-night. The enemy, meanwhile, has made the
two works before us stronger than they were on
the fatal 18th ; and the assailants will have to
pass deeper ditches, encounter larger impediments,
end run the gauntlet of more guns, only to find
themselves in the presence of new fortifications,
of which the old ones are only the screen. The
allies, on their side, purpose to meet this with
more batteries and large guns. The French pro-
mise to open fire with more than 300 mortars.
But the batteries, the mortars, old the ammuni-
tion are not yet forthcoming. So, the-- great day,
that dreadful day of which it may almost be said,
in comparison with all the other csnflicts of human
passion and outpourings of human vengeance,
Dies irce dies ilia, lace splendens et favilla, is still
indefinitely prorogued, and nobody can say in
shat month it will come. We only know that the
ionger it is postponed the more dreadful it will be,
,ud still wholly uncertain in its results. But there
is, in our opinion, one certainty about it ; and that
,s, whether we take Southern Sebastopol or not,
we shall have to winter in our present position.
When Sebastopol falls into our hands, it will be a
mere heap of ruins, with all the horrors of the
charnel-house. With the enemy still in possession
,f the north side, the south side will be the front
of our own attack, as bloody and wretched as our
present advanced trenches. So that, whether we
also Sebastopol or not, we shall have still to occupy
the heights throughout the ensuing winter.
So how are we prepared for a winter campaign ?
At this moment we must confess to a strong sus-
picion that we are not much more forward in this
respect than we were last year. In the first place,
it ought to be known that there is scarcely a hut
in the British army, except the few used for hos-
pitals and stores. It is found by painful expe-
rience that mere tents will not do for the winter,
yet there are no huts. The shiploads sent out last
winter have disappeared, nobody seems to know
where, but they did not reach the camp, except
perhaps in the shape of firewood. We are now
told that there are huts for 50,000 men in pro-
paration at home • but if they are sent out to-mor-
row—and we shall be only too glad if they are
sent out a month to-morrow—and if they are for-
warded in vessels, as economy would suggest, they
will not arrive at Balaklava till the end of Sep-
tember. With all the other work the railway has
to do—if it is then in condition to do any work—
it will be a month conveying the huts to the camp ;
that is, till November. With the greatest industry
and skill, it will be then a month before the huts
are all put together. The very utmost we can
hope, therefore, is that the army may be well hut-
ted by Christmas-day. We expect, however, no
such thing. The huts will not be embarked so
oon, the conveyance will not be expeditious, the
railway will not be so serviceable, the rude build-
ers set to work on the huts will not be so handy.
So when frost sets in we expect to hear that only a
third or a fourth of the army is properly housed,
and that when our poor soldiers return from the
trenches, wet, chilly, hungry, sick, and wounded,
they will have again to find what shelter they can
in hovels deep in mud, or tents as cold as the outer
air.
We have alluded to the railway, and the mate-
rial element it has been in all calculations. That
railway has not yet been tried by a long period of
bad weather, and, unless it is very substantially
relaid, it is almost certain to fail at the hour of
the greatest need. The sleepers rest on the loose
earth, which after much rain becomes fluid mud ;
a great part of it is necessarily worked by
horses, and there is, we are told, absolutely no
ballast ; so that when the ground gives under rain
the horses will never get a firm footing. Yet
next November it is very probable that, with the
railway in this miserable state,—with the rails
sinking and twisting, and nothing but mud be
tween7them—nay, with torrents flowing over them
—the army will be dependent upon it for the whole
supply of food, fuel, ammunition, new guns and
mortars in place of those fast wearing away, huts,
if then arrived, winter clothing, and more thau
we can tell. Meanwhile, we have no other road
at all to be depended on—no road in repair. The
French have made large accumulations of stones for
keeping the road from Kamiesh to the camp in
good repair, but we have made none. We are en-
tirely depeudent on the railway ; and, even if the
railway is not thrown out of order, there is still an
utter want of durable hard roads branching from
the railway to the different parts of the camp.
Notwithstanding the very little improvement in
comfort or security, however, that we seem likely.'
to gain by the possession of the southern side, we
can scarcely imagine a worse thing for the allies
than any attempt to suspend the siege, abandon
the trenches, and withdraw to lines of their own.
Not to speak of the loss of labour and the discou-
ragement, the position of the Allies would then
become one of the greatest insecurity. It is true
that the French have constructed works about the
harbour at Kamiesh extensive enough to protect
and to employ the whole of their army. It is
true, too, that Balaklava is strong enough on the
right and the front ; but as yet there are no works
whatever to protect the harbour from the heights
on the side of the camp, and it would not be easy to
construct them at so great a distance as to prevent
the Russians from shelling the harbour, were the
site of the present camp left in their hands.
It would be necessary, therefore, to exclude the
Russians from that site, by keeping up the com-
munication between Kamiesh and Balaklava with
a new line of earthworks, involving much labour
and loss of life to make and sustain. After all, we
very much doubt whether, supposing such a com-
munication to be made, the horrors of the struggle
would be at all abated, as the ony alteration would
be that we should be besieged in our own lines, in-
stead of besieging the Russians in theirs. There
would be the same watching andwarding, the same
trinch work and sorties, the same mining and
countermining—everything, in fact, except that we
should no longer have the idea d progress and the
hope of success. No ; our game is to press on the
siege, and not relent a day. If we are asked how
the siege can be pressed harder, we cannot help
asking, in return, what adequate use is now made
of the finest army ever assembled in the world ?
What use are we making of she Piedmontese ?
Why should we have more than '.9,000 Turks doing
nothing whatever at Eupatoria--not even stirring
a finger to intercept the Russian supplies from the
north? We cannot help thinking that by force of
numbers we might press the siege rather closer.
We cannot doubt of its ultimate knouts, and even
hope that the end is at hand. It is clear that the
Russians are not reinforced at the rate they once
were, and cannot even get up supplies adequate to
their reinforcements. Both in and out of Sebasto-
pol they are almost desperate with starvation.
Mr. Gladstone ' will tell us not to believe this,
hut we do believe it. We do nut believe that
Prince Gortschakoff would have brought his army
down from an impregnable position to a place
where they were pounded as in a mortar, and
where, in fact, 4,000 of them were left dead on
the ground, but for the impossibility of standing
still where there was nothing to oat. If this
is the case at so open and central a position as the
heights about Mackenzie's Farm, we may infer ,
what it must be in Sebastopol. In this respect
we must beat them in the long run, and perhaps
before very long. Nevertheless we will not lean
on the broken reed, as Mr. Gladstone oalls this
reasonable hope. We are still for pressin on the
siege with the utmost expedition, and with all the
means in our power, and preparing with even
p:ovisiou for >& 40 *alai Mitiugenoies

of a winter campaign. Above all, let the re be no
doubt as to the means of communication from the
camp to the harbour, which must be—as it has all
along been—our only base of operations.