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

LONDON, THUBSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1855.

r I IHE CHANCELLORSVILLE FREEHOLD
GOLD MINING CO MP -.‘y.
No 1, GREAT WINCIIESTEIt-STREET.
The Directors have now the p easure of intbnining their Share-
holders and the public that they have Just received the following
adVices from their Agents, Messrs. Stanford and Company, of Neu
Yd: k, dated3ltr. July, 1855 :
!' We have this d iy shipped. per the cli,vr Quickstep, .bound
d sect for London, 4 3 barrel of your Gold Ore."
This large importation of one hundred ties may be expected this
month, and the great care that has born observed in previous tests
made by Messr.. John on, and Matthey, Mitchell, Claudet, Ryan,
Wright, &c., on ore bri.mght by Mr. Henwood, F. R.S., F.G N , &c•.
warran's the conchisi. at 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 order 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 Frigate tor a Lake, a Stack of Meadow Hay, and the Grow-
ing roes off 5 Acres.

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

3 miles from the Nuneaton Station, at 12 o'clock each day:—
On TUESD AY NEXT, August 28, :he library of literary and law
book•, a splendid edition of Baydell's hakspeare, 7 vols., Ree's Cyclo-
ptedia, 44 Tots the i)elphiu Classics, 1r,6 vols., and numerous illus-
trated and standard works ; also, the best Law Reports, from the
earliest period to the present time, the Statutes at Large, &c.

On WEDNESDikY NEXT, August 29 the furniture of 8 bed-
chamb-irs, morning, db+ing, and billiard rooms, a capital 12 ft 6 in.
slate top billiard table, a 6 octave rosewood cottage piano-forte, by
Ci,llard, an exquisitely sculptured mart,le figure of a reclin.n.4 boy, by
13 -lanes, a noble 8 tt. conical rosewood and ebony Ellzabethaii
cabinet.

On TiIURc;kDAY NEXT, August 30, the furniture of 4 bed-rooms,
drawing.room, awl boudoir, in suites of rosewood, elegant white and
gold Louis Qnatroize couch and 8 chairs, chimney glasses, alabaster
figurcs and vases and ornamental horns In the hall, a large model
of •:t.asburg Cathedral, bracket and upright clocks.
On FRI I)AY, August 31, the furniture of 4 bed-rooms and library,
china, g'ass, a few Wiping pictures, fowling-pieces by Manton and
others, a small quantity of wine, a to.n-built chariot, a harouche
pony phmton, excellent harness and saddlery, 2 carriage horses, a
ca 't horse, 3 cows, pigs Aid poultry, light market cart, a ditto
waggon. a dung cart, noble artificial stone figures, vases, anl tazza
for lawns, a beautiful large model frigato, with 2-1 guns, fully rigged,
an interesting object for a lake; a four-oar skiff, a punt, a stack oi
meadow hay, and the growing crops of wheat, barley, beans, tur-
nips &c., off 5 acres.
On SATURDAY, September 1, the furniture of the domestic
offices, kitchen, dairy, bre whouse, lauLdry, a patent mangle, and out
ofil'es.

On view the day prior and mornings of sale, when catalreznes (at
'cf. each) may be had on the ,remise, the principal inn at Rugby,
-Name ton, Leicester, 'num% orth, and ('over try, and at Messrs. Re
hins's Ofti,es, Covent-geld-At. P.S. Cata.ogues wall be forwarded on
the lecript of 12 postage stamp..

FREEHOLD FARM IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HOUSE PRO-
PERTY IN LONDON, AND FEE FARM RENTS IN THE
NORTH OF ENGLAND.
To
be peremptorily SOLD, pursuant to a
Deems of her Majesty s court of Ex hequer, and an Order of
he igh Court of Chattoerv, made in a cause of "N AA v. Lor.
Henley," with the approbation of RI .hard Richa ds, Esq ont
of the MAsters of the said Court of han .ery, by Messrs NORTO
tIOGGAR I, and TRKI', at the Auction %tart, Itartholoniew-lan
in the City of London, on FRI ‘Y, the 7th day f Sentemher, 855
at t o'cl• ck at noon, in 7 lots, a FREEHOLD FARM (land tax
redeemed and su ject only to a certain sm dl rent charges in lieu of
tithes, which have been c. mmuted), consisting of a well built sub-
stan, ial farn-house, with onveni. nt out-buildings, and 2'4 acres o
a art e.-meadow, pasture, and wood 14n.1, k .own as Upper, Clopton
Farm," situate in the parishes p icktetnn and QtynteitAn tb,
county of Gloucester; an undivided fourth part of several fre,holo
messuages, and othe- buildings. situate in Fetter-lane, in the City 0,
Lon 100, and in Milford-lane, Duke-street, and King's Head-yard,
Lincosn's-inn-tie'ds, in the county of v iddlesex ; a fee farm rent
W. 6s. Sd., issuing out of tit,. Manor of Ettal, in the county o
Northomherland ; anti an undivid.d fourth part of several fee farm
rents (the entirety amounting to hBll. 3s Id per annum), issuitm,
Out of divers manors, and other h'-reditaments, in the counties of
York, Durham, and Northumberland, and in the town and county of
the to nof Newcastle upon-Tyne.
t'articalars whereof may be ha i in London, at the said Master's
Cham'ers in South mpton-buildings, Chancery la e; of NleFsrs
I,aw, Hussey, and Hulbert, solicitors, No. 10, New-squire, Lincoln's
inn ; Mes rs. Wharton and Ford, solicitors, 8, Lincoln's-t•n-fields ;
Messr,. 131,hoff, Coxe. and Bony ts, solicitors, 19, Coleman-street,
City; of the Auctioneers, N 0.62, Old Broad-street, ity ; of Me ars
Banister, solicito s, Shipston•on-S.our ; and in the country at th.
principal Ines at Shipston upon- tour, Stratford-neon-Avon. Eve-
sham, and Newc3s le-upon-ryne ; and of Mr. E. F. Boyd, Urpeth,
near Chester-lc—street.

Date.' this Bth day of August, 1855.
LAW, HUSSEY, and HULBERT, Lincoln's-Inn.

ATTSTRALTA.-Advices have been received from Aus-
tralia, dated Melbourne, June 1, which give a mod&
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.bad 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 with 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 bad 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 remarkable, and several of them were
returning to China with large amounts. In the previous
week 38 hal 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 bast
been called to demand measures to put a stop to their
arrival. Opinion on the point, however, was not unani-
mous, and the Government wishing to adopt a moderate
course, had proposed measures to place them altogether
in a specific locality, under the supervision of persons of
their own nation ; but the bill on the select, which was
still under discussion, had been so altered by the Assem-
bly that it was doubtful if it would be proceeded with.
A clause had 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. Chisho;ns for the erection of shelter sheds
'in 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 ont-of Mel.
bourne. Mention is made of the death of Sir Robert
Tickle, 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 175,9161. The Essex
was to sail on the 3d, the Northumberland on the Bth,
sad the lioomeraug, *it a 148411 52 gr Pt 4 of sl3f.
_ _

STATE OF OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

( From the Times of this day.)
We shall be thought very great bores ; in fact,
we have a sort of instinct ourselves that our line is
very boring. But there is really no help for it,
unless we abdicate our functions altogether, and
retire to fly-fishing, landsca pe.gardening, and the
resources of the circulating library. We cannot
help sounding the note of alarm. We must sound
it as often as it is required, and till the note of pre-
paration takes its place. Nobody now doubts that
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
comers, 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
still closer to those of the Malakhoff. We ire so
near that we lose -30, 40, o. t.kso men a-night fn
the trenches, while our 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,
and run the gauntlet (A' more guns, only to find
themselves in the presence of new fortifications,
of which the old ones are only the screen. The
lilies, 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, and 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 conflicts of human
passion and outpourings of human vengeance,
Dies irce dies illa, lute splendens et favilla, is still
indefinitely prorogued, and nobody can say in
what month it will come. We only know that the
longer it is postponed the more dreadful it will be,
aid still wholly uncertain in its results. But there
is, in our opinion, one certainty about it ; and that
14, 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
the north side, the south side will be the front
~f our own attack, as bloody and wretched as our
present advanced trenches. So that, whether we
ake Sebastopol or not, we shall have still to occupy
the heights throughout the ensuing winter:
So how are we prepared fur a winter campaign ?
At this moment we must confess to a strong sus-
picion that we are not much more forward in this
"expect 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
willrnot 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, then efore, 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 gat 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
tweeu them—nay, with torrents flo.win& 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 than
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 dependent 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 bo noooosary, 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 only 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 and warding, the same
trench work and sorties, the same mining and
countermining—everything, in fact, except that we
should no longer have the idea of 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 the Piedmontese ?
Why should we have more than 30,000 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 success, 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, 4,090 of them were left dead on
the ground, but for the impossibility of standing
still where there was nothing •to eat. If this
is the case at so open and central a position as the
may infer
pol. In
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must
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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 calls this
reasonable hope. We are still for pressing on the
siege with
in
with tehnerutpmewoset4 and preparing with evenexpedition, and with all the
Wish prodoion for 4 to *mad ctlgneiVin
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of a winter campaign. Above_all,"et 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.