The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-16 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. NOVEMBEit 16 1855.

STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON AND NEWCASTLE
AND CARLISLE UNION RAILWAY.
(Incorporation of Company for making a Railway from the
Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, at Stocksfield Station, to
join the Stockton and Darlington Railway near Conside
Iron Works, with a Branch therefrom to the private Rail-
way of the Derwent Iron Company, near Crook Hall
Furnaces.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Appli-
cation is intended to be made to Parliament iu the
ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill to incorporate
a Company for constructing and maintaining the Railways
hereinafter mentioned, or some Part or Parts thereof, to-
gether with all proper Stations, Works, and Conveniences con-
nected therewith, and approaches thereto (that is to say),
First—A Railway commencing at, and proceeding from, the
Main Line of the Newcastle upon Tyne and Carlisle Rail-
way, at or near to a Point One Chain East of the Bridge
carrying the road from Old Ridley to Bywell, over the said
Lino of such Railway, in the Parish of Bywell Saint
Peter's, in the County of Northumberland ; passing from
thence from, iu, through, or into, or situate within, the seve-
ral Parishes, Townships, and Extra-Parochial Places, or other
Places following, or some of them (that is to say), ByWell
Saint Peter's, Bywell Saint Andrew's, Ovingham, Old
Ridley, New Ridley, Bromley, Stocksfield Hall, Apperley,
Mickley, Whittonstall, Newlands, Hedley, Hedley Woodside,
Hiirdley, all in the County of Northumberland; and Lunches-
ter, Ebehestor, Medomsley, Benfieldside, Consett, and Knits-
ley, Ivestone, or Iveston, Shotley, Shotley Bridge, Black
Hill, Berry Edge, Lead Gate, Crook Hall, Conside and Con-
set, Rough Side, and Rowley, all in the County of Durham,
and terminating by a junction with the Main Line of the
Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, at or near a
Point Twenty-one Chains North-east of the Top of the
Hownes Gill Incline of the said Stockton and Darlington
Railway, in the Township of Conside, or Consett, or Consot,
and Knitsley, in the Parish of Lanchester, in the County of
Durham, immediately adjoining to a Field belonging to
Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson, and marked
A upon the Plans to be deposited as herein mentioned.
Second—A Railway, or Branch Railway, commencing at,
and by a Junction with, the proposed Railway firstly here-
inbefore described, at or about a Distance of Eighteen
Chains from the Junction thereof with the Stockton and
Darlington Railway hereiubefore described, in the Parish of
Lanchester, in the County of Durham, in or near a Field
belonging to Thomas Baker, and occupied by John Robinson,
and marked B upon the Plans to be deposited as herein
mentioned, passing from thence froth, in, through, or into,
or be situate within the several Parishes, Townships, and
Extra-Parochial Places, or other Places following, or some
of them (that is to say), Lanchester, Conside, or Con-
sett, or Conset and Knitsley, Ivestone, Iveston, Berry
Edge, Lead Gate, Crook Hall, Roughside, and Rowley, all
in the County of Durham, and terminating at, and by a
Junction with, the private Railway of the Derwent Iron
Company, at or near to Crook Hall Furnaces, and in or near
to a field belonging to Thomas Baker, Esq., and occupied by
Thomas Browell, situate in the Parish of. Lanchester, and
Township of Ivestone or Iveston, in the said County of Dur-
ham, and marked C upon the Plans to be deposited as here-
in mentioned. And it is intended by such Bill to incorpo-
rate a Company for the purpose of carrying the said Under-
taking into effect, and to apply for and take the following
Powers, or some of them (that is to say), to cross upon
the Level, or under, or over, or to divert, alter, or stop
up, whether temporarily or permanently, all or any Turnpike
Roads, or other Roads, Watercourses, Streams, Rivers, High-
ways, Streets, Railways, Canals, Tramways, Sewers, or
Drains, within the aforesaid Parishes, Townships, Extra Pa-
rochial Places, or other places, or any of them, which may
be required to be crossed, diverted, altered, or stopped
up for the purposes of the said intended Railway and
Branch Railway, and Works. Also for the Compulsory Pur-
chase of Lands and Houses for the Construction of the
said Railway and Branch Railway, and the Works connected
therewith respectively. Also for Power to purchase Lands
by Agreement, and to take Leases thereof, and to vary or
extinguish all Rights and Privileges in any Manner con-
nected with the Lands, Houses, Tenements, and Heredi-
taments proposed to be taken, and which would in any
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Lands to grant such Leases or_ Rights of Way. And also
to purchase by Agreement, and use, private Railways and
Tramways ;. and also to levy Tolls, Rates, and Duties, for or
in respect of the said intended Railway and Branch Rail-
way, and Works, and to confer other Rights and Privileges,
and to alter or vary any existing Tolls, Rates, or Duties,
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expedient, and also to make all necessary Traffic Arrange-
ments with the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company,
and with the North-Eastern Railway Company, and the
Stockton and Darlington Railway Company, or any of them,
or with any other Company, Corporation, Person, or Per-
sons, whose Line or Lines of Railway join, or shall commu-
nicate with, the said proposed Railway and Works respec-
tively. And it also intended by the said Act to authorise
lateral Deviations in the Construction of the said intended
Railway and Works respectively, to the Extent or within the
Limits laid down in the Plans to be deposited as hereinafter
mentioned.

And Notice is hereby further given, that Duplicate Plans
and. Sections, describing the Lines, Situation, and Levels,
of the said intended Railway and Branch Railway, and
other the Works aforesaid, and the Lands through which
the same are intended to pass or be made, with Books of
Reference to such Plans, containing the names of the
Owners, or Reputed Owners, Lessees or Reputed Lessees,
and Occupiers of such Lands, and a published Map, with
the Lines of the said intended Railway and a Branch Rail-
way delineated theron, and a Copy of this Notice, as pub-
lished in the London Gazette, will, on or before the Thirtieth
Day of November instant, be deposited for Public Inspection
with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumber-
land, at his Office at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and with the
Clerk of the Peace for the County of Durham, at his Office
at Durham • and that Copies of so much of the said Plans,
Sections, and Books of Reference, as relates to each of the
several Parishes and Extra-Parochial Places in or through
which the intended Railway and Branch Railway, and
Works, are proposed to be made, together with a Copy of
the Gazette Notice, will be deposited on or before the said

Thirtieth Day- of November instant, with the Parish Clerk
of each such Parish, at his Residence ; and in the Case of any
Extra-Parochial Places, with the Parish Clerk of some Pariah

adjoining thereto, at his Residence,

Printed Copies of such Bill will, on or before the Thirty-
first Day of December next, be deposited in the Private Bill
Office of the House of Commons.

Dated this Fourteenth Day of November, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Fifty-Five.

ARGYLL ROOMS.-LA URENT'S CASINO
NOW OPEN for the winter season. The following
Husk will be performed by his celebrated Band during
he week : March aua Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
f the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Gung'l), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel N'ewcome (Laurent), La Saltine (liosislo). Quadrilles—Le
Rol du Pastel (Lamotte), Les Ilugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
,iert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinney), Il Trovatore (Tutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie (Gaviolo), The Lillian (D'Al-
bert), Des Coucous (Boulquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops—
lbe Imperial Guards (Laurent), The Hecla (Streather). Schottische
—La Guirlande de Pleura (Boaquet), La Varsoviana (Laurent). Prin-
.lpal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
me Shilling.
Os Saturday next, the 17th, H. Laurent's new Varsoviana will
be played for the first time.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLOATERS for Cs, package Included.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

ARTICLE OF FOOD
• -
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and near -st sta-
tion.—Address LETTIS. jun., Fish Curer, Gt. Yarmouth.
"This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar-
mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe,
house steward. Blenheim Pal tee. —Oct. 20, 1654."
" Mr. Lettis.—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters, I
shall be glad to have a supply as usual ; those I had last year Save
great satisfaction.-1. F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court St. James's
isalaee.—Oct. I, 1855," ,

11R. HOWARD Surgeon-Dentist, 52, sFleet-
street, has introduced an entirely new description of AItTI-
FIVIAT. TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so
perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from
the original 1w the closest observer; they will never change colour or
decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used.
This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful
operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is
guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth
rendered sound and useful in mastication.--52, Fleet-street. At
home from ten till five.

TOZE..A.U'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED
tC kPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubebs are, doubtless, the best
retnedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, an
occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric disturbance. %1. JOZEAU
has succeeded in rendering these valuable therapeutic agents perfectly
innocuous, by increasing i 1 his Copahine all their curative pro.
perties. This important preparation has been adopted by the Paris
Ac tdelnv of Medicine, after more than 1,000 trials In the Paris
and different London hospitals, viz , St. Thomas's, Guy's, and Bar-
tholomew s, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros
Clerk. (See " Lancet " Nov. 6, and Dec. 10, 1852, a copy of which
will be forwarded on application.) The Copahine, which is in the
form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days,
either in recent or chtohic diseases. One hundred capsules, 4s. 6d. ;
50, 2i. 91—To be had of the Inventor, G. Jozeau, sole French
Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and all the most Important
chemists.

TESTING A NEW COLOSSAL ORGAN FOR THE CHURCH
OF ST. NEOT'S, HUNTINGDON.----0a Tuesday evening a
number of influential clergymen and musicians connected
with places of public worship in the metropolis, attended
at the manufactory of Mr. G. M. iloldich, organ builder,
in the New-road, King's cross, to bear one of the most
splendid organs ever before erected tested, prior to its
removal to the parish church of St. Neat's. This beau•
tiful instrument is constructed on the German principle,
and consists of three distinct sets of manuels, with an
independent pedal organ. The stops are thirty-four in
number. The diapasons, of which there are four in the
great organ, are grave, smooth, and sonorous. The
mixtures are bright, subdued, and well-balanced, the
unison reed extremely fine, the swells exceedingly effec-
tive, and the shades when opened pouring forth a com-
plete flood of musical sound upon the ear. The choir
organ is very delicate, and has superior imitative stops.
The tones of the pedal open diapason are fine, giving
that peculiar double bass effect for which this stop was
evidently intended. The general character of the St.
Neot's organ is good, mixing well, and producing a rich
equal volume of tone, free from all harshness. The
manufacturer has evidently taken much pains in secur
ing a natural instead of a forced tone from the various
stops, an important point often neglected by other
builders of modern colossal instruments. Mr. Corelli
Beer, organist of St. Peter's. Pimlico, who performed at
the Great Exhibition in 1851, presided, and gave gene-
ral satisfaction by playing a well-selected and classical
programme. The overtures to " Euryanthe " and
"Guillame Tell" were magnificently executed The
organ was yesterday removed to St. Neot's, under the
personal superintendence of ?Jr. Eloldich.

Spirit of the Public Journals.

(From the Times of this day.)

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The continual and rapid growth of the Russian
empire, north, south, east, and west, for a century
and a half, has been described as the most marvel-
lous fact of modern times. But there is another fact
equally strange and portentous, and that is the
continual state of passive apprehension in the face
of which this growth has taken place. Europe has
not slept ; she has not been hoodwinked ; she has
not been deceived ; nor has hers been an indefinite
alarm. As in a trance, with her eyes open, but
her hands tied, she has seen Russia advancing upon
her nearer and nearer, larger and larger ; occupy-
ing more and more space in the Eastern horizon ;
spreading her wings from the Arctic Circle to the
southern shores of the Euxine, and penetrating
into the very heart of the Continent. Europe has
known beforehand every step of this progress'.
There never was a time since the days of Peter the
Great, in which the whole game of aggrandisement
and the next move in it were not obvious to all
reasonable men. It only so happens that the op-
portunity of preventing what everybody foresaw
has never yet occurred. On the other hand there
has been a remarkable series of occasions when the
embroilment of Europe, or some more present
danger, gave Russia the opportunity _of doing that
which a few years before all Europe would pro-
bably have banded to prohibit. We have before
us a pamphlet by no ordinary hand; which shows
that in the year 1781, on the very eve of the
French Revolution, Russia presented just the same
aspect to English vigilance as she did in 1853.
Yes, 64 years ago our more observant politicians
SAW and denounced her restless ambition, her un-
scrupulous policy, her art of profiting by the
divisions of her neighbours, her sudden proffers
of friendship when a purpose was to be served,
her subsequent treacheries, and the rapid strides
by which she was ever advancing. Her
cherished schemes had even then been all un-
masked, —her design to close the Baltic and the
Black Sea ; to wind round into the Scandinavian
peninsula; to occupy the shores of the Bosphorus;
to command the tra he of the Levant and the ovens
land passage to India ; to embrace both Europe
and Asia in her fatal grasp, and so become the
mistress of the world. All this was then foreseen,
and much of it has since been accomplished in the
very face of our foreknowledge. Divided among
ourselves, engaged in a war of principles, alarmed
by revolution, amused by social changes, pursuing
schemes of commercial policy, and flattering our-
selves with the hopes of a speedy millennium, we
have gazed with idle wonder at a giant Power,
which, without divisions, without change, without
principles, without progress, without' opinion,
without heart or soul—with nothing but one
simple idea of universal dominion, grew every day,
and spread the net, and dug the pit, and accumu-
lated the stores for the conquest of the world.
The pamphlet to which we refer was directed
against " the principle which some gentlemen of
late had laboured to establish, that peace can and
ought to be preserved under all possible circum-
stances ;" and the particular occasion which eli-
cited it was the report that Sweden and Denmark
had been persuaded to defend the entrance of the
Baltic while the Arms of Russia drove the Turks
into Asia. The writer points out, what events
have since verified, and what has just now a parti-
cular application, that the two nations commanding
the entrance to the Baltic formed, as it were, by
nature to prescribe bounds to the ambition of
Russia, at least on one side of her extensive empire
—who ought to be securities to the rest of Europe
for her good behaviour—had repeatedly felt the
effects of her power, had the most to apprehend
from it, and knew how little they could count on
her equity and moderation. England herself had
frequently experienced the precarious nature of
Russian friendship, and knew not what to expect
from her. But what made the country deaf to all
warnings against her ambition was the old idea
that Russia was an ancient and natural ally, and
the unhappy circumstance that Englishmen could
only imagine one war, and that was with the House
of Bourbon in Vrance and Spain. The pamphleteer
indeed, though otherwise sagacious enough, par-
took of this latter delusion, and only argued that
Russia, on the supposition of her friendship, was
not likely to help us very effectually against-the
then immense fleets of those two countries. As to
Russia being an ancient and natural ally, be says,
" If the antiquity of alliances -is an argument for
preserving them, the Turk has a prior claim to the
Muscovite to our friendship ; and this claim is
strengthened by the consideration that he is the
only power in Europe with whom we have never
been in hostility, not even through the checkered
and collateral means of alliances with other States."
The designs of Russia he describes, be it observed,
64 years ago, in the very terms vith which we are
now too familiar :—" A spirit of conquest has uni-
formly marked the conduct of Russia since Peter
the Great laid the foundation of that greatness
which threatens to overwhelm us. Nothing less
than the full possession of Constantinople and the
Black Sea at least will satisfy her inordinate ambi-
tion. In possession of the Euxine at one extremity
of Europe, and of the Baltic at the other, she will
encircle the fairest and best cultivated portion of
the globe." So the writer justly says—" The sole
question to be considered is how far it is consistent
with the safety of the British Government to per-
mit the Russians to extinguish the Turkish em-
pire and establish their dominion on the Bos-
phorus." The consequences of a dominion so
established he follows out without any extrava-
gance, as it appears to us, to the occupation
of Egypt, the possession of the Red Sea, and
the ultimate supremacy of Russia in the East.
fler designs upon Finland, since accomplished, the
author treats in the same way, and his remarks
excite a most painful regret that there was no one
to protest against the actual annexation of that pro-
vince as vigorously and successfully as in 1748,
when the King of Prussia met the hostile prepara-
tions of the Czar with a remonstrance backed by
the threat of 150,000 men.
Then, as now, the writer had to meet the objec-
tions, already old, that Russia was geographically
" unattackable ;" that a war with her would de-
prive us of tallow and other raw material, and cut
off a market for our own manufactures ; and that
Russia had a species of right to enlarge her borders
among her weaker neighbours, which right we had
no business to gainsay or restrict till we found our-
selves the immediate object of attack.
He argued,
as has lately been argued by our own statesmen,
and as the event has fully justified, that we can
crush Russia whenever we think proper to put
forth our strength. This, indeed, he said in 1791 of
England alone, and it is no great wonder if in
1853 we only ventured to say this of the two great
Western Powers. He predicted, indeed, that the
task must be more difficult year by year, and ac-
cordingly asks—" first, whether it is equitable and
politic that the Turk should be driven out of Eu-
rope, from the promontory dividing and connect-
ing the Euxine and Mediterranean; secondly,
whether it is consistent with the safety of Great
'Britain to allow the Court of St. Petersburg to
found, as it were, a new sovereignty on the de-
struction of the Ottoman empire." Assuming th©
only possible answer to these questions, he proceeds
—" How can Ministers acquit themselves to their
Sovereign, their country, and posterity, if they
should permit a Power to rise into existence, and
grow to maturity, that will not only eclipse,
but that may eventually extinguish the very name
of Britain ?" He proceeds to point out that
other Powers aiming at universal empire had been
so dealt with ; that France herself had been forced
to confine her dominion in Europe between the
Rhine and the Pyrenees ; and lie only applies
the same measure to Russia :—" Why should
Russia claim an exemption from restrictions to
which other Sovereigns have submitted ? 'Why
should Russia be suffered to acquire an addition of
force that may enable her to prescribe the law im-
periously to surrounding uatiens, and become the
arbitress of the world V And the writer adds, "It
is not against what she will, but against what she
may hereafter do, that we are to guard ; and we all
know that it is easier, as well as better, to prevent
oppression than to resist." We have had the
harder task—the resistance to an act of oppression
long prepared, and hacked with the whole force of
Russia. The increase of difficulty is the price we
pay for our protracted sufferance. We have at
last been obliged to come to the very expedient
suggested by the writer before us, and which 64
years ago would doubtless have been more effectual.
" A British fleet at this instant," he says, " in the
Baltic would, perhaps, operate more strongly in
persuading Russia to restore peace to Turkey, and
leave our ally in repose, than all the rhetoric and
all the arguments in favour of equity and expe-
diency that the noble lord in the Foreign Depart-
ment and the two gentlemen on mission at St.
Petersburg could possibly advance." Wo need
hardly say what noble lord or what gentlemen in
the British Parliament will suggest themselves to
the reader of this passage. We are now sufficiently
aware of the superior efficacy of a fleet in the Baltic
and another in the Black Sea compared with all

,eloquence or argument that Ministers or Pleni-
potentiaries could address to Russia. In this re-
spect the lapse of two generations has not altered
the comparative power of words and deeds when
' addressed to the Russian ear. Such, then, was our
case 64 years ago, before the extinction of the
French monarchy and the terrors of the Revolu-
tion played the game. of Russia by directing the
attention of Europe to a new danger. Here, then,
in the heart of the last century, we are to look for
the origin of the present war; not in the arrogance
of the Menschikotf mission ; not in the failure of
recent negotiations ; not in a quarrel about holy'
places : but in the ambition, the insolence, and
the audacity of Russia, which two generations ago
were clearly seen to menace the liberty of Europe,
and which even a minister of peace was driven to
meet with the threat of an appeal to arms in behalf
of Turkey.

AUSTRALIA.
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
By the Overland Mail we have received com-
mercial advices from Melbourne, 15 days later
than those brought by the Wrest India mail steamer
Atrato. The advices, which are to the 30th of
August inclusive, were delivered at Ceylon on the
14th tilt:, in 39 days from Melbourne, by the
'V White Star " clipper ship Arabian. This vessel's
run from Liverpool to Ceylon, via Melbourne,
where she landed a full complement of passengers
and discharged upwards of 1,000 tons of cargo,
occupied only four months and 20 days, the quickest
on record.
The clipper ship Oliver Lang sailed from Mel-
bourne on the 23d of August, and the White Star
on the 30th, for Liverpool. The Kent was an-
nounced to sail positively ou the 13th of September.
These ships will bring on freight gold valued at
1,000,0001. sterling. Besides 80,000 ounces of
gold, the White Star has on board 70 tons of
South Australian smelted copper for Birmingham
and London, via Liverpool, 1,000 bales of wood,
and 150 passengers.
Tho Merlin arrived at Melbourne on the 20th of
August. The Donald M`Kay, with the mails of the
6th of June, reached on the 26th of August, from
Liverpool.
As regards the gold-yielding qualities of Austra-
lia, we learn that the quantity being produced was
decidedly on the increase, not only at the older
fields, but also at those more recently discovered,
and not merely was the gold produce increasing in
amount, but the prospects in regard to the supply
were almost daily improving, not only by an exteL.
sion of the area of those fields which were familiar,
but by the successful workings of others lately
opened. The progress of discovery was principally
in the direction of the north-west portion of the
colony, although accounts had lately been received
of a favourable character from parties who had
been " prospecting" to the eastward.
As regards immigration, we find from the re-
turns that the balance of arrivals over departures
for the portion of the year which terminated on
the 25th of August was 40,172, or about 5,000 a
month, a rate of increase which, omitting natural
causes, would double the population in four years.
The Exports of gold and other produce from Mel-
bourne for the second quarter of 1855 were of the
value of 2,952,692/.against 2,286,5651. for the same
p-riod in 1854. The quantity shipped to Great
Britain was of the value of 2,675,998/.in 1855, and
1,723,187/. in 1854. The total value of the ex-
ports from the colony of Victoria for the second
quarter of 1855 was 3,025,8221. against, for the
same period in 1854, 2,500,5801. We also per-
ceive that in the increase of the total exports of the
colony of Victoria there is an increase of the quan-
tity of the staple productions, and not simply of
the value of goods reshipped ; and also that the in-
crease has not been to Vie neighbouring colonies—
not to America and other foreign States—but con-
sists of bona Ale shipments of produce to the
United Kingdom. The contrast exhibited by the
imports is almost favourable. Ins:ead of those ex-
ceeding the exports by an amount which used to be
disheartening, they are now so reduced iu amount
that the exports much more than balance them.
This must eventually improve the internal trade
and commerce of Australia.
The Melbourne markets generally during the
month of August were charactorked by an eatent
of dulness to which the past three years of colonial
experience afford no parallel.
Elides were a shade lower, the vessels now on the
berth being full, and shippers inactive.
There was a marked improvement in iron-
mongery generally.
In dry goods very little was doing, but there
wore numerous inquiries for spring goods, on
which a fair profit could be obtained.

For thither there was not much demand, but
prices were unaltered.

The quotations for wool were 61. to 81. per lb.,
in grease; ls. 3id. to is. 51d. for superior fleece ;
is. 2d. to ls. 3d. for good to middling ; and ls. to
is. id. for inferior fleeces. There was very little
offering. Tallow was offering at SSI. to 681. per ton
for mutton, and at 381. for beef tallow.
Liverpool coarse salt was selling at 51. 10s. to 6/.
per ton ; 8/. to 81. 103. for fine ; and at 41. to 4/.
10s. for inferior.
In freights, the rates quoted were—to London,
wool, Id. per lb. ; tallow, 40s. per ton ; gold, in
quantities of or above 1,000 ounces, 41. per ounce,
and dead weight 40s. per ton. To Liverpool—
wool, -id. per lb. ; light goods, 40s. per ton. To
Bristol—wool, Ad. per lb. ; tallow, 60s. per ton ;
light goods, 60s. per ton ; and hides, 50s. per ton.
The following are the latest gold circulars re-
ceived :

" elbourne, Au. 2.
" Gold continues at 765. 6d.,
w Mith little demangd since
the sailing of the Ballarat.
Number of persons arrived 1,114
Number that have left 317

Addition this week 797, and year 40,172
" The escorts have brought from—
Mount Alexander and Bendigo... 19,212 ounces.
Ballarat, including Geelong 14,416
Mary borough .............
Daisy Hill ..
Avoca ...
472
A-

Ounces.
-mount thiß week
Gold shipped in 1855
Per Tornado to Calcuttal 5 1 4
Per Telegraph to Sydney
14
Per Oliver Lang to Liverpool 7
4
Per Bombay to Hong-Kong 43,554, year
11,,
52
075
70:21
30:

" Exchang 1,585,626
at par, e on London—Draughts against gold taken
"Freight of gold, 43d. per ounce, delivered at the
Builion-office, Bank of England, London. Insurance,
21 per cent.

" " EDWAED KIII7LL, Bullion Broker."
GEELONG, Aug. 25.—There has been no alteration
in the buying price since last circular; it remains steady
at Ns. 9 (1.
There has been very little busin-ss doing in
town. The diggers' lots offered have been few ; but at
the same time there seems no very great anxiety to pur-
chase, nor need it be expected till on the eve of the sail-
ing of the next English vessel.
" In the Ballarat district a good deal of attention is
directed to the Buninyong, 'Ranges, at present the scene
of some rushes These ranges have long been noticed
as without doubt auriferous, and great results prophe-
sied on the opening of them up. Now a goad many are
already doing well there, and it bids fair to be a favourite
quarter.

" \\Tardy Yallock is still prosperou.. The several
fields are spoken well of. The district is increasing in
its population daily.
"It is reported that something good has been met
with at Like Omeo, and that those at present there are
getting richly remunerated. It will be recollected that
this quarter was prospected the first season of gold-find-
ing, but without any great result. Although gold was
got, the quantity was not a sufficient recompence for the
toil and expense in such a cold and inclement quarter.
"The other fields are this week reported with about
the usual success.

" Quartz-crushing is getting more and more in favour,
and a great many must be by this time engaged in that
line, but as yet there appears very little of the result
(amalgamated gold) in the market.
" Since last circular there has arrived by escort as
follows : oz. d wt.
Castlemaine escort 20,611 17
Maryborough „
Avoca 747 0
Ballarat

Total 41,207 7
" Exchange on London.—The banks at present sell
their draughts on London at 2 per cent. premium, and
buy at par.

" Freight of gold delivered in London, 44d. per oz. ;
insurance on ditto, 2 guineas per cent.. exclusive of the
war risk. " W. PATERSON."

MYSTERIOUS DIIAPPEARANCIII OF A LADY.—Yesterday
morning the walls of the metropolis were placarded with
bills offering a large reward from the friends of a lady
named Armond, residing at Greenwich, aged 70 years,
who has been missing under most extraordinary circum
stances. Mrs. Armond, it appears, was seen near Kent-
street, Borough, on Sunday night, about 10 o'clock ;
since which time, notwithstanding all the inquiries at
the hospitals, workhouses, and police-stations, nothing
has been Ileard of her; and now it Is feared that she has
been waylaid and murdered.