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week, but more than 200 or 300 Ards frdm Ore Jacky
spot over which Mr. Rabey w ed last Sunday. The
' I value of the five lumps 's 3,500 dollars. Very good
surfiae pickings surely.' Mr. C. D. Barber has exhibited
to us a lump weighing 38 oz., and containing about 25 oz.
of gold, taken from Helden's garden last Saturday, a little
ab)ve Wheaton's claim. Mr. Vivian also exhibited two
beautiful specimens found some months ago rear Tim's
Springs. The first was valued at 160 dells. The gold has
been so impressed as to have the appearance of engraved
jewellery,and in the midst of it is embedded a beautiful
clear erystal. The other lump, which is smaller, is
quite Peculiar, for the formation of the quartz as well
as for the intermixture of the gold. The quartz is gra-
, ea.ated, and the gold is in little stars or specks, about
the size of a pin's head, scattered all through the granu-
lations. Lest week a lump of pure gold, weighing
16,5,, was found by a negro named Thomas in a
gulch known as lielum'a Gulch, which rues into the
Sonora Creek. The miners of San Joaquin district corn-
plain greatly of a scarcity of water for geld-washing
purposes. Various projects for supplying the want by
works of art ate proposed. The Republican learns that a
gentleman who has for some time past been engaged in
taming has undertaken theta,k of supplying. the miners
in the neighrwurhoed of Rebinson's Ferry with water for
washing. He hay purchased a steam-engine of large
capacity, with the power cf which be will throw
the water of the Stanialaus over the bank into a canal,
which has been cut from the river's sido into the gulch.
Agriculture has received a large share of attentioa
during the last fortnight. Immense crops of barley,
onions, potatoes, and all kinds of vegetables, will be
raised this year in all parts of the state. Indeed, it is
expected that we shall be able to produce as much as will
be required for home consumption."

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LORD DERBY.
(From the Times.)
Lord Derby has a character for frankness and fair
dealing to lose, and we fear he is in a fair way to lose
it. The more anxious we ,have been to secure for him . •
fair play and courteous treatment in situation of the •
utmost difficulty and embarrassment,--iirmorestrenstons,
we have beep compelled, o be in resist obasultit
ofthe" these Oppositions on the scarcely- organized Mi-
nistry, the mere imperatively do we feel called upon to
reprobate the disingenuousness of the proceeding by
which the majority of the House of Commons has been
lulled into what would seem to be a false security.
We never disputed the constitutional doctrine, that,
as the Prime Minister of this country ought to
possess the confidence of the majority of the House
of Commons, and as Lord Derby, by his own admission,
strengthened by that of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, does not
possess that confidence, he is placed in an abnormal and
exceptional position, which ought not to be continued
one moment longer than the necessities of the public
service absolutely demand. We have hitherto been un-
der the impression that Lord Derby himself held the
same opinion, and that he was as willing as his autago•
nista to put an end to an interregnum neither gratifying
to his pride nor calculated to contribute to the lustre of
his reputation. We thought that he would not endure
a moment longer than duty compelled bim the presenoe
of a Parliament of which he was the nominal leader, but
not the actual master. We thought that, whatever
might be the impatience with which the men of Man-
chester burn to enter the lists, our fiery Premier would
be as eager for the eonfict as they. It seems, however,
that we were mistaken. To bold the responsibility of
office without its powers, to be Prime Minhter under a
hostile Opposition, to be cenEned to " humble and usefut"
duti's, to resign the acv, cacy in words and the per-
iormatice in deeds t f those thins which for six years he
has solemnly declared to be indispensable,—these things,
so grievous to ordinary mortals, could not, we thought,
be light and easy of endurance to the proud heir of the
house of Stanley.
On the 19 in of lust month. in answer to a question by
the Duke Newcastle, the Earl of Derby spile as tot-
lows:—" I will go a step further, and say that I think
the next autumn ought not to be allowed to pass over,
not only without the country having had the opperiuni y
of coming to a decision, but without Parliament having
had the opportunity of pronouncing definitively and
finally its opinion and its judgment on the course of
policy that ought to be adopted on the part of the Go-
vernment. I will give no pledge as to time, whether in
April, in May, or in June, that an appeal shall be mate
to the country, but I admit that an appeal ought to
he mode to the country before the ordinary time of
commencing the next session of Parliament, and that
the great que•tion in issue should be decided and adju-
dicated upon by Parliament at an earlier period, so that
the ordinary and current business of the next session
should not be interfered with by a protracted discussion
on the commercial end financial position of the country."
Lord Aberdeen, on behalf of the Conservative, and Lord
Grey, on the part of the Whig Opposition, professed
themselves satisfied with this promise; and well they
might, for, without attempting to weigh words and
syllables, or to deal with the declaration of a high-
spirited nobleman by the rules of special pleading end
minute verbal criticism, any man of plain sense reading
this passage would understsnd,—first, that Lord Derby
contemplated the probability of a dissolution unless
some extraordinary circumstance intervened ; and,
secondly, that he proposed in the coursa of the
autumn, and before its close, to submit to Parliament
the question of what policy the Government ought to
pursue. Mr. Disraeli was not so explicit in his expla•
nations, and the result was, that while in the House of
Commons the Ministerial explanations gave rise to a
long and angry debate, in the House of Lords the expla-
nation was treated as quite satisfactory. On the follow-
ing Monday, however, Lord John Russsell, stating the
construction which he put on Lord Derby's answer,
which was exactly what we have said would be the con-
struction of any person of common sense, announced his
intention, on the faith of the promise, to facilitate as
much as possible the progress of public business. This
was done in the presence of the Ministry; and if Lord
Derby had been misreported, or if the construction
placed by Lord John Russell on his words was forced or
erroneous, it was their duty to contradict an interpreta-
tion which, by their silence and acquiescence, they
rendered their own. On the strength of this
interpretation the estimates were passed unquestioned,
and no doubt was thrown on the intentions of
the Government till Lord Derby's declaration
of Tuesday last. " Nothing," be then said, "has ever
fallen from my lips which could lead any one to suppose
that the present would be a session of unusually short
duration. I never said anything which could justify
such a conclusion;" and afterwards Lord Derby added,
interrupting the Duke of Newcastle for the purpose,
that he never mentioned the months of April, May, or
June, a statement in which he was directly and most
justly contradicted by the Duke. Of course, we are
unable to account for these startling discrepancies, to
te whether
retract
r a h
eet
the h s p
I seidngcee
say whether Lord Derby unintentionally misled the
House in the first instance, or
changed his mind, and now
seeks
unadvisedly given. But in either
point
of view the oc-
currence is greatly to be regretted. In the firat place,
it tends not indirectly to lower that unhesitating and
eager confidence svoiob everyone placed in the assurance
of Lord Derby, understood iu its ordinary sense, and
without the slightest apprehension of any finesse or am-
biguity of ispo,g-e• In the second place, such a depar-
ture from former declarations must give fresh bitterness
to the opposition, and fan into a flame those passions
the violence of which we had hoped to have been
sitter ono party has been,
allayed. to use the mildk at
rui,talitn in the meaning of the other,
term, so signally
and has, through that mistake, conceded a great advan-
tage, it will be very diftoult to bring them again to a
mutual Understanding-.
If the session be, as everybody
except the Ministers seems to think most desirable,
destined to be brought to a speedy close, this end will
now probably be Obtained, not through mutual agree-
ment and compromise, but by making the minority feel
in the fullest extunt that it is the minority, and that Go-
vernment, in this Parliament at least, exercises its fano-
thins merely on sufferance.
We have no wish to rank among the counsellors of
Lord Derby, but, as having been uniformly anxious to
obtain for him the fullest hearing and the fairest trial,
we beg to point out bow little will be gained by pro-
tracting the session at the expense of so much eharacter
and public confidence. The position of a Ministry in a
minority is neither dignified nor popular. It forbids a
Government to advance, and for a Government not to
advance is to recede. Every week that Lord Derby's
helpless situation continues is sapping the foundation
of that party for whose support he looks at the
coming election. Uncertain of the intentions of
the Government, constituencies are taking the mat-
ter into their own hands, and are in many in-
stances displacing adherents of the present Ministry
to make room for candidates possessing little else
that is definite except an adhesion to the doctrines of
free trade. The cry on that side is certain and popular;
on the other the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, and
who shall prepare himself for battle? Wavering be-
tween Protective yearnings and Free Trade realities,
without any avowed policy, without any clearly defined
intentions, the Ministry seems to live on from day to
day impatient of its present anomalous state, and yet
afraid to exchange it sooner than it is absolutely com-
pelled for its future condition, whatever that may be.
such policy is too refined and artful for the blunt and •
downright English nation. Let Ministers propound
their principles, and it will accept or reject them; bat
in this free country we do not submit, except provi-
sionally, and then with much impatience, to the govern-
ment of a minority, and are not in the habit of being
consulted as to what principles our rulers ought to adopt

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