The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-06 00:00:00

THE GOLD REGIONS.

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The further accounts from Australia yesterday
created great interest, and are fully borne out by the
private advises received in the City. Both in New
South Wales and Victoria the general success of the
miners seems to have been uninterrupted; but it
is in the latter colony that the most striking
results have been realized. In the week ending
the 12th of December the amount of gold brought
to Melbourne under escort was 23,000 ounces,
and, coupled with what was also brought by
private hands, the total value was supposed
to have been equivalent to little short of 100,0001.
New deposits of great richness had been discovered, and
it was found almost impossible to retain any one at an
ordinary occupation. A recommendation from the
Lieutenant-Governor for a large increase in the pay of
all the inferior Government employes had been carried
by a vote of 17 to 12. Instances of disappointment, it is
alleged, were hardly known. The daily influx of new
corners, however, promised to put the permanent na-
ture of the yield to a strong test. Under the
circumstances the Government had resolved to double
the charge for license fees, and it was now therefore
raised to 31. It was also to be enforced from all persons
in profitable employment at the mines, such as tent-
keepers, cooks, &e., irrespective of their not being en-
gaged in the search for gold. Some doubt was enter-
tained whether these alterations would be submitted to,
and it is obvious that even if such should be the case for the
moment there will be ultimately great risk in carrying
attempts of this kind too far. From Sydney the
dates are to the 19th December, being six days later
than the previous advises. There was continued
activity at the old points of operation, and at the
same time the experience of each day seemed to
show more conclusively the large extent of the lo-
calities yet to be occupied. Mr. Hargraves, the
original discoverer, had returned to Sydney on the
12(11 December, after an absence of six months on a
tour of exploration, during which he had gone over
about 3,000 or 4,000 miles. His report was in the
Minch of the Governor, but its nature had nut trans-
spired. Among some new regulations issued by the
Govt rnment was a clause specifying the terms upon
which, as regards license-fees, steam might be employed
in working a claim. An engine of one-horse power was
to rank as equal to the labour of seven men. The most
remarkable piece of gold discovered within the last
few days has been a " nugget" of 28th. sea.,
which bad been purchased by Mr. G. A. Lloyd for
1,1551. The amount brought by the present vessel,
the Alert, is 128,000/., and large sums would follow by
each succeeding opportunity. Within the last few
weeks there had been a better demand for flour, in
consequence of doubts whether supplies would not be
wanted in Victoria, from an inability to secure the
crops in that colony. In New South veales the
wheat had been got in after a ry fine
season, and it was also believed that the clip of
wool would be secured. Labour, however, was be—
A revokingdispatch
coming very dear, as the average yinesidcoautld
was 31. per man per week, n
the order making New South Wales_ a place to which
perna s
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Government,ers other e .
convicted criminals might be seat.
Legislative
was immediately
wadedforwardby the Governor to th Council,
and ved with loud cheers.

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.we are haunted by an epidemical
~,c.riors ARE COMING r'
~ THE Ruahon
Some one starts up and calls
I It's ceming!" At this, great alarm
out, "Old Bogy, •
-a and the newspaper press joins in the
spreads ebroa
• • Some Sears
friEghvteryiallothwistille
ago it was " The Russians !" " They
pantL.
; " said some, " through the Kattegat!'
are coming.
.6 They are coming by the Dardanelles!"
Others,
‘• They are about to strike a blow at our Indian
Others, doutntery
• ! They are coming through the Khyber Pass!"
A thou the Russo-phobia alarmingly set in, until it
Eridpire
was replaced by the Franco-phobia, which seized upon
the nation so soon as the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Francis Head had penned their famous " alarms."
Then the cry changed to " The French are coming!
They are coming across from Boulogne! From Har-
fleur! From Calais!" That alarm, too, passed by, and
it has been stilled for a time by the pacific influence of
the Great Exhibition. What the next alarm may be,
who knows? Perhaps " The Russians" again! Some-
thing in the Old Bogy style from afar off. Yet " The
Russians are among us, and we know it not;" or if not
Russians or Cossacks, then something even more dan-
gerons. They are in our midst! In the streets! In
the bye-lanes! In the market-places! In prisons!
Everywhere! We mean the dangerous classesei.con-
t ; in
other words, the uncared-for classes,--whom h
ditioned people shun, whom few but pa
police-courts know anything or care anything about.
invaded
These are " The Russians" who havealready
our great towns and cities, and who are
t woods at he
even remote country places, scouring
mid-
night for game. Many of then? occasionally
way into the workhouse, but hating
these Cossacks of civilization prefer wandering abroad
in all the freedom of vicious gno
Journal.
to be found in
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and
policemen
find their
restraint, as they do,
i rance.—Eliza Cook's
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• COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at Buckinghan m Palace.
The Earl of Bialmesbury had a audience of her Majesty.
Sir Charles Hotham, 1i,C.8., had an audience of the Queen
and kissed hands, on being appointed her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation. Sir Charles
was presented by the Earl of Malmesbury, secretary of State
for Foreigh Affairs.
Her Majesty gave audience to Sir John Pakington, and
the Earl of Lonsdale.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Frst Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
the President of the Board of Trade, the Postmaster-Gene-
ral, thehi Cmmissione of Public Wrks and Baild-
ings, th Lo
Steward,rs the Lord Ch oamberlain, and
the Master of the Horse.
Sir John Dodson, Dean of the Arches,
Prerogative Court, was, by command of the Queen, ,BIL°T,
of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and too
his seat at the Board. cur-
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Committee i tte etjewaYs the Clerk
The Honourable William Bathersof the
Derby had an audience of the Quedic
roovfedthoef b members
y herb 10f
b • the Treasurer
Her Mojesty was attended y of the House-
d e Comptroller
Council in waiting. After the Privy Council, the Earl of
thenew
o f
House-
hold, the Vice-Chamberlain,
hold, the Marquis ot Anglesey, Gold Stick I
Al Waiting, the
Earl of Verulam, Lord in Waiting, and Colonel the lion. A.
N. Hood, Groom ia waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his
Serene HigbDeSS Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg,
tended by 'Viscount Hardinge and at-
(Master- General of the
Ordnance), and Lieutenant- Colonel Fra •
left Buckingham Palace at tenFrancis Hugh Seymour,
for Woolwich. o'clock yesterday morning
The two Princes returned
'clock. to Buckingham Palace soon
after two o
A Committee of the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition
of 1851 had a meeting
h yesterday afternoon, at half-past frinceour
Albert presiain g am Palace ; his Royal Highness
Albert
o'clock, at Buckingham
were Earl g:'The other members of the Committee
Granville,
the Right Hon. William E. Gladstone,
M.P., Sir William
.E
Cubitt, and Mr. Thothas F. Gibson.
The meeting
The broke up at a quarter-past six o'clock.
Palace. Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham

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CHELMSFORD, ApitlL 2 Prices to-day were as follow:
Wheat, white, 43s to 493 ; red, 373 to 424; barley, 26s to 295;
chevalier •28s to 335; grinding 215 to 273; malt 55. to 565;
chevalier 551 to 58s ; oats Hs to 25s ; peas, partridge, 271
to 305 ; white, 283 to 30s ; boiling, 295 to 323; dun, new, 265
to 28s; beans, tick, 26s to 3Us ; harrow ticks, 27s to 313;
naazagan, 246 to 28s.
COLCHESTER, ATRIA, 3.—Wheat, white 46s to 485 ; red 403
to 43s ; oats, 20s to 2 ;6; beans, mazagan 265 to 275 ; middle
and mall 285 to 305; peas, white 323 to 345, grey, new 2.85 to
301 ; barley, 301 to 32s per qr.
KIR.ICALDT, APRIL 3.—The following are the quotations
for grain:—

- Wheat. Barley.
First 433 Od 313 6d
Second— 42i Od 319 03
Third 363 Od 259 Od
Oatmeal, per bat; of 2801b3
HADDINGTON, APRIL 2.—T'
grain at our market to-day:—
Wheat.

First .
Second 4ls 2d
Third ........... 373 Od
Total quantity of Wheat
Do. Barley
Do. Oats
Do. Beans

Oats.
235 6d
235 0(1
195 Od
imperial,
ie followil

Barley.
33s Od
303 4d
28 Od

Beans.
—3 0(1
—s Od

)—5 Od
303 Od to
mg are the

Oats.
23s 6d
21s 6d
198 9d

Peas.
—s Od
—5 Od
3!s 01.
prices 01

raarket

34 Od
321 3d
30i Oti

501 qrs., 434 sold

do. 300 qrs., 256 sold
do. 4111 qrs., 374 sold
do. 179 qrs., 164 sold

COM. MARKEI.—yEsTxRDAY•
Prices of Coal per ton at the close of the market :
Ravensworth'sW.Hart 13s 3J Nixon's Merthyr and
Walker
North Tees ... ..... .. 14s OdtPumpquart Stone
Ships at ?market, 27 Sold, 25.

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by the night—and NI by the morning—dispatch.]

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IMPORTANT TO STOCKBROKERS AND DEALERS
Son TIME BARGAINS.—At the Liverpool assizes, on Satur.
day, an action was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, in
which the plaintiff, Mr. Falkner, a stockbroker of Liverpool,
sought to recover the sum of 3.6381. from the defendant,
a air. Steele, who had been induced to speculate in
shares; and the amount claimed was the aggregate
balance due upon settlements extending over a period of
nearly three years. It was stated that the defendant had
verbally acknowledged the accuracy of the account supplied
by the plaintiff, but had refused to give a written acknow-
ledgment of the debt. The various transactions which had
been entered into by direction of Mr. Steele were proved by
a clerk of the plaintiff, the commission charged being sa.
per 100/. ea per cent.) Mr. Hugh 11111, Q.C., for the de-
fence, contended th.t the contract, if any had ever been
made. was .void, by reason of the nature of the transactions
being of a gambling character. Mr. Justice Cresswell, in
putting the case before the jury, said that although debts
contracted by' tgamiog were what were called " debts of
bondur,7 tritd probably not one of the jury or any respecta-
ble:persvon would refuse to pay a liability so contracted, yet
they had in the present case to deal with a strict question Of
law." If they were of opinion that the transactions in which
the plaintiff had engaged for the defendant were for bond
.fide delivery, he was entitled to recover the amount claimed ;
but if it was a mere accumulation of differences, that was
gaining,' and the verdict must be for the defendant. The jury
accordingly found for the defendant.
DUBLIN GARRISON' AMATEUR THEATRICALS.--
"The last night of the season" was an excellent finale to
the very agreeable
performances of the officers of the gar-
rison. The attendance in the Queen's Theatre on Friday
night, thougli not so full as on previous occasions, afforded
a proof that the interest in these entertainments had not
been exhausted. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and
the Countess of Eglinton were prevented from attending,
but some members of the family of their Excellencies occu-
pied the box usually assigned to them. The pieces selected
are favourites with the
Miner and hispublic, the Boarding School and the
for the abilities of both of which afforded
much scope
nhengaged
the
actresses had bee amateurs and the professional
corps who;aque Sao for the performances. The
the National Anthei:N4ttl math considerable
the acts of the petite comedy
the incidental treats mast con3iderable effect, and amongst
tour. which will always r be omitted the Minuet de la
rnents of the garrison amateurs
with the achieve-
by Captain Cast, A.D.C., gthr3ii An epilogue was spoken
address was enhanced by its haZars—the value of the
reciter. g been written by the
RELIEF OF THE POOR FOR. PASvr,„
7.—We un-
derstand that the quantity of Passover cakes
, was
nutetropo 1 i t an
week to the poor belonging to the vari,Ztributed this
tynomoagogibs.uw,v,:iagailLtsc: toat thea ii,t..i.snteraottit poor,
i3B.
44
45t lass than
Cironicle. ..'eish
timic.o4.l.±.