The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-07 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN GOLD MINES.

The following is a private letter, brought by the ship
Hero, addressed to Thomas Pewtress, Esq., Grace-
churel-street:—

adrrpivaarltlyhewreritltehnav Co e
laid yt
Australia Felix, Melbourne,
169, great Bourke-street West, Dec. 6, 1851.
YYrtrSiei rn,d—s Ts
ohoent eatftteerrs
myl had
aside, being tired of waiting for a post to England for
anotdheear
want of sailors to man the ships, beside these letters
e ere only calculated to mislead, as the face of things
is completely changed through the discovery of gold,
and it now becomes difficult to conjecture what a day
may bring forth. When I arrived in Adelaide in July
the subject of gold mines at the Bathurst Ranges, Syd-
ney, was engrossing the attention of all classes, so that
when our ship left we were filled with passengers to
Melbourne, on their way to Sydney. Oa my arrival
here in August I found that many inhabitants had left
for the Turon. Immediately upon my landing, Alfred
was sought after and engaged by an engineer of this
place, and James soon utter entered the services of a
merchant, with a good salary to begin with. I had de-
termined not to engage in any mercantile pursuits on
say own account fur at least twelve months, and was
anxious that my sons should not remain idle. Six weeks
had scarcely passed over before startling news from Bal-
larat came to Melbourne of the extraordinary quantities
of gold being found there. These tidings set the city
together by the ears, and in the course of a fortnight
seven or eight thousands quitted their homes and employ
meat here for the gold fields. It was an animating sigh-
to see men cf all grades—doctors, lawyers, merchants,t
tradesmen, mechanics, labourers loading up horse and
bullock drays, and pressing on to Ballarat. Alfred
soon joined a party of three, the son and nephew of a
merchant and shipowner here, and followed in the
cavalcade; at the end of three weeks he reported he
was doing much better than at engineering, and that he
should devote two years to the gold mines, unless he
should make a fortune before that time. Being anxious
to see his position, and advise with him on Thursday
morning, 23d Oct., I left my house at six o'clock for
Ballarat, a distance to walk of 90 miles. My first stage
was to Bacchus' Marsh Inn, 36 miles, where I arrived
rather tired at 9 o'clock. I had passed through a beau-
tiful country thus far—ono meadow, if so it may be
called ten miles in circumference, skirted with trees, as
level as a bowling green, fresh and verdant, having a
slight convexity, like a lunette watch glass; two valleys,
romantic and beautiful, with terraces, slopes, ravines,
and waterfalls, which if near London would be turned
to good account in magnificent public gardens. Bacchus
Marsh is a rich boggy soil, containing many thousands
of acres, bounded with high land of regular height,
and trees upon the slopes. Lady Franklin owns a largo
portion of this fertile marsh. I left the marsh about
nine on Friday morning, and to save a distance I took a
bye-road, which brought me upon the Pentland Hills,
which at this season of the year are covered with most
beautiful verdant pasturage, of various hues and shades.
These hills rise one above the other for twenty miles.
From these hills, until I reached the Forests of Bailee
,

I had the most splendid views of country I ever beheld,
not to be surpassed by anything I saw in the Peak of
Derbyshire. My allotted distance to walk carried me
to where there was no ion, street, or dwelling, and for
the first time I bushed it in pure style. I lighted II fire
about seven in the evening, and made myself some tea—
(by the bye I had done so two or three times before in
the course of the day). I made a mimi of boughs, and
a bed of dry leaves, and laid down and slept iu peace tin
daylight, when I proceeded on my journey, and arrived
at the gold dieginga on Saturday, three o'clock, amidst
thousands of tents of various styles of architecture, and
the din of noise from the rocking of near two thousand
cradles. It was a busy scene, yet the greatest order
prevailed. On Sunday I attended service morning and
evening, at the Commissioner's tent, Goldent Polar. I
found Alfred delighted with a bush life, and with the em-
ployment of gold digging. Oee of his party was goon
to Mount Ale zauder, about sixty-five miles off, with de-
putations from other companies to explore sod asceriain
if rumours afloat respecting the diggings there were
correct. Oa Tuesday noon intelligence arrived that at
Alexander they were reckoning their day's work by pounds
instead of ounces. Preparations were soon made to obey
this route, and by eight on Tuesday morning my son's
party, with about six other parties, had their tents
packed up and put on drays, and at ten o'clock we
were on our way to Alexander. Our road lay through
a delightful part of the country, where many of the most
opulent squatters had fixed their stations. The first ob-
ject that interested me was an extensive lake, or as it is
called here, lagoon; we came upon it after ascending a
high hill, this lake forming a part of the table-land of
this elevated ground. The lake is bounded by a very
regular sloping bank, rising about thirty feet from the
lake, and is skirted with trees regularly all round, mea-
suring eleven miles and a half in circumference. The
next day we came to a very lofty mountain, around
which our drays had to pass, rising 4,000 feet, i.e. above
the level of the sea. Tired as we were, about a dozen of
our party must needs ascend this commanding observa-
tory. I was amply repaid for all my labour in climbing
this steep, for this eminence and the clear atmosphere
in this country afforded me one of the most beautiful
landscape views I ever beheld. We amused ourselves in
our ascent with starting from their resting places huge
masses of rock, some a half-ton weight; these we moved
with levers, and hurled them down the steep, of above
half a mile in extent, cutting trees asunder without ap-
parently checking their course in the slightest degree;
in one instance a piece parted from one of these largest
sized stones, and from its great velocity the piece was
hurled into the air a considerable height. On Friday
morning early we entered the ranges of Mount Alex-
ander; these ranges are formed of clusters of hills, of
which Primrose-hill, London, and Windmill-hill,
Gravesend, may be a fair representation as to size and
height; but here these hills are thickly wooded. There
is a great similarity in the thousands of these hills,
which are spread over a space of sixteen miles by
nine wide, and I have observed that the shrubs and
trees are fair
.indications of the nature of the soil, so
that where you find stringy bark, red and blue gum
brake (very similar to that in England), and the acacia,
there is sure to be quartz and gold; and I cannot feel
the slightest hesitation in saying that in my course to
Ballarat, as also to Alexander, that I walked over and passed
hundreds, nay, I may say thousands, of hills of the same
physical appearances, which, I believe, are all of them more
or less richly stored with gold, one of which only wfeterlsa
afford profitable employment for ten thousand m.
be spade,
twelvemonth, in the present mode of labour, wrn
tin dish, and cradle. I arrived at Alexander bletfore
son and his party, for they had lost their way senong
ranges with their bullock drays. I was anxious
as
cure a plot of ground (eight feet square)
o on Friday, at
were pouring in from all quarters,
andand on Saturday
at onee, s
two o'clock, I commenced digging, _ on
day a eaonuay morning
Alfred and his party arrived,
our hole was ready for washinsgo.thlts°oon discovered that
nugget with my
be ce
we had some gold in it by pickingour success as very
knife weighing nearly seoz.,but out a
emeza.yTuesday ;
moderate comparatively,
_but puosjaitoivoedloyyi;t
sid-red tolerably good: 5 ,140,Zz..0 ,
. theThursuay; this between
2i' Z. Wednesday; trod
only two of them
arty was getting 1 it
four of us. In the next bolep
and 2 lbs. every day for three weeks,
narrow
Just opposite me,
• to on the other side of the •
creek, I saw a man take 21bs. 2oz.
wafrom being ish, con-
-d
al upon
taining one shovelful of earth, a ger
Quartz-hill,
it. The gold was weighed; but this has ia en far ex-
ceeded since. On Wednesday I went
_to
about three miles through the ranges,
_ where specimens
of considerable size and beauty had_ been obtained, and
a party had been working there
win
,breaking up the
eelts upwards of a
quartz, yielding the
readily believe,
1001bs. weight of gol3l, laanda_this I can
fur they bad now left the place, and their hut to any
_
one, and I found, in looking over their leavings, fifty-
eight pieces of quartz, all more or less charged with gold.
o
and in breaking other pieces had obtains it ;lez. of
These solid layers of quartz ut this hill
my
rstheory respecting confirm me in
nal state of gold. Quartz Unquestionably is the
natural iztitrix of this Metal"—lllat in the range

where I had been digging and washing at Ballarat and
Alexander, the soil was invariably mimed with abund-
ance of small pieces of quartz, with occasionally large
pieces; but gold has rarely been found in the quartz at
these places, but in small nuggets in company with the
small pieces of quartz; and I believe that these gold
hills are the result of the upneavings from sub!erraneons
fire area intense hear, which has released the gold from
the quartz, and cast it into nuggets of endless variety of
s;z3 and sleep°. Ido not think that the quartz and geld
has been belched out of the boTels of the earth, as there
are no appearances of depressions on the eumtnits of
these hills or any appearance of craters; bat at the
quartz hill I sea led to infer from the gold being still in
the guava, and evidently in undisturbel, unbroken
striate, that the heat in this small spot was not sufficiently
intense to release the gold from the original state. The
quartz and slate rocks invariably lay north and south,
and I have never seen a deviation from this. These are
crude and hasty conclusions; but until further data can
be obtained and weighed by men of geological know-
ledge, calculated to determine the question in aceordmce
with known laws, I shall be inclined to adhere to this
theory, and equally so to give it up.
I did well enough at Alexander to have induced ree
to stay, but having, as I thought, a favourebie opportu-
nity of going to Melbourne with a gentleman of a neigh-
bouring tent, who was theist to drive down and take me
with him; but he lost his horse in the night, so we had
to walk; and on my reaching home on Monday, the
10th of November, I found that the Governor had given
me an appointment in the Legislative Council Chamber,
which commenced its first sitting on the 11th. But for
this I might have continued my gold digging labours
for some time, an employment which, in my opinion,
holds out as fair prospects of making money as any that
I know of in this cauutry or any other, and with but as
little risk. Some have done wonders—a baker by the
name of Mestiter, in a month, had accumulated 2,0001.
worth of gold to his share. Five sailors came to Quartz-
hill while I was hunting for specimens, and seeing they
were not likely to do much there, asked me if I thought
they could work without a licence, as they had not 80s.
between them. I told them to try a hole, and get a
little gold and take it to the Commissioner's tent, and
get a licence, They went off, and borrowing a spade of
one and a pick of another, by night the next day they
bad obtained silles. weight of gold, 401. worth a piece,
and they continued this several days. There are many
such cases as these, indeed there need be to make up the
quantity of two tons of gold, or nearly so, last week
brought into the city, Many are doing but very little,
but my firm impression is that no man need fear but that
with a tin dish and spade of making an ounce a day, at
least this I reckon to be the smallest quantity of a per-
son that will work. James and John are preparing to
join their brother Alfred. John is to be tent-keeper,
103. a week and his board, and to have a tin dish to
wash at leisure, and have all he makes. Many lads are
making two or three ounces a week at this. James had
a good situation with a merchant here, but when he gave
notice he asked his employer his opinion of the step he
was about to take. Ire replied if you ask what I would
wish I should say don't leave me, but if you mean what
I would do if situated as you are, I should say go by all
means, it is a golden opportunity that rarely, if ever, has
fallen in the way of young men before. I hear, and I
believe it, that there are many hundreds of men about
to return to Melbourne at Christmas, that will share
upwards of a thousand pounds a man. Some are
spendingit already very freely. Many hun-
dreds are buying the finest horses they can
get, and give a high . price, 50/. or 601. One
man has given to a Jeweller sufficient gold to
make a pair of stirrups. Now, I do not mention this
because I admire this man's ambition to be famed for
folly, but as a fact which must show that gold is
gathered by some in great abundance with comparatively
little labour.

I have rather hastily, to save tho Ilero,
given You a
full account of my campaign to the auriferous fields' in
order that you may have some idea of the physical ap.
pearances of this, my adopted country, and of the dis-
covery of the first mineral mines in this colony; and I
can have no hesitation in affirming, that at present the
colony that bears the name of our Gracious Queen
Victoria contains by far the richest gold mines in all
the world.
I have thus given you a faithful description of the
state of things here with respect to the discovery of
gold, but there is another side of the picture which I
would, if I had time, set forth; but let me express my
earnest, anxious hope, that no one into whose hands this
letter may fall will think of leaving a position of com-
fort, with prospects of maintaining it; for if they do I
feel persuaded that the privations and trials of a voyage,
and the difficulties attending every new corner, will con-
strain them bitterly to regret it. For, depend upon it,
a man needs all the support to his mind which a consci-
ousness of the prudence of the step he has taken in
leaving England is calculated to inspire : he will indeed
need this to cheer and encourage him under difficulties
of no ordinary kind. Bat I must express my honest
conviction that a man, especially a young man, cannot
fail of success if he is honest, sober, and industrious.
In England the affairs of men have their tides as
well as here; but they are mostly neap tides with you,
but with us spring tides, so that should a man get stuck
ashore here he has not long to wait before he is sure to
get afloat again.
The employment in the gold fields is making every
article very dear, especially labour. All the employees
under Government receive fifty per cent. upon their pay
in consequence, but we hear of many about to leave after
the 31st instant for the diggings. About one-hall of the
police have given notice to do so. The Executive Go-
verninent is thus being daily weakened, instead of being,
as it needs just at this time, strengthened.
There is a very momentous question for decision be-
tween the gold diggers and the Governmentnext month.
Hitherto every man has had to pay a licenctefee of 30s.
monthly to the territorial fund before be could search
for gold. Notice has been given, that in January it is
to be 60s. It is rumoured that the diggers demur at
this; and I am not at ease in toy mind as to the result.
The appropriation of the territorial fond is at present
a great bone of contennon between the Executive and
the people; and, in these times, it is exceedingly, diffi-
cult fur the Government here to deal with such a levia-
than as 10,000 armed men at Alexander, which laugh
at the shaking of a spear. We need an electric tele-
graph to Downing-street.
I am, my dear Sir, yours very sincerely,
EDWARD B. ARNOLD.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, APRIL 6.

STOCK EXCHANGE.--The share market was firm to-day.
The sales reported were—Taff Vale, 150—Ditto (New),
1% p.—Vale of Neath, 434 dis.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6. .

ks..lc6odnitsi.n
STOCK EXCHA.NGE.—The business to-day was very limited
in amount, but prices generally were well sustained. The
transactions were as follow :—Aberdeen, 13;74—Caledonian,
1814—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 714—Ditto, Fifths ( West
Riding Union), 4 3-16 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, andfLin-
colnshire, 331,4—Midland, 64W8—North Union (A), 250—
Ditto (B), 175—St. Helen's (Railway and Canal), New
Preference, 6 per cent., 4/2 p —South-Eastern and Dover,
211/I—York and North Midland, 24% —Demera, 5% —Dutch
Rhenish, dis.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCHMIGE.—There was an improved feeling ex-
ere as
hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business
has been done at improved prices. The transactiotireoNrykshire,
follow :—Caledonian, 185/4 n.—Lancashire and
_
bheffield, and
713'x—Ditto, Fifths, 614 dis.—Manchester, p._
Lincolnshire, 3334—Ditto, New 61. Preference, it A.
nth-Easteni
Midland, 6414—Oldham Alliance,
n'
in favoii,
and Dover, 2134—York and North Alidland,.%:V/i•
BIRMINGI3ANG market has b._
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share marb • e"
"-
London and North-Western
tremely flat to-day, and there was very little business doing
holders anticipating a further

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTIMS RAILWAY. Traffic for
the week ending April 3, 1852 :-,
an .
Passengers (20,396), goo?is Et
parcels, horses and carriages.. £4,070 15 $
4,237 10 9
Glasgow, April 5.
Corresponding week in last year

SEABORNE MAILS.
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Belgium •• •• •• N Daily .. Dover .. Daily
Brasil .• 11,9 th of the month Southampt. April 16
_
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Cape of Good Ilope N;l4th of month ;Plymouth.. Arrived
Constantinople* .. . N 7th 17th 27th of mo :Dover .. April 10
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namburgh N Tuesday & Friday;,London .. Tues. Sat.
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The mails to those c (innies thrill mar]
French packet via Marseilles.

ROYAL BOUNTY.—Yesterday and Monday her
Majesty's bounty, granted according to ancient custom, pas
distributed amongst about HY) aged and infirm h
en ante
women, at Whitehall, each of whom received ss. altahe
money," so called from its having formerly been given
r per
'
Park gate, was also distributed to about 180 otter p
oo
soul each of 71101 0001 Ted 134.

GENERALTHEATRICALFUND DINNER.
The seventh anniversary festival of this excellent
land non-exclusive institution took place on Monday at
the London Tavern. Mr. Maeready was to have taken
the chair, but was prevented by family circumstances,
and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton supplied his place,
supported by Mr. C. Dickens, Mr. Webster, Mr.
Buckstone, Mr. F. Stone, Captain Chappell, Mr.
Mark Lemon, Mr. Wills, &c.
The usual loyal toasts having been done due justice
to, on the part of the chairman and of the company,
Sir E. B. LYTTON proposed the toast of the even-
ing—" Prosperity to this Society"—now in the
seventh year of its existence. He congratulated
them on the success which had attended their efforts,
and attributed that success to the recognition of two
principler, on which every society which had for
its object the benefit uf the professors of any
art ought to be feuntied. The first of these
was the prig, it,le that every such society ought
to embrace the objects of a a mutual benefit
e
arseciation ; and the second was, the „cognition of
the fact that art was somathing
imperishabl and
universal, and was not confined to any particular
building of brick and mortar in which it might be
exercised. The peouli::,r feature and toerit of the as-
sociation the members and friends of which he was
addressing was, that they recognised these principles,
that they had nothing to do with associations con-
nected with certain building?, endowed with exclu-
sive patents and privileges it was true, but from which
the drama had long gone forth. The General
Theatrical Fund was established not for the benefit of
a professional party, but for the professors of an art,
and the society must therefore endure, because it had
attached itself to two things which would endure
after the Pyramids were duet—art end misfortune.
The toast was drunk with the usual honour.

Mr. BUCKSTONE, the honorary treasurer, in the
course of an amusing speech, in which he described
the progress of the fund by personifying the latter
and giving an autobiographical account of its life
and adventures, adverted to the balance in band, and
announced a prospective legacy from Mr. T. P. Cooke
of LOCO/.
Mr. Joliet FORSTER then proposed " The health of
the Chairman," in highly eulogistic terms.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and proposed
" The Health of Mr. Charles Dickens."
The toast was drunk with nine times nine.
Mr. C. DICKENS returned thanks, and expressed
his great gratification at the manner in.srabia
name had been received. With regard to the General
Theatrical Fund, be had been so long connected with
it, as one of the trustees, that he felt a difficulty in
saying any thing new respecting it. In fact, the elo-
quence of Mr. Buckstone—and the excellence of the
management, as evinced by the accounts of the cur-
rent year, left him nothing to say. If he could only
that the managers of the society bad no sympathy
with those struggling. in the lower branches of the
profession—if he could only say that their treasurer
was a stern, austere ITIM—(1, lughter)—,altogether a
hard-favoured person, severe of countenance, and ex-
ceedingly difficult to approach—or if he could only,
say that the institution was an exclusive one, and re-
quired from the applicants for relief that they
should have performed something next to im-
possible, such as holding an engagement two or
three years in the moon, or appearing in Sir
Edward Bulwer's Money 200 or 300 nights—if
he could say that any portion of the profession,
whether dancers or singers, were excluded from the
benefits of the institution, he could make to them a
speech more oratorically powerful than he then bad
the power to do from the want of such themes to de-
scant upon.—(Cheers.) Indeed, he was so utterly at
a loss for a grievance on which to speak, that he had
had thoughts of abandouing their festivals, and taking
to those banquets sometimes held in the neighbour-
hood of Freemasons' Hall, where there were plenty
of such grievances ready made to his hand.—(Cheers.)
He had no wish, however, to indulge in any unkind
allusions to the other theatrical funds, as he had
many kind friends amongst the members, but he only
wished to suggest the necessity of a change in their
constitution with changing times ; and he thought,
looking at their position with regard to this fund, no-
thing could do both parties so much good as a happy
marriage.—(Cheers and laughter.) In conclusion, he
could only say, in his official capacity, that be was
extremely gratified to find the fund so well supported,
and the more especially by the ladies of the profession
—(Cheers)—and he could only assure them, on be-
half of himself and brother trustees, that any little
increased aid they might voluntarily contribute to
their funds, would ever be publicly acknowledged
and gratefully received.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed successively " The
Healths of Mr. Webster, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, and
Mr. T. P. Cooke."

Mr. T. P.T.P. returned thanks, and assured the
company that he had not intended the fact of his
having made such a bequest by his will to have been
known, exceptirg by his friends Mr. Cullenford and
Mr. Buekstone ; but as the latter gentleman bad made
it known, he trusted it might do good by inducing
those who had the means, after providing for those
nearest and dearest to them, to follow his example.
Among the subscriptions announced in addition to
that of her Majesty of 1001., were those of the Chair-
man, 10/. ; the Duke of Devonshire, 10 guineas ; Mr.
Webster, 5 guineas ; Earl Fitzhardinge, 5 guineas;
Dr. Hastings, 5 guineas; Mr. Montague, 5 guineas;
Mr. Lumley, 6 guineas ; Mr. Charles Kean, 5 gui-
neas; Mr. Phelps, 5 guineas; Mrs. Theodore Martin
(late Miss Faucit), 5 guineas ; Mr. Toole, 3 guineas ;
Madame Celeste, 5 guineas ; Mr. T. P. Cooke, 3
guineas, &c.
The attention of the Stewards, Messrs. Worrell,
Howe, Hughes, Hoskins, &c., was beyond all praise.
If their supporters lacked anything it must have
been their own faults, for the creature comforts were
provided in abundance.
Tne musical arrangements, under the management
of Mr. Tully, were all that could be desired. The
vocalists included the two Misses Pyne, Miss Horton,
and Mi-s Min,ford, Mr. D. Kintr, Mr. Gellge, Mr.
11:.ru,rord, Mr. liorneastle, Mr. Fielding, Mr. Mor-
gan, Mr. Walker, Mr. Binge, Mr. Ransford, Mr.
Lawler, and Mr. Jones; while as instrumentalists
manrd.
Tooleafterwards c i thea tofficiated
n garian
the Distins appeared,
musical company.
toast-
master.

THE REV. I? (VHISTON AND THE DEAN
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piper of yesterday.
the statements made on Monday,
re-
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the
scThoa ;ge f continuedabus
eh
for twenty boys in the g ' wed r
65/. was originally,. by the statutes Grammar School, for whom
tion of Henry the Eighth, ordained under the Founds-
from such abuse and neglect ; and showed that
so reduced that in 1834 the the Foundation had been
which in the nextyear number did not exceed five,
and under master. Th was reduced to one with a head
master was added; the
The next year the son of the head
scholar on the following year he being the only
foundation.F
1839, 40, and 41there or the next three years,
had become , appeared no scholar. What
of the money provided by the
founder for
The that charity during those years?
Dean and Chapter refused to give him
information, and therefore he believed he was
justified and correct in stating that it had been
added to the augmentation of purposes never
contemplated by the founder. In the course of this por-
tion of the defence the reverend gentleman proceeded to
refer to the proceedings in connexion with similar abuses
in other cathedral foundations; but was stopped by the
Court, who intimated that the only inquiry was, whether
the statements were false and libellous as against the
Dean and Chapter of Rochester. Mr. Whiston then
proceeded to dissect the various remaining portions of
the pamphlet which the Dean and Chapter alleged were
libellous, and upon which they relied in justification of
their dismissal of him as head master, and to state his
reasons and the evidence upon which ho made those
statements, all of which ho contended were true; but if
not so the Dean and Chapter had the opportunity of
proving the contrary, which they had not. He then
went through that portion of his defence with respect to
the charge assigned of gravies delitum; at the conclusion
of which, near five o'clock, the Court intimated they
should adjourn.
Mr. WHISTON then said he would be ready to proceed
with the other branches of his defence at the sittings of
their Lordships to-morrow (this day).
The Bishop of ROCHESTER adjourned the further
hearing until a quarter to ten this day.

ADAM GRAEME OF MOSSGRAF.—The new Scot;
tish novel bearing the title of " Adam Graeme of MossgraY,
from the pen of the author of " Passages in the Life of Mrs.
Margaret Maitland," bids fair to acquire even a greater ro:
pularity than that famous book. The simple life of ray!:
Scotland, as it exists at the present time in its pea_c__":
hamlets and sequestered mansions, is described Rye; sad
lumen in all its beauty, as it has been sung
inabywith human
g°°7-oic the venerable
by Burns. A charming love story,
kindness, weaves its web round the fi u f!
thyeestyeera-r
the first taue
people who now appear for author's happiest vein.
whose characters are hit off in the
among the
England
gems Of cut
old man who gives name to the book, ,rintrinoduficeintigon,usantl
This work will assuredly be ranged
1] aticnal literature.
There are
na
lo ft, licensed
and
the
BREWERS, &C.---
:11 brewersanen clandd ro6thtuerrsa. wlnas
,-..•\v2-1 bushels_
ednaydinpgrinoteedfoestpreecoid
tinuctober last, there were '
2,305 brewers, 0. vi _l.
:Jai are in London.
'ch 64 are in London • and in
Ti;60,124 vic-
tuallers, of which 4'
beersellersdrunk on th drunk on the premises,
and 3,277 thereon t _ _
._ . e premises. In the United
Kingdom e 2,546 brewers and 80,966 ' victuallere.
brewers consumed 20,032
37,266t0 sell beer to be
The
victuallers who their n beer 7,732,287. Persona
licensed to sell beer consumed '3,289,608 bushels to be drunk
on d k
on the premises, and 389,529 bushels
ns who brewed beer to be drunk were consumed by per-
sons on the premises.
yesterday morning about nine o'clock, a suicide
of the most melancholy
character was committed by a man
named Thomas Sheen, aged tatin
the third floor of a house precipitating
he in Hart-street,Covoct-gardou, in