The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS,

GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS will Leave
the BRUNSWICK WHARF, Blickwall, on the arrival of the
following Trains front the Fenchurch-street Te rminus :—at 11,
23i; Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 834, 1134, 134.
N.B.—A PACKET will Leave the TERRACE PIER on
CHRISTMAS-EVE, at FIVE P.M.

~,,I. No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, or Parfleet
Piers.

Star-office, Gravesend, December 21, 1852.

DELL'S LIFE IN LONDON will be Published
ALP on FRIDAY, in consequence of Christmas-day falling en
Saturday.

Advertisements cannot be taken after Eight o'clock on Tharsday
Night.

Office, 170, Strand.

South Australian Copper Mining Co mpany,
17, Gracechurch-s reet.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER MINING
- COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Committee of Manage-
ment, appointed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Share-
holders on the gth inst., have Resolved as follows :

Ist. That au Shares in the Company be duly Reg:stered In the
cost-book of the Company.

2d. That notice of the same be given, by public advertisement,
requiring the ahares to be sent into the office of the Company for
registration accordingly.

att. That a pro rata allotment of the unappropriated shares in
the Company be made at par in respect of every Share so sent in for
registration as aforesaid, on or before Tuesday, the 18th day of
January, 1853, but that all Shares not sent in for registry ion as
afore,aid on or before the said 18th day of January, be ab olutely
excluded from all benefit of such allotment.

Notice is therefore Given, that ail '-hareholders are requested to
send io their Shares for registration accordingly. The Committee
of Management beg to intimate to the Shareholders, that those only
who are registered will be entitled to the bonus arising from the
preminms realised on the Shares &ready sold, which under the au-
thority of a Meeting of the Shareholders, might be divided among
them.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1852.
17, Gracechnrch Stree:, London.
By order of the Committee of Management,
J. THOMPSON, Chairman.
SAML. H. A.RM ITAGE, Purser.

TO the SHAREHOLDERS of the AVE MA-
RIA GOLD QUARTZ MINING COMPANY.—On the 20th
September last the Directors advertised that the Reports upon the
progress made at the Ave Maria Mine were at the offices for the
inspection of the Shareholders, in which it was stated, " that notwith-
standing many difficulties, the Company had obtained possession of
the sett purchased on Colonel Fremont's Mariposa property."
These reports were highly favourable, and the Directors placed
the fullest confidence in them but, although satisfactory, the Direc-
tors felt great anxiety as to Colonel Fremont's title to the Mariposa
property, a,,d this claim being at the same time strongly contested
they were induced to consider the most prudent means of protecting
the interests of the Shareholders, and decided on procuring, if possi-
ble, a mine in operation, o indisputable title, the auriferous value of
which had been already profitably tested. At this juncture, the Di-

rectors bad offered to them an extremely rich Gold Mine (unequalled,
they believe), situated in the Nevada district, and they entered into
a conditional arrangement to secure an interest in this valuable
property. They dispatched to California without loss of time (in
the month of April last) Mr. IL C. Duke, their late Secretary,
in whose prudence and integrity they had the greatest confidence,
giving him instructions to obtain a faithful report of the Mine through
the most searching scrutiny of the Company's Mining Captain, Mr.
W. E. Gill, and several other competent miners, whose full and able
reports are here appended, as received November last, fully proving
the great richness of the Mine. By the same mail which brought
the important dispatch, the Directors received less encouraging
accounts of the Ave Maria Mine from their agent and superintendent,
dated Mariposa, 27th August, stating that the veins alluded to in
their previous reports proved not to be sufficiently auriferous to war-
rant the powerful machinery sent out per " Lyme Regis" and "Ellen
Simpson," in July last, being put upon the location.
Although the Directors have still reason to believe the sett con-
tains valuable auriferous veins, the works have been suspended in
order to concentrate all their powerful machinery, without delay,
on the Company's new and valuable property; and thus they trust
the temporary delay will turn to the ultimate advantage of the Share-
holders, and that large profits will be made by immediately placing
their heavy machinery at work on the new mine, which has during
two years been worked by manual labour only, and has produced
immense returns : the decomposed quartz being of the richest quality
known in California.

Under the arranzements made, the Company become entitled to
work one thousand five hundred feet, to be approved by the Com-
pany's agent, of the New York Mine, of which one-fourth of the
profits arising from the manual labour, from and after the 7th
December instant, is reserved to this Company.
The Directors do not deem it necessary to dwell upon the great
value of the Mine, referring the Shareholders to the able and
scientific reports annexed, and drawing their attention to the fact
of the Mine being freehold, in quiet possession, water carriage to
Marysville, and a good carriage road thence to the Mine, a distance
of thirty-five miles, and to the advantage of the miners being now
in California, in readiness to be placed on the Mine without delay.
The Directors have further to inform the shareholders that, since
the conclusion of the negotiation, arrangements have been made,
by which the privilege of importing such quartz as that alluded to in
tee report of Messrs CLAY and GILLMAN, h+s been secured, and a
ship, now in California, has been chartered to bring to this coun-
try a cargo, at a low rate. The Company has also the privilege of
sending out any additional machinery to be worked upon the
Mine.

The New York Mice is situated upon " Poor Man's Creek," Xe.
vada, extending over 6,200 feet, exclusive of the dips and angles,
through the whole of which veins of highly auriferous quartz have
been traced, proving the supply to be inexhaustible, in confirmation
of which the Directors annex copies of the reports of Mr. W. E.
Gill, Mining Engineer of this Company, Mr. Carrington, (a gentle.
man employed by the Carson Creek Company, to report upon their
property,) and Mr. C. Duke, and Mr. Andrew Smith.
By order.

C. KELLY, Secretary,

124, Elshopsgate-street, London,
15th December, 1852.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.

Farewell Season or Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Manager,

THIS EVENING

Will be performed the popular and highly attractive Comedy of
MASKS AgD FACES; or, Before and Behind the Curtain—by
Messrs. Benjamin Webster, Leigh Murray, Stuart, and Parselle;
Mrs. Stirling, Mlss Rosa Bennett, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss
Fanny Maskell.

To conclude with the Farce of A CAPITAL MATCH.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL
Open for the Season.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste.
Last Night but Two before Christmas.
THIS EVENING,

The successful new Drama of SLAVE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's
Cabin—by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Emery, 0. Smith, and Cullenford ;
iiadame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Miss Collins, Miss Harding, Miss
Laura Honey, and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, the admired Farce of A MODEL OF A WIFE.
To conclude with the Comic o,iera of GOOD NIGHT, SIGNOR
TANTA LON.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the new and original Play, in live acts, by West-
land Marston, Esq., entitled ANNE BLAKE. Principal characters
by Mews. C. Kean, W. Lacy, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs.
Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean.
'Io be followed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal
character by Mr. C. Kean.
To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Principal
characters by Mem,. Lacy, Meadows, Add son, and Everett;
Misses J. Marston, Vivash, and Leclercq.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING
Will be presented ARELARD AND HELOISE. Abelard, Mr
W. Farrell, Jun. ; Maximilian, Mr. Compton ; Heloise, Miss 11.
Gordon: Jocette, Mrs. A. Phillips.
Alter which, GO TO BEI), TOM. Thomas Gotobed Smith, Mr.
Compton.
To conclude with UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. Uncle Tom, Mr.
G. Cook ; George Harris, Mr. W. Farren, jun.; Eliza, Miss Gordon.
Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. Edward Chatterton.