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London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-1 JUNE l7, 1852,

I The " National Anthem" was spin sung, and his
Royal Highness retired, attended In the same order as
on his arrival.

--
THE WAR IN BURMAH.
(From the London Gazette of June 15.)
India House, June 14, 1852.
The following dispatches have been this day received
at the East Indic House:—
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA IN COUNCIL TO
THE SECRET COMMITTEE OF THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY.

(Extract.)
Fort William, May 3, 1852.
We have the honour to transmit to you a copy of the
further papers regarding Rangoon affairs.
In these documents our sentiments are expressed in
warm, but not exaggerated, terms; for, in truth, no
ianguage could be employed too strong to convey the
praise which is justly due to the gallantry, the fortitude,
the patience, temper and discipline which have been ex-
hibited, during the several operations on the coast, by
all branches :of the combined force, and by those who
have led them so well.

We beg most respectfully and moat earnestly to CDM.•
mend the services of these brave men, according to their
sevoral ranks and recorded merit, to the gracious con-
sideration of her Majesty the Queen, and to the appro-
bation and favour of the Court of Directors.
We have, 8;.1.,

DALHOUSIE,
F. CURRIE.
J. LOWIS.

NOTIFICATION.

Fort William, April 28, 1852.
The Governor-General of India in Council having
failed to obtain redress from the Court of Ava for
injuries which had been inflicted on British subjects, in
gross violation of existing treaties, was compelled to
declare that reparation should be exacted by force of
arms.
To that end an expedition was immediately prepared
and dispatched to the coast, in the hope that a blow
promptly struck against the Burmese Power might
possibly lead to a concession of the just and moderate
demands advanced by the Government of India, and
might thus avert the necessity for engaging in extended
and costly war.
The Governor-General in Council has had the satis-
faction of publishing, for general information, dispatches
which announce the success of the expedition, in the
capture of Manahan, in the destruction of the formidable
defences constructed along the river, and in the assault
and occupation of the fortifications of Rangoon.
The Governor-General in Council cannot employ terms
too strong in expressing his unqualified approbation of the
brilliant service which has thus been performed, and his
gratitude to those by whose joint exertions it has been
achieved.
His admiration is due equally to the perfect cordiality
and concert with which navy and army have acted
together; to the gallantry which has been conspicuous
in the field; and to the fortitude and patience with
which all have endured, without a murmur, a fierceness
of climate whose deadly influence is unhappily too well
attested by the number of those who have fallen victims
to its effects.
The Governor-General in Council especially desires
to offer to the Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's
Naval Farces in these seas his warm acknowledgments
of the ready co-operation and of the very effective aid
which his Excellency has afforded to the Government
of India by the powerful squadron under his command,
whose operations he has so ably directed, and in whose
services he has borne so distinguished a part.
To Lieutenant-General Godwin, commanding the
forces in Ava, the Governor-General in Council begs
to tender his most full and cordial thanks for the manner
in which, by his intrepidity, his energy, and ability, he
has brought the military operations of the force to their
present successful issue; and to congratulate him upon
having thus won fresh and higher honours upon the
same scene on which he formerly gained so much
distinction.
The Governor-General in Council has great satisfac-
tion in publicly rendering to Commodore Lambert his
sincere acknowledgments of the promptitude with which
he gave his assistance to the Government of India, of
his constant exertion on its behalf during a trying ser-
vice, and especially of the prominent share he has now
borne in the destruction of the river defences ; thus
materially facilitating the movements of the squadron
and the ultimate success of the attack.
The best thanks of the Governor-General in Council are
due to Brigadier Elliot, cemenanding the Madras Brigade,
and to Lieutenant-Colonel Reignolds, who, after having
taken a part in every operation of the troops, has as-
sumed the command of the Bengal Brigade, from which
illness, which the Governor-General iu Council regrets,
has removed Brigadier Warren.
The Governor-General in Council is happy to record
his appreciation of the essential service rendered by
Captain Lynch, the senior offieer of the Indian Navy, to
whose ability, judgment, and discretion his Excellenay
the Rear-Admiral has borne his testimony on this
occasion..
And his Lordship in Council, at the same time, is de-
sirous to mark his sense of the services of Commander
Menorah, of Commander Fiihbourne, by whose aid the
Government has largely profited, of Commander Tarle-
ton, Commander Luard, Lieutenant Rice, R.N., Captain
Neblott, of the Hon. CompanT'a steamer Phlegethon,
and of Surgeon %linter, whose personal exertions have
been severally-commended by his Excellency.
Tne Governor-General iu Council has to add his
marked acknowledgments of the valuable assistance af-
forded during the attack on the land defences of Ran-
goon by Lieutenant Dorville, R.N., and the naval bri-
gade under his orders.
The Governor-General in Council has farther re-
marked with gratification the distinguished conduct of
Captain Brooking, of H. C. steamer Prosorpine. His
Lordship in Council wishes to express his warm appro-
bation of conduct which has elicited the applauae both
of the Admiral and of the General who witnessed it.
The conspicuous tntry of Major Preser, command-
ing the Engineers, and his indefatigable exertions since
the expedition was resolved upon, more especially in the
field, command the highest praise, and the best thanks of
the Supreme Government.
To Lieutenant-Colonel Foord, commanding the Ar-
tillery; to Major Tureen and Major Reid, of the Bengal
Artillery; to Meier Montgomery, of the Madras Artil-
lery; to Lieutenant-Colonel Coote, of her Majesty's
18th, who has been severely wounded; to Lieute-
nant-Colonel Thomson, of the 40th Native Infan-
try; to Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, of 26th Madras
Native Infantry; and to Major Lockhart, of her Ma-
jesty's 810th Reganent; to Captain Mayhew, Deputy
Adjutant-General, whose value is specially remarked;
to Captain Allan, Deputy Quartermaster-Ge-
neral; to Captain Call and Captain Smith, Brigade
Majors; to Lieutenant Robinson, Deputy UOlll-
- of Ordnance; to Captain Gillespie,
who led the assault at Martaban; and Captain
Campbell, of her Majesty's 18th; to Captain Randall,
commanding Madras Sappers and Miners; to Captain
Chads and Lieutenant Lambert, Aides-de-amp to the
Lieutenant-General; the services of all whom have
been noticed with approbation by General Godwin, the
Governor-General is Council begs to offer his earnest
thanks.
The Governor-General in Council has to offer his
thanks to Lieutenant-Colonel Bogle, Commissioner of
the Tenasserim Provinces, for the valauble aid he ren-
dered to General Godwin in connexion with the attack
upon Martaban; and his Lordship in Council particu-
larly desires to record his approbation of the energetic
and successful exertions of the Commissioner in giving
effect to the preparations of the Government for ensuring,
as far as possible, the health end comfort of the troops to
be employed upon the expedition.
Captain Latter, who has discharged his functions
hitherto to the entire satisfaction of the Government, has
added to his claims by the duty which he well performed
in the assault on the Pagoda at Rangoon.
Not only to the officers he has thus specially named,
but to all the officers, to the non-commissioned officers
of whatever designation, and to the soldiers and sailors
of the force, the Governor-General in Council desires to
convey his true and hearty thanks for the alacrity, the
endurance, the bravery, and good 'conduct they have
displayed during the several operations iu which they
have been engaged.
The Governor-General in Council deeply laments to
know that our success has not been achieved without the
sacrifice of valued lives.

He deplores the loss of Major Oakes and of Brevet-
Major Griffith, of the Madras army; of Lieutenant Arm-
strong, of her Majesty's 51st Regiment; of Lieutenant
Donaldson, of Bengal Engineers; of Lieutenant Doran,
of her Majesty's 18th, who nobly perished in the front of
the assault; and of the Rev. Mr. Baker, chaplain of her
Majesty's ship Fox, mad of other brave men, who died in

the performance of their several duties in the service of
their country.
It shall be•the first care of the Most Noble the Go-
vernor• General in Council to bring the conduct and ser-
vices of the naval and military forces on the coast of
Bartnah under the most favourable notice of her
Majesty's Government and of the Honourable East India

Company.
By order of the Most Noble the Governor-General in
Council, C. ALLEN,
Officiating Secretary to the Government of India.
Lieutenant. General H. Godwin, 0.13., Commanding the
Forces in Ava, Arranan, and Tenasserim Provinces,

to C. Allan, Esq., Secretary to the Government of
India.

Rangoon, April 22, 1852.
Sir,—l have the honour to advise you, for the infor-
mation of the Governor-General of India in Council,
that everything remains quiet in this neighbourhood.
There era various cc7onnts of the defeated Burmese
army, under the late Governor of Rangoon, and they
tend w the conclusion that he may be retreating up the
country with a very smolt force.
.The inhabitants of the villages arolind visit Rangoon,
and bring in various articles for sa►e. The old inha-
bitants aro partially settling themselves in the vicinity
of the Old Town,./mi groat numbers of Burmese are in
our employ as coolies.

It has been reported to me that a detachment of the
26th Madras Native Infantry, in garrison at Martab.--n,
tied marched against a post eczupied by the enemy,
which it most spiritedly routed on the 11th inst., without
loss; and that en the 14th the pickets at Manahan were
attacked, and the enemy beaten off with great spirit by
the same corps., commanded by Captain. Welch, at a
very trifling loss. All this will, I have no doubt, subside
on the fall of Rangoon becoming known.
I sincerely regret having omitted to bring to the no-
tice of the Governor-General in Council, in my dispatch
of the 18th lust, how much I am indebted to Mr. Crisp,
jun., for his able assistance in conducting the array
through very' difficult ground, on its progress to the
Great Pagoda, which he performed, under the fire of the
enemy, with great coolness and courage.
• "I rejoice greatly to say the wounded are doing very
well. The skill, the labour, the atteutioa, and the bu-

inanity of Superintending Surgeon Montgomerie, and
of the medical department generally under him, call for
the warmest approbation of the Government.
Major Fraser, Commanding Engineer, has been inde-
fatigable in his exertions in his own department, and in-
deed everywhere, to get this place into some order and
cleanliness.

He has requested me to bring to the notice of the
Governor-General in Council the gallant conduct of
Second Lieutenant W. S. Trevor, Assistant Field
Engineer, who was the first on the ladder, and there
wounded, at the White House stockade, on the 12th,
as also of Lieutenants Craster (Bengal) and Mayne
(Ikladraa) Engine2rs, who were very forward on the same
occasion.

My iteatest pleasure, however, is to bring before his
Lordship in Council the admirable conduct and temper
of this force—its discipline mid regularity of demeanour
are unexceptionable.—l ha; e,
IL Genwiti, Lieutenant-General Clmmanding
Provinces.
the Forces in Ava, Arracan, and Tenasserim

the witnesses who swore to her identity were altogether
mistaken, as she had not left her home on the evening in
question; but a communication having been subsequently
made to the police, which left no doubt as to hts own
complicity iu the transaction, he was aho taken into
cuitoiy.

A little boy, named 4enry Austen, twelve years of
age, the son of a butcher in lioxton Old Town, was now
examined, and stated that the prisoner, for some time
past, had been occasionally employed by his father. who
kept a cash account at Messrs. Currie's banking-house.
He had been repeatedly urged by the prisoner to supply
him with some blank cheques from his father's cheque•
book, which was kept in the shop, and about a month
since he was induced to tear out two of the leaves, which
he handed to the prisoner. The two cheques now pro-
duced were the same he had furnished him with, and to
the best of his belief the signature attached to them was
in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Poliee-constable Jeffecys, 165 N. stated that the se-
cond cheque, which was also signed " W. Davidge," but
the amount of which was 201. 10d., had been accidentally
picked up in the street by a person who had lodged it at
the station-house, end it would in all probability form
the subject of another charge.
The prisoner, who declined any defence, was remanded
for depositions.

THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGING.
The Vimeira, Captain Neathby, passed the Isle of
Wight on Saturday afternoon, from Sydney, New
South Wales, which plsco she left on the 10th of
March, consequently bringing the late3t news from
the gold regions. She has brought about 15,000
ounces of gold. The Blackwell and General Hewitt,
merchant-vessels, had left three days before the
Vimeira, the former having 58,000 ounces and the
latter 18,000 oz. on board. Among tho pss.engers by
the Vimeira are Messrs. Leslie and Mr. Fairfax; the
latter is editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and
has come to England to make extensive purchases of
machinery, type, &0., and to engage a number of com-
positors and pressmen, which is rendered necessary
in consequence of departures to the diggings. The
country was much distressed for labourtrs; although
it appeared there was no difficulty in getting sea-
men for the Vimeira, at N. p-r month. Money was
realising generally eight per coat., the banks charging
six. Some 15,000 persons had left Sydney for the
diggings, whilst there bad been an influx of newly
20,000 people at Melbourne. The Vimeira signalled at
noon on Friday the Herald, 26, Captain D.-nnam, and
the Torch steara-vessel, in company en route to the Paci-
fic; also the Nile Indisman, outward bound.

(From the Sydney Morning Herald of Meech 6 )
THE SPATE OF THE COLONY.
Our friends in England will naturally be anxious to
hear, by ships now on the eve of departure from
Port Jackson, hotv wo are getting on under the new
circumstances which have befallen the colony, as
we were naturally anxious to hear hose the
first intimation of those circumstances would be
received by them. Both parties have been somewhat
disappointed in their expectations. On our side it was
generally thought that the tidings of our gold fields would
in England be received with considerable excitement;
they appear to have been received with consider-
able sang froid. On their side it was generally
thought that the discovery would throw the colony
into universal confusion, and put an end to all
the usual pursuits of industry; no such results have
as yet been witnessed. Perhaps neither took a suffi-
ciently comprehensive view of the facts connected with
the other. On our side it ought to have been remem-
bered that the news would reach England just as the
public mind had become exhausted by the prolonged
excitement of the Great Exhibition, and was for the
time in a state of nil admirari on which scarce any-
thing could make an impression. The people had
witnessed all the glories of the world centered in
a single focus ; and so dazzled had they been by
the resplendent vision, that the glories of the Austra-
lian Ophir were comparatively dim in their sight. On
their side it ought to be remembered that when the dis-
covery was made, the colony was in a state of general
and almost unexampled prosperity, and when, conse-
quently the temptation to relinquish a bird in the hand
for the sake of two in the bush was not likely to be very
maddening in its effects.
It is not quite ten months since our auriferous trea-
sures were first brought to light; yet within that brief
period the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria
have each shipped about one million's worth of gold, or
two millions' worth in all. And when it is considered
that this has been the produce of unskilled mining,
of labour untrained to the peculiar employment, un-
taught by science, unsustained by capital; that, in
our own colony at least, the number of diggers has
ever borne the most insignificant proportion to the ex-
tent and richness of the field, and that every day new
regions of auriferous deposit are fbund in almost every
part of the interior, to the north and to the south, as well
as to the west; our friends at home may form some esti-
mate as to what Australia is to achieve hereafter, with a
population lees inadequate to the work she has to do,
with the lights of science and experience to guide her
operations, and with the aid of capital to give fair scope
to her energies.
And we rejoice to add that this million of gold pro-
duced in New South Wales has been gathered with-
out any serious detriment to our other interests, and
with the least possible disturbance of public or-
der and tranquillity. Our corn-fields have still
been cultivated, our , sheep have still• been shorn.
Our metropolitan city remains a busy scene of com-
merce, and stately buildings are rising up in her streets.
Oar mining operations have assumed the character
of settled industry; our gold is collected without
bustle or -confusion, and securely carried to market
by the regularly-established Government escorts, at
moderate expense to proprietors; while the quantities
brought to town and shipped for exportation are
reported in the newspapers, as well as those of any
other of our raw productions. The admirable order
which has all along been maintained at our diggings,
not by military restraint, but by the good sense and
moral rectitude of the great mass of the diggers them-
selves, is indeed a just cause of pride to the colonists,
and ought to encourage thousands of our fellow-subjects
at home to come over and help us.
We need their help. Our flocks and horde are in-
creasing, while the labour market is exhausted. Wages
have consequently advanced at rates averaging on the
whole somewhat about 30 per cent. Wo have ample
employment for many thousands of emigrants provided
they bo men who really give a good day's work for a good
day's wages. We do not want idlers, neither do we want
any more of that swarming class of young gentlemen who
can do nothing but sit on a stool and handle a quill;
of these we have always more than enough. But persons
accustomed to hard work, whether mechanical or rural,
and persons having money to invest, whether of large
amount or small, will find in New South %Wales a finer
opening than any other part of the world presents, or
than was ever before presented. Let them remember
that for mildness and eelubrity our climate cannot be
surpassed; that our soil is capable of producing all
that man requires for sustenance and most of the lux-
uries which he prizes; and at the time our gold fields
were discovered the population of less then 200,000 souls
possessed above 100,000 horses, 1,500,000 horned cattle,
and more than 8,000,000 sheep, yielded an annual in-
come of 600,000/4 and exported of her own produce or
manufacture to the extent of 1,100,0001. per annum, in-
dependently of her gold. Coupling these facts with the
great fact mentioned above, that in ten months we have
shipped a million's worth of our new found product, the
fruit of peac6ful industry, and the earnest of a. still
brighter future—our friends in England must admit that
our shores have strong attractions for all who think it
better to emigrate than stay at home.
(From the Sydney Morning Herald of March 10.)
The quantity of' gold officially advised to have been
transmitted to Sydney on the sth instant, from the Ara-
luen, Braidwood and Be!l'e Creek diggings, and expected
to be received here under escort this morning, is as fol-
lows :

From Aralnen cz. 1,345 12 0
~784 3 0
~ Bell's Creek—. 520 16 9

Oz 2650 10 9
The gold received by the mail of, yesterday from So-
iala (tho Turon) was 173 ounces.
TASMALIAN GOLD FIELD.
(From the Hobart Town Courier.)
The fact of the discovery of gold at Fingal has
created considerable excitement, and the particulars
which we aro able to furnisn are all of a confirmatory
character. At an early hour cn Saturday placards were
affixed to the walls announcing that a stage coach was
laid on direct for Avoca, within a few miles of the
"diggings." Additional informaion was received by
the Government yesterday. An individual from this
X city who has been up reports that the utur,at efforts to
extract gold which have yet been ued amount only to
prospecting, and thinks teat if operations were resorted
;3‘ to as at Monnt Alexander, and diggings carried to some
depth below the surface, it would be obtained in large
quantities. Several practical men have gone up by the
mail. The number of police sent up are a dozen petty
constables, in charge of two sergeants.
;5‘ OPIIIII, Melton 3,—A very good examplo has been set
diggers generally at Uphir, by the grand operations of
' the party belonging to the Messrs. Samuels and M'lratosh,
. under the highly creditable superintendence of Mr.
Benjamin White. That gentleman has, with his as-
sistants, so directed the labouring portion of the party
that now the hole which so very lately was an extensive
basin of water is nearly dry, and but for the under-
ground filtration the small body of water in the pump
' well could easily be thrown up in less than an hour.
This must now be called " the golden basin of Ophir,,"
for its yield of the precious metal will, it is anticipated,
,ss. be more than tho proprietors of this claim anticipated a
v%7s week ago. The result of three days' diggings, ending
1 at six P.M. this evening (Ma-ch 3), is as under:-
0

oz. dwts. grs.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday

62 17 10
It appears that the vein now opened has y7eld.xl up to
6i the present time au average of little more than an ounce
iy a foot. These are repesented es indisputable truths,
N
'8 written by moonlight at the scene of operations. The
gold samples taken consist principally of nuggets, vary-
I% ing in size from about five ounces downwards, with very
158 little quartz attached. The prospect is a glowing one
64
ig to Messrs. Samuels and M'lntosh. Up to the present
Od time more nuggets of the value of 1/. have been taken
114 out of this hole than fish since May last (1850.
ad
Other diggings at Ophir are also in good working. At
Golden Point, so often spoken of, a large quantity of
the precious ore has been taken during the past month,
. the nuggets varying in size from 27 ounces to a few
penny weights.
SOFALA.—An endeavour was being made at this station
to establish an hospital, the recessity for which was 01).
parent on all sides, and liberally countenanced.
district
A TURON NUGGET.—A nugget founlat
t Assistant-
is at present in the ossession of 8 dwo. 22 gra.
Commie ZOLICh, weighing 53 °:ii,htest particle
It is solid gold, free from the
eseemay (March
of earth, and was turned up
within a short distance
2) in some dry diggings,
;les fir.heart in shape,
Forbes, of the
of Sofala. It somewhat resprnour.
w.ighca this splecdid
and is of a rich and brilliant
b.cool
Sydney and Tarim B.mll,A73,l,lviti!ini9nefeergetobal:didrtgiot,toB3.Yaddnel:hbYt:
specimen, transmitted 32ios
by yesterday's ma
yield of gold in mail;
thisharqd at work.
d Teemsa iy
the grand point cf
bed claimants are herd
2ua.alru7frhilis:
VICTORIA, Mire diggero, and around here the gold
earth itself, being dully on the increase
rendezvoui,s..of
, offerings to the perseverance of the
turns up
in its auriferous
searchers.
TIANGING Rout DIGGINGS.
Tas
—These digging
the s
have not turned out so prufitacle eswets anticipated by
first discoverers.
ORANQE.—Ttiose diggings were still in high favour,
and yielded handser.ely to the endeavours of the adven-
turers. But the nurah.;rs employed upon them are 7n-
significant as compered rith more loudly rtported
districts.
Tiit PouriaLAA QQLD gxgi,D3,A letter from the