The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

SOLICITOR,

Joseph John Cridland, Esq., 14, Chancery-lane.

PURSER AND SECRETARY.

Duncan McLauchlan, Esq.
Offices-35, Threginoecia-street; London. ,

Desirous of- trldirk-tlie stupendous emigration movement to the
Australian colonies, and of assisting those who do not come within
the description of persons selected by the Emigration Commissioners,
as also of presenting to the benevolently disposed an obvious means
of helping their dependents or others to a free passage to a country
which is inviting she unemployed labour of all the world to its im-
mense and gold-teeming regions, thi, Society has adopted a plan
altogether unexceptionable in principle and truly philanthropic in
its objects, namely, the appropriation of a portion of its subscribed
capital to the increasing of the supply of labour in the Australian
colonies, by the transmission of a large number of emigrants, while
the other portion is invested in a richly auriferous mining property,
and the necessary machinery and labour for working 11.
To carry out the former of these objects,
A WEEKLY PUBLIC BALLOT
will take place in London and other principal towns of the United
Kingdom, until there shall have been selected
4,000 FREE PASS AGES TO AUSTRALIA;
the Certificate for the original Share of 11. is. being exchanged, im-
mediately after the Ballot, for an Order for the passage in a first-
class vessel.
The whole of the Shares subscribed for will, from time to time,
be publicly put into the ballot-box, and the Ballot will take place
under the immediate supervision and direction of the Trustees, due
publicity being previously given of each Ballot in the public news-
papers.
Owners of Free Passage Orders will also be at liberty to sell or
transfer them to any other person ; but the name and address of
the party to whom they may have been transferred, must be for-
warded for approval to the Company's Offices five days prior to the
departure of the vtssel in which the intending emigrant may be de-
sirous of taking his or her passage. Two Children under twelve
years of age will be equal to one adult.
A list of Vessels about to sail will be ready for distribution pre-
vious to each Ballot.
Those who do not draw a Free Passage Order at the Ballot will
retain their original Share or Shares in the Mining property and
adventures of the Society without further liability.
4,000 SHAREHOLDERS WILL HAVE A BONUS OF 80,0001.
DIVIDED AMONGST THEM,

in payment of their Passages in first-class Ships, to a Colony where
labour is greatly in demand, and obtains ahigh rate of remuneration.
TILE HUNTER MITER GOLD MINING GROUND,
FORMING PART OF THE SEGENHOE ESTATE,
Ts situated 150 miles north of Sydney, near Maitland, New south
Wales, a mineral lease of which property, cinsisting of 2,000 acres,
has been secured by the Trustees of this Fund. This estate was
granted by the Crown, and has been in possession of the original
proprietors for thirty years, and is pronounced by Judge Cracroft, an
eminent geologist, to be a mass of mineral wealth, which subsequent
Investigations have entirely confirmed. The lease is for twenty-one
years, with power of renewal for a similar period ; and the titles,
maps, and other documents may be inspected at the Company's
Offices.

The following passage occurs in a pamphlet on " Australia and
her Treasures," published by Effingham Wilson, the materials of
which were supplied by Captain Westmacott, M.R.G.S. and F.G.S.,
whose intimate knowledge of the country and its resources
is universally appreciated :—" The quartz found under Mount
Royal, and the flanks that run into the Segenhoe estate
(now the property of this Society) are all of a crystallized compact
transition strata. This may be considered the commencement of the
gold country, as the detritus of these rocks forms the auriferous
alluvial deposits of the lower stratum. Immense districts lie be-
tween these ravines, entirely destitute of water, * and in the beds
and branches of all is gold deposited, which has been continuously
washed down from the mountains and rocks for centuries, and in
the overflowing distributing itself in the land and soil in all direc-
tions. It is not, however, in gold alone that the inexhaustible trea-
sures consist—rubies, garnets, and topazes, have already rewarded
the labours of the miner, and that the diamond will be added in
great numbers to the golden garner, is expressed with confidence by
some of the most scientific persons."
This Company has also entered into a Contract for the purchase
of a Patent Invention, applicable to the reduction of quarts and
other minerals, and the extraction therefrom of every particle of
metal contained in them, effecting a saving of at least 50 per cent.
over every other process now in use. This extraordinary discovery
will bring about a new era in the extraction of gold from quartz,
inasmuch as will render unnecessary what has hitherto been the
mous outlay of capital for expensive machinery, and offic aa+
men to work the same, as also great delay in putting it into
operation ; whereas, the apparatus now about to be introduced, does
not cost snore than 2501. each, having the advantages of being small,
compact, easily transferable to its destination, and being ready for
immediate use, and each apparatus being capable of reducing and
extracting the gold from the enormous quantity of sixty tons of
quartz per day.
All applications for Shares must be addressed to the Trustees at
the Offices, and must be accompanied by a remittance of One Pound
One Shilling by Post-office Order, payable to the Right Honourable
Lord Erskine, on receipt of which the necessary Shares will be
duly transmitted to the Subscribers.
35, Throgmorton-street, London,
3d September, 1852. . .

N.B.—The First Public Ballot will take place In London, on
Thursday, the 23d of September instant; the time and place to be
named by Advertisement in the public Newspapers.

* The Gold-extracting Apparatus intended to be used by this
Company does not require water.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To the Trustees of the British Exodus or National Emigration Fund
of the Hunter River Gold Mining Company.
Gentlemen,—l request you to forward me
shares
in the above undertaking, and I herewith send you the sum
of in payment for the same.
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