The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-12 00:00:00

EXPORTATION OF SILVER COI3TAGE

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TO AUSTRALIA.
Since the recent discovery of gold in our Australian
Colonies, bat more particularly now that thousands of
" fortune seekers" are hard at work in the " diggings,"
the greatest difficulties have been experienced by the
emigrants from the want of a small circulating medium
in purchasing. the various articles they require—either
for food or raiment—as hitherto they have been obliged
to pay in gold, at a great loss to themselves and profit to
the dealers. A considerable number of money specula-
tors have taken advantage of this deficiency of a silver
currency in this colony, and have embarked during the
last few months with very large sums of silver coinage,
sovereigns, and half-sovereigns, for the purpose of making
extensive purchases of gold in exchange from the emi-
grants. The demands at tho Bank of England, the Royal
Mint, and the City and West-end banking-houses for:silver
coinage (sixpences, shillings, florins, half-crowns, and five-
shilling pieces) have been very numerous within the last
few weeks. One party, it is said, having been able to obtain
to the amount of 10,0001., which has been shipped off,
consigned to their agents at Port Philip and Geelong, as
there exists a very great scarcity of silver bullion in the
City, and the Bank of England will not accommodate
one person with more than 5001 of silver currency at a
time, so great is the demand at present for exportation.
Very large sums have also been transmitted from Liver-
pool for the same purpose, and a considerable quantity
of gold and silver specie was sent oat by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Company's splendid new packet
the Formosa, which sailed from Southampton on Satur-
day last, the 7th inst., for Port Philip and Sydney. The
Great Britain steamer, 3,500 tons and 500-horse power,
appointed to sail on the 21st inst.; the South Sea, 2,000
tons, on the 25th; and the Sarah Sands steamer, 1,300
tons, on the 28th inst. from Liverpool, it is stated, will
also take out a very large amount of specie, besides
many other vessels that will sail during the course of
this month from the port of London with enterprising
adventurers to the diggings.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THIC GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.--(Miles in work, 2851)
—Return of Traffic for the Week ending Aug. 1, 1852 :
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £7,680 13 5
11
Merchandise and minerals ... ,396
2" 7 5
Cattle

Total .. £12,370 10 9
Corresponding week, 1851 (2411 miles) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. £10,047 18 7
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ••• 4,101 16 5
Total ... ...£14,149 15 ()
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD HAlLWAY.—.Traffic for the
week ending Aug. 8 :
RAILWAY.
Passengers, parcels, &c. £3,279 3 4
Goods ... ... 620 12 11

Total .. ... ... £3,899 16 3
STEAM-BOATS.
Passengers Z 405 4 2

TOTAL.
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £3,684 7 6
620 12 11
Goods ... •••

Total ... ... ... £4,305 0 5
Corresponding week last year ... 4,914 7 0

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LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic for week ending Aug• 8, £19,255 7 6
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) .. ... ... —£18,223 15 2
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—(2O miles open)--Return
of Traffic for the week ending Aug. 7, 1852 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. . Z 214 0 3
Merchandise, cattle , &c.... .... 33 14 5

Total -.... £248 14 8
Corresponding week in 1851 (10 miles open) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. .. ... 49 16 10
Merchandise, cattle, &c.... ... 016 8

Total .. ... ... £5O 13 6

WINE or MALT.—Among the vast number of
testimonials that appear in favour of Allsopp's ale, it is re-
markaple that only one of them supplies the long felt de-
ficiency of a popular definition of this unique production of
Burton-upon-Trent. Others have very minutely examined
its medical, sanatory, and nutritive properties ; and, what's
rather unusual with professors of chemistry, or of the heal.. 1 .art, give undoubted evidence of its superiority as a daily
be-
verage, founded upon long personal and other familiar eons
mas
rience. It was, however, left to the Sanatory Cem,,,, use of
of the Lancet to impart a social influence, also,. to,r_ia terse
Allsopp's ale. Summing up its excellence inut,l!eoarru, ore
expression a "Wine of Malt." As the result wholesome
,holese.__
analysis, he declares, that " froth the pue,,,raate pesogrtynuouf
nature of the ingredients employed thepder
°7ble
of alcohol present, and the very cono _ 1, no. c
f w `"c'er t the stomach
aromatic anodyne bitter, derived , wie o
f that organ,
ognutained in
these beers, they tend to preserve
debility;"
bealt,h o
and conduce to the restoration 1 ,
when in a state of weakes.97,a_r_dheabailits..' differ Afrnodmtahlelnocthoner"
amountcch ari n
a, of
andex-
elusively adds, that "TheseonsuTiii":o..,Td-atidllersa
preparations of malt, inscaa!_ss visc,;
they resemble, indeed,
tractive matter, thus b i ie ti
vof diges;jtn, rather than an ordinary
consequently more easy of
i v y satisfactory to find that a
from their
infusion,lightness, a
and is -5 consumption is entirely free from
fermented
clgral
With such tangible testimony as
beverage aritY•" •
aro sed if our importations of wines
every d°fosfuimp
this we shall 00___t rivers,
from the French and Spanish ports,
from the Garnlected by a natural preference for our native
are mao- w
t rialline of malt', from Burton-upon-Trent.
supplY of
c",..ocgrollT RIOTS.—CLAIMS FOR COMPENIA-
TON A '.- Specie • 1 Petty Sessions was convened at the Court-
Trol'•-sto ckport, on Tuesday, by Mr. Edmund Howard
how, , of F,dgiey-house, High Constable of the Stockport
Dketi; of the Hundred of Macclesfield, and Mr. James
cniireiilarter, of Broughton, High Constable of the Hundred
of saifetd, tor the purpose f assessing the amount of com-
pensation (der 30/.) to be paid to certain claimants for
damage sustained to their property during the late riots in
Stockport and Heaton Norris. The Court consisted of the
l‘fayor of Stockport (Mr. John Boothroyd), Mr. Thomas
Walmilev, the Town Clerk and Clerk to the Magistrates.
The claimants were all put to their oath, and the damages
claimed, with alew exceptions, were allowed in full. The
amount awarded is about 3001, in sums varying from 11. to
201. Five cases were adjourned.—Chester Courant

THE FROMB MURDER.—At the Wells assizes on
Friday last, William Sparrow, who was acquitted at the last
Taunton assizes of the Frome murder, was now convicted of
a burglary, and was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
The prisoner had been convicted at the sessions of a
burglary, and was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation,
so that he will now be transported for twenty-five years. It
will be recollected that the prisoner was apprehended under
extraordinary circumstances in the neighbourhood of War-
minster.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
The directors of this company have just issued
their report to be submitted to the proprietors at the
half-yearly meeting on Tuesday next. It states that
the accounts for the half-year ending the 30th of
June, 1852, show the net revenue of this period, after
deducting interest on loans, and all preferential
charges, to be 102,718/. The surplus from December
31, 1851, 8,2801., making together 110,998/. applicable
to dividend, from which the directors recommend that
a dividend for the half-year at the rate of 31 per cent.
per annum be declared, amounting to 109,4561.,
leaving to be carried over to the next
account 1,5421. The average dividends per
annum of the last three years, ending June 30
in each year, have been-1850, 3-It; 1851, 33 ;
end 1852, 44. The revenue receipts for the half-year
ending the 30th of June, 1852, amounted to 281,7731.,
and for the corresponding period of 1851 to 281,552/.,
including the first two months of the increased traffic
resulting from the Exhibition ; the working charges
on revenue during the first-mentioned period being
111,6441., and during the six months in 1851,
99,4451., showing that while the receipts have kept
up to the level of 1851, the charges are higher by
12,1961. The receipts from passengers are less than
those of the corresponding period of last year by
9,968/., of which 2,7151. is attributed to the increase
of traffic up to the 31st of May, 1851, and 7,2731.
(luring the month of June, 1851, in consequence of
the Exhibition. Excluding the month of June, when,
in 1851, the charge of admission into the Exhibition
had reached that low price which was found to attract
the great crowds of visitors, the passenger revenue
of the present year was as good as that of 1851 ; and
the report asserts that the stimulus given to travelling
last summer by the Exhibition has not had any bad ef-
fect, as was apprehended, on the traffic of this year. The
decrease in the passenger revenue is covered by the
increase in the goods traffic revenue. The increase
of 12,196/. in the working charges arises principally
in the following items, viz.:—locomotive and carriage,
6,8081.; and Corsham and Portsmouth extra expen-
diture on works for strengthening the line, and other
joint line expenses, 2,6001. The locomotive and car-
riage increased expenses arise from the increase of
outlay in repairs requisite in order to recover the ex-
cessive wear and tear to which the carrying stock was
subjected in the summer of 1851, the demands of the
carrying stock for the four summer months of that
year having been double that of all ordinary summers.
This is confirmed by the fact that the new material
put in to replace worn-out parts has cost during
the six months more this year than last year
by 7,6001. The engines of the company are
now in a better condition than they have ever yet
been. The old engines have now nearly all been
replaced by engines of improved construction. The
present engines, notwithstanding they draw greater
weights at greater speed than the older engines, con-
sume considerably less coke per mile. The con-
sumption of coke this half-year (19.91 b. per mile) is
less by 11 per cent. than the consumption per mile of
last year. The directors regret to state that the
traffic manager of the company left this country in
March last. Up to the present time there appears to
be a deficiency of cash unaccounted for of 2,9001. on
the part of the manager. Allowances are also claimed
by carriers and others amounting to 5,053/. The
directors have debitted the present half-year withl,727/, and they intend to deal with the remainder,
in respect of these deficiencies,in the same way
during the next two half-years The amount stand-
ing to the credit of the working
eounaoffttehresteam boat department, to the 30th of Junea last,
deduct-
ing all expenses, dividend, and interest
on h
thcehloan
advanced by this country, is 4,150/. ; from
dividend of 5 per cent. must be paid to the
steamboatwlthe
company to the 30th of June. The position of the
claims of railway companies to exemption from duty
on passenger-tax on fares at and under ld. per mile
continues under litigation between this company and
the Inland Revenue Commissioners. The rates for
the half-year amount to 9,140/., or 8 per cent. on the
net revenue. The rating thus continues a grievous
burden on this and other railway companies. The
provision against accident to the men working the
trains is now in satisfactory operation, the men
having generally voluntarily entered into it. The
basis of this casualty fund is, that on the servants
allowing a certain small deduction, not exceeding
Id. per week, from their wages towards a provision
fund against the consequences of accident in the per-
form ance of duty, the company add an equal contri-
bution, which will afford compensation to relatives in
all fatal cases of 50/.; in all cases of loss of limb, 25/;
and in case of permanent disqualification for future
employment a suitable compensation to the individual
injured. The amount charged for these and other
benevolent objects is, for the present half-year, at the
rate of 500/. per annum. A modified agreement
between this company and the Brighton Com-
pany is now being acted upon in respect
to the Portsmouth traffic, and it is hoped that it will
lead to the continuance and strengthening of those
friendly relations which have now for some time past
existed between the two companies. A responsible
party has offered to make a branch from the station of
the company at Wimbledon to Mitcham, a distance of
two miles, on a perfect level, on a guaranteed rent
from this company of 1,5001. per annum, being at the
rate of 5 per cent. on computed cost. This branch
will be capable of being joined with a branch which
the Brighton Company have agreed to make from
Croydcn to Mitcham, on certain conditions, with the
same party who has made the offer in question to this
company. The directors, seeing the very attractive
nature of the building property between Croydon
and Wimbledon, recommend the proprietors to au-
thorize them to take up the project at any time
during the next year when it may appear expedient
to do so, and mutually satisfactory terms among all
parties can be arranged. It will, on the terms
proposed, involve no additional expenditure of
capital to the company, and be upadoubtedly
of local convenience in a populous neighbour-
hood, and a productive feeder to the main line.
After adverting to the three vacancies at the board,
the report states that the north and south junction
line from Brentford to Willesden, by means of which
Southampton will be connected with London docks
and warehouses, as well as with Manchester and the
whole railway system of the north, is advancing to
completion, and will probably be open for traffic early
in September. The works from New Basingstoke to
Andover are in active operation. The amount rea-
lized by property sold during the six months ending
the 30th of June, 1852, was 34,9791., including
rails. The amount of 26,666/., as realized by rails
sold, includes the rails sold to the North Devon Rail-
way Company, in discharge of the calls on shareelde-
bited on the other side of the account. The Alton
line, lAiniteo,ne,xtending the Guildford and Farnham
e'Tahe be completed within the estimate of 185
nine miles, has been opened for traffic,
he line was
ave-
rage number of passengers daily evenr.t
al the average
10,090 during the past half-year, aesch passenger
branch
nd will
number of miles travelled per mile per
941. The cost for locomotive
train was 8,51 d., and for tbef ding period of
yelled for the
1851 8.19 d. The numberoodicoirfirPbeestis;°tuernnare,
1852, was
half-year ending the 3
capital account shows that
Tbe
943,203 miles. received, and 8,614,8851. ex-
-1,042,152, and for the ccorrespponding period of 1851,
8,722,516/. had beeniance of 107,6311. The deben-
pended, leaving :sboth of June shows that 524,8771.
tune accout to ths
per cent. (193,520/. of which has
ewed at 3f per cent.), 117,0101.
paid off or ren
been 2,0001. at 4-k, 1,116,400/. at 4 per
at 4} per XOO/
.tat .at as;:, and 294,6001. at 3f per cent., to
86'7520/. has since been added at the same
was borrowed at
which
cent.,
The amount of capital entitled to dividend is
633
including 400,000/. discount on shares
6,730• The total share capital, irrespective of pre-
-1837.
0-stock, amounts to 7,434,0501, including
peen ,
shares in the hands of the corn-
-437,063'
251,953/. not called up, and 14,404.
pan,'
Don-converted Gosport shares. The revenue
for the half-year ending the 30th of June
amounts to 285,6271., and the expenditure to 131,337/ ,
including 17,568/. Government duty, and rates and
taxes, leaving the balance of net revenue 154,290/.
From this is deducted debenture interest and prefer-
ence charges, amounting to 48,844/., leaving the net
income 105,445/., which, added to the balance from
the last account, leaves 110,998/, applicable to divi-
dend,

The auditors, Mr. T. Close and Mr. A. Hues, at-
test the correctness of the accounts. They report
that up to the 30th of June, 1852, there has been ex-
pended on account of the estimated liabilities of Feb-
ruary, 1850, the sum of 509,3491., which leaves for
future expenditure 131,5021., and that there bas been
_
received up to the same period, for rails and
.surF
property sold, 74,019/. This expenditure
nting
irre-
spective of the outlay during the half-year,_a:nOn
to 52,1061., on the Farnham and Alton,
tbiS is
likewise
and Andover, and North Devon
. linesßasingstoke
irrespective of the 7,5001. paid for the Exeter and
Crediton preference shares.

ARRIVALS OF GOLD FROM AUSTRALIA. The
follov,ing arrivals have just taken place from Australia :
TLe vessel Stebouheath, arrived in the London Docks, from
Port Philip, has brought of gold
84 boxes, 1 cask, and 2 bags
also 1 box (a
dust, consigned to sundry parties in the metropolis. The
ship Tamar, arrived in the same docks, from Sydney, has
brought 6 bags and 15 boxes of ginodldldiju(s,xt, Lomf. d 1
gold coin, 1 case of gold quartz, gold bars, con-
signed to various firms in Loudon and to order. The vessel
St. George, also arrived
din h same docks, from Sydney, has
brought 37 boxes of gol , consigned to sundry parties in the
metropolis.
Orangemen of
TDB BATTLE OF AUGIIRINI.
preparations fora procession, to-morrow, in
--LIVERPOOL, WED•
the Liverpool district have
NESDAY.—The
commemoration of the Battle of Aughrim, but, as oath 'has
been made that. the procession would endanger the public
been making.
peace, the magistrates have resolved to prevent any assem-
blage of the kind. Th
--e Mayor h d issued a : proclamation
announcing the determination a.
of the authorities to prosecute
al IperpOLUl lOilliDg UT •
prOceswa.

AMERICA.
The case of Thomas Seine, the Irish criminal,
eame before the Court on the 26th, but was again
adjourned to the 28th, on the application of the pri-
soner's counsel. After the adjournment of the case
a very turbulent scene occurred outside the court.
As each person came out he was assailed with groans
or cheers, according to his participation in
the matter. MT. Edwards, counsel for the Bri-
tish Grovernment, was groaned at, hooted, and as-
sailtd with various expressions, such as " you
can't hang him." "Look at the British hangman."
The counsel for the prisoner then addressed the mob,
and endeavoured to calm the excitement, but without
success. On the prisoner being brought out of
court a serious riot ensued, in which police and po-
pulace received severe injuries.
We extract the following account of the riot from
the New York Herald:—

" At a little after one o'clock the chief of police, and
Mr. Tallmadge, the United States' Marshal, entered the
court-room where the prisoner Koine was kept in cus-
tody by Deputy-Marshal D'Angelis, assisted by officers
Bowyer, Walling, and Keefe, of the chief's bureau.
A brief consultation then took place between the
Marshal and Mr. Matsell, and it was decided upon
to walk the prisoner back to the Tombs under a guard
of policemen instead of conveying him back in a car-
riage. Preparations were accordingly made. Captains
Leonard, Ditchett, Hopkins, Brennan, Turnbull, Car-
penter, Lovett, Scatliff, Voorhies, Stevenson, and Hart
received their orders from the chief. Each having their
respective men under their command a line was termed
by the police from the rear entrance of the court-room
to Chambers-street, and there awaited further
orders. The friends of Kaine by this time became satis-
fied that the police intended to bring him out on that
side of the park, consequently the crowd began to
muster rapidly; and before the prisoner made his ap-
pearance there must have been at least 3,000 people,
mostly Irish labourers, who, as it seems, had ex-
pressly loft their work to engage in the attempt at
rescue. At half-past 1 o'clock the prisoner, who was
not ironed in any way, was escorted by the arm by
Deputy-Marshal D'Angelis and officer Bowyer, sur-
rounded by other members of the police. Chief
Matsell, Marshal Talmadge, Deputy - Marshal
Thompson, and others, marched from the court-room
into Chambere-street, but the moment they ap-
peared in the court-yard a diminutive-looking Irishman,
with a short umbrella, which he brandished in his hand
as ha stood on the grassplat, exclaimed to the prisoner
as he passed, Ah! Tommy, are you there?' The pri-
soner recognised him, and laughed. The little comical-
looking personage then gave a yell, sprang from the
ground, and flourished the umbrella, which denoted the
approach of Kane which signal was responded to deys
the multitude ; and' b
a general rush was made townarer
the spot where the prisoner was seen to be coma g
bilt with
the strong force of the police kept them
b3eckhief of the
much difficulty ins it accomplieheat
'rlih e
police formed a square with the the an
met--
p odm n din
the centre placed the prisoner nee
: strong force
shals, guarefed in the rear
he have been two
posiib!y, altogether, there
hundred policemen. The offimeegrs having the imme-
diate with -
custody of the pr liosned. The per were arme
olice generallSiS y
barrel revolvers, heavily
were provided with a locust club,
bayndthseomeheievftit was bothhto
pistol and club. The order given
march slowly
along. `lacy did so, amid the
yelling and hooting of the wild-Joe:King lebou
and etes.dily
Isbourors, who
aracces, been treated with in-
had evidently, from plane.
toxicetine. drinks for the more ready purcos© of insuring
fa this way the police had not proceeded 100
a riot.
yards along Chamters-street, towards Centre-street,
before they came to where a sewer had been lately con-
structed, end large piles of paving-stones were in the
&wee. Here the first violence commenced. Stones, of
large eeswallas smell dimensions, were hurled in among
the police-onicerl, inflecting much injury. One stone
passed close by the head of the msesha!, and struck
officer Pell, of the Ninth-ward, a violent blow on the
back of the head, knocking him senseless in the street.
The stones now began to fly in all directions in quick
succession. Mr. Busteed, the prisoner's counsel, took
the chief of police by the arm, having followed with the
prisoner from the court-room, with a view of accompany-
ing them to the Tombs, but the paving stones seemed to
inereese in their flight, and, as Mr. Busteed wished to
retain his intellect Jr the benefit of his client, on
Wednesday next, he exclaimed, at the top pitch of his
voice, to the mob—' Stop, boys! stop from throwing
them stones; lam here.' Just then, whang-bang came
several stones, not paying the least respect for person or
parties, one striking the chief on the back, another on
the cap; a third passing close by the nose of the coun-
sel, who by this time thought that the better part of
valour was to leave as soon as possible, and accordingly
he quitted suddenly, believing that the police could
fight the battle just as well without him. Arriving at
the corner of Chambers-street and Centre, the missiles
thickened, no doubt with a view to break up the ranks
of the police, and, es soon as they wore in disorder, the
chance of reectilng Koine would be censidered compara-
tively easy. At this point the police somewhat in-
creased their force, and, in so doing, came more sud-
denly upon some of the assailants, who had gone ahead.
One strapping Irishman, who was stooping in the act of
picking up a stone in each hand, was capsized by a po-
liceman's club, while another member of the police
clubbed him on the rear of his person until he scram-
bled upon his feet, leaving both the stones behind him.
Coming to the corner of Beade-street and Centre, a des-
perate attempt was made by the rioters to break up the
police. A renewed force rushed from Reede street, and
a desperate contest took place. A platoon of police,
headed by the chief, made a charge on the assailants, and
in a few seconds they had felled to the ground with their
clubs some thirty or forty. No time, however, could be
allowed to make prisoners, as the whole force was neces-
sary to protect the marshal. This was done merely to
get rid of some of the r:ngleaders who obstructed the
street. The fighting was continued at intervals up
Centre-street to the Tombs, where another force was in
waiting. By this time there must have been, at the
lowest calculation, a crowd of some 4,000 persons. The
assault with brickbats and stones was kept up until after
Koine was safely lodged in the prison. The captured
prisoners charged with the riot and attempt to rescue a
prisoner charged with felony, were conveyed into the
prisonyard, and, certainly, a bloody sight they exhibited.
The ininzies principally were scalp wounds, made by the
policemen's clubs."