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

EXPORTATION OF SILVER COINAGE

TO AUSTRALIA.
Since the recent discovery of gold in our Australian
Colonies, but 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 the 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 out by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Company's splendid new packet
the Formosa, which sailed from Southampton on Sltur-
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 last. fromLiverpool, 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.

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.-- (MHOS in work, 285 i)
•Return of Traffic for the Week ending Aug. 1, 1852 :
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £7,680 13 5
Merchandise and minerals ... 4,396 91 I.
Cattle ... ••• ••• ""
5

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 0
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD HAlLWAT.—Traffic for the
week ending Aug. 8 :
RAILWAY.
Passengers, parcels, &c. £3,279 3 4
620 12 11
Goods ... ...

Total .. £3,899 16 3
STEAM-BOATS.
Passengers £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 milee
open.)—Traffic for week ending Aug. 8, £19,255 7 6
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) ..
.......Z£1.28,12423
015 3 2
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.—(2O miles open)—Return
of Traffic for the week ending Aug. 7, 1852
Passengers, parcels, &c.
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. 16 3

Total

••• ... ZO 13 6

WINE or MALT.—Among the vast number o.
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
Berton-upon-Trent Others have very minutely examj,els
its medical, sanatory, and nutritive properties ; and, ,"87 -
lea log
rather unusual with professors of chemistry, or of the b .
art, be-
give undoubted evidence of its superiority' as f 1.7, expe'
verage, founded upon long personal and other famdrautissioner
rience. It was, however, left to the Sanatory Crtbe use of
of the Lancet to impart a social influence, also, to
Allsopp's ale. Summing up its excellence Inuit a his °
mw e
expression of " Wine of Malt." As t"
resand wholoesortion
analysis, he declares, that " from the Proderate P P
qurciantity of
nature of the ingredients employed toillrA,
'—abjecontained in
of alcohol present, and the very f.roin hops,
of the stomach
terse
aromatic anodyne bitter, derive, the tonek-of that organ,
these beers, they tend to prese—of
umntallofother
the heari And then con-
and conduce to the restoratioesas
kri o
when in a state of w 2
end saccharine, and
preparations of malt, 1° LA,
ex-
clusively adds, that
Wingless vtiiscon;
they resemble, indeed,
of clifegrusit, rather than an ordinary
consequently mynas%
awinee'very satisfactory to find that a
from their 1ig14017 and Al
consumption is entirely free from
tractive matter, thus 'lnas°
bitter
fermented intusl ~,,,,,rl
With such tangible testimony as
of iniPr surprised if our importations of wines
of sue. V,. ty.” .
' ! '''Sn
tai a ia gr adibdeesbemirisiatallieffreramfro°
11 not "-.6 rs, and the French and Spanish ports,
by a natural preference for our native
tblieivsreY;kg_iseladeermanecna
frroeinint:t,r,,,,...ffof
malt" from Burton-upon-Trent.
euPPIY:ES":OOOOItT RIOTS.—CLAIMS FOR CoMPENSI-
TII"A special Petty Sessions was convened at the Court-
-1105
.--Stockport, on Tuesday, by Mr. Edmund Howard
house,
of Edgley-house, High Constable of the Stockport
Dqvkies!,: of the Hundred of Macclesfield, and Mr. James
Collier Barter, of Broughton, High Constable of the Hundred
of Salford, for the purpose of assessing the amount of com-
pensation (under 301.) to be paid to certain claimants for
damage sustained to their property during the late riots in 1
Stockport and Heaton Norris. The Court consisted of the
Mayor of Stockport (Mr. John Boothroyd), Mr. Thomas
Walmsley, the Town Clerk and Clerk to the Magistrates.
The claimants were all put to their oath, and the damages
claimed, with a' few exceptions, were allowed in full, The
amount, awarded is about 3001, in sums varying from 1/. to
201. Five cases were adjourned.— Chester Courant,

last, William Sparrow, who wes acquitted at the last
THE FROME MURDER.—At the Wells assizes on
Friday
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.