The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-21 00:00:00

N°.18,539.] LONDON, SATURDAY

THE MELBOURNE GOLD and GENERAL
MINING ASSOCIATION.
On the Cost-book Principle.
In 100,000 Shares. IL to be paid en Allotment.
No Deed to be signed, and the Liability limited to the amount paid.
All moneys received will be returned without deduction, unless •
adequate capit•d be subscribed.
TRUSTEES.
The lion. R. E. Howard, LL.D., Doctors'-commons, and All Souls,
Oxford.
Charles Dickson Archibald, Esq.. F.E.S., Portland-place.
Charles Robert Thompson, Esq., Winchester House, Old Broad-street.

COMMITTEE.
The Right Hon. the Earl of DEVON, Chairman.
Sir James Anderson, Bart., Lower 75, Grosvenor-street.
Colonel Chatterton, K.H., M.P., 26, Argyll-street.
J. H. Cox, E q., Great Scotland-yard, and Parkfields, near Derby,
A. A. Doria, Esq., Old-square, . •
Lieut.-Col. Lothian Dickson, 56. Carzon-street, May Fair.
A. Douedas, Esq., Sloane-terrace, Pimlico:
Spencer Perceval Plumer, E,q., Grove Villas, Highbury.
William Quin, Esq., M.D., Coleshill ,treet, Eaton-square.
C. U. Thompson, Esq., Winchester House, Old Broad—treat.
Henry Wheeler, Esq., Barge-yard, Bucklersbury.
BANKERS.
The Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
CONSULTING ENGINEER.
Adam Murray, Esq., Craven-street, Strand.
SOLICITORS. '

essrs. Bristow and Tarrant, Bond-court Walbrook ; and W. F.
Ellaby, Esq., 14, WalbroOk.,
BROKERS.
Messrs. Scratten and Son, 81, Old Broad-street.
ABSTRACT OF PROSPECTITS. '
This is the first defined plan for Mining in Australia, distinguished
tne following recommendations :-
1. It will promote, for Mining pursuits, a perfect organization of
independent emigrants, who, being generally unacquainted with such
occupations, will derive, from an efficient direction, having at com-
mand all requisite machinery and supplies, benefits not otherwise
attainable.
2. It will facilitate the emigration of persons associated with this
Company for Mining purposes, more especially by procuring, at the
earliest available moment, the grand desideratum of cheap steam
conveyance; and the arrannements of this Company preclude all
risk of loss in respect of any abandonment of engagements on
the part of the emigrants.
3 The Company is free to select its ground of operations wherever
•
me direction of labour may lead to the most beneficial results.
4. The Peculiar Inducements to Emigrants in joining this under-
taking, will be the large.remuneration td the working' parties (that
being fixed at not less than 75 per cent. of the net produce of their
labour), and the mutual security, protection, and economy of the
systematic co-operation contemplated by the project.
To Shareholders, besides thr large anticpated returns on their
capital, the special and acknowledged advantages of the Cost-book
are also secured, viz.:—
Exemption from the Joint-Stock Companies' Registration Act,
and from the ordinary law of partnership.
Direct and constant control, at the bi-monthly meetings, over
the Company's affairs.
No personal responsibility of Shareholders for any act but
their own.

6. An apprication will be made for a Royal Charter to extend the
powers of the Association on its being constituted ; and the great
paonc utility of the design, leaves no doubt that the favour of the
Government will be evinced by the Incorporation of the Company.
The Prospectus may be obtlined at the offices; and applications
for shares in he subjoined foA, with a respectable reference, to be
addressed to the Committee.

(By order)

W. F. G. SERVANTES,
Secretary.

Offices, 9, King's Arms-yard,
Moorgate-street, London,
9th February, 1852.

FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Committee of the Melbourne Gold and General Mining

Association.

Gentlemen,
I request that you will allot to me shares in the above-
named undertaking, and I agree to accept the same, or any less
number of shares which you may allot to me, and to pay, when re-
quired, the sum of one pound per share thereon.
Name, Address, and Occupation]
.. • of the Applicant,
Reference—Name and Address

T" SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COPPER
MINING COMPANY.
Capital 50,000/., in 50,000 shares, paid up, at 11. each, without any
further calls. On the cost-book principle.
No deed necessary to be signed.
DIRECTORS.
Samuel Harrison Armitage, Esq.,
Manor House, Mitcham.
The Honourable Alexander Lang Elder, Adelaide, Australia.
Captain Thomas Green, R.N., 15, Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park.
Henry Kirk, Esq., 15, St. James-square.
W. Newton Lane, Esq., 12, Alpha-road, Regent's-park, and Cheadle,
Cheshire.
The Honourable John Morphett, Speaker of the House of Assembly,
Australia.
James Philcox, Esq., Adelaide.
John Rankine, Esq., Adelaide.
Edward Stir'ing, Esq., Adelaide.
George Tindall, Esq., Lime-street.
BANKERS.--liessrs Williams,
Deacon, Labouchere, Thornton, and
Co., 20, Birchin-lane.
SOLICITOEB.—MessrS. Brown and Reed, 12, BucklersburY, London.
Sicazrksv (pre tem.)—Thomas Browns, Esq.
Temporary Offices-12, Bucklersbury, London.
This Company h
having purchased the fee simple of eight sec-
tions, containing 6.53 acres of mineral ground and freehold land, at
Strathalbyn, about thirty miles from Adelaide, in South Australia,
and within thirty miles of the Murray River, is formed for the
wodrkpiartngioafutyhwe valuableorkea copper mines which have been opened out
an
there, but suspended for want of efficient
machinery.
Competent mining captains, who have personally superintended
the mines report most favourably of the stratification, and there is
no reason. to doubt the Stratlaalbyn district is a continuation of the
same favourable ground in which are the celebrated Burra Burra
and Kapenda Mines.
The mineral riches of the South Australian district have never
been surpassed in the history,
of mining enterprise, the Burrs Burra
aline alone. having produced in five years 738,1081. worth of copper
ore

The following is a copy of the report of Messrs. Johnson and
Matthey :--
" The sample of copper ore assayed for Messrs. Browne and Reed
contains 48 per cent. of pure copper.
" Assay- office, 79, Hatton -garden." " JOHNSON AND MATT/UT.
Five thousand shares are reserved for the colony.
Applicatiions for the remaining shares, and for prospectuses, to be
made at the temporary offices of the company ; and to the solicitors,
Messrs. Browne and deed, No. 12, Bucklersbury, London.