The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-20 00:00:00

NGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
A
COMPAICY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Adeiphi.
Capital, 50,11001.,
In 100,000 Shares of 105. (fully paianaq,
ares.
d up) each.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Sh
TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadle, Herts.
George Emmett Green, Esq., Emmott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park,
CHAIRXAN. Greenhithe, Sent.
GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq., James-street, Buck-
" ingham-gate ; and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
VICE-CHALB.MAN.
iriaNcxs DENNIS MASSY DAWSON. Esq., Victoria-
Temple.
square; and Plowden-bulldingil,
ameceoss•
John Barker, M.D. Richmond,Surrey.
Symeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Felder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles Mucks, rage Birnailagilanl'
Jeoeiph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. ii. Rumbold. Bart., Argyll-street. Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIREcTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Yere Huntley, R.N.
• BANILERS.
• London and County Bank, Lemberg-Street.
sorecrroa.s.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
sIIFERINTENDENTS IN emelt:mere.
James Maconochie, Esq. I William Godfrey Huet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directers
take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders a
statement of its progress and prospects.
It may be confidently asserted that no Company was ever brought
before the public with equal prospect of speedy and successful
results.
The prompt assistance afforded by the Shareholders to the Direc-
tors, and the perfect confidence in the management displayed by
them, have enabled the Directors to take such steps as must ensure
an enormous dividend within a few months.
Sir Henry Huntley, the resident Director in California, has been
in that country five months, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrying out this enterprise results from the experience obtained
by him during that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt ey were, in effect, that he should make every possible inquiry
relative to the state of the country. the tenure of land, the cone-
parative merits of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California,
- and after mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their best coarse of proceeding, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible.
Following these instructions, he has secured fen the benefit of the
CamPany, sufficient lands for all mining purposes ; but he is clearly
of opinion, that f the present, at least, it is not desirable to wider-
take mining operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who are possesses of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
experience in geology and mining matters, he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa., Nevada, Grass
Valley, and ether districts, and has come to the conclusion,
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of Grass Valley and
Nevada City, is that which afforas the greatest advantages for car-
lying ors our enterprise. Ile has, therefore, entered into an agree-
ment with some Air erican gentlemen, who have formed a company,
anti have opened, and, to a considerable extent, worked a vein of
quartz, di.tant about three miles from Grass Valley and Nevada
City, and about thirty miles from Sacramento City, to crush and
amalgamate ,he quartz to be raised from the mine oprenea by
them. By means of machinery, he has already cu hed
and amalgamated conside -able
and quathe s lit ntities of t ehis h quaperatio nrtz sup-
plied him from this mine ; la of os
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richhess, and that the lecality otters many important advantages in
the-way of water, fuel, means of traesa, arc., Sec. He has, there-
fore, entered jute a formal agreement with that Company, which, in
a few words, amounts to this he is to be supplied by them with as
much quartz as his machinery shall be found capable of crushing
the quartz iS to be depoalted at the mills free of expense ;
he is to crush and amalgamate 'it at his own expense, and
he 2:Ad produced is to be divided equally between the owners
or the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying ont the above arran:ecaent fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-engines
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty ton. 3 of quartz a day.
with fends sufficient for patting it in motion, have been placed under
the control of Sir Henry Huntley; and, unless some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
For the satisfaction of the existing shareholders of this Company,
and without wishing, in any manlier, to deteriorate from the merits
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling attention
to some of the more prominent advan'ages possessed by this Corn-
early over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely rap ,n reports sent over by persons interested in
selling the mine; we rely upon the reports of our own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the spot, whose only
interest is to give us facts. The Directors of other
Companies generally base the estimate of the value of
their mine upon calculations founded on experiments
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of aavertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public; we foural our calculations upon experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crashed and amalgamated by our own Superintendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to I
incur the expense and risk of carrying out miniug operations
spun their vein, btfere the quartz arrives at their mill, and, should
their labours prove successful, they must then pay out of their
profits large per-centages fair obtaining their leases, and large royal
ties to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as much qu
our machinery is capable of crushing, the title to which is as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any per-centage or
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Company to
factthe
parties who supply us, free of expense, with the quartz, being
in
merely equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capitals
ex-
pended in raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. Al
new companies, unlike this, must be a considerable time before
their arrangements and nuichinery can be ready for carrying out
their schemes—this Company alone is actually at work.
The paid-no capital of the Company will not exceed 20,0001. An
almost certain estimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently
anticipate being able even at the most moderate estimate, to afford
a dividend of 200 per cent., at the least, within the next twelve
months. According to the data furnished to us, the quartz which
we are now working yields upen an average 4d. per pound, or I/.
17s. al. per cwt., or 371. 6e. Bd. per ton; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 373/. s. Bd. per diem as the share rat this Company.
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon practical experience, the economy in working expenses must
necessarily be such as to render the current outlay most trifling.
In case circumstances should induce the Directors to alter the
system now adopted, and lead them to undertake mining operations
of their own, arrangements have been made securing tour distinct
sites, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who
went out with him, and who have voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed the Provisional Committee off
this
ssing
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen poss
of
e
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large body
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Directory was due to those Shareholders who have in fact estab-
lished and nobly supported this Company. Measures will be taken
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders will be convened for the middle of January.
In conclusion, the Directors beg to offer their best thanks to the
Shareholders for the uniform support they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Company shall be con-
ducted with the most rigid economy, and with the sole view of for-
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shareholders particularly
to the fact that, from the system adopted by this Company, it can-
not be affected by the gnestton now agitated between the holders of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
the operations of this Company is far removed from the tract claimed
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out of the many Points
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by those having the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which
not
in-
duced them to pursue for the present the course they have, and
to incur certain heavy expenses with doubtful results.
The Directors trust that Shareholders will approve of the prudence
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses may be hat upon application at the offices of the
Company.

EQUITABLE FIRE and NATIONAL LOAN
FUND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
DIRECTORS.
*JODI/ Moss, Esq.
f T. T,AMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
t*Hugh Croft, Esq.
tJ. Elliotson, M.D. F.R.S. tt*J.JEoohdhnn hmsoltnaaigs.oEnsg.
, Esq.Symes,
Esq.
t*Geo. Fuller, Esq.
t*Clement Taber, Esq.
*Ralph Gough, Esq. fJoseph Thompson, Esq.
Kennaway, Esq.
.I.. Augustus Vigne, Esq.
91r Arnold J. Knight, M.D.
fSaMuel Walker, Esq.
*Sir A. W. Hillary, Bart.
*IT. C. Maher, Esq. f* Both.
* Fire. f Life.
1.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital, 50101,00.00)
(incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap.
that the
The Policy Holders in this office are respectful-I.Y informed
A
Christmas Renewals, are in the hands of the several Agents of the
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Company, and should be paid on or before the 9th of January.
crwa
The Equitable Fire Oftlee, by a constant analysis of
its
exoerience, front time to time, adopts such rates of premium as the
nature of the risk justifies ; and with this view an annual .
investi-
gation is made into each class of risk, and a return of fifty Per cent
of the net excess, made to all classes of Insurers whose policies have
been In force for three years.
farming Stock insured at as. per cent. without tho Average
Clause.
Jimmies are made good without deduction or discount.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. Capital £500,009.
NEW LIFE TABLES.
On the Withdrawal Table the assured is entitled, by simple en-
dorsement, to receive an immediate advance of one-half the amount
of the paid annual
premiums, without security or deposit
of the ; or half-premium for the whole continuance of life. On
surrender one-half of the annual payments will be returned.
Life Annuities granted, also Deferred and Contingent Annuities.
The terms of the Society are peculiarly favourable.
The present annual income of the Society from premiums exceeds
70,0001 ; the amount covered by the policies of the Society is up-
ecerds of 2,270,00.1. ; and the reserve wait applicable to future
amryouinntfsorinto
a9tsio,sno,2mLaly4sb.eocoliuined,
applica
bonus to the assuredd, on eve
Prospectusei, an
lion at the 0_ ffice, or to any of livts.Asg.enßts..w
OOLHOUSE , Actuary.

isIEDIATE. At once peruse Advertisement--
(M
111 page 2 of " 13ell's Life," January 13 ; this, being 150 lines, is
fully explanatory—do not allow the present chance of clearing large
sums of money to slip past. .
GEORGE FRA.›.7CIS, 21, Chadwell-street, St. John-street-roatl,
Islington

ROYAL MARIONETTE THEATRII, I
SUCCESS.
IJNPABALLE LE
ADELAIDB-STREV, WEST STRAND.
Night.
Italy, Signora
'First ABarri Tone.
Appearance
ofCrothwedcused
tynognusiessheEdv.se,royeaNnisgths
Barbieri Alleni and
i-1 and during the week will
The performances TIuIS EVES'S,' ADDRESS by the Manager.
commence with an INTRODUCTORY
Signor
After which, a new scene of Apropos,
entitled the MANAGER'SftOOM.
BOOM.
To be followed by the Musical Burlesque of BOMBASTES FIT-
ItIOSO. TTLINE ; or, the
To conclude with a new grand Ballet, called PA.,
pupil of Nature.
Boors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eighto'clocnkex.
t,
A Morning Juvenile Performance on Thursday and Saturday
at Three o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Two.
Private Boxes, 11. Is.; Balcony Stalls, 35.; Lower Stalls, 2s. ;
Baleony, 29.; Amphitheatre, Is,
Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal
Library, 33, ,
; Old Bond-street ; Mr. saws Royal Library, St
James's-street.
Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond-street ; at all the Prin-
and at the Box-office or the Theatre, Adelaide-
cipal
Stree libraries;
t, West Strand. -

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELptir.
Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste.
Enormous success of the Yankee CNlNomedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee.
THIS EVEG,
Will be performed the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD
ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Virright ; Maxwell, Mr. Worrell ; Emily, miss
Emma Harding.
To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE
PEDLAR ; or, Old Times in Virginia.. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee ;
Worland, Mr. Worrell • Miss NancY Bantam, Miss Emma Harding.
After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright.
To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT-
TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg
named the Wolf of Biberieh), Mr. Paul Bedford ; Scra,ggenheim, Mr.
Sutler; Trudchen (commonly Called Little Red Riding Hood), miss
Kath4een Fitzwilliam.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Fern"
THIS EVENING,
Will be performed LUCILLE; or, The Story of a Heart.
St. Cyr, Mr. 11. Farren ; Vernet, Mr. Diddear ; Shalders ;
Julie, Mtn
Von Metz, Mr. Cooke ; Lucille, Miss. L. Howard ;
Fielding.
To be followed by AN ORGANIC AFFECTION.
To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and
Fancy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shaiders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards; Harlequin,
Mr. Forrest ; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees.

)ICI-06 rLA t 110 Uti.t 45.. N D 8T HAIM D TIILATILE.
Lessee. Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool.
The Warmest Theatre In Lendon.
rats EV:Um MG.
win be performed THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES.
After which, The JUVENILE PARTY.
To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDA-
NIN,S DAUGHTER or, Willow Pattern Plate. Charactess by
Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames
Eglinten, and mukell.
Marshall, Sanders,
To conclude with 21Y SISTER PROx
The prices oi admission are arranged iut follow :--Orehestra stalls,
48, homes (first circle), 38.; (,second circle), 23. ; Pit, 13.
Doora to be openel at Usg=-Pes% Six, and the pa:ton:am:lo4 to
precisely
at Seen preciael
A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock
—first circle, 25.; second circle, Is.
Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each.
stage KNOW, MX. E. stirling.