The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

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MELTON MoWBiAY, JULY 27..--Wheat, 36s Od to 395;
barley, 24s ' to 280 'oats, 20s to 233; beans, 32s to 353
per qr. Batter 10d to I2d per lb ; eggs 18 to 20 for Is.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, JULY 28.—We had a
good supply, of all laurels of grain in the market to-day. Sales
dull, and prices - dovin compared with those obtained
last week. Wheat on , the top Is 6d, and the average
6d down. Barley on •the .top the same, and the average
3s 2d down. Oats on the to Bd, and the average Id down.
Beans on the top 1s dawn and the average Id up. Un-
sold, 89 qrs wheat, 324r9 bakey, 212 qrs oats. and 30 qrs flans.
Top of Wheat •••
... ... 6411 b. 463 6d
-), Earley_ ;:.,•4 ... .. 55k1b. 30s Od
I, Oats : 42i1b. 22s 8d
9, Beans . . :.), ... ... 67i1b. 35s Od
EDINBURGH CATTM MARKmT, JULY 28.—The number
of cattle was 331, ot..ll,lsLinore than last week. Extreme top
price, 7s 6d ; current,' -47q)d ; secondary and inferior, from 5s
to 6s 6d 'per Dutcli•sWike. A good clearance was effected.
The, number of sheep.aidd lambs at
,market this morning was
4,320, being 923
more 44ian last week. Best wedder mutton,
top price, bid per lb; Arent, 4id to 5d ; inferior, 4d to Od.
Lambs from I's to 22s;Cd a head. At the close a good
clearance was effected. ". ' '

0 Barley ..... . .......
, CORIC jULY 28.
Barrels. - • . Curreney.
O White wheat 00i Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stout
O Ditto .. . .... e. 006 ..0d to 00s Od 00s 0d....00 do
p Ditto ..... Qd,to 006 Od
2 Bere, new 9s' Od - 006 Od Os Od
:Ad to 003 Od
42 Oats llll,to Ils Od)
0 Ditto :-Od_to 00s Od • 106 6cl-1) do
32 Ditto new 8a ,Od. to 96 4d)
O Pigs. 00s Od. to 003 Od 00s Od per cwt
Quantity soleat the Highest Prices:-
0 barrels-white *beaty 0 red ; 0 barley; 0 bore; 4 oats;
0 pigs. - '
Quantity bf Grainind Nvicaber of Pigs sold last week
Wheat, 11: . Earley, 6. Oats,. 407. Pigs, 0.
" --PRIQES ,OF BUTTER.
CANT. CUBAN NCY.
First quality ......... 734 First quality ........ 64
Second quality
704 Second quality
Third quality
eeos Third quality s6l'
Fourth qua..l4L.± urtlamality
Fifth .quarsil. • 4ft•Vc`rity
Sixth quality 43s Sixth quality
Return of Cattle sold for week ending July 24.
Pigs, 239. Sheep, 394. Cows, 67.
COBS. —Flour—First 12, 6d to 13s 6d ; extra 141 Od;
seconds, 106 6d to 128; households 96 to 108 6d ; thirds, 7s to 91
per cwt. OatmealloB 6(1 to 11s Od; Indian meal Ss to 8s 6d; wheat-
meal, 93 6d to 10s per cwt. Indian corn 71 5s to 71101 Od pet ton.
Bran 72s 6d to 75s per ton. Hay—Farmers 18; Od to 308; average
00s ; dealers 00s Od to 00s; average ois per ton. SU aw—Farmers
251 Od to 006 Od; average 006; dealers 27. Od to 326 01;
average 00, Od
per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to Od ;
household loaf 51.1 to Od per 41b. Fresh butter, Scl tt
10c1 per lb. Eggs-3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Coals
Newport 14s Od ; Lydr.sy 15s ; Landore 00s ; Culm,
128 6d per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 40a per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 56 9d per imperial gallon. Mott
—Beef 41d. to 7d; mutton 5d to 64d; veal 4d to
id ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. Hops
8! Ss to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates 2117 s 6cl to 310 s per ton.
Bark, red 71 to 8/ lOs per ton. Fleece wool 16s to Oas per stone.
Hemp 29/ to 341 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 188 to 19s; red
ditto, 248 to 00a per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 111 pet
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; red pine, 31 5s ; yellow
ditto, 3/ 153 per ton; deals, 151 to 181 per 100. Hides--
Market Hs to 26*; salted 20s to 22s per cwt ; calf skins
3d to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 9d to lld ; pinks,
10d to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 10! 10s to 11/ per ton. Tar—
Archangel, 191 per barrel.

[The following appeared in our Fourth Edition of
last night:—]

THE GENERAL ELECTION

THE POLLS,
DONEGAL COUNTY.

TH.E GOLD FIELDS OF AUSTRALIA.

Mr. John Fairfax,----'—
editor of the Sydney Morning
Herald, who is now upon a visit to this country, de-
livered a lecture on the Australian gold fields, to
a numerous audience, at Leamington, on Wed-
pesday.
After briefly de-scribing the geographical position
and features of Australia, Mr. Fairfax gave a concise
sketch of its Pror ess since the first discovery of the
island by the
Dutch,interesting atrordieg at the same time some
information
respecting the aborigines of
New Holland, and pointing out the relative positions
and characteristics
thee yespeotive colonies. The
origin and progress ofimportant settlements were
traced with great minuteness. He pointed out the
evils of the-convict system, showed the wonderful
rise of Port Philip since ,lel4eaooni when it ceased to be a
convict settlement. The
the
eurer religion,then directed the
attention of his hearers -to
com-
merce, agriculture, and statistics of politics,'c ewSonthwales. The state-paid churches are the English, the
Scotch, the Wesleyan, and Roman Catholic. The
total amount paid to them in 1850 was about 30,0001.
The e
piscopalian establishment is under great obliga-
tions to the
_Christian Knowledge Society and
the Society
17,00f0r is the Propagation of the Gospel ;
about 01.
I annually granted for educa-
tional purposes. n 1844 the imports of New
South
Wales were 931,3001., the exports 1,128,1001.;
in 1850 the imports were 2, 076,300/ , the exports
2,399,6001. After some valuable observations'
the cornmer •- t the gold
tuner the
lamed* the manner gin which the gold
turer next e
the opinions and
discoveries had been made, quoting
predictions of Sir Roderick and other
• 11? describedthe the excite-
scientific gentlemen..
meat which it bad moused at the time, an traced out
~.,,,re ....._
&future important changes nicely'to DO
the present ad.
increased
.amount of the precious
effected by the
metals. Mr. Fairfax concluded an interesting and
able lecture,
replete witah valuable informatiwith the
of ingnoirt:—nce in the colony,
every subject
following observatio ~
Persons apprehensions of fearful con-
" By "lie P
sequences are • •
eptertamed , b y others, whose high-
pressure notions are beyond the power of steam,
results of the utmost magnitude and greatest earthly
blessedness are dreamed of. Looking calmly upon
the old country,
and then casting a fond regard to
the new nations
that are springing up under the fos-
tering influence
of British manners, British laws, and
British Christianity; remembering that but yester-
daysols in yfor money -,our money market ' The first quotation of
C Je
was 1001 to , and that they left
i for money, and 100 i to off the
off at at 100 i to
the gladdening influence trade and
count ;' seeing
where ; and the peace and prosperity
commerce every
which prevails on both sides of the Atlantic, as well
as on those shores where the Pacific rolls
and reflecting, too, upon him
heruiet billows!
is
Surely there a vein for the
who hath said
gold where they fine it ; as
silver, and a place for
out of it cometh bread ; the stones of
for the earth,of sapphires, and it hath dust of
it are the place
g_calml on all these considera-
gold ;' I say, lookia
fears for they future. The treasures
tions, I have no
of the earth have been opehedAup under the special
providence of God hivasen t the moment when
e Vi 33 thrown open to the admiring
your Crystal raise far distant colon
gaze of all Europe, a.,
fection and
famy wasl!n•esent
ing her claims for cln 1
of the lobed is fade ill Arly
of 1851, on both sides g
~ ee a
memorable era. Never may the children of Britain
on those distant shores be a disgrace to the parent
state. But may the honour, the virtue, the dignity
and, above all, the pure religion of
of moral character,
the Bible, be transplanted and hultivated on their soil
—not as the tender plant to wither and die in a day,
whose roots deepen, widen, and
1 but as the noble oak,
and
strengthen, by the adversity storms of time. A
few remarks to the intending emigrant, and I have
done. To the young man of industrious and sober
habits and of moral character, whose anxiety is to
onest erseverance—unappalled
pursue a course of h P
by difficulty and danger yg .
—I sa o. To the idle, the
dissipated, the drunken—he who is reckless alike of
his own peace and the sorrow he causes to others—
I say stay ; for if you go to a warm climate and
persevere in your present habits, you will be an out-
cast, you will die miserably, neglected by man,
and, perhaps, unpitied by God. The two great
wants of the colonists are capital and labour. For
these employment on a large scale is constantly
being presented. There are mines of wealth
only waiting investments, and requiring men to
work them. The railroad company have auverthied
for 200 men ; -and in a recent letter from the presi-
dent of that company, he informs me that the con-
tractor contemplates giving up the contract in conse-
quence of being unable to obtain men. The Bathurst
Copper Mining Company, in the Herald of April
17th, advertises for 100 men. In the southern dis-
trict a new copper mine has been discovered ; the ore
has been transmitted to England for smelting, and it
has been pronounced equal in the yield to the Burra
Burra. This also is at a stand. The Fitzroy Iron
Mining Company
is in a similar position. It is si-
tuate at Mittegong, on the great southern road,
within seventy miles of Sydney, and extends over a
surface of about twelve acres. It is doubtless of vol-
canic formation, as three distinct mounds or craters
appear, and the lava (iron ore), instead of the general
pumice stone, flows from each mound of a depth of
from six to ten feet. The yield of this mine is re-
markable. 'When smelted the ore produces steel of a
most superior character. (The lecturerer exhibited
specimens of the ore in its original state, and of the
metal in its manufactured state.) These facts are enough
to show that capital and labour are required. My ad-
vice, however, I may be permitted to tender to two or
three classes. To the masters or workmen who are
doing well in England, I suggest the old motto ' Let
well alone. But if you are struggling with difficul-
ties, which appear unconquerable, wind up your affairs
and try the colonies. There we are not so thick upon
the ground, and with the primest beef at 2d., and
mutton at 1 id., you cannot, you need not starve. Not
that I would hold out the expectation of success
without exertion—of fortune without the appliance of
industry—or of the quiet repose of old age without
thrift and care in early and middle life. The' Battle
of Life' must be fought lustily and bravely on both
sides the world. And moral worth is as valuable and
as highly prized there as here. The openings for the
agricultural labourer, and the master or journeyman
tradesman are astonishing. I will only mention one
instance ; it was told me by the Reverend Mr. Mac-
kenzie, a fellow passenger from Sydney to England,
and I am sure is only a specimen of the increase in
the rice of all kinds of handicraft. He says,
' Happening to break part of the harness of one of
the horses I was driving, I desired my servant to carry
the broken part to a saddler's shop in order to get it
mended. I accompanied the man. We travelled
from shop to shop, till we had visited three or
four of them, before we found a man in any of them;
all the men having gone to the diggings, the shops
were left under the charge of their wives or daugh-
ters. At last we reached a saddler's shop, in which
I saw a little boy of nine or ten years of age, who
said he thought he could mead the broken harness ;
and be did so in a few minutes. I stood looking at
him while at work, and when he had fi sk
nished I aed
him what was to pay, expecting that he would say,
one shilling. His reply, however, was, " half a
crown, sir, if you please. I said, " that is a very high
charge, my little boy, for the few stitches it only
cost you.' "But, air," said this pocket edition of
human nature, "you must consider that all the men
have gone to the diggings, and that we who stay at
home to do the work of the public must charge ac-
cordingly." The logic was conclusive ; the mouth '
was stopped, and my purse was opened. I paid the
2s. 6d. and went away, convinced that those who stay
at home and stick to their trades will largely participate
in the profits of the gold digger. In January last
I was paying 30s. a week, or at the rate of 781. a
year, with board, to a bullock driver, whom I could
have hired last year at about 301. a year. When
this man's time with me expired, he was offered 31. a
week, or at the rate of 1561. a year, with board, for
driving bullocks between Melbourne and Mount
Alexander. I know a journeyman carpenter who
was at the same time offered 4/. a week, with board
and constant employment, which he refused—then
went to the diggings. In England there is a large
class of young men, who are well educated, but are
not brought up to any business pursuits. Many of
this class make their way to the colonies. They
bring letters of introduction to respectable and wlthne
)!
people often to the Governor—and imeaagi
their fortunes are made. Poor fellows ! Any
f an eYe
well-instructed colonist can Bee with bal
fo e
ne-
that they are unfit for hard work, and thernes filch
as
cessarily unfit for the colony. Often, likePers°
unsale-
these are returned home to their fee
Par nquently, alas!
able bales of merchandise •
a arid twe to ruin their
they remain to disgrace their r an!: , Eagiand is a
character, and to debauch theiravr
oleon. Be it 30,
nation of shopkeepers,' said sed of men unfit and
rather than it should be "j 1 -
, ' that man should
disqualified to obey the nof 1119 brow: ' Ships, enioe
eat his bread by the
awe Motto,, but that motto is a
tales, commerce,' is our
empire, unless it be sane-
foul blot upon oarbr ntS
enterprise, earnestness, and un-
tioned and upheldl The above remarks respecting edu-
conquerable zee •
wawa trade or profession. do not
sated young 113e0

THE ANGLO-HUSH
PISUBMARINE
7'ELEGRAL
We understand upon authority (by communica-
tions from Portpatrkk) that on Tuesday morph; g the
submarine cable between Donagbadve, on the coast of
Ireland, to Portpatriek, on the coast of Scotland,
having been on the previous Saturday securely
anchored on to a buoy in a bay upon the Scottish
coaat, is thence carried inland to Portpatrick, a short
distance from the beach, and that telegraphic com-
munications between the coasts of Ireland and Scot-
land were accomplished. This may be -considered
the more important as it has not publicly transpired
that the cable laid down between Holyhead and Howth
on the Ist of June is understood to have failed, the
wire rope, which was only three-quarters of an inch
in .circutnference, having, from the various kinks or
fractures that occurred in submerging
too fragile • •for the purpose, it, been found
and, atter having
broken in carious, places in the late endeavours to
" fish • it up," so as to ascertain where the imper-
fections existed,
of cable, weighing 80 tons, has become part .and
the greater part of the 80 Miles
parcel of the waifs and strays of the Channel. There
appears to have been what may be termed " a race"
betvireen the three or four projectors of submarine
telegraphic crlmia_Apiktipuje- etwpan;Whilglialksnd
Ireland, to-aectirtain who should be the most suc-
cessful in establishing it first, so as to unite them-
selves with the system of the Electric Telegraph
Company
in England, and hence it is that the old
axiom of" the more haste the less speed," even in
electric telegraphic communication, has been again
realized.

The promoters of the present expedition for esta-
and Donagbadee, undeerotmhemtuintlie ettotf ioa
the v
blishing this species of
EialePcouritcpaltrilck
graph Company of Ireland—there being anotherein
existence, entitled the Irish Submarine. Telegraph
Company, from Holyhead to
Kingstown,
about to sink a cable on that r ete ngetewn' who are
—started, as has
o on Saturday
already been stated, from Donaghedee en. G.
last, the party consisting of the
Mr. Gilpin (the contractor), - Mr. Grifn (t
per-
sons, Massey,
engineer), Mr. Daring, and numerous other
the Reliance, with her crew and cable o
board, being under the command of Captain Hawes,
R.N., who is well acquainted with the nature of
the navigation. The expedition steamed out under
the auspices of favourable tide and wind, from Donag-
hadee to the point where, on the 18th instant, the six
miles of cable already submerged were secured to a
buoy out at sea, owing to the haziness of the weather
on that occasion, and the high run of the spring tides,
which then induced Captain Hawes to recommend
that further progress should be postponed until Sa-
turday, when advantage might be taken of the neap
tides. Arrived at this point, the reliance and attendant
tugs hove to, it being necessary to haul up the extremity
of the six miles of cable already submerged to connect
it with the remaining fifteen on board, the distance

across being twenty-one miles. At this juncture a
formidable, but in the end only temporary, obstacle
presented itself, it being found that the telegraphic
tackle resisted the combined efforts of the crew of
about fourteen or fifteen men to raise it from its sub-
marine recess, in spite of the most vigorous pulling.
Conjecture, as on occasions of similar novelty, gave
rise to strange but mistaken surmises. It transfixed
feared that • the cable had become
by the falling of some wreck or debris upon it—
that it had become fastened in the fissure of some
rock, or that some of the heavier denizens of the
deep were indulging in an oceanic siesta upon it
any rate the cable was destined to become a skipping
rope for some generation of Neptunes. But a more
practical knowledge of the Channel dissipated imagi-
nary doubts, it having been ascertained from sound-
ings that the depth of the channel between rortpatrick
and Donaghadee is an average of 70 fathoms, princi-
pally of ooze, soft mud, sand and shells, and free from
fishermen's. kedges. Ail conjecture, however, was set at
rest by a conclusive " lcng pull, and strong pull, and
pull altogether" on the part of the crew, which had
the effect of bringing from its briny abode into the
light of day, carbuncled with shells, coral, and sea-
Treed, an inuncnce ship's anchnr. at,trted by thA
oldest seaman on board to be at least 100 years old,
and certainly differing very materially in its fashion-
ing from the celebrated " Exhibition prize anchors"
that were pitted against the Admiralty anchors
the other day, though quite equal to either
in ponderousness and power of << holding On." It is
stated that, notwithstendiug the severe strain,
used from the efftheect
callibre of the cable was no
inj
of its submarine burden, and that, mbre on account
of the curious mode of its recovery than
64 "
of its real salvage value, it is to be anchored for the
remainder of its days on dry land, in the Aiw-
seum at Belfast. The amusing impediment over-
come, the expedition d proceede towards Portpatrickof
,
paying out the fifteen miles proceeded cablat the rate
thin
without anyg more obser-
three miles an hour,
vable until, amid heavy gale and sea, it reached Port-
patrick at ten at night, when the communication was
tested and ascertained over the entire scope of cable.
Owing to the difficult access, erisini, from the over-
hanging rocks at Portpatrick, the cable was attached
to a buoy in the bay, and subsequently carried in-
land.
As misapprehensions exist relative to the present
communication in
state of of the land telegraphic
dee to Belfast the land wires
it may be stated that on the
nexion with the cable,
Irish coast from Donagha
to Dublin shortly. From
are completed, and will be
Portpatrick, on the Scottish coast, there being no
railway, the wires ere also completed underground ;
d South
an-Wern Rail-
but a break of thirty miles ocours between
stern Rails
and Carlisle, the Glasgow
way having no wires on their railwaYl so that this
break will, unfortunately, for the present prevent any
through communication being effected between Ire-
the mean-
land and England. Should no telegraph be laid over
the Glasgow and South-Western, wires will at once be
laid down along the common road between Dumfries
dispatch t
and Carlisle via Gretna Green ; and in
time the telegraphic dispatch will have to be taken
over the thirty miles of break by express or other
train, involving the delay of about an hour, instead
Chro-
of enabling, as is intended, a telegraphic
be expressed between London and Dublin, and viceo
versa, in the space of two or three minutes.—
nick.

SEABORNE MAILS.
ggnffles that the mails are sent from the General Post,eflie;
by the night—and M by the morning—divpatch.l