The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-27 00:00:00

The British Columbia Goldfields,

The Vancouver's Island Chronicle of May 14 says:
From Mr. Jas. Birkitt; who left William Creek
on April 18, we have received important mining
news. The gunboats' or Welsh company struck the
pay-dirt in their new shaft about three days before
Mr. Birkitt left, and took out 240 z. in about three
hours in coarse gold. Mr. Reece, a partner in the
company, sold out for 16,000 dole. cash on the same
day that the prospect was obtained, and Mr. Birkitt
sold out for 18,000 dole. cash the next day. The
shaft was about 60ft. deep, and the pay was found
on the bed rock. The Welsh claim is situated 600 ft.
below the Barker claim, and is on the same side of
the creek. Mr. Birkitt left here about two months
ago, anti has made a clear profit of 9,000 dole. per
month. The Barker claim averages 1000 z. per
day." The British Colunzbian of May 18 says :--
" From a letter written by Mr. Holt, of this city,
and dated Richfield, April 24, and which has been,
kindly placed at our disposal, we obtain the follow-
ing facts. The writer is a thoroughly reliable gen-
tleman, who would state nothing but ascertained
facts :—Almost everybody finds ready employment
—carpenters 16 dols. per day of nine hours, and
miners 10 dole. per day of eight hours. Mach ex-
citement still prevails below the canon, The Cana-
dian claim still continued to yield 300 oz, per day
of 24 hours. Hard, Curry, and Co. took out as
much as 1021 b. in one day. The Cameron Com-
pany, the Barker Company, and several other com-
panies also are doing exceedingly well." The
Chronicle of the 10th gives some information ob.
tained from a Mr. Hurst, a passenger from the
mines by a late steamer. It says—" Mr. Hunt saw
specimens of quartz from the head of William
Creek. The specimens were very rich—half gold—
and the discoverer has found the lead. Rich speci-
mens of silver were found in the same locality,
and
Mr. Hurst, who has mined three years in Washoe,
says that Cariboo will rival that country in rich-
ness within a very few years. Bald Mountain is
permeated with gold and silver leads of fabulous
richness."

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chasing llorniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s. 4d. and
45. " High Standard "at 46. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in nackets.

EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION OF PHOTO.
GRIPHY.-M. Ghemar has succeeded in producing copies
of pictures of a larger size than the originals I The thing,
in itself sufficiently wonderful, comes upon the spectator in
a novel and striking manner, when he sees, for example,
Mr. Holman Hunt's picture, " The Light of the World,"
the figure comprising which is considerably less than life,
reproduced from the engraving about 6 feet 6 inches
high, and this, moreovor, perfect and undistorted.
GAIR, THE MURDERER. This unhappy man,
who now lies under sentence of death in the con-
demned cell in York Castle, is perfectly calm and collected,
but his impending fate does not apparently make any im-
pression upon him, inasmuch as his general demeanour be-
tokens that of a man undergoing imprisonment, rather than
one about to be executed. He reads diligently the books of
the prison, partakes of his toed regularly, and sleeps well at
nights. Should no reprieve come, Gair will undergo the last
penalty of the law on the Bth proximo.— Yorkshire Gazette.

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1863.

STEPHEN BLACKPOOL'S frequent ejaculation in
Hard Times is the only suitable comment upon these
latest tidings from the seat of war in America—
"lt's a' a muddle ! " Never, within our remem-
brance, has there been any more flagrant example
of " confusion worse confounded." It is as if broad-
cast over some half dozen of the belligerent States
were scattered an equal number of. Balaklavas.
The fall of Vicksburg, it now appears, has been
confirmed. And, consequently upon that downfall
—as inevitably as in the instance of one card-
house leaning upon another Fort Hudson,
in its turn, has fallen ! Even this, however,
is not all; the safety of Charleston itself, it
seems now, is very seriously endangered. The
chief solace to the Confederates, anywhere discern-
ible at this juncture, is, indeed, that of a negative
character. That coming, namely, from the head-
quarters of General LEE. Those headquarters are
now upon the other side of the Potomac ! The only
circumstance about change of positions, in any
manner gratifying to the South, being this,
that the transportation of the whole Confede-
rate army, horse and foot, artillery and ammuni-
tion, bag and baggage, had been effected as
Composedly and deliberately as the previous re-
moval, across the same river, by the same Great
Master of the Art of War, of the entire mass of
wounded men, of supplies, and of booty ! The
last three or four days' sanguinary and almost
uninterrupted fighting between the opposing
armies at Gettysburg and thereabouts, it
now turns oat, even by the admission of the
noisiest of the Northern declaimers about MEADE'S
wonderful Series
of Victories, was nothing more—
in spite of all th
The mere fact e bloodshed—than a drawn battle.
of the withdrawal thus quietly by
General LEE of the whole of his forces across the
Potomac, shows
quoitte unmistakeably that General
MEADE could n
not possibly assume venture in pursuit—could
other words
puffin
to
an aggressive, could not, in
ven
abandon a strictly defen-
sive, attitude. ting it still more plainly, the re-
ported victor
had
evidently received as good as he
gave, in all these recent
have encounters. Otherwise he
would assuredly b
done since the acted differently than he has
last days
fighting.
General LEE, in
point of fact,
events can be so far as
reeo • gnised with • •
ness through the lurid any distinct-
haze
those fields ofreeking up from
slaughter, has realised to as
full an extent as could reasonably have been
anticipated, under the circumstances all
rently proposed to himself to ac he appa.
complish th
the seemingly hazardous medium of his rough
late
raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania. ivnaring
fresh supplies, he went into the enemy'santing
territory
and took them. Having gathered these supplies,
very abundantly and quite deliberately, together, he
transports them, one and all, in the rear of his
army, across the Potomac, fighting fiercely all the
while, day after day ; and then, when all that has
been accomplished to his own entire satisfaction, he
withdraws his army, having sent the whole of his
wounded previously out of further harm's way be-
yond the river—not til' then, indeed, making one
step towards the recrossing of the Potomac by his
veteran troops. Tae Proclamation of the Confederate
Commander-in Chief—an Address to his army, just
received in our latest telegrams, dated, this address
is, from the General's headquarters on the 11th
inst.—breaths•s throughout it that spirit of heroic
endurance and of unfaltering determination which
has characterised every one of those soul-stirring
documents signed by " R. L. LEE," since the first
dread outbreak of the war. hatead of indicating
any disposition to succumb, as might have been
anticipated by the more credulous, from the
tone of the speeches delivered by the official brag-
garts recently serenaded at Washington, it
tetra rather of a con4rmed resolve never with life

to yield. " Once more," says the Confederate
Commander-in-Chief, using only the very simplest
words of a manly and unaffected eloquence, " Once
more you are called upon to meet the enemy from
whom you have torn in so many fields a name that
will never die. Once more," he exclaims," the eyes of
your countrymen are turned upon you, and again
do wives and sisters, fathers and mothers, and help •
less children lean for defence on your strong arms
and brave hearts. Let every soldier," this is his
adjuration, "remember that on his courage and
fidelity depends all that makes life worth havir.g
—the freedom of his country, the honour of his
people, and the security of his home. Let each
heart grow strong in the remembrance of our
glorious past, and in the 'thought of the inestimable
blessings for which we contend." The Confederate
Commander then adding—" Invoking the assistance
of that heavenly Power which has so signally
blessed our former efforts, let us go forth in confi-
dence to secure the peace and safety of our coun-
try." Two brief sentences, thereupon, close the
Southern Hero's appeal to his followers
thus :—" Soldiers, your old enemy is before
you. Win from him honour worthy of your
right cause, worthy of your comrades dead on
so many illustrious fields." At which concluding
reference, one name beyond all other names, rises
of course, upon the instant to the heart of every
Southern warrior, a remembrance dimming his
eyes, but nerving his hand to a firmer grasp than
ever of sword hilt or rifle barrel—the name of
STONEWALL JACKSON ! Meanwhile, for the temper-
ing somewhat of the vulgar exultation of the Nor-
therners, New York itself is in fierce and formid-
able revolt—the reputed cham,:)ions of Negro Eman-
cipation murdering the blacks there by wholesale.

The Fisheries Bill has at length passed through
all the tedious stages of its progress, and after
encountering more opposition and occasioning
more discussion than affairs of European impor-
tance usually do, is about to become an enact-
ment. It is a subject on which there is much diffi-
culty in legislating, as many persons are deprived of
their vested interests by the proposed changes, and
naturally complain of the loss and annoyance oc-
casioned to them by no fault of their own. But it
is obvious that their arguments, however plausible,
cannot be suffered to stand in the way of a very ne-
cessary and useful measure. Individual interests
al ways suffer from reforms or improvements. The
world cannot however, stand still on that account.
Many were heavy losers by the introduction of the
railway system; the roadside inns, the stage coaches,
and all their train of busy attendants, have
passed away from the scene. Only a few
isolated localities can furnish any traces of the
old glories of the road, and there they are but

shadows of the ancient times. The rapid pro-
gress of machinery, too, has thrown numerous
hands out of employment, and in our own day
many a poor needlewoman deplores the change
wrought by the invention of the sewing machine.

In all such cases the hardship is really very great,
becaase men and women are deprived of their old
means of livelihood, frequently suffering great
privations from the want of demand for labour. In

the present instance, however, affairs are

very different. The trade is not stopped perms•
nently, and the steps which give rise to the com-
plaints are absolutely indispensable to the preser-
vation of the fisheries. The complainants will
eventually be as much benefited by the measure as
any other portion of the public. They have, there
fore, little room for complaint. The question of

the due regulation of our fisheries has been left too
long unsettled. Our reckless and improper man-
agement has interfered with the beneficence of
nature, and would, if persisted in, produce very
serious effects upon our supply of fish. Until
lately the advantages of a good supply were not
sufficiently estimated. The rich could afford to pay
a high price, while the poor looked on it with in-
difference, if not disdain. A fish dinner was too
often regarded by the working-classes as next to no
dinner at all, and the general ignorance of cooking
helped to depreciate it still further. This prejudice
is now being gradually overcome, and a little more
experience will, we hope, serve to convince the
population of our vast labouring cities how cheap,
wholesome, and pleasant a meal old Neptune and
his tributaries are ready to supply them with. The
great facilities now offered for the rapid trans-
mission of atty perishable article by rail should

serve to place a good supply of fish within
reach of the poorest. If our cities are sup
plied with milk from country dairies, there cor•
tainly exists no reason why fish should not journey
from the deep waters to the crowded streets within

a few brief hours. Such considerations are worthy
the attention of the political economist, to whom the
question of a cheap and liberal supply of food can
never be a matter of indifference. We suspect that
a good many who are perfectly regardless of the
attractions of that science would be very ready
to lament a scarcity of salmon, yet the bill
which proposes to protect that favourite fish
from the evils of the existing system has re-
cently encountered serious opposition. If on these
and other questions of a similar nature, both
parties would endeavour to come to an
agreement, and show a little more moderation and
forbearance, the real interests of Ireland would
have more chance. The fishing trade offers very
great and striking advantages to the Irish popula
tion both for home consumption and for
export. It would besides be an excellent pro-
vision for a people who are not too wealthy
on the average, nature all being, moreover, in their
With regard to sea fishing, their coast