The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

rnE SUN " !LONDON, TRIOA, EVENING, FEBRUARY 7. 11862.

information would be expected from the Govern-

ment ; nor has the Government the wish to with-
hold such as they have• No wish was expressed to
break it hastily, but it will not be allowed to pass

quite unquestioned. Lord DERBY took occasion
to pass an eulogium, which is certainly well de-
served, on the operatives in the cotton districts.
lie noticed the fact that to the master manufac-

:urers the failure of the cotton supply was no

great loss, they having before so immensely over-

stocked all markets. But to the operatives working

'or wages there was no mitigation. Yet nothing like

unreasonable complaint had been heard even from
them. This, said the noble lord—" reflects the

highest credit on the good sense and patriotism of
the working men."
The subject of recognising the Government of
the South was touched on, and in a way which the
North will perhaps think rather too encouraging to
their antagonists. Lord DERBY thought " the time
was nearly come, when they might be called on to
recognise the so far successful revolt of the seceded
States." His lordship did not wish to act prema-
turely, and he quite approved of the present rela-
tion of England to the States, regarding each party,
impartially, as belligerents. It would not be well
to recognise as an independent government one
which might not have the power to maintain its
independence. Lord RUSSELL himself looks in the
same direction as Lord DERBY. He thinks many
months cannot pass before it will be seen whether
or not the Federal States are able to
accomplish the task they have undertaken—of
reconstructing the Union. He held that it was far
better that the knowledge of their inability to
do it should come from the failure of their
own efforts, than from any intervention on
the part of any foreign Power. In this
his Lordship has but expressed an opinion
already extensively uttered by the press ; but the
point which Mr. LINCOLN will chiefly notice is
that neither Lord DERBY nor Lord RUSSELL expect
them to go on long, if we let them quite alone.
The most likely cause to bring about a termination
of hostilities—the want of money on both sides—
was not adverted to. Humane considerations
appeared alone to be thought of in the British
Parliament, though we have not noticed any men-
tion of them in the States themselves.
A people and a prince obtained the commendations
of all. Lord DERBY, as he had not failed on former
occasions to censure acts of the French EMPEROR,
felt the greater pleasure in expressing his grati-
tude for the kind support he furnished to the
English claim in the case of the Trent--
a kindn!ss, he thought, really quite as great
towards the States themselves. And the people of
Canada well merited the notices of their loyal zeal
which they so liberally received, for probably
nothing has done more to soften down the brag-
ging tone of the Americans than finding that
Canada, at the hazard of war all along
her frontier, so thoroughly preferred the
franchises of subjects of the British Crown
to those she might have enjoyed as a thirty-
fifth section of the Divided States. Pro-
bably the conduct of the colonists has
done more to preserve themselves and England,
too, from insult for a long time to come, than
any other of the events associated with the out-
rage on the Trent.
As yet but one subject has even been announced
which will lead to any difference of opinion—the
Education minute. Lord LYTTELTON came down
primed with a speech on the subject, but
even he deferred it on the intimation of
Lord GRANYILLE that their lordships would have
a full opportunity of discussing the whole subject
next Thursday. Lord DERBY, in lengthy peri-
phrastical language, congratulated Ministers on
their having—for this was what he meant—not
proposed a single measure of Political Reform, but
only measures of Law Reform. In a word, Lord
PALMERSTON offers a non political session—Lord
DERBY says u I heartily accept it."

Cariboo, about which we wrote on Tuesday in
general terms, appears to be situated, not simply
upon the south branch of the Fraser river, " south
bank" though it is called to this day thereabouts,
but really and truly upon the main body of the
broad and rapid stream of that new Pactolus. The
aceurate observer to whom we are indebted for so
many graphic particulars about it, describes its
sources as being within a distance of sixty or
seventy miles westwardly from the range o f the
Rocky Mountains. And further he observes—" The
bend of the river, which embraces the new mineral
region within its curve, runs a course north-west
180 miles, and then takes a south-west course of
about 50 miles in length. This large section of
country is believed, from the appearances presented
on various parts of the surface, to be auriferous,
both in quartz (gold matrix) and in placeres,
throughout its whole extent ; but the portions
hitherto ' prospected' (as the miners phrase is for
the search for, and for the discovery of gold) are
confined to the dimensions already given-50 ti 30
miles." This delightful region is, in point of fact,
within the limits of what is marked down upon
the maps according to that tautological and
wholly unimaginative way they have of naming
localities upon the other side of the Atlantic,
New Caledonia. Anything but a definite de-
scription, it must be admitted, seeing that there
are New Caledonias in all parts of the world
in dreadfuL multiplicity. There are, how-
ever, in the New Caledonian part of
British Columbia, places like that wondrous gold
region hitherto but little known—in fact,
but a very few years back not known at all, but
henceforth destined, we may rest assured, to be
world famous under its mellifluous Indian name of
Carriboo! Carriboo lying, It would seem, in north
latitude 53.20 degrees, and west longitude 121.40
degrees, at a point situated almost equi distant
between Antler Creek, Swift River (otherwise
Cottonwood River) and Sweep River, all of
which," says the correspondent, " flow and run in
opposite directions, from a chain of mountains
called ',the Bald Mountains." It is amusing to
note the list of pet names given by facetious
miners to various mining lccalities worked during
the past season :—Chisholm's Gulch, Davidson's
Gulch, and Hall's Gulch (" Gulch " being Yankee
for a ravine), Antler creek, Keithley's-creek,
Hawey's, Williams's, Nelson's, Lowhee, Cunning-
ham's, Lightening, Vanwinckle, California, Canon,
Grouse, Goose, Steven's, Salt Spring, Burns's, Snow-
shoe, Jack of Clubs, and Last Chance Creeks,
all of them being in fact, if not always (like the
last mentioned) in name, creeks, i.e., streams of
more or less magnitude—the majority of them being
diminutive, pouring down from the spurs of the
Bald Mountains, already more than once men-
tioned, in range rising to a height of seven or
eight thousand feet above the level of the Pacific.
From another creek alone, in the month of May,
1861, there were taken out we learn—end this,
moreover by R hat the miners call raw
hands and the sailors call green hands,
gold to an amount hitherto undreamt of among the
adventurers. Most of the diggers there in Antler
Creek winning with ease gold to the value of 200
dollars a-day, and this, moreover, when sifting the
earth and rubbish from it by the rude agency of the
old-fashioned rocker. That is—on the average, and

among the new hands; two hundred dollars worth
of gold per them ! That is, in other words, £2Ol
clear between sunrise and sunset—for the beginners.
Others, the more skilled, it may be, also the more
lucky finders, gaining more largely—even though
themselves hampered with the old slow sifting aid
of the rocker. One miner, for example, is described
as gaining thus exactly double, that is, £4O in a
day, or 400 dollars worth—a couple of others £44
ss, or sixteen ounces—nay, one hippy-go-lucky,
a veritable Mr. SMITH by name, as many, upon the
average, as from twenty-six to thirty ounces of gold
and upon one fortunate day 31 lbs. in gold, to the
value of £lB5 odd shillings! Nearly two hundred
pounds sterling in solid gold gathered up in a single
day by this one man. Reading of facts like these,
surely for the youth of England, the cry will now
be as, according to Mr. KINGSLEY'S brilliant novel,
it was three hundred years ago--" Westward,
Ho !"

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FEB. 7.

The Jlloniteur of this morning says :—" It is
incorrect that General Prim will take the supreme
command of the allied troops in Mexico. Each
general will preserve the integrity of his com-
mand.

" The Corps Legislatif has confirmed the election
of Dr. Pamard as one of its members, the validity
of which had been disputed."

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 7.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day, in an
article on the budget, shows that the state of the
Russian finances, if compared with that of other
countries, may be considered favourable, and adds
—" An increase in the ordinary income without any
augmentation of the taxes may be expected."

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 6.
The following are the details of the estimated
expenditure and income of the Russian empire for
the ensuing year, as set forth in the budget :
Expenditure.—National Debt, 54 millions silver
roubles ; Imperial Household, 5 millions; War De-
partment, 110 millions ; Naval Department, 201
millions ; Home Department, 71 millions ; Finan•
cial Department, 27 millions ; Pensions, 13 mil-
lions; Ministry of Public Works, 9 millions; subsi-
dies paid to various branches of industry, 8
millions.

Income.—By poll tax, 28 millions silver roubles ;
land tax, 25 millions ; property of the State, 12
millions; tax on liquors, wine, &c., 124 millions;
Customs, 32 millions ; Postal Department, 7 mil-
lions; stamp dues, 6 millions.

DRESDEN, FEB. 6.

The official Dresden Journal of to-day publishes
a co/respondence from Warsaw, announcing that
judgment had been pronounced by the court martial
on the catholic priests imprisoned in the citadel.
Four canons are condemned to transportation to
Siberia, and one to imprisonment in the fortress.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 6.

In to-day's sitting of the Rigsraad, the President
of the Council declared that it is the desire of the
Government to establish the freedom and indepen-
dence of Denmark and Schleswig, no matter with or
without legislative connection with Holstein.