The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the EXPRESS TRAII, S
between Paddington and Birmingham will STOP at WARWICK, on
the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th March, for the convenience of Passen-
gers attending the Races.
The Trains leave Paddington for Warwick at 6.15 a.m., Third
98481 7.40 a.m., 9.45 a.m., Express; 11.15, Third Class ; 2.0 p.m.,
140 p.m., Express.
Paddington Station, March 10, 1853.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the Week, " The Thistle," " Shamrock," " Carillonneur," and
"Amine" Waltzes, the "Champagne Galop," "Le Cirque" Quad-
rille ; "La Debardeuse," " Juno," and "Steeplechase" Polkas.—
Admission, Is. Doors open at Half-past Eight; dancing to em-
inence at Nine o'clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven.

NOTICE.
TO INVENTORS, ARTIST,, A'rD OTHERS.
THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
TION Is now CLOSED until EASTER MONDAY, for the
Purpose of ERECTING spacious NEW ROOMS for is PHOTO-
GRAPHIC SCHOOL, &c., &c.
MODELS of MACHINERY, which will be described to the Visi-
tors, WORKS of ART, &c., will be RECEIVED for EXHIBITipN,
free of expense to the Depositors, unul the 21st of MARCH.

SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELE-
GRAPH COMPANIES. INSTANTANEOUS COMMU-
NICATION with PARIS.—REDUCTION of TARIFF.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Wiree of these
Companies have been connected with the Telegraph of the French
Government ; and on and after this date, MESSAGES wilt be
transmitted instantaneously between London and Paris, thus avoid-
ing the delays that have hitherto occurred at Calais.
Notice is a}so given, that a REDUCTION has been made in
the Rate of CHARGES between London and the Continent, particu-
lars of which can be obtained on application at the offices.
No Message that is unintelligible can be transmitted to the Con-
tinent in consequence of the regulations of the French Government.
All Dispatches containing more than one Message will be charged
as if sent separately. These Companies reserve to themselves the
right of refusing all those Dispatches which, in their opinion, are
unintelligible or contain more than one Message.
By order of the Directors,
G. L. PARROTT, Secretary.
Cornhill, London, March 14, 1853.

T' CEYLON LAND AND MINING
COMPANY.
Capital 200,0001., in 11. Shares.
NO FURTHER LIABILITY.
Ten Shillings per Share to be paid on allotment.
7 This Company is formed for the purchase of land and development
Of the mineral resources of the Island of Ce' lon.
11, The fact that Ceylon abounds with mineral wealth has been now
n , ascertained beyond any doubt.
The Directors desire to draw attention to tbifollowinga taken
.•
tin _, • from " Copies of extracts of correspondenei between, her Majesty's
41*ernineut- Oft Ceylon, vide /316 Book, page 15, printe4
,! by order. of-the 731 of Coradiona, ,alsttfuly.4347 "^OLRePionB
, - the beat Informed entertalar little doubf dhat the -vast mineral 're-
- sonrces Of the country hithsrto undeveloped, but which are known
extensively to abound, will eventually present no inconsiderable
feature in the export trade of the country."
EXTRACT TAKEN FROM REPORTS OP SIR J. E. TENNANT, LAT].
COLONIAL SECRETARY OF CEYLON.
"Ceylon is rich in minerals. Metallic products comparatively
Unnoticed in the interior."
EXTRACT FROM REPORT BY DR. URE.
" Upon the analytical examination of certain samples of sulphuret
of copper and of copper pyrites from Ceylon, placed in my hands by
Mr. Galbraith, as imported for ' The Ceylon Land and Mining Com-
Pany,' I find that these specimens are exceedingly rich, and vary in
composition. some of them, like that marked No. 22, from Ceylon,
contain nearly two-thirds (sixty-six per cent.) of copper for one-
third of sulphur.
(Signed) "ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S., Analytical Chemist.
" 25, Keppel-street, March 1, 1853."
EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF MESSRS. WHITE ANB Du MAURIER.
" We reg to state that the specimen submitted to us by Mr. Gal-
braith, as imported by ' The Ceylon Land and Mining Company,' is of
the sulphuret, and yields 72 per cent.
" The minor copper ores contain 26 and 38 per cent.
(Signed) " WHITE AND Do MAI:MIER.
"5, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, Feb. 26, 1853."
The Directors do not deem it necessary in this advertisement to
offer other equally important extracts from reports and other dem-
talents in their possession, but they may be inspected on application at
the Offices of the Company.
The originals of the above, as also maps of the island, with speci-
mens of the ores, can be seen and prospectuses had, and applications
for Shares made to S. Woods, jun., Esq., Broker to the i 'ompan Y,
li civilian's-court, Cornhill, or at the temporary Offices of the Com-
Pany, 23, New Broad-street.
WM. HAMILTON GALIMAITH, Secretary.

THE FEATHER RIVER LAND and GOLD
MINING COMPANY, Nevada District, California.
Established in France as a Societe en Commandite, by which the
responsibility of Shareholders is expressly limited to the amount
of their subscriptions.
For the purchase of a valuable freehold auriferous landed estate,
31,600 acres in extent. •
Capital, 300,0001., in 160,000 Shares of 21. each.
To be increased to 500,0001. so soon as dividends to the amount of
twenty per cent. have been paid on the present capital, which is an-
ticipated from the first twelve months' acteal operations.
Reventy-five thousand of the above shares will be issued at once, of
vrhich twenty-five thousand have been subscribed for in New York ;
And the remainder are reserved to be issued when the property has
been inspected and reported upon by a surveyor, and approved of by
the Board of Supervision, or sooner, should a general meeting of the
Shareholders so determine—no payment beyond a depesit of five per
cent. upon the first moiety of the purchase money to be made to the
Vendors until the property be thus approved.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISION.
41 Paris—Monsieur Drouil.ard, Banker and Director of the Lyons
and Mediterranean Railway.
Monsieur Monternault, Director of the Paris and Orleans
Railway Company.
In London—John Hagshetw, Esq.
R. Hartley Kennely, Esq.
H. W. Schneider, Esq.
91 John Stewart, Esq.
Charles Trueman, Esq.
Capt. Leicester Vernon, R.E.
GERANT I e Peals—.dons. Ennemond Bagary.
BROKERS.
Messrs. G. P.urnaud & Co., Cornhiil.
Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, Old Broad-street.
BANKERS IN LONDON.
Messrs. Heywood, Kennards, and Co.
The London and Westminster Bank.
BANKERS IN PARlS.—Messrs. P. Gil and Co.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Venning, Naylor, and Robins, Tokenhouse-yard.
SECRETARY.—Mr. William Bray.
Offices.—ln London :-64, Old B
Richelieu. road-street ; in Paris, 79, Rue

This Company has been enabled to secure, in the celebrated Ne-
'trade District, California, the right to purchase the large property of
Thos. G. Larkin. Esq., reported upon, as after mentioned, to contain
21,600 acres in extent, and to possess extensive gold-bearing quartz
veins and auriferous deposits, and gold washings, and to be well
adapted for agricultural purposes.
The property is described as being situated on the west bank of
the Feather River, which is a tributary of the Great Sacramento
fiver, and to be at a discdistance of about 195 miles
atalwlater comnamvultni-
cation from San Francisco. The Sacramento is times ga-
hie for steamers ; and it is stated that, during a greater portiontof
The
Year, vesels can navigae the Feather River up to the proery.
-Lae estate iss freehold, and the vendors guarantee an indisputable
title, free from incumbrances.
The mineral importance and value of the property will be best
judged of by the following extract from the report of the Su: reyor,
Nicholas Gray, Esq , who, in September, 1852, surveyed it as an officer
under orders from the United States Government. fter giving a
detailed description of each lot, be sums up his report as follows
:
"I class the whole estate, containing 21,616 70-100 acres, as mi-
neral land. Gold is found from the bottom of the smallest gully to
the summit of the highest mountain on the land, in the soil as in the
quartz rock. Some indications of iron are to be observed at the
south-west corner of the Table Mountain. Quicksilver has been denois-
f
covered in the same vicinity, and I have been informed by
m
veracity that a few diamonds have also been dug from the slope of
the same mountain. The whole front of the estate on Feather
ltiver is about 24 miles, taking its meanders, and I believe the gold-
hearing quartz reek is to be found all along the bank of that
renc streeam,
and extending back generally two or three miles. By
refe to
to the map you have all the principal points laid down of quartz
rock, rich diggings, &c."
Further important details will bo found in the accompanying
document and map of the property; and other particulars of an
W-
resting nature respecting this extensive territory Slay be inspected
at the office of the Company.
Mr. Gray states in his Reports that specimens of the quartz veins
W
ere taken by him from the estate. These Mr. Larkin forwarded to
London for analysts, and the result of that analysis, as given in the 1
!PPendix, shows that with careful managemen t a large return for the
capital invested may be reasonably expected from the Company's
!pining operations.
The working capital of 100,0001., leaving the remainder for pur-
chase money, will, it is anticipated, be amply sufficient to conduct
all the operations of the Company; and it is intended to expend
thesame chiefly in erecting extensive central mills for grinding the
auriferous quartz on the properly, and for reducing and extracting
the gold from its matrices, whether sands, earths, or quartz, in the
most complete, perfect, and economical manner; and also in en-
_enraging farmers to settle upon the property. whose rents would be
Way
with its value and location, and who would in no
waY interfere with the extraction of its mineral riches.
The venders have agreed to sell the property at a price one-half of
!flitch is included in the present capital, and the remaining half
Is to be paid when the capital is increased to £500,000, and when
Shareholders
to the amount of 20 per cent. have been paid to the
as before mentioned. The entire price to be
thus paid in moities is probably not one-hundredth part of the mere
value of the gold to be extracted from the lands, independently of
their fitness and eligibility for cultivation ; and the company have
i:cen met with the greatest fairness by the vendors, who do not seek
0 be paid for the estate,:except a deposit of 5 per cent on one moiety
of the purchase money, until an English surveyor, nominated by the
Board of Supervision, shall have examined the estate, reported upon
and declared it to be in accordance with the prospectus. The
Price per acre on the portion of purchase-money payable out of the
Present capital is less than 101.
The Company may find it desirable that a town shall be erected
near the junction of the Feather River with the north fork of that
river ; and as great facilities and advantages will be offered to resi-
dents, the particular lands to be set apart for this city, looking at the
well known rapidity with which American cities are created and
Peopled, may probably, in a few years, realise prices sufficient to re-
store to the Shareholders the entire purchase money.
An organised system of granting leases of mines on the estate is
also in contemplation, which will yield large returns to this Com-
PanY ; and the Board of Supervision desire to call the attention of
?tiler individuals and companies contemplating the purchase of farm-
mg lands, alluvial diggings, or quartz mining locations, to their vast
tracts of territory. The Board will be prepared to make sales and
trant leases of portions of the Feather Rigor Estate.
The Board of supervision believe that they indulge in no exagge-
ration when expressing their conviction that the estate fairly put to
work to its full capabilities will, for many years, annually yield as
dividend—what may reasonably be expected from all successfal gold
~...°°loPanies—az least 20 per cent. on the entire capital besides
.""nuses. The investment in the shares must, therefore, be equal to
that offered by any other company, either in Australia or California.
The hoard of Supervision will have the power of carrying out the
Contract with the vendors, and of settling the statutes of the corn-
tanY, under which all its affairs will be regulated. The deposit will
21. per share, thus paying up the shares intuit at the time of allot-
ment, and all deposits applicable to the purchase money received
oln shares sold will beheld in like manner as the shares wouldhave
„'"n if not sold—viz., until the surveyor's report has been received,
'atiet Possession given, and a good title exhibited, and a proper con-
veYance executed.
4,_APPlications for shares to be addressed to the Secretary, and to
r_e Brokers if the Company; and no application can receive atten-
'wa unless references be given to Bankers or Stockbrokers.
es APPENDLY.
Xr --•CT OF • LETTER FROM NICHOLAS GRAY. 'U.S., Surveyor to the
lion. T. 0. Learns. Dated Hamilton, June 11th, 1852.
.With this you will receive a small box of specimens of gold-
hearing quartz. The specimens here sent are not selected specimens,
because I wished to inform you corrretly, or within the truth, so as
to Gear future examination. I saw much richer specimens.
knit
This was dug out of a hole about IV, miles from Pocenix. Mill
Itwin as the Bloomingdale ledge or lead."
, stated by Mr. Larkin's agent in this country that the box was
sent unopened from San Fraicisco to London, and assayed by John-
son
iindeadatthey, and that in the specimens no gold was visible to
eye.
The report of Messrs. Johnson and Matthey is as
follows

" Assay-office, 79, Hatton-garden, London,
August 25, 1852.
The box of gold quartz had half of each piece taken off, and the
Whole crushed together very fine, giving grains of gold, which would
tt't Pass through the sieve, equal to Soz. 10 dwt. of fine gold to the
nof 20 cwt. The fine powder produced, by assay, gold equal to
110 z. 10 dwts. of line gold to the ton of 20 cwt.
°z• dwt, "JOHNSON and MATTILEY."
8 10
n 10
20 oat the present price of fine gold—viz., 84s. 7'd. per oz.—
*lves a value of about 841. to the ton of 20 cwt.
zver
•t„lt. is intended that the machinery to be erected by the Feather
Company shall be capable of crashing and reducing the same
B,lettity at least of gold ore per annum as is minded and crushed by
the Celebrated St. Juan del Rey Company of Brazil. viz., about
t.:°" tons per annum. The average produce of gold per ton, oh-
oTtikri by that company, as per their published reports, gives a value
41„ • lis. per ton, of ore only as contrasted with the above extraor-
v—airY produce of 841. per ton. An average produce per ton of ore
• one-tenth only of this sum—say 81. per ton—mast yield profits
te4lll4rSer than the 20 per cent, dividend anticipated by the direc-