The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-05 00:00:00

THE,' SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1862.

must have its Ecclesiastical and, perhaps,
Parliamentary Reform tournaments; but there
will be no general engagements under the auspices
of the Commanders-in-Chief. Sir JOHN TRE-
LAWNY will not forget Church Rate Abolition, and
Mr. DISRAELI will be called on to propose his plan,
which the decision of Mr. SPEAKER last year re-
quires him in honour to do—Sir MORTON PETO
will contend that all parishioners have a right to
the parish burial ground on equal terms—and Mr.
DILLWYN will demand that when grammar school
trust deeds specify no particular form of creed
or worship, no persons shall be excluded from
them on account of their creed. Probably, also,
Mr. LOCKE KING and Mr. BAINES will not allow
their respective proposals to rust. Why should
they ? The House of Commons and Cabinet Mini-
sters have affirmed their justice and fitness—why
should not the House be kept in mind of its incon-
sistency till it repents and becomes consistent ?
These motions, however, through Whig heartless-
ness and Tory vigour against all progress, will be
easily despatched in their infancy.
Possibly there may be a little disputation over
the Mexican war. Success, however, seems likely,
and is the most efficient of all answers: Poland,
Hungary, Austria, will all be probably discussed,
but opinion, so far as expressed, will be tolerably
unanimous, and non-intervention will cover a multi-
tude of sins. Aristocrats would like to interfere to
coerce Hungarians into submission—the people to
encourage them to be firm to the last; but by
doing nothing our Government will adapt itself to
the practical opinion of the majority, which is that
we can do nothing. In regard to Italy, France,
and Austria, in their relations with each other, the
Government is presumed to be of the same opinion
as the country. Lord JOHN RUSSELL would
probably, were it of any use, counsel Austria
to sell Venetia, and pay her debts with the money,
and France to leave the POPE and ANTONELLI to
the Italians, with whom they say they are in
excellent relations. If papers had to be produced
they would probably be quite satisfactory.
India will present better prospects than for
many years. The expenditure and revenue are
approaching a balance, if they have not found it
already. The measure for selling waste lands,
originally enjoined by Lord STANLEY, will be
popular, and to that has been added a commence-
ment of even redeeming the land tax, and con-
verting the proprietorship into fee simple. The
cotton question has also been vigorously taken up
in India, and it can be shown that if the Govern-
ment cannot in one year make good the neglect
of 20 years, it has yet done all that was possible.
The great blame still lies with Manchester. The
manufacturers, as a ,class, persist in hoping for
American slave growp cotton, and refuse to make
the very slight alterations of their machinery re-
quisite for the successful working of Indian cotton.
Possibly the Irish members, the " Pope's own"
at least, will show their teeth at the Government,
because in common with all the country, the
Foreign Secretary does not think it the duty of
France, or any other power, to keep the poor
Romans under the feet of the Pope and his Peru-
gian Cardinal ; but we suppose the Irish troublers
of Parliamentary peace will be bound over to keep
it by the unsettled affair of the Galway Packet
Company. The Education Minute will possibly
give occasion for a DISRAELI onslaught; and pro-
bably the Premier may incline to sacrificing some
of the more questionable details of the measure.
We can hardly, however, suppose that the House of
Commons will allow itself to be overpowered by the
clamour of an interested class, who have already
received, somewhat freely, the money of the coun-
try, for the most insignificant results. The main
position of the Government will surely be sustained
by the House—that we must have results for the
nation's money. The mole of ascertaining those
results, may, indeed, be modified, but it must not
be a sham mode. If we pay to have reading, writing,
and arithmetic taught, we must save this at least
done, or decline to pay.
Law reforms seem to be those chiety looked for.
The Bankruptcy Bill needs to be perfected ; and
the sooner the better, all the laws relating to the
subject embodied in one statute. The Conveyance
of land, on which Sir HUGH CAIRNS tried his skill,
is a subject for which the materials are ready,
and nothing but the will is wanting to
sweep away the cobwebs of old rou-
tine objections. Minor matters also demand
attention, and will repay it. Our law-reforming
Chancellor will surely not allow his term of office
to pass away, without originating, in a house
which is appropriate to such measures, some which
shall be worthy of his reputation and ability. As
to her MAJESTY'S Speech, we need not attempt
to foreshadow what our readers will have in their
hands at an early hour to-morrow. Domestic
sorrow ; pleasant relations with other Powers ;
regret for the war in America, and consequent
suffering in Lancashire ; perhaps an allusion
to the lamentable accident in the North, and a
hint at legislation for the future ; such things,
With Mexico, a hopeful finance, and the happy
results of the French treaty, will doubtless be
among the chief topics.

El Dorado appears to have been discovered after
all. Not in Peru or Mexico—net in Golconda or
California! but in those new end wonderful gold-
fields in British Columbia. The accounts coming
to us for some considerable time past from the
banks of the Frazer River have road quite fabu-
lously. The description of the " finds" there have
seemed to indicate an inclination on the part of the
writers to take a " rise" out of our credulity. The
flights of arrowy news coming to ns across the
whole breadth of the American Continent and the
whole width of the Atlantic Ocean have apparently
been discharged in our direction by nothing less
than the long bow. We have listened and looked
at this intelligence from time to time somewhat in-
credulously. But after all even the wildest and most
improbable stories turn out literally to be within
the mark, to be perfectly veracious, to be the simple
and sober records of actual facts. The Timos
correspondent, writing from Victoria, the capital of
Vancouver's Island, under date the 29th of last No-
vember, has given to the English public at home
authentic particulars as to the fruitfulness of
these gold fields of British Columbia, calculated
to lure the Youth of the United Kingdom to the
eastern borders of the Pacific, as fast as steam
and wind can bear them, armed with pick and
spade, with mattock and rocker. There, in truth,
in that last and almost, it would seem, richest of
our sixty colonies, the fabled El Dorado has at
length been brought to light—El Dorado, that
is, in the rough. No cities of palaces
are there, nor streets paved with gold, nor
houses roofed
dream-towns ofweiltih pildhaonoek
da; ebsu, thet—in lieu
ownde
foali
tih.fua
tl
—a flowery and fruitful wilderness, with gold in
dust and flakes and lumps scattered about the earth
in gorgeous litter, tie though the banks of Fraser
River were TOM TIDDLER'S Ground. The central
point of this auriferous region goes by the delight-
ful name out there of Cariboo—a savage corrup-
tion, it would seem, of Cerfbosaf. Cariboo! It
sounds already agreeably in one's ears, like the
chink of those opulent-looking canvas bags that

the banker's clerks bring up from the lower

regions of the great storehouse of bullion in the
city, occasionally to unthrottle for a pleasant inter-

val of counting and weighing—to pour out like gol-
den-fiakey grain upon the counter, and to shovel up
into scales with scoops, used like the meal measure
borrowed by ALI BABA'S wife from her next door
1 neighbour. Cariboo! It rings with an irresistible

summons across the American Continent, bidding
all the stalwart YoLth of England who have no-
thing better before them to do, at once to hasten out
thither, for the purpose not of picking up a mere
living, not of scraping together just barely
enough to keep body and soul together,

but to fill their now empty coffers as fast as their

strong young arms can shovel up the squandered
wealth lying there all along the banks of that modern

Pactolus. There in British Columbia, especially in
Cariboo, there would have been no necessity to en-

dow that wretched mythical King of old, the arch•
type of avaricious luxury, with power to turn every.

thing into gold when he touched it. There the auri-
ferous transformation is already accomplished for
all alike—for all kinds of corners promiscuously.

The voyagers to Cariboo have but to stoop and
gather up the common earth at their feet,
and lo ! it is full of it. The golden

plenty glitters within their grasp substantially,
and not like the fabled gold from Fairyland—gold
turning upon the morrow into dead leaves, or melt-
ing in the palm like a snow flake. Cariboo might
most appropriately have been the transatlantic
domain belonging to Miss KILMANSEGG of golden
memory. For there, as with all that golden-legged
lady's belongings, it is " gold, gold, nothing but
gold." It is the one exceptional spot, one might

ever."

say, reading the authentic and veracious narratives
now just coming to this country from Cariboo under
the hand of the Times' Correspondent—that really;
we say, would appear to be the one exceptional spot
upon the surface of the earth where the familiar
adage is contradicted, and where all is gold that
glitters.
The particular region where all these latest mar-
vels in the way of gold digging have been brought
to light, promises to be one of such wonderful
importance in the influence it is likely to have
directly upon the commercial enterprise of the
Anglo-Saxon race, and indirectly, of course, more
or less, upon the commercial enterprise of all
other trading communities that we give the account
of it precisely as it is told to us by the accurate
pen of this keen observer. Here is his descrip-
tion of it—and the spot ought, henceforth, to be
marked in "letters of gold" on every future map
of our North American provinces :—" The por-
tion of British Columbia which has yielded
nearly all the gold produced this year,
and which is destined to attract the notice of
the world to a degree hitherto not accorded to the
country in the aggregate, is a newly-discovered dis-
trict called Cariboo (a corruption of Cerflassuf,' a
large species of reindeer which inhabits the coun-
try.) The district is about 500 miles, in the interior,
north (or north-east rather) from the coast of British
Columbia and the mouth of Frazer River. It is not
far from the sources or ' head waters' of the south
branch of Fraser River and the Rocky Mountains,
and forms a patch of country—a broken, rugged
mass of mountains and streams, 50 miles from north
to south and 30 miles from east to west, as far as
yet known from recent exploration—round three
sides of which the south branch of the Fraser makes
a great bend or semicircle from ite soniroo to its
junction with the north branch, near Fort George,
a trading station of the Hudson Bay Com-
pany, in about lat. 53 deg. 50 min. N." The
geographical position is thus quite accurately
defined. No one can now plead ignorance as to its
whereabouts. There, and not in the mountains of
the moon, or in the flying island of Gulliver, or in
the imaginary regions of Cipango, or in the fabled
realms of PRESTRE join:, is the true El Dorado.
There, and not any where else, not in tho " dig-
ings" of Australia, not the gold fields of California, is
the Treasure Trove—a treasure worthy of the name,
for never, yet has there been such a " find" of gold
anywhere brought to light within so brief
an interval. It is but the other day,
as it were, that Sir BULWER LYTToN
marked out the site of the new colony—and
already it gives promise of taking its place ra-
pidly among the first and foremost of all our
colonies. It has a delightful and salubrious climate,
a fruitful and virginal soil, a magnificent seaboard,
a superb harbour in its immediate vicinity, mean-
ing that of Esquimalt, and above all it has strewn
affluently all along the borders of Fraser River
particularly at a spot already defined with the ut-
most nicety, and known (apparently but very
superficially known indeed) among the natives as
Cariboo—" Gold, gold, gold, gold"—in abundance.

His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh has
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Mulgrave Castle, 'York-
shire.

The Archbishop of York has arrived at Claridge's
Hotel from the Archiepiscopal Palace, York.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry
arrived in town yesterday evening from Powerscourt Castle,
county Wicklow.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster
arrived at Grosvenor House last evening from Eaton Hall,
Cheshire. _ _

The Earl and Countess Howe have arrived at
Curzon House from Gopsall Hali, Leicestershire.
The Earl and Countess of Donoughmore havo
arrived in town from their seat in
ieici-marshal Viscount uom nermere
attending the opening of Parliament by an attack of rheu-
matic gout. _ _ _

Viscount and Lady Mary Sandon leave town to•
day for Folkestone, on their way to the South of France.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—Some new pzers, as well
as some new commoners, will be entitled to take their seats

in the assembly of Parliament to-morrow. In consequence

of the death of the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, Viscount
Valletort, M.P., will be called to take his seat in virtue of
the earldom, ho being the sth earl. His lordship was born
in 1832. By the death of Baron Ponsonby, intelligence of
which reached England in October, his cousin, the Hon.
William Ponsonby, succeeds to the peerage. His lordship
is the only son of the late Hon. and Right Re`. Richard
Ponsonby, D.D., Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. By
the death of the Earl of Yarborough, Lord Worsley, late
M.P. for Great Grimsby, succeeds to the peerage. By the
death of the Earl of Eglinton and the Earl Forteseue, the
number of peers has been reduced by two, the present Earl
of Eglinton being only 20 years of age, and the present
Earl Fortescue having for some time past had a seat in the
House of Lords as Viscount Ebrington.

THE PROVOSTSHIP OF ETON.—In conformity
with the statutes, the election of a provost, in the room of
the Rev. Dr. E. C. Hawtrey, deceased, will take place on
Tuesday next, the 11th inst. The appointment is worth
£3,000 a year, and is tenable with the incumbency of the
parish of Eton. A meeting of the fellows is summoned for
Tuesday to elect a provost, but there appears to be some
doubt whether the nomination rests with the fellows or
with the Crown. The college authorities and the Crown
have been in conflict in former times upon the matter.
Some years since the Crown nominated the Rev. Francis
Hodgson (a son-in-law of Lord Denman) to the provost-
ship, but the fellows resisted, and elected Dr. Lonsdale, at
present Bishop of Lichfield. The Ministerial appointment
was, after some legal difficulties, acceded to.
THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA.—Within
the last fortnight, the representative of a Liverpool house
engaged a number of engravers, lithographers, and copper-
plate printers to proceed to the Southern States of America.
They have been engaged for three years, and are to receive
each from to £6 per week. So secret was the whole
affair managed that none of them knew how they were to
be conveyed to their destination, nor what particular busi-
ness they were to carry out, nor who were the real employers.
All they were informed was that they were to be ready to
start on Friday night last, and that a certain firm in Liver
pool would guarantee their wages and expenses, they having
power to break the bargain at the end of any of the years.
It is surmised that they are to be employed in a Confederate
States Government printing office, to print paper money.—
North British

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, FEB. 5.

The Paris papers of to-day publish a telegram
from Alexandria, dated 3d instant, announcing that
Admiral Bonnard had obtained rather considerable
successes in Cochin China, the details of which
would be brought by the next mail.

BUCHAREST, FEB. 4.

The peasants in several villages, having been ex-
cited by revolutionary agitation, prepared to march
on Bucharest. The Sub-Prefect, who wished to
stop them, was killed by them, and the Procurator
ill-treated.

Prince Conza has despatched troops to meet them,
and arrest their advance by force.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The Massilia, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day.
The mails leave for London at 10 a.m.

PARMA, FEB. 4.

A popular manifestation took place here to-day.
Shouts were raised of " Long live the Pope ! but
not the Pope-King !" " Victor Emmanuel for

(BY TELEGRAPH PROM ALEXANDRIA.)

SHANGHAI, DEC. 24, 1861.

Pekin and Canton are quiet.
Ningpo has fallen into the hands of the rebels.
CANTON, DEC. 31.
The export of tobacco from the Manillas has been
prohibited.

AUSTRALIA.
MELBOURNE, DEC. 26.
The total export of gold since the departure of the
east mail amounts to 173,245 ounces.

ic. higher. Provisions steady. Coffee very firm.
Sugar well inquired for. Molasses very firm.
Exchange very firm, at 1141.
Large speculative sales have taken place.
Gold is quoted at 31 to 4 per cent. premium.
Stocks firm and advancing. New York Centrals,
83i ; Erie, 353; Illinois, 631.
The cotton market is quiet. Sales in two days,
1,000 bales. Middling Upland, 30c. to 32c.
Flour sc. higher, firm and advancing.