The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-08 00:00:00

TWO EMPIRES OF TIME.
THE PAST AND TILE PRESENT, THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
el LANCING back through the year 1852, E.
~.Jr MOSES and SONS have a duty to discharge to them highly
/gratifying ; they have to acknowledge an amount of patronage on
their Establishment and its branches which exceeds the possibility,
of enumeration., and 'folly demonstrates the established convic-
tion on the public mind, of the superiority of their system of
Business, and the general excellencies of their Goods. This in-
crease of pnblic favour will never be disregarded by E. MOSES
and SON, but will form a stimulant to still greater efforts, where
possibility will permit, and to fresh enterprises where these can
procure the best, the most fashionable, and the most seasonable ma-
terials for every description of Dress, with which they always asso-
ciate the most artistic, the neatest, and soundest workmanship.
The appointment of a distinct class of Artists to each style of
attire, has produced a fit universally famed for correctness and com-
fort, and in the manufacture of Garments tbr every station and pro-
fession in society ; for Sportsmen, Juveniles, and Mechanics ; the
most untlinchin; regard will continue to be paid, the highest order of
materials and workmanshi
and the lowest possible charges will
furnish additional attractions for thousands. A degree of patronage
unparalleled has been bestowed on the Ready-made Clothing Depart-
ment, which it has always been their ceaseless assiduity to render
superior to that of any Establishment in the Kingdom, that every
Person may be supplied at any moment to them convenient, with a
Style of Attire agreeable to their wishes, displaying the first order of
Materials and Workmanship, accompanied by a Fit superior to the
Bespoke Goods which may be had elsewhere. The Hat and Cap
Branch has exhibited an impetus in the progress of Business, which
has
rendered it the Crowning Emporium for all the subjects of our
Mighty Empire.
The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Hosiery Section, on which the great-
est care, industry, and experience has been employed, has been at-
tended with unprecedented encouragement; and the world-wide
ommection of E. Moses and Son have rendered it the Depot for every
novelty through every season.
During the past year, a new field has been opened for enterprise
and industry ; a source of wealth has been discovered which has
superseded the calculations of the most sanguine, and has proved
the revelations of truth more astonishing than fiction ; though Gene-
ral Outfitting has always been an important branch of E. Moses and
Son's business, and has through a series of years been available for
Emigrants to all parts of the world, yet the new requirements of a
large portion of the Mutation have been met in the most compre •
hensivo manner by the Outfitting capabilities possessed at the Estab-
lishment of E. Moses and Son; their Wholesale business affording
facilities of the most momentous order, and the unity of the largest
stock of Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, &c., Sec., ever known, have proved
in the highest sense advantageous : their thorough and practical ac-
quaintance with the goods required for any voyage or climate, and by
every class of Emigrants, Ladies or Gentlemen; their readiness to
afford assistance, and gratuitously to give all necessary information
popularity to them as Out-
fitottealrlsi,nwtehnictchinhgasEmigedirpansedts,
might be possessed by Emigrants, they have kept a separate allhasogthiveenrs ; aand that every convenience
Depart-
ment for Outfitting, conveniently communicating with the other sec-
tions of their great commercial Emporium.
Now entering upon the Empire of the year 1853, it is the intention
national &post-
of E. Moses and Son to give each branch of their daily increasing
trade their minute, practical, and undeviatin? attention that 'their
Establishment and its branches may continue the
tortes of novelty and fashion, the recherche of taste and skill ; the
magazine of articles orutility and comfort : the assemblage of every
order of Goods required at home or abroad ; that punctuality and
attention to all commands and that quality and economy in every
class of articles may give them the opportunity, and the pleasure of
extending the benefits of their great commercial facilities to all
classes throughout the kingdoms of the world.

Indulging the wannest hopes of being able, as the year progresses,
far to exceed their professions, and to help on the comfort of all who
remain at Home, and all who Emigrate, E. Mans and Box earnestly
and cordially wish all their Friends and Patrons A HAPPY NEW
YEAR.

CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
falsehood of " Being connected with !heir Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to is many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have.
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :

London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83
84,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.

IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, from which ne abatement can be made.

The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.

A new Book, entitled " The World's Pharos," containing the
Emigrant's Assistant, full list of prices, and directions for self-mea-
surement, may be had on application, or post-free, to any part of
the kingdom.

A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1853 can be had, gratis,
on application.

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THE GOLD FIELDS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

The first news of the discovery of gold in our
Australian colonies came to us from Sydney, and
in the commencement of the emigration movement
the stream of adventurers from this country was
directed to the coasts of New South Wales. The
goldfields of that province, which for a few months
excited so mach interest, awakened so many hopes,
and attracted so many eager and empty hands,
have within the last year dwindled into the shade,
eclipsed, as they were, by the richer treasures and
the all but fabulous returns which wore obtained by
the gold-seekers in the colony of Victoria. As the

fame of Mount Alexander and Ballarat spread,
these favoured localities attracted not only the
crowds of fresh emigrants which just then poured
in from England and America, but the very miners
on the Sydney fields left the holes they had sunk
and the claims they had paid for, and, shouldering
their pickaxes and cradles, marched away to Vic-
toria the Eldorado of the antipodes. As the
ranks of the miners became thinner, and the popu-
lation at the diggings which ministered to their
wants dwindled away, the yields of the New South
Wales mines, though very satisfahcory to the
diggers, made but a poor figure in the escort re-
turns by the side of the thousandvd qunces of
gold that were collected by the vast mining popu-
lation of Victoria. When Mount 4.lBxand.er sent
its weekly 80,000 ounces, the TIOn sent per-
haps a few hundred, but the for#er enormous
quantity represented the 'gains of I 80,000, and
even 100,000 miners, while the miners on the
New South Wales fields, few and far between as

they were came in for larger proportions of the
smaller yield. Certain it
is that New South 1
Wales, with a large mining
population, would 1
beenu to the present
p worked, and
the old diggings only have
soon show a different aspect.
few discoveries made, not because there are not
auriferious regions of great richness besides those
already discovered, but simply v
h because the miners,
doing well where they are, have
the area of their operations and e o
lose their time by
"prospecting." How vast a field for labour and
enterprise that colony still
presents will best be
seen from a condensed review
though as yet they have not
fields, and the regions where of the Sydney gold
has been found,
fields is that of Ophir. Thaetw
gold
dn
worked for gold.
The oldest among the N
termed the South Wales gold
present day has been worked is part which up to the
of a mile above the level of the of what maybe
The Canoblas Mountain,
to ifs but a small fraction
whichCanoblas gold fields.
streams or creeks are
whence a large number of t sea, is the centre,
Summerhill-creek, take their
from its source at the Canoblas
,i,r.eams, including the
rises to the height
All of these
Gold has been found all along
more-- or less auriferous.
the Macquarie, but most ab
Frederick's Valley, where the dantly at Ophir and
junction e r l 11-c r
withe e k,
are situated. The gold is Wentworth diggings
found in lumps of 31b. and tuggetty, and has been
Went-
worth diggings yield large h. weight. The
gold. The mining population_quantities of very fine
creeks of the Canoblas, does at Ophir, and in the
their earn from 10s. to 60s not exceed 300, and
a day. The whole of
the country around the Ca
nobia,s may be consi-
dered as a gold field comparatively unexplored, and
waiting for population, capital,
The Turon district is the and machinery.
richest
gold fields of the colony. Sofala,and largest of the
in less than 18 months has risen
the town which
situate on the richest part of
the
out of the bush, is
e Turon, about 25
miles north from Bathurst. Fifteen miles above
Sofala remunerative diggings were opened at "the
Gulf," and thence to the •
with the Macquarie, a distance Jnn junction of the river
been carried
of above 40 miles,
digging operations have on with more
or less success. The geological
1'
formation of the
country presents schist intersected
veins. The gold is chiefly ~ dust,"
with quartz
' with a tolerable
number of nuggets and a few stray
them of 71b. weight. The yield lumps, some of
of gold on the
Turon has been, in many instances,B most extraor-
dinary. In several cases from qto 100 ounces
per day, and for several days together, have been
obtained by parties of three and four;
while others
took from 20 to 50 ounces. The average daily gain
of such parties would appear to range between 5
and 15 ounces. The gold has been obtained in ' equal
quantities in the bed of the river and on the
and slopes in the vicinity. The dry banks
,by
many
diggings on
the banks of the Turon are considered
to be comparatively exhausted. Others hold
a different opinion. As long u there
large population on the Turon, the spirit of
enter-
prise a
constantly developed new ground, andfreshdiscoveries only ceased when few were left to con-
tend for the honour and profit of making
Rich dry diggings have recently been them.
discovered
on the slope of a hill near Sofala, at a place
which
had before been burrowed up by
miners who
would
not take the trouble of sinking their holes deep
enough. There is a vast field for mining enterprise
at the Turon, both on the river iiself and on the
table-land in its vicinity, whence its •
tributaries
take their rise. Some of these, Big Oakey and
Little
Oakey creek especially, have yielded a large
amount-of gold. Along the Bathurst-road gold
has been found, and at W 11 ill -11., cYagde
midway
between the village of Wyagden and the Turon,
" successful operations " have l;keen commenced.
There are tracts of many miles xtent along the
Turon, which, although known
auriferous, are
il
as yet untouched. 7
The Braidwood diggings next claim attention.
They have hitherto been confined to the Major's
and Bell's creeks, which flow over the table-land
above the valley of Araluen, at the distance of
about 10 miles from Braidwood, on the eastward
of the dividing range of mountains. The gold is
here found in the decomposed granite, at least so
the local geologists say. The diggers amount to
500, who earn quite as much as the diggers on the
Turon. The gold is fine and very pure, but the re-
sources of this part of the country have been only
,
very partially developed.
About 30 miles north of the Turon are the Meroo
diggings. The Meroo is a river somewhat resem-
, blinff the Turon in its general features. Large de-
posits of gold have been found in its banks and bars,