The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

THE PROGRESS OF IVETV SOUTH TVA LES.

The Sydney papers received by the last mail
contain, as usual, a curious and interesting medley
of information on the commercial, social, and poli-
tical progress of the colony. Its prosterity, though
seemingly eclipsed by the astonishing accounts from
the Victoria goldfields, is not therefore less sub-
stantial, and perhaps is more firmly established,
and more general in its diffusion. The goldfields
of New South Wales, though less stupendous in
their results than those of Victoria, have never
since their first discovery ceased sufficiently, and in
many instances brilliantly, to remunerate a large
mining population, while the wealth of the colony
has been still further increased by considerable
amounts of gold and money obtained by inhabitants
of New South Wales in the Victoria goldfields.
Ample evidence of this fact is again furnished by the
Sydney Gold Circulars from the 4th to the 18th of
June. In the week ending the 4th of June, 2,161
ounces of gold, valued at about 8,0001., reached
Sydney from the various New South Wales diggings,
which may be enumerated as follows :—Bathurst,
Sofala, Yass, Bingara, Tambaroora, Avisford, Mud-
gee, Braidwood, Bell's Creek, Major's Creek, Goul-
burn, Murrurundi, Cameron's Creek, Tamworth,
Hanging Rock, Rocky River, and the Ovens, where
new and rich placers had been discovered. In the
week ending June 10, the arrivals amounted to
4,325 ounces, valued at 15,0091. ; in the week end-
ing June 18, 1,446 ounces of gold came to Sydney,
together with 2,8641. in cash. The total of the ex-
ports of gold since the first discovery amounted to
1,332,741 ounces, which, at 70s. per ounce, repre-
sent a capital of 4,664,5931. It is of course impos-
sible to estimate the amounts taken out by pas-
sengers, either on their own account or for others.
The prices of gold at Sydney in the third week of
June ranged from 31. 15s. to 31. 17s. 6d. per ounce.
Considerable losses, in some cases amounting to Bs.
or 10s. on the ounce, had been sustained by Sydney
gold brokers from adulterated gold sent from Mel-
bourne, and the consequence was that New South
Wales gold was much in demand, while the parcels
imported from Victoria were looked upon with a
good deal of suspicion.
Among the gold fields mentioned above are several
new diggings which have never, or but very slightly,
been mentioned in England. The first among them
is Nuggetty Gully, near the Ovens, where the gold,
we learn, is distributed capriciously, and success
has consequently been unequal. Nevertheless, at
least 500 diggers were at work in that locality in
the last week of May, and the majority of these ad-
venturers, says the correspondent of the Sydney
Morning Herald, " aredoing very well." By some
Nuggetty Gully was spoken very highly of ; others
maintained that the washing stuff is only a few
inches in thickness, and that, unless it is very rich,
it would not pay for working. Three or four
parties are mentioned as getting 12 ounces to the
tub. An instance of great good fortune is reported
from another new locality—Maitland Bar, on the
Meroo. A party of three were digging on a claim
for 24 days. They paid all their expences, sold the
gold, and in the end had a surplus amounting to
1,080/. Of the same diggings it is stated that four
diggers had within a very short time (there are no
further details) obtained 800 ounces of gold-dust,
and another party of three was mentioned whose
weekly earnings for many weeks past ranged from
20 to 100 ounces. The working of the alluvial
diggings and the washing of the soil engaged the
attention of the diggers in almost all the fields.
Formerly, in the majority of instances, washing
would not pay, for it was necessary to carry
the " dirt" uphill and downhill for the distance
sometimes of a mile or two, in order to bring it
near the water. But, within the last month, water
companies have established themselves at almost
all the goldfields, which, by the aid of pipes, and
in some instances, with the help of machinery,
conduct the water to the places where it is most
wanted, These companies, it is said, are suc-
cessful, but their success would be greater if they
could command a sufficiency of labour to supply the
wants of all applicants. They offer 15s. per day
and rations, but they are unable to procure the
hands they want. A hundred miles of gutta-percha
tubing and a dozen small steam engines would, un-
der these circumstances, meet with a hearty wel-
come at the diggings.
The mining population seem determined to be
not only prosperous, but as comfortable as can be
expected under the circumstances. Diggers' tents
and lairs, constructed of dry branches, give way to
bark and slab huts, some of them constructed in a
very substantial manner, and doing, by the taste
and judgment displayed in their arrangements,
much honour to the impromptu architects. Log
huts, too, are being built at almost all the diggings.
It is hoped that the established localities will be
more steadily worked by miners who have in this
manner provided themselves with homesteads, and
that the " rushes" to any new creak or gully which
may excite attention will not in future be either so
frequent or so general as has hitherto been the
case.

AUSTRALIA.-GLENFIELD PATENT
STA RC II ; W OTHERS POON'S SCOTCH LOZENGES and
COMFITS, JELLIES and JANIS, Made and Packed expressly for
Exportation. These goods have always commanded a large sale in
the colony.
Samples and prices may be obtained at the Wholes de Depot,
66, Queen-street, Cheapside, London.

TOZEAU'S COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt,
C k PSULES, approved by the French College of Physicians, and
successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and
acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of
Gonorrohcea, Gleet, and Leueorrhceal Discharges, on an average of
six days (see " Lancet " of 6th Nov., 1852, an extract from which
will be forwarded immediately on application).—Prepared and sold
by G. Joieau, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London ; and
Jozeau, I'hannacien, 161, Rue Montmartre, Paris ; at Liverpool, X.
Clay and Abraham, chemists, Bold-street ; and the principal
chemists of France, England, and the Colonies. Price of bottle of
100 capsules, 4s. 6d.; 50 do., 2s. 9d., with directions, and stamp with
the name of Gabriel Jozeau printed thereon.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
(Established by Royal Charter of his Majesty Geoitge 1., A.D. 1720),
For SEA, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor.
The Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville, Si üb-Gavernor.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq.
Edmond S. I'. Calvert, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, hart.
Edward Maxwell Daniell, Esq. Abraham George Robarts, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Itiversdale Win. Grenfell, Esq. Thomas Smith, Esq.
Robert Hanbury, jun., Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Tetlow Ilibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
MEDICAL REFEREE.

Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S., Consulting Surgeon, St. Helen's-place.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
miums falling due at Michaelmas will expire on the 14th of October.
Life Assurance may be effected to the extent of Ten Thousand
Pounds on one Life ; with, or, at lower Premiums, without partici-
pation in piofits.
The Reversionary BONUS on Participating Life Policies has
amounted on an average to 46 per Cent. on the amount of Premiums

Policies effected during the present year on the participating scale
will entitle their holders to share in the division of profits at the end
of the year 1455, provided the assurances continue in force.
Further Bonuses will be declared at the end of five years.
The Corporation bear the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees.
The Assured are subject to no charge but the Premium.
No extra Premium is required for service in the militia.
Persons assured with this Chartered Corporation are exempt from
the liabilities of partnership.
Annuities are granted, Immediate, Deferred, or Contingent.
This Corporation has held a high position during upwards of a
Century and a Quarter, and affords unquestionable security by its
capital-stock.
Royal Exchange, London.

ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. Post-office irregularities and the badness of the
Royal Exchange, London.
roads are still standing complaints with the New .
G RAVE S E N D ST AR
South Wales miners, as with those of Victoria, but
PACKETS. the grievance which is most frequently mentioned,
No other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfieet Piers. and most loudly inveighed against, is the license
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) duty.
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In the first instance, the miners cannot un-
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revenue.ve and unjust
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5 The opinion seems to be generally adopted, that if
there be any necessity for taxing gold at all, a
Direct Trains from the Boats marked t moderate export and coinage duty would be prefer-
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London able, as tending least to hinder the development of I
every quarter of an hour. the mineral wealth of the colony. It has been sug-
BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACK WALL, on the arrival of the fol. ge-Aed that an export duty of 2s. Gd per ounce would :
lowing Trains from the Fenchurch-street Station. prove more advantageous than the license fee. The ••
WEEK DAYS. SUNDAYS. New South Wales exports in 1852 amounted to '
• ~ - d. 856,188 ounces, which, at 2s. Gd. per ounce, would
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Fen- 3. T. .'',) ',74 a ,_'" Fen- .-.— . ;1:1 :-, ~, 0 a
4° t 4 .... (rive revenue of above 100,0001. There can be (
'church ..?. te. -,-; i•e C-3 church O. 0 E.
~.„0 Ile doubt, say the colonists, that this duty will 1
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--' 8 4 " 6' ° eventually fall on the miner, but the tax would be
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121,4 - - - - 10 - It is stated in Harnet's commercial report, that a 1
:2 4 - - - - - new copper mine has been discovered, and that it
b %
—3% is being worked by Messrs. Samuel, of Sydney. A i
5 lump of copper, weighing nearly half a ton, was on l
4----- its way to that town.
Passages marked * are run direct. The Sydney commercial reports contain some 3.
To or from Gravesend and L0nd0n........ •
F. oregda.bin..
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evidence of the overstocked condition of the solo- ;
„ Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d.
vial market. About the end of May "prices were
Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5.. Oe. ; Six Months, 31. Os. • still enormously high." Brandy, for instance, left 1
Three Months, 21. Os. ; to be bad of the Collectors on board the 70 per cent. profit to the importer, and case gin and ',
Packets ;or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. rum 25 per cent., after paying all expenses. A few
Oct 5 , 1853.
days afterwards enormous shipments arrived, prices '
SIRWILLIAMBURNETT'S DISINFECTING of storeage increased to a very high rate, importers
FLUID.—The best Concentrated " CHLORIDE OF ZINC."— were compelled to push the sales, and the auc-
Great Reduction of Price.—The merits of this Fluid, invented by tioneers were completely smoothered with goods. ,
Sir W. Burnett, M.D., F.R.S., &c., &c., for the Disinfection of Sick
Rooms, Clothing, Linen, &c.; the prevention of Contagion; the The prices of produce and provisions were affected ;
preservation of Animal Matter from Putrescence; the purification of by the general reaction, to the signal benefit of the 1
Bilgewater, Cesspools, Drains, Water Closets, &c , are now so well
labouring population. Wheat sold at 7s. ; flour at
known to the public as to render comment unnecessary.
Sold at the Office, 18, Cannon-street, City, London, and by Che-
18/. and 201. per ton of 2,000
mists, Shipping Agents, and others throughout the United Kingdom, the 21b. loaf ; beef at 11d. to lid. per lb., and J
in Imperial Quart Bottles at 2s. 6d. •, in Pints at Is. 3d. ; in Half-
Pints at 9d. ; and in bulk at 6s. per Gallon. I
mutton at 21d.. to 21.. per lb. The prices of fowls, '.
CAUTION.—BEWARE. OF IMITATIONS.—The only genuine turkeys, eggs, potatoes, A,.
wc., may generally be de-
Disinfect ing Fluid is sealed over the cork with the inscription, " Sir !
Wm. Burnett's Disinfecting Fluid," and accompanied with nume- signaled as high English prices ; they are not
roue Testimonials of the highest order, and instructions for its use. higher than the quotations of the London markets
- . .at periods of moderate scarcity. But it should be
ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES understood that those prices apply to Sydney only.
AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. At the various diggings provisions are still enor-
H
TE SILENT FRIEND.
In Six Languaees—Fiftieth Edition. mously high, in exact proportion to their distance
CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. from Sydney, the badness of the weather and the
Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and
Cases. condition of the roads. At Spring Creek, flour sold
New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, price 2s. 6d., by post, from the at 141. per bag in May, and the price declined in
Establishment, 3s. 6d. in stamps,
THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on June, as we learn from the Sydney Empire, though
the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by it is not said what the exact price was when the
excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of mail left.
mercury, with directions for the use of the preventive lotion, fol- The high price of labour continues, in man •
y in-
I lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications which
prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. stances, to the
preventexecu •
execution of useful under-
PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-street, Oxford- takings, which, in the end, would doubtless be
street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co., 23, Paternoster-
row, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Gor- to the speculator and
profitable
to the community.
don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Earrined cr.-street ; W. Sutton, 10, The papers before us contain no regular price cur-
Bow Church-yard; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Cornhill.
rent of labour, but a few odd paragraphs here and
PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive
organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. there suggest sonic valtiable hints on the
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in- Thus we learn that the shipwrights of Sydney struck
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
wages in May. They were
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excilcireut, and generative for , receiving 15s. per
incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator) Engravings. day and wanted 20s. A man who wished to engage
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
a blacksmith was told by an unsuccessful di
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for digger
their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav- "tO offer 1./. a day and rations, or," he added,
tug. " you don't deserve to have one." It appears that
PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a .
simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. in almost all other trades a like want of hands is
Parer V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. painfully felt, and corresponding wages are given.
The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole 1
The cry is still for useful emigrants, " With the '
subject critically and philosophically inquired into. I
THE CO BDIAI. IIA I, NI OF eYltl tenet lis exclusively employed
exception of clerks and professional men, says the
in treating nervous and sexual debility,lmpotence, ELL!, uls and 335. ! s,,dney Empire, " there is an open field for almost
per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitic "‘, i
remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary any species of honourable industry. A conside-
symptons,
eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 1 Is. and 335. per rable number of ships have arrived with living car-
bottle.
Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2,4. 941., 4s. 641., and its.
of both sexes, married and single. Other shi
per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhma, elect, stricture, and goes • , PS
chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, i are immediately in prospect, and yet the complaint
1/. A minute detail of the case is required : age, babies, and posi-
tion in society. 5/. Packets, with advice, to be bad at the Establish- IS
general.
It
ment only, by which the fee, 11., lit saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, I any sufficient quantity.
1
arc in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon- i If such are the complaints of the men of Sydney,
don, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Eight; on Sunday from
A Elm= to One. I what wust be the lamentations of the fairer poxticii

ALEX. GREEN, Secretary.

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BOAT TICKETS.--
Three Months, 21. Os.
Packets; or of Mr. Moi
Oct 5 , 1853.