The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

A FRESH MAN,

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(Front the Mining Journal of this clay.)

Very little change is perceptible in the mining mar-
ket. Many of the good dividend stocks are in demand
at high prices ; whilst purely speculative shares, which
a few months since bore high premiums, are now offer-
ing high discounts. Such of these, lowever, as are
known to be bona fide specs, and under good manage-
ment, are being quietly brought up by those who look
to the mines and not to the market.
In the metal market all is in a most active condition,
and prices in many instances looking up. Copper main-
tains its value, notwithstanding the continued drop-
ping of the standard at the ticketing sales. The
smelters easily obtain 1071. 10s. per ton for tough cake,
and ls. per lb. for sheathing. Australia renders little
or no ore, and other foreign arrivals are falling
short. Under such circumstances, present rates may be
expected for some continuance ; and the miner ought to
receive his share of the profits in a larger proportion
than he has done for some time past. Tin must ad-
vance ; the approaching sale of foreign will not augment
the stock, nor tend to reduce the value of the article.
but enhance it, for there will be greater competition
at the sale next month of Banca than ever. Tin plates
are freely selling at 2s. per box in advance ; this rise
we predicted some time ago, and we now expect shortly
to see charcoal realise 355., and coke 30s.—Lead is sta-
tionary: the smelters get the quoted price, notwith-
standing they have lowered it to the miner for more
than two months. Railway iron is more 'in demand
than ever, owing to such large contracts for forward
delivery—in fact, it has occasioned an advance in Scotch
pig to such an enormous extent, that 535. per ton, cash,
has been ?aid, and 635. for Glengarnoch and the better
sorts. The home consumption is so extended, that the
yield at present bears no proportion to it ; consequently,
every day lessens the amount ?if stock seriously.
In the Bullion Market—Meidoan and South American
dollars, 4s. 11.fd. per oz. Spanish Pillar dollars,
ss. 21d. United States dollars, 4s. 11,1,d. Bar silver,
containing gold, all gold above 5 grs. in the pound to
be paid for, ss. l.rd. per oz. stand. Bar silver without
gold, ss. 1i;c1. per oz. stand. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz.
stand. Spanish doubloons, 78s. per oz. ; Columbian
doubloons, 765. Sd.' American Eagles, 70s. 51 to
765. 6d.

Business in the gold mining shares this week has been
almost entirely suspended, either for investment or
speculation. Prices have, consequently, shown a rather
drooping tendency ; but the transactions are altogether
so circumscribed as scarcely to deserve a special report.

About an hour after the adjourned meeting, the pro-
prietor of the Harp Company, Messrs. Gamble, Coulter,
Cranfield, Isaacs, Hider, and Beadle, on behalf of the
cab proprietors and drivers; and Messrs. Gray, Hartley,
Willing, and Bradfield, on behalf of the omnibus pro-
prietors, proceeded to the House of Commons, where
they had a long interview with Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir
Benjamin Hall, Sir J. V. Shelley, and Mr. Fitzroy.
They explained to the members that, at a meeting of the
committee held after the general meetings, a resolution
had been unanimously come to that the cabs should not
be allowed to go out into the streets again until Parlia-
ment consented to the right of appeal and the ls. for the
first hiring. They were perfectly resolved that those
two concessions should be made before they would again
go to work. So strong was the feeling both of proprie-
tors and drivers on this subject, that they had every rea-
son to believe no other circumstances would bring about
a change in their determination. The hon. members
held out very little hope of these concessions being
granted, and the deputation left without making any
progress towards removing the differences which exist.

SOUTH. DEVON MlLlTlA.—According to the new ar
rangements which have been made in the Devonshire
Militia the full complement of this corps is to be 1,000 men.
Up to the present time, however, they have only succeeded
in getting 780, thus leaving 220 to be enrolled. No efforts
have been wanting to secure the enlistment of suitable
persons, and those who have been already obtained are
a well-built and useful set of men. Recruits are being
constantly sworn in before the local magistrates, but at
so slow a rate that it is very doubtful whether the full
number will be enrolled by September next, when they
will be called out for 23 days' training at Plymouth.
The fast, however, that the hay harvest is now at its
height and that the corn harvest will soon commence,
must be taken into consideration, and it is probable
that at their close (which will be in time for the
drill) a large number of volunteers will offer them-
selves. The same difficulty is at present found in the
North Devon Regiment, which is also required to be
1,000 strong, and which will assemble at Exeter in Sep-
tember. The staff of the latter is still exercising, and
were lately reviewed by Major-General Sir H. Smith,
commander of the western district, who expressed him-
self much pleased with them.
THE FETE OF THE 15TH OF AUGUST IN PARIS. —The
following are some details relative to the prepara-
tions for this fete. The general arrangements will
comprise the space lying between the Tuileries and
the Triumphal Arch at the top of the Champs-ElY-
s4es. The Place de la Concorde and the grand avenue
of the Champs-Elysdes are to be decorated at each
side by open porticoes springing from double
pillars. From the Place de la. Concorde to the Rend-
Point 124 arcades will be placed at each side. Five
lofty triumphal arches are to be erected across the
avenue in that distance, and a colossal eagle will spring
from a sphere erected over the fountain of the Road-
Point. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile is to be lit with
gas, and in the centre will be represented the cross of the
Legion of Honour. The avenue of the Champs-Elys4es
will be illuminated by means of lustres placed at short
intervals from each other, and hanging from columns
adorned with flowers. The entire ornamentation of
the fete, in the Moorish style, is intended to give some
idea of the Arabiansrnonuments of Cordova and of the
Alhambra: From three to six o'clock boat-races will take
place on the part of the river opposite the Champ-de-Mars,
where the equestrian troop of the Hippodrome is to give a
grand representation.. The troop of Franconi's Circus will
succeed that of the hippodrome and represent the taking of
Leghouat, without other combats. A balloon ascent and
a parachute descent will close this part of the fete. At
the same hour there will be jousting on the river near Bercy;
two milts-de-cocagne on the Place Walhubert ; and specta-
cles of various kinds at the Barriere du Trone, and two
mats-de-cocagne. At night, a display of fireworks will be
given on the place near that barrier ; another on the
river opposite Bercy ; and a third and a principal one
on the Esplanade of the Invalides, near the water,
where will be represented—first, the apotheosis of Na-
poleon ; next, the eagle and the Imperial ciphers ; and
lastly, the dome of the Invalides will be lit up with
coloured lights.
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—GuronAvaelrnor, after receiving
an address from the European residents. On the day on
which he left the Consuls displayed their flags, and the
vessels of war fired a salute—with the exception, how-
ever of the Austrian Consul, and the commander of
the Austrian vessel. The latter then proceeds to say :
—" The investigation into the assassination of Baron
Hackelburg is terminated. All the accused have con-
trived to evade arrest. The Austrian Consul, M. Welt-
beeker, insisted that the chiefs of the emigration should
be bastinadoed ; but his Excellency Cheldb Effendi re-
fused, saying, If they be guilty they will be prosecuted ;
if innocent, what is the use of this cruelty ?' The ar-
rest of a Hungarian refugee at 13eyrout, which took
STATISTICS OF CABS AND OMNIBUSES.
place recently, nearly gave rise to scenes as deplorable
The following statements may serve to convey some
as those of Smyrna. The refugee, accompanied by
rough idea of the great extent of the cab and omnibus
traffic of London, and of the number of persons depend-
his wife and his children, embarked on board the
Austrian steamer, the Lloyds. The captain immedi-
ent upon it. The number of drivers of hackney carriage
licensed is 4,627, with 871 watermen, or attendants on
ately signified to him, in the name of the Consul, that
he arrested him, and would convey him to Triestie;
the ranks. The number of lriel ne c -* last
the proprietor may babout
The
mit
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limited in 1833. The average' produce of every cab to
to Hungarianh
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he withdrew
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and,
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waitei,i-
ing until he saw he was not watched, threw himself
into the sea. A boatman picked him up and conTvheeyre
ts per diem •
him to the Consulate of the United States. , aril:to-es was
e los. 6d. ; to which sum if
children of the Hun-
! about 3s. 61.1, be added for cash appropriated by the
the AmericanC(insul, the wife and
board, were drivers in lieu of
he
garian, whom the captain wished. to keep on
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ebny, passportu.as recetitaetdl.le wasTha entitledh
k s tetht to Americanehergyef
wages, the amount of earnings or re-
restoredis raised to 14s. Thus, there must be
`spent daily by the London public for cab hire 1,7151. ;
the French steamer,"
to liberty, and arrived at Smyrna yesterday by

A meeting of omnibus proprietors was held yesterday
afternoon at the Cranbourne Hotel, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of repeating, for the third time,
an application to the House of Commons for the right of
appeal against any decision of a magistrate or any other
person under the new act, a power which they believed
to be arbitrary and unjust, as shown in the recent cab
convictions. The meeting was attended by Mears.
Clark, Render, Edmonds, Hartley, Roads, Trevett,
Hardwick, Douglas, Willing, Lucas, Carpenter, Elliott,
&c.

Mr. BRADFIELD, who acted as secretary, stated that
there were 1,200 omnibuses running along the metropo-
litan roads. Of nearly 1,000 of these the proprietors
were present.

Mr: R. HARTLEY moved the following resolution :
"That .the omnibus proprietors having repeatedly, by
communications addressed to members of her Majesty's
Government, by a deputa,tion which waited upon the
Hon. Mr. Fitzroy, and by petitions and addresses to
both Houses of Parliament during the progress of the
bill, respectfully but firmly pointed out the cruelty and
injuß.tice of confiding to any man the irresponsible power
conferred by that bill without the right of appeal to the
party aggrieved ; that the refusal of such appeal has re-
sulted in the recent police court convictions, in one of
which cases an innocent man was condemned to a felon's
gaol for a venial offence, subsequently proved to have
been unjustly preferred, and such instance of how the
powers conferred by such act may be exercised by a ma-
gistrate or an executive officer, who is not responsible
for an arbitrary stretch of his powers, and who is consti-
tuted the sole judge of his powers, has created so much
alarm for the protection of property and the liberty of
the subject as to justify, in the opinion of this meeting,
the most determined stand for the purpose of procuring
a modification of the act, and this meeting pledges itself
to try all lawful means and measures to procure the said
appeal."

Mr. J. LUCAS seconded the resolution, and expressed
a hope that this time. their efforts would be crowned
with success. Ile felt convinced that under the circum-
stances the Government would not now resist a firm but
respectful application for an appeal.
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the meeting, and
it was carried without a dissentient voice.
Mr.. EDMONDS moved the following resolution
"That a respectful communications be made to her
Majesty's Government, and, if necessary, at petition,e beo
presented to the House of Commons, with a view to
procure such appeal, and that a general meeting of all
persons engaged in the London omnibus trade be sum-
moned for taking the opinion of the trade as to further
proceedings."
The resolution was seconded by Mr. TREVETT and
unanimously adopted, and Monday next Was fixed for
the meeting.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman, and the
meeting separated.