The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-20 00:00:00

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAn.)

Ayres; Al out.
LIvERPooL, Thursday, 11 a.m.
Wind W.S.W. light, and sultry.
, Constantine, and
Orley,
moArrrive,dQ.
M`Vicar Havre •
Maria Sousces, Bordeaux, Eliza, Palermo. Sunderland
—William ;
jßoubeiiiios
and Mariettes, Alexandria ; Glentilt, pie _ .
Donna,
tou_, Eagle, La-
guna ; Sebastian, Savannah ; Lad Ti
La-
y Bead, Old Calabar;
and Vulcan, Rottiordam.
iir:portland-ban Ann
InOcaff..
Valparaiso
the port.—Ann Sanders, Pall
prima
Sailed.—Globe, for ;Union, for Ostend ; Vo-
lant, for New York ; Jose Mania, for Er vannah • Sper-
maceti, for Halifax ; Sarah, for Hamburg ; Leicithardt,
for
y ; Express, for New
' f ofro rB
otabl taa
focoorrinesCat
Orleans;
Calcutta ui
nßt tolapo
lo;em; Ve
rAi,_vr aaf neo
adr
Hinks, for
Curacoa ; Eliza, for Messina ; and Loire steamer, for
Nantes.
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T;E:::::.A.)mster:
AND EUROPEAN
Margaret,
(BY SUBMARINE
GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.36 A.M.
Wind, W.S.W. ; tide high water ; very fine.
Arrived, 19—Lucknovv, from St. John's, N.B. ; Rain.
bow (s), Rotterdam.
Arrived, 20th—Earl of Auckland, from Rotterdam ,
dßaamron; Ossayx,oAnvnitire,erpis.
tManezroaisiry; ,NMoeemt,elLisbon •
Bombay ; Janet McWilliams, Seville ; Col'umbinn (8),
Rotterdam.
Sailed—Wellington, for Hobart Town.
DEAL, Thursday, 9.50 a.m.
Wind calm, fine, and clear.
Anchored—Blanche, from London, for Launceston Bellevue, Loudon, Ceylon; India, London, Hong Kong.,
Sailed—John Dugdale, for Cardiff. .

THE ROYAL DOCKYARD BRIGADES.-39,000/, having
been voted for this corps for the present financial year,
it has been ascertained what balance is left in hand after
paying the army clothiers' bills. The surplus will now
be divided to the different dockyards, by which the
number of drills will be determined for each yard. It
is reported that at Sheerness and other yards this corps
will do dockyard guard duty, by which one company of
artillery, with two captains and three subalterns, will be
disposable for more active service. Sheerness yard mounts
thirty on guard, thereby requiring ninety rank and file ;
by the present intended arrangement, only thirty men,
either artificers or labourers, will be required for this
duty, day by day.

FOREIGN.

10 all Intwerp&Rotterdam 31 —31 d
5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 11
20 8 Beziers to Graissessac 31 3 d
20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India,Scrip 1 d
... Central of Italy • •••
20 all Charleroi& Erquelin — .
171 all Demerara
20 14 Dijon and Besancon.. p
20 9 Dutch Rhenish 34 3
20 all East Indian ll 2 d xin
20 2 Do. Extension id— ip xin
5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 1 xin
20 10 Gd. Junct. of France ...p
25 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada 54 44 5 xin
100 40 Do. Debentures —
100 all Do. do ...d 94
20 10 Gt. Central of France id par xin
201 all Gt.WesternofCanada
Shares
Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 p
201 all liamilton & Toronto 4 d 4 p
100 all Do. 6 per cent.
•••
20 5 Lake Const. & Basle •••
5 all 'Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c
pref — dis
20 15 Luxembourg •••
10 10 Do. (Railway)....,
5 2 Do. Pref —
5 3 Do. (Canal)
10 5 Do. 6p. et. pref — ...d
20 10 Lyons and Geneva
20 12 Lyons & Mediterran. . . ..
•
20 131 Madras .ld —4 p
33h 33A Maria Antonia
10 all Do. do. New
20 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry.
20 all Namur & Liege (with
interest) 74 8
20 all Do. (ex interest) — •••
16 all Northern of France 321 321 32f zin
Do. 201. 3 p. c BdP.
20 all (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.)
10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 8 9
20 10 Paris and Lyons 174 17ip 314 ain
40 all Ditto Bonds
10 all Paris and Orleans 45 47
20 all Paris and Rouen 4O 42
20 all Paris and Strasbourg 304 • 311
20 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. —• pm
104 10i Quebec & Richmond ...
20 all Rouen and Havre 221 231
20 15 Royal Danish ld 1p
5 2 Royal Swedish •— d
20 all Sambre and Meuse B4 9
... 6 Do. 5i p. cent. Pref —
20 6 Southern of France —pm
20 8 St. Andrew's and
Quebec (A) — •••
si all West Flanders 3 - 41
10 all Do 54 per c. Pref . ! d
20 10 Western of France — 6 p
10 7 West. of Switzerlan .•
20 2 Wiesbaden
20 15 Zealand
MISCELLANEOUS
5 all Aubin Coal and Iron
25 171 Australian A gricult. 45 46 45 4di
20 14 Australsn.Pcific.Mail
10 8 Anstraln. Royal Mail
10 4 Berlin Water Works
50 40 Brit. American Land 65 70
5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg.
and Reduction Co.. .. •••
100 324 Canada —4 i
95
5 5 Crystal Palace 4l 411
5 31 Do. New.... 6 4
4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ...
20 3 Eastern Steam ..•
20
25 20 ElectritTelegraph(A) —2l
25 all Do. (B) .. .. .
1 1 Electric Toleg. of Ir
15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat —
20 18 General Screw Stearn
20 71 Irish Beetroot Sugar
20 10 Magdalena St. Navig.
1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel . .
10 3 Netherlands Land .4
_ 14
2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter
Steam Navigat. Co
1 all N. B. Australasian
1# Do. New
20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam
5 all Peel Rr. Ld•Jaflurl.
50 all Peninsular&Oriental 4
50 40 Do. Do. •••
2 all Portland Iron Co
Royal Mail Steam P
100 60
1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 24
25 25 South Anstral.Land 34 36
1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 1 11
1 all Do. Registered. — 1
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2i - 3 p

6 - 7
9 - 10
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MINES.
1 all Agua Fria
1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold ...
10s. all Anglo Californian •
10 2 Australasian 1 d
20 6 Australian
1 all Australian Cordillera
1 all Australian Freehold
1 all Ave Maria
•.•
1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of)
50 all Blaenarvon Ir. &Coal 7
1 all British Austrin. Gold ...
20 13.5 British Iron
35 24# Brazilian Imp.(issued
at .£5 pre 3 41
30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 2 24
20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 27 —29 x d
1 3 Carson's Creek
1 s Clarendon Con. MM
Co. of Jamaica ••
10 all Cobre Copper 45 47 47
5 1 Colonial Gold s
... 15 Copiapo
St. all Copper Min. of Eng 52 57
25 all Do. Pref. 7# p. cent —
5 all English and Austen
Copper Smeltg. Co ll 2
20 all General
2 all Great Nugget Vein......-
2 all Do. Registered
3 all Great Polgooth
1 all Liberty
3 all Linares
1 all Lond.drCaliforn.Gold
Quartz Crush. Co.
1 all Mariquita
10 9 Mexican&S.Americn 6
1 all New Granada —
1 all New Linares Mining
and Smelting Co .
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201 all pNoonutvgeajbauuMdondse
jive,
Lead Min. & Smelt l6 17
5 1 Port Philip —
1 all Quartz Rock
1550 allls
Di 110 mN ne
we y Iron .... . I— _
30 10i Santiago de Cubs
1 all Pouth Australian ••• 4 - 4
10 7 Tin Croft 4
281 all United Mexican
1 all Waller ........
1 all West Granada
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1 all West Maripcoa. ..... • d
1 12s.
1 Yuba
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1 Worthing
1 .1
JOINT-STOCK BANgs.
40 ,all •Austraasia B2 81,
40 all British Colonial Bank
and Loan Company
50 all British N. American
25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 1 id
20 2 Chrtd. Lnk. of India,
Australia, & China d
100 25 Colonial
100 20 Commercial of Loud **.*
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20 14 English Scottish and
Australian 3 —2} d
20 20 Lond. Chart. Bk. of
Australia 2oi —2lixd
50 20 London and County ...
50 10 London Joint Stock ... 274
100 20 Lond. & Westminster ...
100 35 National Provincial
of England —
20 10 Do. New — . .
50 223 National of Ireland —
20 all Now South Wales —
25 all Oriental Bank of
Corporation 46 48
25 5 Do. New •••
100 25 Provincial of Ireland
10 all Do. New • • •••
5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg.
& Gold Imp Co z d
25 all South Australia 4l 43xd
25 all Union of Australia.— 71 73
... 2i Do. New — •
50 10 Union of London..

THE NEW STAMP DUTlES.—Yestezday the amended
Stamp Duties Bill was printed. From -the 10th Aug.
new.stamps
_axe to be issued for Rills of -2611:&&1301
promissory Dotes of OA, peluiyand upward!!

TIIE PANAMA ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA.

The papers received yesterday from Aspinwall, Navy
Bay, by the West India mail, contain the following par-
passage of the American steamer Golden
ticulara of tbe
Age from Sydney to Panama. Her passages at pre-
sent have been three in number—namely, from New
York to Liverpool, Liverpool to Sydney, and Sydney
to Panama, and on each occasion, although not put at
her full speed, she has made the finest trip on record,
since, although the distance from New York has, in
a few instances, been performed in less time, these
cases were none of them first passages with new
machinery. Although, however, the present achieve-
ment has confirmed all the arguments so long en-
deavoured to be enforced on the Government, that the
communication between England and the gold colonies
may, by adopting the Panama route, be brought to oc-
cupy only a little more than 50 days, there is slight pro-
spect of Australia deriving any immediate advantage
from the discovery. Neither the outward nor home-
ward trip has been remunerative, the Post-office, when
she left England, having refused to pay her for taking a
mail, unless upon the same terms as a sailing ship, and
not only, therefore, has she no inducement to repeat the
experiment, but her non-success will operate to deter
attempts on the parts of other companies. If a steamer
such as this, under a neutral flag, could have been in-
duced to continue on the line, her services, under pre-
sent circumstances, would have been invaluable; but
the colonial as well as the home Government having
withheld the necessary encouragement, there must be
no more complaints on either side at the hardship of
being restricted to slow intercourse. According to a
statement in the Aspinwall Courier, it was reported that
the vessel had already been sold at Panama to the
Pacific Mail Steam Company, to be put on their line
between that place and San Francisco, where her capa-
city for carrying 1,200 passengers will prove especially
valuable :
" The steamship Golden Age, D. D. Porter, U.S.N.,
left Sydney May 11, and reached Tahiti on the 24th, re•
mained in that port six days, taking on board 1,200 tons
of coal, and sailed thence for Panama on the 31st, making
the voyage from Sydney, including stoppages in 38 days.
The first part of the voyage she had regular in
winds,
and for the entire passage to Panama she has had a current
against her equal to 768 miles. From Tahiti, so smooth
was the sea, and so mild the passage, that a anoe might
have come the entire distance in safety. The Golden Age
brings 118 cabin passengers, and 60 in the stee and
would have been filled but for numerous misrepreeenta-
tions of difficulties in crossing the Isthmus.
" The following is a memorandum of the run of the
Golden Age since leaving New York, using but 12 of her
16 furnaces :-

iles D
11
M. ays. Hrs.
New York to Liverp00l
Liverpool to the Cape of Good Hope
Cape of Good Hope to King George's
Sound, Australia
King George's Sound to Melbourne 1,270
Melbourne to Sydney
Sydney to Tahiti
Tahiti to Panama 4,532

47 12
4 20
0 20
13 12
18 12

Total 24,172 94
Making for the whole distance an average of 256 nautical
or 297 English miles per day. The Golden Age has never
stopped her engine at sea since leaving New York, and has
neither in hull nor machinery met with the slightest acct.
dent during this voyage around the world. She has never
been idle since arriving on the coast of Australia, having
been constantly employed running on that coast while her
coals were being shipped to Tahiti.
" At Tahiti every facility was offered by Governor Page
and the French authorities for her quick despatch."

I SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday, July 18.—We have been fa-
voured by Mr. E. H. Hargraves (a passenger by the
steam-ship Golden Age, from Sydney to Panama) with
an abstract of the log of that ship, and, as her voyage
is the first ever made across the Pacific by a merchant
steam-ship, the details are of great interest. The Golden
Age is an American paddlewheel steamer, of 3,000 tons
burden and 700 nominal horse power. Her run out
from Liverpool to Australia was the quickest ever made,
and the owners have placed her upon the Sydney and
Panama route, with a view of testing its capability to
support a line of powerful steamers. The Golden Age
left Hobson's-bay at 1 p.m. on the sth of May, and
anchored at Sydney-heads on the Bth, at nightfall, the
vessel being heavily laden with coals. She took her
departure from Sydney on the 12th of May, and at 11
a.m. on the 24th entered Papetie Harbour, the distance,
3,411 miles, having been run in 14 days, the' winds pre-
vailing being S. by W. for the first nine days, and E.
the remainder. The lowest run in 24 hours was 220
miles, and the highest 272 miles. The ship was burning
New South Wales coal (from Newcastle) the average
consumption being 70 tons per diem. The stay at Pa-
petie occupied five days, during which 1,200 tons of coal
were taken on board from three vessels lying in a safe
and good harbour without rollers, the coal being placed
on board by natives. On the 30th of May, at 10 a.m.,
the Golden Age left Papetie, having on board 1,400
tons of coal, the ship being very deep, the engines
making only 9 revolutions, and the current being 14
knot adverse. The run to Panama was made in 19 days,
at a speed averaging 200 to 270 miles a day, the actual
distance traversed being 4,451 miles ; wind calm and
light from the eastward during the majority of the pas-
sage. The course steered was a strait one to Tahiti and
thence to Panama, and the ship had to contend with 768
miles of current. About 2,600 tons of coal were consumed
in all, the average cost of which, at 41. per ton, was
10,4001. With a consumption of 70 tons of New South
Wales coal the engines made only 13 revolutions per
minute, whereas with 50 tons of Welsh coals the revo-
lutions attained have been 18. The mails have been
delivered in Southampton is 66 days from Sydney, all
detentions included ; but, taking 6 days for coaling at
Papetie, 4 days detention at Panama, and 2 days at St.
Thomas's, the actual steaming time has been 54 days
from Sydney to England. The freight and passage.
money earned by the Golden Age was 10,5001., and the
voyage will, it is said, show a loss of from 7,0001. to
10,0001., owing to the enormous cost of fuel. Screw-
steamers, if used on this route, would probably coal in
Cook's Straits, New Zealand, and, as they would have
more wind in their favour and less current against them,
would easily make the run from Sydney to Panama in
40 to 45 days, at an expenditure of coal less than one-
third of that occasioned by the employment of the Golden
Age. Without a mail contract of 10s. per mile, it is
doubtful if screw-steamers would pay their expenses on
the line ; and it is from this cause that the English com-
pany (the Australasian Pacific) has withdrawn their fine
steamers, built specially for the purpose. The experi-
ence derived from the voyage of the Golden Age is pretty
conclusive as to the fact of the Panama route to Aus-
tralia being the shortest and most direct, and (conside-
rations of expense left out of the question) the most de,
sirable for the transmission of mails. When coals can
be provided for steamers at New Zealand at moderate
expense, it seems to be likely that the line will be per-
manently occupied by screw-steamers, but till such
favourable circumstances are in operation, the Panama
route to our South Australian possessions must ne-
cessarily be sealed to the mercantile world.

THE JASON STEAMSHIP.