The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-02 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

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(Free, the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)
mtlecEporzn, Sept. 29.—Our market is still suffer-
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The shippers are doing extremely little, especially for the
more distant markets ; and the bias of prices is slightly
distrusti n though uwghhi ihn a w
a diminished
unfavourable in some kinds of yarns, and more markedly
so in goods suitable for India. The home manufacturers
are, however, buying 203 to 34s twist and weft in the
cop more freely than before ; and 32s cop twist, being
scarce, is rather inclined to harden in price.
GLASGOW, Sept. 29.—Our market keeps very steady.
The inquiry from the trade being good they buy pretty
freely. Prices of all descriptions of American cotton
aro steady at last week's rates. Sea Islands fully one
penny per lb higher.
BRADFORD, Sept. 2S.—The business of to-day has
been on the same limited scale as for several weeks, the
spinners buying only what they require for immediate
consumption, prices being such as to retard extended
operations. Neils and brokes continue in request.
HUDDERSFIELD, Sept. 26.—The market to-day in the
Cloth-hall was not an improvement on the previous week,
but rather under the average of what we have had to
designate quiet these few weeks past.
ROCHDALE, Sept. 25.—We have had a brisk market,
and the demand for flannels is exceedingly good, at prices
much the same as the preceding week. The wool mar-
ket has undergone little or no change ; the manufac-
turers buy very sparingly, and for immediate use only.

THE TURKISH EXHIBITION.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess
Mary, honoured the Turkish Exhibition, TT
—yde-park.
corner, on Saturday, with their presence) attended by
the Baron Knesebecit and Major Purvis,

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THE SUN; LONDON,' MONDAY EVENING, OCTOUER 2, 185 4,
IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND
STOCK,AD OTHER COM-
P RICES OF SHARES
THE OVERLAND MAIL f the morning of the 26th, a second was. experienced andA several vessels were loading for London and qweosi.rktezdrtoheekcealtnatyheyi2eildgiv.eosi';:litts i:spic.etbnleurtahtaivteausmtiiniee
rum.cask- of sugar, half a cask of cocoa, and seven gills of
. at Midnapore on the 27th, and a third at the same malice.B. COLLINSON, auriferous iron
.pe:rites rock belonging to the St. John May 29, 1852.
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station as well as at Knrrachee in Lower Scinde at There was nothing of interest from Amoy up to
del Rey Gold Mining Company at .11,.=VBeili11111%.1 y R
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RECORD FOUND ON PRINCESS ROYALISLAND.
PUBLISHED EVEIPLY9T7I-lUtEl7e'ill-YICII ANDIesFIR, FRIDAY EVENING.
We
.have received our papers and correspon- 6 a.m., on the. 29th July. A_ t. this period rain and the 29th of July. The import trade was increasing,
l'n that-although, Prince of Wales Straits on the 30th of August, 1851
Her Majesty's ship Enterprise reached the east end of
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deuce in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The storms prevailed all over India, extending as far and several vessels from the southward, with piece
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dates are Bombay, Aug. 30 ; Calcutta, Aug. 19 ; west as the volcanic regions of the Red Sea. All goods, had arrived.
10' bans extravagant results are not so common as they and found the soa closely packed off the mouth of th,
Singapore, Aug. 15 ; China, Aug. 6 ; Australia, hopes are now_ given up of the safety of the Lady The. country in the neighbourhood of Namoa
h• `arve been-it no period have the prospects. of our gold- straits, and, not finding a suitable winter quarters, she .
Paid. I Price.
July 26. Nueent. She sailed from Madras May 11, for was in a very disturbed state, and communication
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(From the Overland Bombay Times, Aug. 30.) Rangoon, with the head-quartersand a detachment with the city was stopped.
SUMMARY.-The past month has been singularly of the 25th Regiment Native Infantry ; Lieut. His Excellency Commodore Perry, arrived here at this moment.
.......a............ea5-es,-,,,,--aeaaaofAFllrwineclel Name of Company
barren of intelligence ; such events as we have to Colonel Johnstone, Lieut. and Adjutant Daly, on the 22d nit, in the United States steamer Mis-
Lieut. and Quartermaster King, Lieut. Bamford, sissippi from Japan and Loochoo. AMERICA on board. '
R. COLLINSON, Captain.
chronicle are peaceful and auspicious. The electric
and Assistant-Surgeon Simpson on board, and she The particulars of the treaty he succeeded in . zs.d.£s. d. '
•
telegraph betwixt Bombay and Calcutta, via the . 0 British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• _
Itelartlaljtgyr:sostlitt
.ni=i,sline;,3slilVe..pitiitetie7mr Quarters. I,rs. Ditto Provincial...' it. 85. 20 0 0 _ _
north-west provinces, is now nearly completed ; the is supposed to have gone down during the storms making with the Japanese Government have . not
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 1. 20 0 0 21
20 0 0 20 0 0 15
line betwixt this and Lahore is so altogether. In which prevailed betwixt the 24th and 27th of May. transpired. Port regulations and sailing direc-
The Africa has arrived, with advices from New west,arry
ilnBgslo-
b 14 and Brighton •••••• •• •• • • 5/.
City of London .. -•• 41. 10s, 100 0 0 150 0 0 - •
the beginning of the week we had intelligence by Samples have. been sent home by the present mail lions for Simoda. and Hakodadi, the two ports,
York to the 20th. She has brought $1,234,122 We wintered mheirne',
wire in one day over the former of these lines, the , r
of some varieties of hemp most plentiful in our have been printed on board the Mississippi, and Equitable -.-•••••• •. 1/. ss. 50 0 0 all
Continental (3,1 Cap.)... 41. tea.
,to 0 0 43 10 0 -26
1Z , Ra" ooree sung, 16/. a ton ; De.ochur made public. on freight. were finally frozen in October 24. In the interval Great Central .... -. 71 per cent. 10 0 0 all 12
transit of the mail occupying ten days, and we ''. 'friendly The Atlantic had arrived out at New York, and several natives visited the ship, eventually leaving us on Imperial ...... .., .... 61. & bonus. 50 0 0 all 83
trust that the India House will receive, by the 24th ditto, 181. a ton 3P;
Salsette, 14/. ; Ambarra, 91. ; His Excellency also made a compact for
the Ottawa at Quebec. Independent .......••
the 9th of November. They are a quiet people, but L0ini0n............•• 51. 40 0 0
SO 0 0 90 .-•
..,
of Sept., tidings despatched. this day from the Go- and specimens of our other fibres, as well as larger intercourse with the kingdom of Looehoo islands.
Advices from Havannah report an improvement -
have little to spare. Needles, knives, and saws are the Dol, rare. Preference 61. get cent. 25 0 0
articles principa4 in requisition. P 9
.. 25
vernor-General, via Trieste, in 26 days. So soon tipplies of those enumerated, will speedily follow Her Majesty's ship Winchester,. and the steamer
na,,ix ............. 41. per cent. ,60 0 0 53 0 0 26&
as the wire is laid down from the European to the .by the Cape. Though the scarcity of fibre and the Barracouta have left this port to join the squadron in the health of the city. An advance had oc-
curred in sugars. Exchange on London, 113. Almost throughout the whole of the winter we ob-
tained hares, ptarmigan, &c. The weather has been Ratcliff .... . ..... 51. ilOO 0090 0 0 73
20
African shore, and. so on. to Alexandria and Suez, importance of seeing what India could supply was at Shanghai.
exceedingly mild ; the monthly average never below 20 United General ...... 2/. Ids. 150 0 0 all
Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, 60 0 0 2 9 3534
Freights to Falmouth with sugar, 2/. ss.
and a fast boat placed on the Bombay line, telegra- well known here in February last, not au ounce of His Excellency Admiral La Guerre arrived here Ditto, New ........ 51. net cent. 50 0 0 10 u 0 6%
The Secretary of the Treasury had informed the
deg. Little or no s;cl-nese has occurred, and we are
phic intelligence will always be transmitted betwixt European flax seed was to be had at the Steel- on the Ist inst. in his Imperial French Majesty's
in fit condition for hard wc-rk. Travelling; parties will
India and England in twelve days, or in half the dency
.when. the. rains. set in, nor is it still ; and to ship St. Jeanne d'Aro, and landed under the usual N©w York collectors that the tariff laws were toWATER-WORKS.
time taken up by the mail at its fastest. The lower the intimation given in the Bombay Times of April, salutes and a guard of honour. His Excellency continue in force until the ratification of the reci- • •
start early in April- -one following the coast southerly ;
1 Dividend Amount
portion of the Bengal Railway was opened for pas- that half a million's worth of fibre might be disposed proceeded next day to Shanghai to meet Sir James procity treaty by the Canadian Legislatnre. the others will pass through Prince Wales Strait, and Name of Company. • of Paid. Price.
per
of could fitting specimens only be provided, no re- Stirling. Four hundred damaged packages had been re- then part, one for Melville Island, if possible, and the Annum. Share.
sengers on the 15th; no formal inauguration of the •
ply was ever received ; a curious instance of apathy Canton.-Exchange, 4s. 11d. ; freights, 5/. 103. covered from the City of Philadelphia. She was other along the north side of Prince Albert's Land, in n
line has yet taken place. A school of industrial art - Shanghai.-Exchan.,e 6s. 3d.; freights, 6/. aud7l. expected to become a total wreck. search of the missing expedition. ' I Xs. d. Xa. d.
with a Government living on its land revenue, a. a , nest London 6l.per cnt. Stck. too -
has been commenced at Calcutta, on the same gene- chathber of commerce, and agricultural society, The statement respecting the purchase of Cuba Intelligence respecting the movements of the Enter- Grand Junction ...... 4'. per cnt. 50 0 0 all 72
ran principle as that on which those at home are - - • 80
conducted, but with delays and difficulties to con- to which such things ought to be of special Lambeth .......• -• .. 100 0, 0 . •--,, '97
interest, contrasted with the cases of energy AUSTRALIA. The yellow fever was on the increase at New of a mark) in lat. 71 deg. 49 min. north, long. 119 deg. New River Company.. 1 21.T05. ':
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tend with inconceivable to Englishmen at home. west, subsequent to the return of the travelling parties. Southwark & Vauxhall I 51. per cut. ite4'sno .-e /\ .1 ..e..h ,„ nogiA
Orleans. , West Middlesex ...... ;5/.los. pr et. 1..?i.,E..0.•. it ~`0,,, ..;.I,'. '.,'. .00, .
A committee has been. appointed. by the Bom- neted, above.i The Geographical Society has re- -.8,-.
THE GOLD-FIELDS.-THE COLONY OF From Canada we have no particular news, The April 15, 1852. R. COLLINSON, Captain.
bay Government with a view of bringinc, into solved hereafter to conduct its meetings on the
VICTORIA. Hon. Mr. Cameron was to have fought a duel, but RECORD.. FOUND, ON RAMSAY ISLAND.
existence a, somewhat similar establishment at London model, to admit the public to have popular The provisions on I rincess Royal Island were safe on DOCKS: , , '• . •
(Prom the Melbourne Argus, July 21.) it was prevented.
Bombay, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy having under- Papers read, and lectures delivered, and it is hoped the 29th of May, except what our travelling parties con- Dividend ' Amount
taken to interest 10 000/or 500/
pay the of ~, . a the example' may extend. It is rather bard upon The Queen of the South will proceed to sea to-morrow We have advices from Mexico to the Bth. The sumed. Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
the well-behaved portion of the Indian com- morning at ten o'clock, conveying mails by way of Cape immigration of French into Mexico continued. A Annum. Share.
The Resolution sledge parted company on the 4th of
year, to support a portion of the pupils attending body of Spanish troops had arrived at Vera Cruz. May for Melville Island, and has not yet returned. All-
it, government constructing the -bUildings, and munity that the manners and customs of the Horn, and the Norna, expected from Sydney on Sun- X s. d. £ s. C.
Whole should be considered correctly delineated. day, will probably sail on Monday morning with those 2,000 Swiss troops were expected. 16 squadrons well, and no traces of missing expedition. Commercial ........•• 41. pr cent. Stock. Stock. -
meeting all the charges of its maintenance. The
by Mr. Arnold, Mr. Lang, Mrs. M'Kenzie, or by the route overland. We have therefore prepared ourl shall proceed southerly, along Prince Albert's Land, East and West India.. 5/. pr cent. Otock. - -
plan is nearly identical with that of the Polytech-of the army were to be disbanded. East Country.
the "Delhi Sketch Book," or, still worse, by the summary to suit both opportunities. It was reported that the frigate Independence immediately lam extricated. London ..... - -
nic Institute projected in. 1843, with this difference As regards the colony generally we are able with
reports of our criminal courts-yet such at present had received orders to proceed to Greytown. Ditto Bonds.. .... - -
in favour of the latter-that it was meant to be truth to report very favourably, perhaps more so than
is too much the case. Should it remain. so the It is said that the Secretary of State had received FOUND ON RAMSAY ISLAND. St. Katharine - -
entirely popular, and to impose no charge on go- .upon any former occasion. With
,the exception of the . Her Majesty's ship Enterprise, Aug. 27, 1852, Southampton.......: 3l, Os per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 -
fault will be our own. The Governor-General is ata very pacific despatch from Lord Clarendon on the Victoria
vernment save that of superintendence, and which import trade, almost every interest in the country is in lat. 71 deg. 25 min., long. 119 deg. 5 min.
present in Calcutta ; Lord Harris at Madras ; and
was suffered to fall to the ground. through public a highly prosperous or' hopeful condition. Law and subject of the Greytown bomliardment.
We left our winter quarters at the eastern end of this
Lord Elphinstone, who is slightly indisposed, The knaerican. Fur Company's stores at Fort BRIDGES.
neglect. The establishment of an economic museum order are fast becoming estaWished ; life and property bay on the sth inst., and have been prevented by the
arrived from Poona last night, and is expected to
has also been taken up by government, and with are comparatively safe, even in our remoter districts ; Laramil had been destroyed by the Indians, ice from any progress until this day. It is my intention Dividend Amount
spend the remainder of the season. at the presidency. and the eopulation have universally settled down to the In New York the markets were more active. The t( e the channel separation, Wollaston from Prince Name of Company, per of Paid. Price.
the most moderate amount of exertion may
easily
The weather for; the past four weeks has been de- steady pursuits of industry. In the neighbourhood of stock market was abundantly supplied, but no Albert's Land, the entrance to which is in'lat. 70 deg.
be brought into existence • this havino, formed a alteration had. occurred in rates. The business in 35 rnin. north. Hitherto the ice has been close in with
''' ' '''' lightful with a constant alternation of sunshine all the gold-fields considerable quantities of ag,ricultural Xs.d.X s. d.
part of the original Polytechnic scheme. It is un-,
derstood that the system of educational supervision and showers.. It now begins to be warm, and we lands have been purchased, cultivation and the breeding exchange was not large ; on• London, 9i to 10. the shore, nor have we been able to turn its western Hungerford .... • • .... .....
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should still very much desire six or eight inches of of the smaller kinds of live stock have become a mania, The Atlantic's advices had depressed the cotton edge by pursuits," a westerly route along the south end soiliiititwo zeiew, . - 100 0 0 - -
as hitherto prevailing under education boards is and fabulous prices are given for suitable animals. Ve- of 7% p.c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 _
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rain, no more than sixty having fallen up to the markets. The markets for the better grades of of Baring Island'. All well. Waterloo ..... ••••••.• - 100 0 0 -4%
to be extinguished, and a minister of public in- getables, eggs, and milk, in place of being unheard-of
present date. The prospects of trade are favour- flour had slightly yielded. in price, while the corn- R. COLLINSON. Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. It. 12s. GO 0 0 -- 28
struction appointed. instead. The alteration would luxuries, are fast becoming procurable at all the older Ditto Nw ditto of 7L •11. Sc. Od. 40 0 0 - 25
Pable, and money very abundant in the market. .. _
be an important one could jobbing in patronage gold-fields. The diggers are now sending for their wives mon and medium qualities had been sustained. The Vauxhall ............ it. ss. 70 10 3 -. 21
price of wheat was firmly supported , freights re-
be put down ; but an appointment of this kind, to and families, and many of them are devoting a large
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. mained dull. THE ARCTIC SEARCH: JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
be good for anything, must be liberally requited, CASUALTIES BY DEATH IN INDIA SINCE THE DEPARTURE portion of their time to the cultivation of gardens and- s
and whatever is so in India where duty cannot be OF THE MAIL ON THE 30TH JULY. even farms. The Government having laid out town- Dividend Amount
* ships allotments have been eaeerly purchased and the
specifically defined, is sure in a few years to become HER MAJESTY'S TROOPS.-Captain R. Macdonald, former ' Mount ' CANADA. The public mind can hardly have been prepared for
the closing scene in the drama of Arctic search. It is of Paid Price.
AT:trim. Share. .
Ballarat,
encampments at Alexander, 'Bendigo, LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. - The Sarah
a sinecure, or have its work vicariously performed, 74th Highlanders; of cholera, at the Travellers, Bungs- with pain that we are under the necessity of announcing,
• allarat, M`lvor, the Goulburn, and the Ovens, are
or to be passed through interest into the hands of low, near Pondicherry. Sands from Montreal arrived last evening with not only the return of Sir Edward Belcher, but the fact Name of Company.
Z s. d. X s. d.
- now being supplanted by regular buildings, which are Au5tra1a51a........... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 all 8134
incompetents, the home branch of the adminis- Mannas.-Lieutenant T. IL V. Shortland, Oeth dates to the 15th inst. Cholera was subsiding at that he has abandoned, while they were yet uninjured
rapidly aesuming the appearance 'of towns and cities British North American 61. per cent. 50 0 0
Quebec. She brought 240 artillerymen amongst and available for further sevice, the four fine vessels commercial oeLendon. ii. per cepa 100 0 0 20 0 0 3114
tration setting the example in misconduct. The Regiment, Native Infantry, in the Sitang River, Bn.r-
with many of the appliances and comforts of modern
congratulations of the Court of Directors on wain on the 23d April ; Assistant Surgeon J.. W. Fir- .. . .
civilization. her passengers. The 71st, 66th, and 54th Regi- placed under his command ; and, what is of far higher Colonial .............. 3/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
'the excellence of the Punjaub administration has minger, 19th Regiment, Native Infantry, at Rangoon,
Congratulating our distant readers most heartily upon that he has left thegallant Collinson to effect
ments wore under orders for embarkation, and ex- import, -
Lond . Char. Bk. of Aus. - 20 0 0 all 0 21%
on the 24th :tine.
resumed that Sir Edward Belcher will been pu.blished, and it is most amusing to us toLondon and. County •• 61. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 _
observe the credit taken for this, as being the re- 27th
Jul Beaty, Invalids, a.t Mussoor.ie, en these vast strides in the legitimate settlement of the Noting to leave in one of the Company's steamers. his own retreat.
Londe aria Westminatr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 40%
the 27th July ; Lieutenant G. D. Elliott, Invalids, at colony, for which we have so long been lehourieg, we /The Sarah Sands passed the Ottawa on the morning London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0010 0 0 -
fully explain his proceedings as respects his own search
sult or being a part, of their system. The excel- now proceed to give more particular details, and, ac- of the 17th, one day's sail from Quebec. *al of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 50
Nainea Tal by drovvnine, on the 29th July • Lieutenant for poor Franklin's party ; and we conceive that the Fr
Ditto, N
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tii.per cent. 10 0 0 all
lence of the administration of the north-west pro- H. J. Beaumont, 7th Regiment, Native 'lnfantry,' at cording, to custom, commence with our great staple, the
Maperq.m.......memili
winces, and of all our newly-acquired dominions, is Calcutta, on the 16th July ; Lieutenant Small piece, precious metal, public will cleirn alSo to be fully informed why her Ma- National of Ireland.... 1 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0
due to the fact that the old system has been sub- 65th Regiment, Native Infantry, at Rangoon. THE GOLD. THE ARCTIC E.XPE.DITION. jesty's ships have been thus abandoned, in the face of
instructions laid before the House of Commons and Nat. Provincial of Eng. ; 6/. per cent. iOO 0 0 33 0 0
Ditto, New .. •• .... ' 5/. per cant. 23 0 0 10 0 0 -43
vetted, set aside, or reversed in them. What has • We subjoin in the first place a statement of the
amounts brou,ght to Melbourne and Geeloies by the Go- Oriental Bank Corpora. 121. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all
conveyed to Sir E. Belcher by the Plicenix in the South Australia ...... 8/. p. ct.S.: bs. 25 0 o
occurred reflects discredit on the former plan just COMMERCIAL INTELtIGENCE. The following interesting letter respecting the -
'i, o es
44a011. per cent. •25 0 0 252
10 0 _
vernment escorts from the various gold-fields, since the present summer. These instructions, if they did not Ur or Australia..
in proportion as it compliments the present, and as REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM date of our last summer :- Arctic discovery ships has been forwarded to us positively require extended search on behalf of Frank- . per cent. -
1......5i. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 23%
for the praise bestowed upon the company's SOT- THE IST TO THE 30TH AUGUST, for publication :- tin's parties, most unmistakeably enjoined such Measures4o 0 0 all -
.
GOLD FOR GOVERNMENT ESCORT.
Varits, it amounts to this, that their are multitudes As usual at this season of the year, money is very
abundant in the bazaar, and we have little activity to Her Majesty's ship Phcenix, Queenstown, Sept. 2. . Union Uniontt ooe
f .31 'loan. Madrid 11 ; ..
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in their employment, out of whom they have yet lie accomplishment of which the amplest means were CANALS.
Mount As we have just arrived from the Arctic reeions, you ' -
~,,!.:. Divpiedrend
been able to squeeze honest English philanthropy record in the
.nearket since the date of our last report.
Alexander Mclver 'in,. may be anxious to know the latest news. We have placed at the dispose) of Sir E. Belcher, and in pursuance
A Annum. Price.
and. enterprise, and that Lord Dalhousie chose the There is very little demand in commercial quarters, and Week
Baus(nitor., Ballarat. Ovens. k Coul- ,---9 brought home Captains Sir E. Belcher, Kellett, and of which he was further instructed to eonsult with the Names of
no prospect of higher rates of interest being current for ending Avoca Ft I Annum. ;
,g Dividend price. 61,1(;inlizioets.
best of these, and left them to do their work their burn. M'Clure, the discoverers of the north-west pa- sage, they very able officers
.who hccompahied him. Rumour is Companies.
own way, and had it performed to admiration. some time to come Government securities were more rengower. all having left their ships this year, except lePCiure, who already busy, and it is said that Sir E. Belcher s return to es
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inquired after about' the middle of the month, and thel X
Had the court's system - May 27 ... 16,081 16,457 4,802 left his last year. Sir E. Belcher left his ship in Wel- "1.g.. is '
E• land to be ' fe,lo ,ed b courts-martial, and in- -- es
9"1 et 154 Vacciesfield
Ashtn &Oldh 0.. p. . • • 100 2/. 10s. 51%
made exclusively by interest would have been fet- Sl3 - lington Channel, about 40 miles from uechel, Island •• quiries into disputes with hisy officers. It is not, we
Barnsley •• •• 160 - - Neath .• •• •• 1001 16/. 150
thei neglected, and the rate has receded to 98. In joint- Juue 3 ... 17,600 10,96,; - - -
feted and trammelled by checks and regulations stock shares there has been a good deal of speculation, „10 ... 18,877 13,504 4,638 Tio - and Captain Kellett left his in • lat. 74 deg. -42 min:: trust, owing to causes so ignoble as these that the public
service has suffered and the claims of humanity been 100 i 13'. 110
to prevent the exposure of incompetence, and the and quotations in some cases have advanced, as will be ~ 17 ... 23,525 11,453 - - - long. 101 deg. 22 ruin. west, 28 miles south-west df . Dim
sacrificed. thigh= 40 41. 93% Peak Forest. 781 51. Os. 86
lirknk&A.brg 1501 41. GO Oxford ......
Coventry.. - 100 251. 209 Regent's.... 30, 18 (. 16
government of course come to resemble that of the seen by our price current. • ,24 ... 18,875 14,552 3,722 9-29 _ Cape Cockburn. With respect to our own work, I
' 6 433 must tell ou we arrived at Disko on the 18th of June
July 1 ... 20,310 11,380 - - , • 9 . . . . Of the proceedings of the search we have as yet only
gathered that the .divisicn under Captain Kellett had Derby ••• •• 100 0./. 80 Rochdale.... 851 1/. 10s. 60
rest of India in reference to which we have little Our commercial report was dated the clef ult., and
enough to boast. The apprehensions expressed
by in continuing our advices on the state of the market, "
8 14,927 11,927 4,188 1,232 - and, after discharging. the transport, we sailed (with the
„15 ... 14.386 9.170 , - - 8,554 Talbot store-ship in tow) on the sth of July for Uper- rr t I all that f•'td e, ec o was an impa e ,Commander lintook
Ape oraneeenetn 100 '4l. pr.ct. 57 Do. Lk Fdt 12 - -
Elismre&Chs 69:2N P. et. - Somrset Coal 1401 -
Do., G pr. Ct. 1016 L pr. ct. 11% Stfird &Worc 140 281. 407
Principal Melvill at the Hayleybury examination on we regret that so little has transpired of a cheering na- iaavik to procure does, which we did ; and sailed for the having completed a very extended sledge journey to the .rand surrey 100 2/. 10s. 48 Shrewsbury.- 125
the 26th of June, that the selection srstem of no- tore, or calculated to furnish encouragement for the In order the better to thew the position of the gold ice in Melville Bay on the 20th. After procuring some westward from Melville Island, occupying about 100 Grandennt
eyil!venn too
6131.. 00sd .
61 LM Si teovnerrbßral dngde .. 145 12 /. 285
urination to writerships might give us too much future, to shippers of cotton manufactures, interest, we likewise subjoin the following comparative 600 looms and ducks for the Arctic squadron at Cape days, during which he found abundance of musk oxen K-
Lancaster .1100 - - wye Rad 2(3 2/. 24
talent, has created an. infinity of Lausement. When CorroN WooL.-A steady, but by no means active statement of gold received and shipped, respectively, inand reindeer. The movements of Sir E. Belcher appear Leeds &Lvrp.loo 251. - Warwict& 1 ' „,
demand has existed for Great Britain during the month Shadielis we stood far the ice but were 80011 broueht
Dumbiedykes proposed to Jeannie Deans and sae , the past six months, with those in a similar period last '-' .; . " to have been limited, since the date of his despatches Leicester.... I 100 Si. 68 Divining. 5 100 L.• 27%
and prices have been firmly supported. • year. up in lat. 74 deg. north, the ice being very heavy. The Leicstr &Nth. 83 41. 29% Warwick & i
refused him, he said, "If ye had been wise, Jeannie,to last year to his retreat upon Beechey Island ;
mLoughborogh 142 701. 575 Napton.. j 100 3/' 13
ye wad nee hoe said that : but they sathat ln seeds there has been nothing doing but rites of captain and icemaster landed on one of the Duck
e and the promising lands to the north and north-east of onmouthsh 100 - 6 - Worcstr &i
.. •=1 = GOLD RECEIVED BY ESCORT AND GOLD SHIPPED IN' THE Islands, to see how the ice was to the northward and 78 W. 32
y mar- linseed and -
rape
a‘e so'neewleat higher, other sorts FIRST Six MONTHS RESPECTIVELY OF 1853 AND 1854. the icamaster informed us that during 47 yearr expe- Wellington Channel remain, therefore, unvisited. Aintgmerysh'loo - ' - Birming.
--
tied folk aye get on best when there's ae fula in lower. Gold Received But amidst all the gloom which hangs over the Meltn3lwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks - 109.05. -
the house. And the head instructor of the highly- Orener.-The market at the early part of the month Gold Shipped. rience he never saw so much ice, upon which the captain
educated service would seem to hold to the prig- was very firm, and Mundleisur stood at Rs. 933, and 1853. 1854. 1853. 1854. (Inglefield) determined to try the west shore, all the search for Franklin and his unfortunate companions,
ciple, that a considerable amount of indolence and 925 for Indere, but with very unfavourable advices '
937 373 oz. 929 367 oz 1, 103 634 oz 1,077,431 oz.whalers having done so a fortnight before, they not we may heartily congratulate the friends of Captain
Collinson upon his presumed safety, notwithstanding , INSURANCE COMPANIES.
imbecility is indispensable for the government of from China, the price has given way to Rs. 930 for No. N.8.-I 1854,the amounts' ' are' to Ist jelly inclusive. beine able to get through Melville Bay.
the detention to which Sir Edward lielcher's return Dividend Amount
India. The theory is probably based upon
and Rs. 920 per chest No. 2. Judging from the above returns, and takino. into ae- We immediately went away south again, and, filling
count the fact that since last year the escorts to Ade- up with coals at the coalmine in Disko (where we got 70 has. probably
.consigned him. Au we have always Name of Company.
Aina.
sLe. Paid. Price.
fact of previous practice ; those who have ob- EXCH.I.NGE.-The transactions have been few for this anticipated, his course was prScisely that of Captain
served its effect in the East would have mail. In the early part of the mouth a few sales were )aide and Sydney have been abandoned, it might with tons in 24 hours,) we started across for Home Bay.
M'Clure's, whose first winter resting place was at- £ s. d. £ a. d.
some show of reason be supposed that our gold-fields aro We fell in with the whalers on the 3d of August off Albion ..............5i. 10s. 500 0 0 60 0 0 -
been very glad to have dispensed with it, and en- eraffeenctteie3lilal
bills,
, 2bs.u. ii dsinacte2tsil
ei da.rfrhivr
alo first-classth e
echr.medai t
mailan d dwo
ictuh- exhibiting signs. exhaustion ; but we are of opinion • Home Bay, who informed U 3 that the ice had not brokers tamed in the folio ' ar b the Enterprise, four days
after it had been valfsjecl byYM'Clure. ailing, as gis Avtnteolaiteand For.
311.. 1p4:: ides!. 1:: 0 : g : 0 R"
ter no apprehension of mischief arising from that this would be a very rash assumption. Indeed, off: the shore yet, and they had not been able to gat army
the news of the disturbed state of matters at Canton, and from the facts that have come to our knowledge, we are further. Captain Inglefield was determined to look at
the importation of any amount of industry, integ- with very few bills, a fall of more than 1 per cent, ha s• •• 15s. Od. 50 0 0 5 15 0 174 i
Predecessor had done, to accomplish the north-west pas- Anchor ..........:::. 6 per cent. 5 40 1 0 0 _
easethrough
ray, or intelligence that England can supply. taken place, and we now quote current rates at ls. 111 d. fields,nae inclined to think that the davelowent of our gold- the ice himself. At sunset the icetna,ster reported noArgus Life ........... 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 22
There seems to be an attempt at present making in is. 11 15-d. On China there is nothing doing, as it has •
wonderful already been,
ultimately found his first winter harbour, in 1851-2, in
Inveetigator Strait, Captain Collinson Atlas
British Commercial .. 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 5 0 0 7
0 10 0 0 20
infancy.yr aueer _Day, on the south side of Prince Albert Land, Clericl.Med.& Gen. Life spr ct.4l & bs. 1 0 0
again, intendine, alter filling up with coals, to get right 1000 0 0 10 0 0 lee%
the House of Commons to blind the people of and the nominal quotation is rs. 240 for dollars 100 60and he is known to have pursued in the following sum- County .......... •• • •
On glancing at the map of Victoria our readers will through the pack, as the last chance of getting up at all. Crown ....... •• • ..• • • 17s. 05 50 0 0 50 o• 18
England as to the provisions of the India Bill of days' sight. For Calcutta the current rate at the be-ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 634
that the country is intersected by a series of We entered thepack in 70 north, firstcallingat
perceive
last year, the President of the Board of Control ginning of the month was par at sight, till Government Dolphin and Union Strait. He may thus peg- Eqnity and Law...... 4% per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5
ranges, commencing at the Australian Alps and ending Liveley, and filling up with coals, and were 10 days met an easterly course along the North American shore,
1/. 20 0 0 an 191,6
and late Chairman of the India House interposing opened as drawers, and the rate fell gradually to 991, at the Mount Gambier Hills, ma the border of South getting through, coming out abreast of Ponds Bay. We 6/. 50 0 •• 5%
themselves betwixt her Majesty's subjects in the at which a fair amount was parted. Within the last
three days Government have been less Australia, extending from east to west across ten de- found no ice off the west shore for 150 miles on thela d. Globe ..•
:::::: .... 61. per cent. Stock. .. 127%
asinbdlyp::t 'u:,clilcr2•ol).ilas ship through tut-IV,liwZitlorNivaounite
uEaenrogalca.n. L. ife ...... ...
•
East and the constitutional resort of redress for willing to sell, grees of longitude and upwards of two degrees latitude. We now made allci haste to Beachey lalaad, calling at effecting the north-west passaee, though not by the chap- Guardian ............ 5L per cent. 100 0 0 45 0 0 55
grievances-..the British Parliament. These gen- and'the rate may be quoted as 99?5, three days' sight. These ran ea are stated by geologists to 1 all volcanic; Wollaston Sound to see the depot of provisions which Imperial Fire... • • ... 12/. per cent, 00 0050 0 0 333
Imperial Life
tleraen perfectly know, though they ignore the ._. and likely to be more or less auriferous. The progress were left there in 1849 by the North Star. But when by Capnein M'Clure. Cur knowledge of these circum-
nel that has been sighted, an'd so nearly accomplished
Indemnity Marine.... IL 35 k 31. 100 0 0 20 e 0 61
BOMBAY MONEY MARKET. stances is derived from the records deposited by Cap- La„ Fire
fact, that the Governor-General, and other go- of the gold discovery has gradually demonstrated the we went on shore we found all the casks stove, all the
Tuesday Evening, Aug. 29. certainty of this most important fact. It is as fol- preserved meats destroyed, all the rum, brandy, and fain Collinson, and discovered by Lieutenant Me- Law - 100 0010 0 0 55%
'Vernon in India, do not possess one atom more - 50 0 0 20 0 Bi 4
EXCMANGES lows :- wine gone. We brought off about forty casks of flour London
power now than they have possessed for the past On London.-At six months' 'ldby parties
the same places were visited the same season . London Ship.... -
twenty Years-that no change whatever has taken six months' sight, per R., ls. 11
sight, per R., 2s. 0, . ; year.
id. to ls. 11d. 15-16ths Longitude. Locality.
143 deg. min. ...Ballarat,
1851 ...
the next morning for Port Dundas, which is exactly op- from the Investigator and from the Enterprise,bt starting
cham. They further develope the singular facts that Legal and General Life
Marine. .• • . ........ 18s.per share 100 0 0 18 0 0 '27%
Place ill the mechanism of government--that the for credit bills.
sight, 981 r, ,30 days' 1851 ... 144 „20 „ ... Mount Alexander. posite. We remained there a day, and then stood for from widely different positions, iihid that the point Med.lnv.lid &*Gen. Life %/. per ct. 50 0 2 0
Minerva ............ sp. ct. & bs. 20 0 0 . 2 0 0 5%
same shiploads of references which were ridiculed On Calcutta.-At 60 days' •1851 ... 144 „ 20 „ ... Bendigo.
our astonishment, we found the North Star und
Beachy Island, where we arrived on Aug. 26. Here, to was actually seen by both within Monarch •.••.•• • .• .. _ sOOl 0 0 -
and denounced. by every witness examined, must sight, 981 ;at sight, 991. 1852 ... 14 6 „ 20 „ ... Ovens.eposite ay-
a were d •d h
few miless:f -each
National Loan Fund 51 per cent 20 0 0 2 1
P • 0 0 2%
still be sent home for consideration, no matter how On Madras.-At 30 days' sight, 90r. ... ;at sight, 991 r. 1853 ... 145 „0 „ M`lvor. under weigh . '
on the eve of starting for England, with the whole of the ins been repeatedly, yet unconsciously, traversed by •• •
Palladium Life...
trivial the On China.-At 60 days' sight, 238 r. to 240 r. Such facts as these - - Pelican .... •• •• •• - .0-
parties from all the searching ships.d f h
subjects ; the work of Government 1353 ... 145 „.50 „ ... Goulburn. squadron on board. They have left their ships. Of Phoenix - _
standing still • h other •• the spot where these records w
- li3
= Professional Life• ••• .. 5L per cent. 5 0 010 0 %
until re lies are returned. In June 1854 ... 144 „ 5 „ ... Tarrengower. course they immediately gave us three cheers. We
last the tables of the P CALCUTA Ana. 16. absence of records. Vrovident Life........ 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 39%
Board of Control groaned with 1854147 „ 40 a ... Omeo. landed a number of stores for Collinson, should he come parent
piles of letters then ' We have at length had a public event at Calcutta. ...
30
just received from the IndialBs4 ... 143 „ „ ... Avoca, this way. ei. Royal Exchange ...... 61. Stet. & bs. Stock, all . -
House and which The Bengal Railway has at last commenced running, 1854 142 ~ 35 ys ••• Mount William. Lieutenant- Mechem, first of the Resolute, picked up a absence of all disaster in the returning Arctic expect
cannot but shake any in erences rawn rom t e ap-
Sun Fire ...... 6/. 10s. - 252
, ch bore date 184'7. • They had taken and the ditchers of ihe Presidency. can travel by rail to •••Ditto Life .... 11. 10s. u
years on their way fromL dh ll Thus it an pears that our known gold-fields, which in record, which Captain Collinson left behind, he having-
9 1 -
sevenit may be reiterated that the case of united Kingdom .. - ap.ct & bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 4
, ea en. a -street a place called Hooghly, about the distance from Calcutta ' and again, too,
to Cannon-row, and wi111351 extended over less than half a degree of longitude, come up the Prince of Wales' Straits the following year,
remains unaffected except Universal Life ... -
probably take as much that Manchesteris from Liverpool The natives
that . .
more at least before they e are now fotind in a tract of country extending over no being only a fortnight behind M'Clure. He then, find-Victoria Life -
tion, or of mortality reaching even. to the usual average ;
missing countrymen 412 6 -
get back avain. to India in thousands to see the first performances of the ,
Sir Erskine Perry, when he '' . e iron less than five degrees of longitude. In 1851 we had in he could not get beyond the head of the straits,
had leave refused horse • and the carriages which were provided for the have not been thrown upon the north-western shores of
him to make an act of p • •'
Parliament intended for occasion proved quite insufficient to accommodate the Melville Island, but we remain in doubt whether, after MISCELLANEOUS.
the simplification of the procedure multitude - . not, the Ballarat or Bunninyong range and that which side of Baring Island, but was stopped when he got to
•Wellington Channel, their, course was not di-
of the Queen's of people who desired to avail themselves of which extends to Mount Alexander and Bendigo are lat. 72 deg., long. 125 deg, and was obliged to go back pass.'" up
negatively. We do know our
Dividend Amount
courts at home applicable to those in India o the
plea that the Supreme Government could concede the first opportunity of travelling- by steam. connected or rather identical. In 1851, therefore, we again after being within 40 miles of M‘Clure. Collinson reefed the unsearched lards then in sight rather than Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
There can be no doubt that this railway will within a. - ' •" towards the northern shore of Melville Island. It is, Annum. Share.
all that was wanted, so as t ' - had discovered gold on only one range. But now, in eventually wintered in lat. 71 deg. 35 min. west, long. _
very short time materially affect Calcutta, not only corn- the zeal, ability, and single-mindedness
0 make it indelicate to a s
whole term of his mercrally, but also socially. It is now but three days 1854, gold fields ha,ve been found on four others-viz., 117 deg. 40 rain. I send you a copy of his record, and Xs.C.X a. C.
interfere, knew that through th©=lL iir i ,
n command of the American expedition? Assam Tea .......... 57. 50 0 0 20 0 0 -
servitude in the Eaet he had struggled in this -
since the trains began to run, but already the papers are
the Grampians, the Pyrenees, the M'lvor, and the Aus• a tracing of the land explored. I suppoee we shall have •
another expedition next year to look after him. We .
that we now mainly depend, since his intended course, Auction Mart........ 21A per cent. 50 0 0 -
tralian Alps. kustralian Agriculturl 11. Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 42
matter and always been opposed, d filled with advertieernents, which announce hotels, refresh- , , after passin,
e up Smith Sound, will be towards the me-
an that the sine- Though not directly connected with our subject, we started from Beachey Island on the 27th, calling at NI on- Australian Trust .... 6/. per cent.
cure of three sheriffships, ment-rooms and lodeines at Seranipore, Chandernaeore esenlored lands seen by Sir E. Belcher's expedition, lying 25
all
0
recommended in -15,1_,-,5,„ , ,-,- , , „ ,? . ,_ „_ „ ,
~ ~ , may here remark that, according to the estimate of a 'aster' Sound depot. We tried to get to Port Leopold Australian Royal Mail 5/. 10 -0
0 -
411,10-Mexican Mint 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all -
.. _ .. . .
~,..„•,„, to 'the north of Wellington Channel.

(From the Overland Bombay Times, Aug. 30.)
SUMMARY.—The past month has been singularly
barren of intelligence ; such events as we have to
chronicle are peaceful and auspicious. The electric
telegraph betwixt Bombay and Calcutta, via the
north-west provinces, is now nearly completed ; the
line betwixt this and Lahore is so altogether. In
the beginning of the week we had intelligence by
wire in one day over the former of these lines, the
transit of the mail occupying ten days, and we
trust that the India House will receive, by the 24th
of Sept., tidings despatched this day rom the Go-
vernor-General, via Trieste, in 26 days. So soon
as the wire is laid down from the European to the
African shore, and so on to Alexandria and Suez,
and a fast boat placed on the Bombay line, telegra-
phic intelligence will always be transmitted betwixt
India and England in twelve days, or in half the
time taken up by the mail at its fastest. The lower
portion of the Bengal Railway was opened for pas-
sengers on the 15th; no formal inauguration of the
line has yet taken place. A school of industrial art
has been commenced at Calcutta, on the same gene-
ral principle as that on which those at home are
conducted, but with delays and difficulties to con-
tend with inconceivable to Englishmen at home.
A committee has been appointed by the Bom-
bay Government with a view of bringing into
existence a, somewhat similar establishment at
Bombay, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy having under-
taken to pay the interest of 10,000/. or 5001. a
year, to support a portion of the pupils attending
it, government constructing the buildings, and
meeting all the charges of its maintenance. The
plan is nearly identical with that of the Polytech-
nic Institute projected in 1843, with this difference
in favour of the latter—that it was meant to be
entirely popular, and to impose no charge on go-
vernment save that of superintendence, and which
was suffered to fall to the ground through public
neglect. The establishment of an economic museum
has also been taken up by government, and with
the most moderate amount of exertion may easily
be brought into existence • this having formed a
part of the original Polytechnic scheme. It is un-
derstood that the system of educational supervision
as hitherto prevailing 'under education boards is
to be extinguished, and a minister of public in-
struction appointed instead. The alteration would
be an important one could jobbing in patronage
be put down ; but an appointment of this kind, to
be good for anything, must be liberally requited,
and whatever is so in India, where duty cannot be
specifically defined, is sure in a few years to become
a sinecure, or have its work vicariously performed,
or to be passed through interest into the hands of
incompetents, the home branch of the adminis-
tration setting the example in misconduct. The
congratulations of the Court of Directors on
'the excellence of the Punjaub administration has
been published, and it is most amusing to us to
observe the credit taken for this, as being the re-
sult, or being a part, of their system. The excel-
lence of the administration of the north-west pro-
vinces, and of all our newly-acquired dominions, is
due to the fact that the old system has been sub-
verted, sot aside, or reversed in them. What has
occurred reflects discredit on the former plan just
in proportion as it compliments the present, and as
for the praise bestowed upon the company's ser-
vants, it amounts to this, that their are multitudes
in their employment, out of whom they have yet
been able to squeeze honest English philanthropy
and enterprise, and that Lord Dalhousie chose the
best of these, and left them to do their work their
own way, and had it performed to admiration.
Had the court's system been pursued, nominations
made exclusively by interest would have been fet-
tered and trammelled by checks and regulations
to prevent the exposure of incompetence, and the
government of course come to resemble that of the
rest of India in reference to which we have little
enough to boast. The apprehensions expressed by
Principal Melvill at the Hayleybury examination on
the 26th of June, that the selection system of no-
mination to writerships might give us too much
talent, has created an infinity of amusement. When
Dumbiedykes proposed to Jeannie Deans and she
refused him, he said, "If ye had been wise, Jeannie,
ye wad nae hae said that : but they say that mar-
ried folk aye get on best when there's ae fule in
the house." And the head instructor of the highly-
educated service would seem to hold to the prin-
ciple, that a considerable amount of indolence and
imbecility is indispensable for the government of
India. The theory is probably based upon the
fact of previous practice ; those who have ob-
served its effect in the East -would have
been very glad to have dispensed with it, and .en-
tertain no apprehension of mischief arising from
the importation of any amount of industry, integ-
rity, or intelligence that England can supply.
There seems to be an attempt at present making in
the House of Commons to blind the people of
England as to the provisions of the India Bill of
last year, the President of the Board of Control
and late Chairman of the India House interposing
themselves betwixt her Majesty's subjects in the
East and the constitutional resort of redress for
grievances—the British Parliament. These gen-
tlemen perfectly know, though they ignore the
fact, that the Governor-General, and other go-
vernors in India, do not possess one atom more
power now than they have possessed for the past
twenty years—that no change whatever has taken
place in the mechanism of government—that the
same shiploads of references which were ridiculed
and denounced by every witness examined, must
still be sent home for consideration, no matter how
trivial the subjects ; the work of Government
standing still until replies are returned. In June
last the tables of the Board of Control groaned with
piles of letters then just received from the India
House, and which bore date 1847. They had taken
seven years on their way from Leadenhall-street
to Cannon-row, and will probably take
much
more at least before they e-t back again to India.
Sir Erskine Perry, when he had leave refused
him to make an act of Parliament intended for
the simplification of the procedure of the Queen's
courts at home applicable to those in India on the
preme Government could concede
plea that the Su
all that was wanted, so as to makeitindelicate to
interfere, knew that through the whole term of his
servitude in the East he
,had struggled in this
matter, and always been opposed, and that the sine-
cure of three sheriffships, recommended in 1845 by
the whole of her Majesty's judges in the three pre-
sidencies to be abolished, is maintained to this hour
solely because it enables the governor for the time
being to bestow a gift of from one to three thou-
sand pounds annually from the public purse on a
friend. A Parliamentary paper has just reached us
containing an account of the revenues and expen-
diture of India.; the former amounts to twenty-six
millions, the latter to twenty-five and a half, so
that we have once more a surplus of half a million
sterling annually such as we had before the Affghan
war began. The principal sources of our income
are the land revenue, the opium, and the salt,
which afford us respectively a little under seven-
teen millions, four millions, and two millions, the
customs somewhat exceed a million and a half ;
the four great items among them affording us
twenty-one million and a half nearly. The heavi-
est charge is, of course, the army, which costs above
nine-and a alf millions ; the cost of revenue col-
lection is four millions ; the judicial and police
charges above two millions ; and civil and poll-
tiCal chareea, including, contingents, a million
and three quarters. Of course, the India accounts
are so made up that next to nothing can be made
out of them. So far a 3 w-et cnn discover from those
now before us the condition of our finances is satis-
factory. Order; have been sent Out from England
to- reverse the system which used to prevail in re-
ference to public inspravemante, and the Govern-
ments are desired to spend from henceforth as much
in place of as little
riehereto, fore ou canals, roads,
tanks, and other pu
worse and seven 'nil-lions
sterling have meanwhile
been set aside for iunne-
diate use. Private enterprise has of late been in a
'
state of unusual activity
course of the past twelve inaot nth-lean-IZZ;
in addition to the three previously existing, has
been established, and a branch bank _we
or two before—has been introduced amongstwe
—a new set of cotton presses worked e the
hydraulic principle are being set up by an jointe
stock company—we have two companies on tli
tapis for spinning cotton by machinery—one fore
establishing paper-mills—one for obtaining fat
cattle and other farm produce from the neighbour.
hood—the greatest is behind. The share books of
a joint stock company for cutting canals of irri-
gation, laid before the London world in May last,
were opened on the 17th of August in Bombay, and
in 12 days time 450,0001. worth of shares have been
applied for. This added to the - stock claimed at
home is considerably in excess of the half million
of capital originally contemplated ; and if shares
are allotted to all applying for them, the stock will
require to be 'increased to a million—the great
bulk of this will in all likelihood be set down in
India before the present mail reaches London. Cap-
tain Haine;, late political agent at Aden, who was
tried 4 weeks since ou two separate sets of indict-
ments for the embezzlement of 28,0001. of public
money, and acquitted on both occasions, is at pre-
sent in the county gaol as a debtor to Government.
A succession of shocks of earthquake of no groat
magnitude, of pretty general occurrence, were felt
at Nattoto and Lower Bezigal and at Calcutta on

CALCUTTA, Ana. 16.
We have at length had a public event at Calcutta.
The Bengal Railway has at last commenced running,
and the ditchers of the Presidency can travel by rail to
a place called Hooghly, about the distance from Calcutta
that Manchester is from Liverpool. The natives crowded
in thousands to see the first performances of the iron
horse ; and the carriages which were provided for the
occasion proved quite insufficient to accommodate the
multitude of people who desired to avail themselves of
the first opportunity of travelling by steam.
There can be no doubt that this railway will within a.
very short time materially affect Calcutta, not only com-
mercially, but also socially. It is now hut three days
since the trains began to run, but already the papers are
filled with advertisements, which announce hotels, refresh-
ment-rooms and lodgings at Seratupore, Chandernagore,
and Huoghly, the three places through which the line
runs. In a year or two hence, the probabilities are,
that the- fashionable world of Calcutta will live out of
town at villas built on the river side along the line of
railway. The effect which it is likely to produce upon
Bengal no one can calculate. The 15th of August may
be noted as a red letter in the ides of Indian progress ;
for far more loudly than that iron horse made its voice
heard as it hurried to its destination will the sound go
throughout the land, that India must at length be
opened freely and unrestrainedly to the enterprises of
commerce and the influences of British speculation.
Neat to the railway the most interesting topic of dis-
cussion in Calcutta has been the new postal act, which is
at length published, and which comes into force on the
Ist of October; when we shall have a uniform postage,
i.
e. Queen's heads Outside our letters, in very humble
imitation of the genuine article at home.
The commissioners upon itajah Brooke's affairs have
started. They are the advocate general (Mr. Prinsep)
and the Government agent (the Hon. H. B. Devereux)_
There is no news either from the northern or the
southern frontier. Burnish is quiet ; and the King of
aAv is going to seed articles to the Pats • E shibi tion
Whether his Majesty will forward the golden foot or net.
is not reported.

By de,,rees the new country seema to be falling into
order, and no doubt in a few years it will repay us for
its conquest.

CHINA.
HONG KONG, G.
We received the Bth of June mail on the 25th
ult. The 24th of June mail has not yet arrived.
Since our report of the 22d ult. the insurrection
near Canton has been extending by constant suc-
cesses of the insurgents, the Goveniment not being
reinforced, and not strong enough.to put it down.
Fashan is in coinplete possession of the insurrec-
tionary party, and the Imperial forces have with-
drawn for the protection of Canton. The rebel
camp is within three miles of the city, and the Tar-
tar garrison must, be reduced in numbers by the
constant
fighting close to the walls, and there is no
calculating
bow soon the city may be in possession
of the Triad and rebel force, which is reported to be
numerous. The natives continue to leave the city
for places of greater security.
The import trade is suspended, and the export of
the tea remaining on the market is made with diffi-
culty, from the numerous hordes of pirates in the
river. There have been no late arrivals of new teas.
Our dates from Shanghai are to the 24th tilt.
The Imperialists were continuing their efforts to
retake the city, and the present feeling is they will
succeed. There is nothing of moment of the
northern army.
The three Superintendents aointed by the
pp
treaty powers for the collection of the. Imperial
duties had entered upon their novel appointments.
The duty question is not settled. It would appear
his Excellency Sir John Bowring has not waited
for- instructions from Lord Clarendon, judging
from the letter the Foreign Minister addressed to
the Liverpool China Association.
Our advicos from Foochow are to the 15th ult.
There was no political news. The Chrysolite, with
a cargo of tea for London,
,was unsler despatch,

Mount
Peek Xldxander, M`lvor
Bendigo,
'' Ballarat. Ovens. k. Coul- .""
The.
n eda.
° and Tar- burn.
rengower.
May 27 ... 16,081 16,457 4,802 813
Juue 3 ... 17,609 10,964
„10 ... 18,877 13,504 4,638 970
„ 17 ... 23,525 11,453
24 ... 18,875 14,552 3,722 929
July 1 ... 20,310 11,380 6,433
„ 8 ... 14,927 11,927 4,188 1,232
„ 15... 14.386 9.170 8,554

GOLD RECEIVED BY ESCORT AND GOLD SHIPPED IN' THE
FIRST SIX MONTHS RESPECTIVELY OF 1853 AND 1854.
Gold Received Gold Shipped.
1853. 1854. 1853. 1854.
937,873 oz. 929,367 oz. 1,103,634 oz. 1,077,431 oz.
N.B.—ln 1854 the amounts are to Ist July inclusive.
Judging from the above retnrns, and taking into ac-
count the fact that since last year the escorts to Ade-
laide and Sydney have been abandoned, it might with
some show of reason be supposed that our gold-fields are
exhibiting signs. of exhaustion ; but we are of opinion
that this would be a very rash assumption. Indeed,
from the facts that have come to our knowledge, we are
more inclined to think that the development of our gold-
fields, wonderful as it has already been, is yet only in its
infancy.
On glancing at the map of Victoria our readers will
perceive that the country is intersected by a series of
ranges, commencing at the Australian Alpa and ending
at the Mount Gambier Hills, on the border of South
Australia, extending from east to west across ten de-
grees of longitude and upwards of two degrees latitude.
These ranges are stated by geologists to be all volcanic,
and likely to be more or less auriferous. The progress
of the gold discovery has gradually demonstrated the
certainty of this most important fact. It is as fol-
lows :
Year. Longitude. Locality.
1851 ... 143 deg. 50 min. Ballarat.
1851 ... 144 „ 20 „ ... Mount Alexander.
1851 ... 144 „ 20 „ Bendigo.
1852 ... 146 „ 20 „ ... Ovens.
1853 145 „ 0 „ Wivor.
1353 ... 145 „ 50 „ Goulburn.
1854 ... 144 „ 5 „ Tarrongower,
1854 147 „ 40 „ Omeo.
1854 ... 143 ~ 30 ... Avoca.
1854 ... 142 ~ 35 ••• Mount William.
18T51h uesx
ti
et
nadpepde aorvse ae ts
so
tuhr a
uk nhouwiln gaol
degreed- fi e gelds, ,
ownhgich in
itu
de,
are now fotind in a tract of country extending over no
less than five degrees of longitude. In 1851 we had
three gold fields, and now we have ten. If we mistake
not, the Ballarat or Bunninyong range and that which
which extends to Mount Alexander and Bendigo are
connected, or rather identical. In 1851, therefore, we
had discovered gold on only one range. But now, in
1854, gold fields have been found on four others—viz.,
the Grampians, the Pyrenees, the M'lvor, and the Aus-
tralian Alps.
Though not directly connected with our subject, we
may here remark that, according to the e,timate of a
scientific gentleman who has traversed the whole coun-
try, the sides of these ranges thus traversing this colony
comprehend about twelve millions of acres of volcanic
soil, which in point of richness and suitableness for agri-
cultural purposes is not surpassed by any region of simi-
lar extent in the world. ,
With reference to the comparative richness of our
various gold-fields, we are of opinion that this is a point
which will not he determined for many years to come.
The Avoca gold-fields, which is on a spur with the Pyre-
nees, is apparently nearly as rich as Bendigo. As yet
we have only received two amounts by escort. The first,
received on let July, amounted to 6,433 ounces ; and
the second, on the 15th, to 8,544 ounces. We are con-
vinced thl.t further and still more important discoveries
will be made in the higher ranges of the Pyrenees.
From Mount William, in the Grampians, no escort has
yet arrived, but the diggers there (several hundreds in
number) are known to have been successful.
It will be observed that in the latest escorts the
amounts from the older gold-fields have fallen off. This,
however, is explained by the fact, that thoueauds have
rushed from them to the new diggings at Avoca.
More than ever it is found that gold digging has be-
come a settled pursuit ; but at the same time the num-
bers of the digging community working are not increased
in proportion to the general increase of population ; fur
many, as before stated, have engaged in cultivation, and
the preliminary fencing and erection of buildings would
of themselves largely occupy their time. Besides this,
the extraordinary development of other branches of in-
dustry throughout the country, and the ample remune-
ration of labour everywhere received, have seduced great
numbers from the exciting scramble for the precious
deposits.
Another most important consideration in reference to
our gold fields is quartz-crushing, with regard to which
especially wo have conic to the conclusion that the deve-
lopment of the gold interest is only in its infancy.
Hitherto in this colony the applications for extracting
gold from the soil or from the rock have been of the
rudest description, and in this respect, from all accounts,
we are very fai- behind California, where we understand
operation, of very great magnitude, and requiring the
combination of wealthy companies, are conducted. Here
it is found that the samples of quartz are twenty times
richer than the best found in Brazil, and it is certain
that a few of Berdan's machines would yield an enormous
profit on any of our gold fields, and furnish an impetus
to
predictour
the production
effects. ofo ngotlhdi,sosfubwjheoicthweit is
impossible to
subjoin a report
by Mr. Birkmyre, of the Port Philip and Colonial Gold
Company :

Lieutenant Mecham, first of the Resolute, picked up a
record, which Captain Collinson left behind, he having
come up the Prince of Wales' Straits the following year,
being only a fortnight behind M'Clnre. He then, find-
ing he could not get beyond the bead of the straits,
turned back and followed M'Clure round the south-west
side of Baring Island, but was stopped when he got to
lat. 72 deg., long. 125 deg., and was obliged to go back
agaid after being within 40 miles of 11.1‘Clure. Collinson
eventually wintered in lat. 71 deg. 35 min. west, long.
117 deg. 40 min. I send you a copy of his record, and
a tracing of the land explored. I suppole we shall have
another expedition next year to look after him. We
started from Beachey Island on the 27th, calling at Wol-
laston Sound depot. We tried to get to Port Leopold
to visit the depot there, but could not, in consequence
of the ice, We were only three days cornin,e; through
the pack. Remained at Lievely three or four days ;
took in what coals there were, when wo all started for
England. We parted company with the Talbot and
North' Star off Cape Farewell in a gale of wind, and ar-
rived off here this morning.

" Port Philip arld Colonial Gold Company,
Melbourne, March 29.
" Sir,—The sample of quartz from the M'lvor con-
tains at the rate of 7 oz. 19 dwts. 5 grs. of about 23
carat gold to the ton, or the value of the gold in 11b. of
rock is 3d., or 6 cents.
"This is twenty times more gold per ton than is
obtained at Morro Velho, fir the Brazils, from a harder
and more intractable rock ; but, notwithstanding, it has
been very profitably worked for many years by English
capital, the profit last year being 50,0001. .
" Till the success of the mine alluded to, it was sup-
posed to be quite ruinous to extract gold from rocks ;
but this was mere prejudice, as, of course, the success or
non-success of a mine depends chiefly upon the quantity
of gold which a rock contains, and the abundance of the
gold-bearing rock.
"Your sample being comparatively very rich in gold,
and as you say there is great abundance of gold-bearing

RECORDS POUND AT PRINCESS ROYAL ISLETS DY LIEU.
TENANT MECIIAM, IST OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP RESO.
LUTE, IN THE SPRING, 1854.

Her Majesty's ship Enterprise rounded Point Barrow
in the pack on the 26th of July, 1851. Got into open
water on the American shore on the 30th, along which
she proceeded until the 21st of August, when two islets
were discovered east-north-east of the Pelly Islands.
Captain Parry was seen on the 26th, and on the same
evening a bold bluff, in lat. 71 deg. north, longitude 122
deg.•west. Standing to. the north-east along this shore,
she entered a strait on the 29th, in which, on the fol-
lowing morning, in lat. 72 deg. 55 min. north, long. 127
deg. 10 min. west, two islet', with a beacon on the
largest, were seen. Here we found a boat, with 37 casks
of provisions, deposited by the Investigator, which ves-
sel had wintered in the pack, four miles east-north-east
of these islets.

During the autumn a travelling party from her reached
the north end of the straits, in 73 deg. 32 mm. north,
and 115 deg. west. The last date from her is June the
Ist, when all were well. , _

Travelling parties had been exploring north and
south. The latter had fallen in with the natives, who
were described as inoffensive people.
Captain iNl`Clure named the southern shore Prince
Albert's Land ; northern shore, Baring's Island ; the
straits, Prince of Wales ; and the islets, Princess Royal.
The Enterprise, proceeding up the strait, which varies
from 10 to 20 miles in width, reached the north end of
it on the 31st, and on the southern shore found a cylin-
der, deposited by the Investigator's travelling party,
dated on board the ship, April 21, 1851. Findinv, the
entrance blocked by ice, returned along Baring's Island,
rounding Cape Erebus (Nelson's head et M'Clure) on
the 2d of Sept., and on a low point in 72 deg. 1 min.
north, and 125 deg. 10 min. west a cask was found,
with intelligence of . the Investigator, dated August 18,
.1851. She left iPrinea of Wales Straits on the 10th.
All well.

__
Dividend Amount _
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
—
Z s. d. £ s. d.
British •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Ditto PrOYilleial •• .. it. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 21
Brighton • • • • • • •• •• • . 5/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
City of London .. •• 41. 10s, 100 0 0 100 0 0
Continental (3,1 Cap.)... 41. 10e. , tO 0 0 43 10 0
Equitable . •• .. •• •• 11. ss. 50 0 0 all 26
Great Central ....... 71 per cent. 10 0 0 all 12
Imperial ........, .... Gi.& bonus. 50 0 0 all 83%
Independent .......•• 51. 40 0 0 u
London•• .... - •• •• •• - SO 0 0 Pt -
Do., Pali. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 .. 25
Pha•lx ............. 41. per cent. 60 0 0 53 0 0 26&
Ratcliff ..... ....... 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 73
United General ...... 21. ide. 50 0 0 all 20
Westminster Chartered 51. per cent, 60 0 0 ff 35%
Ditto, New ........ 51. oer cent. 50 0 0 10 u 0 6%

The Enterprise, proceeding northerly, landed on an
island in 72 deg. 55 min. north, and 125 deg. 10 min.
west, and deposited 20 days' provisions for eight men.
Not finding any suitable place for winter quarters, re-
turned to where she now lies, in lat. 71 deg. 35 min.
north, long. 117 deg. 39 min. west, at the east side of the
entrance of Prince of Wales Straits.

R. COLLINSON, Captain.

WATER-WORKS.
( Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per • of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
,r-
£ s. d. £ s. d.
East London
Grand Junction .... • • V. per cnt. 50 0 0 all 72
Kent.... • • - . SO
Lambeth ..........., 100 0 ,q ~ —,, 97,
New River Company 21.10x. ': • , ,4.• .' • , f'.`+••!4,',,, ,, .'-,tom;
Southwark & Vauxhall 51. per cnt. Itl4 0) .'.:Os'/',N' j 'es.f... 'e z 14044
West Middlesex • • •
DOCKS.. , ' ' • •
Dividend ' Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share. .
£ s. d. £ a. d.
Commercial ........ •• 41. pr cent. Stock. Stock.
East and West India 5l. pr cent. utock.
East Country.. 2os. per sh.
London ..... ... .. 51. pr cent. Stock.
Ditto 80nd5........ 41. per cent.
St. Katharine ........ 4 per cent. Stock.
Pouthampton ...... •• 31. Os per c. 50 0 0 5O 0 0
Victoria

RECORD FOUND ON PRINCESS ROYAL ISLETS.
This post was erected by her Majesty's ship Investi-
gator ; wintered in the pack off it in 1850-1351, and
then pursued her way to the westward.
The strait was visited on the 30th of August, 1851,
by the Enterprise, who pursued the same course.
This post was visited by travelling parties from her
Majesty's ship Enterprise and another ; traced the north
coast of Prince Albert's Land, and found a deep inlet, or
strait, 80 miles to the south-east of the mark erected by
the Investigator. _ _

BRIDGES.
--- -
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d.
Hungerford .... • • .... 12
.
Southwark , . — 100 0 0
• Ditto New of 731 p.c. 70s. per cent. 50 0 0 --.•
Waterloo ..... .... •• • • 100 0 0 431
Ditto Old Ann. of 81. 1/. 12s. GO 0 0 -- 28
Ditto Nov ditto of 71. •1/. Bs. Od. 40 0 0 25
Vauxha11............ 11. ss. 70 10 3 -- 21
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ s. d. X s. d.
Australasia........... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 all 8434
British N orthAmerican Gt. per cent. 50 0 0
••
Commercial of London. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 3114
Colonial .............. 31. per cent. ' 100 0 0 25 0 0
lonian ....... ...... 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. 20 0 0 all 0 21%
London and County • • 61. per cont. 50 0 0 20 0 0
Londa dna Westminatr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 40N
London J oint•Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 d 0
Frovincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 50
Ditto, N ew.;....... j 8 i.per cent. 10 0 0 all
National of Ireland.... 1 41. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0
Nat. Provincial of Eng. i 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0
Ditto, New .. •• •• •• 5/. per cant. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Oriental Bank Corpora. 121. p. ct.&bs. 25 0 0 all 43
South Australia • • .... 8/. p. ct.& bs. 25 0 0 P, -
Union of Australia.. • . 401. per cent. %25 0 0 25 0 0 83
Ditto .. .... ........ ,40/. per cent. 210 0
Union of London ......Si. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 2331
Union of Madrid ..... I 40 0 0 all

CANALS.
Names of S Dividend price. Dividend
Names of .
Companies. A , per , Companies. s
.o , a . Per nnum. Brice.
ct, Annum. v., ;
--- -
Ashtn &Oldh 98 71. p. ct. 154 Macclesfield. 100 2/. 10s. 51
Barnsley •• •• 1601 Neath .• •• •• 1001 161. 150
Brkiik&Ahrg 1501 41. GO Oxford.. •• •• 100; 13'. 110
Birmingham 40 41. 9316 Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. 86
Coventry.. .• 100 251. 209 Regent's.... 30! 18t. 16
Derby •• • 100 61. 80 tochdale.... 851 1/. 10s. 60
Elismre&Clis 69123 i p. ct. Somrset Coal 1401
GrandJoncitn 100'4/. pr.ct. 57 Do. Lk Fdst 12
Do., G pr. Ct. 1016/. pr. ct. 111! Stffrd &Worc 140 281. 407
"rand Surrey 100 21. 10s. 48 Shrewsbury.. 125
Grand IThionlloo 11.0 s 12M itourbridge„ ,45 121. 285
Kennt & Avnl 39 6s. Od. 6 Severu and '
Lancaster .1100 wye Rail. 24 2/. 24
Leeds &L•vrp.loo 251. Warwick&l '
Leicester.... 1100 51. 68 Birming. 5 100 21. 271
Leicstr &Nthl 83 41. 29K Warwick &
Loughborogh 142 701. 575 Islapton— j 100 3/' 13
Monmouthsh 100 6 Worcstr &i
Mntgmeryshlloo 1 Birming. 78 31. 32
MeltnMwbry 100 Wilts & Brks —10 s. Od.

Assam Tea .• ........ 57. °
Luctien Mart........ 214 per cent. 550 (0
-0
2.
116 0. -
0
-
4ustralian Agriculturl 11. Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 42
Australian Trust .... 6/. per cent. - 25 0 0 -
Australian Royal Mail Cl. 10 0 0 all --
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. li. 105. 10 0 0 all -
British American Land 15s. - 40 0 0 -
Canada ............. 61. percent. 100 0 9 32 10 0 -
Do. 5 per cent Bonds M. per cent. - - -
Ditto, 6 per cent. - 61. per eent. - -110 U
-
City Navigation Bonds - - ___
Electric Telegraph (A) per cent. 25 0 0 20 0 0 16%
Ditto.. •• • • .... (B) - 25 0 0 15 0 0 -
Equitable Reversionry 51pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Ditto New .... - - - 50 0 8 17 10 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs, 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Gen.SteamNavigation 10 p.a. 15 0 0 14 0 0 -
Iludson's 8ay...... •• - Stock. - -
Hungerford .......... 2/. ss, 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
London Institution ... - - - -
London Reversionary 4% per cent. 15 0 0 all -
Russell Institution.... - - 12
Prics PatentCand. Co 10/. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 -
0 0 2
e's%*
ilitoeyv earl s
Ai ol rat
ialr y,. t
ellasnt
1.
.5.0. c.. 44%11.p. p. rs
hcaernet.. 110000
00 00 16000
00
00
_lOO
South Australian .. G/. per cent. 25 0 0 all 37
Trust and Loan Comp.
Upper Canada .... . -
. LIST OF SCOTTISH. COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-
£ s. d. £ s. 0.
flank of Scotland .. •. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 181110
British Linen Company 8:. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 203/ 0
Caledonian Bank ..... 81. per cent. 10 0 0 210 0 3'. 18s
City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10115 s
Clydesdale Bank •... 5%1. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 ,2 b s
Cc nunercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 5; 0 0 0 1011 0 0 197/0s
Eastern 8ank........ 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 10/15s
Edlnb. & Glasgow .... 3%1. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 11. 13s
Exchange Link of Scot.. - 100 0 0 31 5 0 -
National Bank •• - -6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15112 s
North of Scotland Bank 51. per cent 20 0 0 210 0 11. 7s
Royal Bank of S cotl. .. 51. per cent. IVO 0 0 100 0 0 127110
Union Bank of Scot. - 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 921 Os
Western Bank •••• •• - 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 781 Os
Alliance Fire and Life.. 8141. pr cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 191 12s
British Guarantee .... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 0 11. Os
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. inu 0 0 10 0 0 251. Os
City of Alas ow Life•• 52. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 4/. Its
Colonial Life ......... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 1 0 0 5,. 25
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0
,25110 s
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.pe: cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 '4/. 73
Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 0 4,. 15s
National Fire and Life 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 IL 13s
North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 34/ Os
9cottish Union lilsnic. 7% 1. pr cent. 20 0 0 I 0 0 1/. lOs
ztandard Life .. •• .. - 51. per cent. 60 0 0 7 0 0 .17/ Os
United Dep. Assurance 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ! -

At the ninth end of the straits another party, which
has not yet returned, went across with orders to reach
Melville Island if possible. We have taken 301 b. of
preserved meats, a case and a half of potatoes, half a

ROBBERY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.-011 Friday a re-
spectable-looking man., named Robert White, was
brought before the mayor and borough magistrates, in
custody of the sergeant of police, charged with stealing
nearly one cwt. of lead from the Garter Tower of Wind-
sor Castle, the property of her Majesty. Mr. J. R.
Turnbull (clerk of the works) and a plumber of the
name of Henry Wheeler identified the lead. Sergeant
C. Clarke discovered the stolen property at a store-
keeper's shop in Clewer-lane, kept by a man named
Hitchcock ; and his book-keeper (James John Picker-
ing) swore to having purchased the lead of the prisoner
at two different periods the day after the robbery at the
rate of Id. per lb., when he said, "It was quite right,"
although this witness admitted thatit,hiet
iibfiewresinttnqeusasnatlisty
brought to the shop by the prisoner was concealed under
which
his waistcoat and about other parts of his person •
ad e o;
" certainly did rather surprise him."
produced a book, in which two entries had
the purchase of the lead of the pArisnoontehreronlvti
th6ed.transaction, being in the
question
Kimple)
ajE foro firse.m
remembered
e r7esd.
htneedssay(Gin.
shop at the time. The prisoner (by the advice of Mr.
Voules, his solicitor) reserved his defence to a future
occasion, and he was committed for trial at the next
quarter Sessiono, tut aclgated tp bail.

LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG,
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112,
Strand, in the Precinct of tho Savoy, in the county of
Atonciay, October, 2, 1854