The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-19 00:00:00

LIFE RAFT.

Mr. OT WAY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty,
whether he had any objection to lay on the table of th 3
house the report made by Sir Esldwin Walker, in the
month of March, 1851, on the Patent Tubular Life Raft,
: Invented by Mr. Parratt. The hon. gentleman adverted to
the recent loss of life in the Europa, which he and others
• attributed to the went of sufficient boat accommodation
on hoard this ship.
Sir J GRA.112131. demurred to tho bon. gentleman's
statement-of-facto; but there would be no objection to the
production of the report. The Board of Admiralty had
decided against the boat.
On the motion of Mr. OTWAY the report was ordered to
be hid on. the table.

-THE IGER.
• Sit G. PECHELL asked T
if any provisions would be
made for secniin,g the comfort of the prisoners of war
Who:bad belonged to the ill-fated Tiger..
Sir.J. GRAHAM replied in the affirmative. Arrange-
• meats would be made through th 3 agency of an ambassador
at St... Petersburg of a friendly Power.

. _
~ MINISTELt OF WAR.
-, In reply to _Lord D..STUART,
Lord J. ILUSSgLL okted that it was proposed to take
- ". rota for the expenses of this office.
Mr. STRUT T e . MR. STRUTT.
, st,,,x_ml.,,hi_ illatered into an explanation of the circum- I
Chaneellor O- 64 led to his resignation of the office of
' tion Of the' t-nrc, Dr, achy of Lancaster. In the first fornaa
requested hyv j's ',.t, Government he 'a as unexpectedly-
Council to aecepll thatrlohle lord the President of th
office. He was at the timee
- - unacquainted with- th©
he duties of the office,
they were light, and
whole of the office upon the under
but he knew
standing-that the
-.la time should be at the ills--
. posal of tjie Government.
nao're than
use discovered how-
lto eever,' that. the office im lie
afterw' 1
'whatever upon bins,
f 1.0.0 its reTonsibility
end hTse" n° Parliamentary '
. . .
awflvr the
amentary daties
long 'before he had an
relieved
opncittunity of resigning it. Shorl
race& he received- a 'communication Whitsuntide
.ivaifnpOn the Lord President of the Council
induced him to
he learned that arrangements had been mneail, from whom
,nizinS4 the Govtanment, whichonly waited hisecokir re-orga.
In -point, of fact he was: told that the completion on
pzence.
him to resign
rangements would require his office, and'i'enar-
once,in reply to their appeal tendered to the Crown the
resignation which he had held since the first formation of
the pregent Government. Reports had gone abroad that
he had either been a pasty to these arrangements,
which he di3approved of, or that he had attached
a condition to his resignation, bat ho could assure the
house,that there was no. foundation for such reports. He
had: been no party to the arrangements which his noble
friend=referred to,- nor-was he driven into the resignation
of his. office ; but after hearing the statement of his noble
friend he immediately, without consulting any one,
derail the the resignation of his offrce. This was a simple state-
ment of. the facts of the change which had taken ,place in
Vliyg.gyernment with regard to himself. (Cheers.)

• POLICE BILL.
Arr: P. MILES wished to know if it was. intended to
bring in the second reading of the Police Bill to-night.
Lord J. RUSSELL said certainly not to-night, nor on
anY -day this week. Probably it would be taken next
week,'and be would give due notice of the day.

AFFAIRS OF GREECE.
Mr. COBDEN asked the noble lord if he,could afford
him a day for bringing under the attention of the house
the papers, relating to the afEtirs of Greece ?
, Lord J. RUSSELL said if the hon. gentleman would
give notice of any motion he might wish to submit to the
hotide on the subject, he should be ready to consider
whether any day could be given for bringing on that
motion._

_OUR AIVE ASSADOR AT TURKEY.
Mi.:BRIGHT remarlied that There was.a rumour abroad
that the ambassador from this country to the Sublime

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Galatea (brig) June 9.
The Marion, of and for Waterford, from Savannah,
May 28, lat 40 N. long. 54 W.
The Annie (ship), No. 475, first distinguishing pendant,
June 6, lat. 45 N., long. 14 W.
The Jeannette Bertha, Hamburgh to Melbourne, April
22, let. 1 N., long. 20 W.
The Evans (brig), June 10, lat. 41 N. long. 12 W.
The Queen (barque) June 13, lat. 49 N., low,. 6 W.

The Morning Star, bound to Ceylon, March 21, lat. 12
S., long. 30.
The Ocean Herald, steering W. June 9, lat. 46 N.,
long. 41 W.
A Russan ship, May 21, lat. 43 N., long. 51 W.
The Harmony (emigrant ship), June 9, lat. 50 N., long.
21 W.
The Dundonald, bound to Quebec, June 4,
The Devonshire, June 7.
The Mary Sophia, Newport to Quebec, Jane 9.
The Sybilla, of London, from Barbadoes, May 23, lat.
37 N., long. 53 W.

The Coronella (ship), with troops, June 5, long. 41 W.
The Surprise (schooner), outward bound, June 6, lat.
43 N., long. 10 W.
The Allert (brigantine), outward bound, June 14, lat.
48 N., long. 6 W.
The Thomas Hodgson, Newcastle to Quebec, May 28, lat.
46 N., long. 35 W. (had lost boats, bulwarks, and cook-
house, in a gale on the 12th), and supplied with a jolly-boat.
The Conference de Lisboa. (French brig), from China,
March 26, lat. 29 S. lone* 40 E.

The John Barker, Cape to London, March 30, lat. 35 S.,
long. 33 E.
The William Rathbone, May 29, lat. 48 N., long. 39 W.
The Competitor, outward bound, June 6, lat. 43 N.,
long. 15 W.

THE TRINITY HOUSE BANQUET.—The grand banquet,
which generally takes place on Trinity Monday, at the
Trinity House, Tower-bill, but was postponed last Mon-
day in consequence of his Royal Highness Prince Albeit
not being able to attend, will take place on Wednesday
evening next, his Royal Highness having intimated his
intention to preside on the occasion, as Master of the
Trinity Corporation.
THE CARTURE OF PIRATES.--It appears from a return
to the House of Commons, published on Saturday, that,
under the act 13th and 14th Vict., c. 26, 600 t. was
awarded in the capture of pirates near Hong-Kong. The
number of pirates killed. captured, or escaped was 220.
The capture was in June, 1851 ; the award of the Ad-
miralty Court way in October, 1851 ; and in June last
the reward became payable for distribution among the
officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra.
MIGRATION OP FOREIGNERS PROM RUSSIA.—A Berlin

letter, of the Bth, says that a perfect migration of nations,
consisting of foreigners of various denominations, but
chiefly of Frenchmen, is no :v taking place. They are
leaving Russia by way of Tauroggen and Kauen. Most
of these persons might have remained in that coun-
try, but a continued residence in Russia seems to
them, under preseut circumstances, somewhat too inse
cure, especially as they opine "that Russia is on
the eve of a great revolution." This opinion, so fre-
quently expressed, is, according to the correspondent in
question, " well worthy of attention."
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" Of Yambo I have nothing new tb say, except that its po-
pulation is considered the most bigoted and the best mariners
in Western Arabia. We left on the 18th July, and followed
a path directly eastward along the plain, between the
Radhwah hills and the sea. There was no regular road ; a
trodden line traversed hard and level ground, strewed with
lumps of granite, greenstone, and schist, rounded by the
action of water, with here and there a little stunted vegeta-
tion in the shape of accacias and tufts of grass, coarse enough
fur brooms. The pace of the Hedjazi camel in a caravan is
two miles an hour when travelling over a plain, and our first
march was a short one of eight hours. Halting at three a.m.,
we found a grain-cafila (or caravan) of about 200 head, with
its aimed drivers, and an escort of seven irregular Turkish
horsemen, tolerably mounted, and each supplied with an ar-
moury in epitome.
"July 19, at nine p.m., we arose. Prayers were said and
•

pipes were smoked, and We congratulated- ourselves on our

1 -
escape from the towns. And-here I may observe that
my companions were strictly devout whenever we met
strangers, wheresa at all other times one only (the grandson
of the Mufti of El-Medeeneh) ever dreamed of prefer-
ring a prayer to a pipe. At a mile westward of our en-
campment lay the little village of Muzabhal, a straggling
line of miserable clay hovels; au the south was a bright blue
strip of the Red Sea, and all around stretched a plain of
pebbles and gravel, bounded northwards by a wall of blackish
rock, with here and there a shrub only fit for fuel, or a tuft
of herbage crisp with heat. At three pm. we were ready to
start, and with joy saw a huge black cloud rise behind the
shoulders of Radhwah, and array itself like a good genius be-
tween us and our fierce enemy the sun. All hoped that it
contained rain ; but it was only a ' dry storm'—blasts of
wind, hot as from a volcano, and fine sand—a phenomenon
here common at this time of the year, and supposed to pre-
cede the autumnal rains. The same kind of desolate country
continued the whole of that and the following day ; and be-
tween ten and eleven p.m. we sighted human habitations for
the first since leaving Muzahhal, in the long straggling village
called El-Hamra, from the 'red' colour of the ravine on which
it stands, and El-Wasitah, from being the ' half-way' sta.ion
between Yambo and El-Medeeneh. We wandered in search
of an encamping ground nearly an hour; for the hospitable
villagers c utented themselves with ordering us off every fiat
patch of ground where wo proposed to pitch our tents ; dui ing
which operation I was secretly warned by my companions to
speak Arabic only, otherwise the gentry of El-Hamra would
claim black mail for permitting me to pass through their
streets. After much wrangling we found an encamping
Place ; our jaded beasts were unloaded, the boxes and bag-
gage were disposed as a defence, and my friends spreading
their rugs upon their valuables, prepared to sleep. I was
invited to join them, but firmly delined the vicinity of so
many steaming and snoring fellow-creatures ; and if some
wonder was excited by the A ffghan Hadji's obstinate restless-
ness, it was thought that a man from Cabul might be allowed
to do strange things.

" The village is built on a narrow shelf between a high steep
hill and a sandy ravine, about half a mile broad, with a wind-
ing bed. On all sides are rocks, so that you here find your-
self in one of those punch-bowls which the Arabs seem to
prefer to plains. The ravine threads the heights all the way
from the Medeeneh plateau ; and during the rainy sea-
son it .becomes a raging torrent, carrying westward to
the Red Sea the drainage of a hundred hills. Good water
is found in it by digging a few-feet below the surface, at
there-entering angles ; and El-Hamra is further supplied
by a fine spring, which bubbles up from the base of the
southern hills. The village is a collection of stunted houses,
or rather hovels, made of unburut bricks and mud, roofed
over with date leaves, rarely boasting a bit of plank for a
shutter, thickly peopled where the walls are standing, but,
like all settlements in the Hedjaz, half in ruins. It contains
a few shops in a long lane, and this bazaar, like the other
streets, is full of glare and dust. Palm groves of considerable
extent supply it with dates, and my companions found grain
so cheap that they laid in a store for their families at El-
Medeeneh.

"Ready-made bread, horse-plantains, rico, butter, and
similar edibles are also plentiful; and flocks of. sheep and
goats, driven in by surly shepherds, who would give no milk
even in exchange for bread and moat, But I bought a large
lamb for a pillar dollar; and we breakfastld merrily. Near
our encampment was a fort, held by a troop of Arnauts,
puked to defend the village and to escort merchant travellers,
consisting of a wall loop-holed for musketry. El-Hamra is
the third station from El-Medeeneb, on tho Derbees•Sottedso
(' royal' or high road'), the westerly highway along the sea-
shore to Mecca.

" When robbers permit them, pilgrims prefer this route to
all others, on account of the facility of procuring supplies,
and of passing through the holy place of Bedr.'
" After midday of the 21st, a caravan en route from Mecca
to El-Medeeneh entered El-Hamra, and had interest enough
to procure an escort and permission to proceed without delay.
We joined them, starting from our halt at 5 p.m., and after a
delay, occasioned by a band of Bedawiu having positively ob-
jected to admit our escort of 200 irregulars, we passed about
midnight through another straggling village called Gadaydab,
or El-Khayf, a 'declivity.' Like El-Hamra, it has a fort and
springs of tolerable sweet water. A little beyond it is the
Baghar, or defile, where the Egyptian army under Tussum
Bey were totally defeated by the Harbi-Bedawin and the
Whabis in 1811 &,n. (and the disastrous day of Saffra and
Gadayah' was long afterwards mentioned by the Turkish
soldiery in Egypt with feelings of horror and regret.).
"At four p.m., having travelled 24 miles due east, we en-
camped at Bir-Abbas. Its position is like that of El-Hamra,
and it has a stone fort, where troopers are stationed to pro-
tect travellers. Nothing worthy of note happened during
our journey, till on the morning of the 24th July, at day-
break, we entered the ill-famed gorge called Shuab-el-Hag
(Shab-el-Hadj), the Pilgrim's Pass.' As we neared it, loud
talkers became silent, and in their faces fear was written in a
fine clear hand. Presently from the cliff on the left a thin
curl of smoke rose in the morning air, preluding the match-
lock's loud ring. A number of Bedawin, boys and men, were
swarming like hornets over the crest, and clambering with ad-
mirable agility up the precipices, till comfortably seated behind
a breastwork of stones, piled up as a defence and as a rifle rest,
they fired down upon us with perfect convenience to them-
selves. It was useless to invite them to fight us upon the
plain like men. On the eastern coast the robbers will some-
times do this, but not in the Hedjaz; and it was equally un-
profitable to shoot at stones. Moreover, had a Bedawi been
killed, the country would have risen en masse, and 3,000 or
4,000 robbers might have the courage to overpower a caravan,
in which case there would have been a general cutting of throats.
Their fire was directed principally against the Arnauts, who
called for assistance from the party of Shayks that had ac-
companied us from Bir-Abbai ; but those dignified ancients,
dismounting and squatting round their pipes in council, came
to the conclusion that as the Bedawin would probably turn a
deaf ear to their words, they had better spare themselves the
trouble of speaking. So we blazed away as much powder,
and veiled ourselves in as thick a cloud, as possible, I

*This natal is the more remarkable, as Athendus describes
tho musical instrument called " Sambuca" as " resembling a
ship with a ladder placed over it."
T A mule. - ' - "

" Behiir House, Bombay, April 13."
2. Journey from Cairo to Jerusalem, via Suez, Mount Sinai,
Akaba, and Hebron, by the late Professor G. Wallin, of Fin-
land, translated by Dr. Shaw. •
3. Further explorations in Central Africa, as far as lat. 14
deg. 10 rain. 52 sec. S., and long 23 deg. 35 min, 40 sec., by
Dr. Livingstone, with correct astronomical observations, and
map of route, communicated through the London Missionary
Society and Lieutenant-Colonel Steelq, F.R.G.S., with notes
from G. Frere, Esq., F.R.G.S., through the Foreign-office,
and from T. Maclear, Esq:, astronomer at the Cape, to Sir
J, Herschel, communicated through Sir Roderick Murchison,
who stated that ho heartily agreed with the astronomers, Mr.
Maclear and Sir John Herschel, that so prfound an explorer
as Dr. Livingstone deserved every encouragement, and that
he rejoiced that the Royal Geographical Society should pre-
viously have placed its confidence in this adventurous
missionary, and that he should have lived to accom-
plish, with the chronometer awarded to him by the society,
results exceeding in accuracy of observation any lately made.
Dr. Livingstone has received this award for his discovery, in
company w.th two English gentlemen, Messrs. °swell and
Murray, of Lke Ngami, and afterwards for his discovery of
the largest river of Southern Africa, which river this most en-
terprising of modern explorers had now traced far into the in-
tenor, and the results of whose labours were so well con-
densed in the following letter
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope,
April 19, 1854.
"My dear Sir John—By to-day's mail for England, I send
to Lieut.-Colonel Steele, F.R.G.S., the observations, and the
results from them, made by Dr. Livingstone for the geogra-
phical points along his•route in 1853. By the last I forwarded
to the same gentleman a despatch from Livingston, intended,
I believe, for the Royal Geographical Society.
" Having reduced the observations, I can vouch for their
correctness ; and they include four occultations.
" The remarkable geographical fact is the existence of a
very large river, which he navigated in canoes, in the com-
pany of a horde of natives, from about lat. 18' 20' to let.
14° 11'.

—"
-On the other side I give you the latitudes and longitudes
of the points where he observed for both, and the latitudes of
all the points where he observed. I hope also a tracing of
in
the river will be ready time for the -post. One has been
sent to Colonel Steele, on a large scale, drawn by Livingstone,
but it will require a little correction, as derived from my cal-
culations. _

" Lake Ngami and most of the southern points must now
be shifted rather more than two degrees to the westward.
" Another remarkable fact is the detection of a Portuguese
slave merchant stockade. It was said that the existence of
slave merchants in that quarter, and so far south, is new—in
other words, the game is wearing out in the northern direc-
tion.

" Where there is plenty of rank vegetation, heat, and mois-
ture, you may conjecture that there is likely to be plenty of
fever ; and such is the case. Livingstone has had fever eight
times. At a spot a little south of the Chobe river, the whole
of his party was laid prostrate at one time, This spot he
names the Fever Ponds.'

" At the date of his writing to me (Sept. 29,1853), he was
preparing for a push towards Loanda, on the west coast,
thence to return to his late track through Loanda, the capi-
tal of a powerful state, down the Leda.' If spared to accom-
plish this, he will rip up and expose to the public an interest-
ing section of this terra incognita.'
" In order to accomplish his task without personal anxiety,
he seat his wife and family home (to Eng:and) last year.
Such a man deserves every encouragement in the power of his
country to grant. He has done that which few discoverers
or other travellers can boast of—he fixed his geographical.
points with very great accuracy. He is a poor missionary.—
Yours, my clear Sir John, faithfully, "T. MactEa.a."
4. On the Eastern Territory of the state of Ecuador, the
Canton Quizos, the River Napo, and the N.W. sources of the
Maranon. Communicated by the Rev. C. G. Nicolay.
In introducing the well-known traveller, M. Kohl, to the
society, Sir R. Murchison briefly enumerated the leading
features of a work on America on which that author is en-
gaged, and which is specially recommended by Baron Hum-
boldt. This work was described as follows :-
1. A manuscript of about five volumes, containing a history
of the progressive discovery of America and all its divisions,
from the earliestlimes down to the latest years.
2. An historical map of the whole of America, showing upon
a single sheet the progress of the discovery of the New World,
and the part which several European nations, trading com-
panies, and other classes of persons, as well as every distin-
guished couquoror took in that progress. To each advance a
particular and distnct colour was assigned, whilst the names,
dates, and routes of 700 travyllers are given in the map.
3. A collection of sketches and copies of 759 American
maps, taken from many old books anti collections iu Ger-
many, France, and England. These maps have been divided
into general and special maps, and arranged in twenty-six
portfolios. Each portfolio contains the map of one great
American division or country, put into chronological order,
so that you see all the different representations that have
been given of this country successively displayed from the first
primitive maps and the rudest sketches of the earliest dis-
coverers and travellers down to the perfect surveys of modern
geographers.
The Chairman next directed attention to the instrument
on the table, for measuring the Velocity and ascertaining the
direction of sub-surface currents, by Pr. Buist, of Bombay;
to an ancient map of the world made in the fifteenth century,
exhibited by Sir Thomas Phillipps,• as contrasted with Mr.
Arrowsmith's beautiful map of tho southern portion of the
Crimea, shortly to be published ; and to the sketches exhi-
bited by Mr. John Webster, illustrative of the cruise of the
royal yacht schooner Wanderer, commanded by the lamented
Mr.• Boyd, through the islands of the Pacific, including the
Sandwich, the Kingsmills, and the golomons, depicting the
Latives and the scenery of the various groups. In answer to
Mr. Montgomery Martin.'s inquiry about the actual state of the
proposed North Australian expedition be explained that the
council had that.day empowered the president to communi-
cate ou the subject with Sir George Grey, the new Secretary
of State for the Colonies. In adjourning the meeting to No-
vember,
the Chairman announced that Lord Ellesmere had
requested him to state that the fellows of tho society were
warmly invited to attend his soirees at Bridgewater-house,
on the 14th and 21st inst.

PRISONERS REMOVAL BILL.—The Prisoners Re-
moval Bill, which has passed the House of Lords, and
is now before the House of Commons, provides that,
with the approbation of the Home Secretary, prisoners
for debt or contempt of Court, in the custody of the
sheriff, may be removed from a debtors' prison to the
county gaol, when the Inspector of Prisons shall have
certified to the justices in quarter sessions (on their ap•
plication) that the county gaol is in a proper state for
the reception of debtors ; and thereafter all the sheriff's
prisoners for debt shell bo sent to the county gaol. If
the keeper of the gaol is appointed by the justices, and
not by the sheriff; the keeper and not the sheriff is to
be liable at law for the escape of a debtor ; and the
justices arJ to cause the keeper t•) give security.
RAILWAY FROM ATHENRY TO TCJAM.----We understand
that Martin J. Blake has been successful in urging upon
the directors of the Mid:and Great Western Railway
the riece6sity of opening a branch line from Athenry' via
Tuam, into Mayo, and that the project will be pushed
forward with the utnioatidespateh.—adway Pad*.

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Dr. O'Toole
Caliph
Comfort 3 5 0
Baalbec
Swiftaure 3 4 10
Shunting 3 4 8
Bianca. 3 4 7
Sir James Graham 3 4 7
Julius Agricola 3 4 7
Amalgamation 3 4 7
Royalist 3 4 7
Lincoln's-inn 3 4 4
Erycin a, 3 4 4
Jetty Treffz 3 4 4
ch cby Verulam—
Marchioness..., 3 paid
Prime Minister paid
Eva paid
Dear Me paid
Punchbox paid

Her MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas ; three•yr-olds,
7st ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 41b ; six and aged, 9st 71b.
Three miles.

THURSDAY.

Fifteenth year of the GATESHEAD LOTTERY STARES of 5
sovs each, p.p., with 50 added, for three-yr-olds ; colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. The second to receive 20 sovs.
out of the stakes. Two miles. 16 subs.
Jetty Treffz The Jealous One Orange Blossom
Moss Rose The Medal Billingham
Mcesia Midsummer Village Lass -
Diligent Jujube Monomia
Middlesborough Sister of Mercy The Greek Slave
Lamprocles .

The GOLD CUP STAKES of 10 soy's. each, pp. ; three-yr-
olds, 6st 101 b ; four, Bst 51b ; five, 9st ; six and aged,
9st 81b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner
of the Northumberland Plate to carry 31b extra. Gen-
tlemen taking a nomination and not starting, to be
subject to the payment of 3 sovs, which will be given
to the second horse. Two miles. 10 subs.
Yrs
Goorkah 4

Yrs
The Wild Huntsman 3
Goldfinch 3
Kingston 5
The Jealous One 3
Stiletto 3
landicap) of 60 gs., and 10
.se. Certain winners extra.

Brown Brandy ...... 3

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Ne wminster
Meteora

Uwbriel

The CORPORATION PLATE

added for the second ho:
Once round. 82 subs.

Age
.st lb Age at lb.
Koh-i-noor
Red Lion
Typee
Vindex
Captain Cornish... 4 7 6 Saguenay
Lough Bawn 6 7 5 Fairthorn
Grapeshot 4 7 3 Bourgeois
Deformed - 4 7 obc by Fitzallen—
Merry Bird
Haricot a 6 12 General Breezo... 3 5 7
Jack the Giant Merry Monk 3 5 7
Killer 4 6 12 Toni Rintonl 3 5 7
Felatah .
Lindrick
Lerry wheut
Helena
Revolver
Cariboo
Li ttle Jack a 6 10 Jujube(inc.7lbex.)3 5 5
Catherine Parr 4 6 9 Eva t 5 4
The Skinner 4 6 9 Seducer 3 5 4
Sir R. Trenchard 6 6 9' Garrulity
Colsterdale
Donskoy
The General 46 7 The Jealous One.. 35 2
The Surveyor
The Buck 5 6 71Julius Agricola... 3 5 0
Braxey
CandleWiek
Dalkeith
Itch
Don Quixote 46 6 Syvagee 35 0
Provost Marshal 4 6 6 Gamelad 3 5 0
Dear-me 4 6 6 Sir James Graham 3 5 0
The Vet 5 6 6 Miss Allen 3 5 0
Dove
Early Bird 3 6 5 Amalgamation.... 3 5 0
Maid of Team Sister of Mercy... 3 412
Valley
Ammonia
Axwell
La Belle 4 6 2 Bianca
, „, i
The SPECULATION PLATE of 5 SODS each, with zo ,
added ; the second to receive back his stake ; for three- ,
yr-olds and upwards ; optional selling weights. Once
i:
round.

The SCURRY HANDICAP of 3 soya each, with 20 added,
for all ages. The second to save his stake. T.Y.C.

URES FOR 1854.
NE.

Riding 2B
Bibury 98
Ludlow 28
Stockbridge ........ 2B
Winchester 3O
LY.

Stourbridge l7
Stamford 18
Newton 18
Knutsford. l9
Nottingham 2O
Great Grimsby 24
Goodwood 25
Radcliffe .. 3l
Deritend Pool Bl
Rip0n...,x......,01

The exodus of the Americans from the colony con-
tinues with unabated activity. The reported discovery
of gold in Peru, and the liberal encouragement held out
to settlers in that country, is the great attraction which
draws this enterprising body of n'en to South America.
The port of destination is Callao ; and although the dis-
covery of gold in those regions does not appear to be
fully authenticated, the Americans are perfectly satisfied
to run the risk. The truth is, they are anxious for an
excuse to abandon a colony which affords so little en-
couragement for settling in; the exorbitant price of la-
bour, rendering agricultural pursuits a speculation which
holds out no prospect of a remunerative return at all
proportioned to the outlay, the risk of failure of the
crops in so precarious a climate, and the enormous cost
of transmit of the produce to market being serious draw-
backs upon this branch of industry. The older colo-
nists, who have obtained their land at low prices, and
have the aid of their own families in the cultivation of
the soil, may possibly make it answer ; but even these,
unless men of large capital, prosecute agricultural en-
terprise under- great disadvantages, and without much
enjoyment of what we should consider the necessaries of
life ; but as the greater part of them have never been ac-
customed to anything better, and have enou;h to eat of
damper and mutton, and in the season, "when grass
grows," of milk to drink, they bear their lot with patience
, and equanimity. Men who have neither rent nor taxes
to pay, and are exempted from the expense of keeping
up appearances with regard either to dress, hou-ehold
furniture, or house accommodation, beyond a bark hut,
or the more pretensional residence of a dwelling con-
structed of " wattle and dab," are freed from many
anxieties ; and though the range of their enjoyments
is limited, the deprivation is probably compensated
by the absence of positive suffering. The Americans,
who can do so much better at home, and can ob-
tain the best land unsold at a dollar an acre, with
the advantage of water-carriage, have few induce-
merits to remain here. The mines here they do
not consider as productive as those of California,
where they can moreover eiigage in the opera-
tions of mining with the enjoyment of greater
comforts than they can procure here. They
value this country only for its gold, and as the yield is
now comparatively scant and precarious, they prefer
their own country as a field of enterprise to that of Vic
toria. When pressed upon the prospects in Peru, the
answer is, that they arc indifferent upon that point, for
if the accounts should prove fallacious, they will be
nearer their own country, where they cannot fail to push
their way. The country which intervenes between
Calloa and the reputed gold fields of Peru is difficult to
pass through, which is not unknown to the Americans.
This, with other considerations, leads me to believe that
these keen-sighted men have other objects beyond the
acquisition of gold by digging in view, in their emigrat-
ing speculation. The propagandism of republican
principles and the ultimate annexation of Peru to the
great republic are at the bottom of the movement.
The Tarrengower diggings are still favourably spoken
of, but no positive proof of their richness has been as
yet produced, nor is it expected until the washing season
sets in. It is computed that there are now 18,000 per-
sons on these fields. Ballarat has not lost its fame, and
very large deposits of the precious metal are reported to
have been found in the deep sinkings, but these are very
expensive operations, which require considerable capital,
and, as the result is precarious, are only engaged iu by
the old, experienced, and systematic diggers, who can
afford to make the outlay, and to look for remuneration
for their labour and outlay upon the calculation of ave-
rages. _ _ _

he season has been dry beyond previous experience,
which has been attended with a very general failure of
the crops, the want of pasture and water. Extensive
bush fires have taken place in the interior, and even
within ten miles of Melbourne ; the loss of property has
not been very great. Several people were severely
burnt, but loss of human life has not been reported. The
fire continued in some districts, Glenire's for instance,
within ten miles of Melbourne, fur three weeks con-
tinuously. The snakes and venomous vermin were ex
tenzively got rid of, and the opossums were roasted
without anybody being found to eat them.
The rapid passage made by the Golden Age steamer
has attracted general attention, and much dissatisfaction
has been manifested at the conduct of the Government
in not encouraging the enterprise of the owners. The
want of policy in this case is now apparent, and the
merchants have suffered et verely by this transaction, as
the overland mail has not yet arrived ; their advices
through that medium might have been anticipated by the
Golden Age.
The passengers were so well pleased with the quick
run, that they presented Captain Porter with a purse of
about ninety guineas, for the purchase of a service of
plate, which is a well-merited token of respect.
It will be recollected that this ship made the passage
from Liverpool to Melbourne in bl days and 3 hours,
"running time,' but was detained 18 days coaling, ac-
complishing the 'passage from port to port, in point of
time, in 69 days.