The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN AFFAIRS.

(Fran, the Times Correspondent.)
SYDNEY, July I.—Nothing of general political in-
terest has occurred since the departure of the Shang-
hai. The Constitution Committee has not yet
madeits report, nor is much anxiety expressed by
the public with regard to it ; on the principal
point—the organisation of the future Upper Chain-
ber—the decision of the committee is already anti-
cipated; as to all others there prevails out of doors
the most complete indifference. There has not
been a single meeting in any part of the colony to
express an opinion on the impending changes,
though they may involve the existence of the present
franchise, and at least give the colonists the best
possible oppbrtunity of throwing their influence
into the scale against the " nominee" system in the
Council, _of which we have so long complained. As
yet this has not been done in any form to which a
Government can attach importance. On the Con-
stitution question the Executive and its friends
in the Legislature are unchecked by any effective
opposition, though there are in the colony abun-
dant elements of a formidable opposition here-
after.

The present indifference of the public to all these
questions is certainly to be regretted, but it is very.
natural ; a community so absorbed in the most ex-
traordinary realities will not give time or thought
to abstract political theories. It is indifferent even
to matters that touch it much more directly ; it is
too busy to compel the municipality to a decent
discharge of civic duties, though the neglect of
them is accumulating all sorts of nuisances both in
Sydney and Melbourne. Here the corporation,
from variety of causes, has sunk into such con-
tempt that the executive might extinguish it with
perfect impunity, and put a Government commis-
sion in its place ; it has not done so only because
the public incessantly as it grumbles, has not
energy enough to come together and formally de-
mand that the present town council be super-
seded.

The select committee appointed by the Council on
the 27th of May to prepare a series of resolutions
thanking the home Government for what are called
the " constitution dispatches," has made its report,
recommending for adoption the following ;
" 1. That this Council, while adhering to its previously
recorded opinions respecting the constitutional rights of
the inhabitants of the colony, deems its proper to express
its deep sense of the conciliatory spirit evinced by the
late dispatchesf rom the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington
and his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, laid by the Gover-
nor-General on the table of this house on the 11th day of
May last, and to express its hope that they are the com-
mencement of a new and auspicious era in the government
of her Majesty's Australian colonies.
"2. That this Council, at the same time, desires to
accord its appreciation of the dispatches of his Excellency
the Governor-General, recommending the concessions
which have been made.
" 3. That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted
by the Speaker to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State
for the colonies, and be also presented by him to his
Excellency the Governor-General."

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The estimates for the current year were proposed
on the 22d by the Auditor-General. He anticipated
a surplus of revenue at the close of 1853 over all
the ordinary expenditure of 52,2671. The revenue
from the gold licenses, it is cllculated, will be
88,000/. ; the expenses charged on this source of in-
come is 40,600/., leaping a balance for general pur-
poses of 48,0001. If the license system should be abo-
lished, as there is some chance of its being, the ex-
penses donnected with the population of the gold
fields will remain nearly the same ; the revenue would
lose the whole sum, and the cost of the police,
&c., for these districts would be a charge on the
ordinary funds. The operation of the new tariff
has been most successful, though the prices of all
articles of consumption have been enormously in-
creased, even 200, 300, and 400 per cent., which
must have checked the purchase of them to some
extent ; yet, the Customs' revenue for the first
quarter of the present year was 85,0001., showing
an increase of 29,000/. or 53 per cent., above the
corresponding quarter of last year. Under the old
tariff the same imports would not have yielded
more than 65,7001. Nearly the whole of this in-
crease is on ardent spirits ; the addition of 6d. a-
gallon to the duty on rum caused an increase of
2,6601. in the revenue from that article. The sub-
stitution of lid. per lb. on tea of all kinds for the
ad valorem duty of 5 per cent. gave an increase of
3,948/. ; the similar substitution of a fixed duty on
the different classes of sugars produced an increase
of revenue of 10,600/. ' • and the duty of ls. a-gallon
on wines an increase of 3,1841. In the first quarter
of the present year, compared with the correspond-
ing quarter of 1852, the increase in the quantity of
rum entered for duty was 9 per cent. ; of brandy,
; 70 per cent. of gin, 26 per cent. ; of whisky, 180
per cent.; and of all other spirits, 240 per cent. The
actual quantities imported in the same period were
—rum, 106,402 gallons ; brandy 55,469 gallons ;
gin, 24,167 gallons ; whisky, 4,949 gallons ; of
other spirits, 1,131 gallons. In the same period
there were imported 146,3851 b. of tobacco. The
increase in the consumption of ardent spirits in-
dicated by the above figures the Auditor General
admitted was a great moral and social evil, but
hoped much of that increase might be ascribed
to the fact that whole classes of the population
were now able to command luxuries they had not
before been able to enjoy. If it be so, their taste
had taken a direction unfavourable to health and
domestic happiness ; and it is but too evident from
many indications that drunkenness is increasing to
an alarming extent. Concurrently with this large
importation of spirits, the quantity distilled in the
colony has nearly doubled within the last year ;
the increase is no less than 189 per cent., and the
Excise returns of the last two months show that
this percentage is still rising. The increase in the
import of tea in five months of the present year,
over the same period of 1852, is 42 per cent. ; of
sugar, 21 per cent.—small figures compared with
the register of intoxicating compounds ; the in-
crease in wines is only 13 per cent. ; the " diggers"
demand a more fiery article. The other portions
of Merewether's clear and able statement have only
a local interest ; but he concluded with a compari-
son of the result of the gold discoveries in New
South Wales and the southern province (Victoria),
which embodies a very general impression among
many classes in Sydney. There can be no doubt
the sudden increase in the population and com-
merce of Victoria has been attended by many evils
which we have escaped, or feel only in a minor
degree. The Auditor-General said
" Allusion has recently been made to the amazing
prosperity of Victoria ; her present state might be cha-
racterized as prosperous, but it was at the same time
marked by many unattractive features. He hoped,
however, that the prosperity of that colony would prove
as substantial as her growth in wealth and population
had been surprising. At present he could not but
tremble for her permanent interests and social wellbeing
on account of the great attraction of her goldfields. At
all events he saw no reason why, in comparison with
Victoria, this colony should be thought meanly of.
Al-
though they had not gold coming in by tons and immi-
grants landing by thousands, yet they saw their harbour
filled with vessels of almost all the commercial nations
of the world ; they saw their streets becoming thronged
like large commercial towns of the mother coun-
try ; they saw large, substantial, and ornamental
buildings rising in every direction ; and there was a
steady tide of immigration flowing in. At the same time,
the public revenue was increasing in proportion to their
increasing requirements ; the ordinary:pursuits of indus-
try were being oarrjed on with almost as little interrup-
tion as if gold had" never been discovered ; while the
profits of those pursuits had enormously increa.ssd, every
class in the community was thriving, and quietness and
good order prevailed throughout the country. With
these signs of prosperity around he saw no reason to
envy Victoria, and be liked the progress here all the
better, because it was gradual. In the mineral resources
of the colony he had the utmost confidence ; and there
was even a real benefit in its tardy development, as the
community was thus spared that feverish excitement and
disturbance of an industrial system which must have en-
sued had there been suddenly open up in the nighbour-
hood of this city such vast treasures as were found at
Mount Alexander or Ballarat."
We have had at short intervals very heavy and
us falls of rain ; all the intelligence from
n ulterior speaks of sudden floods, which in some
places
cave done considerable damage. Mining
iare suspended in what are called the
wet"
diggings ; all the holes in the beds of the
rivers and creeksT are
time. On the necessarily abandoned for a
curouiond the waters rose so rapidly
that the miners scald save their implements ;
cradles, buckets,
away y the torrent. Working
pans, were all swept
had ceased at those
diggings. The roads everrywkinghere are all but im-
passable. Even the gold escorts cannot keep their
As the diffi
appointed dayty s, and
transp
of arriveanddveTrt irregularly.
cul
crease the already high
port at
aonios atf the
diggings, an influx of thperimceinionf:pproospveiulastsion will in_
the gold fields to the towns for the rest
of tha r?ni
e win-
ter is expected.
The quantity of gold brought down both to Mel-
bourne and Sydney to the last dates is rather less
than that reported for the month of May ; but the
decrease is ascribed chiefly to the bad weather. As
the escorts arrive at irregular intervals the return
of the number of ounces brought by each becomes
confused, and a clearer notion of the quantity pro-
duced may be gained from the periodical report of
the quantity exported from the colony from the
Ist of January last, added tothe quantity received
by the last escorts. From the Ist of January to
the 18th of June the province of Victoria had pro-
duced and exported 1,095,405 ounces of gold, or 45
tons 12 cwt. 3 qrs. 17 lb. 1 oz. of the precious
metal, which, at 755. per ounce, gives a value of
5,750,8751. sterling. As one, if not two escorts,
have been delayed by the rains and bad roads, this
return is for some fortnight ithan the half-year;
the quantity produced by ti of New south I

Wales cannot at present be safely maculated at
more than one-fifth of this rate. As it is certain,
from all the accounts from Victoria, that, large as
the quantity of gold produced there is in the mass,
many hundreds of the diggers are not earning
enough to subsist on. It is believed the unsuccess-
ful would migrate to the comparatively untried
fields of New South Wales if the license fee of 30s.
a-month were abolished. A committee of the
Legislative Council is still inquiring into the whole
question, and it is not improbable its report may
be favourable to a reduction in the amount of the
tax, if not its total abolition.

The commercial advices from Melbourne are
rather gloomy. The markets have had for some
time a " downward tendency," which, to those
accustomed to 200 or 300 per cent profit on
invoice prices, must have been very alarm-
ing. But the heavy rains, which cut off the
intercourse with the " diggings," and other
causes, have converted the tendency into an
absolute fall. In the week ending the 21st of
June the importations had not been great, or the
decline in prices would have been more consider-
able ; even as it was, however, " the fall has been
very sensibly felt, and goods can scarcely be got
off without active and vigorous forcing." One of
the causes of this unusual state of affairs is the
want of any extensive stores for the merchandise.
If goods are not purchased and sent up the country
almost as soon as they arrive, the little store-room
of the place becomes choked. Hitherto they have
thus disappeared ; but the winter has suspended
the usual demand, while cargoes continue to arrive,
for which no place can be found. The merchants
are beginning to discover that mere buying and
selling creates nothing. While paying fabulous
rents they have neglected to build, and are now
suffering from the want of enterprise. Some of the
ships in the bay have been converted into floating
warehouses ; but such is the difficulty of getting
goods from the bay to the city that it affects prices
considerably; "few transactions can be effected,"
it is said, " unless the goods are ready to be de-
livered." The Commercial Circular adds :--
"It is no unusual occurrence for parties to wait two
and three months fir the delivery of goods from the
bay after they have purchased them, and the consequence
of such delay is frequently ruinous. We know of cases,
and these by no means few or far between, where goods
purchased only about a month ago could have been
sold, if then delivered, at a profit of not less than 100 or
150 per cent. ; but now, if brought into the market, so
great has been the fall in the interval, they would not
realise enough to cover expenses. This is a serious state
of matters, which further arrivals will only tend to
aggravate, unless some greater facilities are provided in
lighterage and wharfage.
The most bulky articles were the first to give
way ; flour and breadstuffs are declining in price,
with little demand ; the importations from Ame-
rica have been enormous. Some cargoes have been
brought into Sydney, as the preferable market.
East Indian rice does not fetch its cost price and
freight, and quantities have been bought up for
exportation to England. Groceries are going down
rapidly, having fallen 50 per cent. in a fortnight ;
ale and beer have declined 25 per cent., but spirits
remain generally at their former prices ; not so
wines, of which inferior sorts are quite unsaleable.
There is a fall in one class of goods difficult to ex-
plain—in winter clothing, boots, shoes, blankets,
and hosiery. It might have been supposed they
would have been now in the greatest demand ; it
has even been inferred in Sydney from this fact,
that the "purchasing power" of the digger popu-
lation is actually decreasing : it is more likely that
the trade in these goods has been overdone. Build-
ing materials of all kinds keep up their prices, and
will do so for some time to come, for people find
they must build, at whatever cost. Consignments
of jewellery have been found so unsaleable that
they have been sent back to London. Firearms
have also been imported to an extent ludicrously
in excess of the demand. It would be a very good
speculation to buy up the unsold revolvers at Mel-
bourne and Sydney prices for re-exportation to
London.
There is no doubt there will be an increased con-
sumption of everything in the spring, and, unless
the importers have greatly overrated the market,
the present depression will probably be but tem-
porary. Goods cannot go on rising for ever, even
at Melbourne, and there may be prices which
make even a digger hesitate and defer purchasing.
This limit has been as nearly as possible reached,
and the dealers appear to have thought that a
fall was out of the nature of things. House and
shop rent, and the sums paid for building ground
(not for building on) are certainly calculated on
some such idea. But rents will be the last thing
to decline,-for the simple reason that the city has
not half house-room enough for its inhabitants.
All accounts concur in describing the wretchedness
of the place as a residence, from this cause. The
correspondent of the Sydney "Jerald remarks :
" Tom Moore was accustomed to say that Ireland is
a beautiful place to live out of. The same thing can be
said, and with greater truth, of Melbourne. For, what
with ruinous prices and rents, the total absence of all
household comfort, the unspeakably filthy state of the
city after a few days' drenching rain—' the dreary inter-
course of daily life,' among a heterogenous mass of
people who have not an interest in common, and the
dismal dulness which broods over everything except this
eternal buying and selling—it may fairly be said that
this self-glorifying metropolis of the 'golden colony' has
sunk to the lowest point of social existence. It is not
to be wondered at that people leave it as soon as they
can possess themselves of a share of its golden spoils."
In nearly all the published correspondence and
letters from the gold fields the prevailing tone is
that of disappointment and despondency. It may
be that the lucky are silent, and work on inspired
by full bags and heavy pockets. But the toil is
severe, and their life one of great hardship ; and,
if not rewarded by success, must soon grow dis-
heartening. If not increased by continual immi-
gration, the present population of the diggings
would soon begin to decrease, as many who have
abandoned their regular occupations under the
influence of the fever are returning to them.
Thus, during the past week, the business of brick-
making in Sydney, which has been suspended ever
since the discovery of the gold, has been resumed.
It is the same in other trades ; men are returning
to them, and those who thus return are likely to
remain. Many of them have been unlucky, others
admit they could have done very well, " but the
work was killing them." Among the labouring
classes of Sydney there is now a very accurate
knowledge of what life at a goldfield is. The first
intoxication is passed away, and visionary nuggets
dazzle fewer eyes here than in many of the cities of
Europe. New corners arrive under the influence
of the spell ; residents have been to a great degree
disenchanted by experience. On the whole, the
working classes of the towns find it better to take
advantage of the present high rate of wages in
tolerable comfort, than to rough it for uncertain
gains at the mines. The immigration will long
continue to keep up an excitement, but the colo-
nists would soon begin to regard gold digging with
as much coolness as mining for copper or coal. It
would become a regular pursuit for those adapted
for it, but would not seduce many from large earn-
ings in less toilsome occupations. The proportion
of brilliant successes to the number of those who
find
it a hard life with little or no profit, is being
better calculated, and the knowledge has a very
sobering effect.
The Government have resolved to give Mr. Har-
i greaves, the discoverer of the gold in Australia,
the sum of 5t1)00/. Mr. Hargreaves considers this
an insufficient acknowledgment of his services to
the colony, as he came from California at his own
expense for the purpose of " prospecting" here.
The working party he took with him have disputed
Mr. Hargreaves claim to the merit of having been
the
first discoverer, as they actually dug up the
specimens of the precious metal which Mr. Har-
greaves exhibited at the public meeting at Bathurst,
where the announcement that threw the colony
into a fever was first made. There has been con-
siderable official correspondence on the subject ;
but, even from the statement of Mr. Hargreaves'
rivals for the honour, it appears that he was the
head and director—the brains of the party, in fact;
throughout. He very justly asks how the men he
employed could have been walking over the same
ground for the whole of their lives, without even
suspecting the treasure under their feet, till he told
them how and where to dig for it ? That gold ex-
isted in the country was known before ; but the
merit of Mr. Hargreaves is, that he proved that it
could be easily obtained, and in large quantities,
and, by making the facts public, commenced
the movement that has had such extraordinary
results for the colony and Europe. Probably the
province of Victoria will follow the example of
New South Wales, and vote Mr. Hargreaves a
similar sum at least. He says he has been offered
very large amounts of money to lend his name to
various bubble mining companies that would have
been " splendid specs" in the London market.
When he refused, on the ground of the plain dis-
honesty of the concerns, he was told by the projec-
tors it was " only plucking the British goose." The,
discoverer of the gold of Australia has not himself
been enriched by it.
The Council has voted an increase in the salaries
of all officers in the employ of the Government, to
enable them to meet the greatly increased cost of
living. The increase will take effect from the Ist
of January
eclasot.
The
the Australian coast are becoming
alarmingly frequent.
Monu-
mental City steamer, by
passengers perished, the Prince
whichce the loss of the
more than 30 of the
Aus-
tralian coaster, has been found at
of Wales, an
lo,st floating,
.bot-
tom upwards, all on board havings their lives.
On the 18th inst the Earl of Ch i
~ ar emont, Captain
Garner, one of the Liverpool Fox line of packets,

went ashore at the Barwon Heads, near Cape Ot-
way, and was wrecked. She had 435 passengers
on board,but, happily, notwithstanding the cowarly
behaviour of some of the crew, no lives were lost ;
all were saved by the exertions of the captain, offi-
cers, and a few of the passengers, the women and
children being landed first. The number of ships
dispatched for the Australian ports has increased
enormously, and it is feared the commanders are
not, in many instances, sufficiently careful on a
coast of which they know nothing. At Port Philip,
also, the system by which the pilots are appointed
and paid is very defective. Having a fixed salary
from the Government, they will not board ships
outside the Heads, where they are most wanted,
and only take charge of them when they are fairly
in the smooth water of the bay. Many of the late
disasters have been caused by this practice alone.
In the case of the Monumental City so much blame
was attributed to the commander, Captain Adams,
that the Government was urged to prosecute him
for manslaughter ; but, on taking the opinion of the
law officers, it appeared that being an American
vessel the captain was not amenable to the colonial
enactments. A kind of enquiry was instituted
before the Navigation Board of Sydney, at the re-
quest of Captain Adams himself ; but, as it had no
power to inflict any penalty or summon witnesses,
the result was very unsatisfactory, and the com-
mander is by no means acquitted of blame in the
opinion of the public. In consequence of the sen-
sation created by this wreck, a lighthouse is at last
to be erected at Cape Howe. The lantern for it
has been locked up in the Government stores at
Sydney for some five years, the first attempt to
construct the lighthouse having by some misman-
agement of the architect totally failed.

Her Majesty's ship Serpent, Commander Ham-
mett, i arrived here on the 20th. She left Hong
Kong nearly eight months ago. She has since
touched at and surveyed many of the islands in
the China seas and the Pacific ; among them are
Peel Island, Passhes, Puscadars, Serpent's group,
Scant's group, Wellington's group, Paterson's
group, M'Ca,skill Islands, and Solomon's Isles.
At the last named the Serpent remained two
days, making inquiries as to the death of Mr.
Benjamin Boyd, but without success ; no infor-
mation could be obtained of the savage natives.
The Serpent then visited Copang, Port Essing-
ton, where a search was made for traces of Dr.
Leichardt's expedition, Swan River and King
George's Sound. During part of the voyage the
Serpent was short of water and provisions. The
surgeon died in March last of inflammation of the
brain. This vessel is to go to England via Auck-
land and Valparaiso.
The intelligence of the final and total breakdown
of the Royal Mail steamer Australian arrived here
on the 27th, and was received with great satisfac-
tion by the mercantile men of the colony and the
public generally. From the previous accounts it
was feared she might have put to sea again with
another mail, to repeat the long and miserable pas-
sage of the Adelaide. The anxiety and loss the
colony has suffered from the failures of this mis-
managed concern cannot be described, and the sa-
tisfaction of the public at hearing that one mail
at least is to be sent by another channel is very
natural.

The Antelope steamer, that was to have raced
with the Marco Polo from Liverpool to Port Philip,
has not yet been heard of. The Marco Polo sailed
on her return voyage on the sth inst.
As immigration increases, the treatment of pas-
sengers by sailing ships appears to get worse and
worse. The Sydney papers teem with exposures of
the rascality, drunkenness, and brutality—the
terms are quite justified.—of the captains, and the
unscrupulous rapacity of the owners. Old and
rotten hulks, badly provisioned, are puffed as first-
class vessels in every respect, but the passengers
soon find that the ship leaks at starting ; that the
provisions, after the first few days, are changed for
an inferior quality ; and that they have to fare
hard and work at the pumps to keep themselves
afloat the whole of the voyage, with a commander
drinking himself daily into madness, so that they
have at last to seize him and put him in irons, to
prevent him from committing murder or sending
the ship to the bottom by senseless orders. This is
a literal sketch of what took place on board one of
the last arrivals from Liverpool. The passengers
had deprived the captain of the command and kept
him in irons the greater part of the passage. On
arriving here they deposed to the above details
on oath, and stated other facts publicly that were
not necessary to prove the legal charge ; but be-
yond being exonerated from blame for the restraint
they placed on the drunkard the owners had en-
trusted their lives to, they have no redress. This,
it may be admitted, was a bad case, but too many
others differ from it only in degree. If anything
worse is to be discovered, it is on board the Ameri-
can ships bringing passengers from New York or
California. It is a common trick for the owners to
take the passage-money to Port Philip, and get rid
of the passengers at Sydney by continually putting
off the day of sailing or stopping the issue of pro-
visions. The passengers see they are swindled, but
have no remedy.
One English method of catching passengers de-
serves equal exposure—it is that of advertising
ships to sail on the principle of " select emigration,"
the announcement being worded to create a belief
the passengers will be " selected," so as to present a
higher tone of religious and moral feeling than
average cargoes of unsifted Christians : and that
some sort of inquiry is made as to character before
the application for a berth is granted. The bait is
not unskilfully thrown out, but let no one be taken
in by it. The brokers and agents neither elect, nor
select, nor require any test but ability to pay the
passage-money. The consequence is that the de-
luded religious emigrant, instead of finding himself
among persons of similar feeling, is thrown into
contact with mere ordinary worldings, and the ex-
pected three months' communion in religious pri-
vileges is out of the question. A ship recently
came out on the " select" principle, and it proved
an eminent failure. The serious section of the
passengers, thinking themselves empowered by the
prospectus to carry out the religious discipline of
the ship, formed a committee and drew up a set of
regulations, which the other party lit their pipes
with, any attempt to enforce rules made by a self-
constituted authority being resented as an imperti-
nence. The result was a series of quarrels which
lasted the whole voyage, ending with an explosion
of wrath and recrimination in the Sydney journals
at its close. What might have been a pheasant
voyage—for no complaint is made .f the ship or
the treatment on board—was thus made very much
the reverse. Emigrants had better suspect all
brokers' promises, especially if phased religiously,
and calculate on finding at sea just as much devo-
tional fervour as they carry with them, and no
more. But the crafty trading ou such feelings is
very disgusting.

FORTH AND CLYDE CANAL.—The report to be sub-
mitted to the proprietors at Glasgow, on the 26th inst.,
states that the accounts exhibit a surplus revenue for
the year of 34,4271. enabling them to declare a dividend
at the rate of 51 per cent., amounting to 31,3861.,
and leaving 3,0411. to add to the rest. This statement
of their affairewill, it is hoped, be satisfactory, showing
not only an increased trade, but also a diminished ex-
penditure. The large saving in the extraordinary ex-
penditure is exceptional, no part of the canal having this
year required such extensive repairs to necessitate
interruption of traffic—a circumstance which has, of
course, told favourably upon the revenue. In the ordi-
nary expenditure retrenchments have been made, and
others are in contemplation : the results of these will, how-
ever, be unfavourably affected by a rise of wages and
materials during the last few months. Under these cir-
cumstances the governor and council have, after due con-
sideration, to recommend the large addition to rest which
has been stated,raising its amount to 7,3821. The
Grangemouth-harbour having participated in the gene-
ral increase of trade, its surplus income on the
last half-year of 4091. has been applied to reduce th e
advances formerly made by the company, and now
debited in "joint account with the Earl of Z etland."
thereby diminishing by that amount the contingent ac-
count maintained to meet these advances. The Drum-
peller Railway Extension will be completed. within a
few weeks and, will prove a useful feeder to traffic, as
well as an accommodation to important mineral fields.

GREENLAND MINES.-It was mentioned in June last
that an expedition was about to start from Portsmouth,
to test the mining capabilities of the southern coast of
Greenland, in consequence of a grant having been made
by the King of Denmark to a Mr. Lundt. The Dolphin
yacht, of 217 tons, which was fitted out for the purpose
by Mr. A. Robinson, Sir W. Trevelyn, and Mx. Regner
Wes tenh oltz has now returned, after an unprecedented pas-
sage of six days from Cape Farewell to Land's-en d, having
on board upwards of 16 tons of copper ore, said to average
more than 50 per cent. of pure metal, and a gr-it variety
of specimens of silver and lead ores. The expedition was
accompanied by Mr. W. C. Vivien, a mining captain, from
Cornwall, and Mr. Hoff, a mineralogist, on the part of the
Danish Government, and their report is stated to be very
satisfactory regarding the. metalliferous character of the
entire country included in the grant. Mr. Friis, a Nor-
wegian mining captain, . and 10 men, were left at the
mines to carry on operations.—Portmoutli. Times.

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