The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-17 00:00:00

JUNE 17, 1846.

SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE.
HAMPTON SPRING MEETING.
The following entries were made on Monday night. The
racing commences this day at half•past one.
TUESDAY.
The Gold Cup. Heats, once round and a distance.
Vitula, 6 yrs—Redleg, 3 yrs—Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs—ch c
by Amato, out of Countess, 3 yrs.
The Strawberry Hill Stakes. Heats, one mile and a quarter.
Barbara Young, 4 yrs—Deodara, 4 yrs—Miscellany, 4 yrs
—Pimento, 5 yrs—b fby Glaucus, out of Harmony, 3 yrs—
Patchwork, aged—Abdel Bader, aged.
The Corinthian Stakes. One:. round and a distance.
Lyons, 4 yrs—Solace, 4 vra—Alexa, 3 yrs—Voltri, 5 yrs.
WEDNESDAY.

The Hurst Cup. Heats, once round. and a distance.
Vitula, 6.yrs—Barbara YOUtg, 4 yrs—Tit-bit, 3 yrs—b
by Glauctts, out of Harmony, 3 yrs-I.seodara, 4 yrs—ch c by
Amato, out of Countes., 3 yra—b f by Samarcand, out of
La fille mal gardie, 4 yrs.
Her Maj,.stv's Plate. Heats, two miles.
Marquis cf C.Onyiiiham, 3 yrs—Aristotle aged—Baronet,
3 yrs—Vitula, 6 yrs—Jack Cade, 5 yrs—Red L'ig, 3 yrs—
Tit. bit, 3 yrs—Ruff, 4 yrs—Brother to ValOtissitno,,3 yrs—
Sir Edmund, 3 yrs—Lady Charlotte, 5 yrs—Auld Lang Syne,
6 yrs—Nubia, 5 yrs.
The Claremont Stakes. Half a mile.

Leporella—ch c by Don John, dam by Ishmael—Lady
Lift—Oat Post—hr fby Red Shank, dam by Delhi—ch fby
Elis, out of Antler's dam.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING, 1846.
The Liverpool Cup, of 310/., added to a Sweepstakes (handi-
cap) of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared by the
22d instant.

Lothario, 6 yrs, Ost-Wolfdog, 4 yrs, Bst 111b-Red Deer,
5 yrs, Bst 101b-Sweetmeat, 4 yra, Bst 91b-Winesour, 6 yrs,
Bst 71b-Mentor, 4 yrs, Bst 61b-The Baron, 4 yrs, Bst 51b2
Inheritress, 6 yrs' Bst 51b-Pompey, 6 yrs, Bst 41b-Light-
niag, 5 yrs, Bst 41b-Ttueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 31b-Maynooth,
4 yrs, Bst lib-Glossy, 6 yrs, Bst 111--Mosstrooper, aged,
Bst 11b-Discord, aged, Bst-Hope, 4 yrs, Bst-Aristotle,
aged, 7st 131b-Morpeth, 5 yrs, 7st 131b-Intrepid, 5 yrs,
7st-Needful, 5 yrs, 7st 91b-Red Robin, 4 yrs, 7st 8113-
Yardley,.4yrs, 7st- 81b-Lord Saltoun, 5 yrs, 7st 81b-The
Pacha;4 yr-, 7st 71b-Mickey,.s yrs, 7st7lb-Rowena, 5 yrs-
7st 61b--Miss Elis, 4 yrs, 7st 61b-Pythia, 4 yrs, ist 61b-
Collier, 4 yrs, 7st 61b-Telemachus, 5 yrs, 7st 51b-
Highwayman, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Wbinstone, 4 yrs,
7st 41b-Lady Wildair, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Crim. Con.,
4 yrs, 7st 31b- Vole au Vent, 5 yrs, 7st-The Dart,
4 yrs, 7st-Fitzallen, 4 yrs, 7st-Roderick, aged, 7st--
Satyr, 5 yrs, 7st-The Roper's Daughter, aged 7st-Little
Hampton, 5 yrs, 7st-Pedometer, 5 yrs, 7st-Javelin, 4 yrs
7st-Fancy boy, 3 yrs, Est 131b-Polish, 6 yrs, Est 121 -
John Goldham, 5 yrs, Est 121b-Clumsy, 4 yrs, Gst 121 -
Mendicant, 3 yrs, Est 121b-Comical Boy, 4 yrs, 6st 101 -
Warp, 5 yrs, 6st 101b-The Conjuror, 3 yrs, Est 101b-Colum-
bus, 4 yrs, 6st 91b-Dalo, 3 yrs, Est 91b-May, 4
yrs, Est 81b-Chet tsey, 4 yrs, Est 71b-Master Step-
ney, 4 yrs, 6st 71b-Badinage, 4 yrs, Est 61b-
Plaudit, 4 yrs, 6st 41b-Salopian, 4 yrs, Est 41b-
Nereus, 4 yrs, 6st 41b-As-you-like-it, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Vi-
tula, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Mongrel, 4 yrs, Gst 41b-Robin Burns,
4 yrs, 6st 31b-London, 4 yrs, Est 31b-Colleen Bawn, 4 yrs,
Gst 21b-Rewland Hill, 4 yrs, 6st 21b-Flahowlagh, 4 yrs,
6st 21b-Cranebrook, 3 yrs, 6st 21b-Burgundy, 3 yrs, Est 2lb
-Parson's Clerk, 4 yrs, fist lib-The Premier, 3 yrs, Est llb
-Duke of Kent, 4 yrs, 6st-The Hero, 3 yrs, 6st-Jenny
Wren, 4 vrs, 6st-Poynton, 3 yrs, 6st-Stream, 4 yrs, sst
131b-Princess Royal, 4 yrs, sst 121b-Best Bower, 5 yrs, sst
121b-Sharston, 3 yrs, sst 121b-Fitzwilliam 3 yrs, sst 121 b
-Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, sst 111h2Deodara, 4 yrs,
sst 101b-Auricula, 3 yrs, sst 91b-The Slayer's Daughter, 3
vrs, sst 91b-Ohio, 3 yrs, sst 81b-br c by Bran dam by
-Whisker, 3 yrs, sst 31b -Tour de Force, 3 yrs, sst 71b-Mo-
rocco, 5 yrs, sst 51b-Lady Alice, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Camera
Obscura, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Tragical, 3 yrs, sst 41b-Snake, 3
yrs, sst 21b-Comet, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Pergama filly, 3 yrs, sst
21b-Finoaragh, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Laura colt, 3 yrs, sst 11b-
Mount Pleasant, 3 yrs, sst 11b-Driffield, 3 yrs, sst 11b. If
the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will be raised
to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion.
The Derby Handicap of 10 sous. each. One mile.
Refraction, 4 yrs, 9st-Ironmaster, 4 yrs, Bst 131b-Lady
Wildair 4 yrs, Bst 111b-Miss Elis 4 yrs, Bst 81b-Lanca-
shire Witch, 4 yrs, Bst 71b-The Pacha, 4 yrs, Bst 41b-The
Dart, 4 yrs, Bst 31b-Clumsey, 4 yrs, Bst 11b-My Mary, 4
yrs, Bst lib-Patriot, 5 yrs, Bst 11b-Javelin, 4 yrs, Bst-
Plaudit, 4 yrs, 7st 131b-Chertsey, 4 yrs, ist 131b-Coheiress,
5 yrs, 7st 131b-Bretwalda, 4 yrs, 7st 121b-Flattery, 4 yrs,
7st 121b-Burlesque, 3 yrs, 7st 101b-Duke of Kent, 4 yrs,
7st 91b-Gannet, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Salopian, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-
Mongrel, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Sister to Clare mare. 5 yrs, 7st 61b
-Sotades, 3 yrs, 7st 41b-Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, 7st
21b-Sharston, 3 yrs, 7st-Alliance, 3 yrs, 7st-Best Bower,
5 yrs, 7st-Blackbird, 3 yrs, 7st-Tour de Force, 3 yrs,
Est 131b-Lady Alice, 3 yrs, 6st 71b-Laura colt, 3 yrs,
6st 61b-Finvareigh, 3 yrs, Est 41b.

PRICE SD.

LITERATURE.

TRAVELS OF LADY-HESTER STANHOPE.
By her Physician. 3 Vas.
What the author of these volumes bad commenced in
his previous publication, he has completed in these
Eastern Travels—namely, a copious biography of Lady
Hester Stanhope, the beautiful, accomplished, and ec-
centric niece of William Pitt. We conceive that in so
doing he has discharged himself of a very important
duty which he owed to his contemporaries and posterity.
For it is precisely from works of this description that
we obtain the most correct notion of those domestic re-
lations which not unfrequently influence the political
inimonv movements int sof
empire. sta t e slms ei
sa ,fr aonmd
tchhea
inn,7e t e
moirs NoVtl.l
so luel nd
ly
that-
nm- ea
in gleanteno
no
thatur most
we
ost
pcorrect t
into
the knowledgeseersecret
t oc
chambers
athe b
eortsh otherwise
thewise
hidden machinery of the Government under Hoary the
Fourth ; it is from the autobiography of Madame de
French Court under Louis the Fourteenth ; it 'is from
the remarkable scholarship of Anna Comnena that we
obtain the principle portion of our information respect-
ing the B.) zantine empire under her brother, the Em-
peror Comnenus. Indeed, if we survey history from
the most ancient to the most modern periods, we shall
invariably find that our truest guides to the actuating
sentiments of a legislator are discoverable, notiu
state
documents, not in official statistics, not in dry debates,
but in those lively, anecdotal, and almost flippant bio-
graphies which are given to the world by the minor
actors in the great scene—by men or women who
have associated in familiar life with the more dis-
eguished personage. Hence it was that the pre-
vious publication respecting Lady IL ster Stanhope--
though crammed with ridiculous exhibitions of
her vanity, and prurient with frivolities—possessed never-
theless an importance, and attracted an attention en-
tirely apart from the literary merits of the composition
or the personal character of the heroine. Every one
turned-very n.turally•to such volumes for some glimpse
of the Prime Minister in his morning gown and slippers;
they expected to hear the great orator chatting about
his opponents over the tea board; they yearned to listen
to his views of contemporary legislation and contempo-
rary legislators, when incited to freedom of remark by
the abandon of social conversation. Nor in these ex-
pectations were they altogether disappointed: much as
we might hare experienced a feeling of annoyance at
the interminable harping-upon-self in his niece, we ex-
perienced pleasure notwithstanding at the casual peeps
we thereby obtained of the renowned Premier. In the
travels, however, which conclude the memoirs of Lady
Hester, we are compelled to give ourselves up entirely
to the romance attached to that fair adventurer. Pitt
has spoken his last harangue, has plotted his lest in-
trigue; Pitt has drawn his last sad breath in solitude,
in desolation, and almost in obscurity; the great Minis-
ter, whose mandate was so recently the guiding voice of
the anti-Napoleon monarchs, is rotting unremembered in
his coffin. Lady Hester Stanhope discovers that the
talisman which has hitherto obtained her so much adu
lation (viz., influence 0 is for ever shivered into atoms.
Her heart aches with a feeling of disappointment, and
of pensiveness, and of unusual tranquillity. She re-
solves to dissipate her moodiness by going in quest
of adventures, and to distract her memory by visiting
foreign countries. The consequence of this resolve is,
her migration with a suitable suite (among whom is the
writer of the narrative) to the land of the Orientals.
Of her singular mode of life in that remote region there
is assuredly no Englishman but has listened to some
gossip, or who has had his curiosity excited by mysteri-
ous iruendoes of her magnificence, her loneliness, her
hospitality, and her munificence among the"Musselmen.
That curiosity may be fully and 'elaborately appeased by
the three volumes just published by the anonymous
physician of the expedition. His descriptions of the
lather uncleanly inhabitants of Syria, of the somewhat
unprepossessing females, of the singular customs of the
people, of the scenery and of the various cities, are
peculiarly lively and as peculiarly graphic. The book
is better than a score of ordinary novels for interest,
an I is preferable to a thousand works of travel for the
truthfulness of its delineations. We only regret when
the author forsakes the beaten track of his subject to
meddle in matters upon which he only betrays his
ignorance. For example, he mentions an hospital at
Jaffa, " which is said to have been the grave of many
Frenchmen poisoned hy Buonaparte, when he raised the
siege of St. Jean d'Acre." Here is the old trumpery
libel raked up again, and actually thrust upon the
credulity of the reader, after the charge bas been so
elaborately refuted by Las Cases, O'Meara, Savory,
Hazlitt, and even by Sir Sidney Smith himself, whose
silence alone would have constituted its triumphant re-
futation. For the satisfaction of those who may be
inquisitive in such matters of costume, we transcribe
the following description of Lady Hester Stanhope's
eastern dress:—
"la additi.m to her more splendid habiliments, Lady
Hester had, whilst at Cairo, procured a travelling Mameluke
dress. It consisted of a satin vest, with long s'eeves, open to
the bend of the arm, which reached to the hips only, and
folding over at the chest was attached with a single button
at the throat and waist; over this again she wore a red cloth
jacket, in shape like a scanty spencer, with short sleeves,
and trimmed with gold lace. The trousers were of the same
cloth, gorgeously embroidered with gold at the pockets, as
well before as behind. They were large and loose, as is the
fashion in Turkey, and, when worn, formed, by their nume-
rous folds, a very beautiful drapery. Over the whole, when
on horseback, she wore the burnooz or white-hooded cloak,
the pendent tassels and silky look of which gave great ele-
gance to her figure.. The turban was a Cashmere shawl, put
on with the peculiar fulness which the Mamelukes affect in
their head-dress, and which is very becoming. This dress,
as far as regards the sherwals (or trousers), which ;were of
the same colour as the jacket, is peculiar to Egypt: for
throughout Syria the sherwals are almost always blue, and
generally dark. But this Egyptian costume was more proper
for her ladyship, because hersaddle and bridle were Egyptian ;
being of crimson velvet embroidered in gold."
As some palliation of what might otherwise appear
like indecorum, we give the author's account of the lady's
reason for abandoning the habiliments more suited to her
sex:—
" It will be thought by many persons, that Lady Hester
Stanhope violated too far the regard due to her sex in the
resolution she now adopted of equipping herself as a man,
and as a Turk. But let it be recollected that she had lost
everything in the shipwreck, and that even the cities of the
Levant, had she been in one, had neither milliners nor
mantua-makers, who understand how to make European
female-dresses, nor materials for them, could she have made
them herself. The impossibility of getting what she wanted
was therefore so evident, that she unavoidably made choice of
the Turkish costume, in which the long robes, the turban, the
yellow slippers, and pelisses, have really nothing incompatible
with female attire."
Nor can we refrain from entertaining the reader with
a very gorgeous narrative of a procession of the Sultan
at Constantinople. It runs (the narrative, not the pro-
cession) thus :
"First came some dozens of water-carriers, who bore skins
of water across their backs, with which they laid the dust as
they advanced. On the right and left of the street was a
double file of janissaries. Bostangis, with knotted whips,
kept the crowd from pressing on the procession. Next to the
water-carriers came a group of nondescript persons; grooms
to hold horses, servants to unrobe their effendis or masters,
and other hangers-oa or attendants of great men. After
these, upon a finely caparisoned horse, surrounded by a dozen
valets on foot, followed a fierce-looking Turk, with a black
beard ; and I and my companion exclaimed, ' Here comes the
Sultan :'—it was only his coffee-bearer We made the like
remark at a second, and a third • but they were his stool,
sword, and pipe-bearers, who, with the emblems of office in
their hands, passed in succession.
"The surprise which the splendour of these inferior officers
of the palace excites is increased, when the Captain Pacha,
the Reis Effendi, the Kakhya Bev, and the Grand Vizier, pass
by, muffled in pelisses worth 200/. each, wearing in their
girdles hangers or daggers studded with diamonds, and
mounted on horses almost sinking under the weight of gold
housings. Our ideas were confused by the magnificence
which we saw displayed. And now, on a sudden, the crowd.
which bait been noi..r anti ututang tnelr remarks on the
scene before them, was' hushed. A solemn and really an
awful silence prevailed, whilst only low whispers were heard
that the commander of the faithful was near. Every
immediately folded his long robe over his breast, crossed his
k Tnuotr the
we.
hands before him, dropped his head on his bosom, and, in a
tone of voice just audible, prayed Allah and Mehemet to
object was
preserve the perpetuity of the royalrace.wasOuar
curiosity, and we looked eagerly for the Sultan, but could
s which
possibly
o studded
kept
hardly obtain a glimpse of him. His person, too sacred to be
gazed en, was almost hidden by the lofty plumes of feathers
of the attendants who surrounded him, each of whom wore
a vestvve oefongglirttaetrionagtesttubffe representingauthoron h resplendentaving
removed armforuorm,
exclusive assist
andhim himself f a
Fancy
nh is
responsibility—namely,
pdo
nas crestedibility_
helmet. y
must
reader in imagining then gorgeous eu
ss s
i housings,bl stdd
rubies, emeralds, and other precious stones, on a groundof
y should not be with
gold, that covered the Sultan's horse, which
stallion."
ledge of' circumstances
from the world. Ile has •
written with an agreeable
sparkle of style, and wi •
th a very valuable brevity.
The six volumes are
_ altogether a curious innovation upon
the usual manner of biographies ; and as they relate to
the niece and familiar associate of the celebrated Pitt,
they cannot fail to secure a multiplicity of readers of
this and of other t" genera ions.

LIBRARY, No.
'n Ca ada.
HOME AND COLONIAL
valuable series of publications
In conducting this very
XXXIII. Memoirs of a
various to appeal to the literary
Mr. Murray is carefulMissionary t p. .
and so to alternate th
and diversify the collection.e
themes tastes
to
which •
t volume, is pleasantly 'and
The present
initiates the reader into the
bfyers ;
unaffectedly written, .
domestic life and the social condition of the
subebasucrtil
inhabltan
• ts of that gigantic colony, while it en-
livens the narrative with the incidents encountered
by the narrator—the vicissitudes and adventures of a
Christian missionary. There is a novelty about the
scenes described., and an air of truthfulness about the
manner of the descriptions, which invest the page with
a peculiar fascination. We travel on through the suc-
cessive chapters, now involved in a snowdrift, now
startled by an earthquake, now interested by a
providential escape from robbers, now decoyed
by the account of some haunted mansion,
until we are suddenly surprised to find our
selves at the termination of the volume, with a sin-
cere wish that the obnoxious finis had not to make its
appearance until after the intervention of another 150
pages. As an agreeable, chatty, and yet reflective por-
trait of Canadian life, these memoirs will be rea'l
with profit, and, we are confidVnt; Witli pleasure.
Asa specirae4 of the natural and spontaneous tone of the

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first the sound was faint and distant, and then came nearer
and nearer, till it seemed to pass close under the windows;
and as it did so it shook the house violently, and then i_7,radu-
ally receded and went off again into the distance. We rose
from our seats, and looked at each other in fear and ama:r.e-
ment, as we distinctly saw the walls of the house swaying.
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and her two boys were in bed in an adjoining room, and the
feelings of the mother predominated over her fears for her
own safety. After calling to us to know what was the mat-
ter, but without waiting for our answer, she ran back to
them, and found her little girl fast asleep, but the boys were
sitting upr4,ht in bed, perfectly bewildered, and wondering
what had awakened them. I have said that the noise was
like that of a loaded cart passing rapidly along a paved
street; but ityvas vastly icuder, and its duration longer; for
it passed very slowly by. No damage was done to the house,
save some cracks in the plaster and cornices of the lower
rooms."

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Nothing could be more simple as a composition, but
the impression conveyed is singularly vivid. The author
hits seen, and thought, and written well.

RIO DEL MONTE MINES.
Received Bth June, 1846, per the Tweed.—Extract of
a letter dated Mineral del Monte, April, 1846 :—I have
not failed to notice, for some tame past, the advantage
which .Mr. Bowring's process has obtained over that of
and
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seippa erbarierycteeuinnirvetybebdi
lebolyblal yys
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tettrhth.l
conducted
vedeuaocmcotedeoodnfiutenhlodtsns:
The barrels continue to give very uniform results,
both with respect to the loss of silver, quicksilver, and
ste:o.osertltv(e)imibneesnt
under
nafi
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fh;oinsancoedwiasi:
stpwbcyentthji.s.frimnrethhoodursa.ll classes of
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as by Mr. Spangenburg's improved method of calcining , the ore, the barrels will in future be discharged once in ,
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favourable result already obtained since this improved . --:
method of calcining has been introduced, not only is there
a less loss of silver, but the time is materially shortened,
and cost less. For instance, formerly the furnaces were
generally changed once in each eighteen hours ; at pre-
sent
the quantity of salt is reduced from about 7-:21 to 4 per
cent.

I beg to hand you enclosed a letter from Mr. Span-
genburg to Mr. Taylor, dated 24th instant. The results
of this first trial on 58 quintals of ore, it will be seen,
are very satisfactory ; we are now making preparations
to increase this establishment for reducing a larger
quantity In the first trial the process proceeded very
slowly, but Mr. S. hopes to be able to overcome this ;
it will, however, still be necessary to augment the num-
ber, and put up larger tines than those at present in nse.
A great number of people in this neighbourhood
have anxiously watched these trials, and I believe
nearly all parties are of opinion that it will very
soon supersede all other methods of reducing silver
ores in this country. Considering such may pos-
sibly be the case, I am hesitating with respect to the
completion of the sixteen new barrels proposed
to be erected at Sanchez. Nothing, however, will inter-
hafover
fere with the speedy erections of water-wheel, and
if this new beneficio should be found to answer better
than the barrels, we might then attach 20 or 24 stamp-
heads
continuethethis
now in
hand I
to the wheel, thus increasing the quantity by
water, instead of by mules, as proposed at present.
In order, however, to avoid being thrown much out of
gouivren instructions
with respect to
w orh
s ha
en
ono
the barrels, which will not cause much extra expense,
even supposing the wheel should eventually be used for
grinding instead of working the barrels.

- I noticed in my letter orlast month that the grinding
power at Sanchez, when the additional arrastres are
completed, would be equal to about 560 cargas per week ;
hut if the 16 barrels now in hand are completed, and
discharged twice instead of once in each 24 hours, we
shall require nearly double that amount of grinding, for
which means must be devised hereafter.

By Mr. Woodfield's letter to . Mr. Taylor, dated the
24th instant, you will perceive that the returns from
Regla patio of last month were considerably less than
the estimate, Mr. Woodfield having deemed it expedient
to delay the washing of 3 or 4 tortos, in consequence of
their not being properly rendido, but which, in the
earlier part of the month he expects to have
brought in.
In the first three months of the year there were 927
montones ground in this hacienda, whereas only 730
were washed, Leming a surplus of 197 montones for the
second quarter. By the statement of costs and returns
for March, it will ba seen that the total silver produce
amounted altogether to only 27 bars, comprising 12
from llegla patio, 9 from Fundiciones, and 6 from
Sanchez ; total value, 32,000 dollars. The mines
cost amounted to 25,400 dollars general expenses ;
charges on produce, minerals, &c., 6,689 dollars ;
the haciendas to 2,270 dollars; making a total of
54,360 dollars, thereby showing a loss of 22,380 dollars.
The reason of the small returns from the Fundiciones I
explained in my letter of last month ; namely, the
breaking of the main rods in the Dolores diagonal shaft,
which prevented the working in the Santiago level west,
and in the San Enrique and San Pablo bottoms, and
which compelled us for upwards of a fortnight to sus-
pend the workings of the Fundiciones.
During this time also, it should be borne in mind, that
Acosta Mine was nearly full of water, while Terreros
engine was being erected ; and besides which there was
not less than 8,200 dollars for stores at Regla brought
into this month's accounts, which should have been en-
tered two months before. There were also 2,820
dollars charged for materials, &c., for San Antonio
hacienda. Fur the present month the returns will,
I expect, be something better than the estimate ; say„ e
about 42 bars. Even during this time we lost nearly
one week's work on the best 'shores, on account of the
Semana Santa. However, after all these misfortunes
and drawbacks, I have the satisfaction of informing the
directors that our prospects of future returns have of
late decidedly improved. The raisings of this month
have been as follows :

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Azoque. Fuego.
April 4
519
725
946

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however, is at the present moment of the greatest
importance ; and as you will perceive by Captain
Ratling's report, that the lode in Santiago level west of
Dolores is about a of a taras wide, a large portion of
which smelting ore, assaying 150 mares per mouton, while
the remainder is Azoque, containing from 25 to 30 mares
per monton, and taking into consideration that this
place is about 15 varas east, and 17 yams below the San
Pablo winze, there is reason to expect that the whole of
this piece of ground will turn out to be productive. I
therefore venture to make out the estimate for next
month as follows :

Dollars.
Cost 5 weeks
Returns 58 bars

Profits 13,300

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for
a considerable time to come. I expect, therefore, we
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shall go on making profits for the remaining part
tthheere girsoeuined r
of the year ; if the ore continues as at present, there
can be no doubt about it.

By Captain Skinfell's report you will be informed that
the east new engine at Acosta was put to work on the
2d instant. We have had some difficulty in forking the
water, in consequence of a pump having broken out ; I
trust, however, we have at last overcome all difficulties,
as the engin° urks remarlr.tor ~01, and tieepkthe water
tyhe
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middle
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after e n are
which
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shall employed
resume fixing
the two new plunger lifts at the Aviadero level, which
Captain Skiniell calculates will be finished about
driving the new level twenty-four varas below the
Aviadero, and also with the sinking of the shaft—
two most important works which have been delayed
so long a time owing to the increase of water.
You will notice that Captain P. speaks of a wince
called San Pascul, situated 246 varas south of Aoosta
boefloswmetlhteinSganorAenatobnoiuotleaveflo,oitn
lwvildliee,hwthheicreh isim assayed on
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we rose some very rich ore
inthehore, place much re-
liancevery bunchy, and we cannot,
of this class. Although of
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•on the continuance
you will observe
that at Rosario the raising . of ore has got up to near 350
per week. The mine essays average from 9-21: to
cargas
10 mares, and I expect will give about 8 in hacienda.
The quantity of ore might easily be increased, but at
present there are no means of reducing it. I propose
confining the raising to nearly sufficient to supply
' Sanchez.—Railway Herald.
abundance.a zoB qyu et ,i e therestatement is gre aotn probability
o h o
side

GRADUAL RISE OF NEWFOUNDLAND ABOVE THE SRA.
—lt is a fact worthy of notice, that the whole of the land in and
about the neighbourhood of Conception Bay, very probably the whole
island, is rising out of the ocean at a rate which promises, at no very
distant day, materially to affect, if not to render useless, many of the
best harbours we have now on the coast. At Pert de Grave, a series
of observations have been made, which undeniably prove the rapid
displacement of the sea-level in the vicinity. Several large flat
rocks, over which schooners might pass some thirty or forty years
ago with the greatest facility, are nose approaching the surface, the
water being scarcely navigable for a skiff. At a place called the Cash,
at the head of Bay Roberts, upwards of a mile from the sea-shore.
and at several feet above its level, covered with five or six feet of
vegetable mould, there is a perfect beach, the stones being rounded, of
a moderate size, and in all respects similar to those now found in the
adjacent land-washes.—Newfoundland Times.
FIVE PERSONS DROWNED WHILST BATHING.—Yes•
terday inquests were held on the bodies of five persons who were
drowned whilst bathing. Two of the inquests were held by Mr.
Baker on the bodies of a boy, eleven years old, named Henry Hey-
wood, and of a young man named Charles Harper,"aged nineteen.
Who were drowned in the river Lee. Mr. Wakley held inquests on
the bodies of Philip Pieta, aged twenty-six, and Frederick Brawn,
aged ten, who were drowned in the Regent's Canal; and Mr. Bed-
ford held an inquest on the body of James Kelly, aged thirty-two,
who was drowned in the Serpentine, whilst bathing, 'on Sunday
evening.
Voters in counties must send in their claims on or
before tile 20th of July ; and voters for cities and tsiroughs must pay.
on or before the 20th of July, all poor-rates and assessed taxes, dn.
for the last twelvemonths next before the 6th of April last past.
ho asphalt® pavements in Manclaester have melted
With the heat of the sun, and the pedestrians have, in some instances,
found difficulty in releasing their feet from the pitchy substano.....
kit pool Standard.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(YESTERDAY.)

ROUSE OF LOR,DS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Tinll GLASGOW AND azirAsT UNION.
The Committee met again this day, and proceeded with this case.
The Committee expressed a wish that the evidence as to the general
advantages of the line should be given. Provost Miller, of Ayr, Mr.
Christie, Mr. Blyth, Mr. Miller, and Mr. Whitfield, with other wit-
/lessor, were briefly examined.

The Committee then intimated that they would hear the evidence
aJ to the traffic.
Mr. Marshall, of Leith, traffic accountant, was called, and shortly
citamhaed. He said that the income from passengers, goods, and
minerals, he estimated at 29,1001. He had taken the rate of income
on passengers at 150 per cent. This he considered to be a moderate
allowance, as all experience had shown the increase to be much
aiors. The witness went into other details, proving that an adequate
remuneration would be obtained by the working of the line.
The Committee then, after a brief deliberation, declared the pre-
amble of the 811 l proved. The clauses were then gone through.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP 11.
CORNWALL DISTRICT, WEST CORNWALL
TbeCcmmittee met at the usual hour, Viscount Morpeth (chairman).
The proofs having been tendered this morning, in accordance with
the Duncombe resolutions,
Mr. AUSTIN, Q.C., opened the case on behalf of the promoters of the
West Cornwall Railway.
Several witnesses were called, who gave evidence in favour of the
line.

The Committee adjourned at five o'clock till twelve to-morrow

GROUP XIII.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
GLASGOW AND BELFAST ITNZON.

This line, which is unopposed, was then proceeded with.
Mr. TALBOT opened the case on behalf of the promoters. The line
was originally proposed to run from Ayr to Portpatrick, so as to con-
nect Glasgow and the West of Scotland with the North of Ireland.
A portion of the complete line was however given up, and that
which was now proposed to be made was the portion from Ayr to
Girvan, a distance of 2 i!i miles. There was a branch to Maybole,
of three-quarters of a mile in length.
Evidence was then called in support of the BIM
Sir David Hunter Blair, Mr. Hugh Miller, provost Of Ayr, and
Mr. James Brown, of Maybole, generally deposed as to the benefits
the line would confer upon the district through which it passed.
Mr. Wylie, factor to the Duke and Duchess de Coigny, who have
a large property in the neighbourhood, gave evidence as to the
benefit the line would confer on the town and neighbourhood of
Girvan.

Whitfield gave evidence as to the coal-field in the valley of
(Bryan. The outports at present was 40,000 tons, and a rail-
way would increase it to 100,000 yearly.
Mr. Blythe, civil engineer, deposed that the estimate of the line
Prom Ayr to Girvan was 330,0001. This was ample enough for all
the works, land, &c. There were :no engineering difficulties, the
severest gradient being one in ninety, and the sharpest curve a radius
of half a mile.
Mr. Miller, civil engineer, was examined in corroboration.
Mr. Martin estimated the traffic as a local line at 25,1061. Of this
14,2021. was for passengers.
The room was then cleared for a decision.
On the admission of the parties,
The CliAnt3tAs intimated that the Committee had come to the
decision that the preamble of the Bill was proved. The Committee,
however, in coming to that decision, wished it to be understood that
the Glasgow and Belfast Union should not offer any opposition to the
Ayrshire and Glasgow Railway in its entrance into Ayr, providing
the Legislature should see the expediency of that Bill passing in
another session

The Committee adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock.

GROUP XIV.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills
comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning,
Mr. Protheroe in the chair.