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LfitiNGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Ade!phi.
Capital, 50,0001.,
In 100,000 Shares of 103. (fully paid up) each.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadleyellerts.
George Em:nott Green, Esq., Enunott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
CIIAIRBAN.
GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq, James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate; and New-square, Lincoln's 11111.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON, Esq., Victoria •
square; and Flowden-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, 31. D., Richmond, Surrey.
Sytneon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Felder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles /Uncles' Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Rumbold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Vere Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq.- I William Godfrey Sleet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directors
take the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders a
statement of its progress and prospects.
It may be confidently asserted that no Company was ever brought
before the public with equal prospect of speedy and successful
results.
The prompt assistance afforded by the Shareholders to the Direc-
tors, and the perfect confidence in the manserement displayed by
them, have enabled the Directors to take such steps as must ensure
an enormous dividend within a few months.
Sir Henry Huntley, the resident Director in California, has been
in that country five months, and the course adopted by the Directors
, for carrying out this enterprise results from the ea obtained
by him during that period. The irtgructions- given tr Henry
Mint ey were, in effect, that he should make every possible inquiry
relative to the state of the country, the tenure of land, the com-
parative merits of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and atter mature deliberation to advise the Directors
as to their best course of proceeding, and to take such measures as
would enable them to carry out his views as speedily as possible.
Following these instructions, he has secured for the benefit of the
Company, sufficient lands for all mining purposes ; but he is clearly
of opinion, that for the present, at least, it is not desirable to under-
take missing operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who are posseseei of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
execr.ence in geology and mining matters, he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, and other districts, and has come to the conclusand
ion,
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of Grass Valley
Nevada City, is that which affords the greatest advantages for car-
rying on our enterprise. He has, therefore, entered into an agree-
ment with some American gentlemen, who have formed a company,
and have opened, and, to a considerable extent, worked a vein of
quartz, di.tant about three miles from GrasseValley and Nevada
Cite , and about thirty miles from Sacramento City. to crush and
amalgamate the quartz to be raised from the mine opened by
them. By means of machinery, he has already ecru hed
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup•
plied him from this mine ; and the
vein r.sisult
of aof hisfull operationsaverage
has been to eatisfy himself that the
richness, and that the locality offers many important advantages in
the way of water, fuel, means of transit, &c., &c. He has, there-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Company,
which, in
a few words, amounts to this: he is to be supplied by them with as
much quartz as his machinery shall be found capable of crushing;
the quartz is to be deposited at the mills free of expense;
lie is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
he g ,ld produced is to be divided For equmal aally
nd betwelegalen the owners
of the vein and our Company. agreements
for carrying out the above arrangement fairly and honestly, and
without any copartnership, have been entered into. Steam-engines
and machinery estimated to crush about thirty tons of quartz a day,
with fonds sufficient for putting it in motion, have been placed under
the control of Sir Henry Huntley; and, unless some unexpected
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made about Christmas next.
For the satisfaction of the existing shareholders of this Company,
and without wishing, in ally manner, to deteriorate front the merits
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling attention
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by this Com-
pany over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely up m reports sent over by persons interested in
selling the Irvine; we rely upon the reports of our own resident
Director and his practical assistants on the spot, whose only
interest is to give us facts. The Directors of other
Companies generally base the estimate of the value of
their mine upon calculations founded on experiments
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this country for
the express purpose ewevertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public ; found our calculations spoil experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by
atus our own Superintendent, and wills our
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own machinery and appar. Other Companies propose
incur the expense and risk of carrying out mining operations
their t vein, before the quartz arrives at their mill, and, should
their labours prove successful, they must then pay out of their
profits large per-centages for obtaining their leases, and large royal
tics to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as much quartz as
our machinery is capable of crushing, tale title to which is as secure
re
as that of any other company, unfetterd by any percentage
royalty. The half of the produce to be paid by this Company to the
parties who supply us, free of expense, with the quartz, being in fact
merely equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capital ex-
pended in raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. All the
new companies, unlike this, must be a considerable time before
their arrangements and machinery can be ready for carrying out
their schemes—tkis Company alone Is actually at work.
The paid-up capital of the Company will not exceed 20,0001. An
almost certain estimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently
anticipate being able even at the most moderate estimate, to afford
a dividend of 200 per cent., at the least, within the next twelve
months. According to the data furnished to us, the quartz which
we are now working yields upon an average 4d. per pound, or 1/.
17s. ed. per cwt., or 371. 6s. Bd. per ton ; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, that would amount to 7461....,
13s. 4d., or 3731. 6s. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company.
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon practical experience, the economy in working expenses must
necessarily be such as to render the current outlay most trifling.
In case circumstances should induce the Directors to alter the
system now adopted, and lead them to undertake mining operations
of their own, arrangements have been made securing four distinct
sites, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who
went out with him, and who have voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed the Provisional Committee of this
Company, havo added to their number several gentlemen possessing
the acquaintance and entice confidence of a very large body of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Direetory was due to those Shareholders who kave in fact estab-
lished and nobly supported this Company. Measures will be taken
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders will be convened for the middle of January.
In concluslon, the Directors beg to offer their best thanks to the
Shareholders for the uniform support they
have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Comeany shall be con
ducted with the most rigid economy, and with the sole view of for-
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shareholders particularly
to the fact that, from the system adopted b
between they, this Company, it can-
not be affected by the question now agitated holders of
leases a,l Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
bye of this Company
he is far removed from the ed
Colonel Fremont. T difficulty arising out of thetract manyclai poimnts
BOW raised relative to the tenure of land under leashaving the ces, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by thosecontrol
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to plrstre for the present the course they have, and not
to incur certain heavy expenses with doubtful results.
The Directors trust that Shareholders will approve of the prudence
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses may be had upon application at the offices of the
Compeny.

LACRENT'S CASINO.
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
st. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
Laurent's well-known and celebrated Baud, principal Cornet-a-
PiStOn, M. Bouleourt.
During the recess the Rooms lawn been re-decorated, and many
improvements made, under thg sole dlrdetion of Jr. CI F. Ilryer.
Doors open at half-past Efglit;l6 corlanience at Nino o'clock.
AdmissibrlL-01. 11,SHILTRICG:

PARIS '4•INATEV(SIEGE.
THE ASSFYIiiiIMDTSMNftii:
General Officers, the' Leaflets 'oe,'Party; 'attested and sent to
Prison, the Council of State -.Dissolved, and Louis Napoleon
his
Dictator. This astounding intelligence, transmitted from Paris in it
few minutes, nearly frightened London from its propriety on Tues-
day last, ye from all we can learn the President completely followed
the example set in the British metropolis years ago, even to the
close, for when he had effected the mighty change he appealed to
the people, whose support alone he craved. The change to which
we refer was that which in forty-eight hours was accomplished by
E. MOSES and SON. The monopolists were more formidable than
the General Assembly, and they were not without leaders, but
Messrs. E. MOSES and SONS crustiest them at once by lowering
the price of a mall's clothes fifty per cent., and appealing to the
people. What was the result ? The extortion and wrong doings of
those they
displaced was apparent, and the people exulted in the
change. They gladly seized upon the benefits extended to them,
and supported the firm. Every man in the kingdom is now at
liberty to buy for himself and his family better clothes than they
had before, and at less than half price ; let any one, if indeed
there be any, who doubts this, inspect the present unrivalled stock
of Winter Clothing at the Monarch Mart in Aldgate and the
Minories, or their Grand West-end Branch Establishment in New
Oxford-street, corner of Hart-street, where everything of the newest
and neatest and best is marked with its prices, and they will doubt
no longer.
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Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Bost and Shoo-
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t r tai s when business is maimed till Twelve o'clock.
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A handsome Almanac, for the year ending 1852, can be had
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THE BREWERS' MONOPOLY.

Last evening the second weekly meeting of the
Working Mutes Anti• Brewers' Monopoly League
was held at the Ship, Long-lane, Bertnondsey, for the
purpose of discussing the best means of effecting -a
reduction in the price of beer, and to enrol additional
members.

Mr. JOSHUA TAYLOR having been called to' the chair,
opened the blnieess of the evening by stating that the
present extortionate price of beer was daily becoming
a question of increasing public interest; and the press,
he was glad to say, was taking up the movement with
great spirit. The letters which had appe.aied in the
different journals also showed, however, thatlhey were
not without their enemies ; but none of their 'opponents
had yet made their appearance at these meetings to
relit° their arguments if they were able. They would
be very happy to meet them, because the members of
the league were satisfied that their views would be
only strengthened by discussion.—(Hear, hear.) It
was high time that the working men, not only of Ber-
mondsey, bat of the entire metropolis, took this ques-
tion under their serious consideration. The present
price of beer was not reduced to correspond with the
price of the quartern loaf, and yet the guartern loaf
and the pot of beer went hand in hand as the suste-
nance of the working man; and the only way to secure
them both at a fair price was by uniting together to
pull down the stronghold of the " Twelve Tyrants" of
London.—(Bear, hear.) They had met together to
agitate this question until the public indignation
was sufficiently aroused against the imposition prac-
tised by the monopolist brewers; and they, -would be
glad. to 'receive the suggestions of any • e -,e,16:,,e as to
the moat effective meatri—iirliccornp g tei ob
ject.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PRIDMoRE (the secretary) said that some indi-
viduals in that neighbourhood were short-sighted
enough to believe that this movement would soon die
away, and could never succeed.—( A. laugh.) It was
for the working men of London to show that they
were determined to deserve success, and then succeed
no doubt they would.—(Cheers.) They did not in-
tend to give it up; and especially when they found
this glaring fact that in 1847 the price of barley was
425. per quarter, and at the present time the best
barley was 265. per quarter; but no reduction what-
ever had been made in the price of beer. Now,
during this last year, according to the brewers' re-
turns, Messrs. Barclay and Ci. had used 126,932
quarters of malt; so that the amount which they
coolly put into their own pockets as the difference
between 425. and 264. for a quarter of barley was no
less than the enormous sum of 101,5461.—(5hame.)
Well, that was pretty good for one firm alone.—(A
laugh.) But he had got the returns for Trueman's,
and all the other great brewers, who had defrauded
the public in the same manner, by sweeping the
whole of the reduction into t'neir own voracious maw.
If the working men would submit tamely to be
robbed in this way, without loudly calling out
for their rights, he could not tell what was
sufficiently monstrous to arouse them. The
" brewer. princes" talked of their charity in giving up
a fractional part of their ill-gotten gains for benevo-
lent purposes but they must be told that charity
began at home, and must be made to follow honesty,
and not to compound for dishonesty.—(Hear, hear.)
They bad got cheap bread, and why should they not
also have cheap beer ? This reminded him of an
excellent working man's toast which he had once
heard.—

" The inside of a loaf and the outside of a gaol,
A pound of beefsteska and a pot of good alp."
—(Laughter.) Now, as to the gaol, it depended on
their own good conduct to keep them outside of that ;
and with regard to the loaf and the beefsteak they
got them both at a moderate price, and had nothing
now to complain of, and therefore the only thing they
wanted to complete the toast he had named was
" the pot of good ale" at something like a reasonable
cost. That, too, he thought they would succeed in
obtaining at as moderate a price as the loaf and the
beefsteak, if they only firmly united to overthrow
the heartless remnant of monopoly which had so long
existed in London.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BARKER, of Hackney, called attention to a
letter which appeared in the Morning Chronicle of
the 31 inst., stating that foreign beer was prohibited
by a heavy duty from coming into this country to
compete with our twelve monopolists. The writer
said that the average cost of English beer was 2/. Ils.
per barrel,'and that the English brewer now enjoyed
a protective duty of 203. per barrel, of about 40 per
cent. [A Voice—That's not free trade.] They must
take it for granted that this statement was true, as
nobody as yet contradicted it ; and if so, they must
unite to have this duty at least removed, if they could
not get redress in any other shape from the brewer.
—(Cheers.) We drank foreign wine and brandy, and
foreign wheat and barley came free of duty into this
country, and be thought we should be able to get
foreign beer also.—(liear, hear.) He believed, how-
ever, that rather than give up this protection the
brewer would be glad to reduce his price.—(A
laugh.) He had heard several publicans say, " Oh,
it is of no use your agitating—the brewer is sure
to get the better of you ; if you drive him to
"
make a reduction of a penny be will make his
beer three-halfpence worse in quality.
Well, but
the league would take care that the public should
not to be gulled in that way ; for they were deter-
mined to have every brewer's beer tested once a month,
or oftener if necessary, to guard against any such
unptinbipled trick or deception.—(Cheers.) He and
his friends intended to hold a meeting to agitate the
question next week at Hackney; and they were re-
solved to do everything in their power to co-operate
with Bermondsey in this working-man's:
cause.
Mr. Ilewßies, of Blackfriars, considered it neces-
sary to combine actions with words in such an un-
dertaking as the present. The way to deal with the
wealthy monopolists was not to send deputations or
petitions to them. The brewers ought rather to assume
that humble attitude, and petition the people to drink.
—(Laughter.) What the working men should do
was to get a thousand members to subscribe 1/. each,
which they might surely
pay up by instalments in
three months, and then, with a capital cf 1,0001.,
they could take a small brewery with a plant already
fixed, and brew working man's beer. By that means
they could no doubt sell a good wholesome article to
families at Is. a gallon at all events, and employ
a peid manager, who should be well given to un•
derstand that if he was caught " doctoring" the
beer he should be ousted from his place.—(Laughter.)
Well, supposing these 1,000 working men required a
51 gallon cask in a fortnight,
and some families would
consume that quantity in a week, that would make
5,000 gallons a week from this small brewery, and
would yield an income of about 125/ ; and surely out of
this 125/. there would be something to go to swell the
stock of 1,000/. ; and besides, it would be satisfactory
to every man having a stoke in the concern to feel in
receiving his dividends that the profits arising upon
his own consumption went into his own pocket, in-
stead of into the pocket of the greedy monopolists.—
(Cheers.) He trusted the meeting would well weigh
this suggestion in their minds, and see if was practi•
cable, because he thought it would be a far preferable
course to petitioning the brewers, and placing it in
their power to give them an article nominally cheaper,
the teetotallers from
supplied now. Then
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their absurd principle, many of whom, to his know-
ledge, would never have become total abstainers if
they could have had a cheap and genuine malt beve-
rage.—(Hear. )
Mr. PRIDMORR said, after the remarks of the last
speaker, he wished to assure them that the little band
who first met there had made up their minds not to
go crawling to the tyrants.—(Dear.) Prom the first
their determination had been not to go cap in hand to
petition them; but to compel them to do justice, by
first awakening the public mind to their extortionate
practices.—(Hear.)
Mr. LLOYD said he wished to make a few remarks,
and first, he would throw out a suggestion which he
thought, if carried out for a few weeks, would soon
bring the monopolists to their senses. The beer score
of most working men now amounted to 3s. or 4s. per
week. He therefore proposed that they should all
leave off their extra half-pints, and only drink what
they absolutely required at their meals. This would
reduce the consumption one-half; and they would
thereby save 2s. a week out of the 4s. With this 2s.
he proposed that they should keep Is. in their own
pockets, and with the other ls. form a fund. There
were about 400,000 working men iu London, and if
one-half of the entire number subscribed Is. each, this
would amount to 10,0001. every week. Continuing
this for a few months, they would soon raise sufficient
capital to eatablish large breweries in every district of
London.—(Cheers.) This would be a much better
course to pursue than establishing a small brewery or
two, which could never successfully compete with the
colossal establishments of the millionaires; but if they
took his advice, he believed they would soon bring the
brewers cap in hand to them, and compel them to
surreedsr at discretion.—(Cheers. )
The SECRETARY then explained that the plans of
the league were not sufficiently matured for them yet
to lay down any definite end decided line of action
for the guidance of the working men ; but they hoped
that every man who was friendly to the cause would
be prepared, if necessary, to abstain from beer, or to
reduce his consumption of it one half. Let them take
I a drop of gin and water; but, at all events, they
`would not be so foolish as to recommend the teetotal