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DECEMBER 6, 1851.
N°. 18,473.] LONDON, SA TURDAY
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ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Adolph!.
Capital, 50,1001.,
In 100,000 Shares of 10s. (fully paid up) each.
No Shareholder will be liable beyond the amount of his Shares.
TRUSTEES.
Charles Herbert Cottrell, Esq., Hadley, Herts.
George Emmett Green, Esq., Emmott Hall, Lancashire.
James Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
CHAIRMAN.
GEORGE EDWARD COTTRELL, Esq., James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate; and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DAWSON, Esq., Victoria-
square; and Plowden-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmond, Surrey.
Symeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
Jonathan Felder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles Rheas, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Rumbold, Bart., Argyll-street, Regent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTOR IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Vero Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe and Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq. 1 William Godfrey Ilnet, 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 management 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 month!, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrying out this enterprise results from the experience obtained
by him during that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt.ey were, in effect, that he phonid 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 after 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 mining operations, but to crush and amalgamate quartz to
be supplied by those who are possess e t of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
experience 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 conclusion,
upon sound reasons, that the vicinity of Grass Valley and
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, distant about three miles from Grass:Valley and Nevada
City, and about thirty miles from Sacramento City, to crush and
amalgamate the quartz to be raised from the mine openeemud
hed by
them. By means of machinery, he has a
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine; and the result of his operations
has been to satisfy himself that the vein is of a full average
richness, and that the locality oilers 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 ;
he is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
the grid produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and legal agreements
for carrying cut 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 fends 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 any manner, to deteriorate from the merits
of other Companies, the Directors are desirous of calling attention
to some of the more prominent advantages possessed by
this
pany over others now in the field. Shareholders ire other Companies
must mainly rely upon reports sent over by persons interested in
selling the mine; 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 quarts, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public ; we found our calculations ripen experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the mine, and
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superintendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out miniug operations
open their 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
ties to their lessors ; whereas we have secured as much quartz as
our machinery is capable of crushing, the title to which is as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any per-centa.ge or
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
merel equivalent to the dividend upon the outlay of capital ex-
pended yin raising the quartz, and lodging it at the mill. All the
new coanies, unlike this, must be a considerable time
their arrangements and machinery can be ready for carrying before
out
their schemes—this 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 11.
17s. 4d. per cwt., or 371. 65. Sd. 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. Sd. 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 leave voluntarily retendered him their
services.
The gentlemen who formed the Provisional Committee of this
Company, have added to their number several gentlemen possessing
the acquaintance and entire confidence of a very large body of
Shareholders in the provincial districts. To add such men to the
Directory was due to those Shareholders who have 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 conclusion, the Directors beg offer their best thanks to the
Shareholders for the uniform supportto
they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this
with the Companysole shall bo c
foron-
-
ducted with the most rigid economy, and w of
warding the interest of the Shareholders.
The Directors beg to call the attention of Shareholders particularly
to the fact that, from the system adopted by this Company,
t c-
not be affected by the question now agitated between the holders of
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
the operations of this Company is far removed from the tract claimed
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out of the many points
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by those leaving the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to pursue for the present the course they have, and not
to incur certain heavy expenses with doubtful resultsof the prudence
The Directors trust that Shareholders will approve
of the course they have adopted.
Prospectuses ,may be had upon application at the offices of the
Company.

THE DETERMINED ATionTACKthat ONcrisis LOUIS
NAPOLEON.—There is no quest but a is now
near at hand, and that one of three important parties will shortly be
settled as dominant in France—the Red Republicans, the Legitima-
tists, or the friends of the present Government. The attacks made
in the Assembly on the Government of Louis Napoleon have been all
but successful, and yet have signally failed ; but the last and worst
attack was when the majority sought, by a Bill which has been
sleeping nearly two years, to enpower the Assembly to impeach the
President, the Ministry, and whoever else should favour the re-
election of Louis Napoleon. While, however, the French people are
at loggerhads abut clothing the Assembly or the Government with
power, wee on thiso side of the Channel are thinking about clothing
ourselves ; and the best opportunity in the world presents itself, for
the unique stock of Messrs. E. MOSES and SON is more novel,
more extensive, and more elegant than at any former season. Each
morning their extensive warehouses are crammed with new and
elegant costume, however reduced the quantity may be by night.
Their Winter Clothing sapasses everything of the kind to be found in
Europe, and Messrs. E. MOSES and SON are only anxious that rho
public may visit their display at the Monarch Mart in Aldgate and
the Mineries, or their magnificently fitted-up West-end Branch
Establishment in New Oxford-street, corner of Hart-street, for
nothing but seeing will give anybody an idea of the elegance,
quality, style, durability, and cheapness of every article they make.
E. MOSES and SON,
London City Establishment, 154, 155, 156, and 157, Minor's', 88,
44, 85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating.
567, 508, New Oxford-Ottreet, 1,2,
London West-end Branch, 506,
end 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford " Yorkshire" Branch, 19, Bridge-street
Sheffield Branch, 36, Fargate.
Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Bost and UN-
makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset Bl-
tirdaY, When business is resumed till Twelve o'clock.

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correct bile and indigestion, purify the renal secretions, thereby
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Price is. 1%d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., I la., and 335. per box, through all
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The ROYAL HOTEL at the SLOUGH STATION to be DISPOSED
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MR. ROBINS is instructed by Mr. Dotesio,
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at SLOUGH, and the capacious Premises appertaining thereto, on
the most advantageous terms, as the whole property must be sold in
Lots by Auction in the event of a suitable offer not being made by
Private Contract. _

This PRINCELY HOTEL, surrounded by Six Acres of beautiful
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Furniture and Decorations, for its magnificent disposition of every
department, which renders it unrivalled as the BEST It ESTAURANT
AND FAMILY HOTEL IN EUROPE, admirably adapted for
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The adjoining House is in itself a complete little Tavern, with
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and loose-boxes ; also the well-arranged Lanndry and Cottage, re-
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whale of this part of the property, which covers about 2 acres, could
be well tenanted separately, having a great number of offices and
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The Lease is for 21 years from Midsummer, 1846, the tenant only
having power to determine the same at the first 5 or 10 years ; and
the tenant, in consideration of the great amount spent by him in
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Mr. Robins purposely abstains from any panegyric on the well
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realize a handsome fortune in a few years. - • •
Every information may be obtained on application to Mr. Robins,
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOTIONS FOR ARCTIC SERVICE.

The following promotions for service in Captain Aus-
tin's late Arctic expedition have been made, The com-
missions aro dated back to Oct, 11,1851 :
Lieutonants—R. D. Aldrech (1842), late first of the
Resolute; J. B. Cator (1842), late in command of the
screw-tender Intrepid; and F. G. M'Clintoch (1845),
late first lieutenant of the Assistance—to the rank of
commanders.
Mates—R. F. Hamilton (1850), L. L. May (1850),
and J. P. P. Cheyne (1850)—to be lieutenants.
Second Masters—F. J. Krabhe (1845), G. F. M'Dou-
gall (1846), and J. H. Allard (1847)—t0 be masters.
Assistant-Surgeons—T. R. Pickthorn (1842), John
Ward, a (1843), and Charles Ede (1845)—t0 be sur-
geons.
Clerk—E. F. Harrison (1844), to be paymaster and
purser.
Captain Austin, C. 8., is to have some home appoint-
ment; and Captain Ommanney, as we announced yester-
day, has been rewarded with the deputy comptroller-
ship of the coast guard.
We are surprised to find that Lieutenant Osborne has
not been included in the list of promotions. It was ge-
nerally expected that the great zeal, ability; and enter-
prise, which he displayed, would have been justly re-
warded with promotion.
It now remains to be seen how Mr. Allen, the master,
and other officers of the squadron, are to bo rewarded.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander—George Hancock (1850), to the London,
92, at Sheerness.
Lieutenants—Ennis Chambers, flag-lieutenant to the
Britannia, 120; F. A. Close, to the Blenheim screw-
ship, Portsmouth; T. H. M. Martin, to the Fury steam-
sloop, Woolwich.
Masters—C. T. A. Noddall, to the London; J. H. T.
Norris, to the Fury.
Surgeon—John Rees, to the Britannia.
Assistant-Surgeons—Stephen Bowdon, James W.
Elliott, and Horace H. Smith, to the Britannia.
Paymaster—H. W. Hollinworth, to the Fury.
Clerk—A. H. Martin, to the Fury.
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—The Havannah, 19, Captain
Erskine, sailed for Plymouth this morning to pay off, as
we stated yesterday. She landed her small freight of
native Australian gold yesterday, which was forwarded
to London by Messrs. Emanuel, of Portsmouth, freight
agents. There is, we understand, another small freight
expected home in the barque Baadices; she has one
lump of native gold on board that weighs 1051 b. The
officers and crew of the Acheron that came home in the
Havannah have been transferred to the Victory.
The Rapid is still at Spithead, waiting orders; she has
been paid advance.
The Britannia, 120, has this day hoisted the pendant
as flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief elect of the Me-
diterranean. The flag of Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8..
was at the same time transferred from her mitten to
that of the Illustrious, 72, which until lately carried it,
where it will remain until the Neptune, 120, is ready
to receive it. The Neptune was also commissioned this
day by Captain Yates, late of the Britannia, which will
be docked, if possible, to-morrow, to be overhauled.
The Birkenhead steam-frigate, Master-Commander
Salmond, is reported in the offing, from Sheerness, with
the officers and men of the Waterloo, for the Britannia.
The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Graham, C. 8., has
received her crew and hauled off from the Blake hulk
over to the Gosport shore, to make room for the Bri-
tannia's people.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. s.—Her Majesty's sloop Flying
Fish, Commander George E. Patey, arrived here yester-
day afternoon, after a splendid passage only of 29 days,
from Ascension, having left on the sth tilt. The steam-
frigates Cyclops, Retribution, and Sidon, from the Cape
of Good Hope, were coaling at the island, on their pas-
sage home.
Mr. Pennal, late secretary to the Governor of St.
Helena, was on board the Sidon, which had also some
military invalids and condemned stores from the Cape.
Captain Hutton, Governor of Ascension, was to come
home in the Retribution, having been superseded by
Captain Kitchen, who went out in the Virago.
The English merchant brig Pink, laden with guano,
was wrecked on the 4th of November on the south-east
side of Ascension. Crew saved.

Her Majesty's ships Penelope, Sampson, Gladiator,
Archer, Niger, Waterwitch, Alecto, and Prometheus, as-
sembled on the 22d of October, at Cape Lopez, for the
purpose of trying by court-martial Mr. Russel, chief
engineer of the Prometheus, who was dismissed the ser-
vice for drunkenness.
When the Flying Fish was leaving Cape Lopez on the
24th of October she saw Commodore Brace and the
Niger under way to join the squadron for resumption of
their various cruising grounds.
The present disposition of the squadron is as follows :
—On the north coast—Sealark, Firefly, Dolphin, Spy,
and Alecto; in the Bight, Samson, Waterwitch, Niger,
Harlequin and Volcano; and on the south coast, the
Gladiator, Prometheus, Archer, Wasp, and Hound.
The squadron was in good general health.
The Jackall on the 22d of October left the Commo-
dore for Sierra Leone with mails.
Commanders lichee) and Forbes, and Lieutenant Bond,
had joined the Penelope,

The Waterwitch had taken from Sierra Loon to Capo
Coast Castle Major Hill, the newly appointed Governor
of the Gold Coast.

The slave trade is, so to speak, abolished. The last
prize taken by the Flying Fish was in July, and since
then only one vessel, an empty felucca, has been cap-
tured; she was captured by the Samson. Vessels
having tho aprearance of slavers are boarded, but
though they are furhished with ring bolts and other
equipments required for the purpose of slaving, yet
their papers are correct, and it is evident they are not
engaged in the hateful traffic; indeed the merchants on
the coast, who were formally so occupied, have now
abandoned the trade. The Admiralty are lengthening
the commissions of the ships on the stations, appa-
rently with the intention of bringing the affair to a
completion.
The Flying Fish has been upwards of two years in
commission, has taken ten prizes, and released 800 slaves.
Owing to the admirable discipline of Captain Patey her
internal report is of the very highest character, no cor-
poral punishments of any kind have been inflicted, every
petty officer returns to England retaining the same
rating as when he b-ft; and with the exception of one
mate, promoted, and one midshipman,
exchanged, she
brings back the same officers whom she took out. The
ship is in excellent order, and the crew in every way
comfortable. Only three men have died since her com-
mission, viz, one marine, one krooman, and one
drummer.

The Flying Fish took an extraordinary route home,
having come 200 miles to the eastward of the Azores.
She struck soundings on Sunday afternoon, and would
have arrived here on Taosday had she not experienceel a
heavy south-east gale, under storm Bails, on Monday,
and a dead calm on Tuesday. The Eddystone in as
sighted at half-past five yesterda in g, but a thi ck
fog and calm weather prey() 'entering the Setand
until late in the afternoon. •

She spoke, in latitude 23 51 north, longitude 28 Wi st,
the English barque Robert, bound to Trinidad; and in
latitude 34.40 north, longitude 24,30 west, exchanwed
numbers with an English barque, showing the aecand
distinguishing pendant and the number 5,982. She has
landed her passengers—Lieutenant H. M. Elliott, in-
valided from the Waterwitch; Mr. Fowler, late mastei 'of
the Niger, on half-pay; and Mr. Russell, late engin,Ser
of the Prometheus.

The Flying Fish will probably be paid off at Ply-
mouth.

Dispatches for the Admiralty go on by the express
train.

Her Majesty's sloop Fly, 14, Commander Richard A.
Oliver, from the New Zealand station, arrived yoster,:lay
afternoon. She sailed from Auckland on the 29th of
August, at ten A. N.; arrived at the Falkland Islands. on
the 28th, and left on the 30th of September at rune
A,M.; reached Rio Janeiro on the 17th of Octobei: at
noon, and sailed therefrom at daylight on the 23(1 of
October. She was off St. Michael's on the 24th of No-
vember.

She spoke on the 29th of August, at the entrancib to
Auckland, the merchant vessel Thames, out 115 d
from. London; 23th of September, latitude 26.20 S.,
longitude 64.10 W., exchanged numbers with the Eng-
lish brig Halket; 30th of September, lying at Point Wil-
liam, Falkland Islands, the Windsor, of Liverpool, the
Levenside barque, and the Titania schooner; 27th; of
October, latitude 15.21 S., longitude 32.28 W., 'ex-
changed colours with the French ship Harmonie, of
Havre, and spoke the schooner Jane, of Liverpool; rio-
vember 5, latitude 5.40 N., longitude 27.23 W., &hip
Aaron, of BAngor; November 15, excharged numl:ers
with the barque Mandain and ship Chrysolite; Dec em-
ber 1, at ten A.m., exchanged colours with a Swedish
brig; at one P.X.. with a Danish barque; December 2', at
ten A.m., with a French barque; and at 2.30 P.M., pinised
a Swedish brig steering south-west.
The Fly, on the 14th of November, exchanged col. ?urs
with her Majesty's ship Havannah, 19, Captain John
E. Erskine, returning from the Australian station.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS;

DAILY NEWS.—In the Conference of Reforniers
at Manchester, Lord John Russell will find a standard
of the measure of reform that is likely to satisf y a
very numerous and very influential class of Englush-
men. The Conference was composed of men more
in earnest, more addicted to plain speaking, than Libe-
rals of that class of society with which the Prey sier
is most familiar. The Reformers represented at Man-
chester may have conventionalities of their own, ibut
they are conventionalities which mould and mot !Iffy
the opinions of a much wider circle than is composed
by the aristocratic Whigs. On the other hand, the
Liberals represented in the Conference cannot w ith
any propriety of language be called Ultras, if regard
is had to the views generally entertained by those • of
their rank in society throughout the kingdom. The
Conference was composed principally of Reform ers
from Lancashire and the West Riding. A re-
ference to the list of delegates will show tih at
there were comparatively few representatives of
towns beyond these limits. Nay more, the reseilu-
tions adopted by the meeting appear to have b i.en
canvassed and prepared at a preliminary meeting of
Leeds and Manchester delegates. The predominat i ng
influence at the Conference was, in short, that which
made and kept the Anti-Corn-law League a " mid-
dle-class" movement. Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bai ries
have had •as much to say in deciding the tone :vnd
temper of the resolutions, as they had to say in the p,,re-
paration of the manifestoes of Anti-Corn-law delegel tes
before they assumed the designation of " the Leap) e.
If anything, the composition of the Conference • [vas
more decidedly " middle class "—less tinged by a de-
mocratic spirit—than was that of the conference s, in
which the Anti-Corn-law League originated. In the
latter Mr. Cobden had, as now, the drag-chain of .Idr.
Edward Baines upon him
; but, on the other hand,he had he support of Mr. Joseph Stu gge
(Birmingham) and Mr. Johnstone (Glasgow).
Birmingham appears to have stood aloof altogether
from the Reform Conference. and the Whiggish
Edinburgh was substituted for the more rad i cal
Glasgow. If anything, the leaders of the new A te-
form movement are less peremptory and resolute t I lan
were the leaders of the Anti-Corn-law movem telt.
Why do we dwell on these circumstances ? In, no
spirit of disparagement ; out of no desire to play the
Marplot, and awaken sectional jealousies, but sin tply
for the purpose of impressing upon Lord J;ohn
Russell, and Reformers of his stamp, the conviction
that such a measure of reform as has found favou r in
the eyes of the Manchester Conference, is the very
least that has any chance of awakening interest in,
or receiving support from, the great body of the in-
dustrial middle classes. Had the Conference bi sen
held in Birmingham or London, the resolutions war uld
have been of a more thoroughgoing, a more sternly
uncompromising cast. Mr. Thompson and Sir
Joshua Walmsley would have found more supporters
in either of those places than they did in Manchet iter.
It is very likely that our Conservative contempo-
raries may waste a great quantity of very indiffexent
wit about the rather sharp debate that took place in
the Conference between Mr. Thompson and Sir
Joshua Walmsley on the one hand, and Mr.
Bright, with his numerous supporters, on the of her. I
Nay, it would in no way
surprise us were " Con ear-
vative Reformers," as the phrase is, to indulge in gigave
and dull arguments and groundless inferences on. the
subject. This bickering need not in truth disconcert
the friends of reform. On the contrary, the show
of temper on one or both sides affords a guarantee
that both were in earnest; while the cordiality that
was afterwards manifested gave evidence that the
ebullition was transient; that the out-voted party was
inclined to acquiesce in the resolutions of the majority ;
that these resolutions, though scarcely so strong or
decided as many Reformers (even of the middle class)
could have wished, may command general assent and
support, if men can only be convinced that there is a
chance of having them carried into effect. Of the
scope and tendency of the resolutions we are disposed
to approve. We cannot, indeed, in conscience say
eveny tediouslyfelicitously
minute in their de-
tails, without being very clear.
tehl
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dvery
This was perhaps
unavoidable. In literary composition, as in
matters gastronomic, " too many cooks spoil the
broth." When a sentence must be added to please
one gentleman, and a parenthetical phrase thrown
in to please another, verbiage and circumlocution is
the inevitable result. And when these additions and
interpolations are made, not to render a definition
more explicit, or the expression of a principle more
lucid, but to reconcile a timid critic to one phrase, or
an impeteous critic to another, nothing can well come
of such tinkering but lumbering obscurity. Doubt-
less the resolutions as they emanated from Mr.
Bright were much more terse and clear than after
they had undergone the diluting process of Mr.
Baines's revision. If the resolutions mean anything
they mean that that the Reform Bill contemplated by
Lord John ought to embrace triennial Parliaments, a
rate-paying suffrage, a re-distribution of the elec-
toral districts, vote by ballot, and no property qua-
lifications for Members. This was Mr. Cobden's
exposition of the somewhat prolix and obscure
text, and we confess we prefer his abridgment to
the tedious prolixity of the original. Without
saying that the resolutions of the Conference, as
explained by Mr. Cobden, embrace all that
we could desi re, or that they are the very least
we should regard as acceptable, we may freely state
that they constitute a measure of reform we should be
right glad to see carried. On the necessity of doing
away with small constituencies—adopting some me-
thod by which the voter will be disenabled to show how
he has voted—and rendering general elections more
frequent—we have repeatedly had occasion to express
our opinions. As to the extension of the franchise, there
are various considerations to be taken into account.
The extension ought to be a real, not A mere nominal

one. The qualification ought to be such as will
facilitate registration, and render it less expensive.
A rateable qualification might be made to possess both
of these requisites. In the first place, if every payer
of a direct tax, general or local, were entitled to vote,
the constituency would receive numerous additions ;
and, in the second place, while the tax-gatherers would
take care that no person liable to pay rates escaped
enrolment in the rate-book, few would wish to see their
names recorded there merely for the sake of obtaining
a vote. The rate-book would be a self-adjusting re-
gister of voters. But we see no necessity for making
the payment of rates a condition of the exercise of
the franchise ; nor do we see that the arguments at
Manchester quite settled the question of how long
a residence should be necessary to qualify. On
the whole we think Reformers might go further and
fare worse than by taking up with the programme
of the Manchester Conference; and still more de-
cidedly are we of opinion that no measure of reform
short of that which politicians like Mr. Baines, of
Leeds, and the bulk of the manufacturers of Manches-
ter, are prepared to demand, has the slightest chance
of meeting with that unanimous and enthusiastic sup-
port requisite to carry through Parliament a Reform
Bill—even though introduced by a Minister.

TIMES.—In tbis country anything whatever in the
shape of a convention or " caucus,' any organization
which appears to compete with the Legislature, and to
rob it of its freedom or its initiative, is still the object of
just suspicion and dislike. They who feel a general
confidence in the Legislature, and are themselves con-
tent with the ordinary moans of influencing its delibe-
rations, feel it a sort of invasion on their own liberty,
and a limitation of their just personal voice, when an
irregular combination rises up and threatens to remove
the question altogether from the constitutional arena.
We are describing a sentiment rather than a principle,
but it is a sentiment which is felt by many a loyal
citizen and many a constitutional reformer. Now, it can-
not be denied that such a conference as that which met
on Wednesday at Manchester, attended by delegates
from many parts of the country, and of which one of
the speakers observed that probably never were the
roasters of so many men assembled before in one room,
is such a combination as we have described. It is a
Parliament in the north prescribing terms to the Par-
liament in Westminster. As such, we confess, we
do not like it. Having said this, however,
by way of protest, and to satisfy a proper
jealousy for the independence of the Legislature, we
admit that, like many other anomalies, such combina-
tions may be found necessary. It may be that the Legis-
lature is so overborne by other organized influences, by
oligarchical families, by conspiring classes, by compact
interests, and strong professional phalanxes, that some
league in the general interest of the people may be
necessary to balance those other particular forces. It
may be that the Government of the day is too compro-
mised with vested interests and obstructive classes to be
quite free to follow its own bias, and therefore requires
an extreme pressure from without to enablt it to do what
it wishes. The use, then, of such combinations as we
have referred to above—of such, in fact, as that which
met at Manchester on Wednesday, is a matter of discre-
tion. They should not be resorted to unnecessarily, any
more than a revolution or a coup d'gtat. Considering
the crganization employed, and the prevailiag character
of the delegates, the scheme of Parliamentary Reform
they have almost unanimously adopted is not so theo-
rectical, sweeping, and subversive us might
have been expected. Such moderation deserves
respect, and even success. But there is one
important question which no degree of sympathy or
respect should prevent us from asking. How will the
scheme work? Will its moderate appearance tend to
safe results? Will it help us a little further on the track
of the old Reform Bill, or will it lead us on the verge of
revolution? We have considered the scheme clause by
clause, and we must say that we think it would take this
nation a little out of its depth. We believe that in the
great majority of cases the cottage of the agricultural
labourer is not rated to the poor, whereas the cottage of
the artisan is so rated. A measure, therefore, extending
the suffrage to every person liable to the poor-rate would
enfranchise the towns, and, by comparison, disfranchise
the country; and in all arrangements tending towards a
territorial adjustment of the constituency the rural popu-
lation would have the worst of it. The Manchester
Reformers leave open the question of requiring payment
previous to registration, but, if we are not mistaken,
they are in favour of such a requirement, but would
rather leave to the Legislature the odium of insisting
upon it. Whichever way that may be decided, the quali-
fication of liability to the rates is much more exclusive in
villages than in towns. In the village the squire, the
clergyman, the farmers, the shopkeepers, and a few
tradesmen are on the rate-book, but scarcely one
of the labourers ; in ,the town, on the other
hand, every man employed in a factory will pro-
bably be liable. Were no other change to be made,
the numbers of each existing conatituency would
he a matter of less consequence; bat as it is proposed to
make the new franchise the basis of still further changes,
a qualification that would be more liberal in the towns
than in the country would bo more injudicious and un-
fair. As soon as the Manchester Reformers come to dis-
tribute this new electoral power, as they call it, a new
element of unfairness is introduced. They propose that,
where practicable and convenient, small and neighbour-
ing boroughs shall be united and form one borough, and
where it is not so convenient their constituencies shall
merge in that of the county. Now, the former of these
two processes is enfranchisement, and the latter dis-
franchisement, and the former is evidently the process
that would bo applied to small manufacturing boroughs,
which lie in clusters; and the latter to small agricultu-
ral boroughs which lie apart, seldom less than twelve or
fifteen miles from one another. It is scarcely necessary
to observe that such a minimum as 5,000 electors would
en non-property
nthought-p r opo
et
other
we
placesmake a wide sweep of agricultural boroughs. If any
qualification at all wore required, that number of
ee needpo i
qualificationn o f
points
s importance,
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would
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electors would not be found in any population short of
30,000, so that the greater part of our county
towns, hitherto
be forthwith merged in the constituency of the county.
aAnfl t ballot,some
of the
triennial
Parliaments,
been said a thousand times on those much-vexed ques-
tions. Putting aside these minor questions, and taking
a general view of the scheme, there is little reason to
doubt that it would leave the agricultural class and the
landed interest in a fearful minority of the representa-
tion. Their boroughs would be disfranchised, and their
counties swamped, while they would see the electoral
power transferred to the metropolis, and, in general, to
towns and manufacturing districts with more than
30,000 inhabitants. We are not sure that the actual
result would be less adverse to the old interests and old
institutions of the country than the charter itself. How-
ever, we cannot but de justice to the strong, and we
have no doubt sincere constitutional professions, of the
Reformers. If those professions are indeed sincere, then
we are afraid their scheme would go beyond their in-
tentions. Of course they expect, and have a perfect
right to expect, that every new Parliamentary reform
shall transform more power to the increasing population
and to the comparatively new interests of manufacture and
commerce; but they cannot wish wholly to extinguish the
Parliamentary influence of the landed proprietary and of
agriculture.

FEARFUL COLLISION ON THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.

STROUD, FRIDAY.—An accident happened yesterday
on the Great Western Railway, Cheltenham branch,
which has caused much consternation in this neighbour-
hood, the accident having arisen from a collision be-
tween the Parliamentary down train and a portion of •
heavy goods train left on the line. The circumstances
are as follow:

A down goods train from London left the Swindon
station for Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Stroud, about
midday yesterday. Having arrived at Tetbury, it was
found, on ascending a rather steep incline there, that
the train, which was a very heavy one, could not be
propelled up the lino for want of sufficient power in the
engine. Accordingly a portion of the train (some eight
or nine trucks, heavily laden) was left on the main line
in the care of a policeman, the whole having been
" scotched," which it was calculated would hold the
bracks in their place until an engine could be sent
to bring them on to the twin, which proceeded on
towards Stroud, The weight of the train, however,
overcame the scotches, and the train immediately began
to decend the incline, and now attained a speed of some
twenty miles an hour. It ran on in this way between
two and three miles, passing the Tetbury-road station,
to the great alarm of the officials there, who were aware
that the Parliamentary train from London was. then
due. That train was due at Tetbury-road, and snortly
after the runaway trucks had passed it the passenger
train came in sight. The driver of the passenger train
immediately shut off his steam, and reversed his en-
gine, but a collision was unavoidable, and in a moment
the passenger train dashed into the trucks, smashing
them literally to pieces, and scattering the goods on
the roads in all directions. The engine of the passenger
train was also completely disabled, but the driver
(Ribble) and the stoker escaped with a few severe
bruises. The passengers in the Parliamentary train
were thrown together with great violence. Several of
them received very severe bruises and lacerations. In
about two hours and a half the line was sufficiently
cleared to permit of the traffic being continued.

INTERESTING FACT.—'The following singular and
authentic case of restoration of the human hair is worthy of
observation, more particularly as it relates to an article of
high and universal repute during the last half century. Air.
A. Herrmann, of Queen-street, Soho, had been quite bald for
some time past, and had tried various preparations for the
recovery of his hair, but wi▪ thout any beneficial result. He
was then induced to try the effects of " Rowlands' Macassar
Oil," and after daily applyi▪
ng it for about two months, he,
much to his gratification, had his hair quite restored, and
now possesses a beautiful head of hair. This fact speaks too
strongly for itself to require comment.--Bell's Weekly Mes-
senger.
CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO.—It appears from the
official accounts yesterday published that in the ten months
ending the sth ult. there was an increase of 24,1631 b. n
ofto-
bacco entered for home consumption compared with the ten
months in the preceding year,

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yoro used to fill the columns of our steamerldays of
redounding to the glory or shadowing forth the papers,
tunes of oar city, bare entirely ceased; and thmisfor-
extra animation we have evinced of late, apart(' from
that usually consequent on our every-day energy rein
and
enterprise, was but a reflection of the excitement oc-
casioned in other parts of the Union by the reports of
the unfortunate expedition to Cabs. Great hauls
beautiful specimens, now and extensive diggings and
quartz discoveries, together with wharf and city itn-
provementi, massive fire-proof buildings of brick,
iron, and stone, and increased facilities for locomo-
tion by land and water now absorb public attention, to
the exclusion of dreadful conflagrations, daring rob-
beries, and summary hangings. The Vigilance Commit-
tee is no longer needed ; and, as a consequence of this
state of things, business is resuming its wonted activity,
and the busy hum of industry is heard in every city
and village on the banks of every river, along the
slope of every mountain, and in the depths of every
gulch and valley. The Southern Convention for the
division of the State is to bo held on the 20th instant,
Those favourable to the project have at length united
on Santa Barbara as the place where the delegates are
to assemble. San Diego, Loa Angelos, San Luis
Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Joaquin, and
other counties have elected their delegates. Several
addresses have been published in support of the move-
ment. The principal grounds upon which its origi-
nators rely are stated in the following extract from
the address of the Monterey delegates to their consti-
tuents:—

" The products of the mines and placers of Cali-
fornia for three years are estimated by some as high as
150,000,000 dolls. It would be a curious subject ofin-
quiry to know how much the diggers of this vast amount
of money have put into the Treasury of the State, and
what proportion of the State's burdens these fortunate
men have borne. If they should say, as has been the
argument of many, that they are living and working
on Government land, which the State has no right to
tax, the same principle would apply to our section
of country, as our titles to land are unacknowledged by
the United States, and, by a parity of reasoning, we
ought also to be exempt from State taxation. But while
the actual miners have not paid more than a hundredth
part of the taxes, they are willing, and their representa-
tives have been most desirous, in effect if not in worde,
to throw the great burden of responsibility on the
shoulders of their poor neighbours, the graziers, mer-
chants, and landholders. They had the power, and they
used it oppressively.'
" Every exertion is being made by the collector of
city taxes and his assistants to pay the interest on the
funded debt of the city. The coupons fall due on the
Ist of November, and, as they are themselves receivable
for taxes, a considerable portion of them will doubtless
be absorbed before the interest falls due. The credit of
the city depends in a great measure on the promptitude
with which the coupons will be paid; and, from the in-
creased confidence in city stock and the steady demand
for coupons, there is no doubt but it will be preserved in-
violate.

" Some amusement was caused last week at the Con-
vention of Justices, in the election of two associate jus-
tices of the Court of Sessions. On proceeding to the
ballot, Messrs. Bailey and Shepheard (Whigs) received
three votes each, and Messrs. Gorham and Corbett
(Democrats) also three votes each. After several
ballots were had with a similar result, and several
attempts made to compromise the matter, a mo-
tion was made by Mr. Gorham to adjourn, which
not being adopted, the three democratic members
took up their hats and walked out, leaving the Whig trio
without a quorum. The chairman, therefore, declared the
Convention dissolved for want of a quorum. Judge
Campbell thereupon appointed Justice Shepheard and
Justice Corbett his associate justices. The former declined
the appointment, on the ground that the county judge had
no power to appoint an associate justice, unless to fill a
vacancy, which, he contended, did not exist, as con-
templated by law. Whereupon Judge Campbell ap-
pointed Justice Gorham in his stead. This gentleman
has since declined on the same grounds; and thus the
case rests for the present. A writ of quo warrant° will
probably decide the matter before another tribunal.
The Coure- of Sessions being thereupon opened,
proceeded to hold a special term to hear the
matter of a contested election between Messrs.
Addison and Wainwright for the c unty clerkship.
The former, in his petition, prays that the election of
Wainwright be set aside on the ground of malconduct on
the part of the Board of Judges of Election in several
of the wards, &c., in relation to the ballots. The de-
fendant demurred to the petition of the claimant (Mr.
Addison), on the ground that it did not set forth suffi-
cient facts to annul or set aside the election. The
Court overruled the demurrer, and the further
hearing of the case was postponed till this day.
The petition was dismissed this morning with costs. In
addition to the above there are two other cases of con-
tested elections before the courts, The one is a petition
of Dr. S. R. Harris, filed in the district court, alleging
that C. J. Brenham had been illegally exercising the
duties of Mayor of San Francisco since the 3d September,
to which complainant claims to be en titled by virtue of
his election OH that day, and praying that said Bren-
ham bo ousted. The decision in this case will settle the
question as to who are legitimately entitled to the
city government—the present incumbents or those
lately elected. The other case is that of Judge
Norton against Judge Satterlee, for
.the judgeship of
the Superior Court. Some of the most eminent counsel
in California are engaged in the above suits, among whom
we notice Elishs Cooke, lion. K. M. Lane, Hon. I. E.
Holmes, Judge S. Heydenfeldt, H. T. Hepburn, Philip
Hamilton, &c. An election for alderman having
been lately held in Stockton, the nominees of the
party in favour of the tax of 2 dollars per ton on all
merchandise brought to the city were elected, and the
merchants' nominees, or those opposed to the tax, de-
feated. A difference, however, of 80 votes has been
discovered between the tally and the poll-lists, and a
new election has been ordered in consequence, which
will be held on Friday next. Some idea of the traffic
between San Francisco and the southern mines may
be formed from the fact that there are at this mo-
ment ten steamers plying between San Francisco and
Stockton. There are ten also plying between San
Francisco and Sacramento. The latter are, for the most
part, of a larger size than those on the San Joaquim
River, and make the trip of about 120 miles in from
seven to eight hours. In the elegance of their accom-
modations, and the luxuries of their larder, they might
compare favourably with any passenger vessels in the
world. There are ton other steamers plying from Sa-
cramento to different places in that city. One year ago
there was but ono steamboat in Oregon, the Colum-
bia; now there are about eleven steamboats of different
kinds running on the Columbia and Willamette rivers,
not including tho Pacific steamers Seaga', and Columbia,
running between Oregon and California. Stockton, in
the early part of this month, became the scene of out-
rages of a similar character to those which some time
since disgraced Francisco. On the 3d inst. three men were
shot in the vicinity of Stockton. On Saturday evening
an attempt was made•to shoot two others, without provo-
cation. On the same night a Mexican was most inhu-
manly butchered in a house in the outskirts of the city,
and on Sunday morning an attempt was made to shoot
a gentleman, for no reason that he could imagine. This
is a most unprecedented state of things in that city, and
has excited considerable sensation in the community.
As the steamer Republic was on her last trip from Pa-
nama to San Francisco, she struck upon a rock near
Point Blanco, about twenty miles from this city, during
the prevalence of a dense fog. Owing to the judicious
and skilful management of Captain Hudson, his officerr,
passengers, and crew, she was kept afloat till the Cali-
fornia went down to her relief. The latter towed h-r
into San Francisco. Tho damage, it is thought, will be
easily repaired. The steamer Miner, loaded with hay,
was completely destroyed by fire last week, while enter-
ing the Suisun Bay from the Slough, just below New
York. A spark from the smoke stack lit upon the hay,
and in a moment the whole was enveloped in flames.
One man was burnt to death, and another dangerously
so. The boat was a total loss. The Mormons have at
length taken possession of the rancho of San Bernar-
dino, near Los Angelico, for which they paidlo2,ooo d 1-
Lars. 25,000 dollars were paid down, and the remainder
is to be paid in two equal annual payments. It is said
to be their intention to build a great city there, and a
spoken of. It is
railroad to Salt Lake is confidently
also said that the heads of the Churchin Deseret have
given directions to the Mormons in Europe, that all
the emigration to this country must in future come by
the way of the Isthmus of Panama to San Diego. The
population of San Bernardino ' is to be increased
within the next six months.
boundaries more than • within its
It contains
by 5,000
80,000 acres of excellent land,
a great part of which can be irrigated. The Santa
Anna
large and un-
failing supply of pure water, and having excellent mill
seats. The mountains near are covered with pines suf-
ficient to supply with lumber all Southern California
for years. The improvements to be
immediately Los Ac.
made will be of great benefit
to
os
the Cajon
gelos county. This settlement comm
Pass, and will protect the valley
l mills fromw.
will be firrther Indian in-
eundoas. A flour-mill and severe
erec-
ted there during the rainy season. Thesa tract of land inclu-
ded within the limits of San Bernardino embraces about
16 !eagues. The Mormon emigration from Liverpool, it
is said, amounts to 13,000, Salt Lake City (the head-
quarters of the Mormons) contains a population of 8,000,
and the other settlements in the territory about as many
more. Judge Murray, late judge:of the Superior Court,
has been appointed by the Governor Assosiate Judge of
the Supreme Court, in place of Judge Bennett, resigned.
Intelligence has been received from Hong-Kong to the
2d of August,' by the ship Heber, 57 days from Wham-
poa. Steps are being taken to induce the Chinese to
Irun an electric telegraph on the coast. The rebel forces
have had several skirmishes with the imperial troops, and