The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

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ANGLO-CALIFORNIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorperated pursuant to 7 and 8 Vict.)
Offices—No. 11, Adam-street, Adelphi.
Capital, 50,0001.,
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., Emmett 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 Feder, Esq., Penrith.
Charles Hincks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. Runabold, 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 Nielson, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS IN CALIFORNIA.
James Maconochie, Esq. William Godfrey Heet, Esq.
SECRETARY (ad interim).
Mr. George Frederick Goodman.
This Company being now completely registered, the Directors
,ake the earliest opportunity of laying before the Shareholders a
statement of its progress an 1 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 months, and the course adopted by the Directors
for carrs ing out this enterprise results from the experience obtained
y him during that period. The instructions given to Sir Henry
Hunt 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 merit; of the different quartz veins in the several districts
of California, and alter 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 possessed of mines, and have raised
the quartz. With the assistance of some gentlemen of great
exper.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 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, di.tant about three miles from Grass. Valley and Nevada
City, and about thirty miles from Sacramento City, to crush and
amalgamate she quartz to be raised from the mine openedcru hed by
them. By means of machinery, he has already
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup•
plied him from this mine; and the rtsalt of his operatiens
has been to satisfy himself that tine 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
he g Id produced is to be divided equally betweel
n the owners
of the vein and our Company. Formal and lega agreements
for carrying cut the above arransement 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 Com-
pany over others now in the field. Shareholders in other Companies
must mainly rely urn 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
thr mine uon calculations founded on experiments
upon a few pieces p
of specimen quartz, sent over to this country for
the express purpose of advertising the commodity offered for sale to
the British public; we found our calculations upon experiments
tried, during several weeks, on quartz raised from the ne, an
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superintendent, andmi with ourd
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out mining operations
upon 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 s as secure
as that of any other company, unfettered by any pers icentage 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
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—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 1/.
175. 4d. per cwt., or 371. Gs. Bd. per ton • and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per diem, would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 3731. 65. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company
Ily 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
sit cs, most carefully selected for their eligibility for mining pur-
poses, and Sir Henry Huntley has on the spot Cornish miners who I
went out with him, and who have 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
Dire story was due to those Shareholders who
eas kaveures iwilln fact estab-
lished and nobly supported this Company. M
for further augmenting the Directory, and a Special General Meet-
ing of the Shareholders. willto rbse
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In conclusion, the three
Shareholders for the uniform support they have received, and they
pledge themselves that the affairs of this Company 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 by this Compan
they, it can-
of
not be affected by the question now agitated betweenholders
leases and Colonel Fremont or his agents. The district selected for
Use operations of this Company is far removed from
of the the tract clpointsmeaid
by Colonel Fremont. The difficulty arising out
now raised relative to the tenure of land under leases, had been long
known to and was maturely considered by those having the control
of the affairs of this Company, and was one of the reasons which in-
duced them to parsue 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
Company

LAURENT'S CASINO.
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
Laurent's well-known and celebrated Band, principal Cornet-a-
Piston, M. Boulcourt.
During the recess the Rooms have been re-decorated, and many
improvements made, under the sole direction of Mr. O. F. Dryer.
Doors open at
Admission —f-past Eig
ONE SHILLING.ht, to commence at Nino o'clock.
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PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE.
THE ASSEMBLY DISMISSED.
General Officers, the Leaders of Party, arrested and sent to
Prison, the Council of State Dissolved, and Louis Napoleon is
Dictator. This astounding intelligence, transmitted from Paris in a
few minutes, nearly frightened London from its propriety on Tues-
day last, yo 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 crushed them at once by lowering
the price of a man'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
ever 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.

Vir ANDLE WATER and SEWERAGE COM-
PANY (LIMITED RESPONSIBILITY).
A BILL for the INCORPORATION of the COMPANY was read a
second time in the last Session of Parliament, and was referred to a
Committee, at which stage (by special resolutions of both Houses)
it is a lowed to be proceeded with in the next session.
Capital 300,0001, in 30,0.,0 Shares of 101. each. Deposit 12s. 6d.
per share, of which 7s. will be returned in the event of an Act not
being obtained in the ensuing session of Parliament.
At the termination of the last session the Shareholders were offered
the 7s. per share, but only one, holding four shares, availed himself
of this privilege.

TRUSTEES.
Joseph Somes, Esq , of Blackwall, shipowner.
George Stone, Esq , of Lombard-street, banker.
AUDITORS.
Samuel Gurney, jun. Esq., Lombard-street, banker.
Frederick Mildred, Esq., 35, Nichas-lane, banker.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman-JOHN MACGREGOR, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—CHAßLES REYNOLDS, Esq.
Samuel Whiterleld Daukes, Esq , 14, Whitehall-Place.
Edward Esdaile, E.g., City Saw-mills, Regent's Canal.
George D'Olicr Gowan, Esq , Dulwich; and 7, Copthall-court.
John Laurence, Esq , H.C.S., 15, Regent-street.
John Macgregor, Esq., M.P., 1, Princes•terrace, Hyde-park.
Frederick Pollock, Esq., H.C.S., Southlands, Battersea.
Charles Reynolds, Esq., Wallington Lodge, Carshalton, Surrey.
Thomas Robinson, Esq.. Bernard-street, Russell-square.
John Penry Williams, Esq., Bury-street, St. James'-square; and
Abercamlais, Brecon.
Engineer and Surveyor—F. P. Thompson, Esq.
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Consulting Engineers—Messrs. Easton and Amos.
Bankers—Messrs. Martin, Stone, and Martins, Lombard-street.
Brokers—Messrs.-Sheppard and Sons, 28, Threadneedle-street, City.
Solicitors—lle=srs. Mullins and IPaddison.
The Company has for its object the supply of pure water at con-
stant and high service, and has received the most cordial support
from the proprietors, ratepayers, and inhabitants is general of this
large district, evidenced by their numerous petitions and by the re-
solutions of public bodies, such as the Quarter Sessions, the District
Board of Health, &c.
Application for the remaining shares to be made to Messrs.
Sheppard and Sons, 28, Threadneedle-street, City, and to the Secre-
tary, at the Temporary Offices, 15, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury,
where prospectuses and all other information may be obtained.
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY, Secretary.
November 14, 1851.

GRAVESEND STAR PACKETS.
Fore Cabin. Saloon.
To or from Gravesend and London.. •• • • 10d. . Is. 2d
„ Gravesend and Blackwall and Woolwich Bd. .. • • Os. 10d.
Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .... Os. Bd.
So other Packets call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purfleet Piers.
The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting).

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. assages marked are run direct.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 5/. Os. ; Six Months, 31.
Vireo Months, 21. Os.: to be had of the Collectors on boar
packets ; or Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend.
November 12, 1851.

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CHESTER and HOLY HAED RAILWAY.
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Directors are prepared to receive TENDERS for LOANS (to
replace sums falling due in January next), for the term of one year,
Applications to be addressed to
EDWARD BROOKS, Secretary.
Euston Station, December 2, 1851.

SECURITY TO EMPLOYERS.
TO SECRETARIES OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,
CLERKS, STATION-MASTERS, RAILWAY OFFICIALS,
BANKERS' CLERKS, TRAVELLERS, AND OTHERS.
TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE and
GUAR ANTEE COMPANY.
32, Ludgate-hill, London.
Incorporated under 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 110.
HONORARY PRESIDENTS.
CHARLES HINDLEY, Esq., M.P., Dartmouth Nouse, Westminster.
JAMES KERSIIAW, Esq., M.P., Stockport.
TRUSTEES.
James Alexander Douglas, Esq., I l, Queen-sqnare.
Ambrose Moore, Esq.. Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square.
Janes Nisbet, Esq., Berners-street, Oxford-street.
CHAIRMAN—The lion. FRANCIS VILLIERS. Berkeley-square.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN —JAME S WYLD, Esq., M.P., Charing-cross.
"THE TIMES" COMPANY
Affords Guarantee to persons requiring the same at the lowest
possible rate, and Divides Four-flfths of the Profits. Thus by apply-
ing the justly popular principle of Mutuality to Public Guarantee,
the Premiums, instead of bcin7 a tax upon honesty, become a
means of saving and investment.
RATES—From 7s. 6d. upwards. No charge for Stamps or extra
charges.
An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As-
surance and Guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
Life Assurances, Annuities, and Endowments. Payments taken
Monthly as well as Quarterly, &c.
Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud.
Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a
Policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment,
to keep up the payments,

H. B. SHERIDIN, Manager.

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