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ANGLO-CALIFONIAN GOLD MINING
COMPANY.
(Incorporated pursuant to 7 and 8 Viet.)
Oflicei—.No. 11, Adam-street, Ariciphi.
Capital, 50,0001.,
in 100,000 Shards 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 Eintno' t Green, Esq., Enunott Hall, Lancashire.
Janice Harmer, Esq., Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent.
CHAIRMAN.
GEORGE EDWARD co rritELL, Esq, James-street, Buck-
high:lan-gate ; and New-square, Lincoln's Inn.
VICE-CHAIRMAN.
FRANCIS DENNIS MASSY DA WSON, Esq., Victoria-
square; and Ploaalen-buildings, Temple.
DIRECTORS.
John Barker, M.D., Richmond, Surrey.
Symeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D. Cambridge.
J mathan Felder, Esq.. Petirith
Charles Hoicks, Esq., Birmingham.
Joseph George Parker, Esq., Warminster.
Sir C. S. lterabold,Argyll-street, Itegent-street.
RESIDENT DIRECTO& IN CALIFORNIA.
Captain Sir Henry Yore Huntley, R.N.
BANKERS.
London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Coombe vri Nickell, Bridge-street, Westminster.
SUPERINTENDENTS `villainOßNl
James Maconochie, Esq. I Godfrey Huet, 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
successful
was
and ever brought
before the public with equal prose_ et of spaedy
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 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 should make every possible inquiry
relative to the state of the country, the tenure of land, the corn-
parati7e 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 fer 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
experience in geology and mining matters, he has inspected and
tested a great variety of veins in the Mariposa, Nevada, Grass
Valley, mid 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 hae opene, and, to a onsiderable extent, worked a vein of
quartz,v di,tantd about threec 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 opened by
them. By means of machinery, he has already cru hed
and amalgamated considerable quantities of the quartz sup-
plied him from this mine; and the rtsalt 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. Ho has, there-
fore, entered into a formal agreement with that Company, which, in
a few words, amounts to this: lie is to be supplied by them with as
much
uar quartz as his machinery shall be und capable of crushing ;
tz is to be deposited at the mills free of expense ;
the q
ha is to crush and amalgamate it at his own expense, and
he g ,ld produced is to be divided equally between the owners
of the 'vein and our Company. Formal and legal 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;
and motion
unless , have been acedpled under
the control of Sir Henry Huntley , pte
delay has arisen, the machinery is now actually at work, and a
return will be made aeout Christmas next.
For the satisfaction of the existing rhareholders 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 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
experiments
upon a few pieces of specimen quartz, sent over to this country
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 mine, and I
crushed and amalgamated by our own Superiatendent, and with our
own machinery and apparatus. Other Companies propose to
incur the expense and risk of carrying out raining operations
epon their vein, before the quartz arrives at
then their mill, and, shou
their ld
their labours prove successful, they
must pay and,
s
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-centge 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—tkis Company alone is actually at work.
The pap capital of the Company will not exceed 20,000/. An
almost certain estimate of the produce of our machinery can be
formed, and, from the calculations made, the Directors confidently-
anticipato 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. 4d. per cwt., or 371. 6s. Sd. per ton; and, as we can crush and
amalgamate at least 20 tons per dicm, that would amount to 7461.
13s. 4d., or 3731. s. Bd. per diem as the share of this Company.
By the peculiar arrangements this Company has made, based
upon practical expeti,ence, the economy in workiw expenses must
necessarily be such auto render the ctifient outlay most trifling.
In case circumstances bhould 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
n forsh mmillerinings p
wu ho
r-
poses, and Sir Henry Hontley has on the spot Cori
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 'tory was due to those Shareholders who
e asu re ha resin in
ill fac
bet estab-
taken
lished and nobly supported this Company.
M
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 to offer their best thanks tothe
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 Company, it can-
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 dialculty 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 having 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 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
lomPany.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec.l7.
BAKER V. GREGORY.
This was an action to recover the sums of 921. 75.,
and 111. 1 ls., the amount of fees paid to counsel for and
on behalf of the defendant.
Mr. M. Chambers Mr. Bramwell, and Mr. Bell ap-
peared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. James and Mr. Haw-
kins conducted the case for the defendant.
Mr. M. CHAMBERS, in his opening address, said, the
plaintiff, Mr. Baker, was a Parliamentary agent in
London, and the defendant, Mr. Gregory, was the late
Member for Dublin. The action was brought to recover
the balance of a sum of money due to the plaintiff for
fees, which he had paid to Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and
Mr. Sergeant Murphy under the following circumstances:
—ln the year 1847 an election took place for repre-
sentatives in Parliament for the city of Dublin, and
there were three candidates on the ocecaaion—via., Mr.
Grogan, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Gregory, the present
defendant. The two former gentlemen were elected, and
a meeting of Mr. Gregory's friends was subsequently
convened, and it was resolved that a petition should be
presented against the return of Mr. Reynolds. ‘A peti-
tion was accordingly presented to the House of Com-
mons, and Mr. Jackson, the private agent of Mr. Gre-
gory, acted as the Dublin solicitor for the petition. Mr.
Baker, the defendant, was engaged as Parliamentary
agent, and he sent a retainer to Sergeant Wrangham oe
behalf of the petitioners. Sergeant`Murphy was retained
ny Mr. Gregory himself. The petition went before a
committee, and the contest between the parties lasted a
considerable period. Mr. Sergeant Murphy attended
before the committee several days, and whin he discon-
i.lued his attendance, his clerk sent Mr. Baker a bill
for 2171. 75., being the total of the fees due to him.
slr. Baker submitted the bill to Mr. Jackson, who
handed over to him 1251. in part payment
if the account. Mr. Baker made up the dil-
ftrence out of his own pocket, end paid the 'whole
amount to the Learned Sergeant. Mr. Se.rgeant
Wrangham did not appear before the committee, but
Mr. Baker paid to him ill. lls., the fees for the retainer.
The inquiry upon the petition ultimately resolved itself
into a scrutiny of the votes. Tho fund for meeting the
expenses of the contest was made up of subscriptions
among the electors themselves. In the course of the
inquiry Mr. Jackson was taken ill, and Mr. Gregory
wrote to Mr. Baker requesting him to prepare the neces-
sary lists for the scrutiny, and stating that he would
himself undertake all responsibility in regard to the
outlay. Every effort had been made to obtain an
amicable settlement of the present claim, but without
success, and the plaintiff was, therefore, compelled to
bring this action into court.
Mr. Jackson was then called, and in the course of
his examination acid altogether about 4,000/. was col-
lected in subscriptions for carrying on the scrutiny.
NIL Gregory personally contributed 1,0001. or 1,2001. of
this sum. The contest in committee lasted 190 or 91
days. The election took place on the sth or 61 of
August, 1847, and the Committee sat in April or May
following. It was first contemplated to retain Mr.
Austin and Mr. Sergeant Wrangham. Mr. Sergeant
Murphy was an intimate friend of Mr. Gregory, and
had, besides, very little respect for Mr. Reynolds, and
Mr. Gregory thought that on both those grounds he
would be more anxious to support the petition.—
(Laughter.) Mr. Austin refused to take any election
petition briefs. Mr. Sergeant Willingham declined also
to attend the Committee, on the same ground. The
counsel who appeared in support of the petition were
Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Norton, and Mr. Patrick
M. Murphy, of the Irish and English bar. The last
two gentlemen attended during the ninety dabs, but Mr.
Sergeant Murphy retired on the eighth or ninth day, in
consequence of the funds not being sufficient to pay the
fees of a senior counsel.
The plaintiff was next examined.
Mr. B. JAMES, for the defence, contended that the
plaintiff had no legal claim whatever upon Mr. Gregory
for the two sums in question. Mr. Baker had clearly
advanced the fees on the security of the fund collected
in Dublin, and it was an afterthought on his
part to seek to fix Mr. Gregory with the debt.
Mr. Gregory bad contributed 1,2001. himself to
the fund, and the plaintiff's own expenses, which
amounted to 3001., had been discharged out of it as
well as all the other expenses which had been incurred.
In consequence of the great cost of the proceedings in
Parliament, the fund became exhausted, and when the
plaintiff found there was no hope of additional subscrip-
tions, ho determined to claim the balance owing to him
from Mr. Gregory. The Learned Counsel submitted
that, under these circumstances, the plaintiff was not en-
titled to a verdict.
Lord CAMPBELL having summed up the evidence,
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
amount.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 17.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE W. STRANGE, SEN.
The bankrupt was a bookseller in Paternoster-row
This was the certificate meeting.
Mr. LINKLATER appeared for the bankrupt. He
was apprehensive that the matters that would press
the most adversely to the bankrupt on the mind of the
Court would be his previous failure and his conduct in
defending certain legal proceedings that bad been
taken against him in connexion with the royal etch-
ings. It was true that the bankrupt had been a bank-
rupt in 1829, and an insolvent in 1835 and 1840, and
hence it might be said that his past failures ought to
have induced great caution ; but beyond that they
would not, he was sure, weigh in the mind of the
Court. In 1847 the bankrupt had a capital of 1,3931.,
and whilst carrying on his business as a bookseller had
the misfortune to become acquainted with one Judge,
who suggested to him the publication of certain
etchings executed by her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert. Judge employed the bank-
rupt to prepare a catalogue, and a copy was for-
warded to the Queen at Windsor, with an in-
timation that it would not be published
without first receiving the consent of her Ma-
jesty and her Royal Consort. This course gave
great offence, us well it might do. Almost immedi-
ately after the communication had been forwarded
the bankrupt had occasion to take a journey of 200
miles into the north of England. During his absence
his son was waited upon by Mr. White, the private
solicitor to the Queen. This was about the 20th of
October, 1848. Mr. White wished to purchase a
copy of the catalogue, but could not obtain one. In
about a week Mr. White called again, and inquired
whether it was the intention of the bankrupt to pub-
lish the catalogue, and an information was shortly
afterwards filed on affidavits made by Prince Albert.

An injunction was thereupon obtained, and the bank-
rupt was advised to resist it. The question was a
very nice one, viz., whether, having obtained the ca-
talogue in a proper manner, be could be prevented
making a use of it. The Vice- Chancellor came to the
conclusion that, inasmuch as the catalogue had been
obtained by Judge, improperly (hut of which
Strange was ignorant), he must give it up.
Judge, it appeared, was a literary character
at Windsor, and had been connected with
r fain local newspapers. Ile became ac-
qu tinted with a prioter, who had le en employed by
the Court to gee: struck otT a few impressions of the
etchings, and purchased the matter that had formed
the subject of four suits and four criminal informa-
tions. The bankrupt had every confidence in his
solicitor; and such was the confidence of the solicitor
himself in the strength of his cause, that he made no
demand upon the ha• lc, upt for his cost, although
they amounted to 800/. Upon the proceedings ter-
minating adverAy to Ihe bankrupt, it was but due
to him to observe that the SolicitoreGeneral, who
conducted the c:se for Prince Albert, said he should
not press for his costs as against Strange, because he
might have been deceived by Judge, whose conduct,
possibly not without cause, was commented upon with
great severity. The case went by appeal to the Lord
Chancellor. He must here observe that the bankrupt
Strange felt that his name bad been improperly
joined with Judge's in the application for the in-
junction, and that he had been thereby improperly
subjected to a liability for costs. In fact, he
could not but feel that an aggression bad been made
upon him. He bad made an affidavit that he had no
intention of publishing the catalogue, and he felt that
that act might have relieved him from having his
name included with that of Judge's in the applies•
tions for injunctions. The point was clearly one of
great legal nicety, and the bankrupt was throughout
acting under the advice of eminent counsel.
The COMMISSIONER—Was be in a position to in-
dulge in the luxury of trying an abstract right ?
What profit did he expect that could justify him in
expending 800/. in the matter? Mr. LINKLATER
submitted that the bankrupt believed he might obtain
a fair and reasonable profit by successfully establish-
ing his right. There was in society a class who were
very curious touching anything that proceeded from
the Court. There was also a class that had the bump
of veneration very large. Anything coming from so
high a quarter was certain to command attention.
The COMMISSIONER—When the bankrupt found
that permission would not be given, why did he not
that instant suppress the publication, and give an
undertaking not to publish it? Mr. LINKLATER—
This would appear to have been done. The bank-
rupt was quite willing to adopt such a course. But
he had been a party to a suit, and liable to costs. The
fact that -Prince Albert subsequently relieved the
bankrupt from costs, whilst a contrary course was
adOpted towards Judge, showed that there was really
no complaint against him. Strange gave up every
copy that he had, and he did all in his power to put
the Prince in possession of any other that might be in
existence.
The COMMISSIONER—When was this ? Mr. LINK-
LATER—In January of the present year; no doubt
a late period. The case was different as regarded
Judge, who was incarcerated for the costs. It
was true that the bankrupt had incurred a consider-
able amount of expenditure in his own costs, but no
part of them had been proved against his estate. The
bankrupt had throughout acted under the advice of
counsel very eminent at the bar; and, in short, acted
as a man would do who placed himself in the hands
of his physician. He felt that there had been a
certain degree of precipitancy in the first instance
on the part of the Prince's legal advisers, and to
this might be attributed much of the course that had
been taken.
The COMMISSIONER—You have said nothing in
respect to the disposal by the bankrupt of his stock to
his son. Mr. LINKLATER—Upon that point the as-
signees are satisfied, your Honour.
The COMMISSIONER—But why does the statute im-
pose upon me the duty of looking into the conduct of
bankrupts if I am to be satisfied with the opinion of
the assignees ? I recollect that on the occasion of the
case coming before me at the examination meeting I
had strong suspicions with respect to the bond fide
character of the sale. Mr. LINKLATER—The property
in question passed to the son, and afterwards to his
creditors.
The COMMISSIONER —When ? Mr. LINKLATEE—
Immediately that he (the son) became a bankrupt.
The COMkIISSIONER—AaI I Let we see the pro-
ceedings. The Learned Commissioner here inspected
the documents in the case, and having done so said--
You have not said a word about the bankrupt's rail-
way- speculations.
Mr. LINKLATER—Mr. Strange being a man of con-
siderable ability, as may be supposed from the coun-
tenance he received from persons in high authority,
and having in 1847 a capital of 1,0001., thought that
he, in common with many others, might make a profit
by purchasing railway shares, but he was neither stag
nor anything else. He purchased some shares in the
Belfast and Down Railway, and but for that uefortu-
nate step and the matter of the royal etchings, he
might have been now a prosperous man. The bank-
rupt's debts are now only 1,500/., and about 1,200/,
of them arose out of the verdicts and costs in these
two transactions.
The COMMISSIONER—I have nothing to do with the
transactions so far as they affect the question. Did
the bankrupt carry on a proper business in a proper
manner? Mr. LINKLATER—The bankrupt did not
enter into numerous railway speculations, and they
were of a character that may rather
be classed under
the term of investments.
very call
His HONOUR said the bankrupt, having failed pre-
viously, ought to have been tious in his mode
,
of carrying on business. However, he had carried on
rather a hazardous description of trade, that had in-
volved him in large law costs not teerely in one case,
casually, but in several instances. D appeared from his
examination that, for an alleged piricY respecting the
Illustrated London .News, he had incurred 100/. costs;
in another action, at the suit of Sewell and Cross, for
libel, he had been involved in law costs. It appeared that
he was the publisher of a class of works teat served to
,
feed the'enorbid appetites of those perfons who delighted
to investigate matters into whichithee bad no business
to pry. As such a publisher it was
probable that he
had been selected to publish the catalogue. llis
judgment would be the same as if he bad published a
catalogue obtained surreptitiously by means of access
to the gallery of any person, whether
a nobleman or
a trader. He must have seen that he was about to do
was no propriety.
that in which there
of the parties had not been obtained, belf the consent
ought imme-
diately to have retracted, but there seas no evidence
of his retracting until a subsequent pried. A trader
had no right to peril a large sum (1 his creditors'
money in maintaining an abstract proposition of right.
The consequence was that a sum of 3001. had been
incurred for costs. The bankrupt hat( also gone out
of his line of business as a bookseller by speculating
in railway shares to a large amoant, so much
so that a loss of 1,055/. had been thereby incurred.
Instead of meeting his difficulties as be ought to
have done, he had transferred his stock to his son, and
departed to France. The manner in which the bank-
rupt had answered questions put to him at the exami-
nation meeting as to that fact had been so unsatisfac-
tory, that it was not until he was told his examination
would otherwise be adjourned sine die, that satisfao-
tory answers could be obtained. The bankrupt's
books had been imperfectly kept; and! having regard
to all the circumstances of the case, he would not re-
ceive a higher certificate than of the third class, nor
that until there bad been a twelvemonth's suspension
from the date of the first examination meeting. The
Court felt it to be its duty to mark its sense of the
bankrupt's irregularity of conduct by recording a
twelvemonth's suspension, although from the circum-
stance of the bankrupt's examination having taken
place some time since, a less period would now have
to pass before the certificate was issued.
On the application of Mr. LINKLATER, protection
was granted.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 16.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Mmax.)
Richard Reynolds, aged 25, and James Calderbank,
aged 35, were indicted for the robbery of James Har-
rison, at Leeds, on the 16`.h of August last, and steal-
ing from him a gun and a powder flask.
Mr. Boothby prosecuted. Mr. Anderson defended
the prisoner Reynolds ; the other prisoner was un-
defended.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor,
(who is an old man) was a gunmaker at Leeds, and
that late on Saturday night, the 16th of last August,
he was passing down Meadow-lane, in Leeds, when
he stopped at the Trafalgar public-house. There he
had some drink, and appeared, according to the evi-
dence of the landlord, to be "fresh." When he left
the public-house, about twelve o'clock at night, the
landlord looked out of the door after him, and sa w
the two prisoners follow him, and the prisoner Rey-
nolds put his arm round his neck. They all ap-
peared " fresh," and he shouted to the prisoners to let
the old man alone. He thought they were in
fun. Afterwards, according to the testimmy
of the prosecutor, be was pulled backwards, and a
gun which he was carrying and a powderflask were
taken from him by the prisoners, who ran off. A