The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-19 00:00:00

LONDON,

the Government Gazette, May 27, contains a notifica-
tion from the Governor, directing that any person, of
whatever grade, employed in the public service, who
shall resign his post during the existing emergency
will be noted as ineligible to serve again, and will cer-
tainly not be re-appointed. But, notwithstanding this
notification, the desertions continued, thinning every
department, and leaving the police force far too weak
for its duties.

(From the Ximes.)
Advices nine days later from the Australian gold
region were received by the overland mail. They
reach to the 11th of June, and are highly interest-
ing. The probabilities with regard to the extent
and richness of the mines appear thus far to be fully
maintained, and there was no diminution of the
general excitement. At the same time, many persons
were disposed to hope that the disturbance to the re-
gular and important pursuits of the country may,
through a variety of causes, be rendered less severe
than was at first apprehended. A characteristic
proclamation issued by the Governor three weeks be-
fore the date of the present advices, to the effect
that " all persons who shall dig fur and disturb the
soil in search of gold metal or ore without
having been duly authorised in that behalf by her
Majesty's Colonial Government, will be prosecuted
both criminally and civilly as the law allows," ap-
pears to have met with the utter disregard which,
under the circumstances, it was calculated to invite.
The present packet has brought a consignment of
about 14 ounces as samples, to Mr. B. S. Lloyd,
and the following extracts of letters received by
other houses connected with the colony will convey
all the leading points communicated by the arrival.
The first is addressed to Messrs. T. Aspinwall and
Co. :

" Sydney, June 11.
" The gold discoveries continue to be fully confirmed,
and about 20,0004 has arrived at Sydney. People are
flocking to Bathurst from all parts of the colony, and
7,000 persons are concentrated there.
" At Melbourne five vessels bare been laid on for pas-
sengers to the diggings, and much alarm is stated to be
felt at the prospect of the shepherds and stockmen de.
serting their charges.
" The gold does not appear in one place only, but
several spots have been discovered where it is equally
abundant.

" Her Majesty's ship Havannah arrived at Sydney on
the 7th of June, and was ordered home immediately with
dispatches.

‘1 The utmost anxiety is felt here at the prospect of
labour becoming scarce, and the ory is for emigration
upon an extensive scale to supply the demand, which is
mosturgent.. _ _

" Her Majesty's ship Acheron has been ordered to
Panama with dispatches, to sail early in June.
" The next news you will have will be that the Ame-
ricans have put on steamers betwixt California, Panama,
and Sydney. They will be sure to forestal you in London."
The others are of less recent dates, but they sup-
ply some interesting facts and opinions. In the last
it will be noticed that a considerable quantity of gold
Was alleged to have been found in a new district on
the Hunter river, which is about 100 miles north of
Bathurst :

" Sydney, May 27.
" I have a very intelligent correspondent near Ba-
thurst, who is Crown Land Commissioner. He tells me
that lumps of 51b. weight have been found. The fact
is undoubted, that men who will work, and know how
to go about it, can get one to two ounces of the scale-
gold a day. I say the scale-gold, as it is from the wash-
ings, and the same as you must have seen from Cali-
fornia. The lumps are only foundloccasionally. There is
also no doubt, as far as geological knowledge and expe-
rience may be worth anything, that an immense district
of country contains the gold, and that it may be ex-
pected to be found in creeks and rivers in various loca-
lities. A very clever geologist here, who has for some
years past predicted the existence of the metal, and its
being found easily where there has been sufficient water
to wash it out of the quartz, tells us that we may look
tor it all along the ridge or cordillera from north to
south, whure this quartz formation exists.
" With regard to the consequences, it is to be stated
that the mania is at present affecting all the industrial
pursuits of the colony. But its worst effects must be on
the sheep and cattle, especially the former, for if the
shepherds leave, a short time would be sufficient to
destroy half the flocks of the colony. Still the work
is so heavy and so little suited to the taste of men who
have been crawling about after sheep for years, that
I think those who know what they would have to do,
as is the case with such as are near the spot,
will not go away. In the distant districts the rumours
that are spread will, it is to be feared, induce many to
leave their employers. tip to this time I have not lost
a shepherd, although the diggings are within three
miles of our station.

" Moreover, from all parts, Melbourne, Adelaide, Van
Diemen's Land, New Zealand, &c., we shall have crowds
of people, so that after all, perhaps, New South Wales
will not suffer for want of labour, and if the stock-
holders can but weather the next few months they will
do well."

" TO lIIESSRA. warm, EBSWORTH, AND HOLMES.
" Sydney, May 28.
" Every day brings more encouraging accounts of
the quantity of gold to be obtained. It is found in
pieces of one, two, three, and four pounds weight;
one piece is reported to be eight pounds, which will
be here to-morrow. Parties of eight and ten have
got from 1501. to 300/. daily. Others have obtained
❑one after working a week. The labouring classes
are fast leaving Sydney. Mechanics are getting from
10s. to 15s. per day. 10,000 people will be at the mines
within a month. The excitement everywhere is very
great. The prices of all goods and food suitable for
the diggers nre rising very fast. Brandy has been
sold at Bi. 6d., strong rum 53., and lour at 321. per
ton. Blankets nearly cent. per cent. Slop clothing,
boots, and flannels have advanced 25 per cent. Picks
and shovels double the price of last week. Refined
sugar, salt, candles, tea, coffee, and tobacco are fast ad-
vancing. The prices that are now being given will quite
clear the Port Philip, Van Diemen's Laud, and New
Zealand markets, and we may expect the places them-
selves, including Canterbury, to be reduced half their
population. Sailors are daily leaving their ♦essels.
The Lady Clark, now full and ready for sea, has not a
single hand on board, and parties applying want 401. for
the run home, to be paid in Sydney. I anticipate the
same trouble as at California. We have also accounts
from the Hunter River, that Mr. Boydell has found 131 b.
of gold in that district. This statement requires
further confirmation; but it is in the same description
of country as Baathurst."

THE LATE POISONINGS at WRINGTON.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 18.--The adjourned inquest as to
the cause of the death of the unfortunate women
Sarah Ann Roberts and Caroline Birch was held yes.
terday at the Red Lion, Wrington, by Mr. R. Uphill,
coroner. The affair has created quite a sensation
throughont the surrounding district. Mr. H. J. Ad-
dington, of Langford Court, the Rev. J. Vane, and
Dr. Baker, magistrates, were present at the inquiry,
which lasted the whole day. A mass of evidence was
adduced, but the following analysis contains every-
thing relative to the point at issue :
The inquiry was first gone into touching the death
of Sarah Ann Roberts.
The first witness called was Elizabeth Ridler, who
deposed—l am a widow, living at Wrington. The
deceased Sarah Ann Roberts is my daughter. She
was a widow. On Friday the sth inst., I saw her
between half-past 7 and 8 o'clock in the yard at the
back of my house. She complained to me that she
had been sick ' • this was the evening. I said, " Sick,
Sarah ?" and she said "Yes, but lam better." She
was very commonly sick, and therefore I did not
think much of it. She went away, and I
was called afterwards to go to her a little
before eleven o'clock. She was then at my son's
house. I found her very sick and ill. I asked if
she had been given anything to take, and they said
she had had some gin. I sent to Mr. Chadwick, who
ordered his dispenser to attend, which he did, with a
mixture—a spoonful to be taken at a time. Mr.
Chadwick saw her at seven the next morning. He
sent her medicine and fetched Mr. Coates to
her. I knew she was in the family way. The de-
ceased told me she had taken something to pro
cure abortion. I first knew deceased was in the
family way six weeks ago, and she was then six
weeks gone. A month ago my daughter-in-law found
some herbs in the pocket of the deceased which smelt
very nasty. The deceased said it was a shrub that,
if a woman took, sbe would miscarry. She said she
got it from a lady's garden, and that Fanny Marsh
told her of it. After she gathered the herb she took it
to Fanny Marsh to ask it it was the right thing, and
she said itiwas. She said John Benn bad promised
her marriage. He had cohabited with her. Deceased
said she had boiled the herb in a saucepan.
Amelia Ridler deposed to finding the herb in the
pocket of the deceased. The day the deceased was
taken ill Caroline Birch was with her. The deceased
that day complained of being very poorly in her head.
The Coroner—Had you any conversation with
Sarah Roberts about the herb you found ? Witness
—I had not ; she was not aware that I knew she was
in the familyway.
Henry Thomas deposed that the deceased bad said
Fanny Marsh told her in the singing gallery that she
never would have a live child if she took some stuff to
prevent it.
By a juror—James Ashley told him that they used
to hand the stuff about to one another in the church
in the singing gallery.
Mr. Y. J. Chadwick deposed to having visited the
deceased in her illness, and prescribed for her. He
described her symptoms. On the post mortem ex-
amination he found the external surface of the body
much discoloured, and the limbs not as rigid as
usual. The abdomen was much distended. On
opening the body the lungs and heart were healthy,
except that they were much congested; the blood in
the heart and veins was very fluid. The peritoneum
was very much congested. The whole of the bowels
and the alimentary canal were much congested. The
bladder was healthy, and the womb and depen-
dencies contained a festus of ten or twelve weeks old.
He had no doubt the deceased died from taking some
vegetable poison.
Mr. Coates corroborated this evidence, and added
that in searching the apartment of the deceased he
found five quart bottles, three quite full of a light-