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

THE SUN,

6id. Of clean Sumatra 164 bgs went at 38d, and da- 1
maged 2id to 31d; 35 bgs Malabar, sound 3-id, damaged
3d to 3id. Nutmegs also realized full rates: 8 cases
selling at 25 4d for mid, slightly mouldy; 10 pckgs
Jamaica Ginger 55s to 07s for mid; 83 cases, 14 bgs
Cochin, ord and mid 31s to 33s 6d; 13 brls 10 bgs
African Pod Pepper. 405 to 43s 6d per cwt; 9 pckgs
Cayenne sold is 6d.
COCHINEAL.--There is more business doing in Silvers,
and stiffer rates have been obtained; but black has been
operated in with caution, and rather lower terms are
acceded to. At auction 443 bgs Honduras were sold;
low to mid Silvers at 23 10 to 35 2d; good to fine 38 3d
to 3s 8d; mid to good black 34 6d to 4s; bat 36 bags
Mexican were taken in at 3s 2d to 3s 8d for good Sil-
vers. The value of black is 3s 2d to 3s sd, and Tene-
riffu, from 3s 3d to 3s 10d.
hintao.—A further increase has taken place in the
quantity of East India announced for auction on the
7th of next month, it being now 29,145 cheats. Trans-
actions have been again trifling in all aorta by exporters
and home consumers; previous rates are also maintained
with difficulty. Spanish met with little notice, and easier
prices are taken; whilst a large public sale of 500 aerons
Guetamela is declared for Tuesday.
SALTPETRE.—There has been an improved demand
for rough this week, and supply is less plentiful, and
privately a fair trade was done at full rates, low to fine
Calcutta at 25s to 28s 6d per cwt. 393 bags were sold
at 25s 6d to 26a for mid quality 9} to 10i per cent. re-
fraction. British refined met a brisker demand at 29s
to 298 6d, and less desire is shown to operate at these
term. Nitrate of Soda is wanted at 14s 6d to 15s, and
the market firm.

FRIIIT.—Of Currants a cargo of the new crop has
been divided among the trade at 425. The quality is
fine, and in beautiful condition. Two or three more
cargoes are daily expected. Several cargoes of new
Valencia Raisins have arrived; the quality for early
shipment is good. The price is 38s. New Muscatels is
offering at 655. New Turkey Figs and Sultanas 60s
to 70s.
TALLow—This afternoon the public sales of Tallow
went off with less spirit, and not above half sold; 1,080
pkgs South American went at 34s to 38s 6d; 300 cks
Sydney—Mutton 37s 6d to 395, Beef 35s 6d to 37s 6d.
OILS.—The dulness in the market for Seal Oil fur-
ther increased this week, and prices continue to decline;
pale selling at 321 to 331 101; and other sorts at 30/ to
321 lOs per tun; at these rates transactions have been
small. Cod is offered at 361 to 361 lOs, and few
buyers are to be met with. Southern is less wanted, and
prices are not E 0 firm; low to mid quality having been
sold at 30/ lOs to 31/ 10s, and good to fine 321 to 331.
Sperm is wanted, and rates are yet on the advance,
several transactions having taken place at 851 to 871,
and supply is limited. Headmaster is selling at 921 to
941. Olive sells freely, and stiffer rates have been ob-
tained ; Galipoli realizing 40/ lOs to 411 103; and
other sorts 391 to 40L Linseed Oil is in brisker request
both for horns consumption and shipping; there are not
sellers on the spot under 31a 6d per cwt. For delivery
sontracts have been entered into at 31s to 31s 3d up to
the close of the year. A good business has been done in
Rape, moderate terms being acceded to; brown selling at
31s to 31s 6d, pale 32s to 32s 6d; Foreign Refined 33s 6d.
Cocoa Nut is yet much in request both for home con-
sumption and shipping; prices also have still an upward
tendency. A public sale of 114 hhds Ceylon went at
31s to 335. The value of Cochin is 32s to 355, and supply
is limited. Palm continues to attract little attention,
and fine is offering at 26s 6d to 275.

THE GOLD IN AUSTRALIA.
(From the Daily .News.)
Our Singapore correspondent, after giving extracts
fully confirmatory of, but adding little to the news
already published as to the gold discoveries near
Bathurst, says
Since writing the above additional information was
received from Sydney, by the Oriental, arrived at
Batavia, not merely confirming the truth of the dis-
coveries, but clearly proving that even rumour itself
had under-estimated the extent and value of the gold
region. The Government itself, satisfied from the
official report of Mr. Stutchbury, has moved in the
matter, and has put forth a claim to the precious
metal in the subjoined proclamation :
Proclamation of his Excellency Sir Charles Augustus
Fitzroy, Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief of
the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependen-
cies, Vice-Admiral, &c., &c.
As according to law all gold mines, and all gold in its
beds, within the territory or New South Wales, whether in
and upon the lands of the Queen, or on the lands of private
individuals, her Majesty's subjects, are and is the property
of the Crown; and Government having received iuforma-
tion that there is gold in and upon the territory of the
comity of Bathurst, and therefore within the Government
or territory aforesaid, and that a number of persons have
commenced searching, or intend to commence searching
and digging for gold on their own account, and for their
own use, without having obtained permission from her
Majesty, or from any other authority for that purpose:
Therefore I, Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, the afore-
said Captain-General, do hereby make publicly known
and declare on behalf of her Majesty that
every person who shall take gold or metal from
any property within the aforesaid territory,
and any person finding gold in the uninhabited
parts of the said territory which has not yet been
disposed of, or ceded by the Crown, or shall search or
dig for gold in and upon such territory, will be punished
according to law. And I further publicly make known
by this proclamation, and declare that upon receipt of
farther information upon this matter, such regulations
shall be made as may be considered just and decisive,
and:shall be published as soon as possible, whereby
the conditions will be made known on which by
the payment of a reasonable sum licenses shall be
granted.
Given under my hand and seal, in the Government-
house at Sydney, on the twenty-second day of May, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-one, and the fourteenth of the reign of her Majesty.
CHARLES A. FITZStoY.
By order of his Excellency, E. D. Thomson.
God save the Queen.
Although this proclamation was issued on the pub-
lication of the discovery, the government had taken
no step to carry out the licensing system, apparently,
sensible that the means at their command were in-
sufficient to compel parties to abandon their rich and
selected spots. In the existing maddened state of
public excitement, it would not be prudent to act on
the right the Crown has asserted, and Sir Charles
Fitzroy will probably content himself with the pub-
lication of the:Crown's right, until he receive instruc-
tions and the means of enforcing them from the borne
authorities.
Accounts received from Sydney to June 6th are
full of the gold discoveries. There were about 16,000
to 20,000 persons employed at the diggings, com-
prising all classes, from the !polite professions to
handicraftsmen, runaway policemen, and seamen
from the shipping. Indeed, desertions from the
latter were so numerous and frequent, that vessels
were quitting for fear of similar desertions and the
destruction of shipping as occurred at California, in
consequence of whole crews flitting to the mines. At
Sydney labour had advanced fifty per cent., but up
to the above date accounts of the gold finding had not
reached the sister settlements. The gold range of the
Blue Mountains extended nearly 400 miles in length,
and about 40 miles wide.
On May 27, several gentlemen returned to Sydney
who left that city ten days previous, for the purpose
of ascertaining the exact nature of the recent gold
discoveries. Mr. Hindson and Mr. A. C. Brown (of
the firm of Mart and Brown) conveyed to Sydney
gold valued at 1,000/. This parcel included two
lumps, one of which weighed forty-six ounces, and the
other about twenty, nearly pure gold, having but
small portions of quartz attached. The large specimen
and the smaller one, together with several pieces of
about one ounce each, were found in one hole, by a
person named Henderson, residing in Bathurst. Oa
May 24 a Bathurst blacksmith found eleven pounds
weight in one hole. " Indeed," the Herald tritely
observes, " there is no doubt that the creek in which
the principal body of the miners is now employed
is richer than any place that has been worked
in California." From the same source we learn
that the large pieces above noticed are found in a
bed of slate, which forms a sort of chain across the
Summerhill-creek at the place where it is joined
by the Lewis Pond-creek. On this bar there is a
thin bed of boulder stones and pebbles, and on re-
moving them a bed of mud a few inches thick is seen,
which is cleared away and discovers the slate, which
is in vertical layers ; and in the interstices between
thear tlhayoenrs th of slate
ethe gold is found in lumps. The
banks of the creek is found to contain
earth
scale-gold, which is obtained in the usual manner by
washing the soil in cradles, which allows the gold to
drop to the bottom as the soil is washed out—on the
whole, perhaps, a more profitable employment than
seeking for lump-gold. Every one competent from
scientific and local knowledge to form an opinion
expresses the belief that gold will be found in many
other districts besides Bathurst, their geological
features being the same. Indeed the Herald hints
that already gold has been discovered at Lamb's-
valley, near Maitland.
Consequent on these discoveries the prices of all
articles of consumption had advanced to an unpre-
cedented height, among which we may enumerate
flour from 201. to 301. per ton, and difficult to be
procured at the latter exorbitant rate; wheat, from'
4s. 6d. to 10s. per bushel; butchers' meat, from 21d.
to Bd. per lb., and other articles in proportion. What
will be the result of these changes it is scarcely difficult
to conjecture : certain it is the country will be popu-
lated. From the neighbouring colonies there will be
an immediate access of those hands, and within a few
months thousands will be hurrying from their father-
land; so that, on a moderate estimate, the year 1851
and 1852 will add at least one hundred thousand per-
sons to the population of New South Wales. One
letter says :
" I reached Bathurst on Saturday, and found the gold
mania still more violent than in Sydney, and much in-
creased by the arrival of a man with a piece of gold
3} lbs. weight, which he turned up, as he says,. like a
root of potatoes. It had such an effect upon him that
he commenced filling his pockets with stones, thinking
it all gold, and to-day even has not recovered so far as
to be able to eat. It is sealed up, and as his partners
have made him swear not to open the parcel until they
are all present, I have not seen it, but there is no doubt
ofits being there."
With the view of checking desertion for We mines;