The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

LONDON, THURS /AA Y EVENING, J A .NUAI.i..Y 9, 1861.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

SAN FILANCD,CO, Nov. I.—The news of the ad-
mi±sion of California iL4o the Union has, naturally
enough, diffused univt2rsal joy throughout this country.
Congtit ring the important conFequences which must
flow from this measure, it deserves the hearty recep-
tion with which it is greeted. For an account of the

rejoicings which the event called forth here I must
refer you to the papers sent by this mail. Business,
notwithstanding a slight interruption, caused by the
"frolicking" and holy day making of the last two
weeks, is quite brisk. Prices are not so high as they
hive been, but there is a good steady demand, which
is a more healthy symptom than the feverishness
which sometimes affects uur market. We are here,

to use a hackneyed phrase, "progressing with giant
strides." The few following statistics will tend to
justify this remark, and probably be of interest
to some of your readers, viz.:—The number

of foreign vessels which have entered this port
during the quarter ending the 30th of September,
last was 152 ; their tonnage, 39,927 tons. Of these

foreign bottoms 89 were British (chiefly from our
colonies of New South Wales, Australia, and New
Zealand), 11 French, 3 Cnilian, 7 Ilamburghese, 5
Russian, 5 Hawaian, 4 Mexican, 4 Danish, 2 Norwe-
gian, 2 New Grenadian, 3 Argentine Republic, 2
Austrian, 1 Bremen, 1 Sardinian, 1 Swedish, 1 Hano-
verian, 1 Portuguese, 1 Lubec, 1 Ecuadorian, 1 Peru-
vian, 1 Belgian, and 1 Dutch. The largest propor-
tion of tonnage, es of :vessels, is British ; it amounts

o 25,221 tons.

If t() the above 152 for veusels

we add 89 American vessels, and their tonnage,

24,984 tons, which have entered from foreign coun-
tries, it will give a total of 241 vessels of 64,911 tons
(aggregate) burden, which have arrived here from
tbreign countries in the three months. To give a
proper estimate of the trade of this place, however, I
must add 247 American vessels which have entered

during the same quarter from the various ports of the
Union, and their tonnage, 84,453 tens, to the above
figures, and we have a total of ships entered of 488,
of 149,3E4 tons register.
Now as to the vessels which have cleared :-147
foreign vessels, of 37,404 tons (the majority British),
and 194 American vessels, of 63,649 tons, have cleared
for foreign countries ; and 75 American vessels, of
14,973 tons, have cleared in the same period fur the
various ports of the United States (" coasting trade,"
to use the Custom-house phrase), making the total
number of vessels which ha-e left this port in the
quarter 416, of 116,026 tons register.
Then, as to the increase of population :—During
the same period 11,080 emigrants (a small number
compared with former periods) arrived from all parts,
of whom 317 were women—the majority of both
sexes being Americans. The number of male
foreigners in the whole emigration of this period was
2,982. Of the whole emigration 31 persons only are
reported as being under 21 years of age. This is as it
should be in the present state of the country. We
want phi sical strength and maturity of judgment to
develope our resources.
Let us now see what has been doing with the gold-
dust, of which so much is spoken. We will, however,
take the imports first. The value of all the specie
and bullion entered was 560,000 dolls. only, as mani-
fested—all brought by the Panama steamers, and
chiefly from the ports of the Mexican coast. I should
think, however, that at least six times as much arrived
wnanifested. The value in dollars of all the specie,
bullion, and gold dust exported in the quarter, as
declared, is 8,167,880 dolls. (which I may call all
goiddust). Tan amounts of the remittances vary iu
different months more than one would think,—for
instance, 2,120,000 dolls. went away in July, while
5,129,880 dulls. went in August, and only 918,000
dolls. in September. The destination of this treasure
was as follow, :—To Chili, 295,756 dolls.; to Hobart
Town, 22,000 dolls.; to China, 17,000 dolls.; and to
Panama, for the United States and Europe, 7,833,124
dolls. To the total amount of exported gold dust, as
manifested, we can safely add 1,000,000 dolls. taken
by passengers for all parts privately, to save paying
freight, and by the captains of foreign vessels, who do
not often manifest their gold.
To form a tolerable idea of the enormous traffic of
San Francisco, and of the trade of the country gene-
rally, your readers will be assisted by knowing that
there are on the route between this and Panama 13
steamers, one of which leaves San Francisco twice a
month regularly, and oftener occasioi4illy ; their
aggregate tonnage is 13,198 tons, and there are five
more steamers of large size soon to be added to the
number. Besides all this there is a large fleet of
steamers and craft of all sorts and sizes plying on the
inland waters of the state, and their number is con-
tinually increasing.
Emigration is for the present evidently checked,
for I find that the number of arrivals for the last
month (October) has only been 1,227, while the
number of departures has been 5,804.
The export of sold dust was 4,439,461 dollars, in-
cluding 514,000 dollars taken by the Northerner
steamer, which left for Panama yesterday. The amount
to be taken by the steamer Panama to-day is not yet
declared. The steamers which arrived here during
the last month are the Carolina on the 7th, the
Columbus on the 12th, the Oregon on the 19th,
the Northerner on the 22d, and the Antelope on the
25th. The following British vessels arrived:—The
Corsair, on the 15th, from Halifax; the Mercy, from
Bahia ; and the Rebecca, from Hobart Town, on the
20th. The clearances of British vessels are—the
Agincourt, for China ; the Avon, for Valparaiso; the
o'-the-Wisp, for San Bias, all on the 16th; the
Jane Tudor, for Valparaiso, on the 17th; the Bar-
bara, for Bealejo ; the Camilla, for Auckland, on the
18t1;; the Cayuga, for Launceston ; the Lorcbe and
St. Andrew, for the Sandwich Islands, on the 19th ;

the Artemisia, for Sydney, on the 22d; the Brazilian,
for Realejo ; the Amelia, for Mazatlan; the Light-
ning, for th 9 Pacific ports, on the 24th; the Portenia,
for the Sandwich Islands, on the 27th; and the Ga-
zylle, for Mazatlan, on the 30th. _ _

Her Majesty's ship Daedalus returned from Van.
couver's Island on the 23i ult., is now here, and leaves
for Valparaiso about the 11th.
With regard to the mines, the accounts are as flat-
tering as ever. New discoveries are continually being
made. A gentleman who has lived for nearly two
years in the southern mining districts told me, three
days ago, that the gold, although not so abundant,
and far more inaccessible than formerly, still exists in
immense quantities, both in quartz and in the earth ;
but that, until labour cheapens, it cannot be worked
on a large scale with profit. This gentleman was en-
gaged in a gold mine ir. Chili for seven years, and I
know him well by character; his report is worthy of
credit. Then, as to the prospects in the other (the
northern) mining district, from all accounts it is
equally good. A piece of stone, richly intersected
with pure gold veins, has lately been discovered at
Nevada City, on Deer Creek, a tributary of the Juba
river, which is likely to lead to great results. This
stone has been dug round to the depth of a yard, but
it has not yet been ascertained whether it is the head
of a vein or only a solitary lump of stone. Its rich-
ness is very great, and the finder has refused 40,000
dolls, for his claim upon it. I had this story on good
authority.
Exchange—On New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and New gOrleans,sight, sf.
fbills at sight at par. England,
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per dollar; 60 days, 50 to 52 i.
F
Harnburgh, sight. 43 to 44
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bronco. Valparaiso, 30 days, 6 per cent. premium ;
Mexico, 30 days, par to 1 per cent. premium.
Gold dust has been abundant during last month.
In fact, there was an unusual quantity in the market.
The price, however, kept firm for good clean dust at
16 dollars per ounce ; for the last three days it has
been worth 161 dollars.
The interest on money is 5 to 7 per cent. per
month.
Beal estate is very dull. In the backward parts
of the town the value has actually fallen, and
the fluctuation in the price at present going
on has made people very wary in buying land ;
hence a general dulness prevails. We had a
dreadful accident the other day. A steamer plying
between this place and Stockton burst her boiler just
at starting from the pier. She was crowded with
passengers, of whom about 70 were killed and
maimed. We have had another fire, too ; this time,
however, only a small one for us. Two houses were
burnt—one a house of ill-fame, the other an hospital.
The fire is attributed to incendiarism.
A good many deaths having lately occurred, has
given rise to the belief that the cholera prevails here.
The doctors differ on the subject, and when I recollect
that at this time last year there was an equal 'number
of deaths among people who returned from the mines,
I am inclined to think that the disease supposed to be
the cholera is not so,.but a disease of the country.
In Sacramento city, however, cholera has certainly
prevailed for some time back, and a good many deaths
have taken place.— Times.

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the production of a
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tazzi, in fine cast iron. The form selected is one of the rno..t
graceful in the Etruscan room of the British Museum, and
it is intended to ornament the interior of the bowl with
figures in low relief, which have been very successfully mo-
delled by Mr. E. Wyon,. after a design from a vase in Sir
m. Hamilton's collection, representing Hercules and the
Hesperides. A certain number of the tuzzati will be given
as prizes in the distribution of the current year.—Builder.

ST. GEORGE'S STEAM PACKET COMPANY.—MessrS.
Blood and Soulby, the official manngers of this company, have
resigned their appointments ; but his Honour, Master Farrer,
has intimated his intention, should there be no opposition, of
re-appointing Mr. Soulby to be official manager.
MILDNESS OF THE WEATiIf R.—On the last eight
of the past year the temperature of the air at the Durham
Observatory, about :,50 feet above the sea, was never lower
than 54 deg.—eoliziderobly above the mean temperature of
the whole year. The In can temperature, however, of the
month of December has not been higher than its average
deducted from the observation of many years.—Durham
Advertiser.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. B.—A. letter from Mr. Moore, the
Roman Catholic Member for Mayo, to Mr. John
O'Connell, has eppeared, from which one might con-
elude that it would have been better for the latter
Hon. Gentleman if he hed not inviEed the former to
his proposed meeting of Roman Catholic Members.
Mr. Moore Itoukes the opportunity of settling an ac-
count with iMr. O'Connell, for a charge which the
latter had brought against him of assailing his father's
memory. Mr. Moore's writes as follows :
" Take my advice, my-ch ar sir, and leave your father's
memory alone—it can take care of itself. It is far too
great to be affected by a sneer of mine, were I capable
of uttering such. O'Connell has left behind him the me-
mory of an illustrious Irishman; a memory which I
verily believe that Irishmen of every party are inclined
to treat with respect. Have better faith in your father's
glory, and less confidence in the virtue of such assistance
as 3 our own petulant advocacy can supply. As for the
expressions which yen have thought proper to apply to
me, such as Orange,' paltry,' unworthy,' contempt
ible,' &c., it would be inappropriate to call them ' un-
worthy,' or even ' contemptible'--they are simply stupid;
and I should be as great a blunderer as yourself if I
noticed them further. The tone of supercilious
depreciation in which you constantly speak of all
your coritemport:ries does, however, somewhat amuse
me ; and reminds me of an illustration which
I have somewhere met with—of a dwarf who had
for some time kept company with a giant, and who.
from seeing his companion looking down upon those who
surrounded him, acquired the ridiculous habit of endea-
veuriug to cast down his eyes upon men, whose middle
he could scarce reach when itanding upon tiptoe.' With
regard to the preliminary meeting in Dublin, to which
you are so good as to invite me, I think it right to re-
mind you that the penal msasures which are about to
inaugurate the Parliamentary session cf 1851, are likely
to apply peculiarly, perhaps exclusively, to the English
Catholics; and that any measures that may be resolved
upon, without their concurrence, would be necessarily
imperfect, and possibly injurious to the cause which I
believe you to have sincerely at heart.
" I am, my dear Sir, yours very truly,
" John O'Connell, Dq., &c." " G. 11. MOORE.
Sales pursuant to the instructions of the Incum-
bered Estates Commissioners took place in Cork yes-
terday and on the preceding day. On Monday the
estate sold was that of John Sullivan, of Dunderrow,
in the county of Cork, containing 100 acres of land,
with a mansion house and offices, valued by the poor-
law valuation at 1471., and subject to a house rent of
801. It was sold to the Rev. J. B. Webb for 8701,
subject to the sanction of the Commissioners. _ _

The estate sold yesterday was that of Robert Tre-
silisn, of Bally volane, near Bandon, containing 100
acres of land, with tenants' houses, and yielding a
rental of 681. per annum. Mr. Thomas Fuller was
declared the purchaser at 7801., subject, as in the
preceding case, to the sanction of the Commissioners.
A portion of the Earl of Mountca-lell's estates were
to have been sold yesterday at Belfast. The sales at
the court in Hebrietta•street commence on Friday
nex,, when seven properties will be put up for com•
petition.
The Rural Deans of Killalots have applied to the
clergy of their district to address the Queen on the
" Papal aggression." The Dean of Kilmacduagh
has refussd his signature.
Mr. Curry Connellan, the late private secretary to
the Lord-Lieutenant, has joined the Attorney-Ge-
neral and a fat.hionable circle at Johnstown Castle, the
seat of Mr. Grogan Morgan, M.P.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.
Yesterday evening a ball took place at the London
Tavern in aid of the funds of this valuable institution.
Under the combined influences of dancing and charity
the attendance was unusually large, upwards of 700
ladies and gentlemen being present, and fiotirg it on
the light fantastic toe with an amount of perseverance
truly edifying to behold. Weippert's band kept the
a hole assemblage in a state of uninterrupted activity,
which reminded ene of that long sought for deside-
ratum in the mechanical world, perpetual motion.
This ball may be regarded as the climax of an un-
usually prosperous season in the annals of the asylum.
During the course of 1850 the licensed victuallers,
partaking,it is to be presumed, of the general pros-
perity, have, with the assistance of their friends, the
great brewers, distillers, and wine-merchants, col-
lects d no less than 7,7331., the largest sum they have
ever been able to muster in one year since the founda-
tion of the charity. This unprecedented success has
been chit fly owing to the building of a chapel, which has
been erected with a degree of dispatch not unworthy of
the Crystal Palace itself, and which has received an
amount of support highly creditable to the licensed vic-
tuallers as a body. They have now the largest trade
asylum in England, and probably in the world—an
asylum containing 123 separate dwellings of three rooms
each, and 147 inmates. They allow each recipient 6s. a
week when he is entirely destitute, and if he has other
means they add enough to raise it to that sc&e. If he is
a married man, they allow his wife to live with him, and
make the weekly allowance is. The expenditure on this
account is 1,8001. a year, besides 40/ for nurses, and ether
incidental coerces of outlay. To meet this the annual
amount of the "endowment fund," as it is called, has only
hitherto been 1,300/, sad the attentisn of the indefati-
gable secretary, Mr. Jones, is now directed to raise this
fund, so as to diminish the debt at present liquidated
from other sources, and also to increase the comforts of
those who from misfortune or o her causes become in-
mates of the asylum. " The ladies' wing," the founda-
tion-stone of which was laid by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert in June, 1849, is now more than half
completed, and the whole institution, notwithstanding its
still acknowledged wants, is managed with a degree of
economy which other charities of the kind might imitate
with advantage, and which secures its permanent pros-
perity. At least, if vigorous dancing can accelerate the
footsteps of benevolence, the Licensed VieTuellers' Asy-
lum caa be congratulated on the success which it last
night achieved.

THE CASE OF MRS. SLOANE.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
On Tuesday evening last information was received al
the station where the warrant is deposited, that Mrs.
Sloane was to be found sidiug in the neighb3urhood
of Chelsea. Accordingly two detective efficers of the
City police force were dispatched in company with a
clerk from the Temple, who brought the information,
and they proceeded direct to Renelegh-street, Chelsea.
On arriving there the clerk pointed out the house in
which he believed Mrs. Sloane was concealed, and the
officers stepped forward and knocked boldly at the front
door. It teas opened, and they were immediately after
ushered into the drawing-room, where they found a lady,
apparently about 45 years of age, and ( xactly answering
in every particular the description of Mrs. Sloane as it is
set forth in the placards effcring the reward for her
apprehension. The clerk from the Temple felt per-
fectly satisfied that she was the party they came in
search ef, and on the officers unfolding their business
they were greeted by a volley of abuse, at the termina-
tion of which the lady complained bitterly of the conti-
nual annov mice she experienced in consequence of being
mistaken for first one disreputable character and then
another. Some time back she was recognised as Mrs.
Manning, and now she was identified as that horrible
wretch, Mrs. Sloane. The officers were astonished at
meeting with such a reception, and the clerk looked on
extremely dubious; but at length they were resolved to
put an end to the perplexity they were in by sending to
the Roy al Free Hospital for the girl Jane Wilbred,ia
order that she might identify the I arty. One of the
officers accordingly left for that purpose, twad
although past the usual hour fur the patients; o
retire to rest in that establishment, Jane Wilbred
was taken in a cab to Chelsea, but directly she
was placed before the lady she said, "Oh! that is
not Mrs. Sloane." Upon this the lady became
more violent in her behaviour towards the officers, tell-
in them in language not, the most polite that if they
had done their duty in a proper manner they would have
had Mrs. Sloane before this, instead of letting her go so
easily when they might have taken her in the first in-
stance. After various apologies en the part of the
officers for intruding upon the lady's privacy, she be-
Co.rale somewhat pacified, and ultimately terminated this
singular interview by giving the• officers a very pressing
invitation to take tea with her on the following even-
ing. From further inquiries the officers made it ap-
peared that this lady was very eccentric in her habits
and confined herself strictly to her own apartments. This
seclusion, coupled with the fact of her great resemblance
to Mrs. Sloane, and her only recently having taken the
apartments she occupied, has led to the above ludicrous
mistake.

LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday a special
general court of proprietors in the above mutual assurance
company was held at the offices, King William-street, Mr.
Franks presiding. A report was read from the directors,
from which it appeared that under the deed of settlement a
certain day (Ist July) is fixed for commencing policies and
dividing profits, and that seven such anniversaries must have
passed before the assured becomes entitled to any share of
the profits in the shape of reduction of annual premium.
The effect of this is that while some become entitled to
share after seven annual payments, eight payments become
necessary in the case of others. To obviate this injustice
the directors propose to reckon from the actual day of entry,
without any reference to the Ist of July, and to allow
the assured to enter into share of profits after seven
annual payments. To carry out these objects certain re-
solutions were submitted to the Court, which, after some
short discussion on minor points, were unanimously agreed to,
and, thanks being voted to the chair, the proceedings termi-
nated.
COMPOSITION OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL As-
SEMBLY.—The National Assembly of France contains, ac-
cording to a statement in the ..11imiteur, 43 actual or quondam
Ministers of Government, •i 2 ambassadors or persons who
have represented France at foreign Courts, 22 members of
the Institute, 6 vice-admirals and rear-admirals, 34 generals.,
32 ex-peers of France, 110 former members of the Chamber
of Deputies. Of the 939 members of they onstituent As
s-
-
sembly only 330 were re-elected, and form pt of the Legi
lative Assembly. The united ages of the members of the
Let- islative Assembly amount to 35,613 years. giving an
average of 47 years to each member. The oldest member
was born in 1769 and the youngest in 1823.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD EAILWAY.—At a meet-
ing of the board of directors, held yesterday, Mr. S. M. Peto,
M.P., was elected chairman of the company. An eminent
counsel has been consulted on the question of the interest on
the preference shares, and the learned gentleman's opinion
is, that the holders are entitled to eighteen months' arrear of
interest, viz., 1/. 4s. 9d. per share. We believe that the
new preference capital, 300,0001
—which s not to take pre-
cedence of the existing preference shares iwill take interest
at the rate of 5s per cent. per annum.
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