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London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

could not ascertain. We believe that that gentleman
is at the present time absent on the inquiry. The
discovery which has called forth these remarks is one
which has been made by Mr. Joshua Holden, of
Sonora. The following is the communication we have
received oa the subject. It is authentic, and may, we
believe, be relied upon :
" SONORA, SEPT. 22.—Mr. Holden has discovered
a very extensive silver mine, which prospects 50 cents
per pound silver, and 15 cents per pound gold, with
other associated metals. If the mine proves as rich as
the prospect, it will be worth all the gold mines in
the southern district. To-morrow Mr. Holden and
party will start out for the purpose of commencing
regular mining operation.. I have seen a piece of the
ore, which is the richest I ever saw. The Indians in
all the northern country are represented as exceed-
ingly troublesome and dangerous. It has become
impossible to travel through the country, except in
large parties and well armed, as the savages invariably
murder every isolated individual. This state of things
has a most disastrous effect upon the interests of that
section of the state. It *as broken up many of the
smaller interior settlemenf4; has stopped the working
of many of the most productive mining tracts, and
has almost entirely annihilated the business of the
merchants and packers who have been engaged in
supplying the miners from the coast towns. A gene-
ral uncertainty and stagnation of trade and business
are fast following this unfortunate position of affairs,
and nnless the Indian Commissioner or the State Go-
vernment soon adopt some measures for the eradica-
tion of this evil, the northern country will be most
lamentably and disastrously retarded, if not utterly
ruined."
DUNKIRK, Nov. 3.—The wind has been blowing
a perfect gale since nine o'clock on Saturday evening
and steam-boats and vessels have not left this port
since the beginning of the storm. The propeller
James Wood made the point yesterday morning with
the crew (six in number) of the schooner Home,
which was dismasted about 10 miles north-west from
this place.
DUNKIRK, Nov. 4.—The weather still continues
unsettled. A cold north-west wind is blowing, causing
a heavy sea, and boats are running very irregularly.
Snow fell in some parts of the country nearly the
whole of yesterday. Vast quantities of butter and
cheese are daily arriving here and transported via
New York and Erie Railroad for eastern markets. A
break in the road has caused great irregularity in the
trains on the Erie road.
BUFFALO, Nov. 3.—The splendid steamer Empire
State ran against a pier at three o'clock this aftornoon,
and with great difficulty was got into the river,where
she after wards sunk. The propeller St. Joseph was
totally wrecked in Thunder Bay, Lake Huron, during
the gale yesterday. All hands were saved.
BUFFALO, Nov. 4 —The schooner Pilgram went
ashore off Gilbert Point, Conneaut, on Sunday, and
is a total loss. The crew were all saved.
BOSTON, Nov. 3.—Captain Bush, of the schooner
Harriet Neal, which arrived at Provincetown Oct.
31, from the North Atlantic Ocean, having been
missed from his berth on the night of the 20th ult.,
and not since heard of, the crew of the vessel have been
arrested on suspicion of foul play, and are now under
examination. There had been some previous dissatis-
faction between Captain Bush and the crew.
PRESENT FROM JENNY LIND TO SALVI.—We
learn that, before leaving Buffalo for the west, Jenny
Lind made a present to that excellent artist, Salvi, of
a very beautiful cigar case, of massive gold, and of
exquisite workmanship. On one side is represented
in relief the grand works of the immortal Italian,
Benvenuto Cellini ; on the other side is shown the
poor Republic of Rome, strangled by her false sister
of France, being bound with a cord, which is held by
the leagued desposts ; in the distance, on the one
hand, is the British lion asleep, while, on the other
hand, Pius IX., surrounded by his cardinals, dis-
tributes blessings and indulgences to the Lazzaroni,
the Croats, the Spanish, French, &c. This work
reflects the highest credit upon the artist by whom it
was executed, as likewise upon the fair songstress for
having selected such a design, whereby to mark her
horror at the iniquitous assassination of the Roman
Republic. This is another added to the many marks
of esteem which Signor Salvi has so often received,
and so justly merits, both as an artist and a highly-
respectable citizen.
The money market was easier on the Bth inst.
The stock-market was very buoyant.
Foreign exchanges continued very firm, with an
upward tendency. Bills on London, 1101 to I;
Paris, 51. 15c. to 51. 13ic. for 60 days; Amsterdam,
41/ to i; llamburgh, 36} to ; Bremen, 79f to 80.
The cotton-market was dull. 5,000 bales had
changed hands since the sth instant, at ic. to c.
lower rates. 500 barrels of ashes had been sold at
enhanced rates. 500 tons of Liverpool coal had been
sold on private terms, and a large amount of Scotch
at 5 dolls. 75e. cash. The flour-market was de-
pressed; corn meal scarce, and wanted. Demand for
wheat firm, but not active. English and Scotch had
been sold at advanced rates. 100 tons of English
lead sold at 37 dolls. 5c., and lit) tons Spanish at 4
dolls. 50c. 2,000 barrels of turpentine sold at 3 dolls.
Rosin firm. Provisions were inactive.

Freights.—To London—Flour, ls. 9i., and tur-
rntine, 2s. per barrel; measurement goods, 253. to
305.; heavy goods, 203. To Liverpool—Flour, Is.
per barrel ; grain, 44. to 4id. ; heavy goods, 20s. To
Glasgow—Flour, 15. 6d. To Havre—Cotton,
per lb.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 7.—Cotton is firm. Sales
to• day, 3,000 bales, at Tic. per lb. for strict middling.
Sales yesterday, 4,000 bales, making the sales for the
week 32,000 bales.
MOBILE, Nov. 7.—Cotton-market firm. Sales of
the weak, 2,700 bales.
CHARLESTON, Nor. 7.—Cotton Srm, and market
tending upwards. Sales to-day, 2,200 bales, at 63.
to 6irc. per lb.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals at New York—The Excelsior, Enterprise,
America, Winifred Scott, and David Cannon, from
Liverpool; the Westphalia, from Bremen; the Miami,
from Tralee; the Leibnits, from Hamburgh; the Caro-
line and Mary Clarke, from Havre, and the ildrmonia,
from the Clyde.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR Nov. 19.

The Royal dinner circle yesterday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in
Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de
Speth, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, the Hon.
Charles Gore, and Sir George Couper.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home
Park and the Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and
younger members of the Royal Family took their
usual exercise.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty to-day at the Castle, from Frogmore, and
partook of luncheon.
The Hon. ,Charles Gore took 'his departure from
the Castle to-day.

The Cambridge University Commission had a
meeting yesterday, at the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing .street.
Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, ,
Sir John Herschel, Professor Sedgwick, and the
Rev. W. 11. Bateson (Secretary).
Mr. H. G. Gordon, Chairman of the Oriental
Bank Corporation, had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yes-
terday, on a visit to the Speaker of the House of
Commons, at Heckfield, near Hartford-bridge.
Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office,
yesterday, to the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and the Governors of Gibraltar,
Malta, Ceylon, and Hong-Kong. Dispatches were
received yesterday from the Governor of Canada.

LECTURES SUGGESTED BY PRINCE ALBERT.—
The letter which his Royal Highness Prince Albert addresssd
a few weeks ago to the Society of Arts, suggesting a
course of lectures on the probable results of the Exhibition,
has been acted on by the council of that body, who have put
forth the following as the first part of the course :—Nov. 26.
Rev. W. Whewell, D.D., F.R.S., Master of Trinity, Inau-
gural Lecture on the general bearing of the Exhibition on
the Progress of Art 'and Science. Dec. 2. Sir 11. de la
Beebe, C. 8., F.R.S., Mining, Quarrying, and Metallurgical
Processes and Products. Dec. 10. Professor Richard Owen,
F.R.S., Animal Raw Products. Dec. 17. Jacob Bell, Eq.,
M.P., Chemical and Pharmaceutical Processes and Products.
Jan. 7, 1852. Dr. Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., on the Chemical
Principles involved in Manufactures shown at the Exhibi-
tion, as a proof of the necessity of an Industrial Education.
Jan. 14. Professor J. Lindley, F.R.S., Substances used as
Food. Jan. 21. Prof. E. Solly, F.R.S., on the Vegetable
Substances used in the Arts and Manufactures in relation
to Commerce generally. Jan. 28. Rev. Professor B. Willis,
F.R.S., Machines and Tools for Working in Metal, Wood,
and other Materials. Feb. 4. J. Glashier, Esq., F.R.S.,
Philosophical Instruments and Processes. Feb. 11. Richard
Kensman, Esq., Machinery and Civil Engineering generally.
Feb. 18. Captain Washington, R.N., Shipping, particularly
Life Boats, in Class VIII. March 3. I'rofe►sor J. Forbes
Rovle, F.R.S., the Manufactures of India-
THE POST •OFFICE ROBBERY AT LEEDS.—On
Tuesday the examination of John Gainforth, a clerk in the
Leeds post-office, on a charge of robbery, was entered into
beford D. W. Nell, Esq., at the Leeds Court-house. The
branch from which the money was rem•tted was Settle, and
the amount stolen is 3401. The evidence taken went to
show that the prisoner had access to the letters in the post-
office, he being employed as a sorter and in the delivery
at the window of the post-office. Mr. Edward Brook,
sharebroker of Leeds, stated that the prisoner paid him
2001. on the 4th of November, and that sum included 451. in
notes of the Yorkshire Banking Company, which notes were
stopped on his presenting them at the counter of the bank in
Leeds on Saturday morning last. It also appeared i hat
the prisoner had been engaged in extensive railway specula-
tions, and that on the 17th of the present month, the day on
which he was apprehended, he was indebted to Mr. Brook
a balance of 8001., for which he had given acceptances on the
day before. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and
at the close of the case he was remanded for a week.

It is proposed to erect a monument, in Heptonstall
Church, in the parish of Halifax, to the memory of Dr.
ISlatthew Sutcliffe, a native of that chapelry, who was Dean
of Exeter in the reign of James 1., and the founder of Chelsea
College.