The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-28 00:00:00

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• tNu j eats(V 1 tioll.Ated 6)c.) act writ tod.,:i3__ 7_ 4,0,1,3,d011e
and then add this tevithe -4cedt3i sums, we ffav‘ the
• ' aetteg-stet Producti6ll of' ilip 4Ote e tnineacruiclor the
Trai.:.er,,141,44 ended t010,c4y,140 drills., aced which,' if the
"s ji4d4,cootinoci,,to.glve fur
,the next (110,114:ti Xers as
it has done for tLe'lait one will unke tbc,prodiiction for
th, Tear,lPtwt4''',it6:(2od6llB: " '
i 44. vli 'f it g i Aii -tile lieraid state:: the prebable yield for
this. year at 7f5 millions of dollitrsjetiai,4,,A htt*tteliSan
te "doubt" his eititnate. The wealth of this -country is
unly b,4,ritt4ing to!beideeeloptd, butis-iisijequitYVear
now that it rt quires the .applicatief'„ot 0044,,lpience,
and ~kiii toenakitltig"wealthfullkAgitlabli e,.,1
'rho i(ii&ntit:k of gold dost,,exported tTisattimonth
(lrareio v,ils, in. dollars, 3,028,631, althoughtifeilniount
tuauifrsted at thaf;uston:r+hoilSe is only 2,87iA.,d0115.
Of this . latter •iiitit::'2o;3i7i&ls. was shipped to Val-
paraiso, and 42;2111 dolls. to China. The' rest went
by the steamers, the greater portion LC) the United
States. The bullion imported
dolls. 12c.
in Much Was 142,336
Three steamers which leave this; port,s to4atP,r, Pa-
nama take over 2,000,000 dolls., but the aCtuiaamount is
not yet ascertained, as they continue to ship after they
thePo.Sz.—TThhee
pp
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lg ob lada
Id{
eursat ha ag
clear at the Custom-house.
sreaedav &tan cpeady totki
1137
pdroi
el les,.
partly to induce the miners and other holders of dust to
sell to them instead of taking their dust to the Assay-
office, to be run into ingots, and partly to counteract the
effect of private coining, by enhancing the prioe to the
coiners. If this price is maintained it may produce the
desired effect, as 17 dolls. is better to the miner than the
result of his " dust" at the Assay-office, after paying its
'
charges for converting his dust'into ingots,-and
I,7„dells.
is too high a price
for the calmer to pay unless heralloys
his coin.
:ill°
This system of coinage private is an outrage.lt , ille-
gal, and has been carried on by irresponeible
parties, and
cannot be too' severely reprobated.
•
The increased price of gold dust has altered the ex-
change, and first-class bills on London at sight are held
at 47d. There are, however, several houses dollar
business as bankers who have been drawing at the ~,a
tra
rates, in order to secure the remittance of lame sums.
The current quotation is—for bills on ' England at
sight, 46:41c1.; 60 days' sight, 47d. tti'i 47id.; France, 5G
75e. and 5f.; Hamburgh, 41id And-42 banco; Valpa-
raiso, Lima, and Mexico, 30 days, lit par of exchange;
' United States, at sight, 2 per centltremium.
The interest on money continues easy, 5 per cent. per
The Legislature has
month is the most current rate, but some loans have
been made during the last month at 1 aid li per cent.
below this rate.
passed a Bill to settle the title
of the city of San Francisco to a large tract-of ground
covered by the sea, which has improved the money-
market by the increased security afforded by this Bill.-
Too much attention cannot be drawn to the fact that
the foreign miners-tax has been abolished. The Go-
vernor has issued a proclamation to -,this effect. Now
the mines are open to the labours of ail=--t 0 he people
.
of every nation.— 'I zincs. ,
; , OurrrA •, % ;

CALIFORNIAN MAILS., I.'l-
The advantages derived from the .BUPPOrt afforded by
the United States Government to the establishment. of a
mail service with California, as shown by ..the annexed
statement of the letters forwarded and the revenue-re-
ceived therefrom, forms a striking contrast with, the
conduct of our own Government the question aiex-
tending, or rather providing, a mail service to our co/o-
Ides in Australia. In the case of California, a bi-monthly
service is in successful operation;returning a large profit
to the Government of more than a hundred thousand
dollars per annum, while our important colonies receive
their letters by the means of sailing-vessels Ioiitral the
Cape of Good Hope, or the-still more uncertain Toute by
way of India, by which letters not unfrequertly are from
tour to u months in the transit; and actiOnuts werere-
ceived last mouth frotn,Sydney, by way. or San Francisco
and Panama, in much ehorter,tame than Eby either of the
number of California lettei,s received at New
York for the port-ofnce .qtiarter ending. Dee,,3l was
310,402; California letters sent,
123,912; foreign I,tt,,rs,
'147,0-18; foreign, 353,454; total, 944,816.- The avurage
daily 'domestic correspondence, being 55,000 letters.
added to this sum, with those 'letters stint and received
by teaDsient vessels, gives -6,037,000 letters that have
been received and sent out of that
.ctlico in three months.
"It thus appears that half a mil ,n of letters annu-
ally are already remind at New Fork alone from' Cali-
fornia, and au equal number forwarded from New York
thither. This makes a million annually. If to these sic)
add these taken and delivered at New Orleans, Charles-
ton, and. Savannah, the number will probably rise to a
unihon and a half, which, at forty cents each, amount
to 600,000 dollars. The mail pay of the two lines, the
Atlantic and Pacific, is 490,000 dollars, so that they over
repay to the Government more than 100,000 dollars on the
C4liternia le
_Or postage alone, without counting the
newspaper postage or the Havannah postage."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAYS—THE
COMPLETION TO OXFORD.
On Monday the directors of the Buckinghamshire rail-
ways gave a magnificent dejeuner, at the Star Hotel,
Oxford, in celebration of the completion of the line to
that city, the public opening to which took place on the
20th instant. A special train, which left Euston station
yesterday morning at a quarter before twelve o'clock,
took down the chairman, Sir Harry Verney; Mr. Smith,
the deputy chairman; and several other directors of the
London and North-Western Company; Mr. Watkin, the
secretary of the Buckinghamshire Company ; Mr.
Al4Conuell, the locomotive superintendent of the southern
division of the London and North-Western Company;
and a considerable number of other gentlemen officially
connected with the railways. About 300 ladies and gen-
tlemen sat down at table, Sir Harry Verney presiding,
and supported by a large number of the authorities of
the universities and of the members of the corporation.
The strong claims which important public matters
have upon our space will not admit of a detailed report
of the many excellent addresses that were-delivered-nu
the occasion; we must, therefore, endeavour to give a
short summary of the prominent features of them, so far
as they refer to the local and national advantages, that
are associated with the complet on of the narrow-gauge
line to Oxford.

It was originally intended to open the Oxford brat ch
of the Buckinghamshire railways on the Ist inst.; but
although the contractor, Mr. Ilayton, performed all that
human labour, skill, and perseverance can peasibly ac-
complish, yet an ugly slip and unfavourable weather-de-
layed the opening to the 20th, and having gone over the
line ;u March last, and had an opportunity of judging of
the amount of " construction " that, had. then to be exe-
cuted, we must give our testimony to the factiathsts
taking into consideration the slip to which we have
alluded, the character of the soil, and the unfavourable
weather, the contractor is entitled to great credit for
the celerity with which he pushed and completed the
works, as well as for the solid and substantial manner in
which the permanent way has been laid down.
The
completion
of most
the interestingraiiwuy
iatrea'ffords to the
place, the commercial benefits which ,
and the entire districts through which itpaost
of the London
facili-
ties afforded to persons. travelling b
and cast and west. When the gauges .
Western Companies shall
t o results Oxford flowing
1 from
the firstte
and North-Western and Greatd passes,
hesnorth and south
soon will, there will be a
not, but which we beliemv
communication--with the exception
continuous railway
"In'ectionable we admit in goods,
of a break of gauge, of 3 , nience indeed in
ntchiesttell;
ran into one station at Oxford, which at present they do
passenger
u Satuii Basingstoke, 'Reading,
and Luz
trafile—from
and Dideot, and_ing
end Reigate line, to Oxford, via
Birmingham,rio'tt;er_dv::::t(ilidtf r,lonmell'ove.r— and B raing(h town:
Liverpool,l
m hand,unic at thi eo
n c o bme "-
bletch y
• ' Rugby) through the airdlund districts by meat,.
or (v 1"....,.
of Lir Midland air
iine Railway.afi o
r d
sOn railwayt h the other
pletron of
twoon Oxford and the whole of the eastern parts of Eng-
land, via the Peterborough branch; and when the
Worcester portion of the Oxford, Worcester, and - Wol-
verhampton line shall have boon finished, the- Oxford
branch of the Backingnaehdiiro liuea will completaen
second eastern and wcstern railway eummutlics.gied '
from Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Norwich, Wisbeach, Lynn,
ace., to Worcester, Won...ester,
Exeter, South-Wales, ,Bristol,
and Plymouth, andea;tri, 1 ti.
g at the present pi:r hey of the London atici North-Western CemihoY' it
"
very probable, should the Oxford, Worcester, and SVQI:
vereamPtoa line be made on the narrow gist?,_g'e, that a`'
short branch will be carried from the, latter ILne .6"e- Q
Cheltenham. - ;.„
, .
xford
The betralt to the University andeitizens of .0 ~,,
is great. 13e'iure the •ofthe line thoei rflittAleY
opeoing
' siOrallytira-
to Oxford those desiring to proceed north ge ben, took
veiled to London by the Groat Western, ape-, b
T. ndaftt tld North-
the rail at Chu Euston-station of the —O,--
hrirshire rail-
Western. The completion of the Bucking
the fare over
ways saves theca several hours' titin:ilea l€a„. public ad- •
sc)rile
76 miles railway. And 119e's of Oxford and Cam-
vantage is that the two univeri!".l aiiet railway cona-
badge are now brought into a me.
munication with each other.
line has rendered to the entire
The service which
tne.through which it passes may
be of the district . s
fact that it ba reduced the 'at
1.. Ice
be gathered from the
ton, and that, 163. per
quence, coalfrom 25'3.. to
~t., „s in Oxford and ot.tua. places
pence, the pile!). ‘-' 0
Onlitig GOVVII tO It r eas,sable Wm
along the railway is c .
per 1,000 cubic feet.good
which railways have effected; morally
The public iiv was very stronol
and comiaercia,,,, the members
, b y dwelt upon ye 5,,,.„
,,,.„ several of memeers of the University, and
by d. uta,,VS What • the Great Western line and
0114 many a " tn.
...1 . he •
,110 Buokinghainshira railways have conforr.,,, upen,t
'• of cika Oxl,,cford were very handsomely and emphatically
ty
etv L I,(d.
ac 6
A lew minules be;Cre seven o'clock the sprcial train
iett tor London. The journey from Bletehley te, ,train
den den Town was made at broad gauge 'speed, viz., 60 miles
per hour, and the party arrived at Euston-square anon. Y
before eight o'clock, highly delighted with their trip.
'We must not forget " mine host" of the Star Hotel.
The dejeuncr was • '
aueurao y served,
I and the wines were
excellent.

[AD , ..,
N EuTlSEZlENT.]—Dropsical Affections cured by
Holloway's Pills.--lhe causes of this direful disease are
various ; it is often engendered by the morbid state of the sys-
tem, whereby the free circulation of the blood is impeded ; t r
it may ori.inate from some preceding complaint. The first
thing to be done in order to effect a cure is to remove any ob-
struetio: s, by purifying the blood, and causing the discharge of
the superabundant fluids from the body. For this purpose
take Holloway's Pills, as they possess such cleansing properties
by male or female, at all periods of life'- Sold'
that the dropsical patient is' i; radu a 1 1 y restored to health, and
permanently renovated. These Pills may
the whole frame is
and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
bbye saaflellyptia.,kizegnists
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2t4, Strand, London.
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