The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-17 00:00:00

S !rt AI? MARE ET.-(THIS DAY.)

BRITISH I OSSESMONS.

ORDINARY SIIAtiES AND STOCKS.

Railways.

Paid

Closing
Price.

(Business done

,
- 1 Closing I Business 100 ,A t tan oc &St Lawrence
- N are Hallways Paid.
, Price. , Done. stk 1 Ilom.,Baroda&.Cent Lad
-- - - -- i Gu. 5 per cent..
50 I Belfast and Ballymena + all - D
La o. I 3
13.14 , fir., Wol , and Str. Val.! all fl 82 205 Buffalo and xe Huron
stock !Birk., La., and Ch June. 100 81 83 20 Do. New
25 Blackburn
25 813,111 and Tyne all - - I Butfalo,Brant&God rich
10 Boat. Sleaf. and Mid.Co all 64 7 100
.6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187'
stock Bristol and Exeter ... 100 98 101 106 . 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:'
stock Caledonian
10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all - - 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim'
50 Cork and Bandon all - - 20 Cap e,Eastn.Prov. (Lint '
20 Cork, Blrock., C.-Passage all - 20 ICapeTown & Dock Scrip
20 Cornwall .....
10 Do B t A vets no div
, i mil op, perm )all _
10 Do Aa 1 ..... • ( all - - 175 Demerara
20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c
,ha sheen . (1. toil stock East Indian, gu. 5 p. c.
50 Dublin & Belfast June. all - - 20 Do. F Shares Ext
25 Dun., Perth, StAb. -lune all 71 81 20 Do. Jubbulpore
stock East Anglian lOO 16 17 100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs.
stock Eastern Counties lOO 52 63 53 li4 35 100 Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1861..
stock Eastern Union, A atock 100 36 38 20 Geelong & Melbourne..
stc,,,r Do do Bdo 100 26 28 stock Geelong, Corporation i
25 Do NW A, late EU3ds. 134 - - percent. Bonds
stock East Suffolk - - stock Grand Trunk of Canada
stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 87 89 lOO Do. 6 per cent. Pref..
stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 29 295 'in, 100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr.
10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ..
stock Furness - - 100 Do. do. 1867 ..
stock Gla sg. and S. Western 100 114 116 100 Do. do. 1872 ..
10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all - - stock Gt.lndiarenin.gua.sp.c.
stock Great North ern lOO 1104 I'ls 1121 12 20 Do. New gua. sp. c..
stock Do do A stock
100
stock Po do II do
stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 112 114 205 Gt. W. of Canada Shares
stork Great Western
stock Do Str Val gust. stock 100 60 62 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
12 Irish South-eastern .., all - - opt, till '6O
stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 120 1234 1211 15 5 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O . .
stock London and Blackwall 100 62 64 100 Do. do. '73 without opt.
stock lon., Bright.. &S Coast 100 116 117 117 5 ' 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0...
stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 52 54 stock Madras, guar., 44 p. c...
stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 102 1024 1021 4 5 stock Do. do. 5 per cent ....
stock Lond. & ~th. Western.. 100 945 954 955 5 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension
25 T.'derry & Coleraine .. all - - 20 Do. Fourth d 0........
25 ;,'Merry & EnnisKillen all 101 11 20 Do. d 0....... •• • •
stock Man. She. & Lincoln., 100 494 50 52 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds.
50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all - - 20 Newßrunswack Canda
121 Do do 1 shares.... all - - Ry.StLand(Lim.)g.6pc
10 Metropolitan 5 34 146 Class A Capital Share 1
stock Midland
6.4.0. Do new - 20 so. do. B Capital do. .•
stock Do tdrmin. & Derby 100 107 109 .. i Do. do. Land do. ......
50 Mid. G.. W. of Ireland all - - 20 lOude (Limited) ........
25 Do :1. sha.res all - stock Scinde -a
25 Mid Kent. all - - 20 ,Do. Punjaub .• • . ,ed g
10 Do, Cray Line - - 20 iDo. Do. ........ is 9.
100 Newcastle sad Carlisle all - - stock ;Do. Indus. St. Flo. reg
10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 6 20 ,St. Andrews & Quebec A
20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all - - 10 'Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip..
stock Norfolk.... ..._,.
50 N' hn. Counties Union - d .
stock North British . 100 645 655 66 t 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam'
stock Nor.Dev.Bail&Dk.stoci 100 -- - 20 !Ardenne5............ • •
stock D, A stk; A rocs no rl. 20 ,Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c.
until 6pchas been p(1.11 100 - - 5 Belgian East. Junction
stook Do B stock . . 100 - -
„,., . . 20 Beziers to Graissessac..
4 t onk Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 1045 105 Ival 1 I
25 Dodo . n.N.E. purchase 16134 T. Ap .. p 6 Cto-neaux Mine & Rail
stock Do Leeds .............. 100 644 S-55 00 I 100 Copiapo .... .. .. St .... ..
stock No Yoe.,
stoos North 'London
10 Do new 5 - - 20 ;Eastern of France ....
19.16.4 North Staffordshire 174 221 1 155 5 20 'Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c.
10 N. and S. W. Junction
12 Not &Grantham Rail ll 8 8f 20 ,Great Central of Franc •
10 T'ebles .... •••.--• • • • • all - - 20 )Gt. Luxem., Con. shs...
- Portsmouth - - 20 Italian Junction ......
10 Rhymney .. •••--• • • • • • all - - 20 'Lake Constance & Bale.
20 Lierre & Turnhout ....
stock Scottish Central
stock scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 334 .14. 20 ILyons & Geneva ......
stock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 87 89 331 ;Maria Antonia .... -...
stock Shropshire Union -
10 Sittingbourne & Sheer all 8 7 20 'Namur & Liege ........
stock South Devon
stock South Eastern ..... ... 100 85 855 875 871 81 16 Northern of France-.
stock South Wales .......... 100 62 64 16 Do. New Shares .....
stock S. York. and River Dun 100 77 70 10 Norwegian Trunk Pref.
20 staines, Wok,. and Wok an 6 8 20 Paris,tyons, & Mediter.
25 Stockton & Darlington all 42 43 421 20 Parisi & 0r1ean5........
I,Recife & S. Fran. (Pern.)
25 Do do ll 105 11 p 20
Frascati
aulitrmi, .. .. : .. .. ..
stock Taff Vale . - -
stock Do Pref. No 1 lO6 - -
210 lIRR oigg; nua Le
&&7RFFu.
25 ThamesHavenl. k&Rall 22 1 - -
50 Ulster '..
25 Do 20 1 2 34p 5 ,Royal Swedish ........
12 10 Do .. : ....
stock Vale (;f•Neath
13 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 111 Ili 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref.....
atom( Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. C.
50 Waterford St Limerick all - - 20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin
20 West Ccrnwall -
20 West London .......... all - - 81 West Flanders ...... ..
10 Do let class .. •. all - - 10 Do. s}p. c. Preference..
20 Do 2rl class .. .... .... all - - 20 W. & N.W. of France ..
stock WestHartlepool Harbr 23 ,Western of Austria....
and Rail lOO - - 775 20 ,Western of Switzerland
stock West Midland-Oxford 100 47 48 49 6 Wiesbaden ...... ......
stock Do. Newport 100 42 44 6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref....
stock Do. Hereford 100 83 85 2O ;Zealand

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FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

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PREFERENCE SHARES. BRITISH MINES.
',raid ClosingPriee. Business I I
Railways.
Sharel Done. Share' Mines. Paid. Closing Business
Price. Done

25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per
1 c. pref. (issued at £s°
tk Brie. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock
10 !Do. do. do. Shares
ck !Caledon £lO, 44 per cent
)ck !Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2.
64 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c.
!.9 Cornwall. 5 per cent
Dun.Perth&Aber..Tun
.ck E.Ang-n.Class A 7 &sp.c
.ck Do. do. Class B 6 p.c
.ck Do. do. Class C 7 p.c
ck E. Conn. Ex. sp. c. No.l
.ck Do. do. No. 2
ek Do. New 6 per ct. stock.
ck Eastern Union, 4 per ct.
ck Do. 5 per cent. g-uar...
ck Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares
ck Do. 4p. c gun. S. &D.
ck Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c.
ck Furness, 5 per cent ....
ck Glas.& S. Westg,-.a. 5 p.c.
Eck Great Northern. 5 p. ct.
.ck Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm
ock Do. 41 p. c. do. do.
.0 Do. sp.c. Red m. 5 p.c. pm
0 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf.
Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland)
p. et. pref. stock
.0 Great West. (Perks and
ITants) Ext. 5 p. ct.
.ck Co. Recleemable,4a p.ct.
.ck Do. Redeemable. 4p. ct.
.ck Do Irredeemable, do
.ck Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref.
8 Do. Birm. I'ref. Shares.
O It.. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh.
O Do. do. sp. et. pref ..
)ek Do Birm.c.r.Tuar. stock..
!M Do. Cheater gua. shares
13a Do. do. do.
10 Do. do. do.
)ek Lan.&York 6p. c. stock
k Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 10d pel
elt Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.)
.ck Lon.& Brig. 5 pc.ot. No.ll
ick Do. sp. c. No. 2
ick Do. gua. 6 p. c.
.ck Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4
)ck iDo. do. 45 per cen‘.
5 i Do. do. 44 p. c. shares
.ck Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock
.ck Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P )
rck Do.4p.e.S.(div.def.til '6s`,
ck Lon. Chat. and Dover
ck Lon. and N.W. Cov. and
Nuneaton, 5 p. ct
.ck Lon. & S.W, 7p. ct. stock
.ck Do. 45 per cent
6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns
of 24. 6 d .....
24 Londondy. & Cole. a sh.
Londony. & Ennis. a shs
)ek lfan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct.
6 Do. £6
)01- Do. 31 per cent
10 Do. redeem. 6 percent
12 "Arary-ort & Car., 4p. c
124 Do. 4} per cent
,ck llid. Con. 6 p c. stock
ck Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c.
Eck Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock
6 Do. with option till 1800'
.ck Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st.l
k Nortlk sp. c. Ex. st. 1846
)ck Do. si. p. c. Pref. do. 1847
)ck D 0.5 Way.Val.Ex.st.lB47
)ck IN,Torth British, 5 p. 0.
)ck Do. New, gua. sp. e. •• •
101 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. she
10 Do. do. do.
)ck 7.lth.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co.
)ck N-East.Cons.Prel •4p. c.
ock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref.
17 Do. do. do
20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1
124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848
25 Do. York, .& S. Purch
10 North Staffordshire
10 Rhyroney Guaranteed,
8* Scottish Central, new p 1
)ck Scottish North-Eastern
34 p. c. pref. stock
)ck Do.Aberdeen,g-ua.6p.c.
)ck Do. 7p. C. pref. stock.
I.os, South Devon, Ann. 10s..
10 Do. Fixed 45 per cent.
.0.6 South Eastern (Reading!
Ann., 1.0.6)
.ca Do. 41 per cent
.ek Do. Fixed '4p.c. Ist is
ick ;zouth Wales, gua. 4 p.c
lek Do. 44 per cent.
IA S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua.
15 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c
15 Do. B 6 ner cent
5 Do. C (', percent
.ck Watrfd & Kilkny, 6p. c.
ck W.3lid -Oxf Ist Gua stk.
,ek Do. 2d do
Ick Do. Newport 5 p.c.ptred.l
,ek Do.Perpet. 6p.c. pi 1860
)ck Do. till 1869, Ist is.
25 Do. do. 2d is.

95 97

Alfred CoMols (Philack) '
20 British Iron
Clifford
;Devon G. Cons. (Tavist );
!East Bassett (Illogan)
!East Caradon
WI Russel (Tavistk.)'
,Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.)
;Great South Tolp-,u5....
G. Wheal Alfd. (Philack)
,G. Wheal Vor (Helston)
Grenville
Herod's-
— Hingsbon Downs
-. Lady Bertha
- 'Margaret (Uny Lelant)
North Downs
,North Frances (Mogan)
N. Wh'l Basset (1110 an)
'North Wheal Crofty
, Par Consols (St. Blazey)
20 'Providence (Uny Lelnt.)
Sortridge Cons. Min. Co.

2.11.101

3} 4

i 2
220 230
410 420
120 125
104 11
11i 11,
27 29
9 9
1 11
11
3 Si 1
32 14
31
lb 34
14
54 50

101 103

122}
10
11

20i 21i
61 6i
99 101
111 113
106 108
110 112
108 110
124 126
80 82

3/ 4k

SouthCaradon(St.Cleer)!
S. Cam Brea (Illogan) j
1 ,S. Dev. Iron kGen., Lim !
S.Wheal Fran. (Illog,an)'
Stray Park
5 !Tamar Silv.& Lead Min
LO ,Tin Crort
'Vale of Towey (Carm )
!West Basset (111nan)
W. Caradon (Liskeard),
.West Seton
,Wheal Basset (Mogan)!
!Wheal Buller (lledruthy
!Wheal Edward (Cals.)!
!Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant),
Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)
Wheal Treiawney (Lis.)!
FOREIGI

20 I Australian
1 BonAccordCopper,Lim.l
35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at Li p.);
20 Do.St.Johndel Iley,Liml
5 Do. Land and 3lmingCo.
1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo
40 iCobre Copper
!Coplapo
1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co
2 Fortuna.
20 General
2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr.
11 Kapunda (Limited)
3 Linares
5 Lusitanian
1 IMariquita
1 !N.RhineCopot S. AIM L
20 Irontgibaud Silver,Leal
Mining' and Smelt

5 Port Philip
1 'Scottish Ampt,rln.
28.2.8$ United Maclean
1 ,Worthing (Limited)
1 Do

MAILS DUE.

THE SIJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17. 1860.

THIE 0 -EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

CIT BETTING—(This Day).

TWO THOUSAND.
6to 1 agst Kettledrum (off-7 to 1 t
Bto 1 agst Diophantus (offered)
Bto 1 agst Russley (taken)
8 to 1 agst Klarikoff
10 to 1 agst Any other
DERBY.
sto 1 agst Dundee (offered)
14 to 1 agst Big Ben (taken)
100 to 6 aget Diophantus.
20 to 1 agst Kettledrum
20 to 1 agst Klarikoff
25 to 1 agst Matador (30 to 1 wanted)
25 to 1 agst Nautilus (30 to 1 wanted)
50 to 1 agst Overton (taken)
50 to 1 agst Forester (taken)
50 to 1 agst Cashio (offered-1,000 to 15 token)
50 to 1 agst Knight of the Thistle (taken)
50 to 1 agst East Stanley (offered)
1000 to 10 agst Deucalion (wanted)

Nothing doing at Tattersalls' this evening.

TILE HABEAS CORPUS IN ILALY.

The following letter from Count Cavour is in
reply to a communication addressed to him by Mr.
Edwin James, M.P., on the subject of the introduc-
tion of a law analogous to our " Habeas Corpus,"
and a measure for the institution of a tribunal for
immediate public investigation into all charges of a
penal nature, similar to that in use by our police
magistracy :

" Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turin, Nov. 29.

" Dear Sir,—l hasten to thank you for the letter
in which you have suggested to me the introduc-
tion of the law of Habeas Corpus' into the system
of Italian legislation. I am fully aware of the
importance of that guarantee of individual liberty,
and I beg to assure you that we have already made
great advances in that direction.
" According to the present state of our law,
every prisoner must within 24 hours be examined
by some judicial authority, who, in pursuance of
by no means arbitrary rules, either orders the im-
mediate discharge of the accused, with or without
bail, or continues his arrest, at the same time taking
steps for placing him at once on his trial.
" Every illegal arrest, duly proved, subjects the
functionary who shall have caused it to inquiry and
punishment. At the same time, I quite acknow-
ledge that the direct judicial action given by the
law of Habeas Corpus' to persons illegally arrested
assures more completely the liberty of the indivi-
dual.

" I will at once bring the subject under the notice
of my colleague, the Keeper of the Seals, within
whose special province are all questions of penal
legislation ; and I have no doubt that he will pro-
pose to the Parliament to approximate as nearly as
possible to the law of Englaid in this matter.

" My colleague, Minghetti, is preparing a law
which will confer most complete self-government
on all the provinces and communes. In this mat-
ter, also, it is our endeavour to accomplish by other
means the same results which England, the classi-
cal mother of all liberty, has already achieved,
" Allow me to renew to you with thanks for the
interest you take in the cause of Italy, the assur-
ance of my most distinguished consideration.

LITERATURE.

" C. CAVOUR.
" To Edwin James, Esq., M.P., &c."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

YORK, DEC. 15.
ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER, AT PENISTONE.
Tom William Beever, (14), was charged on the
coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of a
man, named Ashton, at Penistone. It will ,be re-
membered that Beever and his brother-in-law were
sleeping 'at Swinburn Lodge on the night of the
22d of November, and hearing a noise, the prisoner
had fired a gun to frighten some supposed thieves,
and prevent them breaking into the house. The
shot killed the deceased. Under the circumstances
the grand jury had ignored the bill, and no evi-
dence being now offered against Beever, he was
acquitted.
THE SCALE OF FEES TO WITNESSES.—On Fri-
day, the foreman of the grand jury handed to his
Lordship a memorial with regard to the inadequate
remuneration of witnesses. Mr. justice Hill said he
should forward it without delay to the Home-Office.
The following is a copy of the memorial :—" The
grand jury desire most respectfully to call the
attention of the Hon. Mr. Justice Hill to the scale
of allowances to prosecutors and witnesses in cri-
minal cases at assizes and quarter-sessions, as
being quite insufficient adequately to remunerate
those in the humbler walks of life who are neces-
sarily called away from their families and their or-
dinary occupations, for their expenses and loss of
time, by which last expression the grand jury under-
stand the statutes 7 George IV. c. 64, s. 22, and 14
and 15 Victoria, c. 55, to mean the reasonable allow-
ance for the loss of their wages during the time
such -witnesses are necessarily absent from their
homes and their work. Those of the grand jury
who are acting justices are not unfrequently very
much embarrassed by the extreme reluctance of
material witnesses to come forward to prosecute
and give evidence in criminal cases of the gravest
kind, as well as in all other cases likely to be sent
for trial at assizes and quarter sessions within
their jurisdiction, by reason of the loss of
wages they thereby sustain, and the consequent
privation to which their families are subjected.
Necessary witnesses not unfrequently declare that,
from their experience in former cases, they are
I reluctant, and even decline again to come forward
las witnesses The grand jury are of opinion that
justice is greatly impeded, and, in many cases,
defeated, by the inadequate remuneration awarded
I under the present scale of allowances, and from
their observation and experience they fear this is
an increasing evil " .

THE MAILS.

Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) .. .. Dec. 19.
Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds „ „ „, Jan. 5.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &o. Dec. —.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Dec.
Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29

Canada' &T. (via Galway) Dec. —.
Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Jan. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampten) Dec. 19.
Do (via Marseilles) Dec. 13.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) Overdue.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Dec. 19.
Do. (via Marseilles) Dec. 13.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Overdue.
Do. (via Marseilles) Deo. 19.
Lisbon .. • . • • .. .. Dec. 21
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue.
Do. (via Marseilles) .. Jan. 4.
Vigo, and Oporto .. .. Dec. 21.
United Stales, California, &c. Dec. 20.
Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe • . Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &e. Dec.

M. Dupont White has translated Mr. John
Stuart Mill's essay on "Liberty," into French.
M. Meyerbeer's " Schiller March" is now to be
had, "transcribed" for the pianoforte, by Dr. Liszt.
Mr. Norman Robert Pogson has been appointed
Astronomer at the Madras Presidency.--Atheneum.
Mr. Tweddell, of Bury, has in the press a second
edition of his work, " Shakspere, his Times, and Contem-
poraries."
In the January number of " Temple Bar," Mr
Sala will commence a new serial story, entitled, " The Sera
Sons of Mammon."
Two new compositions, a serenade by Brahms,
and a violin concerts by Joachim, were performed at the
last concert of the Gewandhaus, Leipsic.
" Stefanias," an opera lately produced at the
Teatro Apollo, Rome, gives us the name of a young com •
poser, Signor Gentilli, which is new to us.
At Bordeaux the day before yesterday a steamer
belonging to the Eclair company, anchored in the
Gironde, was, by the force of the wind, driven with such
violence against the bridge that a large hole was made in
her side, and she soon went down. Only ono man was on
board her at the time, and he escaped.
The weather in Paris has become much colder,
and the thermometer on Saturday night fell to two degrees
below zero centigrade (27k Fahrenheit). The trains on the
Northern Railawy arrived yesterday morning with the car-
riages covered with snow.
[ADVERTISE3IENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—Cold, Catarrh,
Fever, Influenza.—Since dreary November opened her
dismal calendar, the atmosphere has been exceedingly try-
ing to the strangest constitution. Few persons have escaped
without colds, which, though seldom attended with imme-
diate danger, often lay the foundation for the most serious
diseases. At their commencement the cure is accomplished
with ease ; reduce the existing fever, and allay irritation,
and the patient is himself again. To secure this desirable
result no pharmacoposia bears on its pages tiny medicine or
combination of medicines comparable with Holloway's
Antiphlogistio Pills, which, operating on the blood, their
influence with it goes the whole round of the circulation,
stimulates every organ, and excites the exhalants to pgrOPirt,
Which effectually removes the febrile Adieu.

Narrative of the ( anadian Red River and A ssin.
niboine and z•askatehewan exploring Expedition
in 1857 and 1858. By H. Youle Hind, M.A.,
F.R G.S. Longman.
The discovery of gold in the British possessions
on the N.W. coast of America has had one good
effect, and perhaps in the end one which will be
more conducive to the prosperity of our transat-
lantic colonists than the discovery of the existence
of the precious metal, which after all only repre-
sents value. Still gold has a charm, the un-
educated mind looks upon this precious (because
scarce) metal in any land as a source of wealth and
considers it an El Dorado. It is unnecessary to
state that in golden Australia individuals have been
found starved to death with many ounces of gold
in their belts. It seems to us that Pr)vidence has
ordained that our representative of all human hap-
piness should be so diffused over the earth as to
lead us to cultivate and render productive rich
tracts of country, which but for the golden bait
held out would never or at least very tardily be
explored by the European. The discovery of gold
in British Columbia roused the Canadian Govern-
ment, and induced them to send out an exploring
expedition to the Far West, a country until then
only known by the backwood's men and Hudsons
Bay Compaey's employers. It was necessary to es-
tablish a road, and open an overland cornmunieetion
between the two extremities of our vast American
possessions, and the success of the explorations as
far as Mr. Hind's narrative takes us, augurs well
for the ultimate success of Canadian enterprise,
which stands in strange contrast with the imbecility
of the Australian Government, who, do what they
will, are always left behind by private individuals.
We cannot say much for the first volume as regards
interest, it being too much confined to uninteresting
incidents of detail ; nevertheless the author con-
tinues to introduce some curious traits of character,
as the following extract will exemplify :
"We soon began to find that no feeling of sympathy
existed between our Iroquois and Ojibway voyageurs; nor
was any effort made by individuals of either nation to assist
or enliven those of the other. As an instance of their utter
indifference and selfishness, the following trait may be men-
tioned. One of the Iroquois from Canghnawaga was very
ill at Fort William, and not only incapable of working, but
unable to walk without assistance. He suffered much from
chills and cramps. and was fiaought to be in a very danger-
ous condition ; with care, medicine, and a good constitution,
he grow a little better, and was able to eat, but the salt
pork and. salt beef we had with us were not very well
adapted for a man so much reduced in flesh and slowly
recovering from a severe illness. I shot a pigeon, and in
the hearing of the Ojibways stated that it was to be cooked
for the sick man. The following day I found that the
Ojibway who picked up the pigeon had not only eaten it in
the presence of the invalid Iroquois, but he and his com-
panions had devoured two partridges which had also been
reserved for the Iroquois. Another day, passing near the
fire of the Ojibways, I found them roasting a pike which
was intended for the dinner of the invalid. In future we
committed the pigeons into the sick man's charge, and they
were cooked by his friends, but the Ojibways laughed loud
and long at the excellent practical joke they had enjoyed,
and for many days after they reminded Lambert, the inter-
preter, about the sick man and his pigeons and partridges.
Tell him,' said one waggish fellow, pointing to me,
shoot pigeon for Iroquois, Ojibway eat it, do Iroquois
muoh good.' A joke lasts an Indian a long time, and is con-
tinually repeated, both in canoe and in camp ; it never ap-
pears to lose interest or grow stale."
As geologist and naturalist to the first exploration
of the Red River, Mr. Hind had ample opportunity
for making general and minute investigations re-
garding the fertility of the soil, and by scientific
experiments to ascertain the probably mean tem-
perature of the various seasons. The reader must
bear in mind that the country which Mr. Hind has
explored, although not altogether unknown to the
white man, the territory of the aboriginal Indian
(India so called, because Columbus thought when
he discovered America that he had reached the
Asiatic continent, and had opened a short road to
India), being, nevertheless, part and parcel of the
British possessions. In both expeditions, the latter
of which he conducted as chief, he met with a natu-
ral opposition from the natives to a too close inspec-
tion of the country and its resources, they knowing
by experience that the European colonist carries
out Cesar's terse despatch of V.ni, vidi, via'. So
much has been already written about, and so many
speeches composed for, the American, that the
following extract may seem superfluous, but we
beg to remind the reader that this is a genuine
translation of what the savage (as our friends at
Exeter Hall would call him) gave as his reason
for refusing to let Mr. Hind and his friends pass
by a particular route :
" Chief—' The reason why we stop you is because we
think you do not tell us why you want to go that way, and
what you want to do with those paths. You say that all
the white men we have seen belong to one party, and yet
they go by three different roads, why is that? Do they
want to see the Indian's land ? Remember, if the white
man comes to the Indian's house, he must walk through
the door, and not steal in by the window. That way. the
old road, is the door, and by that way you must go. You
gathered corn in our gardens and put it away ; did you
never see corn before? Why did you not note it down in
your book ? Did your people want to see our corn ? Would
they not be satisfied with ;$ our noting it down? You cannot
pass through those.paths.'
" We ask you now to send us one of your young men to
show us the road ; we shall pay him well, and send back
presents to you : what do you wish for ?'
" Chief— It is hard to deny your request; but we see
how the Indians are treated far away. The white man
comes, looks at their flowers, their trees, and their rivers ;
others soon follow ; the lands of the Indians pass from their
hands, and they have nowhere a home. You must go by
the way the white man has hitherto gone. I have told
you all.'
" At the close of the council the chief said to the inter-
preter, Let not these men think bad of us for taking away
their guides. Let them send us no presents—we do not
want them. They have no right to pass that way. We
have hearts and love our lives and our eountry. If twenty
men came we would not let them pass to-day. We do not
want the white man ; when the white man comes he brings
disease and sickness, and our people perish ; we do not wis
to die. Many white men would bring death to us, and our
people would pass away ; we wish to love and to hold the
land our fathers woo, and the Great Spirit has given to us.
Tell these men this, and the talk is finished.' "
he country, explored during the two expeditions
extends from the 90th to 105th deg. west longitude,
and from the 48th to 53d deg. north latitude. To
those who wish to form a correct opinion of the far
back settlements, of the trials which the early set-
tlers underwent, and what prospects are now open
to the immigrant, weeirecornmend the perusal of
Mr. Hind's narrative. We cannot afford space for
the many extracts which we could give to exem-
plify the character of the inhabitants and their
social condition, to which Mr. Hind devotes the
greater part of the second volume. The establish-
ment of the first colony on the Red River will be
read with pride by our persevering brethren north
of the Tweed, who, after all, beat the Anglo-Saxon
for energy and perseverance under difficulties :
" The first attempt to found a colony in the country now
occupied by the Red River settlements was made in the
year 1812, under the patronage of Lord Selkirk. A large
tract of country, extending from the sources of the Winni-
peg to Lake Winnipego-sis, and stretching from Lake
Winnipeg far beyond the United States boundary, was
purchased from the Hudson Bay Company by Lord Sel-
kirk in 1811, for the establishment of his contemplated
colony. The colonists consisted of several Scotch families,
who. after they had reached the spot which was to be their
future home, were met by a large party of half-breeds and
Indians in the service of the North-West Company, and
warned not to attempt to establish a permanent settlement.
They were conducted by a number of these wild and reek
less children of the prairies to Fort Pembina, a post of the
Hudson Bay Company, where they passed the winter in
Buffalo-skin tents, and soon adopted the habits of life be-
longing to the savage and half-savage natives by whom they
were surrounded. In May, 1813, the emigrants returned
to the neighbourhood of Fort Douglas, about two miles below
the present site of Fort Garry, and hero commenced their
agricultural labours. In the fall of the year they again
sought refuge at Fort Pembina, and after a winter of much
suffering, revisited, in the spring of 1814, the scene of the
previous year's attempt to plant themselves on the banks of
Red River, with a determination to make it a permanent
resting-place. During the summer, however, their houses
were destroyed by the wandering half-breeds, who were
opposed to the establishment of a colony ; and when, in Oc-
tober, 1815, the main body of emigrants arrived from Scot-
land, they found poverty, ruin, and despondency prevailing
where they had hoped to meet with a warm reception and
comfortable homes. The provident care of Lord Selkirk
prevented the colonists from suffering all the horrors of
starvation during the inclement winters of this region. His
lordship had established a general store of goods, implements,
arms, ammunition, clothing and food at Fort Douglas, from
which the impoverished emigrants were supplied on credit.
This store was erected in the first year of the colony, and
regularly replenished from time to time by shipments from
England.
" In 181 G a serious conflict took place between the colo-
nists and the native employes of the North-Western Com-
pany. Many were killed on both sides, and the settlement
was again destroyed, the settlers dispersed, and some of
them banished by the half-breeds to Norway House.
" At the time when these disastrous occurrences were
taking place, Lord Selkirk was on his way to the Red River
with about 100 disbanded soldiers of the De Meuron Regi-
ment, composed chiefly of Germans, French, and Swiss.
After Lord Selkirk's arrival order was restored, the Scottish
emigrants recalled, the De Meuron soldiers rewarded with
grants of Land on German Creek, a town was laid out on
Point Douglas, and such arrangements completed for the
government of the colony as the position of the Hudsons
Bay Company and the interests of the fur trade would admit
of. The social condition of Rupert's Land at this period
may be gathered from the following brief description by
Governor Semple, who was killed in the unfortunate con-
flict just referred to :—' I trodden the burnt ruint_luof
houses, barns, a mill, a fort, and sharpened stockades, b
none of a place of worship, even on the smallest seale_u
blush to say that, throughout the whole extent of the R
eon's Bay territories, no such building exists.' "
The work is illustrated with many woodcuts,
and
likewise several engravings of remarkablel oc
ali-
ties, which are executed with great skill and judg-
ment. The view of the " Red River from St. An-
drew's Church" reflects equal credit on the artist
and the engraver ; in fact, the palings and fence in
front of the river look Bo natural that one almost
feels inclined to climb over them.