The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.

At the meeting of the Credit Mobilier Associa-
tion to-day no dividend was declared, although the
shares are at 7 per cent, premium.
It is proposed that M. Morse should receive a
bonus of from 500,000 f., subscribed by several
European Powers, for his discoveries in electric
communication.

The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here :-
1 74- • OTPTTIT
to the 21st. have arrived. Much snow had lately fallen,
and gales of wind had occurred, cau-inz mach damage
to sl.ipping in the Black Sea. The Perdinando steamer,
belonginl to the Austrian Lloyd's Company, had gone
on s'aore at Varna. The Presse d'Orient expresses a hope
that the rights of the Porte with regard to the I-land of
Perim will he mainraitied in the Cii.ference of Paris. In
Greece, the journals reply to the note of Turkey threat-
ening a coromeic'al rupture, by saying that Gr'reece is
ready to accept a political one, and that in taking up
the gauntlet she will remember 1524."
" BERNE, 20n1.—The Federal C,uncil has accorded
an exequatur to the Vice-Consul of France at La Chaux-
ds-F

" KCENIGSBERG, April 28.—A despatch received from
S. Petersburg states that the Minister of Foreign
Affairs hri.s addressed to the foreign legations a circa tr
directing them not to vimr passports of foreigners.
Although the Russian legations abroad have never vided
passports of foreigners for any other state than Russia,
the Imperial Government has made this recommenda-
tion through courtesy for the French Government."

BOURSE, April 20.—The following were the
closing quotations

44 per Cents 93 25
Do: end month 93 15

Credit Fonder
Belgian
44
Piedmontese (5) ......
Roman B9l
Austrian • 924
Spanish Threes
Home Debt • -
-FOR CASH.

3 per Cent. ... 69 60
Do. end month 69 55
Bank Sh%res SI3

Credit Mobilier 7OO1—
Do. Account 695

RAILWAYS. -
Orleans ••• 12821
_ 2

Northern

Midi
Western. 525
Strasburg
Grand Central
Sardinian -
Austrian

Slew Ditto _

775

Lyon .and Mediteran. 821. E
New Ditto 7621

Geneva

CRYSTAL PALACE.

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THE GREAT GOLD NUGGET.

We were favoured to day with a private view of this
splendid specimen of Australian gold at the Crystal
Palace, where it is to be ex►hibited to the public to-
morrow. Nothing could exceed the magnificence of it
as it lay glittering in the sun. The nugget is two feet
four inches in length, and 10 inches in its widest part,
and weighs 1,743 ozs,, or nearly 146 lbs. The dross in
this immense mass is estimated by the gold brokers to
be about 6 ozs., all the rest being pure go 11„ Such a
rare production cannot fail to attract thousands to the
Palace.

The finders of the nugget were a party of four, two of
which, Robert and James Ambrose, natives of Gravel
send, bad been upwards of eleven years in the colony.
The other two, Charles and Samuel H. Napier, also
brothers and orphan boys, natives of Bathurst, New
Brunswick, had been oat in Australia, the former five
years, the latter only two mouthy, when the treasure
was &covered at Kingower Diggings, upwards of 120
miles from Melbourne_ Having sifted their ground
from where they had been working upwards of four
years, they commenced e;nk.ing, and on reaching
thirteen feet' below - the surface, one of the party
found it, partly embedded in pipe clay. Having
cleared away about eighteen inches of it, and eeeing no
end, he had an idea be had struck: a reef of gold. He
managed, however to clear away- the soil from it, and
with. the help of his mates got it lifted and placed in
another part of the hole in an aid sugar bag. The next
Consideration was how they were to take care of it.
They consulted. After waiting- till the time when the
neighbouring diggers were at dinner, one. of the party
was dispatched to their tent, distant about a quarter of
a mile, and brought a wheelbarrow. They then got the
nugget to the surface, placed it in the wheelbarrow, and
in order not to create saspicion, placed a tub on it and
wheeled it to their tent, and returned to their "hole," and
on getting home at night, after weighing it with a pair
of common steelyards to find out it value, they sunk a
bole six feet deep immediately below their dining table,
and buried it there until they had worked their claim
out, (about three months longer), during which time they
got a few-pounds more gold, the largest piece, which
they still have, weighing upwards of ten ounces. Having
disposed of their tent and other fixtures, the party (in-
cluding a daughter of one of the Ambroses, who had been
out wish her father upwards of eleven years in
the colony), set out in their own convoyaece
for Melbourne. The j gurney occupied four days
and nights. They were well armed, and one
of them always went ahead as a scout with a double-
barrel gun, we'l charged. At night two kept watch
while the others slept under cover c f the cart. Having
got it; to Melbourne, and into a place cf security, the
news spread abroad, when a rush of several thousaads
made for Kingower, and who first carried the news to.
the astonished neighbouring diggers. The nugget was
afterwards exhibited in Melbourne with great success,
and amongst others his Erreilencv the Governor of
Victoria and daughter visited it, and with kind [remise
61011 of his'Excellincy the nugget was named alter his
daughter, the "BlanChe Barkly Nugget."
Mr. S. H. Napier, of Liverpool, has bad the honour
f submitting the nugget for the inspection cf her Ma-
jesty the Queen and 1-1.R.11. the Prince Consort, and
other members (1 the Royal Family, at Buckingham
Palace.