The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—The market continues
in a very inanimate condition, and is certainly more
languid and flat in tone than during last week.
Prices, too, are weaker ; and, in order to effect sales,
producers are willing to concede fully Ad. per lb.
on yarns ; but even on thes3 terms buyers are in-
disposed to give out orders of any consequence at
the present moment. The recent drooping tendency
of the Liverpool cotton market, and the tenor of
the last advices from the United States with regard
to the amount of the crop, &c., produce quite a
feeling of hesitation and uncertainty as to the
future course of the raw material, and prevent
steady and regular business. Goods are equally
flat wi h yarns, and lower terms would be accepted
from-purchasers.

LEEDS, Tuesday •--We have had a better woollen
cloth market this morning. There has been a good
attendance of buyers ; the tone has been firm, and
a fair quantity of cloth has changed owners. The
present brilliant weather is inspiring confidence in
the prospects of trade.

SUDDEN DEATH.-Mr. Richard Steventon, one of the
Commissioners of the Liverpool idtrict C )urtiof B tak-
ruptcy, died suddenly when on his way to attend to the
duties of hie court.

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The Ministerial re-e!ections and the resumption
of the session—the final one Of the present Assembly
have been the two great incidents of the past
month. Mr G'Shanassy's Cabinet, is now fa'rly in-
stalled in office • for not only was there no substan-
tial opposition offered to. the re-election of any of
its members, but there was a very general expres-
sion of confi-lence in them as a Government, and a
determination to give thirn, at all events, a fair
trial, spontaneously. uttered ..by their several con-
stituencies at the hustings.,, In addition to this,
one member of the Cabitiel,-Mr. Henry Miller, the
Commissioner of Customs, was elected to his seat
in the upper house by two constituencies at the
same time,—his own former one, and another in
which there happened to be a vacancy at the mo-
ment. Add to this fact that there is no declared
opposition to the Ministry on the part of any sec-
tion. of the Press, either metropolis an or provincial;
but rather a general avowal of their right to sup-
port and confidence, until they: shall. have done
something to forfeit both; and the security of their
position I ecomes still more evident. Nor is their
any united opposition offered to them.by any party
in the Assembly. A few irregular and utterly in-
effectual opponents have declared themselves in the
house ; but they are actuated by motives so pal-
pably personal in one case, and so purely factious
in other, that no account can be taken of their
hostility. For the present, then, it may be affirmed
that the new Ministry have the game entirely in
their own hands. .
In _ their addresses to their constituents from

the hustings the new ministers explained very
fully and' very satisfactorily for the public at
large, their united views andieltentions. In par 7
ticular, the. Qtlief Secretary, Mr. O'Shanassy#
gave his constituents at Kilinori An exceedingly
able exposition of the projected ministerial policy.
He told them that it was their detign to limit the
business Of the existing Assembly to the task of
passing a brief, but effective, Reform Bill, increas-
ing the number of representatives from sixty to
about ninety ; revising the electoral divisions so
.as to.secure a much fairer distribution of the repro-
sentation ; and taking, as its general b tsis, the
simple principle of population. The measure,
moreover, was not to be hampered by the introduc-
tion of the ex-chief secre'ary'e favourite principle of
representing minorities. The dissolution of the,
present house was immediately to follow the passing
of this measure, and the general election, and as-
sernblifig of the new house, were to be proceeded
w.th without delay. He also told them that the
ministry were considering a nem Land Bill, based
on the most liberal and popular principles, which
they would be prepared to lay before the new
house.

vigorously the
puttlic was
ortkhset
(r)
design
o see
country, which
their prede-
cessors the
had allowed to fall somewhat into arrear ;
and, in particular, to carry out, without the least
delay, the great railway enterprise. They had it
in contemplation to carry sweeping reforms through
all the departments of the government service,
especially (where reform was most needed) into the
Survey:office, so as to accomplish a complete topo-
graphical survey of the territory within a very few
years' and at a oost vastly below that which this
branch of the service at present entails upon the
public. They had also various other measures of
legislative and practical reform in view ; and they
were ready to pledge themselves before the country
to the accomplishment of them all, if their tenure
of office should allow of it. These promises and
designs were, of course, repeated by the various
other ministers—with what result we have already
stated.

The session was resumed on the Bth inst., and
one day was devoted to the ministerial explanations
—in which, as there was nothit,(, striking or curi-
ous elicited, there was no great degree of public in-
terest felt. The Assembly then adjourned till the
13th inst., When the Attorney-General Mr. Chap-
man, formally moved for leave to bring in his new
Reform Bill ; and the remainder of a protracted
sitting was devoted to a sharp and far too personal
discussion, arising out of tEe dismissal from office
of Mr. Adamson, a member of the house and a
barrister, who had been appointed a Crown Prose-
cutor by the defunct ministry, under very peculiar
political circumstances, just prior to its fall from
power. The defence set up for the conduct in the
matter by the present government simply was that
the appointment of Mr. Adamson was a gross job,
that it. eu'ailed a needless cost upon the public and
that it rather confused and obstructed than aided
the business of the law officers of the Crown. In
the course of the conflicting debate raised on this
matter, a most damaging exposure was made of
the system upon which the late ministry were ac-
customed to distribute their patronage, and the net
result of the debate was the entire explosion of Mr.
Adamson's grievance. An incident so trifling in
itself would not have been worth mentioning, but
for the additional illustration it affords of the exact
position of parties at the moment we aro writing ;
and, also, the fact that it served to draw out the
intentions of the new government in reference to
subordinate place-holders having seats in the as-
sembly. During the late ministry's tenure of office
they issued a minute to all their subordinate officers
to tbe effect that such of them as were members of
the Assembly would be 11-1,1 to consider them-
solves bound to vote on all occasions with the go-
veremeut. This minute, although deemed rather
despotic by the opposition party in the house at
that time, was not objected to by them, because
they saw that it would serve their purpose just as
well as that of their opponents, if they should ever
got into power. Accordingly, when they found
themselves installed in office, they proceeded to
put the aforesaid minute in force, and Mr. Adam-
sou was the first " victim"—that gentleman having
always been forward to display an os'entatious hos-
tility to the popular side of the house. A strong
opinion prevails, both within the Assembly and
outside of it, th it no placeholders, except the Ca-
binet, should have seats in the Legislature ; and a
bill expressly excluding thorn was carried through
the two houses by the late Ministry, but yet lost,
because the majority in favour of it in the Council
was below the niireb.,..r required by the constitution.
It was not till last night however, that the real
" tug of wal" came on between the two parties in
the Assembly. The Attorney General moved the
second reading of the Reform Bill. Mr. Adamson;
raised an opposition to what he caPed its principle
of a purely arithmetical distribution of the repre-
sentation ; and a desultory and ineffectual discus-
sion followed, which, we are sorry to state, speedily
degenerated into a more fiercely personal alterca-
tion, between two or three members of the past
and present Governments, than perhaps has ever
been before witnessed within the walls of the Le-
gislature. When the division was taken it was
Found that, notwithstanding the previous ill-tem-
pered contest of several hours, there were 37 votes
for the second reading of the bill, and only five
against it, so that the bill may be considered safe,
although there will doubtless be a good deal of
wrangling over the schedule to it, which contains
the new scheme of electoral distribution. Such
being the state of affairs, it is very probable that
the dissolution of the Assembly will take place be-
fore our next monthly summary shall be published.
Then will speedily follow the general election—an
event whose results it is quite impassible for the
sharpest sagacity
to foresee. Meantime it is satis-
factory to record that the Ministry are proceeding
vigorously with the railway enterprise, as is shown
more at length in another part of this summary,
and are also engaged in effecting their projected
departmental and practical reforms, so that it is
certain that their popularity will increase with
every day of their continuance in power.

,ponding period of 1856 and 1857, shows a deficiency
igainst the last period of. 38,390 ounces as cum'
)ared with 1857, and of 238,000 oz. as conspired
with 1856. A comparison of the receipts for the last
four weeks of the present year and the correspond-
ing period of 1857, gives an advantage to the for-
inaer term of 11,730 oz.
! his great decrease in the principal staple article
bf our produce is attributable to two facts, the first
being the gradual exhaustion of the other goldfields,
and the second the non discovery of new deposits
important as regards their extent. The exhaustion
,referred to simply indicates that the old mode of
working is insufficient to produce results such as
!would place the colony in respect of its gold pro-
duct in an equally favourable position to what it
ihas hitherto assumed. So far as the original gold-
fields are concerned, the labour of the individual
miner has fallen in value, for hehasto expend much
more of it to acquire what may be termed his wages,
than was formerly the case. The exhaustion of the
superficial deposits which a fsw years ago enabled
him to obtain a high compensatory return for little
labour, places him for the moment at a disalvan-
tees.. But this disadvantagecan only be temporary;
in fact, only so long as there is a deficiency of means
to develop the sub-deposits which have already
been proved to exist. What is wanted, then, is-the
employment of capital, so that operations may be
xtended, and the treasure, which even now lies
halfeevealed, may be wholly secured.
The investment of large amounts of money in
developing the auriferous riches of the colony,
mist, whenever it occurs, be splendidly rewarded.
This view of the case seems to be pretty general,
for at present the cry is almost general through-
out the colony for the introduction of more capi-
tal in mining operations. Of such operations,
the most important are concerned with the use of
water ; and it stands to reason that an insuffi-
cient supply of so necessary an agent in the pro-
cess of gold-mining, must materially affect the
value of the result. Now, with few exceptions,
the gold-fields of Victoria have, ever since their
original discovery, suffered from the insufficiency
of the supply of water they had to meet doints.ic
and mining requirements. The consequence of
this deficiency has been the impossibility of tho-
roughly testing the extent of even the superficial
deposits. The necessity of finding remunerative
employment to the immense mining population of
the colony has at length suggested to some of the
gold-field municipalities the propriety of offering
such facilities to the speculator as will insure his
co-operation. Of the various local schemes at pre-
sent in existence for supplying the gold-fields with
water in quantities suffiaient for every purpose,
that to which the Sandhurst municipal council is a
party seems to us at once the most comprehensive
in its nature, as well as the most liberal in conces-
sions made for the purpose of obtaining the com-
pletion of the work off hand.
Pertinent to the subject of introducing addi-
tional capital into mining operations, is the circum-
stance of Mr. Gabrielli's api earance in the gold-
fields iii the character of a mining speculator.
Ballarat was the first mining district to which the
attention of this capitalist has been directed, and
the following extract from an article iu the Bal-
larat Tilhes of Monday last discloses the result of
his negotiations so far as they have yet pro-
ceeded :
"On Saturday evening we had an interview with
Mr. Gabrielli, the well-known capitalist, and the
negotiator of the loans to the Melbourne and Gee-
long corporations. This gentleman is now in Vic.
toria In the double capacity of representative of Sir
Samuel M. Peto, the great English railway con-
tractor (who is willing to undertake the construc-
tion of all the Victorian railways), and. agent for
certain parties in England, who are prepared to
find all the money which the completion of these
works will require. Mr. Gabriellij visited Ballarat
in order to examine for himself, and test the truth-
fulness of the reports contained in the public jour
nals relative to the want of capital ou the gold
fields, and to ascertain how far it would be safe to
invest money in mining operations ; iu what man-
ner it could ba introduced, so. as to give the miner
cheap capital, the capitalist fair interest, and both
bona fide security.
The new Administration have signifie 1 their in-
t intion of granting mining leases, and the Solicitor-
General is engagedi n prepraing forms for the pur-
pose. These will be drawn up on such principles as
will insure au equitable consideration both to the
capitalist and the labouring miner, the object
of securing the mutual co-operation of these classes.
Pleasant Creek, in the Ararat district, although
unfortunate in respect of its celebrity for deeds of
violence and.crime commit ted in and about it, sus-
tains its more gratifying reputation as a first-class
gold-field. The western diggings, the locality of
which is in the vicinity of Pleasant Creek, have
proved worthless, and are now almost deserted.
Elysian Flat, near Bendigo, is also well reinunerat-
U 4, its patrons at present.
The judicial and general administration of the
gold-fields as conducted by the newly-established
Mining Boards and Courts of Mines, appears to be
giving satisfaction.
The celebrated Chines reef is now no longer the
focus of mining disturbances. The reef is being
worked by a large co-operative association, sad has
already proved to be a most profitable investment
to the company.