The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

THE GOLD FIELDS.

It will be seen from the tables given in our commercial
columns that up to last Saturday the quantities of gold
brought into town from the gold fields during the current
year and the corresponding period of last rear were nearly
equal. The shipments, which are mere fluctuating, de-
pending as they do on the number and character of the ves-
sels sailog, were also se nearly alike that the departure of
one good ship would make them quite equal. These
facts give the best evidence of the permanent resources of
the gold mines of Victoria. The weather of the early part
of the year was most unfavourable for mining operations.
Water was wanted everywhere ; but owing to the long-con-
tinued drought, it was found in few places; hence the ea-
` penses of the miner were increased by the cost of cartage for
miles across country of large quantities of " washing
stuff," with which the metal is surrounded. Even now,
although we are blessed with an early winter, complaints
are general of the want of such a fall of rain as would insure
an abundant supply for mining purposes for months to come.
We have had occasion to allude in recent summariesto the
agitation in favour ofthe obtaining water privileges by (ism-
elated capital, for the purpose of carrying out engineering
works to secure an unfailing supply at all seasons of the
year. The formation of the country is peculiarly favourable
to the construction of artificial reservoirs for the collection
from the watershed of the surrounding hills. The first
great undertaking of this kind—the Bendigo Waterworks
—is still at a standstill, in consequence of some legal diffi-
culties having arisen as to the leasing of the land.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the weekly and fort-
nightly returis have been maintained up to the average of
last year—a result to which the quartz claims have contri-
buted in the chief degree. The large amount of capital as
well as labour required for the successful prosecution of
works on the quartz reefs is drawing the attention of prac-
tical miners and others to the absolute necessity of securing
to the miners some more tangible tenure of the land on
which their operations are carried on. This question is now
occupying the attention of the Government, and its settle-
ment is promised at an early period. In the meantime, the
commercial and trading classes of the metropolis are being
canvassed by a standing committee of gentlemen connected
with mining interests, with a view to secure that amount of
support without which the action of the Government cannot
be depended upon.
The great event of the current month has been the dis-
covery of a monster nugget of pure gold, at Ballarat,
weighing 2,217 ounces. This, the last and the largest mass
of the metal yet discovered, is thus described in the Bal-
larat Times of Thursday last

" This wonderful nugget is about 20 inches long by six or
seven bread, and nearly as much deep. It had a narrow
escape of being two nuggets instead of one, for at a point
one-third from the end its continuity is only maintained by
a narrow neck, which is so slight that the men were afraid
to handle their prize much, lest they might break it in two.
In shape it hes a grotesque resemblance to a skeleton horse's
head and shoulders, the narrow part we have mentioned
reprrsentine the neck. Or it looks like a continent with a
peninsula attached to it by a rarr..r: It hrare up6i,
its sides the marks of several hard b.owa fruw the pick. The
fortunate owners are the Red Hill Mining Company, owners
of the engine claim on Bakery-hill, beside the Imperial
Hotel. They are a party of 22, all working partners. They
have been long together, and were among the first to intro-
duce steam-propelled machinery upon this goldfield. Before
taking up their present claim, which had been worked pre-
viously by another party, they were mining at Creswick,
and were not very successful there. On Bakery-hill they
have done well, independent of this immense nugget."
The following is a list of the gold ships n Lich have sail( d
from the port of Melbourne since the Ist day of April last :
The Formosa, for Calcutta, April 9, 2,555 oz. of gold;
Royal Charter, for Liverpool, Ap:i110, 93,703 oz.; Caribou,
for Calcutta, April 15, 1,962 oz.; Cornwall, for Hongkong,
15,104 oz. ; Victoria, for Suez, 85,423 oz. ; Shooting Star,
for Liverpool, April 21, 41,598 oz.; Tudor, for Liverpool,
April 23, 27 oz.; Princess, for Batavia, April 26, 298 oz.;
Heather Bell, for London, May 5, 75,792 oz.; Eagle, for
Liverpool, May 13, 25,945 ,oz.; European, for Suez,
May 15, 38,300 oz. ; Bengal, for Hongklng, 10,506 oz. ;
Hougoumont, for London, May 20, 33,497 oz. ; Essex, for
London, May 22, 64,084 oz. ; Avon, fur London, June 10,
107,006 oz.

LAR.
In consequence of the unseßO Uttled state of some most im-
portant questions direcily affecting the employment of
labour here, it has been our duty for some time past rather
to discourage the emigration towards oar shores of those
who on their arrival would have been dependent on
immediately finding a demand for their services. No
benefit would have been conferred on the colon;
or on the immigrants themselves by inducing persons to
come hither merely to swell the ranks of the unemployed.
Of this, however, tlere is now no fear, fur the construction
of our national railways has been actually commenced ; and
these alone will give work to a large number of additional
hands. On the gold-fields, too, the issue of leases, soon to
be looked for, will create.a vastly increased demand for la-
bour. Opinion is much divided as to which will prove the
best system of working out the larger extent of MIT iferous
soil and of quartz reefs that will be so granted for a certain
term to each company or capitalist; but there cainot be a
dun tit that there is now a prospect of a much wider and more
certain field for manual labour being opened up than has
hitherto existed in mining for gold. Both on the railway
and in mining the employment of an increased numb, r of
labourers will provide a proportionate amount of work fur
mechanics, in supplying the needful machinery and tools.
In erecting this machinery, building bridges, culverts, 6:e.,
on the railways, and in providing dwellings for the miners,
who, on becoming more settled members of tociety, will re-
quire better abiding-places than the tents and temporary
huts-they now occupy, the assistance of many carpenters,
masons, and bricklayers will be required ; so that this pros-
pect of full occapation extends to all sections of the work-
ing classes.
Under this hea4ing we may mention that a complaint has
been made to us by letter from England of the difficulty ex-
perienced there in learning many things regarding the
colony with which an emigrant should be acquainted, espe-
cially the cost of living here. It is well said by the writer
that books cannot be relied on, for the charges ate so great
during a year or two of our rapid progress that they may be
considered as out of date soon after publication; but this is
not the case with the paper, forwarded by every mail,
and most of these contain in their market reports a
correct list of the retail prices of all ordinary articles
of consumption, as well as the wholesale prices. From
these reports it will be easy to calculate the cost of
maintaining a family in food, and from Ss. to 12s. a week,
according to size and situation, may be set down as the rent
of such a cottage as working men usually reside in. On the
w bole, the cost of maintaining a family here is greater than
in England, but not at all in prop ;Ilion to the higher rate
of wages. At boarding-houses in town single men can
obtain hoard and lodging at charges varying from 20s. to
2os. a week. In seine of these there is a suill ient accom-
modation to allow of each lodger having a small bed room to
himself, and to all three abundant meals cf bread and meat
are served every day, with tea and coffee morning and even-
ire e. Persons in the mother country requiring infertnation
on thew points have only to search the columns of a Mel-
bourne paper of late date, and from the advertisements of
hoarding-house keepers, and those of houses to he let, to-
gether with the market reports, they will be able to ascer-
tain pretty accuratrly the c .st or living there.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Melbourne Argus of June 14.)
Export entries were passed to-day on 3,286 ounces of geld
for shipment in the Australasian to Suez. The marker,
which has been fluctuating fir smile weeks, is still unsettled,
prices having been influenced by rumours of coming changes
to be effected by the operation of the railway lean on the
rases of exchange on England. At present prices are
quoted by the Melbourne brokers atr-for Jiendigo, Castle-
maine, and Pleasant Creek, 75.. 6 per ounce ; Avoca Dun-
olly, Fiery Creek, and Maryborouch, 779. ; Ararat, 76., 6d, ;
Ovens, 775. to 795.; Ballarat, 78g. O. per ounce.
The escorts last week amounted to 41,379 ounces, against
51,304 ounces fur the corresponding week of last year. This
quantity is 528 ounces below the weekly average of the first
quarter of the current year, and 6,273 ounces below that of
the year 1857.

ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY.--At the Court House,
Leeds, on Saturday last, before the sitting magistrate, a
woman, named. Susannah Naylor, the wife of Mr. John
'Naylor, Knottiegley, a captain of a vessel lying there, and
a dirty-looking tailor, named Charles Ellerington, were
brought up charged with robbing the house of the female
prisaner'e husband of 28/. 14e. l Id., together with wearing
apparel and other articles. The husband, it appears, re-
ceived some information en Friday afternoon that his wife
had eloped with the male prisoner; he was astounded
at the time, but at once !ruffled off to his house, when
he found the information too correct—his unfaithful
spouse decamped and his house ransacked. He heard
they had taken the train to Leeds, where he arrived on
Friday night, and gave information at the poli-e-oflice.
Two :police-officers were dispatched in search of the
prisoners, and they were ultimately found to have taken
lodgings in the house of Mrs. Lord, Briggate, where they
were found in bed together. The female prisoner had taken
tl:e lodgings, stating that she was a married woman, and her
husband would be there in a short time, saying that he was
a tailor, and had come to seek work at Mr. Barran's, Brig-
gate. A short time afterwards the male prisoner arrived,
and then went to the railway-station and returned with
some parcels. The missing property was found in the
parcels the male prisoner fetched from the railway elation,
and the prosecutor identified the money. The magistrates,
after the case had partly been heard, F aid that, as the pro=
petty was stolen in the jurisdiction of the west riding
tratee, they did not think, though the property was found
in Leeds, that they could hear the case. After some con-
versation the prisoners were ordered to be handed over to
the west riding magistrates for the district in which the
robl'ery was committed.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—The Lynn corre-
spondent of the Stamford Mercury says :—The villages
of Terrington and Tilney, and indeed the whole of Marsh-
land, have been during the past week subjected to the most
painful excitement, in consequence of a melancholy occur-
rence which to.tle place at Terrington on Sunday last.
It appease that great numbers of people, chiefly of the
humbler class, are in the habit during the summer months
of making visits to the large marshes one the sea coast of
the former village, for the purpose of digging clams (a
kind of shell-fish found in the sands there), gathering
samphire, and bathing. Amongst those who did so on
Sondes, last were four lahourers from the paridi of Tilney
All Saints named It. Banyard, 0. Banyard, J. Allen, eul
J. Stcekdele. They arrived at the sea bank at an eatly
hour in the morninr, just as the tide was flowing, and pro-
ceededlo cross a creek and go down the marsh fer the pur-
poses above-mentioned. As they did not return to their
homes all night, a vigorous search was instituted fur them
on Monday, and at about four p.m. their bodies were found
lying a short distance from each other in a creek about a
mile from the bank. It appears Ihat after being upon the
marsh for some tune they discovered that the tide bad sure,
rounded them by flowing up the creek before it covered the
level sands, and abandoning their baskets and spades they
rs.o fur their lives, but in endeavouring to ford through the
creek, the bottom of which was no doubt a perfect quick-
sand, they bad all been drowned. Two of them had their
watches tied round their necks, and they had stepped at
about nine o'clock aan.

R EIIA

July 29.—Cable spliced in lat. 52 deg. 8 min. N., long. 32 deg. 27
min. W. Distance to Valentin vl6*
7 30.—Agamemnon stopped for two hours to splice cabl., having
Lund a defective place in it.
July 30.—Niagara shifted from ono coil to another at 5 a.m.
Strain on ligarneinnon's cable 1,500 lb.
2.30 p.m.—Agamemnon bad paid out 1!,0 miles of cable.
3.30 p.m.—Niagara had paid out 150 miles.
Agamemnon lost sight of Valorous from 11 p.m. to 11.30. _ _

Duting the night motion of ship extremely dangerous to cable.
July 3l.—Noon.—Barometer falling.
8 p.m.—Very threatcYting appearance of weather.
Any. 1.-4 a.m.—Barometer fallen to 29'45 in.
Noon.—Barometer steady, weather unsettled.
8 p.m —Motion of ship very dangerous to cable.
Aug. 2.-8 a.m —During the night continuity ceased for 10
minutes, but was afterwards very good.
Noon.—Barometer rising, weather improving.
. .

3.15 p.m.—Cable seriously endangered by an An tele An schooner
pasbing close astern of Aa,gmetnnon.

Aug. 3.-3 adv.—An American ship passing near Agememnon WaS
compelled to heave to until the latter had passed.
. _

p.m.—Agamemnon supposed to have arrived in shallower water,
strain on the cable (by dynamometer) having conAlerably decreased
—viz., to a•'out I,ooolb.

Aug. 4.-4 a.m.—Agamemnon changed to last coil of cable.
Noon.—Proceeding elowly, so al not to close the land before day-
light ou the morning of the sth.

3 p.m.—Sereral whales near Agamemnon.
8 p.m.—Valorous went ahead to make the land, and kii;lited the
Vatentia light at 9.15 p.m., and returned to Agamemnon.

Aug. 5:2:5.30 a.m.—Valorous anchored at Valentia (inner pelt of
Doulus Bay).
6 p.m.—Agamemnon anchored in the same place.
Nlagara proceeding up Trinity Bay.
Electric current complete.

The following letter,from Surgeon Mansfield, R.N.,• de-
scriptive of !belaying of the Atlantic cable, is interesting:—
" H.M.S. Valorous, Valentin, August 5, 1858.
" Sir,—Being, I think, the only officer connected with
the ships on this expedition who may feel an interest in your
local paper, I hasten to send you a hurried sketch of this our
last and successful attempt to lay dor n the Atlantic tele-
graph cable, in company with her Majesty'N ship Agamem-
non. Being the first intimation of the trip you probably
have received, it may not be devoid of Interest to some few of
your readers, though you will doubtless before many days
have more information on the subject.
" Her Majesty's Airs Gorgon ant Valorous left Queens.
stown in the early part of Saturday, 17th July ult.
" We (Valorous) reached the rendezvous, la'. 52 deg. 5
min. N, long. 32 deg. 42 min. W, on the 24th.
"The Niagara, Gorgon, and Agamemnon, arrived on the
25th, 26th, and 28vi respectively, the Niagara having sailed
front Cork bat hour on the evening of the same day that we
left—tho Agamemnon at 3 800. on the 18th.
" Our boats having conveyed the end of the cable from
Niagara to Agamemnon early on the 29, It, it was spliced and
toweled into the depths of the ocean at 1.5 (obsetv. time),
the ships steaming apart at 1.25 p.m.
"It was found on board Agamemnon that it was necessary
to stop at 8i p.m., in truer to dimini•li as touch as possible
the tension on a weak portion of the cable, which was
allowed to run easily out in safety.
"An announcement had been made to the effect that
should the cable part before 150 nautical miles had ran out
from both the Niagara and Agamemnon, we were all to
return to rendezvous, and an intet.se anxiety was accord
ingly felt as the critical time was approaching. That, how-
ever, was passed, to the comfott of all, when at 215 p.m. on
the 30th, the Agamemnon signalled that her allotted portion
had been paid out in safety, a similar result being obtained
at 3.30 p.m. in Niagara.
"Hitherto nothing could have been more gratifying than
the calm state of the sea and weather,sanguine
and all there
of success to a high degree, when tower-Cs evening tin the
30th the wind commenced to freshen, and lit fore midnight
it blew half a gale from S.S.E., a heavy swell
getting up,
and causing violent pitching notion to the ship.
.cre,liaN.ing
all"nGigrheta,t
butfea risnwtehree entertained I
t was sib! secure, ned for the safety of the ca.b'e
bravely withstood a heavy strain. Thes'ra;,nh continued
to he
until 3d August, when it commenced to diminish
less felt, as the wind shafted to S.W. on the day before, and
was now favourable.
1,775 fathums of soundings into sao fat p
.m. on the
"We passed from the deep into. the shoali,lQ waattrer, i.e., from
11 3d inst., lot 52 deg. 27 ruin. N, I:mg. 16 deg. 7. rum. W,
4115 d
tlaitt hno onoi
By6Ttineridicaz
t from Valentia.
"Last night. at nine a.m., being less than 40 miles off, we
di(sWtanednesday, the 4th), we were iu
left the Agamemnon, proceeding, so as to make tile land
before her in the morning. We made it soon, and anchored
soon after daylight, the Agamemnon coming up at six this
morning.
" We anchored is Doulus Bay, outside Valentia har-
bour, and the cable was landed by our boats, under the com-
mand of Lieut. Richmond Moore, senior lieutenant of her
Majesty's ship Valorous, at White Strand Bay, off Doulus
Bay, in the forenoon, amidst the greetings and welcomes of
all who were assembled to receive it. There were not, how-
ever, very many present, as our arrival could not, of course,
have been anticipated.
" Thus, the end of an unparalleled undertaking has at last
been attained, after many a combat with storm and sea, anti
hard strugglingapparently
against insurmountable
greatestties. However,
expenditure
ore satisfactoryner
gyn t
hrecsult well
achievement.re pays
the
" The cable has been laid down at the season recommended
by Lieut. Maurcy, LL.D., though the weather at the end
of June, when the last al tetnpts were made, was decidedly
the most favourable, and it evidently would have suc-
ceeded had there not been mechanical defects in the cable
itself.

" With regard to the per tentage of cable lei I out over the
distance gone, the greatest amount was 48.75, but this was
only on one occasion during the heavy !Well on 31st July,
in 2,200 fathoms soundings, and with half a gale from S.S.E.
The general average has been about 30. Through the entire
distance the average speed of the Aaamemuon has been five
knots, never exceeding six and a half, whilst the greatest
rate at which the cable paid itself out was eight—the least
six knots per boar.
" The greatest angle that the cable has been observed to
make with the water, 26 deg.; the least, 14 61(g. 30 ruin.;
and the strain which was on the cabt never exceeded
2,3301 b, never less than I,oollb, being inversely as the angle,
and not in a direct ratio.

" These facts, quickly put down from some hurried' notes,
not yet arranged, I bOieve to be mainly correct; but should
yen find any slight difft•rence between them and those which
will be duly and officially published, and consequently will)
more minuteness, you will, I am sure, kindly make allow-
ance.
" Here, by the simple act of man, are hemispheres bound
together—tie old world now materially united to the new—
and this communion is effected through the extraordinary
medium of a slender thread laid beneath the all but un-
fathomable depths of the great Atlantic! I hope, then,
that that material union, with our social and political ones
also, may long continue firm and unstraioed, and vish
every future success to an undaunted and enterprising com-
pany, by whose unmitigated perseverance and assiduity it
has been established." -

t Distance by plain about 831 by the great circle,

CAPTURE OF ELLIOT7', 7HE GOVERN-
21IE1V7' DEFAUL7'ER.

Our readers will probably
mthieliteair:s circumstance of
recollect
the absconding of Ml. Elliott, principal
at Weedon, in the month of May last, and its being dis-
covered that he was a defaulter to the Government to a large
amount. Circumstances had arisen leading to the belief
that re it it regularity had taken place in the military stores
deparrntnt at Weedon, but no suspicion rested on Mr.
Elliott, and a committee of the House of Commons was
appointed to investigate them. Mr. Elliott attended before
the committee and gave evidence on one or two occasions;
and on Thursday, the 20th of May, Elliott left Wcedon by
an early morning train, stating he was going to attend the
committee, which aroused no suspicion from the fact that
he had attended the committee on a previous oases-hon.
Nothing, however, was heard of him again till the following
Friday evening, when he sent a telegraphic message
to Capt. Gordon, who was about to succeed him at Wcedon
he (Elliott) having been transferred to Dublin as military
store
fkeeper there, stating he should return to Weedon
rho ollowing morning (Saturday) in time to pay the nume-
rous en/pinft:4 there. He did not, however, make his
appearance that morning, neither was he seen during the
daY• On Sunday morninn. his son-in-law, who resides at
receivedce d o nagain,letter:
furto tin h
ahti
e in statingtend
intended
tsoh opur
ol
leneedvr
r Weeder,,eturnt lv
Boul ,gne, in which place lie should be when he (the son-into-
law) received the letter—a letter, as the sequel will show,
intended to thro,v the authorities off their guard. As soon
as Capt. Gordon became aware of the emit, nts of the letter
he suspected something was wrong, and although it was
Sunday, he telegrareqd to the War-,office authorities, Pall-
Mall, who immediately rut themselves in communication
with the Commissioners of Police, Great Scotland-
yard, who directed Inspector Whicher, the oiosr experirncpd
officer of the metropolitan dote ire force, to take the.
cessary steps for tracing the supposed deiinquent, it not
then being known that Elliott bad embezzled any of the
moneys of the Government. Inspector Whtcher commenced
his inquiries on the Sunday, anti found that Elliott :trived
in London on the previous Thursday, and went to P. nouse
in the neighbourhood of Regent-street, to a female: named
Sinclair, whom he had been cohabiting with for smile time,
who was with him when he was apprehended, wrtd with
whom he remained till Friday about four- o'cl kin the
afternoon, when they left in a cab, informing the li.ndlady
of the !reuse they were about to proceed to Dobli n. In-
spector Whicher also ascertained that E liott went ohe same
afternoon to Messrs. Cox, Biddulpb, and Co., whet e he ob-
tained cash for a cheque f r £350, drawn upon ths: Bank of
Ireland, Dublin, where he had opened an account aturing his
temp :rary stay on receiving his appointment to the military
stores department in Dublin. The payment of 'die cheque
was stopped, fortunat, ly for the Government, 9410 will m.w
obtain possession of his money there, but Co the 1. sag
Messrs. Cox, Biddulph, & Co., who cashed the cheque. Pur-
suing his inquiries he ascertained that two etarsons answer-
ing the descripti©n of Elliott and Miss tO,inclair had pro-
ceeded to Liverpool, and on proceeding there be found that
Elliott and Miss Sinclair arrived at the Adelphi Hotel,
Liverpool, on the previous Saturday night about half-pass
10 o'clock, under toe assumed name of Mre and Mrs. Brook.
Elliott, then took a passage for both in roe mail steam-Shin
America, then about to sail for Bostor,, so that when the
officer arrived at Liverpool the fugitives were on their voyage
across the Atlantic. Inspector \Vhicher then returned to town
and cthemunicated the result of his ineluires to the authorities
at the War-office who at first were diposed to despatch
him to America after them, from the great amount of in-
formation he had obtained, that could not have failed in
his discovering them; but upon consulting the law officers
of the Crown it was ascertained that the extradition treaty
between this country and America only applied to cases of
murder, forgery, and fraudulent bankrupts, and not to
eesps of emben!einent, nod the corosequoece %1 as, the it:-
L, mutton obtained by Inspector Whicber was forwarded to
the British consul at Boston. with directions that he should
have Elliott arrested and proceeded against civilly kr a
debt by the laws of Arnerici.,- as he could not be given up to
he brought here to be tried criminally. The British consul
put the matter in the hands of Mr. Bowyer, one of the
detective officers of New York, who, from the particulars
supplied to him, succeeeded in tracing the fugitives 10 days
after theirarrival at Boston. 11 e went thence toAlbany where
Re found they had stopped at Tremont-house, as Mr. and Ales.
Brook, and had left for New York ; he was unsuccessful
there, and returned to Albany, when lie was ibformtd they
had gone east to Springfield, Massachusetts, where they
passed as Mr. Everett and wife, of Toronto. Mr. Bowyer
traced them to various places, the fugitives always patroeis-
lug the best hotels, end he at last came upon their track at
the International Hotel, Niagara Falls. After tracing them
from Boston to Albany, Syracuse, Niagara Falls, Buffiln,
Old Point Comfort, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Newport,
he apprehended Elliott t the St. Nicholas, New York,
where he will have to r t ide the result of a communicatioa
wiili the British Gover men

ATTACK OF THE MONTENEGRINS ON

THE TURK S.-.R.E IT SLAUGHTER.

An official telegraphic elit)atch of the 4th instant. from
Trebigny, gives the fdlold ig details of the s Wise of
Kolachino by ti e Monteneg ins. Early on the
the 28!h July, the Monttn;grins, having attacked the Ltiwn
in great force, the inhahants of which, relying upon the
established security, were entirely off their gthatt, burnt all
the houses, killed about a hundred men, committed atroci-
ties cf the most revolting description, and at last retired,
taking with them two hundred Mussulmans, women, and
children. The excitement there was very great. At the
moment when the above despatch was sent, Kimal Effendi
received from the Governor of Albania nn official report
upon the two rencounters at Podgoritza. It sta•ed that, in
both these attacks, the Montenegrins, who brought artillery
with them, were the aggressors, and fought upon Albanian
territory.— Observer.

RELICT:WS PUITLISIITNG IN THE UNITED STATES
—The A'cro York Evangeli4l gives interesting statistics On
this subject. It eays:—The annual amount reecivrd by the
O'd School Preshytei fans io behalf of puhlicatlr•ns i, i) Nem
5130,000 and SI40,000; and some 800,000 copies of their
different publications are distributed, in part through the
agency of more than 200 colporteurs. The Methodist Eo k
Concern (North) reports for the present year a total expendi-
ture of $382,000 for hooks and periodic►ls ; the profits upon
which amount to $37,000; their total asstts reach ►o
$600,000. The American Baptist (North) issue some 626
distinct works, more than one-half of which are bound
volumes. The Episcopal Society for Promoting Evangelical
Knowledge receives annually between $2&,000 and $30,000.
The Congregational Board of Boston is actively engaged in
republishing the standard works a the New England
divines; they already have a valuable list of volumes and
tracts. The Swedenborgians and Unitarians are active in
the same department of labour, and have issued a great
number of works. The New Schcol Pre.sh)terian General
Assembly hns expended, besides, $8,179 55c.; sill the Dutch
Reformed Chapel has also made large contributions to the
same object.. Indeed, the press was never before so exten-
sively wielded for religious purpcses, and its influence was
never greater.
LORD LYNDIIUR'T ON ARTISTIC COPTRIGIIT.—In

the House of Lords on Monday ve k, Lod Lylidburst, in
presenting petitions for the extension of the law of copy-
right, said :—" Ever since the time of Queen Anne copy-
right has been granted to authors for the protection of .heir
works. But it is a strange circumstance that to painting,
the most delightful of all the art=, no
' s/ yet by- t
right has ever been wen•, an he saint principle it
rotection by copy-
is an invention of the mind assurninz a useful and beneficial
form. There are r:-,,arlar dealers in spurious copies, who
employ artists r f au it.f rior character for the purpose of ear-
vtcrbt
,Lw! vie)
or piostdr,e
mMark-..
which she applies it, pur-
rpyriinvagt:nsatihese,f6rtauptlu.bliTe tam.
auctions
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co.!
600, on the understend-
eacrib6l:llaeltssYptrei)iirrna,triri:ecirc.;Areici
'lrfgan:adot,ln'ecoerrfnenaivanieirtrii.iyecsrilttalif,rerli
resl
an.l she was very much
astonished on going to the Manchester Exhibition a few
years afterwards to find there a painting which, with the
ing that it should not c( pied ;
exception of some of the subordinate details, WitS an exact
copy of her own. A noble marquis purchased from the Exhi-
bition a picture of some metit, fur which lie paid a con-
siderable slim. He was asked to allow it to be engraved,
and with his usual kindness and fondne,,s for the arts be con-
sented. Some time afterwards he fiund that while it lied
been in the hands of the engraver it had been copied, nod
the copy sold as the original at a sale in London. The
painter Moi land made a contract with a dealer to go to his
shop every morning at a certain time, and work a cer-
tain number of Lours each day urvil he had completed two
or three pictures: At the same rime the dealer engaecd
two inferior at fists, who, as soon as Morland left, assumed
his place, and copied the work that had been done during the
day ; so that when the pictures were completed, instead of
two or three, five or six came into circulation. A naval
officer, whose novels and writings of that sort are very
popular, sent two pictures to he limo d. They were detait.ed
a long time, and when he went to inquire of er them the
man to whom he had entrusted them said that his works)" p
was not there—it was at a place some miles off. The officer
went to this workshop, brit he did not find his pictures.
The servant iLere said that they were at another place a
mile or two oil; but, seeing a ladder slung under a trap
d or, he ran up it, opened the doer, and in the loft ti which
it gave access found his pictures, surrounded by copies,
three or four of which were c,nrpleted, and two or three
more in progress."
THE TAILORS' LABOUR AGENCY.—The members
of this institution, situate in Newington-causeway, had their
annual holiday and dinner at Windsor, on Thursday last,
under the auspices and presidency of Mr. Dunn, its e2ergetic
founder. Tire morning was agreeably spent in visiting the
various attractions of Windsor Castle, access to which I ad
been obtained by the special permission of the Lord Cham-
berlain. Among the runny excereat enjoyments of the day
none seemed ,to be more highly relished than this, and
it was pleasing to find many of the men highly versed in the
historical recollectioni 'of this right Royal residence. In
the afternoon an excllent and abundant dinner was served

in a large tent erected for thepnrposeina p'casant—m;etilv
on the banks, of . the Thames, between Windsor Castle and
E'on College. Public dinners are easily des, ribed, and any
one may be generally token as a type of all the rest, but on
this occasion it was peculiarly impressive and suggestive t•)
witness the workmen of the establishment with their wins
enjoying the society of each other and of their employer, In
those plf want recollections which fill but (Co seldom to the
lot of the sons of toil, and was, on the whole, an exhibition
of the soundms of those associative principles it hich ate
working wondreusly well in relation to the emplip r noel tt e
employed. The usual loyal toa4.having been duly honouree,
" Prospe, ity to the Teflon.' Labour Agency" was proposed by
Mr. Edwards, the respected secretaty, who pointed out the
and library, stated the healthy financial condition 4 their
advantages which had scorned from theroirposcsehdo,ol::.classes,
Donn
Ins itution, and enrnesly eoinieed edditionsl application
and interest in those educational measures, whose tendency
trusted that
was their true mental r.nd Stelal elevation on swore basis.-
Qa the health of the eh &man being p
took the opportunity of recapitulating the objects , '
view in the estatilisbnir,e4 under his direction.
neks now aflbrded stem/ employment, The busi-
h_at. they could accomplish
hundred peisons, and he to a
the result of that
would be the development
by co-operation in increasing their material comforts and
as members of society. In pull,-
cuter he instanced how the purchase of land and the erec-
tion of improved dwellings might be nceoznplished, and
encouraged them to baps for
the realisation of this from
what they had already
achieved. The party re:urned in the
evening to their own hall, where a slight . h '
retres ment wee
provided, and an hour's musical entertainment conelueed
the enjoyments of a day gratifying alike to those for wtom
they.had been specially provided, and to a few friends who
10 accompanivi theca, at fa.,rwaigieesb:d in