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only They on asked for a small spot to draw on the coast. They have no other place to retire to, ing society in general or justice in the abstract RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
up their canoes and to dry their fish upon, to be and they will make a dying struggle at Fort Yale, with that rigmarole, and then, on the strength of --.........____
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Fres exempted from mining. Their request wes granted defy the legal authorities, and fight for their privi- receiving no answer, acquitting. Mr. Sconce is
by the Governor, and the boundaries marked by lege% If they are worsted here they will pitch one of the best of Indian judges, as Indian judges An extraordinary meeting of this company was
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the sub-commissioner. their tents and open " hells " on every mining bar go, but he begins to feel the effects of Sudder air.
I resume my report of the mining on
Just beyond the village a party were "prospect- on the river, and resist interference in each and Then followed the contest about the fact of CALCUTTA ANT) SOUTH-EASTERN.
(From the Times' Special Correspondent.) c
VICTORIA, VANCOUVER'S ISLAND, Oct. 26.
held yesterday, at the London Tavern, to consider
r ' River where I left off in my last letter, dated the ing" in a cairn of big stones; result, 1 dol. to 3 every case until they weary out the authorities. acquittal or condemnation which terminated in an the propriety of confirming certain special resolu-
-6th-1 lth of the present month. In that letter
dols. a-day, and so unsatisfactory that they in- This was the doctrine preached to the justice and appeal to Mr. Trevor. At last we have a little tions, agreed to at an extraordinary meeting of the
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endeavoured to carry your readers up from Fort
tended to "move up." The gold hereaboutsis constable up to the time the Governor reached Fort sense. In less than three paragraphs Mr. Trevor company held on the 24th Nov., for diminishing
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Hope to Victoria Bar on the 13th of September.
mixed. with garnets. Yale with the detachment of Engineers and Ma- puts the case in its true light:- the capital of the company to the amount of
£250,000, and for reducing the nominal value of the
Starting upwards from Victoria Bar, we pass. an
Half-a-mile above Emory's is Trinity Bar; 24 rifles. Other kindred spirits had become inoculated "Now, though these words asused are applicable
island called, in Indian men "making grub only." Beyond this there is a with this pestilent doctrine. Peaceably-disposed to a contract of hire, lam of opinion that beneath ,
saares of the company to £5 each, and also for
Stchtiaheness." The island
miners. Next comes
is covered at both end; ‘•:•ei long spit of ground which has been worked and men were kept in a state of discomfort and alarm, these words there lie all the essentials of a sale;
making certain alterations and additions to the
Texas Bar, on the same sides--the right side-of the abandoned. Found two men lately arrived "pros- every man was armed, and slight quarrels became there is the transfer once for all nominally of the
river, which we did not visit till our return. From pecting the worked-out ground at a result of less dangerous frays. The Governor's visit was none service of, but in reality .of ProPerty in, the chil- articles of association-Mr. J. Borradaile in the
this bar the river makes a reach of 2i- miles to e e dols. A ,
than A seeeay so each of them. For amilefurther too soon. His physical force was not large-only dren for the term of their natural life, or a total chair.
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Emory's. Bar. Opposite to the above island with up several straggling miners at work. They an- a handful of Marines and Engineers and two officers surrender ons`one side of all right in them in ex- Mr. J. ANDERSON read the notice convening the
the unpronounceable name we guessed the width swered to our hails as to their earnings, "pretty -but its moral effect was great. change for a sum of money paid by the other.
of the main stream to be 250 yards-great depth f•,, e 1 " " *ddl. " " first-rate," "grub,' Messieurs the gamblers kept very " shady," "As, then, these deeds on which the present
very ow, "middling,"" mg,r,•
meetiner
Mr. DOLLMAN, the solicitor of the company, read
and strong current, seven knots an hour. A great the latter return meaning just enough to live upon. lowered their crests considerably, and before we charges are based, though they bear the form of
deal of mining has been done at the upper end of Since we started met only one man who complained started to return, 50 of them left the place in leases, are really and essentially contracts of sale, the minutes of the last meeting, and the formal
Teems Bar, but now most of the miners have gone of bad health. To-day a miner said he had a "bad "disgust ; " their trade had fallen off. They became the charge against the prisoner will stand for pur- resolutions passed by that meeting for reducing the
higher up the river. The cry is, "Up." Higher, convinced, somehow, although no overt act what- chasing the girls, being minors, with a view to •
capital to £250,000, and the nominal amount of
and higher. still the nervous, unsettled miner head," and asked for the army doctor.
On the left bank of the river between Emory's ever had been taken against them, that " the game make them prostitutes, and the question is whether each share to £5, also the alterations in the articles
trudges, in the hope of finding the real "Dorado," and Ohio Bar there is a long string of miners at was up." They were afraid something would that offence is criminal under Mahomedan law or . .
of association which were agreed to at the last
the source of all the "float gold" which enriches
the lower banks. That many are disappointed you*
work, whom we did not visit, as we must keep the happen, and, instead of favouring the "bars" with not."
right side, owing to the current. These miners their presence, they "made tracks" for a more con- * * * • meeting.
may well conclude; but, then, why should not the number several hundreds, and all are busy, most of genial country. "The crime of purchasing children for the pur- The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution con-
miner go "up ?" Is he not a free agent who them in the bank, which they are burrowing into Some of them do still remain and ply their ille_ pose of prostitution has become recognised by this firming the resolutions passed at the preceding
knows no master, whose best employed time is
silent in grubbing in slush for "dross" and "filthy a great many tunnels, following the "lead" or gal trade, for the simple reason that the Governor court as a misdemeanour under Mahomedan law on extraordinary meeting of the company.
"pay dirt" inland. At Ohio Bar the miners re- is too cautious to rush into an encounter out of two different occasion's so lately as 1853 (see Mr. HARTRIDGE wished to know the number of
lucre ;" and is not "push on," "keep moving," the ported 4 dole. a day as their average earnings daily which he is not sure to come victorious. lam very Sudder Nizamut Report for 1853, pages 630 and miles of railway they proposed to construct, and
motto of humanity in the present age ? to the man. . happy to see that a judge has been despatched from 643). I have no difficutly therefore in following the time they would take in construction; also to
There is not much mining being done in the The miners very generally expressed their hopes England for the new colony. If he is "the right those precedents and declaring that the crime as know if it was probable that any competing line
reach from Texas Bar to Emory's • only one small that the party of Marines and Engineers which ac- man" his very presence will soon create and elicit charged against the Prisoner is a criminal offence would be granted to another company. He wished
camp on the right side. The banks are very steep companies the Governor on his visit to the mines so much wholesome public opinion from the well- under our system of criminal jurisprudence." to know what amount of traffic was estimated to
here-sheer, and of sand, not a favourite "location' are to be "located permanently" for the preserva- disposed portion of the inhabitants as will speedily Justice, then, will be done at last? Not a bit of come upon the line, whether the directors were
with the miner; he selects a gravelly bank and tion of order in the mining country. The soldiers send the remnant of the gamblers after their de- it. The Sudder has always some loophole to satisfied that the railway would divert the traffic 1
sloping beach, keep most of the time in the bateaux while we are parted brethren. escape that horrible contingency. The crime, Mr. from Hooghly to the Mutlah, and whether the
Emory's Bar.-A great deal of work has been yarning with the miners, but they sometimes come We had one little episode_a legal episode I Trevor decided, was one against the person, and not accommodation the line would afford would be suf-
done, and much active mining is now going on shore and mix with them. The soldier has no might call it-rather amusing. A ruffianly Irish_ against public morals or decency. The magistrate; ficient for the traffic. In case of any extension of
on here. Our first meeting was with a great fancy for the life of a digger. Some sailors man refused to pay some small licence money im- therefore, had no right to interfere, and the pro- the line, he wished to know whether such exten-
gang of miners dining on fried bacon and pota- and two engineers, I believe, ran away from Esqui- posed upon his calling. All his fellow-dealers paid ceedings were null. This opinion is so incredible sion capital would be treated as a separate capital,
toes cooked a /a Maitre de _Hotel, eating out of malt some time ago to the American territory on theirs, but the Irishman had graduated in the "free that at the risk of making this article unreadable so as to secure the estimated 10 per cent. to the
the frying-pan in which the edibles were prepared, the opposite coast. They have sent word to their and independent" country of our good neighbours, we must quote the words. Mr. Trevor says an proprietors of the original stock. He was anxious
set upon the stump of a tree. Many long huts officers that if they will be forgiven they will re_ and he would pay no d- Queen's dues, while offence against the public is one affecting public the line should be kept to itself, with the view of
and shingle cabins were being put up for the winter. g the full advantage of the enterprise.
turn. They have become quite penitent, and say his better; half backed him up with the most voci- morals, but realisin
_ The CHAIRMAN said the length of the line was
The miners were a jolly lot. Little mixtures of ferous energy, threatening to split the constable's "In order to bring an offence under the de
the Yankee crimps deceived them. The officers
"chaff" and drunkenness are evidences of success. returned the very proper answer, that if they re-
head open with an axe. Tax gatherers are unpo- signation of one affecting the public morals under 29 miles, and with regard to the time of construe-
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Generally, the miners are quite steady. Here is turned they would be tried by court-martial. pular everywhere, and the virago had public sym- the system of criminal law existing in this tion, that would entirely depend on the support
the first case we have met with-an old rascal from I would here remark that the miners, as a body, pathy on her side for a while. country, it must be one tending, lere- of the shareholders in supplying the funds.
Australia in that state of brandy and water known are quite willing to pay the license fee of £1 a The Governor was appealed to by the outraged spective of any injury to an individual, by If they paid up the requisite deposit at once,
as "mellow." The water of a running stream has month. The expenses peculiar to a mining coun- and deforced officers; but, it being a case of which its directness and openness, to impair the public and responded to the calls as they were made, the
been diverted into a canal two miles long cut by try-the making of roads, building of bridges, sur-
he could not take direct cognisance, he referred morals, and also that many acts of a highly immo- probability was that the line from Calcutta to the
the miners, and supplies two long sluices for" wash- 7eying of new lines of communication, exploring, the matter to the law officer of the Crown, who ac- ral nature, if done in a private manner, are not Mutlah would be completed in 18 months; but if
ing"-a great labour-saving invention, which sup- the ordinary administration of justice, extra peace companied him. The Irishman was summoned before punishable criminally- as offences against the public. they did not supply the funds so readily as was re-
plants the rocker. Five more sluices are going up,. officers for the miner's own protection where his the justice, and on a hearing it was decreed that he "Now, applying this test to the offences charged, quired, it might be 21 years or more before they
, to run from the bank to the river; and water earnings are so much exposed in tents and insecure should pay the license or go to prison. He didn't there is no ground for saying that, either by its could complete it for traffic. The directors were
wheels-undershot-are being rigged, to raise the huts-all require a considerable outlay; and miners like either alternative, but determining to become directness or openness, the public morals have been very anxious to pay the instalment to the Govern-
water from the river to sluice with where the canal have sense enough to see that a tax of some kind a martyr, he chose the latter. In this he made a affected; if so, it is impossible to look at it as an ment, so that they might be enabled to proceed
does not "serve." Great things are expected from must be raised to defray all these expenses, and terrible mistake, for, there being no prison nearer offence against the public as those terms are used with the works as soon as possible ; and of course
this bar, but its brilliant prospects cannot restrain that they ought to contribute a larger portion of than Victoria, and the judge being too much of a in Act 11. of 1856.' they were most anxious to see the shareholders pay
the restless, "Many miners left this bar for up such tax than the residents of Victoria, the only formalist to commit to any but a legally con- Ameerun, therefore, was acquitted. From hence- the requisite deposit on their shares. He thought
the river. Got capsized, a lot of them, and lost other community upon which the screw could be stituted gaol, remitted him to Victoria, about 135 forth, therefore, it is lawful for a brothel-keeper to there was no chance of competition. The traffic had
their tools and provisions." Such slight mishaps put. The invariable remark was "Give us protec- miles off. This didn't seem to appal him, and he buy, and a father to sell, a child of immature years been estimated by the Government engineer to
don't stop the upward exodus. "12 left to-day." tion and we'll pay the license willingly." declared his readiness to start at one, and would go for a hundred years to prostitution; and unless the yield a large return from local sources. There was
Now, for the "results." Ist Gang.-" Moderate We' have not yet seen any prairie or open land without waiting for his coat, although the officer scoundrel who sells, or the wretch who bays, or the a large population and an increasing trade to be
wages"-a favourite enswer when the miner wishes upon the river. The vegetation is rank and thick. offered to fetch it from his house. No, a martyr of baby who suffers, chooses to prosecute, all inter- accommodated. The cost of conveyance would be
to be enigmatical. "Put moderate wages into Between the full-grown trees there is always an the highest grade he would be. And now comes fercnce is illegal, much reduced by the railway, and only one-tenth of
American currency" brought forth the explanation undergrowth of young pines or of deciduous plants, the funniest part of the Irishman's case. The man the existing traffic would yield them a good profit.
of" 8 dols. to 10 dols. a man a day. That's what and in most places so thick that I cannot thrust my was not poor. He had plenty of money, but was
THE NA VY. • Mr. HARTRIDGE was satisfied with the reply.
I call moderate wages for an experienced California arm through the plantation. I never saw so thick stubborn and would not pay the State her just dues. . Mr. MARSHMAN, a director, at the request of the
miner who comes up here." The true Yankee pre- a crop of trees or of anything else. The ground is As he was on his way down the river he bethought _ • chairman, explained that he had very recently re-
tends to think that he does the country a great literally covered with growing trees. How so many him of the "unprotected female" left behind, and Her Majesty's paddle-steamer, Alecto, 5, Corn- turned from Calcutta, and was well acquainted with
favour to "come up here," and carry off as much of derive sustenance from a soil which looks rather sent a man with a bag of money to her. This fellow, mender James Hunt, arrived at Spithead yesterday the distr:et thrcugh which the line Wall intended to
its treasure as he can bag. He's quite welcome to poor, a yellowish clay mixed with gravel, is a marvel. having the fear of the violent Irish woman before morning from the West Coast of Africa, having been pass. Lord Dalhousie, when in India, was ex-
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the gold, but as to the compliment involved in his A little way above Emory's Bar, where the mountain his eyes, came into the justice's office for advice, as in commission three years. She left Sierra Leone tremely anxious that a communication from the
visit it is not very clear, range recedes, there is a plateau rather open-that bad luck would have it for the refractory debtor, on the 25th of November, arrived at Teneiiffe on Mullah to Calcutta should be established, and that
There is a sandbank here, well back from the is less thickly overgrown-than the rest of the A little consultation, a slight whispering, a little the 15th of December, and stayed there some few the former should become an auxiliary port to the
river; 10 to 15 feet below the surface of which country; this strip might be cultivated, but such shuffling, and the money was "garnished." As if days. She witnessed a tremendous fire which broke latter. The Government engineers had surveyedthe
there is a gravel "pay streak," three and four feet desirable spots for tillace are very few-a fact much by the stroke of a magician's wand the debt was out suddenly, and in suppressing which the officers line, and reported in favour of the undertaking.
thick. This superincumbent sand is to be washed to be regretted, for the labour of clearingthe forest secured without the owner's will or consent, and and crew of her Majesty's ship Industry particu- There were, in fact, no engineering difficulties, and
down into the river during winter, so as to lay is so severe and so tedious that few farmers will the Irishman unwittingly became free. The canoe larly distinguished themselves. The Consul lit the the line was nearly level from one end to the other.
bare the gravelly bed which contains the gold. The attempt it. was recalled, and he was told he might pursue his Port has made honourable mention of the services There were only two bridges, and those could be
whole shore, exposed down to the edge of the water, All the mining locations which I visited, and of calling in peace, his licence having been made "all rendered to the English Government. The Alecto constructed for £17,000. It had been carefully
is auriferous from the surface. It has been
which I have given such details as I collected, to right. met with a succession of gales during the whole of estimated that the line would pay at least 10 per
"washed" to a depth of from 6 inches to 7 feet. 2d enable•
your readers to Judge of their present value Ravine.o found the law to be too much for him, it her passage homewards. She lost her second lieu- cent. on the capital, and he for one was perfectly
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Gong whose earnings I inquired about-four men and future prospects, between Fort Hope and Hill's
is to be hoped the Irishman will keep out of its tenant, Spencer de L. Lacy, on the 15th ult., at satisfied that would be the case, otherwise he would
to a sluice head.-Sometimes three ounces, some- Bar are on the right side of the river (1. e., the right clutches and play no more with edged tools. I Monrovia, of fever and epilepsy, brought on by ex- not have invested his money in the undertaking.
times an ounce a man per day. 3d Gang.-6c. to hand side, looking down stream, as taken by gee- think the whole thing was capitally done. I tried posure on surveying duties. She brings home Lieu- They would be obliged to lay down a double line
the bucket; can wash 400 in a day; two man in the graphers, but the left hand side in going up.) The to speak to the fellow, and expected a civil recep- tenant C. A. Heyshaw, belonging to her Majesty's to accommodate the traffic. The Hooghly was
gang. "This will make your earnings 24 dols. for the gravelly spits exposed and called in mini'sg par- tion, as I had nothing to do with his case, but I steam-vessel Trident, which vessel left Teneriffe gradually becoming less suited for navigation from
two of you." "Yes, we have made 30 dols. per day lance" bars" are on the first-mentioned side. The found him such a brute that I was fain to with- for a cruise to the northward on the 16th ult. to the continual silting up of the sand. Experience
to the rocker." banks of the other (the left) side are more sheer draw. settle some differences which had arisen among the had pointed out the necessity for the construction of
I asked the miners if they had any notion or and the river flows close to them generally, leaving Since this example was made I learn that the chiefs oat there. A serious accident happened on larger ships; the tendency was to increase the ton-
theory upon the extent of the gravelly stratum, or few spots on the shore dry. The current being inhabitants of Fort Yale are piously conforming the coast by the upsetting of a calque, the result of nage of vessels, for it was found more economical on
"pay streak," which underlies the sandbank. They thrown On this side, navigators avoid it in ascend- themselves to the Divine command by "giving which was that the son of the Prince was unfortu- long voyages to send one ship of 2,400 tons than three
said, "It may ex tend for miles, or underlay the ing The current can be shot, but it is hard work unto Cwsar that which is Cwsar'se" but I fear nately drowned besides several of the crew. The of 800 tons each. This tendency for larger ships
whole country-who knows ?" Met here a miner to pull against it. Small canoes get into smooth Cmsar is not much benefited in his exchequer Alecto's crew are generally healthy. She proceeds rendered the Hooghly less and less available to Cal-
who had "prospected" for geld four miles inland, water between the currents and the bank, and can thereby, kir the unavoidable outgoings with such a to the eastward to be paid off. cutta. A vessel could steam up the Mutlah in Bor
on an elevated bench, 200 feet high, on the opposite thread their way where our large bateaux can- community are heavy. Indeed, I fear it will be some Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, at Portsmouth, 9 hours, while it would require, in consequence of
(left) side of the river, and found gold, "the co- not venture. For perhaps eight miles of the time before the new colony will realise the happy Captain Harry Eyres, C. 8., underwent the usual the shifting sands, as many days to get up the
lour," as they call the result of' a "prospect." 4th consummation so devoutly to be wished for by Ra- monthly muster yesterday, in the presence of Rear- Hooghly. On the Mutlah the depth of water was
way there is a string of miners at work in
gang-of three men at work in one small hole-a dicals and rulers at home--namely, support itself. Admiral Superintendent the Hon. - Grey of her sufficient to allow the Leviathan to swing round.
various places on this side also, but far fewer than
very lucky hole, too, as their statistics verified.- Majesty's dockyard. The traffic of the eastern districts of Bengal was
on the right side. The nature of the ground has
This ground had already been" worked" by these induced a different kind of mining. There bein c Her Majesty's troop-ship Himalaya, Commander increasing to a wonderful extent. Col. Baker had
' bank h
e THE LEGALIZED TRAFFIC INFEMALE John Seccombe, was towed out of the steam basin ascertained before the revolt that2l years the traffic
men. They first washed the surface, or top dirt, but few "bars" to wash, theas been penc-
CHILDI2EN IN INDIA. at Portsmouth yesterday morning and placed along- of the country had increased 25 per cent. The in-
about 6 in. to 9 in. deep. From this they got toz. trated and the gravelly bed extracted to be washed . side the dockyard jetty to prepare for the convey- crease of traffic in India would be immense if pro-
each man per day. The ground was 25 feet wid b
--e -Y in the river and in two places streams of inland
40 feet long, as well as I could guess it. They then water have been turned and led to the diggings by (From the Friend of India, Oct. 28.) ance of troops to the Mediterranean. There are per facilities were afforded for its conveyance. At
Slavery in its worst and most hideous form has three fine iron screw troop-ships in line with each present there were about 180,000 native boats of
" piospected" for deeper diggings, and struck the the miners to "sluice-wash" with. This side is
"hole" where they found 35c. to the pan. Here considered much poorer in gold than the opposite, been re-established in India by judicial decree. other,-namely, the Himalaya, Urgent,
~and Per- about ten tons each, which obtained access to Cal-
was a real mine, which would yield 140 dols. a-day but I should think that 800 miners are at work on Six months ago Mr. Toogood, magistrate of severance.
- cutta through thecanals, conveying about 1,700,000
supposing they could wash 400 buckets a day ;an the eicht miles of it below Hill's Bar, and the Mongbyr, discovered that the Cazee was in the Her Majesty's screw-frigate Curacoa, 31 guns, tons of produce in the course of the year. If only
. habit of registering the sale of girls to brothel Capt. T. H. Mason, was placed in No. 2 dock yes- 1-10th of that traffic should be conveyed by the
easy task, as it happens, for the water is convenient, were all engaged most industriously. Certainly
Here are their own returns :-The first day they there are fewer "loafers"-that is, idlers, on the keepers on legal documents. Three girls in parti- terday- at Portsmouth for examination, railway to Calcutta in as many hours as it now re-
got 10 oz. of amalgam, and left a lot of stuff over. poor side than I found on the " luck " one. Per- cular had been so sold to our Almeerun by deeds The Cornwall, 4th rate, at Sheerness, has been quired days, the freight would of itself be sufficient
Next day they washed out this "balance," and it haps poverty b h y• h d y begets industry ere as it as one prescribed as deeds of lease, but which assigned taken into the fitting basin there, and is now being to yield a return of 10 per, cent., but there was
produced 20 dols. of gold dust. Amalgam ana gold • e e over the girls for ninety years, and all their chil- rigged for a juvenile reformatory. She is to be every probability of having a much larger traffic.
in many of the countries of the Old World.
-worth close upon 130 dols. As to the interval of The dren. The woman was entitled to "exact any kind sent to Leith for that purpose immediately she is He should feel greatly disappointed if at the end of
e next bar we come to in our progress up-
their time between the opening of the hole and the of service -h t "w a ever, and was bound to furnish only ready. three years the line did not yield 10 per cent.
wards is Hill's Bar, to which we only pay a flying
present time, they did "very well," according to A young fellow, of such solid proportions
. 0 food and clothing. Mr. Toogood, with his usual An order has been issued by the commanding The resolutions were thenunanimously confirmed,
one of them; "off and on the same," according to 'visit. •wrong-headedness, imagined that a lease of 90 years officer of the Cressy, guardship of the steam reserve and the proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks
as plainly betokened his nationality, and who, I
the other; and had "no reason to find fault with was a sale-that slavery was not a British institu- at Sheerness, Prohibiting any boats belonging to to the chairman and directors.
sorry to say, was in a very patriotic state , . . ry c of
the country," according to the third. When I was am -tion, and that justice was possible though the ships and vessels in the steam reserve in the river
brandy and water, was waiting on shore to be " the t,
with them they retorted a portion of the amalgam first En li ' g
g shman to receive the Governor," a duty
Sudder still existed. He committed both Ameerun Medway- leaving their respective ships or vessels TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.
of this present day's work-6 dols. 40c. in value of which hperformed • '
e with more warmth than
and the Cazee for trial. At first it appeared as if for the shore from yesterday noon unt'l 1 Monday .
gold, at 16 dols. per oz.; and I made them weigh dignity. t t r
Soas no o monopo ise the honour of the his imagination had for once not played him false. noon next. ' Miles Opened. Receipts.
the rest of the lump of amalgam, 11 oz. They ex- reception, he introduced a boozy friend in a fustian The facts were clearly proved. Ameerun admitted Capt. Abbot, in command of the West India Railways. ~............a..-.A.......-.........., „.............-....--.......,
1858.
pect to make soon double the amount yet earned. jacket, as " a Sebastopol man, who had servedfice 1857. 1858. 1857.
that she had hired the children. She admitted that Royal mail steamer, reports that on the 23d inst.
They overs-alue their gold. It is not :worth 16 dols, years in the Crimean war !" It was distressing to they were to be prostitutes. One girl testified that his ship was at anchor off theNore light-ship, wind- .a x
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Ballymena and Portrush... 35 35 241 290
but from 15 to 151- dots., and when a miner comes hear this scapegrace mention his father, a man of she followed that trade. Another with a naivete bound. She is from Blackwell, bound for South-
Bedale and Leyburn lO
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which has in it even a deeper touch of horror than ampton. We learn that Capt. Abbot came on shore Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,114 1,072 to Victoria hard up, he is often obliged to take 14 respectable position in London.
dols. 50c. for "quicksilver"-i.e., amalgamated Ameerun's frankness, said she was young but was to hire men to assist at the pumps, as the Paramatta Belfast and County Down 29 17 446 244
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Before I had time to look about me the sons of • Birkd., Lane. & Ches. June. 32 32 2,331 2,512
gold. Mars had crossed the "Bar," and were steadily being brought up to it. The judge seeing
Y facts and not having the g these was making a very considerable quantity of water.
Sudder to guide him, The Spanish brig Bartolo Joo' Maria de Maida- Blyth and Tine
Bristol and Exeter 2O 13
118 117 1,122 1,236
Several of the miners gave me the average earn- •5,631 5,521
making for a point on the edge of the forest, considered the ' • e prisoners guilty of a misdemeanour, gan was launched from Messrs. Gill and Co.'s patent Caledonian l9B 198 i 12,972 12,370
ings of the bar as one ounce of gold a-day to the
whither they were attracted by the sight of a petti-Ches.&Holyhead(withMold) 01 041 4,372 4,552
man, and that frequently the rocker washes 100 and sent the case up to the Sudder C 'er Court to pro- slip at Rochester at 2.40 yesterday. having
e repaired coceennoutn& Workington 8. 81 216 233
coat-the first seen on the river since we left Forte Cork and Bandon 2O 20 277 281
dols. a day to two men. As we get up the river I nounce sentence. He sent them up, one Sudder all damages sustained by strikin e the L •6 on e ongsane.
Hope. The wearer of this attraction was a fair- • Cork, Blackrock, & Passag,e. 61 64 208 205 ,
find the "yields" of gold greater. General mining judge says "to be pardoned," but as the Sudder has on the 16th ult. She will commei ice re-shipping Deeside l7 17 208 177 '
haired comely little woman who sported a sign-
opinion corroborates this fact, which accounts for not yet openly usurped that prerogative, this sup- her cargo for Havannah in the
t f
early
par o next Dublin .S.c Belfast Junction 56 56 1,272 1,125
board of white calico, which bore a strong resem-Dublin and Drogheda.
the flight upwards-250 men on the bar. position is a little strained.H However, the case was week.
blance t .
o a bit of a nethergarment, whi h may be ' Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kings t.) 401 40-1 , 1,124 .1,187
Here a deputation of miners wait upon the Go- e y sent up. The Sudder Court reviewed the evidence, The following appointments were made yester- Dundalk and Enniskillen 5l 35 •' 598 537
guessed without being named, having scrawled 0n519 641
vernor to get his exposition of mining law. The g admitted the facts as proved, acquitted the prisoner, day at the Admiralty ;- Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171
It "Boarding by the Meales:" The fair hostess Dundee Perth & Aber. Jun 3l 31 928 781
opening. of the case was quiet enough, drawled out 'and censured the magistrate for interfering in Master John N. Fillock has been promoted t the rank East Anglian '' n o era 671 674 905 9'25
wellpleased with all the world in gene-
was very . .
in measured terms with a Yankee twang of greatmatters • with which he had nothing to do. of retired captain. E.Countres,Nrik.,&E.Union 489 489 22,806 23,570
ml and with herself in particular, and paid a corn- East Kent 194 - 213 -
power; but the statement of facts of the first We say the Sudder passsd this astounding deci- Sur 'William Macleod, to geon- the Madagascar. E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 5,495 4,821
speaker was " demurred" to by a defendant in the Pliment to her neighbours, which I doubt notsion, and
the expression is strictly accurate. The Master's Assistant-H. J. Stanley, to the Nile. Edinburgh and Glasgow
they deserved. " They men were all very brotherly," Edinburgh, Pert h,& Dundee 78 78 2,801 2,656
outer ring of the circle. The demurrer was taken court, however, as usual, was all at sixes and sevens. Second Master's-F. P. S' unpson, to the Hannibal; E. Forth & Clyde Junction - - - -
u
pby a third man before it could be discussed. A she said; but on asking after the sisterhood the Four judges gave four contradictory opinions, and w. Creak, to the Liffey. Furness
fourth and a fifth came into the arena, and they answer was not so satisfactory-" There are not were at last so confused by their own folly that they , Glasgow & South-Western 1834 1834 6,457 5,911
all set to tooth and nail. They certainly did tear many sisters to be sisterly;" an evasive answer, but actually wrote four more opinions, to decide whe- - Great Northern 283 283 23,480 26,831
the argument to rags with a will. The hubbub characteristic, as a married man of our party re- ther under the first four the prisoner was acquitted THE Azzify. Great North of Scotland 534 1,337 1,601
53/
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) ~229 2034 6,025 6,312
brought up other miners, until the judge of this marked. I had only time to note one other instance or found guilty! Not only did they not know the ee- Great Western 460 466 27,916 28,248
curious court leet was surrounded by a crowd showing. that "the schoolmaster was abroad"-a law, but they could not understand even the effect Col. E. A. Somerset, C. 13., who retired from the Itenevielrnand lioldberzess lB 18
June, 57 15' 163 172
542 -
which one of themselves called "the rummest pie- sign painted over a bakery, "Brad and pajes " of their own decisions. Thereferred t
They o afifth, Rifle
Brigade last week, is about to enter on the Irish South-Eaestern
een...
25.1
254
201 240
ture !" Such assertions, denials, arguments, ex- which is a sort of French-English for " Bread and and at last by a sort of " fox d ssistant u
an goose " process duties of A Q arterniaster-General of the Killarney Junction ' 41 41 352 491
planations, and replications were never heard be- pies"-when Major Hawkins hurried us away, so arrived at the conclusion that the court in te South-western District, Lancaster and Carlisle (in
Kendal and Windermere) 1004 1001 5,909 4,815
as to et to Fort Yale before nightfall, to give his
fore. One quoted Californian laws, another Austra- g acquit. The sentence of the district court-martial which Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 2 299 22,685 18,156
Ilan, and a third the "law of all creations" And their men time to prepare r encampment, a duty which The reasons assigned for the verdictrecently assembled at Chatham garrison under th
are as extra- a Limerick aud Fbynes
e Llanelly 2 2
4 139 113
403 391
he would not neglect for all the gold, fun, and pet-
as they nll spoke at once it seemed as if it would ordinary as the verdict itself. The Cazee who presidency of Lieut.-Col. 0 1 _.--0... 11. J. M'Killop, Royal London & North-Western. 68 647 56,128 55,286
ticoats on Fraser's River. London and Blackwall
puzzle an Eldon to untie the gordian knot. The signed the deeds is acquitted at once. The poor Marines, for the trial of Private Wm. Webb, of the London tt South-Western 289 270 IV7t 11,24
Governor endured it all like a stoic. He seemed to Fort Yale is a collection of wooden houses and fellow had only lent the aid of his judicial office to Chatham division of Royal Marine Licht Infantry, Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast l9 1 12,410 12,579
think the best way to get hold of the end of the tents improvised on a long curved shelf of land bind little girls, British subjects, for life to corn- on a charge of desertion under very 6 aggravated L'derry and Enniskillen .. 60 60 766 721
Loannd., Tilbury, & Southend. 4 40 886 834
i
skein was to Jet the fellows run down-expend rising gently from the river the shore for about a pulsory prostitution. Who could be more innocent ? circumstances, having been approved by the Horse 0,1 "Sheffield, & Lincolnsh. 17 1734 9,727 9,015
themselves in talk. I was in hopes that the heat mile being n the hands Of the miners, who are As to the brothel keeper opinions were divided. Guards, the entire battalion of officers and men now Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 94 91 785 795
Maryport and Carlisle
of the day would hasten this desirable consumma- working it by means of rockers and sluices. The The first two judges, Mr. Money and Mr. Bayley, at the head-quarters of the Chatham division of the Midland
. tion; but the miners, being half-naked, suffered Place acquired a certain importance from the be- would have punished Ameerun. The' latter hefel Royal Marinee assembled Yesterday morning in the Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind V;-• 177 3,876 3,918
th
nothing from the sun. I could barely endure the lief that it would be the head of steamboat naviga- that a lease for life was legal, but that the present barrack-square for the Purpese of hearing the find- 3110onnkialoaand
52 52 1,628 1,376
_ _
-heat of the sand, but they had the advantage of tion, and that an up-river town of some size would lease, involving the lessee's progeny, was beyond ing of the Court read. The prisoner at the time he Newcastle and
Carlisle g • g
2,891 3,125
me, for many of them stood in water. At length in consequence spring up. This hope has not been life and illegal. Being illegal, the hiring of a girl deserted was stationed as sentry at an important ilsfeaNryittol•3t,Abcrg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,382 1,048
one of the disseizors generously offered to "cave justified. The current has Proved too strong for the for immoral purposes was also an offence, and as part of the Marine barracks adjoining Chatham North Drievtoisnh (in. Dalkeith) 11g 11g 5,188 4,734
350 317
in" if the Governor " would say the word." This steamers, iione of them being able to come so far. an offence, punishable. He therefoie inflicted a dockyard, and while mounting guard deserted from North-Eastern
fellow One tried it but had to put back, and their terrni- his post, leaving his lo i&oatillik London 9 9 2,111 2,169
was a reckless gray-headed old blade who sentence of two years' imprisonment. The two aded rifle and a portion of Staffordshire 233, 233 6,911 6,577
had • • his accoutremeras behin mined in all the mining districts of California nus is now Fort Hope. lam informed by compe- judges not agreeing as to the extent of punishment, d, Tear his sentry-box. He North-Western 464 464 850 866
gone to N. Yorkshire and Cleveland lot 102 -
Australia, made lots of money there and tent judges that iron boats with screw propellers the case was referred to a third. was, apprehended a short time afterwards in the -
spent it returned Oxford, Wore., & Wolver 94 f}-1 4,400 4,154
, , urned to his first love, but got out of can be built in England which can run all the way Mr. Colvin held that the proceedings were neighbourhood of Chatham and brought to trial for Peebles lB
liclB 175 170
', and cam t from Victoria to Fort Yale. This is a desideratum ab initio null and void. The crime was "not a seri- the offence. The Court Helen's Canal & Railway 30 e 0 Fraser River, where he wasfound the prisoner guilty, St. 30 1,795 1,407
making his ~ il ~ him to Scottish Central
aceuthulated. "pile," to be squandered as soon as not yet supplied by any of the steamers on these OUS one," and the magistrate had no power to ter- and sentenced undergo 168 days' imprison- Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,501 3,474
the discussion waslent as this hurly-burly seemed, waters, for those which ply on the river are stern- fere. The charge should have been made by an merit in the
military•
Prison at Rochester, and like- elnewseure & Birmingham 294 294 1,533 1,522
with much re carried on with good feeling, wheel boats, which are not fit to navigate the Gulf individual. We wonder if Mr. Colvin considers wise to be marked on his -is body with the letter "D." Shrewsbury and_Che!iter
Shrewsbury & Hereford
ason, and in 51 1,693 1,470
The point in dispute excellent temper. of Georgia and other waters intervening between kidnapping a serious offence. Perhaps not after After the sentence of the Court had been read the Shro shi U •
p re mon
far back from the water'sdas simple enough-how Victoria and the mouth of Fraser River, The pre- the decision of the Sudder in the Talineparah case, prisoner_w_ as handed
over to an escort and marched South Devon
South-Eastern 57" 57 2,176 2,2&2
river claim. Decided ege can a miner work his sent arrangement, therefore is, that side-wheel but if he does, we should like to hear him prove to Feet
_Cla.rence prison to undergo the punishment South Wales 3Ol 301 15,612 16,090 ,
171 171 5,920 6,763
-that he can boats carry. the freight from Victoria to _Langley, awarded him.
n work back on, the distinction between that crime and the one S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 2,975 2,682 .
the shore to high water mark, and that where it is transferred to the stern-
beyond high wheel boats, to Ameerun committed. The Hon. Council of Indiahaving received direc- Stockton and Darlington ll6 116 7,323 6,535
water mark (inland from the bank)Taff Vale 53 38 4,139 2,254 •
division of mining laws known a's e be taken to Fort Hone From the latter 1
errs under the . i. • place it is Mr. Sconce went further. He held that Ameerun tions . from the authorities
at the War Department Ulster 36 36 1,740 1,412 '
din boats and caeoes to Yale and fr
ry diggings,' carrie , om the was rather an injured imlividual than otherwise. to furnish tonnage for the conveyance of 400 rein- Ulverstone and Lancaster . 19 19 360 329 '
-a decision which all acquiesced in, and sent the latter by small canoes, higher up still, through the Hiring a child, he remarks, does not "constitute foreements to India, to fill up vacancies in the Vale of Neath 25/ 251 1,233 711 ;
miners away in good humour. The old Auetralian's rapids called the little and bi " Canones " -
and b - a crime." Certainly not ; but hiring a child cavalry and infantry corps serving in Bengal and Warrington and Stockport. 12
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 12
31 - - ,
321 290
reason for acquiescing in it was of the oddest. He land - packed on horses gand mules ' 3 Madras, the following vessels have been chartered Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,190 869 '
and on without wages for 9',5 years does, at least if slavery
said he liked "a Governor who was down upon men's backs-to the Forks, being • • wl
and will sail from eraeesend early in the ensuing West Cornwall 0 566 .
wy rti 1 • 274
Ei 65
'
the junction of be a crime at all. As to the immoral purpose Mr. p Harbr &Rail 30 3,421 3,078
sour flour-sellers." Fraser's and Thompson's rivers where there is a s indulges in the
Sconce . efollowing questions :- I-none:l-viz., the Jason, Scotia, and Janet Mitchell. Wilitnenaever Junction •12 12 533 378
Next above Emory's Bar we come upon a party considerable mining settlement.' I • •
will give the " What then is the crime, and under what con- Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 428 387 1
of Frenchmen who made 2 dols. a-day yesterday, distaxces of all thesebefore I finish g ' '
places ish this letter dition is it to fo •im the subject of a prosecution? A :DisINTERESTED OPPER.-The Bath Licensed w'haven,CleatoretEgemnt. 7
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 7 315 204 ,
and expect to make 5 dols. to-day to the man. lin- -meantime let us retrace our steps to Fort Y 1 ' • Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 800 602 I
ae. Does the creme consist of the mere taking of a child Victuallers' Association have offered to erect a cold water
mediately adjoining a party of 11 Americans and This place had acquired a very bad reputation for by - - :
woman who at the time of taking can be drinking fountain, in place of the unsightly structure set f3.Asovaiial
nEastern Junction Bg4 6&14 210 566
Irish, only five days at work 4 dols. a-day. gambling, drinking, and violence of every kind, - a
Grumbled terribly, but full of hope of doing better and gave the Governor more concern than the whole proved to be a, prostitute? Or, besides the takinc prov
.up son? years since in Bath-street fa• the purpose of dis- ButYalo and Lake Huron l6l 114 1,315 1,217 1
playin '-, the hot mineral waters of the city. Dr. Falconer Detroit and Milwaukie lB5l 140 1,685 1,306
as the river falls. of the rest of the mining does it extend also to the nature of the child? (the u layer) has Promised to submit the of the Dutch Rhenish
g country. Nearly all the9,687 10,601 '
vices of the Does the crime embrace actual prostitution, or is licensed victuallers t the C' Art Committee,propositionGrand Trunk of Canada 879 849
Next scene is an Indian fishing village, redolent place were due to theo e City and, if it Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884 2,776 1,610 i
of professional gam presence of a set it complete if actual prostitution be avoided? Is shout I appear satisfactory, to give it his support.
of drying salmon, of which vast numbers from gamblers from h I
California, who the age of the girl taken material, the same law [AI mat.ersemexe.l-Hollo Great Luxembourg 122 38 1,773 1,001
heir trade openly and in defiance way's Ointment and Pills.- Great Western of Canada 291 283 7,702 10,067 i
every stick in the village. Legions of wasps. Went tmice of law. The applying
to a child of seven as to a child of fourteen? st.mption.-The r
Con . . p evalence of this disease, and the Lombardo-Venetian 283 249 7,263 6,619 '
into a hut. Couldn't hear a word owing to the failure or "caving in" of the American towns at- How is the crime effected by the woman who on- numberless victims who sink under it yearly in this cotm- Lyons and Geneva 142 107 3,531 2,095 '
buzzing of the wasps. Couldn't sit from filth, nor tempted to be established in Puget
Sound and • •
in .
ginally received the child changing her habit of the ' - 31 d -(1 S .• &Al"
try, :render e consideration of preventive measures a mat- ari , ara,ossa icant 284 176
Maria Antonia' 2l 21 - - .
245 215 '
stand feom suspended fish, but moved out pretty Bellingham Bay, in opposition to Victoria, sent a life-would the original reception of the child still ter ,If paramount importance. The proportion of deaths
fron a consumption alone, to deaths from all causes in Great Northern of France 574 574 45,210 38,813 .
quickly on being seized round the ankles by y a large additional force of these harpies to Yale • and b Norwegian Trunk 44 44 454 477
e punishable if she afterwards proposed to give Brit air", is one third. If the reader choose, he shall be his Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 68,840 55,895
strong detachment of fleas. Indian wigwams are they spoke of making a last stand for th • '
their order h • WY, own physician in guarding against this malady in himself Paris and Orleans 922 771 49,350 39,541 1
to be looked at, not entered. A village orator ap- of the law of he land I
here. The operation thas Toher understand the ridicule of the thing one has or h ou.se . hold. When the first suspicion arises that con- Paris and Strasburg 979 791 36,728 33,888 i
435 369
peals to the Governor for relief against the miners, driven them from California, ' and the operation of only to apply those Questions to a case of theft. developing• - •
gum Olen is itself, let the patient have the chest Royal Danish
Sambre and Meuse 69
es 69
68 1,482 1,384
who are intruding upon the Indian domain. The the law of supply and demand has • sent them, as Imagine
a magistrate asked to punish a proved case and Wok fomented twice a day with warm brine • dry with Southern of France Sou 777 577 16,432 10,646
poor creatures ! They were very modest in their rats desert a falling house, from the embryo towns of theft, and • it
ine a co arse towel, then rub in the ointment as salt' is rubbed
ead of doing it, mildly apostrophis- ino Limit to preserve it, and the enemy will be baffled.
f West Flanders
. W. and N.W. of Franc- 716 504 .31,161 26,595 '