The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND N, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1867.

the more so that, like Protestants, they put the
Church before the State. (Cheers.)

Mr. WOODWARD seconded the resolution. Chal-
lenged by the chairman to tell the meeting why he
did so, he said that he was the father of two
Zouaves. (Loud cheers, the audience rising.) His
eldest boy left him on his 16th birthday to be at the
battle of Castelfidardo. (A Voice—" God bless
him !") In conclusion, he denied reports of atroci-
ties said to have been committed by the Papal
troops at Men tana, on the authority of persons who
were present and who had returned to this country.
Sir G. BOWYER moved, and Mr. HERBERT, of
Clythe, seconded the fifth resolution, as follows :
" That an address embodying the sentiments to
which we as Catholics and Englishmec, bound to
the successor of St. Peter by every tie of duty and
gratitude, have given utterance, be adopted, and
that his Grace the Archbishop be requested to for-
ward the same to his Holinem."

The address read by the Earl of DENBIGH, and
adopted by the meeting, was in the following
terms:—

" Most Holy Father,—ln a spirit of filial vene-
ration, we, the clergy and laity of the dioceses
of Westminster and Southwark, lay at the
steps of your throne a united profession of fide-
lity and devotedness towards your sacred person,
and of profound sympathy with the prolonged
sufferings which your Holiness has had to endure at
the hands of an anti-Christian revolution. In the
impious and dastardly outrages against religion
and social order committed in the late invasion of
the States of the Church we but too plainly detect
the identical spirit of lawlessness and immorality
which dictated the horrors of the first French Re
volution, which, often repressed and often revived,
has of late years concentrated all its preternatural
energy against your temporal throne. But the at-
tacks levelled against your temporal sovereignty aim
avowedly at the direct overthrow of your spiritual
power, and at the destruction of Christian society.
Both the European Revolution and Catholic Christ-
endom agree in regarding your temporal sovereignty
as the citadel of Christian society, on the safety of
which depend the free exercise of your spiritual au-
thority, the preservation of the rights of religion in
every nation, and the maintenance of social order in
Europe. In your sacred person, in a word, are at-
tacked religion, government, and law. Enough for
us, moreover, is it to know that your voice has de-
clared your temporal sovereignty to be a necessary
condition for the independence of your spiritual au-
thority. This alone suffices to constrain us, your
devoted and obedient children, ever to hold the ene-
mies of your temporal sovereignty as the enemies of
the Christian world. It is superfluous, therefore,
for us to express our abhorrence at an invasion of
your territories so lawless and outrageous in its cha-
racter, since so flagrant a violation of public law and
of the independent sovereignty of the Church can
find favour nowhere but with a revolutionary press
and a perverted public opinion. But however great
are the evils which afflict Italy, it is at least a con-
solation, and of a kind peculiarly dear to your
paternal heart, Holy Father, to witness the
unshaken fidelity of your own subjects, so
pablicly displayed in the recent invasion be-
fore the face of Europe. Another consola-
tion, of a wider character, is offered to your
Holiness in the expression of devoted fidelity
towards your sacred person and of unswerving
loyalty to your temporal sovereignty, which come
day by day from the ends of the earth to the centre
of Christendom. By the attacks against your in-
violable rights the whole of Catholic Christendom
feels itself outraged ; with one voice it condemns the
lawless designs of your enemies. We, also, your
dutiful children, deny to any nation the right of
disposing of Rome, which is the inheritance of the
whole of Catholic Christendom, and which God has
bestowed for the protection of the spiritual power in
the successors of St. Peter. We deny, too, to the
Italian Kingdom the right, under the plea of na-
tional unity, of claiming Rome as its capital, or of
absorbing any portion whatsoever of the patrimony
of St. Peter. The determination cf Catholic
Christendom to resiat the lawless enemies of your
temporal sovereignty is made manifest by the z2al
which sends forth, from every nation, valiant de-
fenders to the walls of Rome, and makes Catholic
France rally once again to the defence of rights
sacred to every Catholic heart. We, too, in spirit
and in desire, range ourselves round your temporal
throne, and take our part according to the measure
of our strength—as we have so often done in the
triumph of your glorious Pontificate, so now also in
the prolonged martyrdom which the enemies of God
are inflicting on your paternal heart. iVe take cou-
rage, Holy Father, from the calmness and Christian
fortitude which you so nobly display in the presence
of enemies who seek to crown the triumph of evil in
the overthrow of your spiritual authority, and of the
prerogatives which you have received from the band
of God himself, but we have a confidence, which no
power on earth can disturb, that the hand which
struck off the chains from Peter, and which for more
than a thousand years has upheld the temporal so
vereignty for the Papacy, will deliver you from the
hands of your enemies, and give back to the See of
Peter security, peace, and the full possession of all
its rights."

In acknowledging a vote of thanks, moved by Mr.
Charles Langdale, and seconded by Sir Joseph
M'Kenna,
The Rev. Dr. MANNING said he thanked the
audience for this demonstration. Ile trusted that
the meeting would be only the first, and that they
would steadily, resolutely, and energetically p3rsc-
vere in the enunciation of the same principles all
their lives. (Cheers.)
The meeting terminated at half-past 11 o'clock,
having lasted four hours and a half.

MINING REVIEW.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.

Under this heading the Commercial Herald and
Market Review makes the following interesting and
truthful remarks upon the material progress and
growing resources of the Pacific Coast.

A review of our Agricultural Market for the first
nine months of the' present year exhibits a progress
as wondrous as it is gratifying. Our exports of
flour and wheat are enormous in comparison with
all former years, as will be seen by the following
figures :—To New York we have sent 209,791
barrels of flour more than during the same period
last year, and ;also 357,104 more sacks of wheat.
Great Britain has taken 2,291,080 sacks of wheat
than in the first nine months of 1866, equal to
$1,530,000 at two cents the pound. No account is
made of flour, of which she has taken 38,761 barrels
so far this year. Our breadstuffs trade with China
and Japan has decreased considerably, but there is
every reason to predict a revival during next quarter.
Most of the breadstuffs shipped to those countries
last year were exported during the last quarter of the
year. South America is rapidly opening her mar-
kets to our wheat and flour, the exports being
62,391 barrels of flour and 11,049 sacks of wheat
this year, against nothing during a corresponding
period last year. Our trade with British Columbia,
in the same articles, has almost reached zero. This
is accounted for principally by the great decrease
in population in that quarter of the globe. Aus-
tralia and Mexico also exhibit a decline in the same
trade, while with all other countries we are rapidly
gaining ground. The total amounts of flour shipped
up to the Ist of October, 1866, was 241,413 barrels,
while the quantity shipped the present year is
431,274 barrels, an increase of 193,861 barrels. The
whole number of sacks of wheat shipped during the
same period last year was 1,333,697, and this year
it has reached 3,506,574, or 2,162,877 more. The
flour this year expressed in wheat would equal
1,302,832 sacks, being an increase of 578,493 sacks
over last year. Tho combined value of the flour
and wheat shipped this year in excess of 1866
reaches $5,212,740. These facts speak for them-
selves, and require no comment.
Quite recently, efforts last year inaugurated have
been resumed for aiding in opening up the Colorado
River to navigation. Many of our leading mer-
chants having subscribed liberally towards that pur-
pose, it is now thought that freights will soon go
forward through that channel with less delay and
at lower charges than heretofore. Railroad trans-
portation is also beginning to tell with beneficial

effect upon the carriage of goods o ver local routes
and to certain points in the more d, 'strait interior.
The road of the Central Pacific C( anpany, pene-
trating one of the great mining regiot tad the State,
and extending thence across the Sierra Nevada, is
especially felt in the transmission of freights to
points along and near its line ; and cr ►n not fail, by
establishing winter communications v ri.th Nevada,
to greatly relieve the trade and bus:in ess of that
State, and of such points beyond; as receive
supplies through that channel. Irt concluding
our remarks on the material progress, :and growing
resources of the coast, it may be ob: ter ved that we
are fast becoming self-sustaining in, many of the
staples of manufacture and the prime :necessities cf
life, enabling us to retain for home in v€ stment large
sums heretofore sent abroad for Coo purchase of
these commodities. Among the antic les most en-
titled to notice in this connection arcs salted meats.
more particularly pork, bacon, and 4, ins, supplies of
which, as well also as of lard, ht-w e hitherto been
obtained chiefly from the Eastern States. The
large number of swine now in the country, and the
facility with which these animals 'ea n be raised and
fattened, renders it probable the 4t this will be the
last year that we shall be even in part dependent
on sources outside our own limits for anything in
this line of provision.

The business of mining dur'ing the past three
months, constituting the third vuarter of the cur-
rent year, without being signalioei by any marked
discoveries or unwonted excitement, has been gene-
rally prosperous and progressive.. This interest, as
has been justly observed, is now itt a sort of transi-
tion state on this coast, passing RI adually from the
precarious, fluctuating, and tra asitory, but often
largely remunerative business of stream-work or
alluvial washing to the more difficult and expen-
sive, but, at the same time, more permanent and
certain pursuits of cement and vein mining,
calling for the employment of a greater amount of
capital and skilled labour, and attended generally
with larger and more certain but :less immediate re-
turns. Even the former branch of the business, as
at present conducted, is much more costly and com-
plicated than during its earlier stages, when the
rudest implements and the simplest manipulations
sufficed to segregate from its associate materials and
to secure the granulated gold, the only metal then
sought for. The pan, the tom, and the rocker of
the pioneer gold digger, have, except in a few loca-
lities, been long since superateded by the sluicing,
hydraulic, and other improved modes of washing,
whereby immense masses of earth are readily broken
down and deprived of their auriferous contents. The
placer miner instead of pursuing his calling along
the gravelly bars and in the beds of the rivers and
alluvial gulches, where the most shallow excava-
tions answered every purpose, now engages more
extensively in deep explorations, sinking his
shafts far down, and driving his tunnels into
the deeply buried cement and gravel beds ;
or penetrating the superinctunbent ruins of former
geological systems, drifts along the auriferous chan-
nels of ancient rivers, richer, by far, than those
more modern streams that supplied the earlier fields
of mining industry. Vast banks of earth are shat-
tered with powder and sluiced away ; huge piles of
tailings are annually washed and rewashed, every
year bringing with it some valuable invention and
material advancement or marked change in the im-
plements used and modes employed in this depart-
ment of mining. But it is in the other branch of
the business---in the working of quartz or vein
mining—that the greatest progress is being made,
and the most vital gains achieved. As in this de-
partment the difficulties to be encountered were
more formidable, so here the improvements made
bare been most signal and important, involving in
their conselusnces questions economical, chemical,
and mechanical. As to the best methods of attacking
and exploriag the ore channels much has been learned,
resulting in a greater economy, security and system,
than had before been attained. A more careful and
conservative policy is being observed in the conduct
of leading mines, looking to their preservation and
permanent productiveness rather than immediate
and excessive profits. Improvements are constantly
being made in the construction of machinery and
the arplic ttion of steam, some of which promise to
effect a great saving of labour and propulsive
power. The great problem of the successful treat-
ment of the sulphureted ores of the precious metals
makes gratifying progress ; several large chlorina-
tion works erected in different parts of the State now
being operated with results that promise for it an
early and satisfactory solution. Other works have
also been put up for treating these sulphurets by a
cheaper and, as is claimed, more effectual process,
while many of the more obdurate silver-bearing
ores are being successfully reduced by means of
smelting or such other modes as varied and per-
sistent experiment has established as best. New
explosive compounds are about being substituted for
gunpowder, whereby it is thought a saving of at
least one-half the present coat of blasting can be
effected, while the completion of railroad communica-
tion with many of the great mining centres of the State
and its early extension to or near others, still further
in the interior, cannot fail to impart to this branch
of business an activity and insure for it a prosperity
greater than it has ever yet experienced. The al-
most entire cessation of Indian hostilities in the
earlier settled portions of the mineral regions has
told favourably on the progress of many of the more
out-lying diitricts, some of which had previously
been much retarded by this cause. At present all
the older Pacific States and Territories are nearly
exempt from the depredations of the native tribes,
though the latter still continue by their attaeks of
menaces to prevent exploration and defeat mining
operations in many parts of Montana, Utah, and
Arizona ; certain sections of which can neither be
settled nor even prospected until these savages are
destroyed or effectually subjugated. Another ele-
ment of thrift in the more inland mining districts is
the extent to which they are becoming able to sup-
ply all feed-stuffs, flour, and other staples of sub-
sistence by products of local growth. Even in the
more remote and desert sections of country a suffi-
ciency of these commodities has been raised to meet
every home requirement ; the capacities of Arizona,
the vast regions east of the Cascade Range and
those lying between the Sierra Nevada and the
great Central Cordillera of the continent, proving,
in this respect, much greater than had hitherto been
supposed.

Since the issue of our last semi-annual review the
commissioner for the collection of mining statistics
on the Pacific coast has completed his labours and
transmitted the same to Washington. His report,
the material for which has been collected with the
utmost diligence and care, is comprehensive, volu-
minous, and beyond all question one of the most
useful and instructive papers ever compiled upon
the resources and industries of this or perhaps any
other country. It seems to cover the whole field
ably and fully—nothing appears to have been for-
gotten, slighted, or overlooked. Questions of
finance, agriculture, transportation, manufactures,
and commerce—of private interest and public po-
licy—are all considered with reference to their
bearings on the subject of mines and mining. The
work is eminently practical and utilitarian, abound-
ing in facts and figures drawn from the most intel-
ligent and authentic sources ; it having been the
aim of the commissioner to make it so thoroughly
reliable that it could safely be adopted as the
basis of legislative action as well as of extended busi-
ness operations.

DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON,
Monday.—Th, Royal Mail Co.'s steamer Atrato, Captain
Jellicoe, sailed this afternoon with mails for the British
and foreign West Indies, Mexico, the Pacific, California,
Central America, Australia, and New Zealand. She took
128 passages and a largo cargo; silver coin, £B4O ; gold
coin, £3OO ; English jewellery, £2,600 ; French jewellery,
£8,111; and 350 bottles quicksilver, value £2,450.
"Sirs,— I have been a great sufferer from indigestion
and violent sick headaches for upwards of four years, for
which I have consulted many physicians, and got no relief
from any source till I tried Perry Davis's Pain Killer,
which I sin ha, py to state has entirely relieved me.—ESTER
BIZIGGS, Little Bolton, June 2, 1859." "Gentlemen,—'Phis
is to certify that after having been long troubled with
rheumatism or neuralgia in my face and gums, in conse-
quence of which I have had nearly all my teeth extracted,
I made -use of your excellent Pain Killer, since which I
have never had a pain in my face or gums.—Yours, &c.,
G. J. ASHTON, Manchester, June 6, 1859. - Messrs. Perry
Davis and Sou." Sold by all cheinist/3. Wholesale depot.
17, Southampton-row, Holborn (W.C.) The genuine has
always the words PAIN liiIALL.Li QU tll9 tigyvviumat
stamp.— (APYT)

CONSERVATIVE MEETING A 7 MALDON.

The Maldon Conservative Club held its anniversary
meeting on Tuesday evening, Mr. H. J. Selwyn-Ibbetson,
M.P., presiding. There were also present Mr. G. 'W.
M. Sandford, M.P. for the borough, and Lord Eustace
Cecil, M.P. Mr. Earle, M.P., the other sitting
member for Maldon, was not present. The borough
will in future parliaments return only one mem-
ber. Mr. Sandford, in addressing the meeting, said
his principles were the same in 1867 as in
1854, when le was first returned for the borough.
He had always considered that one of the great defects of
the old Reform Bill was the monotony of suffrage which
it introduced ; and he feared that we had now substituted
one monotony of suffrar for another. What he should
have desired would have been some system of representa-
tion by which the interests of a greater variety of classes
would been secured. It would be no use to make a con-
cession of a popular suffrage if it was not followed up
by popular measures, and he was prepared for his own
part to support a popular and progressive policy. The
chairman said he had always been one of those who
thought that, from the increase of population and the ex-
tension of education, the time had come for a measure of
Reform ; and ho had therefore approved the policy pursued
by the Government. Whether for good or evil, the Reform
Bill of last session was an accomplished fact, and he would
ask all parties not to pass judgment upon it too hastily,
but to rely on the good feeling, the common sense, and
the love of order and good government which charac-
terised English men. The education question would now
demand attention. He believed we were far behind other
countries in the amount of education offered to the people.
At the same time, we must avoid the risk of over-edu-
cating the people into dissatisfaction with their lot in life.
Lord E. Cecil, who was suffering from indisposition,
responded to the toast " The Conservative Members
present." After touching upon Reform, the state of
Ireland, &e., the noble lord said the new constitutional
party, whether composed of Conservatives or moderate
Liberals, would have to open its arms wide, and throw
aside all narrow prejudices. So only would it be able to
resist violent and revolutionary changes, and reconcile the
old state of things with the new.