The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-06 00:00:00

earth before you, and down into that earth you
must go deeper than perhaps you have ever
dreamt of going. If you have been brought 4,
up to the calling of a gravedigger so much the
better for you. There is a chance for your
finding the labour to be light. All gravediggers
turn out to be fortunate here. I know of one who
when he first went to the diggings had but 75., who
made £2,000 in four months, spent it all, and is
now a master of the ceremonies in a cheap ball room
in the neighbourhood.
I had wished to see a gold mine, and the other
day my wish was gratified. I went down the
deepest one in Ballarat. It is called the " Great
Eastern," and it is on what is called the " Malakoff
Reef." They received my party in the most cour-
teous manner, and each endeavoured to outdo the
other in the politeness of his attentions. I was
shown how they had gone through the alluvial soil,
how they had gone on through the basaltic rock
and the sandstone, and how they had come at last
to the alluvial soil and the quartz gravel drift in
which the gold is now found resting on the schist
which once formed the upper table rock, when the
gutters in which the gold is now discovered were
the water courses of the country in archaic days.
The gold-seeking being finished I produced my
" Inexhaustible Bottle," which I had taken down the
mine with me, and treated all the workers to its
contents. It was the first time of the Wizard of the
North performing in a gold mine, and a strange
group we must have appeared. My bottle was
never before called upon to do duty so arduous.
Whisky was the liquor most in requisition, but
your miners are thirsty souls, and no moderate
allowance of the Glenlivet would satisfy them ; the
small glasses which I usually employ, would have '
been of very little use. Some would have the
whiskey poured into the lid of their pannikins,
others held up their caps to catch the flowing
stream, and some collected it in the hollow of their
shovels, and drank whiskey out of the same shovel
with which they had just dug gold. They begged
me afterwards to leave them the bottle as a curio-
sity, pressing me to do so, if I had another for my
magical display in the evening. Having first ob-
tained a promise from them that no one should
try its magical capabilities more than once a year,
and then on the anniversary of the day
of my visit, I presented them with it in due form.
It now hangs from the roof of their shanty, with
" Professor Anderson's Magic Bottle" on the label
attached to it. I am much afraid, however, that
when they come to use it they will have forgotten
the lesson in magic I gave them, and altogether fail
in finding out the secret of its inexhaustibility.
lam on the eve of leaving Ballarat to return to
Melbourne, and thence proceed to Sydney. You
will, therefore, receive my next communication
most probably from New South Wales, instead of
from Victoria.—l am, sir, yours faithfully,
JOHN HENRY ANDERSON,
Wizard of the North.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

CAMBRIDGE-DEC. 4.

At this corn market we had a fair supply of wheat. Ill-
conditioned barley was a dull sale, but fine qualities sold at
high prices. In other descriptions not much change.
Wheat, white 44s to 46s Beans, Mazagan..—s to —s
I red 38s to 39s Middle & small 42s to 50s
Barley 2Bs to 34s I White peas 408 to 60g
Oats 2os to 258 I Grey.. 4os to 60s