The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1858.

BANK OF ENGLAND, Jiarch 9, 1858.
R E Court of Directors of the Governor and
-IL Company of the BANK of ENGLAND GIVE NOTICE, That
a GENERAL &NIB T will be 11,1 d at the Bank on THURSDAY,
the 18th inst., at Twelve o'clock precisely, to consider of a Dividend.
Also, that another General Court will be held at the Bank, on
TUE 4DAY, the 6th April next, from ten o'cloCk in the forenoon till
fou: in the at ernoon, for the Election of a Governor and Deputy
G. vernor for the year ensuinz (which will be declared that evening).
and the same Court will be continued, by adjournment, and held at
the same place, and during the same 'hours, on Wediiesd 'y, the 7th
April next, for the election of twenty-four Directors 'which will
also be one or the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the char-
ter) ; and the election of the twenty-four Directors will be declared
as soon as the scritioy is over.
Printed li-ts of the proprietors having votes wi'l be ready to be
delivered at the Bank, cn Tuesday, the 23d March.
JOHN- BENTLEY, Secre'ary.
N.B. By an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of George
3d, no person will be entitled to v.)te at the said election who shall
not have been six calendar months possessed, in his oa n right, ofthe
stock for which he shall there givebis vote, unless the said stock shall
have been acquired, or shall have come by bequest. or by marriage,
or by succession to an intestate's estate, or by the custom of the city
of London, or by any dee t of settlemsnt after the death of any person
who shall have been entitled for lilt to dividends of such stock.
13 A N K

morning.. Much excitement exists throughout.the
city regarding the affair. • The United States' de•
puty marshals throughout yesterday and to-day
vainly endeavoured to get on the track of Messrs.
Clay and Cullom. Various absurd rutneurs
are now is circulation, but it is under-
stood that the challenge has been withdrawn,
as preliminary to a peaceful adjustment of
the difficulties, which there is little, if any, doubt
will be effected according to present indications."
Another and a later telegram says :
Thera has been no duel yet between Clay and
CullAn, and attempts are making for a settlement
of the affair by a reference to Senators Crittenden,
Toombs, and Kennedy. There- is reason to fear,.
however, that these attempts will fail, and that
there will be an exchange of shots."
A further report was to the effect that the affair
had been settled by Claj's withdrawal of the chal-
lenge, and the apology of Cullom.
Two other gentlemen, ex-Lieutenant Rhind and
Capt. Corrie,''had been held to bail in the sum ef
2,500 dols. each for their ;appearance before the
criminal court for challenging and posting Com-
mander Bout well.
The Tennessee Senate had been the scene. of a
fracas. One senator struck another in the face with
a book for giving him the lie. . A scuffle ensued,
but the parti,s were speedily separated.
The snip John Miltou,- bound from the Chincha
Islands to New York, had been lost on Long
None of the officers or crew. were saved.
A shocking catastrophe had occurred at St. Louip.
A drug store under the Pacific Hotel took fire, and
the flames enveloped the. stairways,
se as to cut off
all egress. Some of the il:mates were literally burnt
in their beds; others leaped from the windows,
and .were horribly mangled or killed by the fall.
Out of 100 persons in the.hon-e 29 wef. known to
have been lolled and six s- riou4 irlutittrewhile•
marry more were still teiseing.
Five steamboats' had -been destroyed by fire at
New Orleans. The whole of the shieping in port
was at one time in a precarious cOnditien.
A bill had b)eri.unanimoutily pa&ed by the Ken-
tucky'Legislatuti:e, .and signed by the Povernor,
authorising the ExeCutiveof that State to raise a
regiment of veluuteerS immediately, and. to tender
their services to the P.re!•ident of the United States,
to aid ie suppressing rebellion in Utah. •
The -Jacksonville (F10ui..14)- .Republican records
the dew h of Mrs. Winnie Lissit-r, aged' 130 years.
She was a hative of North Carolina. -
Lord Napier had publicly thanked the freemen
and citizens of Washington for assisting to sui:due
a fire which broke out.in his residence on the 11th
ult.

OF DEPOSIT,
Established A.D. 1844.
3, PALL-STALL EAST, LONDON.
Parties desirous (INVESTING MONEY are requested to examine
'le Plan of the Berm or DEPOSIT, by which a high rata of interest
nay be obtained with perfect secwity.
The Interest is payable in January and July.
PF.TE It MORUISON, Managing Director.
Forms for opening accounts sent free, on application.

LONDON & NORTH-WESTERN RAIL WAY.
TOTAL ECLIPI•E OF THE SUN.
RETURN TICKETS at a SINGLE .F :RE
.for tJte,POUBLE
JOURNEY will bo issued on the 13th, 14th, and 15th March (to
return on the 15th), from all Stations on this Railivay to r,Lts-
WORTH (the best situation for viewing this phenomenon), Brack-
ley, Northampton, Oundle, or Peterborough.
rom Liverpool, Birkenhead, Preston, Wigan, Chester,
Warrington, and Manchester. the Special ,eturn 'tickets at 12s Gd.
and 215., avallahle for seven days; will be a Inowledged et either of
the above natnedstations instead of to London.—By
Euston -tatlon, London, March 9, 1653.

••• • -
LIVERPOOL., BIRKENHEAD, CHESTER,
WARRING ON, PRESTON, WIGAN', MANCHESTER,
ST,CRIPOIZT, STALEYBIUDGE, GREENFIELD, • OLDHAM,
HUDDERAFI, Lll, DE ‘SBURY, RATLEY, and DM rAL.
Reduction of Fares by London and ,NOrth-Wesfern Railway.—
Return Tickets by all Trains, according to Class, 'are now issued to
or from Euston-station and any of the above stations. -
Availab7o for Seven Days 2d Class. Ist Class,
•• 129. 6d • 21s.
Available for Twenty-Eight Days.. 17s. Od.. .. ..... ....... 37
For further particula s, see hand-bills.s.
Euston-station, Ist March, IbsB.

By Order.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
The first month's payment on a single share is 12s 6d., and
the subsequent Instalment. are Bs. per month, with Is. extra every
quarter. Every investor In this mode has hid 6 per cent. per annum
pasted In the pa's-book for four years, and in one year it was 7 per
cent. All shareholders who paid into the Society 51. and upw.,rds
have received half-yearly dividend warrants o 6 per cent., and in
one year 7 per cent. Ihe kingas prov.d most profitable,
tor the last five years, to the wor and mlcUle classes; inde-
pendently of the greet advantages of withdrawing subscriptions at
ten days' notice No parte', rshio liability. Prospectuses sent free
to any part of the world. Offices, 33, Norfolk street, Strand, W.C.
CHARLES LE WI °RUNE ISEN, Secretary.

A delpa' ch from Kansas of the 13th ult. says :
" An act was introduced into the house on Feb.
12, supplementroy to, he Constitutional Couventiou
Bill. It changed the time of the assembling of the
convention from the 4th Tuesday4a March to the
2d Monday in-April. . It gave the convention full
power to say where the first general assembly under
the constitution to be farm. d should meet ind
when the constitution should be submitted to the
people. This act passed both branches of the Le-
gialat-ure, and was sent to the governor for his ap-
proval. He pocketed it, ant will thua defeat it, as
sufficient time does not remain for the Legislature
to take any action in regard to it, should the'go-
vernor keep it three days. A mill is bill was yes-
terday paved over the governor's veto. _ This bill
drys not differ materially from the one passed at
the extra session, except that the power to call out
the militia, which was first given to- the Mi-
litary Board, is now reserred to the Governor. An
election was told fora board of officers under this
law. The old board, at the head of which is Ma jot.-
Gee. J. H. Line, was elected unanimously."
The following resolutions were also passed
• "Resolved, by the House of Represeetatives of
the territory of Kansas, the Council concurring,
that we do hereby, fer the last time, solemnly pro-
test against the acturission-cf Kansas into the "[felon
under the LecoMpton Constitution ; and we hurl
back wi-h scorn the libellous charge contained in
the Message of the President accompanying fthe
Lecompton Constitution, to the effect : that tee
freemen of Kansas are a lawless people ; that, rely-
ing upon the juitice of our eau,•.e, we do hereby, in
behalf of the people, solemnly pledge to each o her,
to our Mends n Congress: and is the Slates,
our lives, our f rtenes, and our SACI:Oi hOnours, t,
resist the L -loom pton Cons ittitam.and Government
113, force of army if ncco say ; that in thin perilou4
tour of our 4tist .ry we appeal to the civilised world
for the rectitude of cur position, and call u,,on the
friends of freedom everywhere to array them-elves
against this lass act of oppression in the Kansas
drama. That the Governer be requested immedi-
ately to transmit certified coiiiee ofthis reselutiOu to
the President, Speaker of theEouse of Repre,en ta-
t. ves, and Presdent of the Senate of the United
States, and to our member in Congress, and that
the same be-presented to both branches et "Coegress.
The res lutions passed the house unanitiroisly: In
the Council they passed, receiving two negative'
votes—given by Messrs. Chalice and Mead. Mr.
Chalice is an out-and-out Pro-Slavery man, which
fact will explain his vote. Mr. Mead pretends to
be a Free-State man, but belongs to that hunkerish
class who would rather live under. the Lecompton
Constitution thaal protraet the struggle by any re-
sistance. At exactly 12 o'c'ock last evening the Go •
vernor sent a message a. tee Muse declat rug that
his connection with that body was dissolved. The
Governor thinks that the time .of the Legislature
expired byliroit ition at •12 ()clock. The Legislature,
however, takes a different view of the matter) and
has decided to hold on till 12 o'clock to day. As
exactly a quarter past. 11 o'clock lazkt night it was
stated to the House that, the Ceustittetioaal. Co:k
veutien Bill had been sent to the Governor three
days before, and had not been returned. It was
thereupon declared to be a law. The Legislature is
holding • over until to-day in order to remove any
doubts:tbat might exist in the minds of some with
regard t o.the legality of the Conven.ion Bill."
The 125th anniversary of the birthday of Wash-
ingt el had been celebrat.d with the .usnal crre-
monies.
Despatches from the Utah Expedition report that
the troops were in good cendi ion. • From Mormon
prisoners and etraggling Utah Indians Colonel
Johnston was well advised of the movements of the
Saints, who were making active prepa.atio s to
continue their resistance to the troops in the spring.
Their municipal regulations were very stringent,
and they looked with suspicion 'Upon everybody the
least inclined to favour the action of the United
States' Government. GovernOr 011111111ing Was per-
forming the duties of his offiee as far as he was able.
The outward-bound mails were making good pre-
gross, and the many Indians whem they met mani-
fested friendly feelings. en -
The Biistol Convention assembled at Richmond
bad resolved to inaugurate a steam liue between
Virginia and Europe. Mr. Preston, the chairman,
stated the terms of the contract inade by himself
with the ()deans Railroad Company. -of France,
which are as follows :—The number of eliipe-to be
not less than four; the tonnage of each vessel to be
not less than that of the Arago ; the number of tri} s
to be not less than 24 per asinume The capital
stock will be 3,000,000 dole. The diree ors the
first year are to be three Americau and tour
French, and the next year vice versa, The subven-
tion to be paid is 12,590 dole, par trip. Two of
the vessels are to be built at Norfolk,. to bear the
American flag, and two in Franceto bear the French
flag. This preliminary contract the ConVeetion
resolved to accept, and to use its best efforts to
perfect. it. The Convention also passed resolutions
appointing a committee to memorialise the Legis-
lcture of Virginia:, for a charter for the line, and
a committee to memorialise Congress for mail con.
tracts.

EORGE HOBSON begs to invite attention
1,74- of gentlemen to his new Stock of Trotesering,s for the pre-
sent season, price 21s. to 255. Tile Inverness Cape, 255. Now
ready, the new Overcoats, adapted for the corning season, which will
be bound on inspection at prices most mochrate for best goods.
Excellent, with Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable Tailor,
6; Lombard-street.

—tie harvest,
tafrteeeupbyouthe decision
" Mother
The ice companies
brigp a c
all the rivers and lakes frortm.
Consti-
tution. New York paper announces that
Bc.ntln," 105 years old, and " Daddy Vassal," 92
years of age, the last survivors 'of those slaves of
ofM a st
lise, fintlaiedSe the
cslinupsreelsewchoouratreo
of 1784, by which slavery in the State was
declared to be illegal, are still enjnyinbr,
life and
comparative vigour in the city of Boston.
In attempting i o esc ipe from the Sing-Sing prison
by means of the ice four convicts were shot, two
mortally. Of the latter a New York paper says:.....
"They are both considered beyond the reach of
human skill, though they may linger for some
days. Quin anears to suffer, and continually
groans. Spence, though probably suffering quite
as much as his companion, has more fortitude, and
&es no outward evidence of what he suffers. Oc-
casionally he turns to Quin, and says, 'Do, for
God's sake, stop making such a noise. We have
got to croak (die), and we may as well be decent
about it, and go game.' Ard he appears so to con•
trol his own feelings as to assume a perfect indiffer-
ence as to the result of his rash.atte22pt."

The ship Howard had arrived at New York from
Hamburg after a passage of 9G days. She left
Hamburg Nov. 17 with 286 pa,sengfrs, 37 of whom
died on ''the passage from a s'ckness resembling
cholera, and from weakness occasioned by shortness
of piovisionia and water, The laqer gas dealt out

in very small quantities for 42 days, being. made THE A.USTRALIAN NAIL.
from the steam of sea water.
Advices from Havanna to the 15th ultimo state ________„ that two cargoes of negroes had been landed. Two The following additional items of news we select
from the colonial papers received yesterday.
American vessels had arrived with 1,236 coolies ;
313 died on the voyage. Business throughout the THE HARVEST.
island had improved, and sugars had advanced. The ltielbourne Argus of Jan. 16 reports that
Stock, 68,000 boxes. Exchange on London 14 to
the harvest promised to be one of the most abund-
14i per cent. premium. M. Duercy, a French
ant yet gathered in the colon Rea
were Reap
getting-ing intomachines
engineer, agent to the "Credit° Mobiltario," had and steam threshing-machi es
been shot dead by an assassin, general use. Respecting the labour market the
Advices from the city of Mexico to the 2d ult., Argus says :
report that Zuloaga's Government had been recog
Just now all men of the labouring classes here
nized by all the foreign representatives.
are fatly engaged. Until reaping cemmenced there
In the New York money-market on the 22d ult. were more seeking work than the farmers could
the supply offering was so abundant that the rata of proviee for, and had not the corn ripened more
suddenly than was expected, the demand, even
now, in the midst of the harvest
would have
from 5 to 6 per cent. ; first-class signatures 7 to 8 I
interest had %run declined, loans oa call ranging
from 4 to 6 per cent. ; prime 60 to 90 days' bilk
scarcely been equal-to the supply. t
was antici-
per cent. ; and other good bills from 8t )9 per cent, pated that the harvest would have been more pro-
tracted than usual, but the heat and dryness of the
The bank statement for the week showed a remark-
able gain in specie, the increase being 1,189,801 weather during the last few weeks have oblig
coulded the
do's , making the total the largest ever held by the fanners to put on all the extra hands they New York banks. The deposits had increased get, and make the most of the short time within
(deducting clearings) 1,911,085 d Is., the which their reaping operations must be concluded.
loans decreased 76,572 dols., through the
If not secure I immediately when fit for the sickle,
-
scarcity of prime paper and the withdrawal of the overripe grain is quickly shed. Much of the
wheat is usually lost for want of suffieient hands
balances in specie by the resuming banks through-
the South ; and th - circulation had &creased to cut it in time ; but no loss from this cause will
64,653 dols. The stock-market closed firm with be experienced during the present season. - All the
men aveihble are fully employed, but there is no
an upward tendency; but it is stated that though
d
there lean undoubted appreciation of stocks thtreeficiency of labour, unle-s it may be in a few of
is too much sp--cula ion afoot. the outlying districts, the requirements of which
'
are but small, and are likely to be quickly
The -New York Times reports that the nee., tia-
euoplied after being publicly made known. Water,
times of Mr. Meran, in London, on behalf of the
is be,inning to fail on the gold-fields, and 'here
New York and Erie Railroad, l-ad advanced so far
Lou-
'''. a daily increasing nuratier of men obliged
as to enable that gentleman to forward souse
to leave them, and s:ek employment elsewhere.
don credits, against the cash investments ou the
Many of these are accuscGmed to farm work, and
new mortgage, which would enable ihe managt,ment
are bet to, glad to go to any psrt of the c.,notry-
to resume the payngf.nt of interest on their funded
)11 which their services ni iy be in 'agues-. For a
obligations, as well as to retire the few remaining
'past due acceptances of the company. The New month or six w,eks longer the harvest-field will
afford employment to all who are fit for that de
York Tribune also reports favourably with "regard
sertiXoti of work, aft r which period we much fear
to the American loans in . the London market.
that the labour-market will begin to exhibit a ten-
It says .that. the aggregate subscriptions in New
drncy to plethora. The quantity of work offering
York and London amounted to about 3,200,000
dollars, and that the president of the Illi-
will be decreasing as the number of men seeking it
-
will increase. The extra hands paid off by the nois Cen,ral Read had received an offer
farmers will have no other recourse than the public
for the entire balance of it, subject to he privileges
works to bi undertaken, and these are not likely to
of the helders of the July rights, and had accepted
this proposition to the extent of 2be carried on very extensively. From the gold
00,000 dols.
Foreign exchan:e was in good demand for large fields they will be completely excluded until she
amouets of- commercial tills, but the business at winter rajas have replenished the creeks anti reser-
volts. the Inekere' was not active, and quotations are
public
works that
lowered to 107 i to 1081 for commercial signatures Respecting the extent of the
at 60.days.on• London ; 109 to 1091 for bankers' are likely to be carried on during the autumn and
ditto ; and 1.09 i for very prime city endorsements.
winter, it is impossible as yet to form a very defi-
Paris, 60 days", 5.22} to 5.13 i. The cotton mar-
nits opinion. Although at the time we write the
ket had gained strength from the advices per
labour market here is in a most satisfactory state,
Afr:c I, and sales were effected on the basis of 11Z-c. our readers in E .tgland who may think of (riming
hither must not calculate on,fieding it so in a few
for middling uplands. The fl Jur market was dull
-
in c )nsequence of the firmness of holders of State, months hence. The national railroads, so long
looked for Ward to as a means of'providing employ-
In wheat no transactions. Corn dull and heavy,
and demand limited. - Mess pork steady, and. client for all, are likely to disappoint the general
in moderate demaud. Lard heavy. Cut meats' expectation -in this, respect, 'and our public men aro
ready. -Dressed hogs heavy; Beef in 'mode- sO slow in their movements, that the evils of last
rate demand et full prices. Bacon, quiet. In winter may be experienced again before they have
butter and chess© a fair business doing,
decided orataking measures for their prevention.
Spiel's .of , turpentine quiet, . but ' finely
held. Common • rosin in moderate de-
mand at full prices. Fine rosin, pitch, and
tar inactive. Pet and pearl rt,hes dull. Tallow
firmer, and an active business doing. Stigar firm,
and demand restricted. Mole ses not quite so firm.
Freights very dull. • To London :—Beef, 43. Gd. ;
eheese, 355. iu cabin.

GOL D.

With regard to the yield of gold, the Age of
Jan. 16 sa3s : •
"For several weeks we have received no startling
intelligence from the diggings of new rushes and
extraordinary luck. In fact, the occupation of the ,
gold seeker Is becoming every week a less fortuit-
ous and a more arduous one. Men do not now be-
take themselves to the diggiegs with eager hopes
and a fair promise of fortune ; they aie driven
thither by the scarcity of employineut in the towns,
and the difficulty of obtaining a livelihood, how-
ever scanty, anywhere else. - The digger is giving
peace to the miner, whose more elaborate opera-
tions require the outlay of capital, and the eeer-
else of such moral qualities as patience and perse-
verance in tle face of danger arid di-appeiutment
—properties which were comparative'y iu small de-
mand in the days of surfec.ng and shallow sinking.
The outfit indispensable to success, in the modern
sense of the t,een—lhat is, not t',,e sudden discovery
of a fortune, but the steady realisvion of a fair
annual income, consists of far oilivr implements
than the p:iatit:ve tub and cradle—in fact, the
lottery of a digger's life is almost extinct,
nut wtie-
ther as pod filers, gnarl z reefers, or deen-leid
miners, men must be prep-.red to itmst their eapi-
tA in machinery, and to devote many works or
months of toil to their shats and drives before tlie
preci us product is secure d. Tr e fortnnt.te diggers
1852 and 1853 would tie surprise 1, were they to
revisit toe scenes of their luck, at [kJ vast array of
engines rind imple:nottts which have dis;.lse.Nl
th
sitnpledishesand tomsof those days ;And they would
be equelly astounded at the value which is set upon
headings and tAirings—upon ness,es of cem.eit and
rock,-which ti ey would have cast away as worthl: se,
but which are now esteemed the surest depositures
of wealh. The auriferous earths which are avail-
able
for ruder prrte;esees may belar from exhausted,
but they lie beyond the bounds of our present
digging., or are found in rare and scanty patches
which have been. overlooked. Even the minimum
yield per load or ton which machinery can render
rrmunera ive is calcul tted by the dwt. rather than
the oz., and considering the much greater cost of
production in plant and 1 tbour, even the same gross
yield of gold could not he regarded as indicating
the equal richness of the lands. But with all our

LATER BY TELE@RAPEI, VIA BOSTON.
At,New York on the 23d money was easy, and
the supply conCnue I abun• !ant. Stocks active aud
variah'e, but o•enfrally firm, at the following
closing prices :--ititliana Fives, 87; Missouri Sixes,
84/ ; kluthon Third Mortgage Bonds, 68 ; Mil-
. waukie an L Mississippi Second Mortgage Bonds,
82i ; Terre Ilaute and Alton Second Mortgage
-Bonds, 45 ' • Michizan Central Sinking Fund, 1004 ;
Reading Railroad Bonds, 71 ; Pacific Mail Com-
pany, 60 ; Pennsylvinia Coal Company, '77 ; Cau-
-1 ton Company, 2ff ; Cu nberlaud Company, 20i ;
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 82 ; Lacrosse-
and Milwaukie Railroad, 10i ; ClevelandatclToledo,
RailrO4d, 50 ; Ne,w York Central Railroad, 88 ; Erie
Railroad, 36i ; Milwauk:e and Mississippi Railroad,
illi ; Hods .n Railroa,i, 30 ; Harlem Ralnad, 15 ;
Reading-Radriltd, 63i ; Cieveland and Pitt burg
Ra:ilT oa-i, 18 ; Mieliipn Central It-tilt-o,d, 74,1, ;1
Michigan Souaern Itlifroad, 30i. Sterling es-
ch43-11: quip t, Cor.ton ate icly ; s..les 3, 1,00 b .Ic,,
ruustly in tran,i•, ~t
.1.1 fur uptinds. Stt,.,. and
West!:.ro floor (-pia, at 4 d 01... 3tle. to 4 dots. 40c.
for supaifit4o Stage; 4 (kits. 50e. f",:r extra ; and
4 dols. 50c. to 4 do's. 60e. for extra; and 4 do's.
50 ‘. to 5 dols, for common to goof extra Wv.,tern ;
S(,u hern steady at 5 do's. to 6 doll. 50e. fir fancy
and extra. i

Canadian superfine, 4 doll. 30c. to 4 dols. 40c. ;
extra, 4 dols. 500. to 5 d, is. 50c. Wheat quiet,
Southern red fair, 1 dol. 2Jc. C,,rn ungc,tled ;
Southern whits at 67c. to 69c. ; ditto yellow, at
66c. to 68e. Beef steady. Pork lower. Bacon
Ltrd lower. Sugar firm, but quiel-. Mo-
lasses firm ; New Orleans, 30e. to 321 c. Spirits of
turpentine' 44c. to 47c. ; crude, 3 doh,. 75c
Rosin, 1 dol. 474 c. Linseed 01, 58e. to 59c.
Hides steady. Tobacco, IC,ntuckY, 61e. to 17c.
Tallow, 11c. to 110. per lb. Freights.—To
Lirerp,,ol dull. Cotton, 5-32 d, ; flour, ls. 9d. ;
giaiu, 44d. to 54d.

NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 22.
The receipt here of the Africa's advices caused
greater firmness in the cotton market. The sales
to-day add up 10,000 bales at 11c. to 1110. for mid-
d►ing. Sugar firm at 42c. to 51c. ; molasses, 27c.
29c ; flour, 4 dols. 500. to 4 dais. 75c. ; mixed
c-nn, 560. ; m.ss poi k, 16 dols. 25c. to 16 dols.
50c. ; lard in kegs, I.lc.

improvements in apparatus, with a large increase
of population and with new fields opening about
every week, we find that the gross product hts fallen
off.

RATE OF WAGES.
The following rates of wages are now obtainable
in rholNl,lbournelsbour market :-
Married couples without faini::ez rate at 60 . to
701. per annum, ditto, with families, 53/. to 601. ;
gardeners, 65/. ; grooms, 50/. to 60/. ; stockkeepers,
50/. ; hut keepers, 25/. ; shepherds. 301. to 35/. ;
reap.,rs, 235. per acre or 355. per weeli; ploughmen,
255. per week ; haymakers, 255. per week; mowers,
6s. to Be. per acre ; farm lab )u rers, 255. per week;
potato diggers, 255. per week or 255. per ton, with-
out rations ; shearers, 15s. to 17s. per 100 ; sheep
washers, 20s. to 255. per week ; men to bind efter
tho reaping machine!, 30s, per week ; threshers,
Bd. per bushel; bullock drivels for roads, 255. per
week ; ditto for farm service, 20s. to 255. per week ;
horse-team drivers for roads, 20s. to 255. ; hay
cutters and trussers, 10s. per week, or 6s. 6d. per
ton ; ni'ile cooks, 255. to 455. per week ' • waiters,
20s to 30e. per week ; blacksmiths and shoeing
stnit'as, 30s. to 50s. per week; carpenters, 355. to
40s. per week ; rough carpenters, 305. per week.
Without rations :-Blacksmiths, 41. per week ; car-
penters, 119. to 13s. per day ; masons, 15s. to 16s.
ditto; bricklayers, 15s. to 16s. ditto ; plasterers,
16s. ditto ; quarrymen, lls. to 12s. ditto; la-
bourers, 95. ditto ; able pick and shovel men for
roads, Bs. per day and rent accommodation ; stone
breakers, 6s. Gd. per yard, to raise their own stone ;
compo,itors, is. 3d. per thousand (not general in
the trade); female thorough servants, 281. to 30/. ;
housemaids, 26/. ; laundresses' 30/. t ) 351. ; conks;
35/. to 40/. ; nursetnaids, 1.6/. to 24/. ; needle.
women, 26/.

THE LATEST NEWS PER THE NIAGARA.
(BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, FEB. 25, EVENING.
Ti!e qearaship Ara go, from Southampton, a r ri wed
here yesterday, and the City of Washington, from
Liverpool, came into port to-day.
Our cotton market is firm, and the sales yester-
day and to-day foot up 4,500 bales, at an advance of
per lb. Up!airds middling is quoted at 12N
Tne market fcrbreddstuffsisdull, but unchanged.
Provisions are quiet, at about the rates advised
per mail.

On our Stock Exchange to-day a considerable
decline took place in all de.wriptions of securaies.
Messrs. Neill Brothers report the market for cot-
ton here steady, at 12c. for middling uplands, and
their trivia:les from the South indicate an active de-
mind under the news per Arago, notwithstanding
heavy receipti at the ports.
FROM UTAH.
Advices from Utah state that the United States
District Court of that territory bad indicted Brig-
ham Young, Kimball, and others of the "Saints,"
for high tre,son.
NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 24, EVENINO.
Our cotton market is without any change in
prices io-day. The sales yesterday and to-day
amount to 22,000 ba!es.
Advices fr om Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile
report a sight advance in each of those markets.

THE " GREAT SOCIAL EVIL."

It is a noticeable fact that, at the time our jour-
nals at home are discussing more frequently than
usual " the great social evil" of our large cities,
the same sad topic is exciting irecisely tie same
attention and leading to the same remedial sugge3-
Cons at Melbourne. Public meetings have been
held in the colony, awl the deputations have ha 1
interviews with the Govein.r, with a view'to the
adoption of means for the repression of rice. The
rri
Argus states that fealo
prostitution prevails
throughout the Australian colonies " to a frightful
extent."
"It has been proposed here (sap the Argus) to
establish a Female Home for the accommodation of
virtuous young women, both on their first arrival in the
colony and during their intervals of non-employment.
But any measures of protection we can devise here will
be of little avail if the morality of our female imnaiera-
!ion be undermined before it reaches our shores. And
it did not require the positive evidence adduced at the
Melbourne meeting to establish the fact which many
previous revelations had made notorious, that young
female immigrants coming to those shores are subject to
a succession of demoralising iufluences, lasting through
the whi.le currency of their voyage ; that they are x. 1
posed, in the vast majority of case,,-to asystematio con-
spiracy to corrupt them ; and that it is less than a
mirae!E for a young girl, cent out to these distant shores
without matronly protection during the voyage, to land
here the same itmoirtipt, pure-minded being that she
was when she left heri rmateitohu for
mother's roof.
" All female em
the fnture ought to
partake of a family character. If households cannot
come out to Australia undivided,
to leave the shelterit is at least essential
that no daughter
of
thea family should be allowed
"Y no Witiloonft
some
placerd" f;
torde ee r fcrthe this
protecting
character and &mine
survel!lance person of her own six, of
our cincience,
iscretion. We should not acquit
if we did not impress this matter upon
the' earnest-and anxious consideration of all persons in
E Vaud mandated with schemes of female emigration

In the Sydneyjilforning Herald of January 9, we
read :—" The first responsible parliament of New
South Wales is dissolved. It was an utter impossi-
bility for the mini-try successfully to carry on the
government. Their Land Bill, the cardinal mea-
sure iu the minds of the people at present, they.
were compelled to withdraw, while the new Assess-
ment Bill, on which they depended fora large
amount of revenue, was defeated by a majority of
two. The division was followed by an adjournment,
sub,equently by 'the proragation of the assembly,
and finally by its dissolution. This • step, though
it did not t Ike the country by surprise, has created
no small amount of complaint againt-t the ministry.
First, because it was with reason believed that the
dissolution might well have stood over until the
Electoral Bi:1 was passed; and second, b: cause
the several measures of urgency, such as the
Municipalities Bill and the District Courts
Bill, which were so advanced in their stages
through the legisla,ture, that they might without
any inconvenieace have been completed before
the leg,i,lature was dissolved. The abrupt manner
too, in which the assembly was distnisted, without
a word of excuse or apol, gy from the minister,
created great dissatisfaction.
The excitement now is as to the result of the new
elections, which will commend next week and ter-
minate about the end of February.
On Wednesday the new Exchange wrs opened—
a grea':, event in the annals of the colony. This
c-rerneny was performed by S r William Denison,
at noon. His excellency was attend( dby the prin-
cipal t aim% of the executive, and th-re was a large
and bril iant assemblage of ladies and gentlemen,
with ti e customary gwird of honour outsidq. Such
members of the consular body as the committee had
selected by invitation to assist at this cerein( ny
were also prean-. There were addres,es from the
Exchang- C • wpany and from the Chamber ~f Com-
merce, wiit a suitable reply fiom Iris exc leuey.
Th-reo wero a's,) a idre,st s, and vo ry able ones,
from the consuls of France and the Unit,d States
(
—the former ou he'alf of the tor,,,ign consuls as a
tiod.. , and the latter in the imsno of his own gre•tt
/via proveroni na too, with which our commercial
relations are so much snore e,x ensive than with any
o her. Both gentlemen dwelt upon the importance
of the cr,:cast,n, upon the grNtt polirLal influence
of commerce, arid upon t!.e necessity of such a
1 ber,l system of fin,ince as would promote its
growth. The electric telegraphs, which hive their
termini in the Exchange-building, were also opened
ol the same eccasion.

SYDNEY LABOUR MARKET.
FRIDAY, January 8.
As we anticipated, the advent of the new year has
improved the general prospects and demand in the la-
bour market of this colony. Agricultural occupationa
are being steadily pursued, and, through the wool market
in London offoting so good a sa!e for pastoral prodnos,
settlers appears to be turning their attention to sheep in
proferenci to cattle. This morning I received an advice
from a gentleman who is about to turn five of his cattle
stations into sheep runs ; and from the quantity of
cattle now going ov.rland to the Melbourne side, men
for that rrnployrnent have been, and are still in favour,
at from 303. to 403. per week. The current requirements
comprise, amongst others, married couples, witlat.ut
'or with growing b,ys ; single men as agricultu-
ral labourers; useful young men, and light-sraight, lads ;
and we anticipated a heavy demand within the next
month for pastoral hands for the northern and southern
districts. Young men aro in casual request for grooming,
gardening,neh the better; t
cutifig woad,
driver:;da,claari ng
a andt a
if handy
the r
attono.ls
so mt
menth the supply of female Ferranti Las been utterly
irrtriequate to the deinan''. There are many other parties
who cone to these oJlot.iei, strong young men, e ho have
peen brougkt up to no business, but some of whom being
versatile in then- habits, can turn their hands toanything,
and eventually succeed well.

OLIVER STAINES,
British and Foreign Labour Agent.

THE SLIc-4) ELECTION.

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Times :
"S.r,--I have seen with mush surprise the report of
your Dublin correspondent respecting the late trial for
Conspiracy at Sligo. It is a purely ex parte statement,
in which everything fivourable to the traverses has been
carefully suppressed.
"No notice whatever was taken of the comments of
the learned judge who addressed the jury respecting the
means by which they were placed in the box, he having
never known in Lis experience of the same course being
taken in the privi!ege of empanneling a jury. And well
miet he say so, when five Roman Catholics w:edartesetitahrreiterdde
I ler the defence
by a j try of 12 decided partisans, all of them Protestants,
and a large ntsj 'rity Orangemen, while
hlr9i7lotiirf their Co.
religiot 14s, highly respec'able men, were set aside by
epm ation, and not allow
I, hi.,
e•
slightestpa • tti,ecs coothhaicir.:uy
tpcegt,;iig
an
ntthdheat
thpart
t;), sejetiec
Judge
lei?
Roc:
gave no ,
it was a re. a proper case for the Court of Aope.d
forth t,., the ptinlic without
I am sure that, as a matter of common lairnt 11,, and
anated from your own cor-
tt, ifia. iroparti4n•y for which' you are distinguished,
Four obedient servant,
roay;
8.
one sided
triiiloel
nn.ti va—leictiiio:r)uueen;thi
aotiinno,
,btog4
0.
,:
Sr,h tnsy
Milton Club, March 9.
J. P. SOMERS."

Mr. J,,lin Jame, Moore, a young
connected, and residing in Clare-street, Liverpool, died
on Sunday trim the injuries which be rec. ived by failing
recently into a varry bqween Ea,tham and Ruck Derry,
which he wai pasiniz one night in the dark.
oecriheCian man respeclably
turLn
to me
EilLxiFnOgarDe.p—lyTtnoea Lmernidb,Craoafntchealllprrohfatsesiroeu-
atChelmeford, by whom he ha • been congratulated upon
his r, cent eletra'ion :—" Eaton-square, March 5, 1858.--
My dear Sir,—Nothing can be more gratifying
than to receive the ce•ngratolations of one who, like
yourielt, has watched and witnesstd nearly the whole of
my professional carter, and wno now sees the labours of
a 19rig life crowned with a dkinction beyond which
there is no aspiring. lam delighted, too, to be realm-
ber..d a' the moment of my elevation by the members of
Ithat honourable branch of our common profession whose
trust and confidence In me have contributed materially
1 to my advancement. It is a satisfactory proof to my own
mind that I have never neglected tho-e interests which
were intrusted or;gistelly to their protection, and of which
they were willing to assume the responsibility of eneineecc
ing me to be the advocate. I am most happy:oacego._.l
myself by my title with that town where &Brag... I LT:
any dibtinction as a leader on the Home Care i I._
d
Woodstock as my ne!ected original y the town of
raeable to me to
poli-
tical cradle, but it is more
andi to bind up with
recur to still earlier astcmationea,
d Oen stone (as it wen)
myse,f and my family the few, Again sincerely thank-
otestional fortunes.
of m I
be
gging
you of ali my pr
ileett e and begging
I inq you for your kindremembrances
in
the town to ll
you to distribute my
who fo
r `the the riein, barrister' of former
have a memoryor
days,— Believe yours, very eincerly, CHELMSFORD.
me
R,bert Bartlett, Mg,,,