The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

THE GOLD FIELDS.

In the commercial intelligence of the Melbourne
Argus we read :
Export entries were passed at the Customs to-day
(14tb), for 16,271 ounces of gold, for shipment to
England in the City of Sydney, via Suez, and in the
Oliver Lang and Donald M'Kay, direct. The Oliver
Lang cleared out with a total of 47,442 ounces,
exclusive of small quantities in the hands of passengers,
in the following parcels Union Bank, 10,288 ounces ;
Bank New South Wale., 7,500 do.; London Chartered
Bank, 7,452 do. ; English, Scottish, and Australian
Chartered Bank, 6,920 do.; Bank of Australasia, 5,253
do.; Bank of Victoria, 5,061 do.; Dannistoun Brothers
and Co., 4,469 do. ; Mackay, Baines, and Co., 140
do. ; M. Evans, 106 do.; sundry small shipments, 250
do. The Melbourne bullion-brokers are buying at
the following prices :-31 lGs to 3/ 168 31 per ounce for
Castlemaine and Sandhurst; 3/ 16i 61 to 3/ 163 9d for
Mount Korong ' • 3/ 17s to 21176 Gd for Dunolly, Mary-
borough, Fiery Creek, and Avoca ; 3/ 16s to 31 171 Gd
for Ararat and Pleasant Creek ; 3/ 17s 6d to 3/ 193 for
Ovens ; and 31 18s 6d to 31 193 for Ballarat.
The quantities received by escort on Friday last were
fully up to the average of the last thirteen weeks,
The shipments during the week have been :
_

By the Oliver Lang, for London
~ Austral, for London
Previous shipments, corrected by' coreparison
with the entries passed at the Customs 2,301,323

Ozs.'w
47,442
8,309

Total shipments for the year
Or, 93 tons 6 cwt. 2 qrs. 221bs. 10 ounces ; the value of
which, at 4/. per ounce, amounts to 9,440,926/.
The money market has been increasing in tightness
since our last summary was issued. Under the impas-
sion that shipments from Great Britain must fall off,
speculators have been induced to buy when goods have
been offered at tempting rates. They have pro-
cured advances in the hope of realising in a rising
market, but they have held on until they have found a
money market tightening over their heads, and sales
impossible except at a ruinous loss.
The advances mounted up from 5,106,9281. during the
first quarter of 1856 to 8,194,860/during the third quarter
of 1857. The banks have determinedto permit no further
increase to tike place, and their sudden carrying out of
this determination has caused much of the tightness
which now prevails. In this condition of affairs there
is a great call for caution in future financial operations.
There have been several failures since our last summary,
but none of sufficient importance for separate mention.
The 4th of the month, which was rather a heavy one for
November, passed off well,
but there is still a great de-
mand for advances. The banks now charge 7 per cent.
for discounting bills having under 95 days' currency,
and 8 per cent. minimum for these having over 91 days
to inn. For rtnewals and for overdrawn accounts 10
per cent. is charged. Drafts are issued on England at
1,1- per cant. premium at 60 days' sight ; for amounts
under 501. at 2 per cent. premium at 30 days' sight.
Bills against gold are purchased at 1 per cent. premium.
Freight on gold, by direct steamers or sailing vessels,
31d. per ounce, deliverable in London ; insurance,
per cent. ;by the overland route, per cont.—that
7d. per ounce as nearly ae possible; insurance, 14 to 1g
per cent.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
We have the South Australian Register to Nov.
12th, or about six weeks later than the date of the
A‘ielaide news we gave two or three days ago.
The Steam Postal Bill, wbich has passed both
houses of the South Australian urea,Legislatpro-
vides for a subsidy of 9,0001., payable by prvince, as its proportion of the cost of the colonial
mail service, in return for which the steamers are
hereafter to call at Kangaroo Island ou their home-
ward voyage, to take the Adelaide mails.
The parliamentary contentions described in our
last Adelaide news have resulted in a Ministry con-
sisting of tits following gentlemen :
Mr. Younghusband, Chief Secretary.
Mr. Hanson, Attorney-General.

Mr. Hart, Treasurer.
Mr. Reynolds, Commissioner of Public Works.
Mr. Dutton, Commissioner of Crown Lands and
Immigration.
The legislative business of the session has not been
very fruitful. of. practical results, the numerous
changes
.and the lengthy privilege de-
bates, ate s, greatly of
MmlabsstYorrbing the time and obstructing
the business of the country. The Council, or
Upper House," has passed a remarkable measure.
It is entitled " An Act to restore to South Aus-
tralia the full benefit of Trial by Jury ;" the imme-
diate occasion of the bill being the course very fre-
quently adopted by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr.
Boethby, in refusing to allow juries to return
general verdicts] and in requiring them to find as
to special facts, leaving the verdict in the hands of
the court.

The population of South Australia is unofficially
estimated at 108,000.
The national classification of the 1,220 arrivals
of the past quarter gives the following result :
English, 789 ; Irish, 368 ; Scotch, 63. The total
of English females is 327 ; of Irish females, 117 ;
and of Scotch females, 27.

NEW SOUTH WALES.
SYDNEY, Nov. 11.
The European steamer arrived ou the 18th Oct.

When the fearful condition of our fellow-countrymen
and women in India became known in this city, and the
want of horses for the Indian army was understood,
effort; were at once made to form a committee for the
purpose of collecting information in respect of this im-
portant matter. The consequence of this movement
was, that before Col. Robbins arrived i❑ Sydney, cir-
culars and letters were sent to all parts of the colony.
Colonel Robbins commenced purchasing at Paramatta,
and tbeu visited Windsor, Penrith, and Brengella,
leaving Camden, Appin, Campbelltown, and Liverpool
still to be visited i❑ the Home District. He has got
above 60 hordes, besides about 30 bought in Sydney,
which is most promising, considering the difficulties of
a commencement. It was not known exactly what
style of horse was meant, or what price would be given,
and it was industriously circulated that he took only
first-rate horses, and was offering no more than 12/.
a head, which prevented great numbers from oomieg
forward. The horses he las purchased are strong
and active, fit to mount a heavy stock-keeper ; the
price given, we understand, has been from 25/. to 451.
Colonel Robbins proceeds next week to the Hunter, and
there is no doubt of his having from these two home
districts full cargoes for the Undaunted steamer, and
Monica clipper diip, which he has chartered, and which
will he despatched the instant they are fitted. These
will carry to our countryme❑ nearly 500 suitable horses
thoroughly broken in, upon which dragoons may be
mounted and made available even in the campaign,
which was the original object in ,stahlishing the asso-
ciation. Colonel Robbins wants 1,400 horses more, and

if they are gut good and at a reasonable price, the
Government of India will take the same number every
year. The "Undaunted will leave this port with the
first cargo in a few days.

NEW CONSTITUTION AT THE ANTIPODES.
Om of the most practised of Englishmen, Gover-
nor Sir William Denison, has just constructed a
constitution and a system of government for this
remarkable race of people. Experience has proved
that men may make mistakes in providing for the
Pitcairn Islanders, now settled in Norfolk island,
and it may turn out Sir William has also mistaken
thlei e Butfra mo
cnathe sefeamc eof the thing
has seems
a veryfitt
oneconstitutionfo rthe
modern Utopia—for a race Voted hitherto for its
gentleness, obedience, love of order, and a very
fair share of industry. Universal suffrage, election
of magistrates annually, and appeals only to the
decision of their ownlot selected juries in all ordinary
cases, may briefly serve as the outline of the con-
stitution. Annually, the day after Christmas-day,
the chief magistrate and his two assistants, deno-
minated councillors, are to be elected ; the chief
magistrate must be at least 28 years old, must
be a resident, and must own a landed estate on
the island. The councillors must be resident, and
must be at least 25 years old. The chief magi-
strate will be in fact, although not in name, the
Lieutenant-Governor of the island, carrying into
effect all instructions he may receive from the
Governor of New South Wales ; and he will carry
on the government of the land, with the advice
of his two councillors, whenever he asks it. All
three will act as magistrates during their year of
office, and commissions as magistrates will be
forwarded to them from Sydney annually, as
soon as official notice of the election has been
sent up. Every male inhabitant of 21 years
of ago will be an elector, provided he has been
six mouths a resident, and provided he can read
and write. The laws and regulations of the
island may be changed at any time by a public
meeting and a poll of the people present, providing
the change has been called for by the dud magis-
trate and councillors ; but the proceedings will
have to be forwarded to the Governor of New
South Wales for his approval. All minor cases of
police or of debt, &c., will bo decided by the magis-
trates ; all more serious cases, criminal or civil, by
juries of seven elders, not less than 25 years of age,
chosen by lot ; but cases involving danger of life or
limb must be reserved for the consideration of the
courts of justice in Sydney. Every child must re-
ceive a public education, a pecuniary penalty being
levied for non-attendance, heavier than the fee
charged for attendance; the schoolmaster to re-
ceive all the fees and penalties, which will be col-
lected for him, free of deduction, by the. chief
magistrate. No beer, wine, or spirituous liquors
to be landed on the island except for medical stores.
The chaplain of the island is entrusted with con-
siderable powers ; he will be the returning-officer,
but cannot be elected magistrate or councillor ; he
will have supreme charge of the education given to
the children ; he will keep and issue the medical
stores. The only public income provided appears
to be that derived from police fines and penalties.
So curious a mixture of thorough Radicalism gene-
rally with Toryism in religion and education we
have never read before. It would be a Utopian
constitution for any ordinary people, who would
certainly soon grow disaffected as regards the reli-
gious, the educational, and intoxicational provi-
sions. But possibly it may all the better suit the
peculiarities of the inhabitants of the rock-bound
[stand of the Pacific.-Ikfaitland Mercury,

SALE OP THE PROPERTY OF LEOPOLD REDPATH.—A
further sale of the property of Redpath took place yes.
terday, at the auction mart, when Mr. Marsheold by auc-
tion the following:—The reversion to 83 shares in the
London and Westminster Bank, 201. per share paid ; and
to the sum of 1301. secured en mortgage, receivable on the
death of a lady aged 63, unless a gentleman aged 40
should die unmarried in the life time of the lady, bold
for 405/. The reversion to the sum of 4001. 3 per
Cent. Console, and the sum of 110/. receivable on the
death of a lady aged 87, sold at 2901. The reversion
to the sum of 1661. 13a. 4d., receivable on the death
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THE WEATHER—Sox OFFICE, JAcUABY 9.
THIMMO3fETEE, IN THE SHADE.
53—highest sines noon yesterday.
SO—lowest this morning and during the night.
51 —thi's day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.07.
Warn, S.S.W. to S.W. ; fresh, with rain.

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