The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

home Government will now be more free to act with
vigour in asserting the rights of the nation in this
quarter.

Within the last few days the American forces at
San Juan have been increased to 700 men, and ad.
ditional stores have been landed, and the camp has
been removed to a still stronger position, within
rifle shot distance of the Hudson's Bay Company's
buildings at Bellevue.

No further action has been taken by the British
authorities. The Satellite has relieved the Tribune,
and is now stationed in Grffin Bay, on the east side
of the Island of San Juan.
The flagship the Ganges and the Tribune are in
Esquimalt Harbour; the Pylades is in San Fran-
cisco, whither she went with despatches to overtake
the European mail of the sth inst., whence she will
soon return. The Plumper is in Burrard's Inlet, cn
the mainland of British Columbia. She went over
to that place a few days ago, to rescue two English
gentlemen who were reported to have been cap-
tured by Indians ; but the report was unfounded.
Indians don't molest "King George men" unless
they mistake them for " Bostons," a mistake which
their acute knowledge of physiognomy generally
saves them from.
The Plumper is now making a survey on the
coast of the mainland, and will be back in a few
days.

The news from the gold mines continues favour-
able. Considerable quantities of " dust " are being
exported, and trade is brisk.
A vein of gold-bearing quartz has just been dis-
covered at Victoria. It " crops out " under Beacon-
hill,
in the public park, and extends along the shore
of Fuca Straits, under the sea. Its value has not
yet been ascertained.
The colonists are getting up a memorial to the
home Government on the subject of the San Juan
occupation.

LATER FROM VICTORIA.

(From the Alta California.)
The steamer Forwood, Capt. G. P. Lock, arrived
in port Sept. 1, with dates from Victoria to the 28th
ult. She was detained 12 hours off the bar in a fog.
The Forwood brings 20,000 dols. in gold dust.
QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLAND.—On her way out
from the harbour of Victoria, the Forwood spoke
the schooner Island Queen from the Queen Char-
lotte expedition, which reports that the search for
gold there was a failure.
Tilt! Gazette publishes the following reply by
Douglas to Harney :
" TO BRIGADIER GENERAL WM. S. HARNEY, COMMANDING
THE TROOPS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF OREGON.
" Government House, Victoria, Vancouver's
Island, Aug. 13, 1859.
" Sir,—On the evening of the 10th inst. I had
the honour of receiving your dispatch dated Fort
Vancouver, Aug. 7, 1959.
" In reply thereto, I must thank you for the
frank and straightforward manner in which you
communicate to me your reasons for occupying the
island of San Juan in the Haro Archipelago with
a portion of the military forces of the United States
under your command.
"I am glad to find that you have done so under
your general instructions from the President of the
United States as military commander of the de-
partment of Oregon, and not by direct authority
emanating from the Cabinet at Washington.
"You state that the reasons which induced you
to take that course'are the "insults and indignities
which the British authorities of Vancouver's Island,
and the establishment of the Hudson's Bay Com-
pany, have recently offered to American citizens
residing on the island of San Juan,' by sending a
British ship of war from Vancouver's Island to convey
the chief factor of the Hudson's Bay company to
San Juan, for the purpose of seizing an American
citizen, and forcibly transporting him to Vancou-
ver's Island to be tried by British laws.
" I will explain for your information that the
agents of the Hudson's Bay Company hold no offi-
cial position in Vancouver's Island, nor exercise
any official power or authority, and are as entirely
distinc fromt the officers of the executive govern-
ment as are any of the other inhabitants of Vancou-
ver's Island.
"To the reported outrage on an American
citizen I beg to give the most unhesitating and un-
qualified denial. None of her Majesty's ships have
ever been sent to convey the chief factor or any
officer of the Hudson's Bay Company to San Juan
for the purpose of seizing an American citizen, nor
has any attempt ever been made to seize any Ame-
rican citizen and to transport him forcibly to Van•
couver's Island for trial as represented by you.
" Up to a very recent period but one American
citizen has been resident on Sax Juan. About the
commencement of the present year a few American
citizens began to squat' upon the island, and upon
one occasion a complaint was made to me by a
British subject of some wrong committed against
his property by an American citizen, but no atten-
tion was paid to that complaint, out of considera-
tion and respect to the friendly government to
which the alleged offender belonged, and whose
citizens, I think, it cannot be denied, have
always been treated with marked attention by
all the British authorities in these parts.
With reference to San Juan in particular, I
have always acted with the utmost caution to
prevent, so far as might lie in my power, any ill
feelings arising from collisions between British sub-
jects and Americ in citizens, and have in that re-
spect cordially endeavoured to carry out the views
of the United States Government, as expressed in a
despatch from Mr. Marcy, dated 17th of July, 1855,
to her Majesty's minister at Washington, a copy of
which I herewith enclose for your information, as I
presume the document cannot be in your possession.
"Following the dignified policy recommended by
that eoipatr,h, I should in any well-grounded case
of complaint against an American citizen, have
referred the matter to the federal authorities in
Washington territory, well assured that if wrong
had been committed reparation would have fol-
lowed.
"I deeply regret that you did not communicate
witlf me fey information upon the subject of the
alleged grievance. You would then have learned
how unfounded was the complaint, and the grave
action you have adopted might have been avoided.
I also deeply regret that you did not mention the
matter verbally to me when I had the pleasure of
seeing you at Victoria last month, for a few words
from me would, I am sure, have removed from your
mind any erroneous impressions, and you would
have ascertained personally from me how anxious
have ever been to co-operate to the utmost of my
power with the officers of the United States Govern-
ment in any measure which might be mutually
beneficial to the citizens of the two countries.
" Having given von a distinct and emphatic de-
nial of the circumstances which you allege induced
you to occupy the island of San Junn with United
States troops—having shown you that the reasons
you assign do not exist, and having endeavoured to
assure you of my readiness on all occasions to act
for the protection of American citizens and for the
promotion of their welfare, I must call upon you,
sir, if not as a matter of right, at least as a matter
of justice•and humanity, to withdraw the troops
now quartered upon the island of San Juan ; for
those troops are not required for the protection of
American citizens against British authorities, and
their continuance upon an island the sovereignty of
which is in dispute, not only is a marked discour-
tesy to a friendly power, but complicates to an un-
due degree the settlement in an amicable manner of
the question of sovereignty, and is also calculated
to provoke a collision between the military forces of
two friendly nations in a distant part of the world,
—I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant, " JAMES DOUGLAS."
GOVERNOR GHOLSON AT SAN JUAN. The
steamer Julia arrived yesterday afternoon from
ports on the Sound. Governor Gholson, of Wash-
ington territory, visited San Juan Island in the
Julia, and was to return to Olympia in the same
steamer to-day. The Julia left this harbour last
evening.—Gazette, Aug. 25.

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