The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1857.

The enthusiasm in favour of the Government
is spreading. The constituencies, one after
another, are in the majority of instances express-
ing their emphatic disapproval of the course re-
cently pursued by the Opposition. That course,
to say the least of it, appears—viewing the mat-
ter as a mere question of Party Tactics —really
and truly appears to have been a mistake, a
blunder, a "slip" of the judgment, on the part
of the antagonists of the Administration. Its
immediate result—so different from what the
majority of 263 must have anticipated--proves it
incontrovertibly to have been a movement on the
part of its promoters decidedly impolitic, inju-
dicious, and ill-considered. It has literally, in
point of fact, created for the Ministry (what they
must otherwise have lacked) a Good Cry upon
which to go to the country. It has resuscitated, or
rather rejuvinated, the prestige of Lord PALMER.
STON—a prestige latterly somewhat obscured
under the darkening influence of the Paris Con-
ferences--.-the /vestige, we means of the Noble

Viscount as TEE " British Minister." It has
enabled him t lead off with the strongest suit in his
hand—in the great game of the General Elections—
and to • lead off that suit, moreover, pointedly at
the trump-card ! The Chinese Question, upon
which his Cabinet was placed in a minority of
sizteen, has—in other words—enabled Lord PAL-
MERSTON to go to the Country, upon the very best
policy upon which by possibility he could at any
time have gone to the country, namely, upon the
matter •of his Foreign Policy. That Foreign
Policy which is the very basis of his reputation
as a statesman. That Foreign Policy in regard
to which he stands before England in his most
patriotic character, and before the world at large
in a light the most conspicuous, defined, and
chivalric

Covered with the prestige of his Foreign Policy,
Lord PALMERSTON is clad, as it were, in a panoply
of steel, impenetrable, to the most deadly blows of
his antagonists. Armed thus cap•a-pie, accord-
ing to the noble image of the Poet of "King
Arthur"—save where his bravo eyes look out un-
shadowed upon the contest he ever disdains not to
regard thus undauntedly as it were face to face—
He of whom our English Sir WALTER has sung—
" He—rides to war, no visor to his helm!"

It is for inasmuch as the political opponents of
Lord PALMERSTON have themselves in this man-
ner thus perversely afforded him the precise op-
portunity he himself might most eagerly and most
reasonably have desiderated, that we conceive
they have acted most inconsiderately in regard to
their own chances of success among the consti-
tuencies. Had they tempted the trial of strength
with t PALMERSTON Administration upon any
[other matter than the very one they have thus
most mistakenly selected, they had acted surely
more wisely in their generation !
Powerful, Its we have said, in the prestige of
his Foreign Policy, the Noble Viscount is any-
thing but powerful, for example, in the matter of
his Home Policy—in regard, for instance, to his
recently avowed opinions upon the great question
of Parliamentary Reform. Opinions, by the way,
which the Noble Lord must simply alter or modi-
fy forthwith—according to the good-humoured
and point-blank recommendation addressed to
him on Thursday evening in the House of Com-
mons by gallant TOM DUNCOMBE, M.P. for Fins-
bury—THOlClAS SLINGSBY Di:INCOME; the in-
domitable, indefatigablO, and thoroughly consis-
tent champion of all that is best and truest in
Radicalism THOMAS DUNOOMBE, who, now for
very nearly thirty-three years, has advocated the
same liberal principles in the House of Commons,
first of all, from 1824, as Member for Hertford,
and secondly, ever since 1834 as the chosen re-
presentative of the most ultra-liberal of all our
fifteen great metropolitan constituencies ! Yes—
there is no mistake about it—as the Member for
Finsbury said on Thursday evening, the Noble
Viscount must change his views about Reform
generally, and Parliamentary Reform particularly.
In which contingency we venture to assert that
his supporters would come in not only at the
head of the poll, but as the saying is, " on the
heads of the people," not merely with the lands
and votes, but with the hearts and Godspeed of
the vast majority of the Constituencies.

Even as matters stand at the present moment
with the Premier's late bungling avowal of a
total want of sympathy with the political hobby of
the Hon. Gentleman the Member for East Surrey,
still fresh in the public recollection—how earnest
and wide spread, in spite of this, is the enthu-
siasm manifested throughout the country at the
present moment, in favour of the cause repre-
sented by the Noble Viscount's Government !
What might it not be otherwise—supposing the
Prime Minister, actuated by a wiser inspiration,
have generoudy sustained, instead of perversly
opposing, Mr. LOCKE! KING'S motion 1 in that
contingency, as we have said, his supporters
would infallibly, in a measure, be returned upon
the shoulders of the electors into the new Parlia-
ment. Even with that recent speech and that
recent vote of his, in the popular remem-
brances=—see the wide-spread and deep-rooted
enthusiasm in favour of the " British Minis-
ter," manifested more particularly by the more
liberal among the most liberal of . the
constituencies ! An enthusiasm so remarkable
that the Noble 'Viscount's name has been promi-
nently brought forward as that of a probable
candidate for the suffrages of the two most re-
markable constituencies in the three kingdoms ;
and that, moreover, in these two instances, as
powerfully, if not overwhelmingly, opposed to
two of the most distinguished leaders in the
motley ranks of that marvellous " Oxford Mix-
ture"—the too-successful Opposition ! The West
IBiding and the City of London bidding against
each other for the Prime Minister as the favourite
'among the suggested candidates I Mr. COBDEN
being coolly recommended to console himself
by winning the " most sweet voices" either of
Boston or Stockport ! While Lord JOHN is
virtually sent to Coventry, by having his name
just for all the world as coolly recommended to
the suffrages of either Stroud or Tavistock !

Reverting to the reflection already forcibly im-
pressed upon us by the decided anti-climax of the
majority of "Sixteen"—may we not say of the
Opposition that, there again, the old SHAKSPERIAN
Truism has been conspicuously illustrated, the
old truism about "vaulting ambition" overleaping
t itself, and thus (of course) turning an overlooked-
for summersault Y How completely it has done this
to its chagrin and detriment is obvious at a glance
from the mere effect of the late anti• Ministerial
, majority—the announcement of the proximate
, dissolution of the present Parliament ! Cor-
roborated as it has been immediately after-
wards by the simple and almost instantaneous
effect of that announcement—the general enthu-
siasm manifested throughout the country in favour
of the present Government ! Not the least remark-
' able evidence of which enthusiasm we take to be
the cordial vote of confidence in Ministers,
proposed yesterday in the Court of Common
Council, and forthwith carried by acclamation I
All, therefore, that is now left for the Opposition
to do now—discomfited as tht actually are by
their own victory—is, to console themselves for
the time being with the miserable and inadequate
solace of the Epicurean :—Carpe diem quam
minime cred9da postern I

The discussion last night, nominally on the
second reading of the Income Tat Bill, was vir-
tually "de omnibus rebus, et quibusdam alius."
Honourable Gentlemen availed themselves of the
Cheapest form of advertising electioneering ad-
dresses, and putting forward what will manifestly
be the hustings cry of the Coalition, viz.,
" the turbulent and aggressive" Foreign Policy
of the Government, Indeed they might have
paraphrased the boast of poor DIDO'S beguiler,
and inquired "what part of the earth was not
full of their labours ?" From China to America,
from Persia to Naples—every possible question
was debated, save the point really before the
House, to which the allusions were few and
brief.

The matter before the House was very simple.
By what has been designated by the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer a " mere accident"

the war rate of 16d. in the pound
would be continued until 1858, in Plane
of ceasing at the end of the financial year in April
next. The Right Hon. Gentleman, no doubt on
good and sufficient grounds, declined to avail him-
self the " pettifogging quibble ;" but keeping
"the slight convenient iutrenchment in the die"
tance," he only proposed a reduction to 7d. in
place of sd. in the pound, as it would have been
had there been "no mistake" as to terms.
All that the moribund Parliament ought to
have been called on to accomplish was the
rectification of that mistake by the repeal of the
Act of 1855. But Sir G. C. LEWIS wished t
obtain a vantage ground which would enable him
to dispense with any legislation during the pre-
sent year. He therefore proposed a measure au-
thorising the collection of 7d. for twelve months.
Even this went beyond the legitimate functions of
a body awaiting the execution of its sentence. If
sd. in the pound would not be sufficient
to meet the exigencies of the Exchequer
it would at least be something to go on with I
But, as we have already explained, nothing will
be levied under the new rate for many months to
come, and there would be quite time sufficient for
the new Parliament to decide whether a higher
rate should be granted on any, and what, condi*
tions. The necessities for the public service
will then be clearly ascertained. The guar-
dians of the public purse will know what -
must be raised, and can determine as to the mode
in which it can best be levied, and we hope and
believe that will not be by means of an unmodified
Income Tax. The Government should meet the
question on a fair field, by abandoning what on
the most charitable construction was an accidental:
advantage not contemplated by the Legislature.
Mr. GLADSTONS took advantage of the opPor'
tunity to put forward some of his peculiar views,
on the subject. He emphatically condemned
the suggestion that the tax should only be granted
from year to year. That proposition we put for'
ward many years since, long before the so-called
compact of 1853, and subsequent experience ba°
confirmed the accuracy of the arguments whiel'
we then put forward. It would be the meet
wholesome check that could be devised on the
inordinate, and, we may add, unconstitu-
tional, power exercised by the Executives
Such a check is afforded by the Annual
Mutiny Act. But the remedy in such eae°
would be by far too violent to be resorted to
on ordinary occasions. Even " stopping the
supplies" would be a more violent measure than
refusing the renewal of an impost that produced
some seven or eight millions yearly ! TO/
would, however, be sufficient to bring anl
Administration to its senses ; while, under ordi-
nary circumstances, it would prove no greater
annoyance or inconvenience than the renewal
of the Mutiny Act. The increase or decrease of
even a single penny in the pound would mark the
sense of Parliament oz the conduct of Ministers
—while, unlike duties on commodities, there
could be no valid objection to even annual change°,
which would be by no means injurious to the
payers. The " Oxford Pet "—as the re-
presentative, for the time being, of " the
Oxford Mixture, " however, looks at the
point through Ministerial glasses, and object°
to any limitation of the extraordinary power °f
the Executive ; for it is obvious that the Income
Tax is the only impost to which such a limitation
could be applied without danger to the public)
service.

Tho Eight Hon. Gentleman was also pleased to
ridicule the notion of any modification or recon-
struction of the tax. He said the people had
been " tickled and amused" thereby and
held it out as a palpable delusion, pro%.
tised on their credulity. That such has
hitherto been the case is unhappily but too
true ; but, as on a previous occasion, he migh6,
exclaim, " men fraus omnis." The ministerial '-
leaders of both Houses had, previously to the
session of 1853, held out the strongest eapeota•
tions to the tax-paying community that such
,a
reconstruction was not only possible, but would
certainly take place. The then prevailing excite'
ment was allayed by the apparently well-founded
expectation. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, disar
pointed the country, and howl By putting for-
ward the gross and palpable delusion that the tat
should be utterly abolished in 1860, while he WO
also professing his intention of following in the •
footsteps of Sir R. PEEL, by the gradual reduction
of indirect taxation. This was the delusion"
which we unsparingly denounced at the time, and
which could not have been swallowed by
by any but those willing to be deceived• '
It is not practicable to get rid of the burden
without the adoption of a totally retrograde Po'
licy, and the reimposition of additional restrio►
tions on trade and commerce. It has been the
game of those who wish to exonerate property
from contributing its fair proportion to the
National Exchequer, to disgust the people with
the only form by which that great desiderata"
could be accomplished. With that end and object
they have made "mountains of mole-bills," and
conjured up difficulties which have no existence,
save in their own exuberant fancies. It is, of
course, impossible to expectperfeet equality in any
arrangement, but a very close approximation
can be made thereto, closer, perhaps, in the
case of a " Property" Tax than in any other
that can be devised. The "delusion"
which Mr. GLADSTONE attempts to sustain is ob-
vious, and it is from that deception that the peo'
ple should emancipate themselves. For this pur-
pose it is essential that every candidate for .a sent
in the next Parliament should be strictly clues'
tioned. If he cannot understand the
distinction between permanent and preoo-
rious income he is not qualified . for
the position to which he aspires ; and the several
constituencies should avoid the reproach Of
sending such incompetent representatives -to per-
petuate injustice, and prevent the sufferers froth •
obtaining the redress to which they are fairly
entitled.

We are glad to see that the Anti-Church-Rats
leaders are awake. From circulars we have re-
ceived, we perceive that they have taken our re-
monstrance in good part, and that an effort will be
made to rouse the country. It is, indeed, time it
were done. We do not want a question, which
has been so long ripe for finishing, dangling about
us year after year. We presume from the cow"
munications we refer to that every parish in the
kingdom will be asked to petition. This is as
it should be. The large parishes which hale
practically abolished the rate should petition for
the parson and squire-ridden parishes. Those in
which there have been unsuccessful contests should •
ask the Legislature that they may be delivered
from a religious war and parish broils ; eel
should also pray that the majority being the
larger, and generally the wealthier portion,
should
pay their own expenses of worship, when the
poorer minority contrives to do it. Parishes
where the minority is too small, or too dependent,
to venture a contest, are not, surely, so enslavedthat they may not " humbly petition ;" the/
individual
should send their petitions as those of in

even though not more than half a dozen signa•

urea can be procured.
The object should be to get a petition from evi

parish. The number of the petitions, if from
different places, and signed proportionably to the
population and Anti-Church-Rate feeling of the
place, is what weighs with Parliament. We be-
lieve that in nearly every parish some persons are
Dissenters, and feel annoyed to have to pay a
direct tax for services they do not attend, and per-
haps disapprove, or whicb, at least, they do not like
10 well as another mode of worship. What can
be easier for them than to tell the Government so.
petition can be written on a sheet of foolscap
Paper if the numbers of persons be few ; signed,
and despatched, post free, to the Hon. Member
for ------ When the penny postage was under
discussion, nothing more impressed both Houses
Of Parliament than the innumerable names of
places unknown before which asked for the boon.
It would astonish our sleepy senators equally if
all in every parish who feel Church Rates a griev-
sale° informed them of the fact in the black and
White of a petition.
There is another form of black and white also
very effective indeed ; especially effective with a
Parliament lying under a reprieve ; and that is
letters from constituents. All the constituencies
Whose Anti-Church-rate voters have supported
some slippery Liberal, should let him know that
nothing will now do but a clear vote—if Sir W.
CILAX'fi Bill comes to a second reading--or a dis-
t4nct pledge, if it does not, for the abolition of
Church Rates. The bill is now an unqualified
abolition bill. The test is, therefore, quite satis-
factory. There are no riders to it from Lambeth.
Churchmen will be left b rate themselves, if they
like, for their own casual expenses, and the repairs
of buildings which cost them nothing ; or they
may subscribe as District Churches and Dissenters
have to do. It 116/1 come to this at last, and the
Liberal who would peril his election by refusing
to liberate any of his constituents from the badge
of ecclesiastical subjection would deserve to lose
his seat.
And here let us just whisper a word in the
ear of some supercilious Whig who wonders
" what they make so much botheration for
about a two-and-fourpenny payment." Why we
may ask him would he, who would willingly treat
at cabby to a shilling glass of something "warm "
°ll a bad night, why would ho summon Mr.
°Ansa- if he demanded payment for two miles
ever which he had not driven him! Now our
34•11• may bluster about " law of the land,"
"immemorial usage," " our glorious constitution
In Church and State," and all the approved slang
or vested wrong and hereditary stupidity—but
swhen
,he has exhausted thatintellectual vocabulary
the fact remains. The man who refuses to pay
"es it for the same reason thatM.P. will not pay
Mr• CARDY. The Member of the Conventicle
feels like the Member of Parliament. He kicks
at the extortion of the shilling. The same man
would give double or twenty times the sum to
any ease of charity, or perhaps to the very cler-
gyman himself, if he asked it to enable him to do
religious or social good in the parish.
Alltbe usualappliancea may, of course, be made
lull use of. Public meetings will come in aid of
Petitions, and most probably originate them, but
a Petition should everywhere be a settled point,
and the accompanying letter when needful. Now,
too, will be the time to make power felt in
cl'eetion committees. Why, would you embarrass
! will be the question in many a Whig coterie
and committee. The obvious reply is—You, not
Re, cause the embarrassment. It is a disgrace
to any Liberal be be embarrassed on a question
which so many Liberal oonstituencies have settled
for themselves.' Those who feel a Church rate an
ePPression and a brand of inferiority, may well
ask how long they are to be the only party
scouted, or slighted, or put aside in these days of
professed religious liberty ! Dissenters are a
large section indeed of the Liberal constituency ;
they may well be a majority, in the boroughs at
least ; and they are entitled, if they are to sup-
port the Liberal party as a rang; to have one of
their Prominent claims of the last thirty years
unconditionally granted. Liberals who quibble
a" evade in this case must bo but milk-and-
/P/4%r Liberals, and had better be out of Parlia-
ment for a session, enjoying the tonic influence
of political rustication.
Once more, we say, let us settle this plaguy
question. Settled it never will be but by aboli-
tion
; let us, then, have done with it at once.
hare seen the two returns obtained by Lord
05011 and Sir WILLIAM CLAY, but, unluckily,
they are so incomplete, or rather the inquiries
Which they answer are so ill-devised, that they
us as little as such bulky papers could tell us.
'e only know this, that the amount paid by Dis-
434ters must be so small that for Churchmen to
Prolong the contest to wring it from them is both
ill-natured and foolish. If Churchmen have not
legal power to rate themselves, let them petition
ter an Act of Parliament to enable them in some
way to do so ; but if they care for their Church
much as Dissenters care for theirs, then let
them make up their minds to pay for it as Dim-
6enters do. The Church can never escape this
dilemma. -Either it has succeeded in rendering
its worshippers as generous as Dissenting wor-
shippers, or it has not. If it has, it does not need
Church dates; if it has not, it does not deserve
them.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, MONDAY, MARCH 9.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin-
ing the Castle this morning.
The Prince of Wales went out hunting.
Th• younger royal children took their accustomed
eXtrcise.

A deputation from the Corporationfthe Exchequer of London hada
inti,rview with the Chancellor of
Down
ng.
street on the
i
yester-
day at his official residence in
The deputation con-
tubject of the Coal Duties ill
listed of Mr. Cox (chairman), MLSncoaemr: and Mr. St
ji' Mr'e°ncnositi: Mr. Cockerell, the City Remembra
Soci
A ety had tan iion fnte ro
rvmiew the CwithanadLorian
dLosatannalenyd
elfnvzieisdtemreienyt
yesterday at the Board of Trade. The deputation con-
misted of Mr. W. R. Wagstaff (acting under power of
attorney from Sir Allan M'Nab and 9t_he7. Lord Bury,
' the re
rooters in Canada), Sir H. Maddock, M lj: and Mr. William Austin (promoters in England), and
Mr. Clabon.
The Royal Commission for determining the site of the
new National Gallery met yesterday at 17, Great Quee
Q
street, Westminster. Present :—Lord Broughton (chair-
man), the Dean of St. Paul's, Professor FarradaY,
Mr.
Cockerel!, and Mr. Richmond.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office, yes-
terday, from the Governors of the North American Pro-
vinces, and the Governors of Labuan, Hong Kong, and
Ceylon.
The Chancellor of the :Exchequer tvill is first
Cabinet dinner to-morrow, and we hope h give his last in that
capacity.
The Countess of Wostrnoreland'arrived
evening from Apthorpe House, Northamptonin shiZn last
The Earl of Stradbroke is, expected
in town today
bly on Thursday next.
from Ireland.
The Countess Granville has issued
cards for ~,,,
m
....., em.
The Duchess Dowager of Beaufort and the Ladies
Somerset are expected in town shortly from Badminton,
the family seat in Gloucestershire.
DEATH or MASTER HENN.—Williani Hein, E9q ,
Senior Master in Chancery in Ireland, died suddenly
Yost-rday morning. As Senior Master, his salary was
2,600/. a-year.
The vicarage of Chertsey has become vacant by the
death of the Rev. Charles Cotton, M.A. The benefice,
which is worth 4001. a-year, is in the gift of the Haber-
dashers' Company.
We understand that Sir Henry Rawlinson has been
requested I,y Lord Palmerston to accept the mis:dou to
China, but has not yet made up his mind to undertake
the delicate and difficult task.—Datily News.

rage.

LATEST NEWS.

NAPLES, MARCH 6.

The official Gazette publishes a roy4l decree, on
the occasion of the birth-day of-the Prince Royal,
granting a remission or diminution of punish-
ments inflicted for misdemeanours or other con-
traventions of the law.

In the absence of any political amnesty, the
mere application of the royal clemency to persons
convicted by the correctional police is considered

a mockery.

Owing to the stormy state of the weather the
French and German mails had not arrived when we
went to press.

AUSTRIA.

His Excellency Field-Marshal Count Radetzky,
r
on retiring from the military government of Lom-
bardy, issued on the let inst. the following order
of the day
I have submissively prayed his Majesty, our most
gracious Emperor and Lord, to permit me retiring from
affairs at a period of life extending beyond ninety years,
and his Majesty, in his inexhaustible favour towards me,
has deigned to transmit to me the following most gra-
cious autograph communication.
[Here follows the Emperor's letter, which we pub-
lished a few days ago.]
Soldiers, I bid you no farewell, for I shall remain
amongst you.
I leave to more youthful strength the arduous duty of
forming and training you, so as to enable me again to
show at the decisive moment, should the voice of our be-
loved monarch summon me peradventure again, that the
sword which I have borne for 72 years, aad on many a
battle field, remains still firm in my grasp.
But I must thank you for your confidence, your at-
tachment to my person, your discipline, your devoted.
ness and valour, that have led us on to so many vic-
tories, gaining the admiration and esteem of the world.
Willingly do I repeat, what I said to you at the end of
the year 1848, that the glory, which, like the evening
glow after a fine day is shed over the evening of my
life, is your work. To your courage do I owe what I
have done; your military virtues wove for me the crown
that now adorns my hoary head, by the supreme favour
of our exalted Emperor and Commander-in-Chief.
Receive my thanks for this, soldiers ? Keep this in
constant remembrance, and you will, I am convinced,
preserve the rights of your Emperor, and the honour o
your arms unto death.

Long live our beloved Emperor, Francis Joseph

AUSTRALIA.

By the arrival of the Mermaid we have received
files of papers from Melbourne to the 16th of De-
cember inclusive.

The Royal Charter had arrived out in 66 days.
We take the following from the Melbourne Herald
of the 15th of December :
" MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR.
" SATURDAY, Dec. 13.

" The price of gold has kept firm, with a rather up-
ward tendency. On the gold fiel Is the competition
among the bankers is such that they are paying at pre-
sent prices close on 2 per cent., while their selling rate
for drafts is only 1 per cent. prem. Gold is now 76s Oct
to 76s 9d.

" Our report for the week from the various gold fields
is condensed into the following :
" That deserted and deprived —of sub-treasury—
Avoce has been rasnecitated by parties having struck
paying ground, and an old favourable lead has been
again bit upon. At Ballarat they were succeeding
as well as could be desired. At Dunolly new life
had been imparted by fresh alluvial ground and
paying reefs having been discovered. The report
from the Ovens is favourable, both in regard to the
production of alluvial and rich quartz reef gold. At
most of the fields the digging community while attend-
ing to their individual interests era not forgetful of
their social and political condition—the local court,
sanitary, and other public measures being agitated at
different settled diggings.

" The escort for the week is slightly under the avc-

Number of persons arrived
Number that have left

1,605
370

Additions this week
And year
" The escorts have brought from—

Oz.
Mount Alexander and Bendigo 21,152
Ballarat 16,308
Maryborough 6,564
Daisy Hill 369
Avoca

Amount this week 41,644
And year 2,503,833
Oz.
2,793,696

Gold shipped in 1856..
Per Havilah to Adelaide..
Stcamers to Sydney 2,029
Judge Shaw to Calcutta l5
Dement from Geelong to London 40,689
Coringa to Calcutta 4,418

2,857,109
Or 119 tons 3qrs. 71b. 50z., at 805.-41,428,4361.
" Exchange on London—Drafts against gold pur-
chased at par.
" Freight 41d. per ounce, delivered at the bullion-
office, Bank of England, London.
" Insurance, lid. per cent.
" Edward Khull, bullion broker, G 9, Collins-street
west."

" Our prices for gold during the week have been

Castlemaine
Bendigo
Maryborongh
Korong
Dunolly
Chinaman's Flat
Avoca
Fiery Creek
Ovens
Ballarat

} 76g. 64 to 76g. 9J.

775. 61

77g. 63,
78s.

" The supply has been good, and a good demand ha•
existed as the opportunities for shipment have been very
eligible.

" The escorts have furnished us with a very fair amount
of gold this week, and a larger amount than usual has
been forwarded from Castlemaine. By the way, we may
notice that two more nuggets from Korong have been
sold at that field, and have arrived by this escort. They
are not so large as those previously found, and weigh
respectively 99 ounces and 122 ounces. It is singular to
remark that these were found in the same claim as the
large ones now at our office.
" We have frequently adverted to the want of escort
accommodation from Korong, which entails consider.
able hardship and risk to the lucky digger, who has to
carry his gold a distance of 4 0 miles to market it, and
then probably to Castlemaine or Bendigo, where its
superior quality is not appreciated. We hope that this
will not be the case long, as a fortnightly escort from
that place, through Dunolly and Cbinaman's Flat to
Maryborougb, would be found to be deserved by the
yield of those fields.
" We have reason to believe that a large emigration
will take place from California to our fields immediately,
as the prospects are anything but encouraging to miners
in that country. Upwards of 50 persons arrived from
there last week.

RECEIPTS PEA ESCORT.
Gold Fiold. oz. duct.
Castlemaine.
Sandhurst
Ballarat
Creewick Creek .
Avoca 251 0
Amherst 369 0
Mary borough 6,564 10

Total 44,644 0
COLD EXPORTED DURING THE WEEK.

oz.
London, per Admiral 40,689
Calcutta, per Coringa
Sydney, per Tdlegraph 9,000

Total
47,106
SPECIE.
London, per Admiral
Mauritius, per Paulin° and Victoria 16,000

Total
1.!56,000
ig Wm. Clarke and Sons, gold brokers and bullion
merchants, 86, Elizabeth-street."
The Melbourne Herald of the 13th of December
says :--
"Entries of gold for shipment were passed at the Cus-
toms to-day for 7,991 oz. for London by the Admiral,
which vessel cleared out with 40,689 oz., of which the
following amounts were shipped by the banks :
Oz.
Victoria
Australasia
Uni0n...............................
English, Scottish, and Australian
1,364
Oriental

39,302
" Entries of gold for ship export were passed at the
Customs for 500 ounces, for London, by the Mermaid."
The Melbourne Argus of the 16th December has
the followiny :-.
" We are gla•
and Ballarat
nd
to the
to learn that the Melbourne, Geelong,
line of electric telegraph Rill be opened
Public this morning. All shipping arrivals at the
Heads
surueare new known in Ballarat as soon as in Mel-
e_ .:utd from this date the public will be enabled to
beforPer,l La
.e messages. The Bendigo line will be opened
vluruittnas.,,

"TASMANIA.
" We have received Hobart Town papers to the 12th,
and Launceston to the 11th Dec. In the Legislative