The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-16 00:00:00

Representatives of the United States 'which-Wail
passed on the 15th of June. I further call your
attention to the fact that a bill which has passed
the House of Representatives is now engaging the
attention of the Senate, the effect of which bill, if
it shall become a Liw, will be to require the Presi-
dent to make reprisals, in case of judicial denial is
Great Britain to naturalized Americans, of the
rights which are conceded them to native American
citizens. You will be expected to read the resolu-
tion referred to, together with this instruction to
her Majesty's principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
and to give him a copy of these papers if he shall
require it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " W3l. 11. SEWARD.
"Benjamin Moran, Esq., &c."

TIIE PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER IN
CALIFORNIA AND VICTORIA SINCE TIIEIR
DISCOVERY.

Subjoined is a statement of the amount of gold
dnd silver produced in Victoria and California since
the discovery of these metals in these countries
In the past seventeen years 33,910,952 ounces of
gold were raised in Victoria, representing a money
value of £135,643,808 ; and the yield of California
for the eighteen years ending in December, 1866,
was $696,658,331 worth of gold, 36,944,890 ounces,
or, at £4 per ounce, £147,779,560. In Victoria the
maximum yield was attained in 1856, and there has
been a gradual decline since. The gold yield of
California reached its culminating point in 1853, and
the exportation of treasure gradually fell until 1861,
when the silver of Nevada and the gold of Idaho
began to come in, and the amounts of the ship-
ments rapidly rose again. The last estimate of the
annual gold yield of California was $27,000,000,
or 1,421,050 ounces, which is less than the
lowest yield of Victoria since 1851. The falling off
in the gold yield, however, was amply compensated
for by the discovery of the silver mines of Nevada
in 1859. There is, of course, no comparison -be-
tween the silver yield of the two countries, there
being no silver returns from Victoria but those
from the mine of St. Arnaud, at which work. can-
not fairly be said to have commenced as yet. The
silver mines of Nevada prove more productive
every year, and in 1866 they produced silver to the
value of $16,500,000. Up to the end of that year
the total yield from the first discovery in 1859 was
$70,725,000, of which $60,000,000 were from the
Comstock lead, one and a-half million tons of ore
having been taken from this remarkable mine. The
length of the lode at present opened up is a mile
and three-quarters. There are thirteen large
mills and fourteen smaller ones at work on it, one
of which has been yielding $4,000,000 per annutu•
The average yield per ton for 1867 was about
£8 ss. The Comstock lode at its greatest known
depth is fifty-five feet thick, and the ore under the
water level is almost identical with that of St.
Arnaud, the treatment being required nearly the
same. It has been proved beyond doubt that the
yield increases with the depth of sinking, and this
fact should act as an incentive to the promoters.of
the St. Arnaud mine.

In California the falling off in the gold returns
has been more than balanced by the later disco'
veries of silver, and it may be that similar good
fortune awaits this colony. The following are the
gold and silver returns of California and Victoria,
but as to the former country so little care secoll
to have been taken to preserve reliable statistic
that the figures can only be said to be approil'
mately correct :•

ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OP VICTORIA.
Year Ounces.
1851 (for three months) 145,146
1852
1853 2,676,345
1854 2,150,730
1855 - 2,751,535
1856 - 2,985,991
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867

Total 33,910,952

SILVER RETURNS OF VICTORIA.
The following quantities of silver have been
raised and smelted in the colony :
Silver Oro.
Tons.
Previously, up to Doc. 31, 1864 4,480
From Jan. 1 to Dee. 31, 1865 1,400
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1866 , 2,133
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1867 655

Silver.
tg"
Ozs. Dif
6,786
3,379 .
2,318

Total 8,684
ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OF CALIFORNIA.
Year.

17849 54,921,250
1850
1851 42,582,695
1852 46,588,434
1853 .. • 57,330,034
1854 51,328,653
1855 45,182,641
1856 48,880,543
1857 48976,697
1858.. 47,548,025
1859 47,649,462
1860
1861 40,639,080
1862 34,704,866
1863 29,824,245
1864 26,653,099
1865 28,553,524
1860 (probable production)
-..--
Total
ANNUAL YIELD OF NEVADA SILVER MINES.
Year.
1859 550,000
1860 lOO,OOO
1861 2,275,000
1862 6,500,000
1863 12,500,000
1864 16,000,000
1865 16800,000
1866 16,500,000

Total • .470,725,000
—Melbourne (Australia) Argus, March 30.

The New York Conzwonwealth, a Repub-1100
evening daily, was announced to appear last Saturactiols;
Mr. Isaac W. Haff is the publisher. The Lawrence
secretive is to be edited by Mr. Webb Wilder, of to
Rochester Express. John W. Forney is trying to sell re
Washington Chronicle, and is said to contemplate II 40
moval to the Pacific coast. He was offered the Baltiretvo
American newspaper for VOO,OOO. The /risk, Patri°l
removed from Chicago to New York. It supports„ 00
Savage wing of the Fenian Brotherhood, but it doermy,
without rabid abuse of its opponents. Milton H.Nert':
of Syracuse, New York, is writing clever Wasbins"to
letters to the New York Express. "Agate" (Wilitl3,oool
Reid) is offered by Horace Greeley in person an euh'ithe
place on the Now York Tribune. He is an owner 0;
Cincinnati Gazette. Mrs. R. H. Stoddard is the allt,eoide
the poem published in Putnam's, entitled, The Pe-
Idol." .00
The Conservative is the title of a new paper J,,,e0
started at Fall River, Massachusetts. It hoists the
of Salmon P. Chase for President, and George B. J3ll
lan for Vice-President. id the;
The Chicopee manufacturing company he.— The,
annual meeting in Boston on Wednesday, June 24.
accepted the Legislature's act authorizing increase ° /Or,
tal stock. The mills have produced in the last 1105`
9,680,500 yards of goods, and sold 10,513,618 yards,
average weight is three and a half pounds per yard.,..0,04
f.
year's sales amounted to 81,675,000. The following,
elected directors :—Mr. G. W. Lyman, presidenVfah
Enoch R. Mudge, Mr. James M. Beebe, Mr. Richaru„ber
Mr. Joshua Stetson. Mr. Henry Saltonstall, whe.(4.7(310°'
the position six years, was elected treasurer, and A"
E. Pollard clerk.