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

Representatives of the United States which was
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, ,
it shall become a law, 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,
(Sioned) " WM. H. SEWARD.
• "Benjamin Moran, Esq., &c."

THE PRODUCTION" OF GOLD AND SILVER an
CALIFORNIA AND VICTORIA SINCE 111E1Th
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 moue,'
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 ei
California reached its culminating point in 1853, and
the exportation of treasure gradually fell untillB6ll
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 $27,000,0001
or 1,421,050 ounces, which is less than the
lowest yield of Victoria since 1851. The falling 011
in the gold yield, however, was amply
compensated
for by the discovery of the silver mines of Nevadain 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 on"
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 vole
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 annum'
The average yield per ton for 1867 was aboilt
£8 ss. The Comstock lode at its greatest know')
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
yieldincreases with the depth of sinking, and Ole
fact should act as an incentive to the promoters ei
the St. Arnaud mine.
In California the falling off in the gold returns
has been more than balanced by the later discec;
veries of silver, and it may be that similar go°
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 seems
to have been taken to preserve reliable statistics
that the figures can only be said to be apprOl
mately correct :

ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OF VICTORIA.
Year Ounces.
1851 (for three months) 145,146
1852
1853
1854 2,150,730
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860 2,156,660
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 Ore. Silver. tg.
Tons. Ozs. 114
Previously, up to Doe. 31, 1864 4,480 6,786
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1865 1,400 3,379
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1866 2,133 2,318
From Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1867 635

Total 8,681

ANNUAL GOLD RETURN OF CALIFORNIA.
Year.

1849 54,921,250
1850
1851 42,582,695
1852 46,588434
1853
1854 51,328,653
1855 45,182,641
1856 48,880,513
1857 4B 976 697

1858 -
47,548, 02a
1859 47,649,462
1860
1861 40639,080
1862 34,704,866
1863 29,824,245
1864 26,653,099
1865 28,553,524
1866 (probable production)

Total

.. 8696,658,331.

ANNUAL YIELD OF NEVADA SILVER MINES.
Year.

1809 650,000
1860 lOO,OOO
1861 2275,000
1862 6500,000
1863 12500,000
1864 l6OOOOOO
1865 16800,000
1866 16,500,000

Total 570,725,000
—Melbourne (Australia) Argus, March 30.

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