The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-15 00:00:00

GOLD FROM CALIFORNIA.

Some es,imates have lately been formed of the
shipments of gold received in Europe from California
to the present time, which we believe may be re-
garded as tolerably accurate, and according to which
the amount is about 3,300,000/. On the other side,
up to the end of September, the receipts at the two
tniots of the United States had been about 31,000,000
dolls, or 6,200,0001. Since that time we have had
advices of further arrivals at New York and New
Orleans amounting to 500.0001. An aggregate is
consequently formed of exactly 10,000,0001. To this
must be added, in order to estimate the total produc-
tion, not only the amounts which have found their
way to China, Manilla, Australia, Oregon, the S
with Islands. the States of Spanish America, &e., but
also the total which has been retained in Cali•
foroia for the purposes of currency. The
population in that county now ranges
somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000, and,
although a considerable amount of silver dollars have
been imparted, the bulk of the cireul Ition believed
still to he in the form of gold-dust or of gold tokens.
If the 250,000 persons possess on an average 101. a-
piece, we have a sum of 2,500,0001., and, looking at
the expense of a week's maintenance in the country,
as well as the large quantities constantly in transit, as
well as the reserves which, as was shown by the last
advices, the various deposit houses are compelled to
retain to meet sudden runs, it is probable that this is
under the real total. Taking all points into con-
sideration, it may therefore be assumed that the
whole which has been raised is eval to at least
13,000,0001 sterling. Of this production, according
to recent official returns from the United States,
nearly four-fifths have taken place during the pre-
sent year. Ot 25 966,817 dolls. received in the United
States Mint at Philadelphia, up to the end of Sep
tetnber List, only 44,177 dolls. bad arrived in 1848.
5,481,430 dolls, in 1849, while the quantity in 1850
had been 20,441,210. The same proportions would
probably pre-ail with regard to the sums distributed
to other places, and we are therefore led to the sup-
position that the export this year has already actually
reached upwards of 10,000,0001., although the re-
sults of two additional months have yet to be known.
It will be observed, coast queotly, that the unexpected
feature which has hitherto attended the progress of
this new region, namely, that almost all the accounts
from it, although deemed exaggerations at first, have
proved ultimately to have been under-statements, is
still presented. At the commencement of 1850
the most sanguine anticipations that were formed
in any direction fixed its pro 'able yield at 10,000,0001.,
and not only has this been exceeded, but each quarter
of the year has thus tar shown an increase of
nearly half upon the amount gathered in the pre-
ceding one. Thus the receipts at Philadelphia for
the first three months were 4,270,714 dolls., while
they were 6,920,496 (lolls. for the second, and again
9,250,000 for the third. This rate of augmentation
coincides with the influx of population, and, as the
emihration to the country is certain to be continued
until the remuneration it affords for labour is brought

to a level with the ad vantages offered else where, there is
no reason, so long as se are without accounts of an
npp,rent limit to the field of operati,ms, to anticipate
anything else than a steady continuance of an itn •
proVing ratio. So far from a limit having yet been
round, each fresh exploration seems to develope new
and wore favourable localities, and an extended dis-
covery of dry diggings I,Ately alleged to have been
mad,,,, together with the steps in progress elsewhere
to crush the mountain ore by machinery, appears to
hold out the prospect that, even with the approach of
winter, th,-re will scarcely be a suspension of the
prevailing activity.

INCENDIARISM 1N 'NEST SURREY.—COMMITTAL OF
THE: INCENDIARY.—Yesterday morning a young man, about
24 years • I age, in the garb of a labourer, who gave his
name as William Fletcher, was charged belore the magis-
trates of Guildford with having wiltudy and maliciously set
tire to a straw rick, thereby causing the destruction of two
other ricks of wheat and hay, as also a barn Lull of wheat
and barley, the property of Mr. Stephen Ceaser, an exten-
sive tanner, at Pyle Hill Farm, at Mavfcrd, near Woking,
on the 231 ult.; and, after a lengthened examinath.n, before
R. A. C. Aus ea, Esq., county magistrate, he was fully com-
mitted for trial.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR LUDGATE-HILL. —Last
night, about half-past eight o'clock, a tire, by which several
families have been reduced to a state of beggary, broke out
in one of the tall houses, No. 18, in Holliday-yard, Creed-
lane, Ludgate-hill. The building was occupie conjointly by
three families, named respectively Eaton, Tankard, and
Newsom. Nearly everything contained in the house was
consumed. The property lost by this disastrous event is very
considerable.

GRAY'S INN. —At a Pension of the Honourable
Society of Gray's Inn, holden en Wednesday last, the Rev.
Thomas Huntley Greene, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford,
was elected assistant clergyman to the society.
KENT AND SURREY TURNPIKE ROADS.—Wednes-
day, these tolls, after a sharp competition, were purchased by
Mr. Morris, agent for w.essrs. Levy, the largest toll contrac-
tors in the kingdom, fur 11,5901., being an advance of 875/.
on the sum realized last year.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an
enemy of a single human being. That philanthropy has
surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the op.
pressor equally with the oppressed.—Eliza Cook's Journal.
POISONING NEAR GAINSBOROUGH, LINCOLNSHIRE.
—The inhabitants of the village o! Stow were thrown into a
state of great alarm on Thursday morning last by its be-
coming known that Mr. Christopher Page, farmer, of Stow
Park, and his wife, hAI both been poisoned; that the latter
was dead, and that Mr. Page was suffering severely. An
inquest was held on' Friday, at which Eliza Smalley, the
servant girl, confessed that she had put poison in the coffee-
pot. Her mistress having accused her of killing a fowl
seemed to be her only motive. A verdict of Wilful Murder
was returned against the girl. Mr Page was able to give his
evidence at the inquest.
It is not vi hat we earn that makes us rich, but
what we save; it is •not what we eat, but what we digest,
that makes us tat ; it is not what we read, but wh.kt we re-
member, that makes us learned. —Eliza Cook's Journal.
GREAT AYE-TERN RAILWAY —Die increase of
traffic during the present half-year. awl the reduction of the
permanent-way expenses, will enable the Great Western
Railway Company to pay a dividend at the rate of four per
cent. per annum, and carry a large balanec—say, consider-
ably beyond 30,00:1 —over to the assistance of the June six
mouths. This calculation suposes all probable charges
against revenue being paid out of it.
A l'api.l
;
and emphatic recital of the following simple
narrative is an infallible cure for lisping:—" Hobbs meets
Snohbs and Nora s
Hobbs bobs to Stiobbs and Nobbs;
H,:bbs nobbs with Snubby and robs Hobbs' fobs. This
is.' says Nubby, the worst of Hobbs' jobs,' and Snubby sobs."
Up HILL Worm.—Chasing
balloons and collecting
newspaper accounts.

.IsHE Pais AND THE PULPIT.—The New York
papers ssy, " Jenny Lind has no enual as an eff ctive vo-
calist, never has had, and we doubt if she ever will have this
side of Paradise; and even there,tihe seems fitted to lead
the ' heavenly choirs.'" On the other hand a clergyman in
Boston has more than once cautioned the people from the
pulpit apinst 5.4106 wozw, Alias Jane Lind....
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