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Copt' Shor:, who prole. ded h.ricw in the .Ajdali-,
" Liu. 3d instant, we nt straight on to England,
stopping to make any provision for his late
be%‘. Whether he had learned the catastrophe which
rcl b f.ll n his wife we are unable to ray, but for the
sedit of humanity, which does not seem to have pre-
on this occasion, let us hope that the intelli-
gence of Mrs. Short's death had reached Aden before
the ve
std-pack, t which conveyed him thither, and thus
aPprisrd him of the melancholy event. A subscription
was raked in this place for his benefit and that of his
Zre'i it would be well if some portion of it were now to
ue appliel to their relief."
"I question whether the history of shipwrecks, and
en of human disasters, offers a parallel case to that
of this most unhappy deserted woman.
Our
monsoon is considered by the weather-wise
.to
to
eyoktzle
ue,,quite at an end ; and the concluding spectacle,
iituich is tei termed the elephantas, is now anxiously
folarmaesebtarhiing a supplementary dose of water
deficient supply which the rain
his afforded. Only forty-seven inches have fallen ;
bare the tanks, wells, and reservoirs almost
litare of "ter. The island, however, is healthy ;
I!ne Mortality paper for September showing only
1,0.f0.2 deaths in a population of more than
million. The weather reports from the
11°111 collectorates under the Bombay Presidency
far as rious ; seine
good ; others unfavourable, in so
tiai as the crops are concerned. Rain has been par-
othertind carce; in nand q abundantly ;in
insi .1 very deficient ; and, of course, 1 need snot
insist aPOO its importance in an agricultural, and,
i,,equently, a financial point of view.
clan", Population txpect a viii—perhaps a visita-
(o4uln the Bishop of Madras. Our own Bishop
irr) is in
London, or, at all events, in England.
haye little more of a local character to add.
and"LP47ting. our great men, I may state, that Lord
hitt. Y Falkland have left Poonah (the old Mah -
be "Pal, and the Bombay Cheltenham) for the
pars ; his Lordship's health has been deranged of late.
Cott , good old Commander-in-Chief, Sir Willoughby
fur is " biding his time" at Poonah, looking out
aedi's successor. Sir Charles Napier is at Simla,
" "ave already given you the whereabouts of the
quits and Marchioness of Dalhousie.
Whie:P,Pend the latest market reports, in doing
kegsof 'et me notify the uncommonly quick passage
Ith,_,rs. Green's splendid ship the Seringapatam,
tni:c4reached our harbour on the 30th ult., after a
p.R.e.wight-five days from the Lizard.
urde 1 have forgotten to mention in their proper
liandr the courts-martial held at Cawnpore on the
ti°
az 11 attracted a tten..
duellists,
or two ago. The two principals, Ensign
ani
tusi and Lieutenant Litchford, and their seconds,
atilt gas White and Smith, were all found guilty, and
Napeinced to be cashiered ; which sentence Sir C.
Ensign
Napier
"as confirmed in every instance save that of
entire I • 'altham, whose wound, and perhaps whose
htst nnocene e, saved him. Consequently the three
offie
the en have lost their commissions, and are on
The world.
Aft' .Delhi Gazette, of the 18th September, says_
• " lon and •
_airy g.patiently watching the tardy in-
gatebii Simla into the circumstances of the
kitty 13,g CaBeB, we are enabled to report the cer-
the is' ()`' a thorough investigation by court-martial of
`silent
and individual culpability attached to the
partiea concerned. The Commander-in-Chief
!leedyfr_Cl.ered the court of inquiry to re-assemble, the
ie ex 111 Witnesses having arrived at Simla, and it
the illted that charges will be preferred against all
4ctiunis!tarY men concerned in the disgraceful trans-
(We ,hall give a full report of the Markets in another
Edition.)

PA-r,
744411/UNARY SAVINGS' BANKS.
41.4
l,
addsportant feature has lately beeni
likes toproposed to
these institutions, by 11, r. Charles W.
letter' ft ot the Huddersfield Banking Company, in a
ad
to the President of the Yorkshire
Sarivi."' namely, the establishment of Preliminary
4 ;Iligh' Banks. Through the kindness of Mr._ Sikes,
see-rtlePtY4 of his letter has already- been forwarded by the
to this rY t° almost every institute in Yorkshire, and
far your Committee would refer you for fuller in-
., T "l
• The plan is briefly as follows .
114 "Mere to suggest a method hitherto untried. xt,EnttlY, that the humbler members of each
Mechanics'lt„e
~ Jtution should be encouraged to ' transact a 1
utismeas' •
itetit . with a Preliminary Savings'Bank within the
mem.
beet, might for which purpose some of the leading. ,
tendireight form a small ' Savings' Bank at-
theirCommittee,epe.
iiohln I:41:11111in;
thir e!:gi;viie) egkly to receive their trifling d
threepences, their sixpences, and perhaps
th: Gat:ll:is an
re
ached, eaeshayparty
2as.s,m
paying
it over
per.
iboogok, and
to
Rote rnalent savioes' Bank of the town, in the .
This
dune, and • • - new pass-book
This be 41/ing to him or Ler the.
fated, to boa repeated Initil another guinea
ileie .. gain transferred, and so on—hnoaicicithemrehs;
it' 86 ""ed until Paid Over to the GovernmentSabve-
,4 Baq. The little bookkeeping requisite woulden
it
reZtiaimPle, and from always being paid over h
/tray titieldls. yr 21 95., the liability incurred wouldw he
. A list h
the ledger folio corres-
"lrtr) a
pokii,l tof the balances (wit With the pass-book, i signed by the trea
eftslit,° 6 suspended in the room each
his
ehhalmf-yoenuey r,thus
mite.', g ,ach depositor to seo n
that was
tx •
Ituch e:P,bonal cases ma y exist where the additiondiosf.
chat,: Dank might interfere with the efficient
this ri(d. the other duties of an ihnesteilteuatrio(niu.
tyWhfhtehree
Cool; „4 ';ikely to be the case, it is t
I: it se t jot7a. tlti
et ene, to attend to the original object;shonfttwhee
rather than to any new object
plan could be
proe2
,opinion that, wherever such
the troy carried out, it must largely atend to increase
ItituTral influense and social importance of these in-
near°nB. la many places no Savings' Bank e.xistss,
The Saving
1141,1:t tbaa the next market town.
in i 3 Open at an hour not convenient to the work-
ssittbel"ses• Besides which, although these useful
ths,, liiihments will take sums as low as one
tshilling,er
teen la an air of pretension about them which rather ter''s the lowest class of contributors. In all these(e.
eidZet!, the Mechanics' Institute would possessa lan auearit
4ecs si age. Institutions are likely to derive
nett ii°,ll Of Members where such a savings' depart-
Who _ unUld be efficiently carried out, because those
ei, went merely to deposit their twopence or three-
.-snee 0
Ilffesedwt-u'd become aware of the other advantages
freque 0 them. Moreover, it has been a matter of
Ite,o,rk,ii:t "4 deep regret to the sincere friends ofh
ne.
g classes, that the associations for mutual
'Ln' utich as
, Odfellowship friendly societies, esick 1
wiefeilietrai elabs, ate , are held in the public-house.
advantagest°st4 11.," proved a heavy deduction from thed
them. -13 and in Many cases quite counterbalance
the m But in the addition of the Savings' Bank to
Ifloreoa_
free
rseteeecrlihat; ivvel
tlis'erndesa ttu
remedying
we recognise a great Praed-
it,
j4ractnuch that is uses the evil. It will ten
th i n I°u ' 1 because
' thetah and
ds
e evenworkingob e cts some-
,classespositively v, , ic, at least, of that moral conduct and intelligence
V_le.ti sever that prevails in the management of theto
le:l,44llles' Institute. We are, therefore, glad moht_tbat the plan of Ain Sikes has already been,
ley,"(1 in conjunction with the institutions at Wort.t
18 ftettealt,hatn, and Keigbley, at which latter place i
Platio— 1-0 succeed admirably. It is also in contem-t the IT to establish Preliminary Savings' Banks a
We he to
Kirkstall, and other institutionhss;
tatecoP' it will
be with such results as may enable
ng. Pmend it still further at our next annualhme ere::
Ity,ttly t eftunot be too strongly impressed ont
heat aoeci°°ratnittees to enforce the most rigid exact-
atrustth Punctuality in the discharge of any pecuniary
precaution
ellihSt they
illaY undertake, with every
teBProlerse,t failurell'ig'llBl.,st?ibbiolrrentienisseciaosusadissicnrgeldeito
n the inlv
htnhlliesess.,rv.
_es-.
Pomloa_nthd_.:vi
h Mechanics'
Re
e Institutions
rtkhsehmi
rsee
Union
ell/4131eftl Institutes,pheld at Dar:ington.
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fc'tarni,lll4: The
71 Ar
.1' billa Ac
rTe l'aidAyß, 1(nBo takingT h e
tent
i,,".et Theatre, are entitled to more than ordinarya
last
pla c•fea raet woeti ,e_
an 16:tilt is a serious epoch in the drama of this country,
,grQat ey' to all tru lovers of Shakspere and
thishis
lost e,jenents- to be deeply to be deplored, for Rteniuso'dneat artist stands palone the last of the bygone
'lave -s et. our time, and in :a few weeks he is i
11,arelaised from the scene of his many triumphs and be
Df: ialet:::e.
,Those desirous of witnessing the perfection'.s
diNt:lbistrionic
,whether as artists, tole arn and inwardly
that 10, r
~ au 'Whether to remember and compare with
earliestt ePport,„ceeed, should avail themselves of the
Presented to them, and not delay until too late
Ihs' tUrtain has dropped on his chance for ever.
rtsoe,,lPpriroe,,tr'Paortion of will and power is not always
t; ~"tlar., "'s eoPious measure of will is sometimes assigned
"'es as K allcl contracted minds; whilst the greatest facu -
4:lizq o,4l4ently evaporate in indolence and languor.—
at 3 Journal.
Ile.e tht,,4le 13UaGLARY IN THE REGENT'S-PARK.—
,loundefildthisaion of Mitchell, the burglar (who was
r ,n4.°3' the butler of Mr. ilolford on the occasion of
Reuti„e- ' burglary at that gentleman's house in the
of the
into Ma House of Detention, the surgeon of
careful 'neat, Mr. Wakefield, and his assistant have made a
opini examination of his wounds, and they are decidedly oft
liell ell; that since the wounds were inflicted they a
rlUaliii'. !ssd or attended to by any person professionallyhNreno
made ,et treat to treat them, there having been no endeavour
r iva3 40 ascertain their nature or extent. That the prilsoi.ith
1'
i 4 ilif9Putt .ftai
,inureof natter
s7iously hurt, indeed that he escaped
via.a.b '1! natter of aurne surprise. for he stateshetthwfiatihde
arid . or sixteen yards from Mr. Paul when ere ,
the :. his left side, from the back to the shoulder, and from
fr rist of the left arm to considerably above the elbow,
T(l'ltri,resightY to a hundred shot holes have been detected.oothe
reek, are several shot holes under the jaw and about ta
,;,o,and though it is supposed that such shot fired from
iii't I
patter h distance mentioned does not penetrate deeply,,es
t,;tlt,ia,serianththheas3aiwnf,ormed the surgeon that when he moves
his torn lie can feel several shots, which, having
have lodged themselves near the enteredrot
other'', tongue. Some of the shots have been extracted,r
irlain,'. 'avO dislodged themselves, as it is expected the -
sh,,i t‘er will after a time, and though there is not the.
het' ' e4t symptom of danger attending the wounds the pain
suffers is most acute.
ixtiwya.F?
,ceertvEsuilarosaTotc
AL PREPERMENT.—The Rev.
William
, MA
age Qf We ~ of Christ Church, Oxford, to the
llington, Somerset i patx9p, the Roy. WillimA
Tlviguwi.

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Midas
Hesse Homburg

THE ANGLO-CALIFORNIA GOLD

MINING COMPANY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—Allow tee as one of the directors of the
Anglo Californian Company, to say one word with
reference to the attack on the company by the writer
of the City article of to-day's Times. Not to dwell
on the obvious unfairness of its commentary on a reply
to his charges which he refuses to insert, I proceed at
once to the pith of his remarks. He says—" To pre-
vent the possibility of the company feeling injured by
the suppression of their chairman's letter, it may be
well to remind the public in a few words of the pre-
cise statements made by the Times, and to add that
he has omitted to contradict any one of them." He
then enumerates the statements to which (as he
says) no allusion was made in the suppressed docu-
ment. Charge the first is, that letters addressed to
the directors hare been returned by the Post-office.
This charge, if it have any foundation in fact, must
have arisen from a misdirection on the part of the
writers of the letters in question. To insinuate that the
directors of a company would give to the public a
wrong address, an address where communications
would never reach them, carries with it its own re-
futation. Charge the second is, that the company's
bankers, Messrs. Spooner, Attwood, and Co., disa-
vowed their connexion with the company. Here,
again, the inference sought to be drawn would argue
an approach to insanity on the part of the managers.
The simple explanation is, that the money of the
company was entered not in the name of the com-
pany, but in that of Messrs. Chevin and Williams,
and I suppose the Messrs. Spooner and Attwood
would not decline to vouch for this fact. It is untrue
that the Times has received no explanatio❑ on this
head. The explanation now given was given at the
time the charge was first male, but then, as now,
they refuse to convict themselves in their own co-
lumns. Charge the third is, that Mr. Palmer, the
accredited agent of the company, was found on Sir
Henry Huntley's arrival to be an ideal personage,
" neither the eminent engineer nor the mines had
ever been heard of." But, as the suppressed reply
stated, the letters of Mr. Palmer and the original
agreement he drew up, both of which are in exis-
tence, demonstrate the absurdity of the imputation.
Sir Henry Huntley is known to many, as an Eng-
lish officer and a gentleman. He will soon be in
England, and then the world may judge between the
company and its interested assailants. It is not very
surprising that the Times should decline to insert so
decisive a refutation of its " statements" as that now
given ; but it might appear strange that it should
gratuitously repeat those absurd yet injurious attacks
did we not know the slightest flaw, the faintest error,
is fatal to the pretensions of men ambitious of the
prestige of infallibility, and it is to the consciousness
of this that I can alone attribute this desperate tenacity
of falsehood.
Trusting that in courtesy you will insert these
brief observations fur which you are in no way re-
sponsible, and which are simply to warn the public of
the real facts of the case,
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
CAVENDISH STUART RUMBOLD, Bart.,
Chairman.

P.S.—I moreover entrust to you a copy of the
letter which the Times would not insert, notwith-
standing that the editor sent word by one of his
officials on the evening of the 25th that orders had
been given for it to be printed, and if you can find
room in your columns for it, the so doing will much
enhance the gratitude of myself and my colleagues
for so handsome a vindication of truth and justice.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—The directors of this company claim, as a
matter of justice to the shareholders and to them-
selves, the insertion of this letter, correcting certain
mis-statements (avowed and implied) in the article
upon this company which appeared in your columns
of the 23d inst.
The account (22d inst.) of this company, written by
your correspondent at San Francisco, seemed to the
directors written (apart from a few inaccuracies) in a
truthful and impartial spirit—and the few observations
made by him, tending to throw a degree of suspicion
upon some matters, they believed to have been so
made with the legitimate object of calling the atten-
tion of the public to them. They have, therefore,
read with no inconsiderable surprise the attack made
on the company, in the article of the 23d instant,
asserting, or implying matters so materially at vari-
ance with the contents of your own correspondent's
letter, published the day before, and insinuating a
charge against Sir Henry Huntley, in the teeth of a
letter inserted in another column of the same paper,
written by the directors, and stating that the com-
munications between the directors of the company and
Mr. Palmer, were in the possession of Sir IL Huntley
for certain purposes there mentioned, and therefore
showing to any impartial person that Sir Henry had
at least satisfied himself before his departure of the
bona fides of those with whom be was acting, as well
as of the authenticity of the published reports of
Mr. Palmer. After referring to the announce-
ment of the receipt of the reports from Mr.
Palmer (which reports, as before stated, are now
in the possession of Sir Henry Huntley),
and to the arrangement made with Sir Henry, you,
in your attack of the 23d inst., observe that " the
company have lately been advertising that they have
received most flattering dispatches from him (Sir H.
Huntley). It now appears, however, that no such
person as Mr. Palmer or Captain. Tremaine was
known, and that the locality of the mines, of which
the London directors had issued a lithographic draw-
ing, was equally undiscoverable." You, Sir, and the
public may judge from the following extract from a
dispatch written by Sir Henry Huntley, and received
by the provisional directors of this company on the
7th instant, whether the directors were or were not
justified in stating that they had received flattering
dispatches from Sir H. Huntley. After referring to the
Mariposa Company be writes as follows :—" An in-
terview between the directory and myself was for this
morning arranged. I read before them your letters
to me; informed them fully of all that had occurred,
and of your punctuality in fulfilling all engagements
with myself and those employed with me ;the result
of which is, that you will receive with this an inti-
mation of readiness to amalgamate your company
with theirs upon terms to be decided upon hereafter ;
you will also receive a certificate, showing them to be
a legally formed company ; and a certificate of the
amount and quality of gold produced from a certain
weight of quartz rock. I should recommend your
serious consideration of the proposals of the company,
which are herewith sent ; for of the ample remu-
neration to shareholders, there can be no question."
In corroboration of the above, your own corre-
spondent at San Francisco (after referring to the
terms of the proposed amalgamation), says ;
" Their undertaking is not at all Quixotic, in my
opinion. If properly managed, and they can keep
their men together, they will undoubtedly make
money. They have overcome the greatest difficulty
which besets undertakings of this sort, namely, get-
ting their men to the mines I think the
company was not lucky to get the (Tremaiue's) land."
Sir Henry Huntley has expressed an opinion in ac-
cordance with the last observation of your correspon-
dent. In your attack of yesterday (after referring to
the Palmer defalcation) you remark—" Under these
circumstances, Sir Henry has permitted the miners
to hire themselves to another company, the Mariposa,
who coolly propose to amalgamate with his London
friends upon receiving the sum of one hundred thou -
sand pounds for conceding them that privilege. As
the amount thus required would merely purchase the
right for the nine Cornish miners to work in a parti-
cular spot, without furnishing the slightest guarantee
that the proceeds of their labour shall be handed over
by them to their employers, the nature of :the offer
and the present condition of the shareholders may be
easily appreciated."
Why your writer should have made the above-
quoted gratuitous assertions, or why you should try
.
to lead persons to believe that H. Huntley would
not take the necessary precautions far ensuring a fair
share of the profits of the mines to the shareholders of
this company, in the event of an amalgamation with
the Mariposa Company, the directors are at a total loss
to conceive. They must, however, leave the following
extract from Sir H. Huntley's dispatch before re-
ferred to, and from another received yesterday, to
prove the value and truthfulness of those assertions.
He says—" I have now to inform you that, with a
view to your amalgamating with this (the Mariposa)
coinpany, I have engaged to carry the miners with me
to the Mariposa Mine belonging to them. The men
are willing to go, and will receive each from this
(Mariposa) company 100 dollars per month, a sum
which you must have added to their wages bad they
commenced upon the Calaveres ; this receipt does not
deprive them of the wages agreed to be paid by
your company. I thought it advantageous to retain
that tie upon them. . . Last week they proceeded
to the mine of the company upon the Mariposa. The
main provisions of the treaty (with the Mariposa
Company) are as follows :—" The mine is valued at
200,0001. The stock to be divided in 2,000 shares of
mp
aeyn t of
lesslo 08,u0m00,1.a tnod t
hh
ae
vea Mariposaprop C a
o rt
omn
1001. each. London to have 1,000 shares upon pay-
bluestsmay
paatenl; y
in-
terest in the mine. . . . I believe I have only to
add my conviction of the ample remuneration which
will attend an investment in the Mariposa Mine ( the
lease of which, I may observe, is held under Colonel
Fremont), and my certainty of the legality, sub•
stantiality, and integrity of the Mariposa Mining
Company."
Your correspondent at San Francisco says :
" The Mariposa Company made a proposal to Sir
Company that the two should amalgamate,
on condition, amongst other things, that the London
Company should put in 100G00/., and that then
they should start equal and share profits half to each."
Whence, then, your gratuitous insinuation on this
point ?
The directors may remark that, on the 14th inst.,