The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-24 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA.

We have California dates to May I. The gold
digging is represented as in a highly prosperous con-
dition. The new settlement at Trinidad Bay pro-
mises to be a place of a good deal of importance. On
a beautiful plateau on the northern shore of the bay
the site of a town had been survcy,d, and buildings
are now erecting in consideranle numbers. The
harbour is said to be the finest on the coast, with the
exception of San Francisco and San Diego. Tne
Legislature has adjourned, after a session of 100 days,
having passed 143 Acts, most of which were essential
to the complete organisation of the State Government.
The people express a decided adherence to the position
they have assumed in favour of free soil and a free
constitution.

DISCOVERY OF A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.
(From the Pacific News.)
A party of emigrants by way of the Salt Lake ar-
riving at Los Angelos, gave an account of the existence
of gold on that route, east of the principal mountain
range, when a company then fitting out for a spot about
sixty miles from the Pueblo changed its determination
and proceeded in search of this other. The route lay
in a northeast direction from the place of departure,
and full of difficulties. Striking the Mahahve river,
they followed its course some distance, crossing and re-
crossing as necessity compelled, some days as often
as fifteen times, leaving it where it makes a bend
to the south-east, towards the Colorado, into
which it empties. Obstacles were encountered at
various points of the journey almost insurmountable, in
the shape of mountains of rock, which they had to climb,
and mountains of snow which they could not avoid, nar-
row gorges through which they had to pass, and still
narrower cliffs, along whose crests nothing but a mule
could pass with a prospect of safety, and where the
slightest mis-step would land rider and all hundreds
of feet below; but they pushed on about 230 miles from
the Pueblo, the point for which they started. Hero
among. the eastern spurs of the Sierra Nevada they
found the object of their search—gold, and silver too;
and in such quantities as they had not dreamed of—s
perfect mountain of rocks with silver and gold mingled
and commingled in solid masses weighing from one to
many tons. The quartz proved to be exceedingly hard,
to such a degree that during their short stay all the im-
plements made for this particular purpose before starting
were completely worn out in the operation of drilling
and blasting.
The strangest part of the whole discovery is yet to be
told. These large boulders of gold, silver, and quartz
hare the gold in the south end and the silver in the north
end. Nu exceptions were found in their examinations,
the silver being the most abundant of the two. In the
words of the person who was on the spot, " there is
enough silver there to sink every ship in this harbour."
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any use at present is concerned, it is bO. All the water
to be found for miles and miles around •is highly impreg-
nated with salt, or saleratus,
or both. Not a single drop
of water free from one or other of h t ese properties did
one of the party obtain during the
The whole region is a perfect waste, and disease and
death must inevitably fullstay. On
ow any prclonged
their return they met a large company going to the same
spot. A true statement of the difficulties and dangers of
a further prosecution of the expedition induced about 200
turn back-50 went on.
The gentleman named, from whom these facts have
been obtained, is now in this city, with specimens in his
possession brought from the mother-mountain. They
are the most singular and beautiful we have ever seen,
and one need only to see them and hear.him to be con-
vinced that nothing has been told but the truth.
These facts are coirimmunicated by the gentleman
who headed the partavaexpliaratinn—a gentleman for-
merly connected with the New York press, Mr. Riell, of
the .[ eV- V) Era. The specimens we have seen.

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JAMAICA.
We have dates from Jamaica to the 29th ult. There
is no news of any importance since our last advice=.

CALLS TO THE BAR.

The following gentlemen were called to the degree of
barristers. at-law by the different Inns of Court, in Easter
Torn], 1850:—
INNER TEMPLE.—Henry Fitzenanrice Hallam, George
Shaw, Montagu, Bere, Charles Thro,l4, John Parnell,
John Fori,ter Bird, Henry George Symonds, Thomas
Wilson Morley, Willi3m Field, William Girling, Ste-
phen Thomas Ciissold.
MIDDLE TEINIPLE.—AUgIIStUs Edgar Burch, Simms
Reeve, Henry Jessel, James' Lister Smith, Chart( a Lo-
cock Webb, Lyttliiton 1101yoalie Bailey, George Wood-
yatt Elaltings, John Berry Torr, Alexander Gilchrist.
LINCOLN'S INN. —Godfrey William Fitzhugh, Wil-
liam Alassey, Edward Warner, Frederick Basset \Ving.
field, George Wirgman Hemming, Henry Matthews,
Francis George West, William Ward Trilby.
GRLY's INN.—Thomas Trevethan Spicer, Henry Wil-
liam Vincent.

The steam-ship Europa, Captain LOtt, sailed from
Liverpool on Saturday forenoon for Halifax and New York,
carrying out a number, of passengers and the mails for
Canada and the United States.
WAINFLEET.--Colotwl Sibthorp, at his rent audit
at the Angel Inn, on Wednesday last, kindly returned 15 per
oat, to his twasatrY m niushbourh•od.