The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

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ever, and with security considered here as prime, it can be
obtained at a less rate. At the last moment we have to
notice a fall in the price of exchat

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steam-ship companies.

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ceeded by the exports, our stock will be gradually reduced.

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sale for all classes. The operations in bills of exchange
have been moderate, it • +Pq• London is worth
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27.—The various markets
Rain continues to fall
There was nothing to
has been paid for
was very

copiously throughout -the island.
report of the new crop of coffee

little doing. In rum, proof iB, for home consumption, has
been taken at 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d. per gallon, and for export
at 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d. Sugar may be quoted at 15s. to 18s.
for dark to fair. Bills on New York, drawn by the Panama
Railroad Company, at one day's sight, have been sold to

the extent of £BOO to £l,OOO, at three per cent. premium.

AUSTRALIA.
ARRIVAL OF THE EAGLE

By the ship Eagle, Captain Boyce, belonging to Messrs.
Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s Eagle line of Australian packets
we have intelligence from Melbourne to the 28th July.

The Eagle ;railed on the 28th of July, and reached the
Mersey on Saturday, thus making the voyage in 86 days.
On her passage home she spoke the following vessels :
October 9, in lat. 36 55, lon. 36 38, the Rhondda, from
Pernambuco for this port ; October 14, in lat. 47 21, lon.
29 35, the St. George, from Maryport for Quebec ; Oct.
16, in lat. 48 55, lon. 19 3, the Shackamaxon, from Liver-
pool for Philadelphia.

The Eagle has brought the following on freight :-120
packages gold dust, weighing 63,952 oz. 10 dwts., and
valued at £256,000 ; 2,070 bags rice, 1,895 barrels flour,
four octaves and three cases wine, one case of watches,
and numerous cases of sundries. She has also brought
156 passengers, and 77 bags of letters and newspapers.
In addition to the gold on freight, there was a large
amount in the hands of passengers ; and two nuggets,
one weighing 1,117 oz. 11 dwts. and the other 1,011 oz.
15 dwts., and valued at nearly £B,OOO. They were taken
from the Canadian Gully, Balaarat, by two labouring men,
who, after several days' working, to little or no purpose,
struck upon the above.

The passengers are all well, and speak very highly of
the vessel, the commander, and his officers.
The screw-steamer Cleopatra was to sail from Melbourne
for Liverpool, via the Cape of Good Hope, on the 31st July.
The screw-steamer Argo was to sail from Melbourne
for Southampton on the 18th of August.
The Royal Mail-steamer Chusan arrived at Melbourne
on the 20th of July, with the mails of the 4th of May,
from England, and sailed on the 21st for Sydney.
• A person named Quinn, who absconded from Messrs.
Train and Co.'s., of this town, in July, 1852, with £1,300,
was captured in Melbourne, and has been brought back
in the Eagle.

The boa, containing £lO,OOO in gold, which had been
lost overboard, in Melbourne Harbour, from the steamer
Osmanli, from Liverpool, had not been recovered, although
a diving-bell had been constructed, and every attempt had
been made to recover it.
Two Government escorts arrived at Melbourne on the
22d July, one with 1,737 ounces from the Ovens diggings,
and the other with 3,100 ounces from the Mount M`lvor
diggings.
The accounts from Geelong state that a decided im-
provement was observable in the yield of gold from
l3alaarat. The last escort that arrived in Melbourne
brought down nearly 6,000 ounces, besides leaving a large
quantity behind.

Great excitement had been caused at Melbourne in con-
sequence of the Mayor Private Escort Company's escort
having been attacked and robbed, on its way to Melbourne,
of a considerable amount of gold dust and gold coin. One
account states that the escort was robbed of 2,390 ounces
of gold dust and a large amount of gold coin, and that
four men in charge of the escort had been killed. A later
account states that the escort was attacked by twenty
men when about fifteen miles from the Mount 141`Ivor
diggings, and that the amount of dust stolen was 8,000
ounces, besides £4,000 in gold coin. No official account
of the robbery had, however, reached Melbourne at latest
advices.

The latest accounts from Perth, Western Australia, are
to the 10th July. The operations at the Coal Shales, on
the Preston river, were to be discontinued, in consequenee
of the workmen employed not being able to sink deeper
without proper materials, and the boring apparatus sent
by government not being sufficiently equipped.
All descriptions of goods and merchandise were rapidly
accumulating in Melbourne ; from twelve to fourteen
arrivals from foreign ports every day. Gold was still
rising, and was quoted at £3 17s. 6d. per ounce. Martell's
brandy, in bond, was quoted at 15s. to 17s. ; Bass's ale,
16s. per dozen; case brandy, 51s. to 635. per dozen; clean
fleece wool brought 18id. to 214 d.; slipe 17d to lad.;
lambs, 21d.; hand-washed, 20/d.; fine Adelaide flour, £27
to £2B per ton; hay, £23 per ton; oats, 12s. per bushel;
maize, 15s. per bushel ;-hams, 9d. per pound; cheese,
colonial, Bd. per pound; Cheddar cheese, ls. 3d. per pound;
butter, ls. 4d. per pound; lunch biscuits, 9d. per pound;
chocolate, 9d. per pound; Kent hops, ls. 3d. per pound.
Timber and building materials in good demand, at very
high prices. Bricks, English, were selling at £l7 per
1000 ; quartering boards, 465. to 595. per 100 feet ; joists,
565. to 675. per ditto; battens, 545. to 60s. per ditto ; laths,
40s. to 41s. per 1000; shingles, 735. per ditto; grooved
and tongued boards, 7-id. to Bd. per foot; and lime, 15s.
to 20s. per bag. Superior draught horses were realizing
from £BO to £118;. inferior ditto, from £55 to £75 ; supe-
rior hacks, from £3O to £42 ; inferior ditto, from £l5 to
£25 ; working bullocks. £35 to £45 per pair for superior
ones ; and £2O to £25 for inferior.

The barque Tory was wrecked on the 15th July, whilst
on her passage from London. She was bound to Port
Stephens, with two hundred and eighty passengers, prin-
cipally for the Peel River Gold Mining Company, and
machinery, and had reached to within seven miles of her
destination when she met with the disaster. All the
passengers were saved. _ _ _

- A correspondent, writing from Ralaarat on the 11th of
July, says, One or two rushes have occurred during the
last two or three weeks, without any material result.
Prince Regent's, or Norton's Gully, continues to attract
the greatest numbers ; whilst that portion of the Eureka
abutting on the flat, which was last worked productively,
was gradually being abandoned until within the last
day or two. Claims are now being made upon the
flat, which are gradually extending into the valley
leading to Balaarat, and, should a few of these claims
turn out well, there is no doubt that the whole
of the valley to Balaarat will be turned up during the
course of the next few months. The escort returns
give a very imperfect estimate of the quantity of gold
produced, and chiefly indicate the quantity sold each week
upon the ground, whilst great numbers are hoarding
their gold, and refuse to sell more than is sufficient to
supply their immediate wants. The roads are in the
most wretched state, and no attempt is made to repair
them, or even to make the approaches to the camp to-
lerably good. Whenever a rush occurs in the neighbour-
hood of a road, as frequently happens, claims are sure to
be marked out, and often holes several feet deep dug in
the road itself. The commissioner, as a matter of course,
makes his appearance on the following day, and should
he be so fortunate as to catch the delinquents, fines them
also, as a matter of course; but no attempt is made to
restore the road to its former state, or even to fill up the
holes, and the carters are daily compelled to find out
fresh tracts for their drays. Not satisfied with compelling
storekeepers, schoolmasters, parsons, doctors, and law-
yers to take out licenses this month, a carter was caught,
when looking for his bullocks in the bush, and fined five
pounds for not having a license."
A correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing
from Mount M`lvor diggings on the 19th July, says,
" Since my last communication the diggings at M`lvor
have slightly improved, in so far that ground hitherto
neglected, or but badly prospected, has within the last
week had a more thorough trial, by sinking through, in
cases, no less than three, four, and even five, bottoms of
clay, and coming down to the hard rock, at a depth, say,
from thirty to fifty feet. In consequence of this deep
sinking on the rising eminences and gullies between, run-
ning along the creek south from the Melbourne Private
Escort-office, a heavy rush has taken place, and a consi-
derable amount of gold has been secured by those who
have reached the hard rock bottom. So many false
bottoms of clay above referred to have puzzled, until
lately, the diggers at M`lvor altogether. One would
think the first clay was the true bottom; another would
imagine the second clay the real thing ; another digger
the next clay, and so on. Gold certainly is found more
or less lying on these clay bottoms, and the best and surest
way at Mlvor to sink a hole is, first, down to the hard
rock ; that reached, then drive under as far as you can ;
when that is completed, then fill up the hole to the lowest
clay bottom ; drive on that again, and so on up to the highest
clay bottom in the pit. Another thing I may mention is,
that at M`lvor the washing-stuff has quite a yellow red
kind of colour, and not that bluey white colour, as at Forest
Creek and other diggings. This has deceived many old dig-
gers; so much so, that in one instance two men realised a
heavy weight of gold in nuggets on the Commissioner's
Flat, but, not knowing the nature of the soil, threw away
their washing-stuff. The two men afterwards separated ;
one went to Bendigo,but the other remained at M`lvor, and,
becoming better acquainted with the soil, went back to his
holes, and in the first week washed out from what they had
thrown away, ten ounces. Last Wednesday, a fifty-two
ounce nugget was again picked out, in a pit behind the
" Commissioner's ;" I have also seen a fine crystalised
piece of gold weighing eleven ounces, taken out by a lad
among the rocks adjoining the Golden Hill, in posses-
sion of Dr. Waugh. A considerable rush had also
taken place during the week, to the Bald Hill, about
two miles and a half north of the Private Escort Com-
pany's place ; where, I am given to understand, the dig-
gers are realising most handsomely. The long flats lying
directly east and west of the M`lvor Creek are also
looked at with most wistful eyes ; but the diggers are pre-
vented from digging there at present, from the great rush

pring very great
se flaw, irual what has already
_yle Gully, Opossum Gully, and
favourites at present, and several,
otner improvements goinvgeroynsantuMg business there. Among
, and which show
what the authorities think as to the stability of the 31`Ivor
diggings, contracts have been issued, and taken up by
Messrs. Crowley, late of Adelaide,' for the erection of splen-
did stone barracks and offices for the 'powers that be,' in