Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-06-07

Vinceunes, or that anything Of the Kind was ever
contemplated. Tits expected that General Chan
GARNER will reply the serious accusation thus
publicly brought against him.
The sale of Marshal Soult's pictures at Paris
commenced on the Goth at O'Clock. The attend
apce was very great. Three pictures We're put up
and fetched enormous prices. The Conception of
the Virgin by Murillo, was bought for the Muse
um OF Paris for 5S6,000f The Jesus and Child"
by the same master. 63.O0Of.; and "St. Peter in
Bonds" by the same, 151,000f. The two last
were purchased, it is said, for private individuals
The sale was held in the Rue du Seutier, and the
throng OF people seeking in vain to gain admission
extended halt way up to the Boulevard.
THE AUSTRALIA GOLD MINES.
The following is letter from an Englishman
settled at the Mount Alexander Diggings, in the
Victoria district of Australia, aud from the
mnuteness OF the information it contains is inter-
esting
MOUNT ALEXANDER DIGGINGs, Jan. 10, 1852
The gold here is generally found in clay, clay
CIV gravel and innsterstics of slate, &C., at depths
varying from the surface to % feet. 1t is more
generally difused on this ground than it was
known in any other part of the world, hence per-
seyerng and steady parties are sure to do WE'LL
1t isfound in patches pockets, as it is term
ed. and sometimes party of, say three or four,
will obtain over sob. wei ht in day. Having
a splendid pair of scales am in the constant
practice of weighing and subdividing gold for
parties, and haze had as much as 20 lbs. brought
by one party at time. About fortnight since
was purchasing gold at go lis the or. the
price is down from the quantity thrown into the
market. and can get it at sos. per | havo
bought it low 45s.
At night the sight of the thousand fires around
us is very pretty and the ncessant firing of guns
and pistols rather astounding Almost every man
is armed. and can assure you the state of So
ciety requires it, for crime in almost every shape
and form is being perpetrated almost daily.
You may suppose gold field most original
sight: at a distance it only be compared to an
immense army, encamped in myriads of tents of
all shapes sizes and colors. From where write
are the main diggings in the country; they ex-
tend for about ten miles, and about three weeks
since contained from $4,000 to $4,000 persons;
besides there are many other places close at hand
and gold is still being found at several new places
throughout the colony. To give you an idea of
the business | am carrying on, may tell you l
sent down 26lb weight of gold and about 5000 in
checks, per last escort, the proceeds of one week
Important from the Arctic Ocean.
The following is extract from letter dated
Hong Kong, March 28th:-
There have been here no less than thirty-seyen
whalers from the Arctic seas. 1t may interest
you to know that they almost all believe that Sir
Johu Franklin is safe, and that he has got through
the ice barrier into inner waters, where he will
not be reached until mild season arrives; which
they say the present will be- Most of them have
now departed: They say Franklin will not suffer
for want OF food. They gire strange accounts
Of the Esqulmaar uibrating from the Asiatic to the
American continent and back again, carrying
their boats, made of skins and whale5one, over e.
the ace, and launching them aoten they meet aoia.
open water. They all confirm the fact that, the
whales found in Behring's Straits and in Baffin's
Bay are the same species, proving the existence
OF passage for whale of the Arctic species.
they say, has never been seen to the south of %
degrees of latitude so they cannot have doubled
either OF the Capes (of Good Hope or Cape Horn
and the whale is under the necessity of making
his presence known by coming to the surface to
blow