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THE FIELD 
GOLD ^FIELDS. 
Arrival op this Harbinger — 1 Tho arrivnl was on 
Tuesday announced of tho steamer Harbinger, wlncli left 
Sydney on the lltli January, and Melbourne on the 22nd 
lom, and has on freight 73,342 ounces of gold, valued at 
w jout’ £293,300. Tho Sovereign of the Seas has also arrived 
from Melbourne, whence sho sailed on tho 26th January, 
with 37,334 ounces of gold, worth about £1 49,300. Those 
two vessels consequently bring in a total of about £442,000. 
As thero is still a demand for gold for the continent, tliero 
is at present every probability that the whole of tlieso sup- 
plies will be despatched abroad. They will, however, give 
at leust a temporary cheek to the efflux of gold from the 
Bank. Since Saturday last, it is understood that about 
£100,000 in gold has been withdrawn from tho Bunk for 
exportation, viz , £00,000 on Tuesday, £20,000 on Monday, 
and £80,000 on Saturday. 
California. — To facilitate tho operations of the branch 
mint at St. Francisco, it has been recommended by the 
Secretary of the Treasury that gold pieces for amounts equal 
to £20, £10, and £5, (100 dol., 60dol., and 26 dol.) should 
be coined under the title of “ unions,” “ half unions,” and 
“ quarter-unions, " commencing with the lutter. 
Mariposa Company. — Shareholders of the Quartz Rock 
Mariposa Gold Mining Company aro allowed till the 24th 
instant to apply for their proportion of new shares, which 
will be issued at par at the rule of 38 for every 100 origlflu! 
shares. 
Colon i a i. Gold Company. — The subjoined memoran- 
dum indicates that the question of the profitableness of 
quartz crushing in New South Wales will soon be put to a 
decisive test: — 
“The Colonial Gold Company have received advices by 
the Harbinger from their superintendent in New South 
Wales, to the 30th of December. 
“Mr. Spence writes from Louisa Creek: — ‘You will be 
glad to learn that ibis morning (the 80lh) wc got up steam 
for the first time, nnd tried the engine. She worked most 
beautifully from the first, without a jar, leakage, or any- 
thing objectionable. Wc put the wheel round about 30 
revolutions in the minute, ami there was no little satisfac- 
tion at the completion of so important u portion of the 
undertaking. The large w heel of the crushing-house is to 
he on the ground this evening, which wc shall soon have 
in its place, and then the rollers will be raised to the cra- 
dles, and w e shall finish the walls, and cover all in. One 
of the kilns is ready, another nearly so, and the tram road 
is being Inid down, not only along tho ridge ami to the 
bouse, but also on an inclined plane into the long level, so 
us to do away us much as possible with the windlass.’ 
“ Mr. Spence calculates that he can deliver and reduce 
30 tons of quartz per day, one month with another; and 
taking the average at 30 tons per diem, for 25 days in the 
month, or at the rate of 9,000 tons per annum, he esti- 
mates that nil charges for breaking down, quarrying, rais- 
ing, breaking, loading waggons, and delivery at kilns, for 
calcining, and expenses of engine and reduction-houses, 
nnd general superintendence of incidentals, will amount to 
(per ton of quartz) £1. 10*. 
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on 30 tons per diem, yielding one ounce. And he adds: — 
‘Should we rcnlisc i he success thus anticipated, 1 shall 
immediately proceed to make all necessary preparations 
for raising a more extensive establishment in one of the 
many localities open to us, where auriferous quartz cun be 
obtained iu abundance, on Government ground.’ ” 
jfflwip gnldJiprt. 
From Paris wc learn that, on tho lfiili inst., the 
Imperial carriages wore in attondnneo ot tho Embassy with 
post-horses to convey bis Royal Highness the Duko of 
Cambridge and suite to visit the 1’nluce and Gardens of 
Versailles. On arriving they wero received by a Guard of 
Honour, and, after going over the galleries and upurtments, 
wcut to seethe playing of the Grand Waterworks, which hud 
been especially ordered for the occasion. During tho visit 
tho bands of the different regiments in garrison struck up 
“ God save the Queen !’’ which was received with cries of 
“ Vive I'Empereur !" “ Vivmt Ics Anglais ! ” by the multi- 
tudes assembled. In the evening tho illustrious party dined 
with their Majesties at the l’alnco of the Tuileries. Mr. 
Laing, M.P., Chairman of tho Crystal Palace Company, 
accompanied by Sir Joseph Paxton, Mr. Cecil Boothby.oue 
of the Direction, and Mr. Grove, the Secretary, lius had an 
interview with the Emperor at the Tuileries. The deputa- 
tion was introduced by Lord Cowley. The Emperor ex- 
pressed the greatest interest in the success of the undertak- 
ing, and promised to send contributions from tho imperial 
manufactories of Sevres, the Gobelins, and Beauvais. lie 
also intimated bis intention of sending n deputation of dis- 
tinguished persons to represent France at tho ceremony of 
the opening of the Palace next month. Cardinul Wisoinun, 
who is staying at Siuel’s Hotel, opposite the British Em- 
bassy, has hud an interview with tho Emperor. Tho Cardi- 
nal is on his way to London. 
Letters prom Syka (The Cyclades) of tho 8th an- 
nounce tho arrival ot Multa of General Lespinasso nnd his 
Zouaves. Their reception by the English, civilians as well 
us military, was, according to these letters (which, by the 
way, proceed from a Frenchman on tho island), far beyond 
anything that could have been expected even under the very 
favourable circumstuucca of tho close alliance between tho 
countries. Tho enthusiasm was general, and tho French 
here speak of that reception with pleasure and with pride. 
The oriental costume, the bronzed complexion, the well- 
formed limbs and iron frames, uud the soldierly appearance 
of these African troops, were greatly admired. 
The Greek Government has at last decided on pub- 
lishing the resignation of the officers who hud gone to join 
the insurgents in Epirus and Thessaly. Some of those re- 
signations are dated so fur back as the 12lb of February, 
and it was only on the 7th inst. they were officially made 
known in the Observateur d’ Athene*. Among t lie officers 
whose resignation was accepted by tbe King are Lieutenunt- 
General K. Tsovellas ; the Generals of Brigade, Itangos, 
Zervas, T. Grivas, N. Ttavellas, and Hadji Pctro; Colonels 
Stratus, Papa Kostas.Tsanjalas, and Tsamis Kara lasso. No 
hopes are entertained of the success of the jneurgouts; 180 
villages in Thessaly bad been plundered by some of the 
minor chiefs, mid tbe produce sold in Greece. The public 
mind was moro occupied nl Athens with the apprehension 
of an approaching famine than with the insurrection. 

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 
PLYMOUTH. Thursday Morning. 
Tbe General Screw Steam Shipping Company’s mail 
packet Hydaspos, Capluin Benson, arrived this morning. 
She left Calcutta, January 16th ; Madras, 20lb ; Point (Jc 
Gallo, 26th; Mauritius, February Bill ; Capo of Good Hope, 
26tb ; St. Helena, March 6lli ; Ascension, 10th. Arrived 
at Fuyul, April 10th, and left on the 13th. She has a full 
cargo of silk and indigo, and 120 passengers. From tbe 
Cujic wo learn that Lite election of the Upper House was 
completed ; that for tbe Lower House was still in progress. 
Tbe Grahttm'8 Town Journal states that gold bad been 
discovered ut Sinithffeld duly in February. This is con- 
firmed by the Port Elizabeth Mercury of the 18ili of Feb- 
ruary. Dr. Devorcux, lloman Catholic Bishop of the eastern 
province, died in February. The Meander, 44, Commander 
Talbot, was at Simon's Bay, and the Dee, Commander Smith, 
was at Struys Hay. The II y di a and the Dm t wero expected at 
tho Mozambique. The Penguin hud sailed for Algoa Buy. 
and was expected at the Capo at tho beginning of Murch cn 
route, to England. The squadron was h 11 well. 
Downing-stkeet, Apiil 16. — The Queen lias been 
pleased to appoint Robert Mnlesworlh, Esq., to be u mem- 
ber of the Legislative Council of tho Colony of Victoria. — 
Tuesday a Gazette. 
Customs Duties in Australia. — Mr Ewmt has a no- 
tice of motion on the order book of t he House of Commons, 
which ho is to move on t he re assembling after the recess, 
“to inquire of the Under Secretary for tho Colonies whether 
any measures are being adopted for assimilating the customs 
duties (or interior duties) in the different colonies of tho 
Australian colonies.” 
Malta, April 12. — Tho arrival of t he Peninsular Com- 
pany’s ship Himalaya on the 7 1 h inst. has already been an- 
nounced, and sinco that the following vessels hu\e come to 
anchor in our harbour : — 
8th. — The Apollo transport, from Kavorna ; Cambria 
stoamer, from Kingstown ; Emeu steamer, from Constan- 
tinople. 
lltli. — The Sultan steamer, fioin Southampton and 
Gibraltar. 
On Sunday tho Indus, Peninsular and Oriental Com- 
pany’s steuinship, lelt us for the cuslwuid in tow of the 
Cumbria, her delects not having been made good ; both ships 
full of troops. On tho saino day tho Hope screw steamer 
sailed with officers of tho Commissariat, nnd a lurgo 
amount of specie; on Mnjiduy tho Himalaya and the 
Emeu ; nnd yesterday tho Apollo transport in tow of the 
Sultan. The scene which occiiricd on the embarkation of 
the troops was singulai ly inspiriting. I neither harbour crowds 
of people assembled, the crash of military music being almost 
drowned in tbe enthusiastic cheers of the soldiers ; the leave- 
taking by the officers unit men of their wives and families 
forming a painful contrast to the joy which otherwise so 
generally prevailed. An the vessels moved slowly from their 
buoys, dense mosses of people lined tho butteries, and yet 
more dense crowds of soldiers the forts — those of St. Angelo 
and Ricusoli, in the greut harbour, and those of Munocl und 
Tign6, in tbe quarantine, and St. Elmo, between both — 
cheering their comrades us the vessels moved along, tho 
cheers from one fort being taken up by the troops in the 
others, and us joyously responded to from on board. 
The following is a list of the officers and men of the various 
troops that have embarked. The Guards, I should observe, 
under present airongenicnle, nre not to cmbaik before the 
18th, by which period the staff’ will probably have arrived 
from England, and the Himalaya, Yuleuu, Cumbria, uud 
Emeu have returned from Gallipoli. 
Per Indus, left on llio 9ili lust., Lieutenant - Colonel 
Euerton; Majors Strutnn and Dixon; Captains Forbes, 
Croft on, O’Brien, Willis, Carden, Kennedy, and Dilkoj 
Liciitc-iiuuts Forster, Lesllo, Nicholson, Kent, Gilby, 
Walmesloy, Acton, France, Chawner, and Willington; 
Ensigns Carden, Aldcn, Lcmprierc, Main, Butts, and 
Dickson ; Pay master Scott, Adjutant Rldunann, Quarter- 
master Breading. Surgeon Prcndergast, Assistant-Surgeons 
M'Cartucy and Burton, 901 runk and file, 8 women, und 2 
servants of her Majesty's 77 tl» Pool. 
Per Hope, screw steamer, left on the 9lli inst., Deputy- 
Corn in issary - Genet al Ramsay, Assistant - Commissary - 
General Knowles, Deputy- Assistant-Commissary- Generals 
Willau, Watt (und wife), Gem, and l’robyn ; Assistant- 
Deputy- Commissary -Generals Slude, Burlie, and Harrison. 
Per Cambria, left on the 9th inst., Lioulenunt-Coloncl 
Waddyj Captains Frumpton, Purcell, and Gray; Lieu- 
tenants Tupper, Fawcett, Nowlan, and Lane; Ensigns 
Leeds, Dinioud, and Fyler ; Surgeon Cowan, Quartermaster 
Fortune, Paymaster Roberts, Adjutant J. Thomson, Assis- 
tant-Surgeon Martel), 300 rank und file, and 8 women — 
Her Majesty’s 6Ulli Regiment. Major Dalton, Captains 
Grant, Buddeley, und Kiug; Lieutenants Beresford, Rocke, 
Couolly, Astley, and Lo Marchant ; Ensigns Armstrong, 
Earle, and Hopkins; Assistant-Surgeon Beckwith, uud 640 
rank and file — 49lh Regiment. 
Per Himalaya, left on the 10th inst., Lieutenant-Colonel 
Blake ; Majors Gough and Muudy ; Captains Erskiue, Col- 
lings, Donovan, Prctyman, Burke, and Fitzgerald ; Lieu- 
tonnuts Lucy, Vachcr, Barrett (Adjutant), Coibett, Nugent, 
Mansfield, Parry, Bcnnott, Thislethwayte, and Konrick ; 
Ensigns Worthington, Thorold, Montagu, Sirco, and Green- 
wood; Quartermaster Jones, Paymaster M‘Gralh, Surgeon 
Muir, Assistant Surgeon Ogilvy, nud Stanley, of the 33d 
Regiment. Lieutonaut Colonel Carpenter, Majors Email 
und Maydwell ; Cuptain Turkey, Goodwyn, Steward, 
Meredith, Bourne, Shipwith, Bernard, and Richards ; 
Lieutenants, Johnston (Adjutant), Bertram, Balguy, Row- 
lands, Bligh, Bush, Fitzroy, Allun, Swaby, Taylor, Har- 
riott, and Every; Ensigns Dixon, Lockhart, Lowry, and 
Sterling; Paymaster Creagh, Quartermaster Elliott, Sur- 
geon Wilkins, Assistant-Surgeons Lament and Kipg, of the 
41st Regiment. In this ship 1,798 rank nnd file were em- 
barked, forming the strength of tbe two regiments, 17 
women, 2 scrvuuts, nnd 10 hones. Brigadier and Lieu- 
tenant Colonel Adams, C.B., also went up by the 
Himalaya. 
Per Emeu, left on tbe 10th inst.. Lieutenant-Colonels 
Sad loir nud Williams (in) ; Captains Hort, Balguy, Bartley, 
llutherfoord, Martin, Thomson, Gamble, and Arnold ; 
Lieutenants Robert/, Skinuer, Cocks, Auscll, Hull, Dow- 
biggen, Robertson, Trevor, and Hamilton ; Ensigns p ulo 
Winniett, Eccles, Forester. Sykes, and Bower; Payinost 
Muunscll, Quartermaster Leahy, Adjutant Shepherd S ° P 
goon Dc Lisle, M.D., Assistant- Surgeons Dutilon 
Smith; rank and file. ‘ anu 
Per Apollo, left on the 11th inst.. Majors Farren and 
Fordyce ; Captain Lard nor, Villiers (J.). Loddor, Hamilton 
Lowndes, Villiers (C.C.), and Rooke ; Lieutenants Pliifir ’ 
Sievcnson, Ellison, Hunter, Lowry, Buchanan, Lucas, Muv 
cock, and Hon. B. M. Ward ; Ensigns Gaynor, Finnorlv" 
Irby, Palmer, Stokes, and Waddilove; Adjutant R 0 por 
Quartermaster M ‘In tosh, Surgeon Weld, Assistant-Surgeon’ 
Saunders and White, 846 rank und file, and six woman Jr 
the 47t h Regiment. ’ ° r 
Per Sultan, sailed on the 11th Instant, 16 officers and 130 
rank and file of the 49th Regiment. Tho names of ti, e 
officers who embarked have not been reported. The 
and No. 4 companies of this legiment, with Captain* 
Gluzbrook und Maitland, and Lieutenant Coiban, have 
been left behind, the Sultan being so crowded as to* leavo 
no room on boatd for more than 130 men. 
AUSTRALIA NA. 
Outward Bound. — The departures from the port of 
London for the Australian colonies during the past week 
show an increase. They hove comprised altogether 11 ves- 
sels— five to Sydney, with an aggregate burden of 4,18|J 
tons; four to Port Phillip, with un aggregate burden of 
1,920 tons ; one to Launceston, 360 tons, and one to Ilobart 
Town, of 199 tons. Their total capacity was 6,009 tons. 
The rates of freight exhibit firmness, with a tendency in 
some particular cases to improve. 
Sydney, Dec. 10, 1853.— Our markets nre full of all 
description of every thing that can be required for twelve 
months. Port Phillip lias commenced fees, nnd with that 
ami over speculating, land purchasing, &c., they will be in 
a mess. Gold is still abundant there and will continue- 
here, nil do not get much, but there is plenty when re- 
quired. Population is wanted in every department of trade 
nnd agriculture; the colonies arc very prosperous. “ War 
war! ” this will affect us greatly, and I am sorry for it, but I 
dare say it will do many of the continental slates good. 
Tm;’ Golden Age.— Details lately received of the 
American paddle-steamer Golden Age, from Liverpool to 
Australia, furnish interesting suggestions regarding the 
ultimate prospects of rapid communication, not only with 
the gold colonies, but the Cape of Good Hope. This 
steamer, which was capable of carrying 1,200 persons, and 
had just made one of the best trial trips ever known across 
the Atlantic, left Liverpool in November last, with a small 
number of passengers, nnd nn imremunerntivc, although a 
considerable cargo, the post-office authorities having re- 
fused to pay her the slightest extra sum for taking a mail. 
She reached the Cape in 20 days nnd a half, thus making 
to that point the shortest passage upon record. In- 
deed, the difference fYom any passage previously known 
is alleged to have been as much ns eight days. At 
the Cape she was detained ten days coaling, but she 
nevertheless reached King George’s Sound so as to effect 
the entire passage from Liverpool to Australia in 61 days, 
including detentions, nnd in an actual running time of 4 7 
days. Considering that in future trips the advantages of 
experience would enable distances to be saved and greater 
speed to be attained, the possibility of the communication 
to Australia being regularly brought within 50 days, even 
by the Cape route, seems consequently to have been de- 
monstrated. According to the statements of the com- 
mnndcr, Captain Porter, he made the whole distance to 
the Cape with four furnaces blocked off, nnd with the con- 
sumption of only thirty tons of coals per day, five days' 
consumption remaining upon arrival in port. By less 
economy, therefore, greater results might have been ac- 
complished, and it is believed, moreover, that 300 miles 
might be saved by stopping at Gorce to coal. Taking 
these things into account, Captain Porter asserts that the 
Golden Age could regularly perform the run from Liver- 
pool to the Cape in 23 days. 
The River Murray. — The South Australian Register 
says: — “Already this noble river has begun to be used as 
a highway for passengers between the Victoria diggings 
nnd Adelaide; and it has proved itself an economical nnd 
speedy route. Wc have just received the information of 
the arrival at Angaston of a party, comprising Mr. Wat- 
son and live sons, of Mr. Radford, a builder, resident at 
that township, who, after eight months’ work at the Forest 
Creek Diggings, resolved upon returning home to Adelaide, 
and having been by sea and overland before, now deter- 
mined upon trying a trip down the ascertained navigable 
waters of the Murray River. They left Goldi n Punt, Forest 
Creek, and went through Bendigo walking, and carrying 
provisions, tools, ammunition, &c., nnd in four days 
reached Maiden’s Punt, the point to which Mr. Randell 
took the Mary Ann. In seven days they cut timber for 
and built their boat (flat bottomed, 18 feet in length, and 
live feet across the beam), christened Victoria the First, 
by Mr. Maiden, the host there. They started from Maiden’s 
Punt on the 5th of December, at noon, arrived at Swan Hill 
on the 8th, passing the Lady Augusta steamer upon her 
upward voyage, near the Murrumbidgee, on the 9th, and 
arrived at Morondee on the 17th inst., ut four o’clock in 
the afternoon. There they lauded, and reached Angaston 
on foot about the same hour next day. They describe the 
voyage as having been extremely pleasant, and free from 
danger, adding, that they were received with great kind- 
ness and hospitality by tho settlers on the banks of tbe 
river. The fishing and shooting seem also to have delighted 
them greatly, as it might well do after eight months’ hard 
work and privation at the diggings. They noticed several 
large stacks of wool on their way down ready for Captuin 
Cadell. The enterprise displayed by this party is highly 
creditable to them, and we have no doubt their example 
will be followed by many others, especially as it is esti- 
mated that, by adopting this mode of travelling, they have 
effected a saving of £50. It may certainly be regarded as 
a new feature in the navigation of the Murray, that it is 
so perfectly easy and economical to build a boat and drop 
down the stream, without being even dependent on a 
steamer.” 
FOREIGN MISCELLANY. 
A Lady in “the House.”— Iu the silting of tho 23rd 
ult. a uiember of the Ohio Senate moved for a suspension 
of the rules, in order that Mrs. Severance might present a 
memorial iu favour of allowing women the elective franchise 
uud equal property rights, uud follow it by 6ueli remarks as 
she might wish to offer. The motion was lost, but was im- 
mediately renewed by u statement that Mrs. Severance only 
