1020 
the field. 
canvas or steam. On the 10th, lltb, and 12 th, north-east, 
cast, and south-east winds were experienced, and but mode- 
rate distances were logged, the ship having to be frequeny 
On the 13th and 14th 
tacked to make a fairway course. 
IV UJillVC II lOil n i.j . j 
strong south and south-west winds were experienced, and 
she mu 351 and 354 miles per day respectively, from 
the 15th to the 20th light and head winds were met 
with, and only from six to seven knots per hour was 
averaged. On the 20th she was in lat. 29.13 S., long. 
31.40 W., and from thence to Pernambuco, which port 
was passed at a distance of six miles, on the morning of tho 
28th, nothing but light N.K. and N.N.E. winds were ex- 
perienced. The Equator was crossed at 9, a.m. on the 30th, 
in Ion. 34.30 W., the ship at tho time being only but a little 
over forty days, mean time, from Port Phillip, un extraordi- 
nary achievement, considering the adverse winds encountered 
after rounding Cape Horn. For the first five days after 
crossing the Equator, light winds and calms were met with, 
accompanied by heavy torrents of rain, and the ship made 
little or no progress. On tlio 5tli, in lat. 10 N., Ion. 34 W., 
gentle N.E. trade winds wore experienced, which continued 
until the 10th, in lat. 30 N., Ion. 37 W. On tho 11th and 
12th she had moderate S.E. winds, and at noon of the latter 
day was in the latitude of St. Michael’s, and lou. 30 W., 
being only 4 months and 29 days out from the time <»t 
leaving Li vorpool. From tho 12th to the 19th the winds 
were E.NE. and NE., very light ; and during the intervening 
seven days tho ship reached lat. 40.15, N., Ion. 28 W., and at 
10 p.m on the 19th a strong northerly breeze sprang up, 
which continued until her arrival off the Old Head of Kin- 
sale at 4 a.m. on Sunday. At 10 a.m., off Mine-head, signals 
were exchanged with the Royal Mail steam-ship Arabia, for 
New York ; at 3.30 p.m. Taskar Light was passed ; at 8.30 p.m. 
Hotynead Light was passed ; aud at 10.30 p in. the snip was 
abreast Point Lynas, where she received a pilot. Tho ship 
was kept under easy sail during the night, waiting a suffi- 
ciency of water to cross the bar, and arrived in the Mersey 
at 9.30 on Monday morning, Oct. 23. 
By the Lightning we are in possession of advices from 
Melbourne to the 20th August, Sydney to the 7th, Adelaide 
to the 3rd, Hobart Town to the 11th, and Launceston to the 
16th August, inclusive. The Light ning has brought upwards 
of eighty passengers, and 40,000 ounces of gold-dust on 
freight, besides a large amount in the hands of passengers. 
The Lightning lias brought answers to the letters of the 
13th June, per Great Britain, making a course of post of only 
132 days. 
The clipper-ship John Banks sailed from Melbourne for 
London, on the 15th August, with a large amount of gold- 
dust on freight. 
The screw-steamer Lady Jocelyu, with the mails of the 4th 
June, from Southampton, arrived in Hobson's Bay on the 
12t.h August. 
The screw-steamer Great Britain, which sailed from Liver- 
pool on the 13th June, arrived in Hobson’s Buy at two p.m. 
on the 18th August, and came to anchor, but was afterwards 
compelled to proceed to Ticouderoga Bay, to perform a rigid 
quarantine, several cases of small-pox having occurred on 
board. 
The clipper-ship Ballarat was to sail for London, from 
Melbourne, on the 22ud August. 
The clipper-ship ] Ocean Chief, Captain Tobin, belonging to 
the Black Ball line, arrived at Port Phillip on the 7th August, 
after a fine passage of seventy-four days. 
The clipper-ship Francis Henty sailed from Melbourne for 
London on the 17th August, with 33,876 ounces of gold, 
value £135,564, and 4,400 sovereigns on freight. The Mer- 
maid soiled for Liverpool on the 17th, with 10,000 ouuccs, 
value ‘£40,000, in gold-dust, on freight. 
During the previous week the gold escorts brought the 
following amounts — namely, from Mount Alexander aud 
Bendigo, 23,426 ounces, and from Ballarat 4,206 ounces. 
The Portland Ban Guardian states that now gold-diggings 
had been discovered about twelve miles from that town. 
Our advices from Hobart Town are to the 1 5th August. 
The Gazette of the 11th announces that Sir John L. Pedder 
had resigned his office as chief justice of the Supremo Court 
of Van Diemen’s Land, on account of impaired health. The 
appointment of Valentine Fleming, Esq., to the vacancy, aud 
of Francis Smith, Esq., to the attorney -generalship, was also 
gazetted. 
Sir Charles Hotham, the new lieutenant-governor of Vic- 
toria, was very popular among all classes of the people. 
A meeting of the proprietors of the Wentworth Gold Field 
Company was held at the office on the 29th of July, at which 
a report was presented and adppted. Some earth, which was 
tested, yielded from 231bs. 2oz. 16 dwts., or at the rate of 
272 oz. 14 dwts. to the ton. 
The Oriental Bank Company, of which a branch is esta- 
blished in Melbourne, has adopted the practice — new in that 
town — of allowing interest upon deposit accounts of which 
the mean daily balance is within the limits of £100 aud 
£10,000. The interest to be allowed is 1J per cent., except 
in the case of deposits that require notice of withdrawal. 
A report is current that copper has been discovered some- 
where in the neighbourhood of Melbourne. 
The Legislative Council of South Australia met for tho 
opening of the session on the 2nd of August. The lieutenant- 
governor read an address, in the course of which he proposed 
to meet the pecuniary exigencies of the colony by borrowing 
'money. He also suggested that sixteen 32-pounders, which 
would shortly be sent there, should eventually be distributed 
amongst the steam-vessels, which, when thus armed, would 
form an efficient force. 
We have received Morcton Bay papers to the 22nd of 
July. The election for tlio county of Stanley appeared to 
be exciting an unusual degree of activity. Both candidates 
(Mr. Hodgson and Dr. Lang) were before the constituency 
by requisition. 
Loud Raglan and his staff, after quitting Alma, rode 
on considerably in advance of the troops, to the great asto- 
nishment aud indignation of a Prussian officer, who loudly 
declared such conduct was quite opposed to the rules of war. 
Fluellen himself could not have been more angry at such dis- 
regard of martial etiquette than the gallant gentleman in 
question, and certainly our chief did show marked contempt 
for the enemy, and the most superb disdain of his famed 
Cossacks. The fact was, that 200 cavalry of the smallest 
enterprise might have cut off my Lord Raglan, his aides, his 
generals of artillery, and engineers and their staff, his 
quartermaster-general aud bis staff, his adjutant-general and 
Lis staff, Sir John Burgoyne and his staff, and all the staff 
doctors, at any time, for hours. However, there was not a 
trace of the enemy, except that which we found soon after- 
wards in the houses. 
GOLD JU ELDS. 
Of the enormous arrivals of gold in England, nothing now 
remains of them here. Gold aud silver are still wanted on 
the Continent ; and whatever might be the amount of the 
importations iuto this country, the demand abroad will still 
bo supplied by us, and will keep iu check any very great 
preponderance of supply over our own wants. It will be 
seen by the following table that, although the importations 
from all parts this year have been very largo, the stock of 
bullion has not increased ; on the contrary, it has decreased. 
This is so far satisfactory, as it shows how ready a market 
we find for what would otherwise be a most serious burthen. 
While the stock of bullion in the bank does not fall below 
a certain point, there is no cause for uueasiness when we see 
gold go out as fast as it comes iuto the country, for we shall 
do a larger trade, aud consequently derive a greater profit. 
_ , , , , . Slock of Bullion In Bank of 
Week ending Total nrrimli or Gold. England. 
Jn„ 7 £1,070,000 £16,831,072 
11 . 280,000 10,009,132 
21 ...... 675,000 10,090.206 
28 820, IXK) 10,223,21-1 
F 0 i, 4 386,000 10,220,083 
11 400, 000 10,203,528 
H 730,000 10,255,310 
25 240,000 16,280,105 
M arc h 4 4,000 15,908,903 
11 672,000 15,396,685 
18 -100,000 11,822,839 
25 . . 14,029,282 
April 1 922,000 14,410,718 
8 270.000 1-1,110,589 
15 nil. 13,510,873 
22 600,000 13,314,093 
29 720,000 12,915,926 
May 6 218,000 12,008,079 
13 91,000 12,589,300 
20 650,000 12,513,969 
27 610,000 12 740,840 
Juno 3 110.000 12.750,149 
1 » 573,000 12,728,053 
17 850,000 13,109,377 
21 760.000 13,869,075 
July 1 070,030 14.216,598 
S 250,000 14,021,207 
15 162,000 13,823,872 
22 830,000 13,033,079 
29 372,000 13,484,324 
Aug. 5 800,000 13,299,510 
12 570.000 13,601,821 
10 408.000 13,701,292 
20 200,000 13,635,424 
Sept. 2 700,000 13,368,371 
0 232,000 13,321,819 
16 1,000,000 13,279,370 
23 357,000 13,228,830 
30 730,000 13.059,870 
Oct. 7 480,000 12,073,466 
11 1 , 000,000 not yet known. 
We have hero a total importation of gold into this country, 
during a period of niue months and a half, of £20,720,000, 
and a diminution during the same period iu the stock of 
bullion held by the Bank of England of £3,313,679. 
MELBOURNE GOLD CIRCULAR, August 10. 
Gold still remains at £4 per ounce in Melbourne, but the 
price has been falling during the last week at the diggings 
till it has arrived ut 70s. 9<L This has had the effect of 
bringing a little more gold to Melbourne for sale than we 
have hud for a few weeks past. One of the banks lias ceased 
purchasing for the present; audit’ the others follow this 
example, trade in general will be greatly improved, both 
here aud at the diggings. Tho Avoca fields are turning out 
handsomely, nearly 12,000 ounces having arrived by escort, 
aud from Mount William diggings (Maryborough) we have 
nearly 400 ounces. This, coupled with the fact of over 
3^,000 ounces as the total gold reported, is exceedingly en- 
couraging iu these dull times. 
The Chinese question is being brought before the public 
more forcibly every day, and the question “ What are we to 
do with the Chinese?” is oue of considerable anxiety and 
importance. 
Population Table. 
2,013 
111 
Increase this week., 
Receipts per Escort. 
oz. 
dwt. 
Total increase on escorts to Melbourne .. . 
10 
Increase on escorts to Geelong 
15 
Increase on total Ballarat escorts 
15 
Increase on total Avoca escorts 
2,393 
10 
oz. dwt. grs. 
Gold shipped to close of week 
1,336,507 15 
8 
Exchanges. — Batiks draw on England at 5 per cent. 
premium, and negotiate drafts against produce or gold at 3 
per eeut. Discount local bills at 7 per cent, for 95 days, 
and 8 per cent, for longer dates. Ratos of interest on over- 
drawn accounts at all the banks, 10 per cent. 
GEELONG GOLD CIRCULAR. 
There has been no alteration since last circular in tho 
price of gold ; it still remains at 81s. to 81s. 3d. The quan- 
tity arriving in town by private hand is very little. 
The diggings generally are reported at present as rather 
inactive. The unusually dry winter is evidently telling in 
a very great degree against the general yield ot gold. On 
the Mount Alexander side all the cry is for water. A great 
many places are named — pieces of ground which have been 
reserved for winter's diggings — where as yet they cannot 
get to work. As a general rule our experience as a gold- 
producing country, as far as it has gone, shows that the 
rainy season is the best suited for the employment of gold- 
seeking ; while a few places are and can be only wrought 
iu summer, there are treble that number where the water 
is the desideratum. Our fresh discoveries are made for the 
most part during the winter. Tarrangower, on the Bendigo 
quarter, is just uow attracting attention ; several parties 
there are making lucky hits. 
A great cause of the iueouvenieuce exists iu the postal ar- 
rangements between this and Ballarat. There are at present 
hut two mails per week, aud these so planned that the 
letters downward are received just two or three hours after 
the upward mail has been dispatched. The great amount 
of business doing at the two places certainly warrants 
now a daily mail, and if it is considered necessary to have 
an overland mail daily between Melbourne and Geelong, 
when it is otherwise so well connected by steam, it ought to 
be considered imperative that the communicatiou between 
Geelong and Ballarat should be more frequent. On a late 
occasion wo were one entire week without letters from that 
quarter, one of the bi-weeklies having been omitted, from 
(we suppose) the rigid adherence of the authorities there to 
the lute fust. 
RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS. 
Cuttino Telf.oraphic Wires. — The communications by 
the telegraph line which connects Elsineur with Hamburg, 
and the wires of which are under ground, were interrupted 
on the 24th ult. Ou the morning of that day it was perceived 
that the telegraph did not work. An examination was com- 
menced beneath tho surface, and it was discovered that in 
one place the grouud had been disturbed very recently. A 
further prosecution of the investigation showed that all the 
wires had been cut. The perpetrator of this criminal act 
was speedily arrested, and proved to be a child twelve years 
old, the son of a workman residing iu an adjacent village. 
The offender confessed that, to amuse himself, he had dug 
up the grouud with a spade, and had severed the wires with 
a pair of scissors. Ho was handed over to the tribuualjof 
police, which condemned him to receive forty-five blows 
with rods, by three instalments. 
Railway Capital and Loans. — From a Parliamentary 
paper recently printed it appeal's that the total capital and 
loans which the various railway companies of the united 
kingdom were authorised by acts of Parliament to raise 
up to the 31st of December last amounted to no less a sum 
than £366,7G9,732. 15s. Oftbis £274,369,932. 17s. 4d. was 
by capital, and £92,399,799. 17s. 8d. by loan. The total 
amount actually raised by the various companies up to the 
31st of December last was £273,324,516. 6s. 9d., of which 
£65,072,958. 12s. lid. was by loan, and £208,251,557. 13s. lOcl. 
by share capital. Of this last, £164,724,177. 18s. lOd. neither 
received nor was entitled to receive preferential dividend or 
interest. The railway companies still retained power at the 
end of 1853 to raise £91,289,840. 17s., either by existing or 
new shares, or by loans. The total length of railway open 
far traffic at the end of 1853 was 7,686 miles 45J chains, of 
which 5,987 miles 22i{ chains were as double lines, and 1,699 
miles 2 *2J chains ns single lines ; 883 miles and 60 chains 
were in course of construction at that time, and 4,079 miles 
49^ chains had been authorised, but had not been com- 
menced. 
Locomotives for Australia. — The Ebba Blahe of 
London, for Sydney, has taken on board a number of loco- 
motives, tenders, carriages aud waggons, for the Sydney 
Railway. She loaded iu the East India Dock. 
New York, Oct. 3. — We have recently learned that 
telegraphic experiments have been made at Portsmouth, 
England, and with perfect success, by which, with an 
operating battery ou oue side of a mill dam, 500 feet across, 
aud the corresponding dial on the other side, telegraphic 
messages were conveyed through the water without the aid 
of connecting wires ; and it is contended that in the same 
manner a telegraphic message may be sent across the British 
Channel without continuous cables of wire. The first im- 
pression of everybody, after reading this statement, would 
be that the experiment is new. It is proper to correct 
the mistake. One hundred and six years ago, Dr. 
Franklin, the American philosopher, made the same 
experiment on a huger scale, and with the same success. 
And nine years ago Professor Morse made successful ex- 
periments across the Susquehanna river, and expended a 
good deal of time and money with the hope of being able 
ultimately to transmit intelligence in the same way across 
the Atlantic. In 1748, Dr. Franklin invited his philosophi- 
cal friends to what he termed an electrical feast, on the shore 
of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, where he tried his ex- 
periments. In describing them to his friend, Peter Collin- 
son, of Loudon, he uses the following language : — “ Chagrined 
a little that we have hitherto been able to produce nothing 
iu this way of use to mankind, and the hot weather coining 
on when electrical experiments are not so agreeable, it is 
proposed to put an end to them for this season, somewhat 
humorously, iu a party of pleasure on the banks of the 
Schuylkill. Spirits at the same time are to be fired by a 
spark sent from side to side through the river without any 
other conductor than the water ; an experiment which we 
some time since performed to the amazement of many. A 
turkey is to bo killed for our dinner by the electric shock 
aud roasted by the electric jack, before a fire kindled by the 
electrified bottle, when the health of all the famous electri- 
cians of England, Holland, France and Germany are to be 
drunk iu electrified bumpers, under a discharge of guns 
from the electrical battery.” 
jpnliic 3ntcllignin. 
BOW-STREET. 
BunoLAJiY. — Fitn'oy 3P Keogh anil Donald Cameron were charged with 
burglary at tho house of Mr. G. F. Thompson, No. 23, Craven-street, 
Strand; both of the prisoners were captured iu the house, having 
packed ready for removal nearly £200 worth of property. — Jane 
Merrigan said : 1 am servant to Mr. Thompson, and live at his house. 
I went into the drawing-room on Monday evening about nine o'clock, 
with a light in my hand; on opening the folding-doors lending to tho 
bedroom, a man pushed them against me. 1 ran down and told my 
master, who went up and seized the prisoner M'Keogh, and took him 
down stairs, after which I saw the other prisoner, Cameron, come out 
of the same room and go down stairs. — Mr. George F. Thompson, said -. 
1 live at 23, Craven-street. Last evening, shortly after nine o'clock, 
tho last witness camo to me and told me that some man was up in tho 
first-floor. I went up stairs, taking with ino a pistol which I had by 
me, and which was landed with blank cartridge. I seized the prisoner 
M'Keogh, and, although ho resisted violently, I held him firmly and 
took him down stall's. In the struggle the pistol went off, nml 
slightly hurt his hand. He fell declaring lie was shot, but 1 still 
held him. At this time the other prisoner, Cameron, came down 
stairs. I opened tho front door, admitted tho police, and gave both 
prisoners Into custody. I then went up stairs with an officer. Wo 
found the bedroom in tho greatest confusion, the boxes, drawers, &e., 
having been broken open, and property vnlueil ut £200, consisting ol 
costly wearing apparel, cash, jewellery, &e., paoked up 4n a counter- 
pane ready for removal. The whole of tho property belonged to 
Licut.-CoL Ranter, of the 98th Regiment, who occupied the first floor. 
Constables A 68 and A 303 proved having taken the prisoners into 
custody at Mr. Thompson's house, iptd said that, on searching thorn at 
tho stntion, property belonging to Colonel Ranter was found on both of 
them. A 08 produced a screwdriver which had been found In the 
room, and which appeared to have been used for kreuking open tho 
boxes, &c. — Lleulcnnnt-Colonel Hanier said : I occupy the first floor 
at 23, Craven-street. 1 had been from home last evening, and on my 
return ot eleven o'clock, with Mrs. llunior, I found my bedroom In tho 
state described by Mr. Thompson. The whole of the things packed up 
were my property. — Tho prisoners, who declined making any statement, 
were committed for trial. 
MARLBOROUGH- STREET. 
Assault. — Joseph May, carman, was charged with having assaulted 
Sir Bedford Wilson, K.C.B. — Sir Bedford Wilson said, he was driving 
his phaeton, In which were Lady Wilson and child, and, when passing 
a timber-waggon i» l’ark-lane, one of the horses of the waggon made a 
snap at one of his horses. He merely flourished his whip at tlio waggon- 
horse, hardly doing more than touch tho animal, if thut ; and had 
