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      Germany. Ausmi.—An Imperial Decree Has B...

      jQent of Holland had undertaken to act the part of mediator between the irascible Yankees , and the obstinate Japanese : " On the invitation of a friendly power , and in following out the track which was commenced in 1844 , 1 have promised my o-ood offices in favour of an attempt to obtain modifications in the system of exclusion hitherto maintained by the empire of Japan . "

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      United States. (From Our Own Corresponde...

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) New York , September 8 th . Another terrible steamboat catastrophe on the river Hudson makes evident the truth of what I wrote a few weeks ago , when t ie steamer Henry Clay was burnt and a very great number of lives were lost , in consequence of the criminal recklessness of those in command of the vessel . In demanding the enactment of a law to make steamboat racing a capital offence , Mr . Sackett well knew that such a measure only was capable of preventing these wholesale assasinations denominated " Steamboat AccS ilciits . " 5

      This latest " accident' took place last Saturday at the Saugerties landing , two miles from Bristol , and forty miles this side of Albany . The steamer Reindeer , under the command of Captain Farnham , left this city on Saturday morning at eight o ' clock , having on board a large number of passengers . At the Bristol landing those in charge of her did not let off the steam , in order that the steamer might shoot away as quickly as if she had never been stopped at all . The consequence was , that when the full force of the steam was at once let upon the engine one of her pipes instantly exploded , and the steam penetrating into

      the cabin where the passsengers were sitting at dinner , aramo £ them killed on the spot , and a great many so severely scalded that they have either died since or are not expected to recover . Another dreadful accident took place on the Casadaga Lake on the 2 nd inst ., which resulted in the death of one man and seven girls . It seems that a large number of young men and women from the surrounding villages had assembled at Casadaga for the formation of a pic-nic party on the island in Casadaga Lake . Twenty-four of them embarked in two boats for the purpose of rowing to the island , while the remainder

      passed round by the shore . A pretty stiff breeze was blowing from the south , and when about half way across , one of the rowlocks of one of the boats broke , and the frantic movements of the girls terrified at the mishap and the gale , caused the boat to capsize and throw the occupants into the water . The sight of this catastrophe gave rise to the same fatal spirit of alarm and confusion among those on board the other boat , the consequence of which was that they also were plunged into the water . The first of the boats was soon righted and its passengers safe , the others were less fortunate : notwithstanding all the exertions made to save them eight of the party were drowned .

      In Charlestown , on Saturday , an Irishman , named Maloney rushed from his house in a fit of insanity with a knife in his hand , and before he could be secured , he inflicted frightful wounds upon a number of persons , some of whom , it is feared , will not recover . General Cass made a vigorous democratic speech at Tammany Hall on Thursday night ; in fact he stripped to his shirt sleeves hi order to " go it / ' The following passage from his speech is somewhat remarkable : " I want to give to the landless and the poor that which they want . That is my doctrine , my friends .

      1 have voted for it , and I mean hereafter to speak and vote for it again . I should like the glorious sight of a community , stretching cilong our vast inland frontier , each family keeping its own land , and every one with elements of prosperity within their reach . Men are better than land , or rather land is good for nothing without the labour of men ; and 1 do not believe that there is one thing more important than the preparation of a just and patriotic system to give to every man a tract of land , where he can live with his family comfortably . You talk of

      adding to the wealth of nations , and you talk of elevating human nature in the scale of being ; but what would more conduce to these than such a measure ? And you talk of the glory of the nation : but what is more glorious for us , or more useful to the Republican institutions of the world , than such a distribution of the public domain of this country ? I would require a man to settle on the land for a few years , cultivate it , and show a desire to improve it , but would not give it him as a mere object of speculation ; and after a few years , I am for giving it to him freetv , and let Mm hold or sell it , just as it pleases his caprice or

      inclination . " - „ And I am for nothing of the sort ; give it him to hold or sell it at his cawice or inclination , and in a few years the land will all revert to the thrifty few , while the unthrifty , the foolish , and the " fast" men will have not only an opportunity , but an express temptation to rob their children of their inheritance . A J , no , Cass , you cannot " elevate human nature" that way .

      A letter from Toronto of the 1 st inst . says : "On Sunday night a serious fire occurred in this city , and consumed some 40 . 000 or 50 , 000 & o \ . worth of property . It broke out & little before ten o ' clock in a wooden building , rear of King-street , near George-street . The block in which it originated was covered with buildings , except on one side—King ' s-street—and the nre communicated to all the wooden buildings in about an hour . In half an hour more they were consumed . It also crossed

      Palace-street on the south , and burnt everything between Xelson-street on the west , George-street on the east , and to the water of the bay on the south . There is no doubt that the fire was caused bv incendiarism . " > , By the latest accounts from California the immigration or Chinese continues unabated . The following , relative to the Celestials , which I cut from the Placer Times , is amusing : A great deal of excitement has hsen caused among the children ot the Bowery Kingdom now sojourning in San hrancisco , by a manifesto from the great " Atti" who claims to hold the power

      , supreme over all the Chinese in this land of gold . The document which has caused this great commotion is of the nature of a reward for one Le-Achan , well known as an interpreter and sort of o-eneral a » ent for his brethren in their transactions with the outlide barbarians or white folks . Atti accuses Achan ot all sorts of devillish devices to defraud and degrade his nation . That he encourages the payment of licences , poll taxes , and other impositions , to such a degree that not & rival escapes ins rapacity . All men of the three great Hongs ^ Provinces ) are dollars will be iven for the

      called upon to know that 300 g suppression of Le Achan . Among other high-handed measures ot the man-nhieent Atti , he has sent a Committee to the residence of a number of females from the flowery land , to inform them that , unless they forsake their evil ways , and cling only to their own people , they shall forfeit their lives . He warns them ot the dreadful tortures in store for the disobedient , who are taken to the great house , " C yap-in coon , " where they will be stopped and bastinadoed on the bare back , and compelled to suffer other miseries too horrible too mention . The poor creatures are al-

      United States. (From Our Own Corresponde...

      lowed two days to decide what to do , and dreadful consternation is created among them . ' A dreadful tragedy occurred on the 21 st of May on board the Dark bacramento , on her voyage from Panama to ' Honolulu . A young man , named Woolfork , had a dispute about some trifling matter with a German named Johnson , and Woolfork took his revolver and shot the German through the heart . A terrible scene of excitement ensued , The murderer was seized and condemned to he hung within an hour . Accordingly , he was run up the yard-arm , and when dead , was cut adrift , and the body floated away . The excitement in Cuba continues to increase . The latest

      accounts represent the island to be in a state bordering on open insurrection . If there be no attempt at invasion by the men of the south , the Cubans will , without doubt , attain independence , bone it . Spanish brutality has devastated the fair island too long .

      India. We Have Received Our Files Of Cal...

      INDIA . We have received our files of Calcutta papers to the 7 th of August , in anticipation of the overland mail , but we have no intelligence from Bombay by this arrival , the mails from that port having failed in reaching Aden before the departure of the steamer for Suez . The Governor General returned on the 6 th of August to Calcutta , after paying his visit to General 'Godwin at Rangoon , and it was hoped that the result of that interview would be a speedy advance into the heart of the Burmese territory .

      The chief event of importance which had occurred at the seat of war , since the departure of the last mail , had been the capture of Prome , by a fleet of light steamers , under the command of Captain Tariton . The capture had been effected with the greatest ease and the loss of only one life , and there was every reason to believe that the steamers might have reached Ava with very little difficulty , as the river was found to be navigable during the rainy season for steamers of light draught all the way to the capital . Under these circumstances , the Fabian policy of the commander in Burmah gave rise to considerable discontent .

      CHINA . The following is from the Overland Friend of China , of July Defeated in every encounter —without money to carry on the contest—its prestige broken—and from within and from without altogether wanting in that affection and sympathy which ahne form substantial support to a throne—the days of the Tartar dynasty appears fast drawing to a close . Choo , or Tsou , the Prince of the old Ming family , who has several times made known to Ms countrymen that he is anxiously watching the progress of events , still ' remains in the back ground ; cautiously , perhaps , anticipating the time when—the country from end to end being in a state of anarch }' —the throne will revert to his possession an easy prize .

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      The Accounts Received From Melbourne To ...

      The accounts received from Melbourne to the end of May are very favourable . Prom Mount Alexander , Ballaiet , and other diggings , the news was cheering in the extreme . Presh discoveries are daily being made . Among the latest are diggings at the Anaki Hills , about twenty miles from Geelong . On May 24 th , the escort from Mount Alexander brought into Melbourne no less than thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy eight ounces of gold , the result of a week ' s diggings . This exceeds by some 8 , 000 ounces any weekly quantity received yet . A railway from Mount Alexander to Melbourne was about to be

      constructed . Immigration proceeded at a most astounding ratio . Hundreds were arriving daily by vessels from the sister colonies—California , and elsewhere—every ship being literally crowded with passengers eager to labour at the diggings . The total quantity of gold exported from Port Philip or Victoria , up to the 22 nd ' May was 32 " tons 4 cwt . 2 qrs . 19 lbs . 8 oz . ; value at 60 s . per ounce , 2 , 323 , 908 / . The news from Sydney of the out-turn of the mines was of the most cheerful character . Gold in abundance was being obtained from the bed of the Turon—58 ounces were obtained by one gentleman , in a day , and a private letter notices that two others were getting it by shovels full . Total exported to May , 13 , 1429882 ? .

      ,, On May 13 th a successful Tasmanian obtained a nugget which weighed 3 lb . 4 oz .. It was found embedded in clay and quartz in a gully between Forest and Fryer ' s Creeks . It was a rich and massive specimen , and sold for £ 120 . Is . 8 d . Port Philip ( Melbourne and Geelong ) papers to the end of May notice with elation , the rapid strides the colony is making . The anti-transportation movement is not overlooked : the agitation , indeed , is stronger than ever , and there appears to be but

      one feeling in the colony on the subject . The Legislative Council of Victoria has reiterated the desire of the colonists that convict importation shall cease . The petition agreed to at the monster meeting held at Melbourne on April 2 nd , was couched in the most determined language , going so far as to declare that should the imperial government persist in forcing convicts on the new colony through Van Dieman ' s Land , it must inevitably drive them to seek refuge from such heartless tyranny and oppression in national independence .

      The New Australian Gold Regulations. (Fr...

      THE NEW AUSTRALIAN GOLD REGULATIONS . ( From the Sydney Government Gazette , April 2 . ) Colonial Secretary ' s Office , Sydney , March 29 , 1852 . His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased , with the advice of the Executive Council , to direct that the following consolidated and amended code of regulations for the management of the gold fields be published for general information : —

      1 . ALLUVIAL GOLD , 1 . CKOWN LAXD UlCESSBH . 1 . No person will bo permitted to dig , search for , or remove gold on or from any land , public or private , without first taking out a license in the form annexed . All gold procurred without due authority will be seized , as being the property of the crown , in whose possession soever it may be . 2 . The license fee for crown lands has been fixed at one pound ten shillings per month , to be paid in advance . These licenses only extend to the extraction of alluvial gold , matrix gold being the subject of other regulations , which will be found in a subsequent part of the present code .

      3 . Licenses can be obtained on the gold field , from the commissioner or assistant commissioner , appointed by his Excellency the Governor-General to carry the regulations into effect , and who is authorised to receive the fee payable thereon .

      The New Australian Gold Regulations. (Fr...

      4 . No person will be eligible to obtain a license , or the renewal of a license , unless he shall produce a certificate of discharge from his last service , or show to the satisfaction of the commissioner , or assistant commissioner , that he is not a person improperly absent from hired service . 5 . Persons desirous of establishing claims to new and unoccupied ground , by working in the ordinary method for alluvial gold , may have their claims marked out on the following scale to each person , namely : 1 . Fifteen feet frontage to either side of a river or main creek .

      2 . Twenty feet of the hud of a tributary to a river or main creek , extending across its whole breadth . 3 . Sixty feet of the bed of a ravine or water couree . 4 . Twenty feet square of table land or river flats . 6 . These claims will be secured to the parties for such time only as they may continue to hold licenses for the same , unless in cases of flood , or other such unavoidable accident as shall , in the opinion of the commissioner or assistant commissioner , render a suspension of the work inevitable .

      7 . The above licenses may be cancelled , and the claims forfeited , in consequence of the conviction of the holders , in any court of competent jurisdiction , of the illicit sale of spirits , or if any disorderly or riotous conduct endanger the public morals or peace . 8 . Persons found working alluvial gold on any land , public or private , without having prev-. ously paid the license fee to the proper-officer , shall pay double the amount for such license j and , in default , be proceeded against in the usual manner .

      9 . If any dispute shall arise in respect of any claim , reference should he ' forthwith made by tha complainant to the commissioner or assistant commissioner of the district , who will lose no time in hearing andsummarilydeterminingthecaseoii the spot , according to the evidence adduced on either side , giving due notice , of course , to the party complained of . If necessary , he will take the proper measures for placing and maintaining the successful party in possession of the claim . 2 . I'lUVATK LA ? iJ > LICENSES .

      With respect to lands alienated by the crown in fee simple , the commissioner will not be authorised to issue licenses under these regulations to any persons but the proprietors , or persons authorised by them in writing to apply for the same . The license lee for such lands will be one-half only of that payable for crown lauds . Persons holding the same and working on crown lands , without licenses applicable thereto , will be liable to the payment of a double fee ; and all gold obtained without due authority will , as in the case of crown lands , be seized as being the property of the crown . 8 . waterhoi . es .

      1 . Persons desirous of draining ponds or waterholes , for the purpose of obtaining alluvial gold , may make application in writing to the commissioner or assistant commissioner of the district , describing accurately the locality . Such applications shall be decided by priority , and shall be immediately recorded by such officer in a book to be kept by him for that purpose ; which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of applicants . If there should be no valid objection to the application , from interference with alluvial digging , or other sufficient

      cause , the right to drain the waterhole will be conceded to the applicant on payment of such number of licenses as shall be proportioned to the area of the waterhole , calculated at the rate of 25 feet square for every license . A claim for emptying a waterhole will be deemed to extend 12 feet from the back defining the boundary of such waterhole , together with sufficient space for the erection of machinery and for other necessary purposes , to be determined by the commissioner or assistant commissioner of the district .

      2 . The commissioner or assistant commissioner is empowered to make such temporary regulations as may be necessary to prevent inconvenience to other licensed persons from the carrying on of operations of the above nature .

      4 . RESERVOIRS FOR WASHING GOLD . 1 . Persons desirous of constructing reservoirs or dams in the gold fields , for the purpose of washing gold , should make application to the local assistant-commissioner , who will , if the same should appear to him unobjectionable , grant the requisite permission . 2 . The reservoir or dam will he reserved for the exclusive use of the applicants , in all cases in which such reservations will not , in the opinion of the assistant-commissioner , be detrimental to the public interest .

      D . EMPLOVMIWT OP LICENSED LABOURERS . 1 . The owners of all claims who may employ on hire , to assist them in working alluvial gold , and who may take out licenses for them , will be entitled , on application to the commissioner or assistant-commissioner of the district , to have the licenses oi such men transferred to other labourers , in the event of their quitting their services or ceasing to work for them . The licenses must in every such case be produced to the commissioner or assistant-commissioner , who will endorse thereon , without any additional fee , the name of the transferee .

      11 . MATRIX GOLD . I . CROWX LAND . 1 . Persons desirous of working auriferous quartz veins may make application in writing to the commissioner or assistantcommissioner of the gold district , accurately describing the locality . Such application shall be immediately recorded by such officer in a book to be kept for the purpose , which shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection of applicants . In case no previous application shall have been made in the manner above described , and should there be no valid objection to the proposal , from interference with alluvial digging or any

      other sufficient cause , the commissioner , on the same being approved of by the government , shall notify to the government his acceptance of the same . The applicant shall then enter into a bond , binding himself and his partners , should the government be satisfied with the sufficiency of the parties , jointly and severally , in the sum of £ 1 , 000 , to pay a royalty of 10 per cent , on all gold obtained , to an officer to be appointed for that purpose by the government . If the government be not satisfied with

      the sufficiency of the applicant , then two or more solvent and responsible parties must be named . He shall further be bound to permit such officer to reside on the land in the neighbourhood of the works , at such spot as may be assigned by the commissioner , and also to give such officer access at all reasonable times to the buildings or premises , and to all books and accounts connected with the production of gold ; also to give all necessary facilities for the collection of the royalty , daily or weekly , as may be found most desirable .

      2 . Ail buildings , machinery , or other improvements erected or- made on the land , shall be considered as additional security for the due performance of the conditions of thQ hond . 3 . The claim shall consist of half a mile of , and in the course of , the vein , with a quarter of a mile reserved on each side of

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 25, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_25091852/page/3/