The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-21 00:00:00

21, Mk

EVENING,MAI

AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.
NEW SOUTH WALES.

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Aeeoosds
have reached es from Sydney to the end
of January. The railway company had at Isegth
hen repabeale and a meager (Mr. Cowper,
C. hIPOIIed oe the salary of 8001. per annum
A call urn the shareholders had been made, wife!,
notwitimeg its weft was responded to with
great reeMensa. Thew Me at the country on the , big lees flearfally ravaged by bush fires, , '
width ants. fe& far Jellied and destroyed mach pro-
=severnalives bad bees lest during the war
sad may narrowly 'soaped with their lives :
emend parolee' loam will amount to total rain. The
i Steil nnearks:—* Meet perms who reside
is that dieeedin (Lase Cove), and whom this fire his
not meshed, an retneving their farnaare and taking
seek alessesey pressaticas es an is their power for
the safety of their promises; for the peerage of the
ere is eto rapid, that, wherever there is mach trash in
the vicinity, the escape meet be very speedy to save
life heel& whesever the daises approach.* In the
Maitland distract several bash Ores had also weaned,
bat the damsp done was less condderable. The
colonial remiss was in a most alienator,/ stets, the
lacrosse in the last quarter of the year, compared
with the corresponding quarter in the previous year,
having been upwards of twenty per GUM Thiespeaks
highly forthe improved meditate of the colooy. The
adhesive stamps for pre-paid letters were being struck
off and *rewarded to the situntry poet offline, begin-
Sin with the most distant ones, and Ending In
Sydney. The design is the great seal of the wbuy,
with the mottoes ; rn size about the same as these in
tam in England, the colours being wed. Id.; blue, 2d. 1
and trees, 3d. Mr. Benjamin Boyd, the susiorat mer-
chant, had proceeded to Calitortna in the Royal Yacht
Squadron eckooner Wanderer; in the S/dney Journals
we observe a long list of veasels adveinsed to sail far
*the El Dorado, from which it would appear the geld'
fever had in no degree abated. Such was the &bun-
dater of the late harvest that wheat was selling at"
21. 6d. to 3s. per huaheL Some fears were at one
time entertained for the twining crop, is consequence
of the parching beats by day and sharp frdets during
the bat these have been (listened, and the low
rater for wheat oontisued with little or no prospect of
an advance. The oat-turn of wool else promises fa-
vourably : one gentleman at Darling Downs had sold
the whole of his wool of the season's clip to a mercan-
tile firm in Sydney at Is. 30. per lb. We regret to
notice that sickness prevailed to a very great extent
amongst all chases of the inhabitants; in character the
disease closely resembled the cholera, probably caused
bytbe great alternations of temperature which threat-
ened the standing crops. A seam of coal of greater
thiAnees than has been heretofore worked, has been
discovered at Newcastle, when the -Australian agri-
entural company were sinkiojr a pit about two miles
distant from their wharf at Newcastle, and prepara-
tions were in active progress for connecting the
with the wharf by a railway, the materials for which
hadarrived in the colony by the Artemesia. A far-
ther reduction in the price of coal was expicted. A
fracas, that might have led to serious mutts, took
plsoe on Carton:ma night, caused by an attempt
on the part of a party of sailors belonging to her
Majesty's ship liavannah, who endeavoured to rescue
a marine lodged in the guard-house for creating
a great disturbance in the neighbourhood. Thesailors
attacked the perambulating night squadron of H.M.'m
I lat Regt, and effected a lodgment in the bastion,
from whence they were dislodged by a charge from
the military with fixed bayonets. Happily a rein-
forormeot timeonsly arrived from the barracks, and
the seamen were overpowered, but not until after a des-
perate struggle, is which some of the die:melodysailors
were wounded. The Bishop of Sydney had been making
a pastoral visitation far into the interior, at Newira
(Wellington). In some particulars of diocesan
progress, the Miming Herald remarks: "The pre.
woad the bishop of the diocese, at so great a die-
, twice from Sydney; the first confirmation held in the
district, at which persons of the higher ranks were
not ashamed to sit side by side in the house of God
with their aboriginal sister, and ready to give her the
right hand of fellowship—the clean and healthy
appearance of the natives, their becoming demeanour;
all combined to render the scene at once affecting and
1 instructive." We regret to learn that accounts had
bees received of the complete destruction of the set-
tlement of New Caledonia, and there is ream to fear
that many lives have fallen victims to the ferevdty of
the natives. We find the following notice of the
event in the Sydney Moran" Herald:

New CALZDOXIA.—The IliMabetk sehmer, from New
Caledonia 27th December, briars to Sydney SlZOalltl of the
=umiaka by the =elves, at the north end of the Wand, of
the eetablblustent bowed there ia Jay last for beelpria-
me flaking, by Mr. Fitsgerald, of Auckland, New Zeeland ;
and there is ream to Hoe that the sloop Mary, Henry Nottl,
master, abashed the to establiehniest, was either 'speared y
the Mime se lost up= a reef, as no aecount has been heard
et
her. On the approach of the Elisabeth to the elation, it
was perceived that the beadier were all in ruins ; sad when
• puny west on shore, It was sacertained that they bad Mal
ed by Are. Two 121 b. carronades were found, spiked.ll
cud buried is the mad. Mr. Fitzgerald then west to
as appointed spot to seek for information as to the are of I
the ateadomeat of the settlement, where he found, barled
nadir a Wes, a letter enclosed M • battle, written by his
ovenmer, Mr. David maPT, stating that be bed been attacked
by about 2,000 natives, and though be had killed =when of
them, they *optioned at hint day sad niskt ; and as his m-
utual= was ',Wag short, sad all the surround's,
kills were *over= with natives, and elm as two of his am
were badly worded, he thought it advisable to take to be
babe end peoseed to windward, to a Om celled Hallett°.
The Elizabeth this sada a careful emelt along the coast
be 120 miles, bet could not find them; neither was there
say • ce of the French feisdentery establishment at
Y or Baledi , nor of the Mouser Mary Ate, belonging
le it, which would probably into that the 'mission, as well
as Mr. Fitzgerald's twenty three people, had all been driven
off by the savages, interisted by their losses in their recent
attack, sad that they had all probably left I. the Mary Ann,
lot the Isla of Pines or Austen', whore the miashom has
other religions Made= Smug south east gales preceded,
white prevented the Mlizattetk from visiting the Isle of
• end SIN was obliged to run back through the eastern
not welters redo a her way home.
NEW ZEALAND.

Advioss from Auckland sad Wellington to the
middle of December give a satisfactory amount of the
program and state of the colony. A great denied
was springing up for New Zealand flax, which had
induced parties to engage freely in the culture. The
settlement, at length, of the claims of the Welsen
Ci'eln the New Zealand Company for land
dente on
ed a general feeling of satisfaction and con&
deism 'moot the colonists, by putting an end to the
conflict which has lasted for several years. Crime
appmrs to be scarcely known among the blacks ; at
a late sessions there were but two oases for trial.
The only item of interesting news in the Port
Nicholson papers, received rid Sydney, is the death
11 of the notorious chief of the Ngatotoa tribe, Ts
l 3 auperaha. He was of great age, approaching four-
more, and possessed coesiderabhi intleentri anon, the
natives of the southern district., especially those who
were living before the arrival of the white men. The
following, taken from the Wellington Spectator, is the
account of the funeral:

On Moeda tb. eetteaias of Ta Reoperaha was assigned
to their last resting-plass. The spot, whisk was salami by
Mangtluisata, is winkle the measure eurroaadiag the new
amok at Oulu, sad immediately is feat of that building.
TM sedge wee made bathe usual manner, sad severed with
Mask sloth ; a toms plate was Milled to the lid, sa whisk
was tie fellowiag lassription : " Ito Ts Raspersha i mate i
177 • Novena 1/349"—Te /Maratha dial 27th Movember
1849. We nadesetered that Tamahaaa, his ma, has erased
so arena, la the peeparatioaa ad the ommion. mad aimed
great anxiety that everything Mead be in easkirmity with
the SIMMS of the pasha (whims). Them wee a peat
thEieraring of the tribes, upwards of afters, hundred perm*
present. The premien to the grave extended to a
bla lesgth. The maim wee read by Ms. Resold-
so*, the raitaionary teacher, from Waageani. After the
funeral was over Tanabe.' eaterteined his visible' ia a
hospitable manner ; a hallo* had hem killed for their me,
"ad abuidome of refueluneate provided. Two tables, at
each of whisk fifty memo am down, were piepated fee
fresh sets of guests foal dilemmas team There was my
little Magi, whisk wee as far as parable diermaraged ,by the
Maki naetives, sod the whole promoding was dialonewly
eandiest

VAN IMEMEN'S LAND.

Hobart Town journals 11ii;21SZTanu ivy supply
a few items of intelligence from that distant oolmiy.
Various changes were expiated to take place in the
judicial department, as the removal of Judge Chap-
man from New Zeeland to the aloe of Pulses me
tine, Mr. Harm retaini the post of 4ttternay-
arourul. mud giving Mr. Fleming the option of
retaining the odic* of Solieitoe-Osseval, or receiving
the ?met judgeship at New Zealand t bat the:emelt
appointment of Mr. Sidney Stephen to the vacancy
in the totter place has anticipated the arrangements.
The Mends of reform were making :strew" elm"
dons to secure a oottinsanco of Mr. Jackson's
services as agent to the colony, for which
purr,s subscriptions were being ratted. A.
pennon, numerously signed, wee presented to

tae' gooprose, pinging him to grant a conditional
perdue to Frew, but the reommeadation was antici-
pated by his onselleney inflating an approval of the
wishes expreesel in tie nesenoriaL The coked,'
press had warmly espoused the muse of Mr. O'Brien,
?hese treatment appears to have been assecesearily
torah and oppressive. Mr. Areal& a seer relative of
the celebrated Dr. Arnold, had wired lathe
inspector of schools. The genie, of the High
was celebrated by an entertaisment, at wMcl his Ex-
seller ey end lady Denison were present. Oa the
20th January as important meeting was held et
Lameestoo, when the twofold subject was &messed,
"Ftee institations and transportation," *Mob tailed
forth as noequimeal approval of the former and re-
palliation of tee latter. Eleven* floods bad recoorty
=plata in various parts of the colony. The
were oomielered favourable: wheat at 3s. to
tk It per bushel.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
- Perth and Fremantle journals are to hand to the
end of Sanitary, with files for the preceding three
tt, received by the India overland mall. The
prospects of the salary appear to Wiest*
sous improved prospect for the settlement, bat so
meg discoveries have turned out mere chimera., that
all intelligeoce of this nature is reeeived with cau-
tion. Sotoe'hing satisfactory is known relative to the
.Geraldine silver laid mine: • prod.( its productive-
ness, is the term of a ton of bad, bad been sent ins to
Perth, a portion of which had been forwarded to
South Australia, in the hope of inducieg geculators
is the sister colony to embark in the andertakiog.
Some fine country bad been discovered in the &sigh-
bourbood of the mine. From the published amounts
of the deputy surveyor-general and Lieut. Elliott,
ILM.'s 96th Reit., there was an abundance of water,
as well as wood for smelting purpcees. Thenatives in
the neighbourhood are a fine race of men, cannibals
assist the dead bodies of friends or foes, no matter
whether killed or dying from disease. Lieut. Help.
man, R.N., who was the first of the party to land,
bend these natives somewhat hostile, but sorer after
they became friendly; they acknowledged to have
formed a portion of those who attacked the governor
some month' previously and expressed their sorrow
for it, offering to bring in the man that threw the
spear at the govereor, and they also stated that two
men and one woman of their party were killed, whom
they ate, as is their usual enstom. Writing on this
latter rub) act Lieut. Elliott, thee on the spot, re-
marks : " The natives in these districts eat their dead
—old men, women, and children. The heart is given
to the mother, as they say it unages her
grief. They hollow out the ground and make
a kind of oven in which they bake the body, and
after eating it, they throw the bones into the hotel
and cover them over, which aceoun,s for no graves
being seen." At Fremantle, a handsome lighthouse
has been built, and a new jetty determined on. On
the 29th December, the Spanish ship of war, La For-
•rolana. strived at Perth, having on board Bishop
Berra and about 40 priests Died lay brethren (some
of the latter being artificers and vine-growers), who
intend becoming permaneat settlers. On coming to
an anchor, the frigate fired a salute of 18 gum, which
compliment was not returned, but in its place an
apology, stating that the colony poseessed but three
pieces of ordnance, one of which was unservicea-
ble, and that sulkiest powder was not at
band for a salute. From this it would
appear the Colonial-office leaves its subjects
quits unprotected.