The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. 1839.

INTELLIGENCE FROM SYDNEY.

The following is an extract from a letter just received
from Sydney, dated in May last, sent to the father of the
writer, a respectable tradesman, residing at Windsor :
" In my last letter I gave you an account of the treat-
ment and conduct of the male and female convicts in
this colony ; but, notwithstanding the severity with
which any outbreak is visited, I am sorry to say the
women still continue to be as refractory as ever. There
are now 848 women in the female factory at Paramatta,
and a more reprobate and troublesome set it would be
difficult to find congregated together in any other part
of the globe. Of this 848 there are 358 under colo-
nial sentence, 10 in solitary confinement, 125 engaged
in nursing children (of which there are 185 in the fac-
tory belonging to the convicts), and 28 in the hospital.
There are 238 assignable, and 89 not assignable.
" Amongst the various mechanics who are most in
request here are compositors. There are not half
enough in the colony to supply the demand. The
Sydney Herald proprietor has just advertised for 12
hands, at 21. per week wages, and the overtime to be
paid for at the rate of 10d. per hour. We have now in
Sydney fifteen Newspapers published every week, and
seven printing offices are in full work. Indeed, it is a
difficult thing at times to get a job clone without great
delay in consequence of the shortness of hands.
" Corn is now very dear. Good wheat fetches 12s.
a bushel, very inferior quality is worth from 10s. 6d.
to 11 s. Every article of consumption is on the advance,
especially meat and bread.
" Horse-racing in the colony is engaging the atten-
tion of our sporting characters. Three magnificent
thorough-bred horses arrived here from England, a few
days since, in the Brilliant, for Mr. Charles Roberts.
A beautiful draught stallion, shipped for the same party,
died on the voyage.
" I forgot to mention, in speaking of the high price
of corn, that a corresponding rise has*taken place in
potatoes. They are 10s. and lls. per cwt.
" The principles of tee-totalism are gaining ground in
Sydney. A few evenings since a very numerous meeting
of the New S3uth Wales Temperance Society took
place in the old Court House, Castlereagh-street, when
the chair was taken by the Governor of the colony.
Amongst the numerous speakers was Mr. Windeyer,
who was formerly connected with the press in London,
but who is now a Justice of the Peace at Sydney. The
society is in a very prosperous state, and consists of
several hundred members.

" The Society of Arts, which was instituted in 1833,
is progressing. In that year its annual income was only
149/. ; last year it was upwards of 6701. Its museum
contains several highly interesting and valuable relics
and curiosities, books, coins, &c. A new building will
shortly be erected, on a piece of land to be presented by
Goverment.

" The theatre is open and well attended. The com-
pany of French comedians have just left us, and reaped
a good harvest ; but they were a wretched set. The
English company are now performing under the manage-
ment of Mr. Lizar.

" I cannot conclude my letter without giving you a
specimen of legal quibbling in Sydney. Mr. B. A.
Philips, of George-street, was charged before his Wor-
ship with having paved his footway before his house,
without giving to the surveyor twenty-four hours' notice.
A witness having proved that he saw some men flagging
the footpath, the Magistrate (Captain Innes) gave his
opinion that the information would not hold good, as the
defendant was charged with paving, while the evidence
only went to prove that he was flagging. A Mr.
Mathew, who was present, was requested by Captain
Lines to explain the difference between the two terms.
Mr. Mathew gave it as his opinion that " flagging meant
forming a footpath with flags or flat stones, and that
paving meant forming a road with thick cubical stones."
The town surveyor contended that, as the words of the
Act were "flagging, paving, gravelling, or putting down
a curb stone," "flagging" and " paving" were one and
the same offence. Captain lanes, however, who was of
a contrary opinion, referred the case to Mr. Windeyer,
who agreed with the Captain that " flagging" and
" paving" were very different sort of things, and the cases
was therefore dismissed.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.-
We are requested to correct an erroneous statement which
has appeared in some of the Glasgow newspapers, regard-
ing the extent of the Tunnel at the head of North Queen-
street. This " tremendous *unite'," (as it is called), is
stated to be three miles in length. The whole extent of
tt, however, will ho little more than half a mile; and this
too, divided into throe parts, separated by spacious open•
ings eyes.' The portion nearest to Queen-street
measures or ly 293 yards, the other two portions are 300
and 500 yards respectively.—Glasgow Chronicle.
THE TOURNAMENT.—Lord Eglintoun has ad-
dressed the following to the inhab;tants of Ayrshire and
others, who attended the tournament at Eglintoun Castle:
I take this opportunity of expressing my sense of the
extreme order and good conduct exhibited by the thou-
sands assembled here at the late tournament, and my grati-
tude for the universal kindness shown to me individually on
that occasion. That I trusted to the good feelings of my fel-
low countrymen my arrangements may have already shown ;
beyond even my expectations I feel proud in offering this
public testimoay. F:r the c,:rdialiry with which my
attempt to revive the amusements of past days has been
met, and the kind feeling; which have been expressed
towards me on all sides, and by all classes, I now offer my
most sincere and heartfelt thanks; and when I hear evil-
disposed persons endeavouring to sow contention between
the richer and the poorer classes, I will point to the
occasion which has just passed for a refutation, and deny
that contention can exist where all seem actuated by one
common feeling of kindness and of confidence."
THE KING OF HANOVER AND THE SUC-
CESSION TO THE BRITISH THRONE.—WC extract the fol-
lowing extraordinary article from the Gazette Universelle
Leipzich, which reproduces it from that of Magde-
burg, without note or comment :—" We are assured,"
says this article, "that Queen Victoria is so weak in
health that her deali without heirs is more than probable ;
in which case, the King of Hanover and the Prince
Ronal would become her legitimate heirs. The
Duke of Cambridge, it is true, has made no advance
towards the Whig party or towards the Radicals, to impede
the legitimate pretensions of his Hanoverian Majesty
and the Prince Royal to the Crown of England, or to
imitate the example given by the House of Orleans to re-
place the elder by a junior branch of the family, by the
permission of the national representatives; but circum-
stances might arrive when the Whigs and Radicals might
act in order to divert the succession. A combination would
then be attempted by means of an augmentation of the
members of the Upper House, to obtain a Bill which would
restrict the power of his Majesty or of his son, similar to
those which took place at the time of the incapacity of
George 111. Then it was not the birth but the Parliament
of George IV. who conferred the Regency. Our King,
who has always looked to the future, protested against the
disastrous resolutions of the Parliament, may have called
about him Lord Lyndhurst, and some other influential
members of each House, to deliberate in advance on the
measures necessary to be taken in certain eventual cases,
and to be prepared against any wrong which might be
contemplated against the presumptive heir, against the
Tories, and against the well-being of Great Britain. In
a word, to preserve in England the natural and legitimate
succession to the throne, in spite of the intrigues of the
Radicals and some few misguided Whigs."
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A CLER-
01MAN'S SON. —An account appeared in this paper a few
days since of the mysterious disappearance of a youth, aged
ten years, the son of the Rev. Mr. Warner, of Rochester,
Kent, who left home suddenly on the afternoon of the 3d
inst. It was subsequently ascertained that he had come
to London, from Gravesend, by the Mercury steam-boat.
The young gentleman has been restored to his friends.
Having called on a friend of his father's, living in the
Hampstead-road, the night he reached London, that gen-
tleman lost no time in communicating the fact to the
family.
THE LATE SUICIDE AT THE MONUMENT.-
The report which appeared in the Morning Papers stating
that Mr. Moyes expired on Thursday night, is, we are
happy to state, without foundation. He is still alive and
in much the same state as he has been for some weeks
past. Several of the A division are on duty opposite the
house to keep the crowd off.

The following notices are front correspondents :
—The favourable change of weather that took in this
quarter yesterday forenoon has enabled rapid progress to
be made with the harvest. Crowds of reapers are to be
seen on every hand in the country, and every individu4l
that can handle a sickle is in requisition. In Paisley and
neighbourhood the wages paid reapers is from 2a. to 2s. 6d.
per day, or 2d. per hour for a shorter period. Two or
three weeks of continued dry weather would complete
the harvest in the lower districts.—Yesterday the rain
having ceased to pour down in torrents, as it has done al-
most incessantly since the Tournament Festival, a vast
quantity of grain, wheat, and oats fell under the operation
of the sickle in the lower ward of Lanarkshire, and on the
coast of Ayrshire. If the weather should hold on favour-
able for a few weeks the crop, which is good in the quar-
ters alluded to, will be got in in fine style, and will of course
tend to the lowering of the price of provisions. —Glasgow
Chronicle. _

BOGNOR ROCKS, SEPT. 11.—The Dowager
Marchioness of Northampton, the Hon. General, Mrs.
and Miss Meade have arrived on a visit to Mrs. Smith at
Busted Lodge, where Lord and Lady Mayo are also
staving Lord George Lennox ti,s returned to Lennox
Lodge from Brighton. Lord George still on the Rhine.
LORD MELBOURNE'S ORATORICAL GES-
TURES. remember seeing an amusing incident produced
by this vehemence of gesture in which his Lordship 60
frequently indulges. It was in the Committee upon the R“-
forte Bill ; and Melbourne, who was next to a Noble Ear:,
rose and spoke with great energy against some prop tel
amendment. According to his usual habit, he took his white.
hat in his hand, and having beat the air with it for a few
minutes, he, at last, in the delivery of some very import-
ant serAtence, or some sentence very difficult to enounce.
raised himself upon tiptoe, and brought the hat to bear
with the full force of a muscular arm upon the cover,. !
occiput of hi: worthy and revered colleague. The blow
was a very fair one; the bats met crown to crown, with-
out any further ap ,arent injury than that of the Noble
Edrl seemed to be tightly fixed between his shoulders, and
that that great officer of state jumped nimbly upon his
legs, and amidst some of the loudest laughter I ever
heard, twi,ted his head out of his hat, and recovered po,;-
session of his vision ; the roar which this bit of pantomime
created, entirely destroyed the best part of the speaker's
argument, and the gravity of the house was certainly not
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