The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The installation of his Excellency George Milner
Stephen, ;Esq., as acting Governor of the province, took
place on Saturday, the 14th July, the oaths being admi-
nistered by the Judge in the presence of the principal
officers of the Government, landholders, and colonists.
Immediately after the Proclamation announcing that his
Excellency had been installed into office had been read by
the Sheriff, Mr. Stephen addressed the gentlemen present
in a speech of considerable length. After paying a high
compliment to the character of his predecessor in the Go-
vernment, Mr. Stephen said that " he owed it to his own
official character, now of ten years' standing, to confess
openly the pOsition in which the Colonial Government is
now placed." The following extract from his Excellency's
speech will best explain the position in which the free pro-
vince is placid, and the gloomy prospect under which Mr.
Stephen has assumed the reins of Government :
,‘ I have first to announce with regret that there are no
funds whatever in the Treasury, and that the quarter's salaries
due to the whole of the public servants on the 20th June last,
are at this day unpaid. We have therefore to fear that the
tempting remuneration held out for the exercise of ability in
private undertakings in this province, added to the distress
which they are beginning to experience from the want of mo-
ney, will induce many indispensable public officers to leave the
service of the Government.
" Secondly—By the departure of the Marines in H. H. S.
Alligator, this province, with a population exceeding 4,000
persons, is abandoned to the protection of 18 policemen, lately
embodied by Governor Hindmarsh, while there are now 21 pri-
soners confined in the weather boarded building used as a
gaol 1 and perhaps double that number of desperate runaway.
convicts in the neighbourhood of the town. At the same time,
as I have observed, there are no funds for the support of the
force now constituting our only protection ; and the Resident
Commissioner is restricted by his instructions from providing
money fur such purpose. And, although our critical circum-
stances would seem to warrant the course, I shall scarcely
dare to take upon myself the responsibility of drawing upon
the Lord; of her Majesty's Treasury for their maintenance,
unless the general voice of the community shall require it.
" We have happily no immediate cause to apprehend hos-
tility from the aborigines, or our situation would indeed be
deplorable ; but they have ere now sacrificed two fellow crea-
tures ; and you have too recently witnessed the outrages that
terminated in a public execution to regard with indifference
Our present unprotected state. And though it gives me pain
to set such a picture before the many private gentlemen now
present who have embarked their fortunes in this land in the
just expectation that the Government would afford themselves
and their families the protection which they have perhaps
already paid for, I ought not to conceal from them our extraor-
dinary condition. I will, however, earnestly assure you all,
Gentlemen, that should you become apprehensive of danger
from want of the sinews of Government—finances, I will un-
hesitatingly submit to the Council the propriety of departing
front the Royal instructions in providing them.
" Thirdly, Gentlemen, it may be necessary for my future
justification to allude to the embarrassed state of the Survey
Department, occasioned by the recently received instructions.
The Government, I am fully aware, exercises no authority
over the Land Department, nor Is it charged with the respon-
sibility of the surveys. As it is, however, incidently affected
by the state of that department I may be pardoned for referr-
ing to it ; especially as the want of land may increase your dis-
quietude And have a tendency to add to the cares of the Ad-
ministration wLjch has just devolved upon me."
The following appintments have taken place since his
Excellency Mr. Stephen tit' administered the Government.
Robert Bernard, Esq., A.M., Barrister-at-law, has been
appointed Advocate-General and Crown Solicitor of the
province, until her Majesty's pleasure be known ; William
Nation, Esq., is appointed Aid-de-Camp to his Excellency
the Acting Governor; and Robert Bernard, Esq., A.M.,
Charles Burton Newnham, Esq, John Walker, Esq., R.N.,
and Henry Jones, Esq., have been appointed Justices of
the Peace for the province.
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The prisoners were Lcopzltt up to Lyndon by the train of
immediately
the London and Birmingriam ililjlroad ; and in conse-
quence of previous arrarigvinents, they werp
conveyed to Newgate, where they will remain until thepn,
suing term, when they will be brought np before the Court
of Queen's Bench, on the habeas corpni oVi..tiMed by Mr?
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Roebuck, for the Narse of being disci.arged.
Petitions to Parliament G;z4,jiist the beer-shop,: were
agreed to by ego Nagistro.tes at the Se. 6:;;,::; for hot'', divi-
sions of the etlutit/ 44 ;yeek, and by the Grand ;Jury at
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the Easteyn Sessions.----lioilhtfl VazAt-
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