The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-21 00:00:00

New South Wales.

SYDNEY, Oct. 25.
The following is the speech of Sir John Young
on opening Parliament in Sydney, New South
Wales, on the 24th of October last :-
4‘ Hon. Gentlemen
of theeno the Legislative
AtivsesenColbulny,cil and
gt (1.) The duties of Parliament having already
occupied you during five months of the present
year, it is not without regret that I myselffeeles
e ll a
com-
pelled to call you together so soon, p
this is the season when your private affairs most
require your attention. (2.) Satisfactory results
have attended the measures sanctioned by you dur-
ing your last session for improving the state of the
public revenues. Though that portion of the fiscal
scheme which obtained your assent has not produced
sufficient to meet the requirements of Government,
yet when it is considered that its operation has ex-
tended over so short a period, and that the law has
been found in some respects defective, the improved
condition of the public finances is matter for con-
gratulation. (3.) By the recent appraisement of
the runs occupied by the pastoral tenants of the
Crown, the annual income from the public waste
lands will be largely augmented, but the estimated
amount of money will not be fully realised. (4.)
During the Recess arrangements have been made ,
for holding Circuit Courts at Denilicluin, Wagge
Wagga, and Armidale, and those distant parts of
the colony will now speedily have the advantage
of the administration of justice by the Su-
perior Courts. (5.) Measures have been taken
for relieving the more overcrowded of the
prisons by removing a considerable number
of the inmates to Port Macquarie, where at a
comparatively small expense buildings hitherto
unoccupied have been made available for this pur-
pose. Steps have also been taken for carrying out a
system of classification. A bill to regulate prison
discipline and to encourage the reform of offenders
by establishing a plan of remission of sentences will
be submitted for your consideration. (6.) During
several years past large sums have been expended
in improving the accommodation in our lunatic asy-
lum, but nothing really effective can be done until
the new buildings have been erected. Preliminary
arrangements are being made for the erection of
such buildings, and your concurrence will be re-
quested in the selection of a suitable site for the pur-
pose. It is much to be desired that a private esta-
blishment should be opened for the reception of
patients of that class for whom it is difficult to make
suitable arrangements in a public asylum. To faci-
litate the establishment of such an institution an
amendment of the law will be necessary, and a bill
having reference to the subject will be submitted to
you. (7.) A bill for regulating reformatory and
industrial schools has also been prepared for your
consideration. This subject is one of daily increas-
ing interest. (8.) Several other bills having refer-
ence to questions of pressing importance will be laid
before you. Among them is one for amending the
Municipalities Act of 1851, with a view to correct
its numerous defects and to promote the extension
of these corporations throughout the colony, and
also a bill for creating road trusts. Your attention
will be invited to bills for amending the Stamp Act
and the District Courts Act, the Superannuation
Act and the Volunteer Act, and for dealing with
other subjects requiring legislation. Gentlemen of
the Legislative Assembly,—(9.) The Estimates of
expenditure for the year 1866, and a Supplementary
Estimate for the current year, will be laid before
you without delay. (10.) Notwithstanding the
continued bad seasons, from which the colony
has suffered during the last four years, and its
comparatively depressed condition, the revenue for
the year will, it is believed, cover the expen-
diture. --Hon.-Gentlemen of the Legislative Council
and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,—(ll.)
Owing to the competition caused by the large
number of colonial debentures for sale in London,
and the tightness of the money market arising from
the demands for money from foreign countries, the
debentures of this colony have not of late realised
such favourable prices as they formerly obtained.
Authority has recently been given for placing them
before the public in the same manner that other co-

lonics have, with better success, adopted for dis-
posing of their securities, and it is anticipated they
will in consequence be more favourably viewed by
purchasers. (12.) In the event of further taxa4ion
being required to provide sufficient revenue for
making adequate provision to meet the interest of
our public debt and for paying off debentures as
they fall due, a proposition for this purpose will be
laid before you, and 1 trust you will cordially assent
to any reasonable measure having this object in
view. (13.) The construction of railways is being,
proceeded with in the northern, western, and south-
ern directions as fast as funds can be provided for
the purpose. (14.) You will be invited to consider,
at as early.a period as the more urgent matters re-
quiring your attention will permit, whether a plan
for attracting from the mother country a larger and
more continuous stream of the better classes of in-
dustrious immigrants cannot be devised. The sub-
ject is one of the greatest importance to the colony,
each of the varied interests of which must continue
to languish without such aids. In connection with
it your attention will be directed to the present up-
set price of the inferior and back lands, and the de-
sirability of making the acquisition of such lands by
purchase possible. It is a matter well worthy your
serious and thoughtful consideration whether the
freehold occupation of all classes of land is not more
advantageous, in a public point of view, than any
other more precarious tenure ; whether by such
means the permanent settlement of an industrious
population may not be best promoted, the improve-
ment of the land encouraged, its productiveness in-
creased, and a more adequate return insured for its

use and occupation. Large funds would thus be pro-
vided for meeting the cost of immigration, and of
public works and institutions which become necessary
as population advances. (15.) I pray that the
Divine blessing may attend your counsels and guide
you to adopt such measures as may tend to advance
the welfare and happiness of the community whose
interests are committed to your care."

A GROOM AXD FOUR HORSES BURNT TO DEATH.
A waggon containing four horses, the proporty of the King
of Italy, has just been destroyed by fire, as well as the groom
in whose charge the animals were, while on the Montemn
Seine-et-Oise Railway. The disaster is belived to have
been caused by the man, when the worse for liquor, smok-
ing and setting fire to the straw.
[ADVEILTISEDIENT.] —That the fearful annual mortality of
60,000 young children and delicate persons of all ages may be
arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines,
which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in
reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility,
and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how
to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood,
upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame
depends, has
Infants'abe I. been successfully
adai l
annually.
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assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and fur
cihthadsiosliudysraacnannsddi tl3 the best substitute for human milt. Dr.
Routh, physician to the Samaritan hospital for Women and
Children—the best authority on bitch matters —in his admir-
able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub-
stances, th tt which comes closest to milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con-
paoltnatansgi u
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both
ito
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eas casein,cid in abundance and chloride of
the same principle which
is found in milk in its constituent part. No wonder, there-
faotrreo,piyw
that under flint
its influence y children affected with
away of the body), and marked debt ity,
have completely recovered. i have given it wit 11 the greatest
advant ige in such cases ; and so far as I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
trom a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.—
In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 45. 6d ; 51b., 1 Is.; 121 b., 225. ; 141 b.
40s.—Barry )u Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, 9, King William-street ;• likewi,e
at 61, G r ace ch ur3,chl-sso, tr
andcct;
2498, Cohxe
Oxford-street
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330, hosptsrgaantde -;
street Within ; 6
54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; DO,
Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 85, High-street; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's -wcod, London ; and all respectable grocers and elle-
mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.