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rim SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1E65.

a dexterous manner, that eluded detection and
allayed suspicion, until all care was too late to save
his victims. The accounts that have been obtained
about the life of this man, who called himself by
various names, seem to confirm the notion that he
was insane at the period of his violent acts, and
also to intimate that he laboured under some kind
of delusion previously. On one occasion he pre-
sented himself before a magistrate, and after telling
a strange tale he produced some poison to prove
his resolve not to commit suicide. He has been
following gambling as a profesion for some years
past, and doubtless by this means has wrought his
excitable nature to a pitch of frenzy, with losses and
other irritating circumstances. The career of this
unfortunate man appears to present no particulars
that can at all account for his recent deeds, except
inasmuch that he led a wandering life, and was a
dissolute character. He seems to be one of those
weak and wavering persons who are sometimes
known to commit crimes of as fearful a character as
men of a sterner nature and more violent de-
meanour. The particulars respecting the two
tragedies are being investigated, and therefore the
public will not have long to wait to satisfy their
natural curiosity respecting the commission of these
dark and dreadful acts.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
(Via Crookhaven.)

NEW YORK, AUG. 3 (Evening).
President Johnson still continues indisposed.
The late Richmond elections have been annulled
by the military authorities.
The steamer Glasgow, for Liverpool, was burnt
on the 31st inst. in lat. 40.46, long. 68.33. All
souls on board were saved.

Gold, 1441-.
The Federal debt was officially.reported to be on
Ist July $2,756,000,000.
The Governor of North Carolina denies that the
inhabitants of that State manifest any ill-feeling
towards the Northern emigrants, or show any dis-
position to rebel should the troops be withdrawn.
The Governor and the military authorities of
Kentucky have issued a proclamation warning all
persons who aided the rebellion against voting at
the approaching elections.
The personal and political friends of Mr. Davis
have held a meeting at New York to adopt measures
to secure his speedy trial and engage able counsel
for his defence.

Mr. Benjamin and General Kirby 'Smith have
reached Havana.

The barque Rosamond saved the passengers from
the Glasgow, and transferred them to the steamer
Erin, which brought them to New York to-day.

The Asia has arrived out.

AUG. 1 (Evening).

The military authorities at Richmond have de-
clared the late elections null and void, on the ground
that the holdiers who had absented themselves to
serve in the Federal army were excluded from voting
under the pretext of want of necessary residence
qualifications, whilst rebel soldiers •were not thus
excluded. The issue at the elections was between
those who aided the rebellion and those who de-
fended the country, and the former should not be
installed in office or entrusted with power. The
officials elected have appointed a committee to con-
fer with the President.

Numerous prominent pardoned rebels of North
Carolina have been designated as delegates to the
State Convention. It is reported that they will
control the Convention and oppose the restoration
of North Carolina to the Union as a free State.
The Unionsts are organising an opposition to pre-
vent the Convention being held.

General Grant has receiTed an enthusiastic ova
tion at Boston.

Sir E. C. Tache, the Canadian Premier, is dead.
The City of York, the New York, the Hibernian,
and the Bavaria have arrived out.

BUSH LIFE IN QUEENSLAND.

The following interesting account of Bush Life in
Queensland has been forwarded to us by Mr. Henry
Jordan, the Agent-General for Emigration for
Queensland, and we have great pleasure in giving
it insertion in our columns, as a communication no
less instructive than entertaining.—ED. SUN :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Queensland Government Emigration Offices,
2, Old Broad-street, London, Aug. 2, 1865.
Sir,—My attention has been directed to a lengthy para-
graph headed "Bush Life in Australia," and which pur-
ports to be a description of country life in Queensland.
It is evidently the production of one of a class who are
always unfortunately among the first to rush to any new
country, in the absurd expectation of getting on without
patient, persevering industry ; a class who, because they
do not succeed in Great Rritain, get the idea that they
shall certainly do well if they can get to the oppo-
site side of the globe. They forget that the reason
of their want of success at home is simply that they
don't like to work ; and they are, perhaps, ignorant
that this is a disqualification which makes their failure
in a new country even more complete than in Great Bri-
tain. In an old country some clever people can manage
to " live by their wits," but this never happens in our Aus-
tralian Colonies. It does not matter how clever a man
may be there ; unless he is industrious and persevering he
cannot succeed.
The anonymous paragraph headed "Bush-Life in Aus-
tralia" is so absurdly untruthful as a picture of pastoral
life in the colonies, and so opposite to what all well-in-
formed persons know on the subject, that I should have
considered it wholly unnecessary for me to notice it, even
though it contains a libellous attack upon myself, had it
not been that I have found, to my astonishment, it has
been copied into many respectable papers in various parts
of Great Britain. As an average of between two and three
hundred thousand persons go away from the United King-
dom every year, most of whom, for want of correct in-
formation about our own colonies, have hitherto gone
away to the United States of America, it is of great
importance that our fellow-countrymen should not be mis-
led by false representations such as those found in the pa-
ragraph alluded to. This must be my apology for reply-
ing to what otherwise would have been passed by without
notice.

The writer commences with the statement that " grow-
ing cabbages, or anything else in the bush, is a delusion
and a snare ;" and the general gist of his communication
is to the effect that the land in Queensland is bad, and
that agriculture is unsuccessful. The best reply to such
a representation is found in some of the facts contained in
the Queensland papers received by the ♦ery last mail
from Australia. On the upland; beyond the great divid-
ing range of mountains, where the table land is elevated
to about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea, the farmers
who are engaged in the cultivation of wheat and other
European cereals and fruits appear to be doing very well.
In the Brisbane Courier just received we read—" Too-
woomba.—Ploughing is going on largely for wheat and
other early field produce, and a very considerable quantity
of land will be placed under cultivation this year. The
extreme productiveness of much of the soil on the lower
land; especially between the mountains and the sea coast,
may be seen by the following from the Brisbane Courier
of May 17, received by last mail, on the subject of
farming prospects at the Bald Hills and Pine River
district, a few miles from Brisbane, the capital of the
colony:" From a correspondent in the same neighbour-
hood we learn that the owner of a farm on the North
Pine river has from seven and a half acres of scrub-land
just gathered a crop of maize averaging ninety bushels to
the acre. Six months and a half back he planted half an
acre of scrub-land with yellow sugar-cane. This is now
from seven to eight feet high, and from every stool there
are from twenty canes growing vigorously." In the same
paper we read that a sweet potato was exhibited weighing
231 b. The maize and potato here spoken of, it must be
remembered, were produced on the very rich scrub-land
which is found immediately en the banks of the rivers
and streams with which the colony of Queensland is so
abundantly supplied. This description of land requires
much labour to clear, but amply repays the outlay, being
alluvial soil of great depth, and exceedingly rich and pro-
ductive.

The writer of the paragraph asserts that "if he (the
farmer) gets good land, if he is not near a town (and all
cannot be very near) he cannot got a market for his crops,
he must get them to market by a dray and ten bullocks,
with some five or six to share, two or three men and a
horse or two, and then ho will get along at the rate of 10
or 12 miles a day. Such are a farmer's prospects."
Those who have read this statement, and attached any
credence to it, will be surprised to learn that the " Agri-
cultural Reserves"—the lands appropriated by the Legis-

lature and the Government of Queensland to the use of the
farmer—are required by the act of Parliament to be within
five miles of the largest townships, or on the banks of the
navigable rivers, of which there are very many in Queens-
land ; so that the farmer hags the advantage of neeoes to tho
markets without any great difficulty, even at present, and
these facilities will soon be very greatly increased by
the completion of a line of railway extending from the
capital and principal port Brisbane, to the Darling
Downs about seventy miles distant—the " Garden of
Queensland," as it has boon appropriately called—the
finest farming district in the colony, where a large and
rapidly increasing number of farmers are settled on their
own freehold land, and are growing European fruits, wheat
of the finest quality, and other cereals with so much success
that many of them have by a few years patient industry
actually become affluent. o complete this line of railway
I have recently despatched upwards of 1,900 persons,
navvies and others, for Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Co.,
who have the contract for its construction. Other two

lines of railway are to be immediately commenced in
Queensland, while the formation of roads, and the erection
of bridges in every direction are creating facilities for the
transit of goods and farm produce, which, in connection
with its natural advantages for water-carriage, will place.
Queensland in a position superior to any of the other
colonies in Australia. So little truth is there in this part
of the statements of the writer of the paragraph.
The representationsspf this person are equally untruth-
ful in reference to the difficulty of obtaining employment,
the class of persons who are generally emigrating to the
colony, and the other matters on which he pretends to
give information. As to the class of persons who have
gone out to Queensland under my direction on the Land-
Order system of emigration, this may be easily estimated
by the fact that they aro ascertained to have taken with
them nearly one million sterling ; many of them being
small and larger capitalists going out to settle on the
land. The number of persons despatched by me during
four years has been about thirty thousand. Of this largo
number of persons there have been a few who have dis-
regarded the very careful warnings which I have always
given, that only certain classes could generally succeed in
the colonies, namely graziers, farmers, good mechanics,
out-door labourers, and domestic servants. And that in
all cases hard work and patient, persevering industry are
absolutely necessary to prosperity. If, in spite of the
plainest warnings, persons will still persist in going to
Queensland who have no trade at their finger-ends, who
have mastered no profession, and who are wholly un-
accustomed to laborious out-door work, they need not
be surprised at falling into the trials encountered by the
writer of "Bush life in Australia," who so pathetically
complains of his hard fate. "I was breaking stones on a
railway." "I then turned bum' for a bit." "I then
went down to Brisbane and tried to get a berth again."
"I got work on the Government roads at £1 a week and
rations." "When the job was ended and the gang was
broken up into three or four smaller ones I got the sack."
I should think so. Such young gentlemen as this are
found as utterly worthless in the colonies as they are in
England, It is satisfactory, however, to know that, with
fewa exceptions, nearly all of them of this sort, the
30,000 persons who have gone to Queensland have done
well, and feel that they are greatly benefited in having
first heard of Queensland through the instrumentality of
the person of whom this young gentleman expresses his
opinion with such pungent brevity that " he ought to be
hanged." The benefit which has resulted to the colony
by the successful carrying out of the Laud-Order system
of Emigration under my direction may be seen in the
following extract from the speech of the Hon. R. J. Smith,
member of the upper House of the Queensland Legislature,
on the occasion of the presentation of an address to his
Excellency the Governor, Sir G. F. Bowen, in answer to
the Vico-regal speech at the opening of the present Session.
"Then in reference to the paragraph in the speech to the
effect that the Immigration Act passed last Session had, by
the zeal and ability of the Agent-General, caused Queens-
land to be regarded with increased favour by our fellow._
subjects at home, he thought that every one who saw the
useful and admirable class of immigrants which Mr. Jordan
had sent hero in such largo numbers, anyone who noticed
the able and energetic manner in which Mr. Jordan per-
formed'the duties of his office, could not fail to experience
the highest gratification at knowing that the colony pos-
sessed a man capable of doing so much good for a new
country."

From the speech of Sir G. F. Bowen, above alluded to,
it is seen that the general progress of the colony of Queens-
land is quite commensurate with its rapid increase of popu-
lation. His Excellency said, " It appears that the centes-
mal increase during the period of four years was exactly as
follows :—ln our population 195 per cent.; revenue 139 per
cent. ; trade 178 per cent. ; shipping 189 per cent. The
other chief elements of prosperity have advanced in equal
proportions ; that is to say, they have been nearly trebled."
A system of emigration which secures to persons paying
their own passage to the colony land equal to 30 acres for
each person of 12 years and upwards, and 15 acres for each
child, to be chosen by the emigrant himself on, any agricul-
tural reserve in the colony, was admirably calculated to
be successful in diverting a portion, at least, of the great
stream of emigration always setting towards America, to
our own colony in Australia ; and this system being vigor-
ously carried out at home, and supported by thn great na-
tural capabilities of the colony, and the success almost in-
variably experienced by those who have been thus attracted

to Queensland, must continue to make it one of the most
favoured fields for the enterprise of a large proportion of
the hundreds of thousands of the emigrating population of
Great Britain for centuries to come.—Sir, I have the hon-
our to be, your most obedient servant,

ILExnY JORDAN,
Agent-General for Emigration for Queensland.

RECONSTRUCTION OF PARIS,

BY THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON 111.

It seems as if the demolition of houses and streets
in Paris were to be brought to an end only when the
whole city shall have been reconstructed, and when
scarcely one stone of the old capital shall be left
standing upon another. The reign of Napoleon 111.
will hereafter be remarkable in history for many
great events and important changes ; but in the
annals of Paris it will be emphatically designated
as the reign of stone and mortar, of knocking down
and building up again, of the substitution of spacious
streets, airy squares, and handsome houses, for
narrow lanes, foetid alleys, and tumbledown edifices,
dating from the Middle Ages. Every year one
imagines the work which has lasted so long
must beinearly done, and every year one finds
the pick and lever busy levelling in some fresh
place. More than 12 years ago, on the 29th of
January, 1853, Napoleon drove to his marriage
through heaps of ruins and shells of houses—the
former created, the latter rising, along the line of
the Rue de Rivoli. Since then the destroyer and
the constructor cannot be said to have ever sus-
pended their toil, and, much as they have done, it
seems as if more than ever suggested itself. The
renaissance or rebuilding of Paris began as soon as
the Emperor came to supreme and independent
power, and even should it not be quite completed
during his life the whole credit of it will belong to
his reign. There is still much to be done, and
work has just been commenced in a very central
part of the town, well known to all foreign visitors,
and close to the quarter especially frequented and
inhabited by English. Yesterday, on the Place
du Palais Royal groups of persons were as-
sembled, watching, with curiosity and anxiety,
the proceedings of workmen engaged in knock-
ing down some old houses opposite the
Theatre Francais. The uneasiness of the gazers did
not seem ill-founded, for two of the labourers,
standing upon a horizontal beam at the height of a
third floor, were calmly knocking to pieces the wall
below their feet. The beam fixed into the two ad-
jacent houses remained firm, but to all appearance
they were destroying their own support, and on the
eve of a fall from a height of 30ft. or 40ft. Some
of the adjacent houses, also in process of demoli-
tion, had as yet scarcely been evacuated by the
shopkeeping occupants of their ground floors, who
had resisted the expropriation, and brought an action
against the City of Paris which had only just been de-
cided against them. A considerable batch of houses,
comprising the whole or parts of three streets is there
coming down. One of the old Quarters of Paris,com-
posed chiefly of close narrow streets, for the most part
ill-inhabited, and some' of which remind one of the
ancient districts where Sue laid the opening scene of
his most celebrated romance, is that enclosed be-
tween the street of St. Honore, St. Roch, Neuve
des Petits Champs, and Richelieu. It comprises the
butte, or hillock, of the noulins, windmills having
formerly stood upon the little eminence. The part
now demolishing lies between the streets Richelieu,
St. Honore, and Fontaine Moliere. This last street,
formerly the Traversiere St. Honore, but of which
the name was changed when Moliere's statue was
erected at one of its extremities in the year 1844,
will be partly destroyed. About one-half of it is to
come down. Also the whole of the Rue Jeannisson,
and a considerable part of the Rue du Rempart,
which owes its name to fortifications completed
there towards the end of the 14th century. It was
hereabouts that the ramparts were attacked by
Charles VII. in September, 1429, when Paris was
defended by the English. The King, says an old
historian—

" Had several pieces of cannon stationed near the Gate
of St. Honore, upon a rising ground then called the pig-
market. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, was disposed
to attack the city, not knowing that the ditches were full
of water. With her lance she sounded the depth, and
while giving orders for a part to bo filled up, in order to
force a passage, received a wvuud in the thigh. She re-
fused, however, to quit the spot, until at last the Duke
d'Alencon went and took her away."

There were formerly many of these buttes, or
knolls, in and near Paris, they having been origi-
nally formed by accumulations of rubbish and filth,
which the inhabitants contracted the habit of depo-
positing in particular places. The labyrinth in the
Jardin des Plantes stands on what was formerly the
Butte des Copeaux (chips and shavings of wood).
Some of the old buttes were very high, and
those outside the city were looked upon as
dangerous in the event of a siege, as afford-
ing stations for the enemy's artillery. At
various times many were removed, some in the
16th century, others later. During a famine which
occurred in 1709 the poor were employed to level a
butte near the Porte St. Denis, and were paid in
bread. One day the bread was not forthcoming,
and the labourers rebelled, broke open bakers'
shops and caused a tumult. The Swiss and French
Guards and the Mousquetaires were quickly under
arms. " It was found necessary to fire on them,"
says Dulaure, in his "History of Paris," " and
some of this rabble were killed, while others were
sent to prison." It was proposed to clear away the
old street from the Butte des Moulins, and build
the New Opera House upon it, and the situation
would have been appropriate enough, in the imme-
diate vicinity of the Louvre, the Tuileries, and the
Palais Royal, but the project was abandoned in
consequence of strong interest male for the present
site. It is quite time, however, to begin clearing
away that network of filthy houses. Those now
being destroyed will very soon disappear, the work
having been begun at several points at once, and
by strong bodies of men.

Apprehension of a Policeman on a Charge
of Conspiracy.

On Thursday Mrs. Hinchliffe, a widow, residing on the
Flatts, Dewsbury, appeared before the sitting magistrates,
at the Borough Court in that town, and made an applica-
tion for the apprehension of Edward Evans, a constable in
the Dewsbury borough force, and of George Burrell, said
to be an auctioneer from Leeds. She stated that when
Evans was appointed to the situation of constable by the
Watch Committee, about two months ago, he obtained
lodgings at her house, and on Saturday, the 29th ult., he
introduced to her Georgo Burrell, as a lodger. This man,
it was understood, was only staying for a few days, but
he was represented by Evans to be a person of consider-
able wealth, and possessing property in Wolverhampton,
Leeds, and other towns. Evans was in debt to her, and
instead of paying her, ho said that if she chose to borrow
money Burrell would lend her some, and this caused her
to state—(she refused to make any application to him)—
that she was not herself short of a few pounds. He con-
gratulatea her on her good fortune, and was then observed
to leave the house and join Burrell and another man in
the street, and to communicate something to them, at which
they laughed heartily. They then returned to the widow's
house, and Burrell, addressing her, stated that he had pur-
chased a lot of goods at the Dewsbury railway station, and
was short of .£5, could she lend him that sum for an hour
or two ? The woman hesitated ; the man appealed to
Evans, and that person again assured her of his great
wealth and respectability. She then advanced Burrell the
money he wanted, and he left her house, saying ho would
go to Leeds, where he resided, to get some money out of
the bank and repay her. In the evening he returned, and
said the bank was closed before he reached it, and bor-
rowed three half-crowns,
as he expressed it, to see him
over Sunday. On Monday morning he went out, but came
,
back in a short time, and said he had bought a large van
in the fair, and wanted to pay £3 as a deposit. He asked
her to lend him that sum, and she handed it to him, and in
an hour or two he gave her a document purporting to be
an agreement for the purchase of the vehicle, and bearing
a stamped receipt for .£4. After this, Burrell succeeded in
getting from her a couple of florins, making in all £8 lls.
6d., and then he left. Feeling a little anxious, she spoke
of the matter to Evans, who told her she need not be afraid,
Burrell was only borrowing money to try her, and had lots
of houses in Wolverhampton. Burrell did not return to
her house, Evans quitted it without a reason for other
lodgings, and when they sought the latter at the police-
station he met her with abuse. She, therefore, after trying
some days to obtain redress without effect, came before the
magistrate. The Bench ordered Evans to be taken into
custody at once, and he was lodged in the cells, and they
granted a warrant for the apprehension of Burrell.—Leeds
Mercury.

CRYSTAL PALACE. -- ONE SHILLING DAY. -
Friday.—Admissions on payment, 2,843 ; ',do. by season
tickets, 751 ; total visitors, 8,594,