The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-04 00:00:00

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ATTACK BY SAVAGES ON THE GOVERNOR,
COMMANDER FITZGERALD, RN.
We are indebted to a private correspondent for the
following account of an attack on the Governor, Whilst
on nit exploring expedition. The letter is dated
" Yetth, South Australia, Janun-j, 1649.
" We were on au exploring tarty '2OO miles north of
this, when an attack was ini!& upon cur small ri!arty by
between CO and 70 natives, we being enly seven four of
us on ponies anal three soldiers on foot. They epite
surr,undrd us, evidently-inteut upon dii,rtning us, and
leaving none to tell the story. They lai.l hold of the
private secretary in the first instance, and o' one of the
soldirrs. At Ibis moment ours was a pqiulid situation.
The s,cretary, whi!st t eing forcibly 1141, called cut to
Captain Fitzgerald, the gor. rnor, It is tim,. Sir,
that something was done.' The soldiers, also, asked
if they were not to fire, before being disarmed and
murdered. Up to this mom( nt no attack was
made forthcr than holding the secrettny, who, with
pistol in his hand, could have shot the man, hut
prudently forbore doing so, and it was not until
after a shear had been thrown tit the secretary, that the
order was given to fire, when one of the ringleaders
was shut. This made the party retreat a few yards.
which enabled us to get out of the thicket we were in to.
open ground, and where we got t ur ammunition out of
the packs, and had just time to reload when a volley of
p. ars came amongst us, one of which narrowly! missed
passing through the Governor's back, but lodged in his
t high just above the knee. I never saw more dettrmt-
tuition than on the part of these savages, for although
we had reason to think that three of them were shot
they followed us more than twenty miles to Champion
Bay, where our colonial vessel waited us. Here the
Governor had a second narrow escape from an instru-
ment called a kyley, hurled at his head, which only
stru:k his ear. The object in following us so far no
doubt was their thinking we must pitch our tents some-
where in the night, when they could have speared us to
death without our seeing where they were; us it was our
escape was miraculous. Two days after this one of the
natives of the north came into Perth, and said the natives
that attacked us were cannibals, and wanted one of us to
cat,

MAIL COMMUNICATION DR.TWEEN ENGLAND ANIL
DUBLIN.—It is understood that the following is the in-
tended change to take place in the dispatch of the mail
from Dublin after the 20th inst., consequent cn the
doing away with the contract mail packets to Liverpool
from Kingstown:—The mail to leave the General Post-
/ace at ten minutes to six o'clock P.M. (instead of ten
minutes to four o'clock as at present), leaving Kings-
town for Holyhead a:, half-past six o'clock. From Holy-
head the correspondence, &c., will be dispatched about
midnight, so as to arrive in Liverpool for first delivery
of letters in the morning there. Letters from London,
&c., by the above mail will be sent from Chester by
morning express train, reaching London about one
o'clock in the day, From Liverpool there will be but
one dispatch daily for Ireland—viz., at nine o'clock P.M.,
via Chester—whence the correspondence will be brought
by the down night mail from London, arriving in Dub-
lin about twelve to one o'clock (noon), instead of, as at
present (in ordinary weather), seven o'clock in the morn-
ing. No change in the dispatch of morning mail for
London, &c., at 11.30 A 55. from Kingstown. The morn-
ing mail at ten o'clock A.M. from London will be dis-
patched as at present; but the Irish correspondence is to
come Via Chester, where it will reach at 4.15 P.M., re-
main there till the arrival from London of the five
o'clock express train, due in Chester at 10.15 P.M.,
whence the Irish mail bags will be immediately for-
warded (after six hours' detention), arriving at Holyhead
about half-past one in the morning; the packet to leave
there about two o'clock A.M., ant. be due at the General
Post-office at seven o'clock A Si.

ATTEMTED MURDER ET A JEALOUS HUSBAND.--
At few days ago we gave the particulars of ans!t emi.
at murder in Salford, made by
.a young married man,
Giles Hardman, the assignable motive being a
named John Burton, on an ecquaintanceof his, a
.widower,
been
a friend,
of Burton twoniththhaitsllwaired.maAnshwade
then
engagednamedsuspicion i
non a thecri
rapianratl
stated, acting on this suspicion, which had received
Monday
strengthßurton
wentf rom
tsoo disclosureard w an,
s housema(le toettilrillyo
on
ny
morning, whilst the latter was yet in bed, and, ascending
to his bedroom, presented a loaded pistol at his head,
which happily missed fire. When brought before the
mayor of Salford on Tut slay, the prisoner admitted the
truth of the charge without hesitation, justifying what
he hail attempted, and expressing his deep regret at the
failure of Lis murdetous intention. Ile was remanded
for further examination, one or two material witnesses
being fibs, III; but the charge has since been fully gore
trio, a!;(1 the %%retched man committed to take his trial
at the asjzro.

THE l'ox CLuß.—The fifth metting of the Fox
Club was held at Brookes's on Saturday, whirl there
were prc,ent at fix dinner—the Earl of Socrbraligh,
the F..&1 of S:rafrord, the Hon. E. L. l'.lost3n, Lord Ca-
nie, a. lir. ti!eilienson, the Eight Hun. Sir E. .Adlir,
Mr. ALten, Mr. A. Ster,hcris,o, Earl Fozhardioge,
LoniCrimorne, Lord De Mauky, the 111 n. Gil. Kerr",
lion. H. Tracy, Mr. Sant,-rd, Lord Sudcley, Viscount
Etdivld, Mr. Lanuston, Mr. G. Craig, &c.

FATAL ACCIDENT. YesterdziY, one of those
occurrences so frequent on the Thames during the sum-
mer season, occaskncd by the reprehensible custom of
letting boats to youths unskilled in their management,
Lock place about five o'clock, off Nine Elms, arising
from a boat in which were four lads getting athwart the
mooring chain of a tier of barges. The lads, in their
fright, ruse simultaneously, which capsized the boat, and
they were all immersed. A number of boats being close
at hand, three of the party ware rescued, but the fourth,
a youth aged sixteen, named John Tennant, residing in
Regent-street, Westminster, disappeared, and hie body
Rag nQt recovered.