The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-22 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

(From the Sydney Gazette of Thursday, July 7.)
' Average Prices of Articles at the last Sydney Alarket :
Wheat, 12s. Iflitl. per bushel ; maize, 4s. 9d. per ditto; barley,
ss. per ditto; potatoes, ss. per cwt.; butter, 2s. 44d. per ids. ;
eggs, Is. 9d. per dozen ; fowls, 3s. per couple ; cheese, Is. 3d.
per I.
That these Coleniss have crcited alpowerful interest at home,
and are increasingly attractive to the multitudes who wish
to emigrate, is sufficiently manifest from a variety of facts
continually coming to our knowledge. As one among
these numerous evidences, we cite the following remarkable
circumstance :—While the Elizabeth lay in the London Docks,
advertised for New South %Vales and Van Diemen's Land, Mr.
Brooks, the owner, received no less than 1500 letters from
persons desirous of emigrating, proposing an infinity of
questions as to the state of the Colonies, and the best means of
emigrating to them. The enormous expence to which the
postage of these epistles amounted, and the vast sacrifice of time
which the mere perusal of their prolix interrogatories necessarily
occasioned, may well be supposed to have put the patience of
the worthy gentleman to a rigid test.
(Extract of a Letter from Sydney to Canton.)
" All mercantile information will be communicated to you
more ably by , with the exception of one favourite
article, the exchange on which is the converse of that on trea-
sury bills, the latter bearing on an average a premium of 15
per cent. against currency, whereas the currency lasses stand
15 to 25 per cent. higher in rstimation that the sterling adven-
tures from England. This I much pleasure in commu-
nicating, knowing you to be a connoisseur in the commodity, as
well as an amateur."

( From the Official Hobart Toros Gazette.)
A new establishment has lately been formed at Koss-bridge,
for the training and employment of boys. Some weeks since
the Lieutenant-Governor, on a visit to the Penitentiary,
found that a great number of boys, who had arrived by
the last transport-ship, were left on the hands of the Su-
perintendant. To prevent the evil consequences which were
likely to arise from their remaining in a comparative idle
state in Hobart Town, his Honour devised the plan of
forming a kind of agricultural school in the interior, where
they would be less liable to contamination, and would be bene-
ficially employed. It is intended, we believe, to enclose and
cultivate 50 acres; and to instruct and inure them to the ope-
rations of farming that they may become eligible servants to be
assigned to settlers.
We understand the new establishment at Maria Island is
likely to answer every expectation that was originally enter-
tained of it. As a secondary place of punishment, for minor
offences, it must be attended with very beneficial consequences.
(From the Australian.)
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One hundred and seventy-five thousand acres of land on
this side the mountains are to be measured forthwith, and ap-
propriated as a Glebe to the Australian Church. This quan-
tity is independent of the immense grant, for the like use, over
the mountains. Five hundred thousand acres also, at Van
Diemen's Land, are destined to become the property of the
Church. These are no despicable endowments, and are likely
to have no despicable influence on the fate of the two Colonies.
Until the Church be put in possession of this land, by acimea-
surement, &c. the business of the settler must stand still. Ile
can obtain no order for land, can see no prospect of applying
his time or his industry to any profit. It is making him at
all events pay in advance, by his temporal losses here, for his
spiritual comfort hereafter. One-third of the land granted to
the church may be sold, and another third mortgaged for the
improvement of the remaining third and for other purposes.
The Archdeacon's salary is a mere trifle, only two thousand
a year, with liberty to appoint a Curate, and return to England
in the enjoyment of the full salary, rninu.r the Curate's stipend,
some eighty pounds a year, we suppose.
The number of absentees, and the highway robberies which
have been perpetrated or attempted of late, have become truly
appalling, and demand a ♦igorous exertion on the part of the
executive to repress them.

Yesterday afternoon, soon after three o'clock,
Mr. ROTHSCHILD left the City in a great bustle,
and proceeded to the Earl of LIVERPOOL'S house
in Whitehall, for the purpose of obtaining an
interview with the Noble Earl, but arrived at
his Lordship's house a few minutes after the No-
ble Earl had left town. Mr. ROTHSCHILD then
waited upon the Right Hon. C. AnutruNoT,
and afterwards proceeded to the Treasury,
where he remained nearly an hour, transacting
business.

Mr. Secretary PEEL transacted business at a
late hour last evening at the.liome Office.
Tuesday evening the Portuguese Ambassador
transacted business at the Foreign Office for a
coinAderable time.