The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-18 00:00:00

ADELAIDE.

The following is a copy of a letter mitten by Pets-
Potter, who emigrated to South Australia two years
since, from Lewes. Such an unfavourable description
of the " land of promise" we have not yet seen :
" Adelaide, March 14, 1840.
" Dear Brothers and Sisters,—l write these few lint).
to you hoping that you are all well as we are at present.,
but this is quite a different country and place from what
represented in England, I do assure you, and if all peopi.
would write truth there would not be half so many coin
out ; for eight out of ten working people that I -•
spoken to about their circumstances, say they shoc..,
be glad to get back again if they knew how to do
I think of making another move to New Zer.--
land, or somewhere else where it is colder, as it is
alarmingly hot here. I shall be glad to hear fron
you, for I would not advise any mechanic to corr..-
here whatever with a family. Although wages arc
high, provisions are very dear, and so is rent ; for we
now pay twelve shillings per week for a mud house, about-
fit for a pigsty, but it is called quite a comfortable house.
Here are plenty of London bugs and fleas, the ground
quite swarms with them. Ido assure you it is a most
dreadful place to bring a family to ; drunkenness an
vice of all descriptions are practised here to an alarm-
ing height. The accounts you have sent to Eng-
land come back to us again, and they aro anything
but the truth. I do assure you, instead of this
Ibeing a land of butter and eggs, it is a laud of sand aria
vermin ; if we lie down and sleep in the day, the flies
will blow our eyes, cars, or nose, and there will be mag-
gots in a few hours. Thomas Harman got a hale fre-sh
on Christmas day, and fell asleep, got maggotty in his
ears, and was nearly crazy. The doctor took out nine,
three-eighths of an inch long and one-eighth in size. We
have only had one die that came from Lewes, that
James Hcarsey.
" You may show this letter to any that talk e.
coming out, as I cannot wish any of my friends tr
come to us by any means at present. I hare seta
you some manna, such as the Israelites did eat ; w..
get it about 20 miles up the country, it is found on tl
ground, they use it for medicine, and some castor oil seed:,
some for you and some for Caleb. We are all in wort;
and are doing middling. Here is plenty of work,
I expect to be in a shop of my own soon. We are a.
within three miles of one another. I havo.seen Mr
Godley, and they are all doing middling. I told vou
would send it just as I found it, and so I have. Many
say that they do not like to make their friends uneasy,
and so write what is not the truth.

" Let Mr. Davis sec this, and tell him I shall always
write the truth. Money is very scarce ever since we
have been hire, but plenty of trade and an over-stock
of hands. Tailors, smiths, and all sorts of trades are
going into the forest splitting timber. I have been at
work in the city ever since I have been here. The
natives are the most ugly, dirty race that ever was in the
world, Ido believe. I must tell you about them, for I
do not wish you to conic and see them at present at
any rate.

We arc very backward in all agricultural pursuits
but all sorts of cattle are very plentiful, and doing very
well, if let run in the rough they get very fat. Our
sand storms are worse than your slimy storms, I assure
you, and when it does rain, there is no mistake about
it, and I have thought the whole would be blown
away together, and I don't know if it would be of much
consequence if it did. If you come you must
expect to live a life like hogs, I can assure you
it is not worth any one's time and trouble, in my
opinicn, until we can grow our own corn. Last year
we sowed about 100 acres, and this year about 1,000,
People are leaving for the country very fast, for farming,
as it is more healthy than the city. There is a great
mortality in it, and plenty of work for the doctors.
When the Buckinghamshire people came out, Francis
told me they lost 100 souls. I have known seven or
eight at a time lie dead, so you must not believe all you
hear about this beautiful place.

I remain your affectionate brother,
—Sussex Advertiser. P. POTTER.

,
A few days ago the attention ofCaptain Rich-
ardson, of the Gorbals police, was directed to an advertise-
ment in the London Police Gazette, setting forth that a
commercial traveller, named Buckley Royle, had ab-
sconded from the employment of Mr. Charles Heywood,
in Manchester, taking with him a considerable sum of
money ; and information was at the same time given him
that a person answering the description of the fugitive had
enlisted, about ten days ago, in this part of the ceientry, in
the Ist Dragoons. Acting upon this last piece ofinforma-
tion, he directed Brown, the criminal officer, to proceed to
Hamilton, where a party of the Ist Dragoons are now lying,
which he did, and took Royle into custody. The prisoner
was brought to Gorbals on Friday, and now lies there
waiting orders from Manchester as to his future destina-
tion. He has admitted being the person referred to in the
Gazette, and confesses his guilt.—Glasgore Argus.
rich
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man, Mr. Davidson's electromagnetic
passing a
electro-magnet of' immense power, producedmile or two of
stream of galvanic fluid through some mile
and a railway
copper wire. A lathe, a prin t i rlf
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br. Davidson, shows inge-
nuity which, as discovered
cyreditable to him. That this
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power will, at no distant ownere,ticthebamtvoide o 7 ap-
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Carlisle, the Hon. and Rev. F. Grey and Lady Elizabeth
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Grey, the Very Rev. the Dean of Lichfield, Hon. J.
and Mrs. Talbot, Lady Mary Howard, and Hon. Mr.
Howard. The Noble Duke and Duchess, with their fa-
mily, leave at the close of the month- for town. ,i,
His Excellency Viscount Ebrington has been
du)* cite kst week, on a visit to Sir Hussey Vivian, at
Glynn, Cornwall.