The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-08 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

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The following is an extract from a letter addressed to
Wm. Bendel!, of Linkinhorne, near Liskeard, by his
father, who emigrated with his family to South Australia
some years since, and is settled near Adelaide.
Bendel!, it appears, had written to ask his father if
there was any truth in the idle stories about the natives,
&c., which the wiseacres at home terrify each other by
fabricating. The letter bears date " Mount Barker,
Adelaide, June 21, 1816."—" I am rather surprised at
your abandoning the idea of coming out to make one of
us ; I trust you will alter your mind—as for the blacks
committing such acts of murder it is all false, you have
a great deal more to fear from the white people than
them, believe me I would not wish you to come out un-
less it would be for your benefit. As for Australia, we
could feed all the poor in England by their only work-
ing three days a week. We want nothing from Eng!and.
We have gold, silver, copper, and iron mines in abun-
dance ; miners now get 31. per week. Now I must tell
you how I get on myself. I have two sections of land
160 acres • I have just finished ploughing ; I have 100
acres of wheat, and shall plant about four acres of pota-
toes. I have twelve working bullocks ; two horses
worth about 20/. each ; cows, heifers, pigs, &c , in fact
every comfort, and I only wish you were here to enjoy
it with us, which I sincerely hope will not be long first
—it is no use, you must come, for I want the boy to
drive the bullocks." " Wm. Tonkin has a farm to him-
self of forty acres, and six good working oxen."
"Joseph Bull has a section of 80 acres and six working
bullocks ; in tact they are all doing well, if they do not
it is their own faults. Do not think I want you to come
out to go mining, for I can put you in a firm, that
the remainder of your life you may live in more ease
and comfort. Your mother is looking as young as ever.
but plenty of work tending the pigs, cows, and
poultry. I could give 3ou four or five pigs, and not
know they were gone, we have got so many : we have
about 45, two I should think weighing about 800Ibs.; we
have betn killing one every week. Wm. Tonkin has
had this year about 400 bushels of wheat, and will have
more next year. The rain is coming down beau•ifully
as I write this."

This be it remembered is the letter of a working man
to his own son—a tnan who left home without money,
and realised property and attendant comforts in a colony
blessed with a fertile soil and salubrious climate, and
where there are thousands of acres waiting to be made
productive by the labours of industrious Englishmen,
who have the moral courage to adopt a step which will
raise them and their families to a situation of comfort,
and perhaps affluence, to which it is impossible they can
attain here.—Devonport Telegraph.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE
AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.

A general meeting of the above society took place on
Wednesday evening at eight o'clock; the Earl of Devon
in the chair.

On the motion that the report as to the masters' offices
be received,

Mr. STUART moved, " That much of the delay and
expense which now arise in the progress of a suit in
Chancery is to be traced to the present practice of bring-
ing the suit in the first instance before a judge, who
refers either the whole or part of the matter in dispute,
or involved in the suit, to the master to be inquired into,
which matters the master reports on, and these are
again brought before the court. That it deserves con-
sideration, whether in many suits, the whole of the
matters in dispute between the parties, or involved in the
suit, might not be disposed of by the judge, sitting in
court or in chambers, as might best suit the circum-
stances of the case. That it further deserves con-
sideration, whether in many cases the whole matters in
dispute between the parties, or involved in the suit,
might not be satisfactorily disposed of by the master
without any reference to the judge. That it further
deserves consideration, whether the business of the
Court of Chancery might not be distributed between the
judge and the masters, in some mode better calculated
to insure the more speedy and effectual administration of
justice. That it further deserves consideration, whether
the judicial duties which are now discharged by the
masters, should be performed by an officer of court
subordinate in rank and of limited powers. That it
further deserves consideration, whether a more effectual
machinery for taking accounts, and for disposing of the
administrative business of the court than now exists,
might not be devised, and that therefore it is expedient
that the present resolutions be referred back to the
committee on equity, with the view of extending their
report to them. That no satisfactory report can be
made on the present reference without a proper con-
sideration of these matters." The Learned Gentleman
supported the resolutions in an able speech, in which he
complained of the abominable abuses in the Masters'
offices, and suggested the appointment of an officer like
the official assignee in bankruptcy.
Mr. SPENCE moved the previous questiox, as he
entirely objected to the form of the notice, and after a
debate of some animation, in which Mr. C. Clarke, Mr.
Field, Sce.. took part, the disena,ion was adj,,urned to
the next night of meeting.

ALLEGED DEATH FROM FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
—On Friday Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the White
Hart, College-street, Belvedere-road, respecting the death of
Thothas Barnard, lately residing at No. 14, College-street,
who, it was alleged, had died from the effects of being placed
iri cell.adamp Simmons, The deceased,
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to fetch a load of flour from the Eastern Counties Railway
terminus, Shoreditch. He did not return that day, but
late in the evening the master received a letter from a
gentleman at the station, requesting his attendance at
Worship-street police-court, as his servant (the deceased)
had been taken up on a charge of felony. Ott the Thursday
he was taken before the magistrate for stealing a sack of
flour, which charge was not substantiated and he was dis-
missed. The deceased returned home, and complained bit-
terly of the dreadful nature of the cell wherein he was
placed. He was very weak and ill, and said, "I am afraid I
shall not live to see the morning." On the following day
he became worse, with difficulty of breathing, and although
placed under the care of Mr. Miskin, the surgeon, he died
the same
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The late Joseph John Gurney, hanker, of Norwich,
left personal and funded property amounting to 140,0001., and
has directed his executors and trustees to invest 70,000/. and
to pay the interest to his widow for her life, giving her power
to dispose of 20,000/. by will. Bequeaths to his daughter a
legacy of 20,000/., and a further suns of 35,0001. on demise
of his widow. His furniture, plate, and books, at his resi-
dence at Earlham Hall, he leaves for Us wife and daughter
to make a selection first therefrom, and the remainder to his
son, who is the residuary legatee, and upon whom, at the
decease of Mrs. Gurney, will devolve the trust fund com-
prised in marriage settlement; and to him he has also ap-
pointed and devised all his landed and freehold estates. He
has left to each clerk in the Norwich Bank, of which he was
a partner, a legacy of 101.; and to the public charitable in-
stitutions in the county, including several schools in con-
nexion with the Society of Friends, he has left bequests
amounting in the whole to 1.000 guineas. To his sister,
Richenda Cunningham 1,0001., and other bequests to his
family. To his nephew, Henry Birkbeck, 2501., fur his trouble
as acting executor with his son John Henry Gurney. The
deceased executed his will in March, 1846, and died on the
4th of January lag, aged 59. •