The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

SWAN RIVER.

The papers from Swan River contain the first Annual
Report of the York Agricultural Society, addressed to
Governor Hutt. From this it appears that in September
last the various flocks of sheep amounted in number to
21.500 ; the number of horses by the return, was
218 ; the number of cattle, by the last return, was 800 ;
the return of pigs was 341. The number of acres in
wheat the last season was 440, the produce from
which will be ample for all the wants of the settlers.
The number of acres of barley was 181. The cul-
tivation of oats has much gone out of use as it has
not hitherto been found so certain or productive as
the Cape barley ; an immense crop has this year, how-
ever, been produced from about two acres, the seed being
originally a few grains brought by Mr. Hardy from the Clime.
The number of acres of hay, or green crops, was 75. The
quantity of rain that has fallen during the last two or
three years has been rather less than usual, and some
slight inconvenience has in consequence been experi-
enced. The conduct of the natives, since the severe ex-
ample the Government considered it necessary to make,
has been peaceable, and at various times they have been
a great assistance to settlers in herding cattle and other
occupations, though as yet but little has been done to civi-
lize or wean them from their savage habits. "In con-
clusion," says the Report, " we ;beg to notice to your
Excellency two evils under which we are now labouring,
and feel assured it is only necessary to point them out
for the Government to use every means in its power to
remove them. In a former part of this report allusion
is made to a want of labourers. To such an extent does
this evil operate, that various improvements necessary
for the comfort and convenience of the settlers, and the
good management of the stock, are neglected. Valu-
able flocks are, from necessity, frequently entrusted to
inexperienced hands, and the division of the larger
flocks, so requisite to their improvement, is, in most
cases, impracticable. The other evil to which we al-
lude is from the want of our boundary lines being pro-
perly defined, and definitely marked off. The incon-
venience that, in a short time, is likely to be felt from
time want of this may be serious, tending to cause dis-
union among the settlers."

Average Prodtice
4;inntit y au tine copper
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Amount of sale. •-0,411 15s. 6d —A verage Siatutard, g" 4
on vir A'
FUNERAL OF CAPTAIN CONROYe•— cotie:,
nesday the remains of Captain Conroy, late of the wislist:
Guards, who died of pulmonary consumption at " brit
where he had proceeded in the hope of recoveringv ooleisi,
were interred in the churchyard of Plumstead, shoat too elk
the eastward of Woolwich. Sir John Conroy_ and tetl'lo
sons from Ken-ingtoe attended the funeral. The 71i, reo"-tt
cer was the second son of Sir John Conroy,. and ,
__ooot,
were forwarded by Frankfort-on-the-Maine foretint_,elA to Y
Plumstead, where a handsome tablet will be erect
memory. ,
. memory. )111
• tig
Why are a lady's stays, laced painfullitoi°4
like the surname of one of Milton's heroes? Because
Agony- Stays. 0 If
" It is veil- odd," said Sergeant ChallileoA
Thesiger, " that Tindal should have decided against ~ bSo
that point of law, which seemed to me as plain s; tbslA
" Yes," replied Thesiger, " but of what use is !age 11"
should have been as plain as a, b, c, to you, if the J I
determined to be d, e, f, to it?" 11/,
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THE ROYAL BOTANIC GA RDEhisi.".oo,,ar
Council of the Royal Botanic Society came to a or te
its meeting on Saturday, to terminate the premensAet, l,
oerre
season. They had been fashionably attended, but thee
is not likely to be again sufficiently propitious for the
anclois elegant amusement. ' Ili
t f isth
said that the King of Hanover hr_sebei4
contribution of five hundred pounds towards 5T "
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raised for the family of the late Theodore Hook.
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WARM WEATHER FOR THE P • try-
Editor of the New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser 0, 0 es
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his news column with this remark :—" The weathertai"4- fool
cessively warm, that we claim exemption from all r° e are
to-day. Let it not be inferred, ever that the'
how,
THE EARL OF LINCOLN, AND THE WOODS •
AND FORESTS.—We recollect that a few years ago, being on plenty of ideas, at the bottom of the inkstand."
n ~..fridi
the hill on which stands the Castle of No, tingh .m, and over- ALARMING FIRE IN THE STRAN-• • d
i oune et
looking the delightful meadows, through which meanders the night between eight and nine o'clock, an a's,fir Ver, ft
beautiful Trent, we were led to inquire to whom belonged destruetive fire broke (ant on the premises of "s'iran• il'oef
such va uable and delectably situated property ; and we te- Geddies, a mercer and dra er, residin at No- 70; oorteleise
c-ived for answer that it was Crown land, tnr which the Duke appears that the gas-lights in
the sho -gwindow hau "'boa oi
of Newcastle paid a merely nominal rent, and by which he been turned on too high, and had Punobserved relfhere
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realised an income of many thousands a yea-. Now, the Earl breastsummer, joists, and flooring in the first floor,w_ or;
of Lincoln is the son of this same Duke of Newcastle ! The flames made rapid ascendancy. Immediately that Trees Poi
man put into office to manage the Crown lands (i. e., the discovered the fire-engines and men from Chandos- '
ifortatfe'
landed property belonging to the nation), and to let station were sent for, and it being so near, weretb or7oof
this property to the best advantage fur the good of the promptly on the spot, and by the great exertions °f ft, h° joe,
public, is the sun and heir of another man who makes atter a considerable time, succeeded in extinguishing, orste some thousands a year by the former profligate mama- before extensive damage to the valuable stock and '
of
nag-ment of ihese same Crown or public lands! Here, then, had been sustained.
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we have the Duke of Newcastle, the man who " will do what
Sir Henry Hardinge, as Secretary at
he likes with his own," returninz the West India monopolist
Gladstone as his nmminee for Newark, to not only sit in the appointed Captain Wood to be his Private Secretary'. $Ol
House of Commons, but to preside at the Board of Trade, Dispatches were forwarded from the, isair
wh re will have great influence in support of the plunder office yesterday morning for
liar Majesty at
system ; and his son, the Earl of Lincoln, appointed to ma-
nage the national estates, the proper management of which Custle
b
would immediately deprive him of several thousands a-year.
Peel may be playing a deep game by thus placing in such SILVER WATCHES LONDON-.l,_Agirl'id,
situations the very worst men for such places any where to be B SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9,uur-ieleel_or-/
found in the country; but at present he appears, to the un- don (opposiie the Bank of Eneland), submit for one initiated, to be trying The experiment as to the amount of in-ult very large STOCK of SILVER WATCHES, til toe el gi
with which the nation will patiently sit down.—Stockport which are made and finished under the careful inspe.c
_s.rs9
Chronicle,
perienced workmen on their own premises, and each'
FIRE IN CORK.—On Saturday night last IC
•- for correct performance. , 1
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was discovered, at about ten o'clock, that the oil and colour
Fine Vertical Wches
ted,wjeaut ed, wt 4
warranted .....••
............... -_,.h double-backs 71
stores of Jr. Wilson, in Cove-street, in this city, were on fire,
engine-turned a
cases, I
and in less than half an hour afterwards t e entire establish-
Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, hard enamelled w
merit was one ma's of fire. 'Fe engines were well worked, ar,d dial, with seconds' hand and double-backed cases' 6 •%,
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warranted ............... ... .......... . ...... .. ... .. ........
at one o'clock the fire was completely got under, at which time
Patent detached Lever Watches; capped, jewelled in
nothing was left of the stores or their contents but a heap of
mouldering ruins.—Cork Southern Reporter. four holes, hard enamelled dial,wth second' 6 I
hand and double-backed engine-turned eases' 6 to
At the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, on ' warranted ..... Ise vs
.......... 6,, ,
Saturday, Mr. Gibson moved a resolution that the vestry de Either of the above in silver hunting-cases, lus•1/ .e.b.'
petition her Majesty that she will be pleased not to prorogue A large variety of Second-hand SilverWatchea,,,7.9,sl .esell.
Parliament until the situation of the country had been fully been carefully examined, and can be warranted, at
hattge,
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taken into consideration by them, particularly as to the duties N.h. Second-hand Watches purchased in exc tlr
OS'
on the importation of foreign corn. He prefaced his motion . PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, A 175,,,,, g 5 Sir;
by a short speech. in the coui se of which he remarked that the
SET, of FUL L. SI ZED GOTHIC SIIA s - *iestetto
vestry had a right to entertain the subject as a purely paro-
riot London 'fable Knives, with ivory Inodle.' dishy
chial matter, inasmuch as it represented the opinion of 139 000
• dozen ; Brass Poles for Window Curtains 11 locheci fel'
souls, and, in consequence of the present distress, had 160 more
Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches, Is. id. per foot;' br•DI ....ill'
persons in its workhouse than at the corresponding period of
rtY '-tifr
any previous year. He said that the expense of maintaining ,
SUPERIOR LONDON TABLE CUTL,7-„dleit,_di
the pool would this year exceed that of any former one by • 4 feet I.r g, 93.
RANTED.-- TABLE KNIVES • 'th leery ' it' Ferro,
nearly 5,0001. The motion was seconded by Air. Thomas, who .
per dozen ; Dessert Knives, I la. ' w4Clorvert 4n --fier. etc' 0,
considered that the interest of the rate-payers were deeply in-
Table Knives, with white bone handles,. 8s: ,e.'„rillsPe,, Or
volved in the question, and that the increasing distress was
uDreusss,e 'Dessert, ,
ti6usa.rtse,d.27; solely attributable to bad legislation. Mr. Kirby moved
s.Ciarnveew",ZsiiesP,e3r9sP.a;t4l tho'-'11c1"
Ai*
Rapier 11.staloe,11
amendment, which was seconded by Mr. Cochrane, to. the
trays, gothic shape, 50s ; the set of full size!. , 00010.00-0
was not a panitical body,
_lt was toes- trays,
the prices, with Engravings of every
i sOe'boi
effect, that as a vestry
pedient to petition the Queen; but the original motion was
Article necessary to the turnisning of a house or —to be
per cent. under any other old-established house, - s„,st,
carried by acclamation, and it was suggested that in order
ntot.
insure the proper delivery of the petition into the hands
gratis (post free).
ford"Pl-
her Majesty, it should be entrusted to his Royal highness the
RIPPON and BURTON, 12, Wells-street, 01
Duke of Sussex.
Established 1420.
On Thursday afternoon an investigation toJk .....
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pace I before Mr. Baker, at the Crown, Orchard-place, Poplar,
BIRTHS.
on the body of Mr. Joseph Hilman, aged 37, principal manger On the 21st ult., at Cheshunt, Herts, the iadj °f A. of of
of the works of the Thames Plate Glass Company, Blackwall, &q., of a daughter.
whose death took place by the bursting of a gun. George On the 21st inst., at Commercial-road. Pimlico, ',oil,
Misson said, he was a stoker employed at the glass-works. On Mr. W. Jackson, of a daughter. - •
the 9th deceased came to him and complained of too ,much On the 23d inst., the lady of
of on. ..t.iii,
fuel being put on the fires. He ball a gun in his hands at Regiment Bengal Native Infantry,
lace the lady of 01
the time, and about 20 minutes after heard a report of fire- • On the 23d inst., in Cadogan-p , or
Colonel,s. Digby• Co°! 0
arms, and on going out Mr. Hillman staggered towards him R. Ward, of a son.
and put his arms round his neck. His face was. covered with On the 24th inA.,, at Langley-place, East Indiaaose'
blood, which appeared to be flowing.from his forehead on the' Alfred Myth., of a daughter.
residence,- Newingto" ,
left side. He was quite sensible, and said the gun had burst. On the
daughter.
The gun was found in several pieces in various parts where the Mrs. Cabell, of a
occurrence took place. Several of the Jury remarked that the
party who had altered the gun had not done it in a proper
manlier, the lock being as thin as a wafer. The Coroner situ,m 24th inst.,atber
a case had recently taken place where a gunmaker haVineg
properly repaired a gun, and it having burst and killed d. im-
properly
person firing it, a verdict of manslaughter was returnedwho
did they had no evidence in the present instance as to ,
re-
pair it. Mr. Bailey, surgeon of Blackwell, said,
' was large enough
in to see deceased. A wound in his forehead
He lived 12
to admit his finger, and extended to the brain.‘tthe was called
gradually worse,
days without any serious symptom., butgr
and died on Tuesday. The Jury
of " Accidental death." ultimately returned a verdic

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, - MARRIRD. ii''
ten of
On the 2lst inst., at the Collegiate Church, Nianvie" -(11A"
Hall, Salop, to Elizabeth Taylor, only daughter of the 'lt,
of Pi"rieY-park, Wilts, and blanches (11A"
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Maw
wCsornes, 1:eq11.,,
ofE sLqi.,,,,erpool. _
On the 21st inst., at liockcliffe, James Robert Grant'yor.;
eldest sun of Sir James Grant, K. H , and Knight of St' f job"
of The Hill, Cumberland, to Jane *Eleanor, daughter ° 1
Dixon, Esq., of Kr.ells, in the same county. , Noe.
On the 22d inst., at Ilanfihangel, Wiilism Taw°;:fl4-01
Patterson, of the Inner Temple, I3arrister-at-Eaw, liartr
both, eldest daughter of the late Sir Joseph Hi'
Brynkir, Carnarvonshire, and Norfolk-crescent, Bath. 31,041
place, Russell
On the 22d inst., at Shepperton, Middiesox, Thom" oh ,
Esq., Assistant-Surgeon to University College 11011),01,00
Mary Ann, only child of Samuel Coo Esq., d
per,
-square. be°
On the 23d inst., at Remenham Church, Be"rk -- Mr It
0
ILpkins, of London, to Anna Weston, daughter ot
ors,
Hazel a Anton. lierks. nueeri-A" es(
On the 2.3 d inst., at St. George-the-Martyr, •-, ~ • Get,,
daughter R. Tyerman, Esq., of Harley-street, to Emu,'
daughter of Jamrs Berkley, Esq.. of Harpur-street.. _ ti
On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's, Bathwick, ,Major titer or
Willoek, K. L. S. to Caroline Elizabeth, youngest.tt:.:bter
the late Rev. Richard Woodward, D.D., and grandl 'lb
Richard Lord Bishop of Cloyne.
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DIED. gs,lipe
On she 23d inst., Eleanor, the wife of Philip
Park vrcet, Islington, aged 73. '' 0
n. waklen • ..de
On the 23d hist., s. shepherd, of Salmon
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On the 24th inst., at Mortlake, George Flaringtu" "
94?„
child of W. Gladstone, Esq.
'd Can°ln' el'
On the 24th inst., in Finsbury-square, David
A= ~, SO '
On the 19th inst., at Bury-court, St. Mary
second daughter of Mr. George Williams. 6166
On the 19th inst., at Brighton, Mr. J. Patrick, lig
On the 20th inst., Mr. W. Lontdale, aged 34. EA. ,of,
On the 19th inst., at Rochester, Kent, R. George'iopet
On the 19th inst., at Bayswater, A. Baxter, M.D.
General of ilo,pitals, aged 64

" Did vou pay your tax," said one man to an-
other, the other day, " when the collector called upon you ?"
No," wai the reply. " Now didwtysliliu,
amndat:.hgaetteofrae‘c•otiddiidt ?,It,
" I remonstrated with litn !" "
have upon him !" " I don't know exactly, but [ noticed that
the poker was bent after he went away.'
On Wednesday rnormng immense quin,ities
trawl-fish were brought in by our boats, and the the town was
literally glutted with them—tine soles and plaice were re-
tailed so low as 4d. per lb. An unu,ual quantity of eod..fish,
of a small but deli.:ate description, were sold at about 2s.
,core. Our fishery appears to be in full employ, and in a eery a
prosperous state, the fine weather being greatly in their favour.
—Brighton Herald.

SURREY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION,._.
The twe;fth annual meeting o' this Associati• n. which is the
parent of al the others est abltshed in the county of Surer of a
M
to,,k I,:ace on Ft iday at Lpsoni. The
g i a
character,
tCh to a kt place at Ashstead, upon land in the occiyat ion of
Air. David Alaydweil, and about forty ',loughs contended for
the prizes. The lion. Colonel F. G. Howard presided at the
dinner, and distributed the prizes awarded by the ,Association to
upwards of thirty labourers, fur long service and good conduct
in the employment of their respective masters. Some of them
had been nearly fifty years in one service.

At the late election at Shaftsbury, an Iridnnan
made his appearance, and happening to tay something in the
crowd to the Clan,lidate,. one of tl e To. v parry x laimed
from the hustings, " (;h Paddy! now go to the Devil." "1 am
much obliged to your honour," was Paddy's reply, "sure, you
are the first gentleman that has invited me to your father's
house, since my arrival in England."

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e.ouuty of Nliddlesex, Monday, September