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 September
last the various flocks of sheep amounted in number to
91.500 ; 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 numberof acres in
wheat the last season was 440, the p.-oduce 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
orieinally a few grains brought by Mr. Hardy from thi,.:Cape.
The number of acres of hay, or greencrops, was 73. 'he
quantity of rain that has fallen during the last two. or
three years has been rather less than usual, and scene
slight inconvenience has in consequence been expe.ti-
eneed. 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 beeir.
a great assistance to settlers in herding cattle and other
occupations, though as yet but little has been done to
lizc or wean them from their savage habits. "In con-
clusion," says the Report, " wetibeg to notice to your:
Eecellency 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 nedessity, 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-
ludo is from the want of our boundary lines being pro-
perly defined, and definitely marked off. Theincon-
the want of this may be serious,
ven felt from
ienee that, in a short time, is likely to be _ -
union among the settlers." tending to cause

THE WOODS THE EARL OE L' lie AND THE
being on
AN n FORESTS.--.. \'e recollect that a few Yearirsi„',n, and over-
looking the delightful inearlows, througll_‘ , whom belonged.
the hill on which stands the Castle of Icot,th'icg.i, meanders the
i„quirrco2erty
.; and w!. I-,
beautiful Trent, we were led to
nth va'uable and delectably situated a P,. j'or which th_e.lluk.e.
and by which he
nominal rent, sow. the Earl
of Newcastle paid a merely a year.
tle ! The
realised an income of many thousands
c. ived for answer that it was Crown I no
Duke of Newca4 .
of Lincoln is the son of this same Duke
Crown lands (2, e., the
and to let
man put Into office to manage
t the nation),
to for the good of the
landed property belongingt advantage
who makes
this property to the best
heir of another man.
misma-
nagement
. is son and
by the former profligate pablic, the
a year -•' public lands! Here, then,
some thousands
Crown or
of these same Cr
the man who "will do what
ke of Newcastle,
the West India rnimopolist
VI c have the Du
" returning
hri,kes with his
own,"
for Newark, to not only sit In the
Gladstone as
his nominee
to preside at the Board of Toide,
House of Commons,
great influence in support of the plurn,.'tsr
vih re will have son, the Earl of Lincoln, appointed to ma.
system ; d
the nationalhis estates, the proper management of which
nalre,,, immediately deprive him of several thourmds a-year.
w""'"
Peel may be
si,trations worst men for such places any where to be
the very
fmoid in the country , ntr • but at present he appears, to the on_
fated, to be trying the experiment as to the amount of insult
tt.thwiitwhich the nat.on will patiently sit down.—Stockport
Ch ronicle.
At the meeting of the Marylehone Vestry, on
Saturday, Mr. Gibson moved a resolution that the vestry de
petition her Majesty that she will be pleased no to prorogue
Parliament until the situation of the countryt had been fully
taken into consideration by them, particularly as to the duties
on the importation of foreign corn. He prefaced his motion
by a short speech, in the course of which he remarked that the
vestry had a right to entertain the subject as a purely paro-
chial matter, inasmuch as it represented the opinion of 139 000
souls, and, in consequence of the present distress, had 160 more
persons in its Workhouse than at the corresponding period of
any previous year.' He said that the expense of maintaining
the poor nould this' year exceed that of any former one by
ne..rlv 5,000/. The motion was seconded by Mr. Thomas, who
cr.nsiaered that the interest of the rate-payers were deeply in•
vowed in the question, and that the increasing distress was
solely attributable to bad legislation. Mr. Kirby moved an
am, ndment, which was seconded by Mr. Cochrane, to the
effect, that as a vestry was not a political body, it was inex-
pedient to petiti,n the Queen ; but the original motion was
carried by acclamation, and it was suggested that in order to
insure the proper delivery of the petition into the hands of
her Majesty, it should_ be
entrusted to his Royal Highness the
Dnke of SOssex.