The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-11 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Letters are in town frorn-Port Jackson, to the
middle of June, bY the.S'kellon, at- which period
the prospects'of the territory continued to beEkr
the same favourable aspect -they have long as;
sumed.—We learn by thAn that Mr. Throsby
had returned on the 20th of April from an ex.
cursion into the country to the southward of
Lake George. The persevering efforts of this
gentleman in exproring the interior of this terri-
tory have often attracted the public attention ;
and have contributed in, a very eminent degree
to open to the colonists a large tract of land,
that now affords abundant pasturage to consider-
able numbers of cattle and, sheep, and has much
relieved the exhausted and overstocked grazing
grounds in the early-settled parts of the colony.
In his late journey, Mr. Throsby fell in with
three very considerable rivers, or streams of
water, apparently originating in the high lands
at the back of Jarvis and Bateman's Bay, and
taking a westerly course. The - country was of
various descriptions, but containing a good quail-
tity of open forests and plains, very abundant in
water, anti affording good pasturage. Limestone
was found in great, plenty, and specimens had
been bronght Mr. Throsby's letter,
detailing the tour,- he says,:_ 4.4 I admit the
great: extent -of country- through which these
rivers appear to run, places_ it far beyond my
power to determine, their -.4e-1-ml-nation k _yet. I
still hope they -iv ill be ultimately found to
communicate with the sea, but most certainly
not on the eastern past. Lam happy to re-
port, that the country in general is superior to
that we passed through when with his. Excellency.
the Governor in Noyember last.-• It is perfectly
sound, well watered, with extensive meadows of;
rich land on either side of the rivers;-=contains
very fine; limestone, in quantities perfectly inex-
haustible, slate, sand-stone, and granite fit for
_building, with sufficient timber for every useful
purpose : and, from the appearance of the coun-
try, an unbounded extent to the westward.--The
approach from Lake George is in no part more
difficult than the tract the Governor's carriage
and carts passed between Lake Bathurst and
Lake George'on his late tour; nor do the very
high mountains to the south-east present that pros-
pect of extreme harrenness which the mountains
bounding this Part of the colony do ; the whole
being thinly timbered, with a pleasant appear-
ance of verdure between the trees."

A notification from the Secretary's office in
April states the names of no less than 400 " new
settlers who are to receive grants of land, and
of old settlers who are to have additional land
located for them."

. The SydneN Gazette,- of ..April '7,.says—" A
beautiful comet is now visible in our. hemisphere,
forming a triangle to the south-west With the west ,
shoulder of Orion and Aldebaran."
The returns the growers of fine wool have met
from their shipments for the London market has
created a general stimulus_ throughout the terri-
tory. The Society for the Encouragement
,of
Arts,: duly appreciating the growing importance
of this importation io,the mannfacturinginterests•
of Great Britain, have offered, in their sessions
(1820721) the following premiums -To the.
per Son _who,. previous-tO- February, 1822, shall
import into Great-Britain the greatest quantity,
not less than two tons, of fine wool; the produce
of New South Wales, the gold medal ; for the
next. great quantity, not less than one ton, the
silver medal.; and further, to the person who shall
produce to the Society 141 b. of the finest sample
wool, the prodace of New South-Wales, superior
to the best Saxon or Spanish, the gold medal.—
The wool is to be produced to the Society in Fe-
bruary, 1822, with certificates, that at least
5 cwt. equal to the saaiple has been imported by
the. claimant.

Sir 'l'l►omas Brisbane, the officer appointed to
succeed General Macquarrje in the Government
of our Colonies in. this part of the world, left Rio
de Janeiro in his passage thither in August, and
would probably- arrive at Port Jackson in the
early part of last month.

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