The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-20 00:00:00

AUSTRALIND.

Extract from a letter received by a gentleman in
England, from a respectable farmer, who, with all
his family, consisting of ten persons, embarked with
the first body of settlers in 1840 for the Western
Australian Company's settlement of Australind

Australind, 31st Dec., 1841.

Dear am sure you will have been much
pleased to hear of our safe arrival by the Parkfield. I
have reason, and especial reason, to be thankful that I
and my family of eight children, and many young, should
be brought over the mighty deep 13,000 miles without
even an accident.

This, I assure you, Sir, is a beagtiful country ; the
land where the town site is to be, is sandy—but on the
sides of the Brunswick, upon the plains and upon the
hills, a few miles from us, is the beat land I ever saw ;
it is covered with excellent feed for cows or sheep, and
there is a great extent of territory southward capable
of supporting vast numbers of people. I have been in
Roe's Range, and was quite astonished to see
such land. Upon the whole, the Company's land
is said to be the finest grant in Western Aus-
tralia. The Port (Leschenault) is very fair, the bottom
mud and clay, and I believe that a ship of any burden
may anchor there with perfect safety, providing the
tackle is good. The climate is very pleasant ; we have
had occasional showers ever since we have been here, and
every thing in the gardens looks beautifully. We have
plenty of water, and I can say with truth that there is
no country in the world, as far as I have heard, where
the emigrant may succeed better, with care and indus-
try, than in this part of Western Australia.
To
_prove to you, Sir, that I think well of Aus-
tralind, I have just bought one rural section,
and two town sections, in additien to my former pur-
chase. We are anxiously waiting for another shi -. Men
of business, mechanics, such as carpenters, sawyers, &c.,
will get a deal of money here if steady. Women ser-
vants will also do well.

May I request you to give my kind regard to Mr.
and Mrs. ---, and tell them how happy I shall be to
hear from them. Believe me, yours, &c.,

LEWIS BIRCH,

It appears by the Perth Inquirer, No. 52, of the 15th
of December last, that provisions were tendered to the
Commissariat Department at the following prices :
wheat, Sid. per pushel ; flour, 26/._per ton ; beef and
mutton, qd. per lb. It is added that the public may ex-
pect to be served with the, two latter articles at a cor-
responding rate. -
The
.great increase of the number of sheep in the co-
lony will ensure a supply at much more moderate
prices than have of late years been demanded ; in fact it
is expected that in another year the price of fresh meat
will not exceed 64. pwer lb., and in this case the large sum
annually :paid for imported salt provisions would be
saved to the colony.

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS.
FRANKFORT, JUNE B.—His Royal Highness the Crown
Prince of Hanover, coming from Dessau, has arrived at
Potsdam, and resides in the apartments prepared for him
in the new palace.
BERLIN, JUNE 11.—It is now fixed that his Majesty
will set out on the 20th or 21st of this month for
St. Petersburgh. During the King's absence the Queen
will be at Dresden, where her sitter, Princess John, is
said to be still in very indifferent health. If the Princess
should, by the advice of her physicians, go to the bt.ths
of Gaslein, his Majesty may perhaps accompany her.—
Haniburgit Papers, June 14.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 16.—1 n the night of the 11th of this
month the village of Nasserbilling, situated a league
from Grevenznacher, in the Grand Duchy; of Luxemburg,
was destroyed by fire. Only five houses escaped.
The King and Queen have received a deputation from
Liege, which is come to Brussels to solicit their Majesties
to be present at the opening of the iron railway. Their
Majesties promised the deputation that they would
honour the fetes with their presence on their return
from England.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 17.—The Court of Nassau has sent
a present of 12,000 dollars to Dr. Dieffenbach, who at-
tended him in his late illness. The King of the Nether-
lands has added to this present the insigna of the order
of the Netherland's Lion.
FROM THE POLIES FRONTIER, JUNE 2.—lt is now no
secret that Prince Cernitscheff himself takes the com-
mand in chief of the army in the Caucasus, to make an
effort .to overawe with a great superiority of force, the
insurgents of Circassia and Abchasia. The contest, as it
has. hitherto been carried -on, was evidently too much
protracted; -and cost the Russians too much blood with-
out indemnifying them by a corresponding advantage.
They have; indeed, always been victorious in the summer
in this sanguinary warfare, but regularly lost every winter,
by surprise, several of the forts erected in the extreme
line of operations; and, at the opening of every new cam-
paign they have had to employ much time and labour to
recover what they already possessed the year before.
The Russians have undoubtedly confined the moun-
taineerp within narrow limits, yet competent judges are
of opinion that if the same system of operations were con-
tinued the war might last many years more. Two circum-
stances are supposed to have led to the resolution to en-
deavour to end the war at once, by -the employment of
great masses of troops—the state of affairs in South
Asia and the death of Guz-Bey, the most dangerous of
the Circassian chiefs. . Russia certainly cannot be an
indifferent spectator of the events that are preparing
in Central Asia, and yet all its enterprises in that
quarter are paralysed, as long as it has an enemy
always in readiness fur action in the Caucasus.
Guz-Bey, who indeed was the most enterprising of all
the princes of the mountains, and the two present chiefs,
Mansor and Tscharung, are said to be at variance, so that
there seems to be a favourable opportunity to subdue,
to which the religious animosity of the Christian and
Mabortedan tribes may contribute. Travellers from
South Russia say that there is a great movement of
troops, and all arc confident of success, especially be-
cause Czernitchoff, tha Russian Blucher, is at the head,
and Grabioe, who is thoroughly acquainted with the grand
community undar him. Nevertheless, the issue is pro-
blematical, for in such contests all calculations may be
defeated by the slightest unforseen accident, as hap-
pened in Perow ski's ominous expedition. Meantime, to
prevent the mountaineers from receiving any supplies
of arms and ammunition, Russian ships strictly blockade
the whole coast, from k;inops (the seat of the English
agents) to Anapa, Ickaterinedar, Kaw, Karskaja,
and . Stivoropol, on the right bank of the Kubaw.
The Leglarans, on the right bank of the Terek, are no
longer dreaded, but the Abcharians are said to have
collected in the neighbourhood of Sochunkule. Per-
haps the Russians may succeed by skilfully taking ad-
vantage- of the ground, in isolating some of the tribes,
and then -they will have the game in their hands.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTErwate, JuNz 17.
Money. Bills.
A.:toat Debi, 2% per Cent
Jit.to, ditto 5 per cent.
t ;syndic, 44, per cent 93 05
Ditto,' ditto, 3;• per cant 76 76%
Commercial Company, 4i. per cent l5l 152
Di At, (RS:3S and 1637) 5 per cent.
Loan 1637, 5 per cent. O9 99
Exchange on London, tine month l2 15
Twomontha
Hamburgh, One month ts tt.li
Twomonths t 35 tb
Dutch Papers, Juno 18.
Bitupsns, .Ivoa 17.
,etual Dcl,t,*k per Cent.
Rails, Mid's Lam.' 5 per Cent 19.3h;
Loan tit Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 93%
3per Cent.
1(31.
Loan of City, per Cent. P3A
Society et Corom,ree, 45. per Cent 56
Sank of Belgium, 5 per Cent...." ....... 77%
Nationai ss•cieey
Exchange on Conthoi (short)
—Brussels Papera. June 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Veurnes, JuNr.9
f !raper Oa. ts. bletalliques
Four per Cents. 1 0%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares ...... 1672
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, JUNB 11.
Bills. Money
St. Schuld Feb., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond , 1630, 4 per cent. 102% 102%
Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazette, June 12.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JUNE 14.
Bills. Marley.
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
A nglo.Russian Loan llO sO9
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate.-- 101% 1(3%
Inscription, Ist 5erie5.......... lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th
Series .....

—Thirty.suven.

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--
Ditto in Certificates llB% 93x.
New 4 per Cent. (11340)
Dutch Actual Debt, a% per Cent. .........
Ditto b per Cent.
Polish Bords
New Tickets.
Anglo-Danish Lo..n, 3 per Cent. IBN
Spanish. New 5p r Cents.

A gold medal has been conferred by the King upon
M. Loma Biuderon, the author of several portraits in the
late exhibition of modern paintings.