The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-19 00:00:00

[The Times.]

Extract of a Letter,dated Paris, Jan.ls.—" The
great Insurance Company, established in this city
at ti o• close of the Avar, on a scale calculated or
intended to' engross .the business of the whole
world, and began its ,operations by sharing a di.
vidend of ten per cent, among its proprietors, is
:at its last gasp. A consultation of the Directors
was held last night,.to consider the propriety of
discontinuing it altogether. They came to a reso.
lotion, however, of making a previous effort to
maintain the establishment, by entering into a
negociation with. the second Company, in order to
put a stop, if possible, to the system of competi-
tion that has hitherto existed between them, and
by which both have been materially injured."

Cottniittx's INQUEST.---Yesterilay evening a Co-
ronei's Inquest was held on the body of Mr. Wil-
liam Bowers, a leatherseller, of Earl's-court,
Cranbourn-alley, who had been many years de-
ranged : it was proved that lie had a most VOT:
cious appetite, which he was not permitted sutfi-
ciently to indulge, and that the room in which

he slept was in a very comfortless state, the win-
dows being broken, said to be by himself. It was
also proved that he and his wife were very seldom
upon good terms with each other. Verdict—
". The deceased departed this life on the 14th of
Jsnuury, instant, in a natural way, hut his death
was, in the opinion of the Jury, accelerated by
culpdble neglect."

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Monday evening,
abont half past eight o'clock, as Air. Muir, of
Cavendish-square, was returning to his residence,
on Lis arrival opposite a dead wall, in Cavendish-
street, lie was accosted by a lad, who asked his
way to Swailow•strt,et. While Mr. Hunt was in
the act of directing him,' and the young man
standing in front, two sturdy, ill looking fellows
(his companions) came behind Mr. 11. end gave
him a most unmerciful blow on the back of the

bead; and while he was in the act of falling, the
young villain snatched his watch chain and rob-
bed him of his watch, .when they all decamped
Hunt, however, pursued the lad, and cried,
" Stop thief !" and he was the same evening
taken, NV. idlout the property, by E. Pepper and
Pendegrass, the constables, after some resistance:

he was afterwards ;alien before G. E' 14;q*
at Marlborough-street, where he gave his name
Grady. Mr. Hunt :mended, and the prisoner was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.

NEW SO MI WAT:e4S,

The 'following is extracted from a Letter which
has been received by the wife of Turner, the broth
of Turner, who, with Ludlum and Brandreth, was
at Derby, about t")
executed y, years sines, for
High Treason. Trirner, it will be tememhered,
with several others, were allowed to plead
and thus to save their forfeited lives :
" SYI)N`EY (New South Wales,) .rune 1319.
" ‘Ve hare had a pretty 'good passage, and
have been middling %yell treated, much better than
the general tun of those that were with us. Sam
working for Government from day•lig!it till two,
o'clock in the afternoon : after that ime I stook
for myself, and can earn as snitch as I could get
for a whole day in England; therefore, Was I. on
my own hands, I could get a very pretty living.
I am very witll, considering my situ-oils!), as I live
with an old man and woman, who is constable to,
the Governor, and they treat me as one of them-
selves. Indeed, I have partly agreed with them
for a thirty-acre farm.—Now, my dear wife,
if you wish us to meet again, end end out
days in happiness, let me advise you to apply
to the Sect etary of State, to give yon an order
for a passage to this country free of all ex-
pence, and I shall be restored to yoo on your
arrival. If it he agreeable to my brother Joseph,
to apply likewise to come as a settler, I should
much urge Mtn to it. He would he granted
a farm, and provisions from the stoics for six
months ; hut, however, he would not want that ;
and he svould be able to gain a little tontine in a
few years, as our business is one of the best in
the country, and farreiros is as good. There is no
rent or taxes to pay. Wheat is in general ten
shillings a bushel, -Indian corn five shillit, s ; beet
at sixpence a pound, mutton anti pork eightpeoce
and ninepenee ; the pork is very good, beet and
Mutton middling ; useable tea root sugar very
cheap ; choking is rather cheap. The omit es are
slender people. Swedish iron is sixpence a pound,
sheet one shilling and three-pence. if you can
get the works of an eight days' dock, it will fetch
a good price here. We are building a Methodist
Chapel, and 1 have engaged for the cutting of
the stone : Religion is strongly patronised by
the Governor and the Heads of the Colony. The
stone of the country is rematkably %%bite, and
works kiudly. The building here is vety coarse,
for want of good mechanics ; the workmen are
chiefly Irish, that know but little about
The timber is very good, both for house building
and for forniture, it chiefly consists of cedar fur
furnitirre. New Zealand pine for building, and oak
stringers instead of tiles'; the oak apple tree chiefly
for firing. We have no- limestone ; the lime is
made of burnt shells. We have plenty of game,
both fish and fowl, and no game act to pay
My nephew, Joseph Turner, .(called itlanchester
Tomer) is very well, and is overseer to captain
Milnholers, who rattle in the ship with me. John
Hill, one of the Derby convicts, front Son:hwing-
field, is hell ; be is up the country about 2U miles
from Sidoey, wi h a gentleman. Uur winter is I

your summer. We have plenty of fruit ; pPaches
in abundance; lemons, and oranges, find quan!i-
tics of vegetAles. Here are the handsomest
birds in the world. I very much wish my brother
Joseph to come, as it would be the making-of us.
The passage is nothing to what it used to he,
as they reach us in about four mouths; very few
die in the passoge. Inquire for the at John Dow's,
near Government Stores, Sidney, New South
Wales."