The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-16 00:00:00

NEW HOLLAND.

REGULATIONS FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THOSE WHO MAT
PROPOSE TO EMBARK, AS SETTLERS, FOR THE NEW
SETTLEMENT ON TILE %ESTERN COAST OF NEW HOL-

LAND.

1. His Majesty's Government do not intend to
incur any expence in conveying settlers to the new
Colony on the Swan River ; and will not feel bound
to defray the expence of supplying them with pro-
visions, or other necessaries, atter their arrival there,
nor to assist their removal to Englard, or elsewhere,
should they be desirous of quitting the Colony.
2. Such persons as may arrive in that settle-
ment, before the end of the year 1830, will receive,
in the order of their arrival, grants of land, free of
quitrent, proportioned to the capital which they
may be prepared to invest in the improvement of
the said land, and of which capital they may be
able to produce satisfactory proofs, to the Lieute-
nant-Governor (or other officers administering the
colonial government) or to any two officers of the
local government appointed by the Lieutenant-Go-
vernor for that purpose, at the rate of 40 acres, for
every sum of 3/. which they may be prepared so
to invest.

3. Under the head of investment of capital, will
be considered stock of every description, all imple—
ments of husbandry, and other articles which may
Ire applicable to the purposes of productive industry,
or which may be necessary for the establishment of
the settler on the land where he is to be located.
The amount of any half-pay or pensiOn which tho
applicant may receive from Government, will also be
considered as so much capital.
4. Those who may incur the expence of taking
out labouring persons, will be entitled to an allow-
ance of lo.nd, at the rate of IV., that is, of 200 acres
of land, for the passage of every such labouring
person, over and above any other investment of
capital. In the class of " labouring persons" are in-
cluded women, and children above 10 years. Pro-
vision will be made by law, at the earliest opportu-
nity, for rendering those capitalists, who may be en-
gaged in taking out labouring persons to this settle-
ment, liable for the future maintenance of those per-
sons, should they, from infirmity or any other cause,
become unable to maintain themselves there.
5. The licence of occupation of land will he
granted to the settler, on satisfactory proof being
exhibited to the Lieutenant-Governor (or other
Officer administering the local government) of the
amount of property brought into the colony. The
proofs required of such property will be such satis-
factory vouchers of expenses as would be received
in auditing public accounts; but the full title to the
land will not be granted in fee simple until the
settler has proved, to the satisfaction of the Lieut.-
Governor (or other Officer administering the local
Government), that the sum required by Article 2,
of these Regulations, viz. ls. 6d. per acre, has been
expended in the cultivation of the land; or, in solid
improvements, such as buildings, roads, and other
works of the kind.

6. Any grant of land, thus allotted, on which
a fair proportion of at least one-fourth shall not
have been brought into cultivation, otherwise im-
proved, or reclaimed from its wild state, to the
extent of Is. 6d. per acre, to the satisfaction of the
local government, within three years from the date
of the licence of occupation, shall, at the end of
the three years, be liable to a payment of 6d. per
acre into the public chest of the settlement, and,
at the expiration of seven years more, should the
land still remain in an uncultivated or unimproved
state, it will revert absolutely to the Crown.
7. After the year 1930, land will be disposed
of to those settlers who may resort to the colony, on
such conditions as his Majesty's Government shall
see occasion to adopt.

8. It is not intended that any convicts, or
other description of prsoners, be transported to this
new settlement.

9. The government will be administered by
Capt. Stirling, of the Royal Navy, as Lieutenant-
Governor of the settlement; and it is proposed that
a Bill should be submitted to Parliament, in the
course of next Session, to make provision for the
civil government of the new settlement.
Colonial Office, Jan. 13, 1829.

The I-lon. Major-General Stapylton, the
Chairman of the Victualling Board, on his official visit to
this port lest week, intimated to Mr. INlLlntosh, the con-
tractor for building the new Victualling Yard at Devil's
Point, that th,• works carrying on there should be forwarded
with every pos-i!rle dispatch ; in consequence numbers of
additional workmen will be engaged. It is anticipated that
this elegant structure will be in a fit state for occupati,o
in 12 months. Mr. Rennie, the architect, is now here on
an official ♦isit to the above works.—Plymouth Journal.

Spacious hustings are erected for the ap-
proaching County Meeting which it is expected will be the
largest ever known in Devonshire, a great number of ko-
bility having, we hear, signified their intention to be Tre-
sent.—Plymouth Journal.

DUBLIN, JAN. 10.—Orders were received
on Wednesday, at the Post-office here, communicating to
the head officers and minor tinpkves that, after the sth of
January, 1830, it would cease to be a distinct Post-office
department, but • should thenceforward merge into the
general Establishment at St. Martin's-le-Grand.
DEPARTURE OF THE MARQUIS or AN-
GLESEI.-It is suggested that, as a mark of respect to the
Marquis of Anglesea, the citizens of Dublin should wear
black crape in their hats on the day of his Excellency's de-
parture front Dublin.—Dublin Morning Register.

The proprietors of the Brunswick steam-ves-
sel have come to the determination of adopting the new
paddle-wheels invented by Mr. Mills, Master of that vessel.
—Plymouth Journal.

A young and dashing lanceteer of Stamford,
last week disported himself in the neighbourhood of Wans-
ford, and, for want of better game, hunted a tame duck.
The quark, however, disliking to be despatched by a re-
gular, mounted into the air. The sportsman fired just as
his bird had attained the altitude of a poor boy who stood
near it, and, less fortunate than the fool in the nursery
rhymes,. who " shot at a pigeon and killed a crow," he
aimed at the duck and hit the boy; into whose neck and
shoulders the shot penetrated. He is, however, in a fair
way of recovery. His name is Robert Starsmore, and
it
is a singular fact, that he is the same boy who accidentally
killed a child last autumn by driving a waggon over it
asit lay in the field.—Stamford News.
About four o'clock on Wednesday afternoon,
a vvaterman discovered a male infant, apparently not above
three months old, lying among the mud on the Surrey side
of Rlackfriars-bridge, wrapped up in a coarse towel, with
a brick suspended to its neck. Information was imme-
diatelygiven to the beadle of the parish, and the body of
the infant was conveyed in a shell to Christ Church wol
house; to await the Coroner's impost,