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 Sir,—l 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 beautiful 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 best 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 addition to my former pur-
chase. We are anxiously waiting for another shi;. Men
of business, mechanics, such as carpenters, sawyers, &e.,
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, Bid. per pushel ; flour, 261. per ton ; beef and
mutton, Bd. 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 6d. per 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 sister, Princess John, is
said to be still in very indifferent health. If the Princess
should, by the advice of her physicians, go to the baths
of Gaslein, his. Majesty may perhaps accompany her.—
Haniburgh Papers, June 14.
BRUSSELS, JUNE 16.—1 n the night of the 11th of this
month the village of Nasserbilling, situated a league
from Grevenmacher, 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 insigne of the order
of the Netherland's Lion.
FROM THE POLISH 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-
taineers 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 for 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
Mahomedan 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, the Russian Blucher, is at the head,
and Grabbe, who is thoroughly acquainted with the grand
community under him. Nevertheless, the issue is pro-
blematical, for in such contests all calculations may be
defeated by the slightest unfurseen accident, as hap-
pened in Perowski's ominous expedition. Meantime, to
prevent the mountaineers from receiving any supplies
of arms and ammunition, Russian ships strictly blockade
the whole coast, from Sinops (the seat of the English
agents) to Anapa, Ickaterinodar, Kaw, Karskaja,
and Stawropol, on the right bank of the Kubaw.
The Leghrans, 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.—Amemoast, June 17.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2)4 per Cent 51% b 24
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amen Syndic,4% per cent 93 954
Ditto, ditto, 34, per cent 76 76
Commercial Company, 4%, per cent l5l 159
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cant.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent... ... . ....... . 00X
Exchange on London, dne month l2 lb
Two months 11 07%
Hamburgh, One month 35 t
Two months SS t. 5
Dutch Papers, June 18.
liElLel AN FUNDS—Bausmat.9, JUNS 17.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Cent 101
Itothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent .. . ... .......... 101%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. .........
3 per Cent..........

---.--Thirty.seven--__
(kW) 43y,a
Loan of City, 142, 4 per Cent : 3%
Socletyof Commerce, 4 /iper Cent....
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.,,,,, ...... _
....
National Society
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, June 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS..—VIENNA, JuNn 9
f lreper Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. 1 0%
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares .........., ............ ...... ...........

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Jura 11.
Hills. . Money
St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent.
Prussian English Bond-, 1880, I per cent. 102% 102%
Exchange on London
Prussian State Gazette, June 12.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JUNE 14.
ll Money.
s.
Austrian 5 per Cents,
Bank Shares 1(95 IC9O
Anglo-Russian Loan llO 109;
Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate 103% 1(3%
Inscription, Ist series lO3
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 8d and 4th
Series i;B;4 98%
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) BJ ti, 83 At
Dutch Actual Debt, '-:% per Cent. .... 51% 51%
Ditto 5 per Cent. -
Polish Bonds... 155
New Tickets l7O
Anglo-Danish Loan' 3 per Cent. '7B%
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. lB

A gold medal has been conferred by the King upon
M. Louis Bauderon, the author of several portraits in the
gate exhibition of modern paintings.