The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

AUSTRALIND.

Despatches from the new seta meat, addressed to
the Secretary of the Western Australian Company by
the Chief Commissioner, have been Teceived of the
10th, 13th, and 25th of May, of the 26th of June,
and of the 15th of July, all of which speak in the
most favourable terms of the land chosen for the colony,
and of its progress. Port Leschenault, or, as it is
now called, Knornbana Bay, is described as safe and
eanacious. With that and the site of the town, placed
with iis western front on an inland sea, there is a sea
communication with the port, while it also commands a
communication with the interior by means of two
rivers, called the Brunswick and Collie. We copy a
brief extract or two of the despatches :—" It is a
source of unmixed gratification to me to be able to in-
form the Directors that we are ad in good health and
spirits, and in a state of happiness and prosperity seldom
found amongst so many assembled together. We
seem to be, in fact, one large family; no breath of dis-
content reaches my ears, and all my measures for the
encouragement and keeping together of settlers and
emigrants have been eminently successful : under the
peculiar, almost, I might say, extraordinary circum-
stances in which we have been placed, I might have
expected differences of opinion and dissepsion, but,
happly, neither has existed. I have done all I possibly
can for the encouragement of the settlers."—Letter rf
June 26.

In despatching to you, for the Directors of the
Western Australian Company, the large, and I hope
I may say, splendid plan of the town of Australind
which accompanies this letter, I cannot refrain from
giving expression to the feelings of gratification which
I experience in having brought this difficult and most
important work to what I believe to be a most success-
ful result ; and which I entertain the the fondest hopes
will obtain the approval of the Directors, and do ho-
nour to myself as founder of their capital in this, colony.
" I cannot but at the same time offer my warm con-
gratulations to the Directors that the position of their
settlement should so happily prove to combine every
possible advantage which could have been hoped for by
the most sanguine, and to surpass, in a very great de=
gree, what had been expected by those best acquainted
with our Australian possessions. .
" 3. The site of the town is beautiful and healthy
in a most remarkable degree ; of the latter I am thank-
lui to be able to give a positive proof, in the undevi-
ating good health which has and does, thank God,
prevail in our population ; of the former there can be
no difference of opinion with reference either to the
view of the charming inland sea (now entirely fresh)
before its western front; of the Collie and the ranges of
hills from its southern end ; of the River Brunswick in
its centre ; or of the extensive track of high country
and forest scenery from all its eminences. . . .
" An energetic system of support to the settlement
at home, and a temperate and judicious administration
of ►ts affairs here by whomsoever may be in future its
principal officer, will, I confidently predict, raise this
settlement at a very early period, to a flourishing and
important rank amongst the colonies of Great Britain ;
it will became the resort of shipping to a great extent
for supplies of all sorts, and Australind will yet be the
emporium. on this side of the continent of New Holland.
—Letter of July 15.

STRANGERS' FRIEND SOCIETY.—William
Stone, Esq., has remitted through. the Treasurer (Tho-
mas Farmer, Esq.), the sum of 501. and R. C. L. Bevan,
Esq.. 251. in aid of the funds of this excellent, institution.
DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A MANIAC.—
On Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at
the White Hart, Vine-place. Spite Welds, on the body of
Matthew Beer, a shoemaker, aged 37. Matilda Roberts,
of No. 15, Union street, Bishopsgate, said that the de-
ceased was her brother, and he had been in an insane
state for some time past. She had tried to get him
into St, Luke's Hospital, but in consequence of his
being too long_ in an unsound state of mind she was
. unsuccessful. He had twice attempted self-destructionby
cutting his throat, and had only been out of the hospital
seven weeks since his last attempt. For the last few days
! he had been very .low and desponding, from not having
had any employment for the last three weeks. On Sa-
turday morning, about ten o'clock, a boy came and in-
formed her that on looking through the keyhole of de-
ceased's room-door he had seen blood on the floor. She
went into the room, and found deceased in bed, with his
throat cut in a dreadful manner. A shoemaker's knife
was lying by his side, with which he had committed the
act. Verdict--,Temporary insanity.