The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-27 00:00:00

troublesome, in
.many instances having attacked and
robbed several stockmen's huts and property. Mea-
sures were in progress to prevent these depredations
in future. They write from Van Dieman's Land,—
" Our weather is now becoming delightfully fine,
although we hare had the most severe winter ever
known in this colony ; stormy and rainy in the ex-
treme, and great damage done to the corn and
bridges ; loss of cattle and sheep has been the con-
sequence. Our crops now begin to look beautiful,
and a plentiful harvest is contemplated by those
whose crops were not destroyed by the floods.—
Our population increases fast, and the prospect
brightens. Our children and grandchildren will
inherit a lovely country, improved by their fathers,
and rendered valuable by an extensive cultivation
and clearing of timber, and the erection of good sub-
stantial buildings ; the morals of the peopleare strictly
attended to, and, in fact, there is a determination to g►o
on with courage and perseverance. The whale fishery
has been very productive this season, and one indi-
vidual, who fitted out two boats, has taken 50 tuns of
oil, and four tons of bone, which is shipped for London.
The Iphigenia, lately arrived from Canton with a
cargo of tea, and the Nimrod is also chartered for the
same voyage. Our merchants are extending their
views and speculations, and deserve from their en-

terprise to succeed. Business is at present dull,
money scarce, and credit at a low ebb. Our arrivals
have been numerous, and our harbour more than
usually gay, having several fine vessels floating on
its surface. The Comet, from Cork, has brought in
a number of respectable settlers bound to Sydney,
but who have preferred remaining here. The Prince
George, M. ANDREW, from the Downs, and Romeo,
from London, are arrived in the Derwent, from
Sydney ;" the dates are, via Hobart Town, the 22d
September. They state the thieves who robbed
the Bank of Australia of 14,000/. in notes and coin
actually worked through a wall nine feet thick, hav-
ing got to it under a drain. The Tiger, RICHARDS,
has arrived at Sydney with 6,400 bushels of wheat,
horses, and mules, and 640 of the former article on
the 22d September was sold at 20s. per bushel ;
flour was 50s. per 1001 b. The small-pox has been
brought to Sydney by the Busserah Merchant, and
its devastations had been dreadful, particularly
among the blacks, who were carried off in great
numbers; the hooping-cough had been very rife.
Between 7 and 800 tuns of oil will be exported
from Van Dieman's Land this season, the entire
capture of the settlers.

The Trieste Observer of the 12th of March con-

firms the accounts previously received, that the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA had made Venice a free port.—
This concession has diffused great joy among the
inhabitants. This wise measure on the part of his
IMPERIAL MAJESTY will give a stimulus to trade in
the Levant, and greatly facilitate the commercial
communications with Greece :

VENICE, MARCH 7.

A new and unexpected favour of his Majesty's good-
ness fills with joy and exultation the hearts of our faithful
citizens, who bless the beneficent hand that governs them.
His Majesty the Emperor, our beloved Sovereign, animated
by the paternal desire to promote the prosperity of this
part of his faithful and affectionate subjects, has, by a
resolution of the 20th of last month, which has been re-
ceived by his Imperial Highness the Archduke Viceroy,
extended to the whole city of Venice the privileges of a free
port, which were hitherto confined to the island of St.
George. The gratitude of our citizens, for this distin-
guished favour, is equalled by their confidence in the far-
ther measures of the august Prince who is authorised to
cirry into effect a resolution so important to the city of
Venice.