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

EV'ENING SUN

NEW YEAR'S-DAY.
The disorder and dissipation consequent upon the et.'
lebration of New Year's-d,iy -Lavd, on this oceol°'
been of a much more aggravated kind than we had anif
reason to expect, both from the reputed growth °J
temperance in a large mass of the lower orders, 813
also from the want of employment caused bytbe 1014'
continued depression in trade. By the stroke.of ,
however, on Saturday morning the streets were as Dit!c,
crowded as formerly by parties running on first-fentlf°
errands with bottles and cake. All went on srnoothit
though noisily, till-two, when a large body of Irin%
men, principally railway labourers, and amounting, it a
computed, to about three hundred in number, sal,lie
from the purlieus of the Bridgegate and Saluntaile,"
and, with wild howls, swept the streets like a torrent'
They careered up High-street, knocking down alnlo
all they met, and t 'king the whisky bottles from th°l
engaged in first-footing, and in the majority °
inktancos dashing them to the ground. The watchmen,
did not expect such a band of barbarians, and isolated
as the former were in knots of not more than two °f
three, any effott to cheek them at the outset, you':
have been as bootless as Dame Partirgton's attempt!"
sweep out the Atlantic Ocean. The police immediate
gathered in same strength, and, taking up a position 01
Stirling-street made a dash at the Irishmen as ad
came thundering along, and captured the ring leader'
The others were soon afterwards dispersed. Oa Sai
turday morning the rioters were placed at the bare:
the Police Court, and punished ; a man named ,
M'Kennan, being sent to Bridewell for GO days, one;
nam named Pat. MiCabe, for 30 days. The vor,!;
feature in this outrage is, that the great majority of
Irishmen were what is called tee-totally sober, and Oa",
have proceeded about this unlawful work in a delibely
spirit of reckless malice.—Glasgow Paper.

AUSTRALIND.
Despatches from the new settlement, addressed I°,
the Secretary of the Western Australian Company'',
the Chief Commissioner, have been received of
10th, 13th, and 25th of May, of the 26th of JuGe'
and of the 15th of July, all of which speak is the
most favourable terms of the land chosen for thevoloni,;
and of its progress. Port Leschenault, or, as it ',I
now called, Koornbana Bay, is described as safe aoj
capacious. With that and the site of the Owe, plaM
with its western front on an inland sea, there is a ses
communication with the port, while it also commands. ,
communication with the interior by means of tsl°,
rivers, called the Bruns wick and Collie. We coPY:
brief extract or two of the despatches :—" It ii,"
source of unmixed gratification to me to be able tol
form the Directors that we are all in good health 0,,
spirits, and in a state of happiness and prosperity seld/rs
found amongst so many assembled together. 1:;„
seemto be, in fact, one large family; no breath of 01;
content reaches my ears, and all my measures for tbd
encouragement- and keeping together of settlers 0,
emigrants have been eminently successful : under t'o
peculiar, almost, I might say, extraordinary circo°;
stances in which we have been placed, I might 11°`'t,
expected differences of opinion and dissension, bb
happily, neither has existed. I have done all I possibii
lf
can for the encouragement of the settlers."—Leatr
June 26.

In despatching to you, for the Directors of the
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Western Australian Company, the large, and 1 11°I'd
I may say, splendid plan of the town of Austraolo
which accompanies this latter, I cannot refrain ft°, b
giving expression to the feelings of gratification wille.;
I experience is having brought this difficult and 01(3:
important work to what I believe to be a most woes',
ful result ; and whith I entertain the the fondest boPe
will obtain the approval of the Directors, and do Pi
nour to myself as founder of their capital in this colon,'
I cannot but at the same time offer my warm el;
gratulations to the Directors that the position of thel
settlement should so happily prove to combine evei
possible advantage which could have been hoped ferf
ie
the most sanguine, and to surpass, in a very great I) j
gree, what had been expected by those best acquaillig,
with our Australian' possessions. . • • ,
" 3. The site of the town is beautiful and healtv
in a most remarkable degree ; of the latter I am thug'i
lul to be able to give a positive proof, in the undelolic
sting good health which has and dons, thank cli)be
prevail in our population ; of the former there oft° be
no difference of opinion with reference either to to
view of the charming inland sea (now entirely freli
before its western front; of the Collie and the ranglia
hills from its southern end ; of the River Brunswio,,f
its- centre ; or of the extensive track of high cool'',
and forest scenery tram all its eminences. . • pt
" An energetic system of support to the settleto`o
at home, and a temperate and judicious administrav°o
of its affairs here by whomsoever may be in future 1
principal officer, wile, I confidently predict, raise ti,.;,
rj
settlement at a very early period, to a flourishing I?,
important rank amongst the colonies of Great Britailloi;
it wid became the resort of shipping to a great e%te,b6
for supplies of all sorts, and Australind will
et be
emporium on this side of the continent of New 110110
—Letter of July 1.5.

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