Star.
London, England, 1830-11-29 00:00:00

HABISHIRE:

The disturbances at High Wycombe are mo.t serious. Words can-
not describe the agitation and alarm pervading all chst.t., of people in
this neiehboulhood. On Wednesday last a numl:,r of painsul:Attrs
made their appearance in the town, stating that a mee:ing of the trade
would take place on the ensuing Friday, in the Nye (a Mace about half
a mile from the town), and inviting all those who were oppressed to at-
tend, observing, that it was their finn resolve, in the event of the tne-
tliinery not being removed, utterly to destroy it.
On the same day a notice was issued by the mtgistr :ey ealting
the inhabitants, at the request of his Grace the Duke of Buckingham,
Lord Lieutenant of the county, to meet them at the Tus•n-hall no Fri.
day (market-day), for the purpose of devising means to preserv- the
property of those individuals, the destruction of which had heen :,treatly
threatened. Pursuant to the above notice, Lord Canington, reeom-
panietl by Thomas Westwood, F.sq. the mayor, the Rev. Dr. Seltobeli,
the 11ev. Air. Vincent, and R. Wheeler, Esq. magistrates of the county,
and a number of the most respectable resilents, assetultl:d m ti..:
Town-hall.

The Chair being taken by Dr. S:hobell, the rev. gentleman was pro-
ceeding tc state the object of the meeting, when the hall wa, forcibly
taken possession of by an ininunse multitude, who, by the!; angry ex.
clamations, convinced the meeting that words would not bi the only
argument they intended to use. Lord Carrington attempted to address
them, but in vain. His leird.hip was received by yells, aril cries of
" pay your election bills," (his son being member for the coun:y.) The
Chairman (Dr. Schobell) was forcibly ejected from his scat, whict was
taken possession of by a loquacious itinerant barber, who addr,:ssct!
colleagues, complaining loudly of the general distress. In a s!tort time
lie dissolved his meeting, when they proceeded to demolish the cltirs,
tables, and windows, very few of the latter being left whole. The
rio:ers then proceeded to the paper.mill of Messrs. Lane, many of them
having large Lammers concealed, for the purpose of deniolisbirl the
machinery. At this moment the. Newport Pagnell troop of Bucks
leolianry, on their return from Hounslow, marched through the town,
and were promptly on the spot.
This increased the fury of thelnultitude, who felt persuaded that they
hail been sent for. Dr. &hobcll assu..d them that their presence was
purely accidental, and appealeeto the people whether, in his individual
capacity as a magistrate, he hair refused to listen to their grievances. A
gentleman suggested to Dr. &Jodrell that the best way to appease the
feeling of the mob would he to dispense with the attendance of the yeo-
manry, and himself to retire. The Rev. Gentlemen acted upon this
advice, and shortly after idle people separated, venting their anger in
imprecations, not loud but deep, vowing to have their revenge in the
course of the night. Most of the houses and shops were closed at an
early hour in the aftetnoon, and near fifty special constables hate
been sworn Di. Armed parties arc sent to all the paper-mills to protect
the ptoper y.

LITERARY REVIEW.

Present State of Auatraliar7by Roar. DAWSON', Eq. SMITH,

ELDER, &C.

As our space for Literary Notices cannot admit of our attempting to
embrace anything, than a mere selection from the new work daily in
course of publication, we have, as our readers must know, confined our
task to the occasional notice of such works, as happen to fall within our
perusal, and from which we think we can extract a little amusement or
instruction for our Readers. We do not walk forth to pull nettles or
thistles, just to take them up and tell our Readers this is a thistle, and
that a nettle; but we only venture to call our Readers' attention to
what fruit and flowers we van collect for him in our way, to afford him
gratification by their perfume, or intellectual support by their nutriment.
We have read many books on Australia—and, until we perused this,
we never had conveyed to us that information, wh! ch we have been al-
ways most anxious to obtain—facts illustrative of the character of the
Aborigines. The works which have been published are, many of them,
satisfactory and interesting, as far as they mark the progress in politi-
cal importance, of this new world ; but so little has been contributed to
the history of our species, except what might be collected almost equally
well in the annals of Newgate, that the class of books, however politi-
cally important, have never been very inviting to the general Reader.
—The author of this work, Mr. Dawron, it appears, went
out to Australia, in June, 1824, as chief agent of the Australian Agri-
cultural Society, having under his immediate charge 40 settl.n, and
accompanied by his nephew, in another ship, with other 40 settlers—
all destined for New South Wales, with about 600 or 700 sheep, and
some black cattle and hones. He was there about three years, during
the whole of which time, he appears to hive been engaged in arc. m.
pllshing the establishment, or locating—as we believe the word is—the
emigrants who had left Europe with him ; and travelling over the
formerly located, and much of the unlocated parts of the country. He
confesses his hobby to have been, " the study of human nature in its
wild and untutored state, and in its gradual approaches to civilise.
don." Now it happens that the hobby here specified, is the one we have
ourselves always delighted to mount ; and we are confident, not many
who may have occasion to remark on this book, bare mounted it under
more similar circumstances, although in a different part. When we
saw this sentence, therefore, we saw enough to interest us in the vo.
lame; sad if our reader should have any thing like a congenial cu.
riosity, we do not hesitate to say that the work is well worthy of his
perusal. There is more of plain narrative, and less of book-making
quackery in it, than in any book of travels which we have for some
time perused. Mr. Dawson appears to have commenced his study of
the native character, with two assistants--good sense and good
nature; good sense to know, that intimate intercourse can alone
afford any chance of reading the mind of man ; and
good nature, to treat his fallow-men with that " con-
siderate treatment and confidence," which he justly observes
" generally secures the best return." And our own experience fully
confirms this observation. The rtsult of
.investigaion thus undertaken
has been, we are happy to see, vladicatory of the Aborigines, who have
hitherto almost incessantly been represented, as a people devoid of any
amiable points of character, to interest the philosopher in their favour.
We have ourselves studied human nature in very uncivilised states, and
we have been struck with many analogies to what we have witnessed in
the anecdotes here related--all of which have the indubitable marks of
truth. Many of them are curious, as delineative of peculiarities :id
generic; and, therefore, valuable as filling up the history of man.
With respect to Australasia, or, rather, we should say, the parts of it
visited by Mr. Dawson, this work conveys a very candid account. The
author does not consider it one of the rich or productive portions of the
globe, and he describes it difficient In navigable rivers, not one being yet
discovered navigable more than 25 nag into the interior. Nor is the
country often very pleasing, being without much low or under wood, and
the trees not very picturesque. The climate he uniformly pane.
gerises.

The concluding chapters of the work contain much valuable intorrm
lion for the emigrant. Ile does not appear favourable so emigratior,
although his remarks are those of a nowt of good sense. We differ a little
in opinion with him on his general disapproval of emigration. We have
nail so much as to the character of the work, that we shall be obliged .o
dispense with any quotation, which we generally endeavour tc make.