Star.
London, England, 1824-01-30 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

An Agricultural Snciety was instituted Ia New South
\Vales on the sth of July, 1822, and, as ape.trs by the
President's Address, has not only flourished during that
short interval, but " was not formed a single month be-
fore it was wanted." The Patron of the Society is his
Excellency Sir T. Brisbane, Governor of the Colony ;
its Vice-Patron, Frederick Goulburn, Esq. Colonial Se-
cretary. The President is Barron Field, Esq. Judge of
the Supreme Court. There are Corresponding Members,
a General Committee, a 13uilding Committee, a Pre-
mium Committee, a Horticultural. Committee, Sabscri-
hers, and in fact ttll the tteces...a-y adjun;ts of such an
Institution ; and this Institution, together with numerous
other establishments, indicative of an advanced state of
society, is now flourishing on a spot where, less than
forty years ago, the naked savage roamed, sole lord of
its inhospitable shores.

Our lie.ideis will peruse with interest the following
extracts from the President's first address, whether that
interest be excited merely from the recollections con-
nected with those who hold official situations in the
colony, or have gone thither as flee settlers, or from
the more philosophical reflection of what may be the
future condition of a country where the English lan-
guage and English customs are destined to be preserved
perhaps for ages:
I. We have had the pleasure of welcoming many
most respectable free settlers in the course of the Fast
year ; but I hope we shall receive twenty times the
number next year. The fine settlements of Hunter's
River, Bathurst, Camden, and Argyle, have been libe-
rally thrown open by our local Government; and I was
happy (in looking at the map of Hunter's River the
other day) to seethe whole hanks, and even some of the
back land, coloured with names. One of the mat
skilful and intelligent members of our General Commit-
tee, who has manufactured the best cheese yet seen in
the Colony, has removed his family to Baihurst.—
Other respectable settlers are following his example;
and I find we have increased the number of our
subscribers during the past year to twenty-one. We
shall doubtless see many mote free settlers in this
country, now that the Parliamentary emigration to the
Cape of Good Hope has failed, as soon as our Commis-
sioner of Inquiry's Report has fixed the future policy
and Government of the colony, and when the advan-
tages which New South Wales possesses over Van Die-
men's Land come to be more universally and correctly
known. We can have no 111 wi!l to that Dependency :
on the contrary, we benefit by her prosperity. But it is
important that emigrants, from so vast a distance as
Great Britain, should not be ruined by disappointment.
Of the superiority of New South Wales over Van Die-
men's Land, I am decidedly convinced, in some degree
fiom personal observation, and much more from au-
thentic information. But Van Diemen's Land has gotten
the name at home ; and it always takes many years to put
down false pretensions, and to make known true ones.

" Upon t rubjrct so vitally important to the pro-
sperity of the Colony as the exportation of fine wool, I
am truly happy to report, that there went home from
this Settlement alone, during the past year, 726 bales,
or 181,500 pounds of wool, besides a small quantity,
chiefly of lambs' wool, which remains to be sent with
the next shearing. At only is. 9d. per pound, clear
profit, this will amount to nearly 16,0001. sterling. No-
thing can chew the superiority of our wool over that of
Van Diemen's Land inn stronger light than the follow-
ing extract from a London Commercial Report, dated
20th September 1822 : _ _

140 bides wool from Van Diemen's Land, 4d. to 1 td. per lb.
(Two lots 2s. 2d. to 2s. 7d.)
13 hzles wool from New South Wales, 2s. 4d. to 31. 4d. per lb.
" Be ides the increastd Australia:l capital embarked
in whaling since the repeal of our oil duty, and in sealing,
our cedar and other snip timber, having Leen relieved
from duty by an Act of Parliament consequent upon
Mr. Bigge's Report, has been Ibund to alhWer the ex-
portatif,n to England, and a Oils is now going home
entirely laden therewith. In the event of war with the
Northern Powe, s, our timber would become still more
valuable. The Purveyor of the Navy Board reports very
highly of some of it, particularly the stringy bark.
‘. Our Prospectus, which introduced the able papers
of one of our Vice-Pi e:idents, Dr. Townson, has been
published and diffused in considerable numbers, both
here and at home ; and fifty copies of it have been
sent to all parts of the globe, enclosed in a circular let-
ter, request;ng the contribution of foreign horticultural
productions ; for I have the pleasure to report, that we
have engra:ted on our Society an Horticultural Branch,
with a small separate subscription. This subject is
under tare management of a Special Committee, of
which Mr. Bell, a Corresponding Alen:ber of the Lon-
don Horticultural Society, is Chairman ; and, on ac-
count of this subscription, £3O. has been remitted for
the purchase of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, in Eng-
land, by the hands of Dr. Anderson, of the ship Marshal
IVeliington, who also conveyed a letter from our Patron
anticipate great be-
to the Navy
avioyrßoooarrd,
plant-boxes.reqnesting free loom on the decks
of vessels