The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-10-29 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

We have additional accounts from Sydney, which state
that the letters from Bathurst represent the crops in that
part of the country as presenting anything but an encourag-
ing appearance, the ground being parched up.
An arrival overland from New South Wales to South Aus-
tralia had excited great attention. On crossing the Glenelg
the country was found to decline to a flat sandy level from
N. to S.S.W., as far as the eye could reach. For two days
the party travelled over a country of a most singular descrip-
tion, it being a mass of swamps, divided by belts of the oak
timber growing on a sandy soil, on which there was abundance
of fine feed for cattle. Fresh water could be obtained by
digging a few feet. Towards the coast was an extensive
swamp at a distance of five or six miles from the shore, where
abundance of water was found with plenty of feed, The
party next came upon a large fresh water lake, about twelve
miles in length and four in breadth, which was named Lake
Hawden. On leaving the lake the swamps ceased for some
time, and the party travelled for about ten miles through a
dense forest, when they again came upon a swamp, where
good water was found by digging. The weather having
changed from extreme heat to cold, it was determined, though
still at the distance of 100 miles from the most easterly point
of Lake Alexandrina, to make an effort to reach it ; and on
the fourth day the country entered was sand-hills, covered
with low bush, and water was obtained by digging about three
feet. The weather again became extremely hot, and part of
the cattle were left behind in charge of three men. The
party then proceeded, and descried in the distance a timber-
ridge and the native fires, evidently marking the proximity to
the lake. At this time the party were forced to walk, the
horses being scarcely able to crawl ; and one of the party was
too ill to proceed. The party, therefore, halted, and a calf
was killed, the blood of which was drunk by all but one man.
In about two hours they proceeded, and finally reached the
lake. The distance between Mr. Hentey's station and the
lake was about 250 miles, and was performed in 19 days.
The party then proceeded in a northerly direction over a
sandy ridge, and at a distance of eight miles came upon a
point of the main lake ; and the water, which had hitherto
been brackish, was perfectly fresh. In a few hours more
they found the entrance of the Murray to the lake. The
river was ultimately crossed with some difficulty, and the
herd passed through the dead scrub for about fourteen miles,
where they were left. The number of cattle missing and left
behind was 23.

EXTENSION AND CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY.—
We believe everything is now irrevocably arranged, and on a
basis highly beneficial to all parties, and certainly most bene-
ficial to the interests of Chester. The Extension Company
have arranged their difference with the Grand Junction Com-
pany. The line from Manchester will run into the Grand
Junction line at Crewe, and diverge from it at Chepstow to
Rugby, where it will join the Birmingham and London.
Manchester will thus enjoy a direct line to Birmingham, and
also a direct line to London, avoiding Birmingham. Chester
will enjoy a direct line to Manchester, via Crewe and the
Extension, and a direct line to London, via Rugby, avoiding
Birmingham, and shortening the distance and lessening the
charge of carriage very considerably. The rate of passenger
traffic will be 21d. per mile, and the facilities will be unim-
peachable, as it will he compulsory that the two companies
shall have liberty to use each other's line, so that the passen-
gers will neither have to wait at the stations or points of
junction, nor to change carriages. The arrangement is highly
advantageous to our Birkenhead neighbours, therefore we
apprehend their jealousy will now subside. It will bring an
immense traffic on their line; and as the railway intercourse
of the United Kingdom is hereafter to be conducted on the
reciprocal principle of using each other's lines, (for unless
that arrangement is acted on, it will be compelled by legisla-
tive enactment,) that company will have the advantage of
running their passenger traffic on tne united line in their own
carriages, and also of having their line used by the carriages
of the united company. With respect to the efficient work-
ing of the Chester and Crewe line, in connection with the
Grand Junction, and all the lines with which that line is in
connection, we are in a condition to state, that the resolution
of the Chester and Crewe proprietary has been fully adopted
by the Grand Junction directory, so that on public grounds
the Chester and Crewe proprietary and the citizens of Chester
have every reason to be fully content. So far as cheap rail-
way communication with the most important districts of
England is attainable, we could not be better circumstanced,
nor enjoy greater facilities.—Chester Chronicle.