Star.
London, England, 1826-10-07 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

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We have been favoured with a file of New South
Wales Gazettes, to the 7 h y. It is pleasing to ob-
serve, from the local intelligence contained in these
papers, the rapid march of improvement and knowledge
in that distant but valuable quarter of our dominions.
The Bank of Australia, about the stability of which
some fears were entertained, has weathered the storm,
which is a matter of great importance tothe future pros-
perity of that Colony. The Bushrangers in Van Diemen's
Land seem to be nearly annihilated, by the capture of
eleven of the most barbarous and daring of those ban-
ditti. The following are extracts :

TROIS THE NEW SOUTH WALES GAZETTE.`.
While we are sorry to report that one of the subordinate often
has been placed under arrest by order of his Excellency the Go.
vernor. for alleged malpractices in the Bonded Store, which is Xt.
cached to the Commissariat ; still we have reason to hope, from &Is
respectability of the individual said to be implicated, as well as the
high degree of confidence with which he was trusted, that ihtcharges
will prove altogether groundless.

Tie Bank .f Australia will commence operations in less than
three weeks. The Committee have engaged a' part of those elegant
and commodious buildings, the pr4eny of.idiskines Underwood,
in George-street.
We are happy to see that nearly a thousand p ers are ready
for assignment in the prisoners' barracks. Many *of the Settlers will
now be somewhat relieved, and the pressing wants of the Arial!.
tural Company will doubtless meet with proportionate attention.
Shone*, the renowned sanguinary warrior, and chief at New
Zealand, had visited the River Thames, and succeeded in carrying
off the field of battle 180 beads! The women and children were hs.
discriminately slaughtered ; and the former, who were far advanced
in pregnancy, bad their bellies ripped up, and the children dashed
to atoms ! Such is the state of the heathen nations even in our
day.—A rril 5.
Sheep are becoming a capital property at this moment', and will
inevitably increase in value. At Bathurst, by advices during the last
week, sheep were selling at 50s. and 60e. a head. Tasmania will be
glad to hear of this; but they might as well have soars of our Aus-
tralian beef in exchange.—dpril 29.

Er.orEmswr.—An elopement Cork place yesterday
morning, which has created a great sensation in the fashionable
world. The Lady is the wife of an eminent CounsellOr, and her
paramour a Captain in the army. The guilty pair were traced as
fat as Chelmsford where they stopped to refresh, when the husband
and the Lady's brother came up and took her away si et areas,
leaving her disconsolate lover, to pursue the journey by himself.
The Wandering Piper, or supposed Col. MAC DONALD,
arrived at Ashford, on Saturday last, and in a very orderly manner
paraded up and down the town, performing on the Highland pipes;
and so much curiosity was excited at this singular pedestrian in spec-
tacles, attended by his servant, that many spectators bestowed their
alms more from the novelty of the occasion. In the evening, he per-
formed several favourite airs at the Castle,- Ashford, before a full
room of company, which remunerated him with an adequate com-
pensation for his entertainment.
Sloe/TOMS OF iAI PROVEM EN T.-- The London• G-
azette of last night, there are only two bankruptcies!
Two of a former period have been enlarged, and other
two superseded !
By the George IV. steam-packet, belonging to the
General Steam Navigation Company, which arrived on Thursday
evening at Brighton, we have received Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Lisboa
Papers to a late date. The George IV. sailed from Lisbon on the
29th ult. having visited Malaga, Gibraltar, and Cadiz. The Cadiz
Papers to de 26th, and the Gibraltar to the 16th ult. are entirely
destitute of news ; the former not being allowed to publish anything,
and the latter having apparently nothing to publish.
A file of The Sierra I cone Gazettes to -the 26th of
June has been received in town. By these we learn, that the inha-
bitants of Free Town are by no means free from alarm on ACCOUII:
of the Asbantees. From the extracts, which we have given in
another column, it will appear that, notwithstanding existing treaties,
remonstrances, threats, and intreaties, the Slave traffic is still openly
carried on under the sanction and protection of the French, Spanish,
and Portuguese flags. Two facts stated in these Papers, if true,
prove that the French force assembled in this quarter, fur the avowed
purpose of putting an end to this traffic,
.so abhorrent to human
nature, rather encourage than repress it. The first fact is, that in
her last cruise, the MAID/TONI fell its with a French frigate-built
ship, which bad on board 700 victims, 300 of whom, on account of
their crowded state, were afterwards removed to another vessel.—
The other fact is, that when Captain V/DALL, of his Abiresres
surveying ship 13ARRACOUTA, was in the river Bonny a short rime
.ince, no less than ten slave vessels were lying at King's Pape!, awls
,if which were under the French Bag, bad French papers, and were
.nanned and commanded by Frenchmen ; the other three vessels
.vere rurtuss.se or Spanish.