The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

We have a file of the South African (Cape of Good Hope)
Commercial Advertiser. The Lieutenant-Governor. Captain
Stockenstrom, had been released from quarantine, and had
taken the usual oaths in the presence of his excellency. The
frontier remained quiet. A commission had been issued by the
governor to inquire into the, present state of Table Bay, with a
view to the construction of a safe and convenient harbour there.
Some disturbances had taken place nu the parade ground, in
consequence of some preachers of the Wesley an persuasion at-
tempting to bold forth, and they were driven from the place.
A bill had been read a first time in the legislative council to
indemnify the governor, and all persons acting under his orders
and authority, in respect to all acts dime under and by virtue of
the maitial law lately in force in the eastern districts of the
colony.—Morning Herald.
We have received a series of the Hobart Town Colonial Times
to the Ist of June. The recal of Governor Arthur is alleged to
have been transmitted in the following terms :—" Sir, it has
been resolved by the King in council that no governor shall
remain iu any of the British colonies for more than six years;
and, as it appears that you have now been nearly double that
period in the government of Van Diemen's Land, it is not ne-
cessary that I should assign any other reason for having felt it
my duty to advise his Majesty that you should be immediately
recalled, and I have to convey to you his Majesty's command
that on receipt of this despatch you will, with as little delay as
possible, repair to this office. (Signed) GfaiNELG.' "—These
papers contain from Sydney a prozlamation by his Excellency
Major-General Sir R. Bourke, stating that a flagrant outrage
having been committed upon the aboriginal natives of Western
Port by a party of white men, and that other outrages have
been committed by Storkmen and others upon the natives in
the neighbourhood of Port Philip, it is made known that the
whole of the country on the southern coast of New Holland, ex-
tending westward from Wilson's promontory to the 120th de-
gree of east longitude, reckoning from the meridian of Greenwich,
being within the limits of New South Wales, all persons resid-
ing or being within the same are subject to the laws iu force
in the colony; and that the promptest measures will be taken
to cause all persons who may be guilt of any outrage against
the aboriginal natives to be brought to trial before the Supreme
Court of New South Wales, and punished accordingly. It ap-
pears that General Bourke had despatched a revenue cutter to
Port Philip, and a small expedition had proceeded by land to
the same destination. About two millions of acres of land had
been discovery on' that territory.—lbid.
TRANSPORTATION.—Recent accounts front Hobart Town
state the punishment of transported felons to be as rigorous, and
their state of suffering so constant, as to have rendered many
reckless and desperate in so much so that several are reported
to have committed murders and other capital offences that they
might be removed from the penal establishments to which they
had been sent, though only to meet the last runishment of the
law.