The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1840.

We have received files of the Sydney Gazette and
of the Sydney Commercial Journal to the 30th of
November, inclusive. We have elsewhere given copious
extracts from these papers. We regret to find that
the settlers in many parts of the colony continued to
be molested by the predatory incursions of bushrangers.
Great complaints are made of the want of an efficient
and adequate system of police. The country is re-
presented as in a state of great disquiet from the
audacious depredations and lawless proceedings of
runaway convicts, and yet nothing has been done, and
but very little attempted, to check the tide of blood-
shed and spoliation which had begun to inundate the
colony. We trust that the attention of the Governor
will soon be directed to this subject, and that some
provision will be made, by legislative enactment, for
securing the persons and property of settlers in the
interior of the colony from violence and plunder.
Unless this be done, and done quickly, it will be found
that immigration into New South Wales will rapialY
decline.
We learn also, from the Commercial Journal that
crime was greatly on the increase in the colony. In
one of the copies of this journal it is stated—" On
Thursday last, there were four more men consigned to
the death cells in the Sydney Gaol, making in all 16
sentenced at the present sittings, in addition to the two
remaining over from the previous sessions, all of whorl'
have been found guilty, on the clearest testimony'
generally manifesting the most inhuman and atrocious
circumstances of brutality." This is an awful state of
things, attributable, in a very great measure, to. the
want of early religious instruction in the colony'.
More schools—more churches—more clergymen, are
wanted to provide for the spiritual destitution of the
inhabitants.
We rejoice to find that the reports from all
the interior of New South Wales relative to the crops
are highly gratifying. Where harvest had actually
commenced, the free reapers were making thirtY
shillings per acre. parts of

By the Hibernia, Capt. Cobb, which arrived here on
Friday, we have received New York papers to the 12tH
ultimo, inclusive, being two clays later than the news
brought by the Great Western. The Hibernia accom-
plished the voyage in sixteen days. The news from
the United States and Canada, by this last arrival, ig
comparatively unimportant. We have, however, some
later intelligence from Mexico and Texas. The steam'
packet Columbia had arrived at New Orleans frog'
Texas, bringing dates to the 31st of April, and con-
veying the important intelligence that the Mexicans
had determined to invade Texas with a large force.
The militia had been called out, and every third man
was ordered to the frontier. The Texians affected to
treat the approach of the Mexicans with contempt and
indifference. Mexico, having made peace with France',
and having entered into a treaty with the Unite'
States, was concentrating her energies against TO°'
and with every probability of success.
The commercial intelligence from New York Par-
takes of the same complexion as that brought bY
Great Western. The trading interests were still ill
state of depression.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (S• 13.):
Weekly Chronicle of the 17th of April. The ne``.:
which it contains has been, in a great measure, antlcir
pated by recent arrivals from New York. This paper
comments, in terms of justifiable severity, on the eh%
travagant expenditure of the public funds by t
House of Assembly. The province was in the eiiJo)
merit of perfect tranquillity.

We have received a file of the Halifax Journal tf:
the 4th of May, inclusive. Public meetings had bell
held in almost every dictrict of Nova Scotia, to
forth an expression of confidence in the administra"°e
of Sir Colin Campbell. Resolutions to this effect ss'er
in every instance, carried with great enthusiasm. 3,
The Journal describes the weather in Canad 3,,,
" the most beautiful in the recollection of man." 'lll,
ice in the St. Lawrence had nearly disappeared, "lt.iy
out producing any disastrous effects, such as ordinarji,
attend its disruption. The trade of Nova Scotia to
said to be prosperous, and the agricultural pros Pee
were favourable.

The Manchester Guardian of Saturday last ind°ll/er
in some lugubrious remarks on the recent defea",or
Mr. Villiers's motion on the corn-laws. While (ti,e
contemporary deplores the inauspicious result
debate in the House of Commons, he expresses 111,re
self in the most desponding terms as to the
'
prospects of the anti-corn law agitators. He card 0;I
acknowledges that the intensity of the agitatioo
iog
this question during the last two years is mainly ° eetl,4
to the results of two deficient harvests, and Pr°c-ia
to surmise that " should the crops of the e°11:0,
autumn happily bear out their present auspicious 'oder
mise, it will be very difficult, if not impossible,
such circumstances, again to call forth that str°fl
ghicp
pression of public feeling against the corn-laws ieca
has latterly been shown." The surmise is Per with
correct. The prospect of an abundant harvestirade
the consequent impulse which will be given t° o,iv
will render the collection of funds for " an °vole
system of renewed agitation," extremely difficult' wito
impossible. The tribe of hireling adventurer,sof tli'
have been employed to lecture for the repeabrods,
corn , laws, and who have gone about like fife • le
endeavouring to excite the passions of the 1°- wit
and indulging in the most traitorous langog Here-
now find that their avocation is gone for ever' 11 with
after, as the ?uardian acknowledges, "penPlfetile difficulty be be induced to listen to the voice of.
corn law charmer, charm he never so t-collo,
Messrs. Poulton, Ackland, and SydneY Suitt
henceforth betake themselves to some
the bread ef
ip
employment, and be content to tfit kW'
up their Pc os
dustry." The cotton-lords may button more honoural/
and save their money; or, ratherte,ot
tthhecirtnhalialstaitri
in giving additional remuneration
they
ed signally abortive
nefarious, schemes, and render
operatives. A smiling Providence has frustrated the.fif