The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-19 00:00:00

JO ir swim Irsass.

By the last letters from New Smith Wale*, down to
the 7th of March, it appears such is the rapidly is-
creasing population of t!sis territory, that, agreeable
to the official census in October, there were mustered
in Sydney alone 13,400 souls, being 1400 mere than
is the year 1810 were in the varies. settlements of the
whole territory, including Vas Ditnises's Land. The
total population of Sydney. Paramatta, Liverpool.
Windsor. Bathurst, Newcastle, and the surrounding
districts; was mustered at 34,500 ; and, including Van
Diemen's Land, the inhabitants of the territory at large
at the cloaca the last year, must have excesdod 42,000

The i twee's& of respectable settlers daring the pre-
ceding two years eseeeds the whole number *et bad
arrived in the preceding thirty-two years of the eats-
blishmeat of the British Government in this part of
the world, So late as 1618 there were only ten Ma-
gistrates, and by the last papers we see that Sir Thos.
Brisbane bad directed a Dedimrs Proteetateat to be
issued to 26 Orntlementexclusive of the Magistrates of
Van Diemen's Laud.
Lieut, R. Jobpstone, 11.1,1., who bashes, seat to ga-
mine the coast to the ouutherard of Jervis's Bay, to
ascertain if a river fell into the sea near that place,
found at the head of Beteman's Bay the entrance of a
fine, clear, capacious river, with nine feet water ever
the bar, deepeping after to sit fathoms, sad continu-
ing from four to
first 15 miles the land is stated to be good forest
land, after which it becomes lower and fitter fur eal-
tivatioo.
Mr. Tit rosby had els; proceeded overland from Syd-
ney to Jervis's Bay (having set out on the 23d of
Nor. and returned on the 6th of December) be Is de-
cidedly of opinion that a good road may be cut from
Sydney to that harbour, and reports the land to be
eztremelLrich and promising.
The Seeley Gazette of March Bab, says. "Io eon-
ann&LialWiii44masy avowal' thot....hiow South Wales
has latterly 'tepidly increased io commercial prosperity,
we state the pleasing fact that ten vessels bare left the
ports of Australasia, with cargoes fur Europe within the
space of twelve menthe."

The Court of Examiners, for regulating the practice
of Apothecaries under a late Act of Parliament, have
determined that attendance on the Physicians' practice
of Provincial Hospitals (which must be for six months
at least) shall confer the same eligibilities as a similar
attendance on Hospitals in London. This privilege is
likely to be eminently useful to students in the medi•
I cal profession. inasmuch as it will afford to many of
them so opportoolty of completing an importantbranch
of their education in the cowry, and of thus 'eau-
sively devoting the period of their attendance in Lon-
don to other professional objects.
Arrester AT Salons.—On Monday last, Isaac
Trycroft. of Westbourne, Bankrupt, during his exa-
mination before the Commissioners, at the Bear Inn,
Havant, made an attempt to stab himself with a knife
he had secreted. One of his creditors perceiving his
intent, averted the blow, and disarmed bins, with no
other injury to the bankrupt than the loss of his teeth
in the straggle, which, on examination, proved to be
a false one.

On Friday se'nnight a little boy, 6 years of age, of
the name of Thorpe, met with his death in the fol•
lowing singular manner, at Ringsliall, in Suffolk :
Having climbed atm in the pursuit of apples, he lost
his footing, and was suspended by his pin-afore,
by which be was actually strangled to death, before
any person could render him assistauce A atwitter
of gleaners were is a hell adjoining, by whom till
too late, the catastrophe was entirely unknown.
On Wednesday lest were executed at linry, pur-
ulent to their sentence at the last assizes, James Pull-
lips and Jobs Wade, for a burglary at Hadleigh, in
Suffolk. Soon after twelve o'clock the unfortunate
culprits ascended the fatal scaffold, having devoutly
joined In prayer with the Rev. Mr. Stocking, Cliap-
lain to the gaol. The Executioner now began the
last painful ceremony, and having adjusted the rode
and pulled the cap over the face of one of the crimi
nuts, the drop on a su Idea accidentally fell, and pre-
cipitated the gaoler, hangman, and the other miserable
sufferer to the ground, who, being pinioned, received
a
man who was tied np died instantaneously. The hor-
ror occasional by this accident was extreme, and the
surviving prisoner was compelled to await his fate at
least •2U minutes, till a temporary platform eat raised
when the executioner performed the like sad cere-
,nor•y upon him, and he was hunched into eternity.
fhe feelings of the spectators can be better imagined
than described.
U'Exvitait. A: o. 12.—We are concerned to state,
that on Weiinsriiity night, three farm houses on the
towalenil of liallindanny, part of the estate of (I.
Moore, p, . were maliciously set fire to and consouted.
The tenants had been ejected from the farm for non•
payment of rent, and consequently Vas houses bad
befit fur some time pa►t untrecupiA,
Same night, the same ruffians, it Is !apposed, seized
a cow, the property of Mope harpist., of Coolabewn,
under agent to the above mentioned gentleman, cut her
up, and, to evince more fully the savage brutality with
which they were actuated, strewed tue mangled pieces
about the loud.