The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-08-17 00:00:00

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„: iiivocciT C. slit C. 14comuAN. .
liais wash Sperial Juiy cause.— The plaietif is am
' , isekerper st.ltrecots, and, daring the contested elec.!
titan for-Nolit ciruuty, kept 'pea hoeve fur the defers.:
stivit's sahlt,• one of the candidates. • The worthy and'l
sod,peutient freeholders, according to a certain docu-
o.eut cZI;tI a keg &ill, dtawu up in dne form by the
pi..iii:itf, had contrived to eat, drink, and devour the
sood things of this life, to the tithe of 2.70111.; but
rhr gentisseen.whiratted for the defendant, in promptly
'settling thh serious demands against' hint, on account
of the election,
.fortned a different estimate of the is.
trig powerV of She freeholders of lirecorphire, and
offered 900/. as a fair sum. The piaistill4 not con.
• tent, /nought hi's artiun ; but the Jury ouniiresed the
upition of the defendant's committee, andeirlire ed
,9041/, which had been pretlouldrimiti into '
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NEI!' WIUTiI lIWLES.

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Mili EFORD ASSIZES.
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• (Transmitted 6y a Carty:pun,feat.)
s' The toitlly advancing state of the British settle-
ments no Australia is steongly evinced by the follow-
re.:nits of the last general muster, taken at the dif-
ferent establishutents of the New South %Vales and Van
Diemen's Lead, in November:—

• Total; population of the territory. .. 30.433
Ilead or horned cattle in dun.). .. 1113.011.0
•.a.. illiorp In ditto, .. .. .. 13.100
•*1 roe In ditto, .. 43.titio
stay,/ 00441 in ditto. . . .. •. &WO
r,, - otal of acres hi wheat, .. .. 2.5.4ti1
ip,„ I)itto maize, -• • • . .. 9.230
bo .j. Ditto barley, oats, peas, and beans,.. 4.61 U
Tfltto potatoes. .. .. .. Luau
c ardens and orchards. .. .. 4.1t0u
" The abundance of provisions in the territory may
b. judged of from the prices at the last market day,
pre% iuus to the Admiral's. (L'ockhurn) departure in
relant try, wheat being 7s. Gil. per bushel: barley .Is.
bd:: potatoes, ss. sd. per cwt.; fowls, ss. per couple :
and theiprice of fresh beef,•mott,tn, and pork, paid at
the tiovernment stores, sd. per lb. Fruit of all de•
s‘rjptiom was in abuu.lant?. The olive equals the ex-
pectation formed of its dun: ishing in the territory ; the
orifrioal;tree, takeu out by 3lr. 31• Arthur, being in full
bearing of the-finest fruit, and many plants hare hero
already raised from it. The grape has already been '
particularly find in New South Wales, and the choler
vine's, taken out W gentlemen from the Continent in .
1..14 are flourishing luxuriantly.
The celerity %tido which communications to and
from New South• Wales, have lately been arcompli4b-
ed, by vessels that have made the passage without'
loitering away time at Intermediate ports, is cheer.
ing to those who purpose adrenturiug to t.tis new
world. of enterprise. The Eliza, which sailed from
toe Thames inkletobev. arrived within the beads of
Pert Jackson in the short space of ninety-six days.
4113 e Prince Regent anchored -in Sidney-Cure in use
hundred and fli'ree days fruit Spltliesd; and Admiral
Cockburn brought home the intelligence of that res.
sel's artual.in three months anti three weeks !
" The latter vessel was freighted to England with
the produce of the territerv, .and the adjacent ass,
and it is gratifying to learn, the colonists were enabled
to send blone season's growth, War hundred and
fifteen bales of their Wool. It has already been no-
1. ed how much the fine fleeces of New South Walcs
vie with the beat qualities of the Saxon and Spanish.
It has been proposal that ; joint stuck company, on a
large scale, should be established among the stock-
holders, to raise fine wool en the inmost tracts of rich
pasturage that covers .the unoccupied lands in the
interior. 1
" Samplea a excellent sugar. tobacco, and cotton, !
rai(cd at Otaheite, have beeN sent home, and the Crover•
nor by scot proper persons to ascertain how far the
tosoirgeottiguous to the new discovered Port Mac-
gnomic, an the coast to the outward of Port Jackson,
is applicable to the railing these trainable articles.
" lite superiority of the cords manufactured at
Sydney from the New Zealand flax pleat has boos
agile fallyascertained on board his )lajesty's ship.
Drommiaty, of which the following Is the molt, in
the formi.of a certificate, signed by Capt. Skinner:
—''(best are to errtify, that Mr. It. Williams, rope
tneitite• at • thii place, came Mn board Iris blaiesty's
Eoro•shif • under my command, for •the purpose of
t: ing the strength of English • rope, and that Made
trurg..tfie New Zealand hemp ; when about 5 fathoms
of litsw,Aeidauti rope, of 3-inch 57 yarns, dragged
4 teetl3 fiwt.eand broke with b tone IV cwt. 'the
EagEob.:ope was then tried. vir.-3-incb 60 yarns,
allOtrolte:reith 4 tons. 3 cwt.: anotha..coil of the
same sizio of English rope was then got up sad tried,
which. dragged 4 tons 3 hundred and one quarter,
arol4hiqhrwisit 4 toes 4 hundred aid-three quarters
weight!.
"Mr. Biggs has been proceeding on the duties of•
the commission Ite,has bean charted with by Govern-
naest-; It is to inquire into she existing state• and ca,
paillitiee of the territory t and in February „left Port
Jackson with his Secretary for Vas .Dientaa's Lund..
A oammodions new chapel is building at Sydney.
The Proprietors of the New Smith Wales Bank Stock
'oied $ dividend for the list half-year of 1819, of
12 pwe.cent. on the capital stork. .. • •
" The visit of the French ship of discovery,
L'ilotaale„ called forth all the gekatt. Of the.t.:oleoy.
'Jim Coosa:Ander of the expedition, bl.Freyeistat,. was:,
Withretwormodore Hamlin in the.Nituraliete vrhenthat
ocsaeliamisted . round New :Holland 'in 1803. At a.
ilelkinpaler given by the. Judge Advocate to the
French..4o4cm, to use the trorshtoEtho Editor of the
aphiertfiOettu--" SeVeral Tariff ladies, natives of
the eitleillOi,.were deborfantes."4•*.it .eannet ?cannot
lint .babitepoti that the linguine ontiapatiars• he ex-
praveraltithroccasion may be lost amply realised.
He protisis to say, " And .we• tette this opportunity
of etresSiii) the. eolafidettee with, which we rest the
fatumitartneas 9f-the state upaga'those iur best and;
swoMk . Ogee:, These 'aro to :latt,t)te•toutiters of still
atiotkir ion t, Vld if tiatiteneratioa shall not
rise in virtue and industry„.fridsee sure it will not
be be....thtrAtoit :of iN thertisersiable parent. -The
1'4014 thile yotittriroinets 'tinily ciSnioling to a
irespeettrAltoind.-&—lifiliose ;Xs. were present at the
d;d111,141v Se's balls, sotneirgte ,Iteautifal, anti all
... 'ilkSiles.. We confeskeirstlycs proud in
1”v gld Igr(46lAP dill'll47 41t,-thr VI! • lriiekel of
la
'young e orty to es htbittu thit.i ttt,t llt ir.eut. !bulls !Ars,
wbb ties amour us witl.o:ti: trete! cr.'.
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