The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH 111.1 LES.

A series of Ga:(4.,s from Sydney. South Wales, to
the latter end of February. wyre received on Saturday.
The Miuerva, with I MAC convicts from Ireland
arid the Neve% ery, with 1!0_4 from Englaud, strived on
the 17th of I December. 'I he food Wellington, with
110 female corn kis and S.', ehildren : and the Eliza,
iv:th ItiO male runvirts from reached Syd-
ney un the loth of January: mid on the 27th, the
Pr:nce Regent, with Dill; and tl:e Castle Forbes,
with 140 male convict:, both from Ireland, also ar-
rived. Of this la. ire lonelier of convicts, it is stated
that only two diril on the passage, one on board the
ElEza, and one on board the Minerva. The Eliza per-
fumed the voyage in the shun space uf WI days, bar-
lag come direct. A Freoch vessel, called L'Cranie,
Captain Freycirirt, on a voy age of discovery, touched
at Sydney early in December, and during its star a
mutual interch•see of rinlieics took place between
the officers and principal inhabitants. Sonic residents
at "piney having expressed their intention to suit the
colutly in Th.. Urania., Capt. Freyeinet declined taking
thee* without the sanction of the tiovernur. A lius-
sian frigate, alto on is voyage of discovery. arrived at
Sydney soon after the Uranie. At one of the balls
even by the officers uf the Crank, some young fe-
wale natives from Parauiatta, educated at the schools
established at Sydney, partook of the habits of civi-
lized life, and were ;limited for the grace anti ease of
their movements. The reputation of those seminaries,
and a desire which is gradually spreading among the
rode people of the Southern O. can to share the hem.-
fit.; sot instruction, had atiraced to Sydney a party of
young persons from the Bay of Islands, among whom
was the son of shaingee, their principal chief; but the
plan of the schools limiting them to the natives of
New South Wales, they could not be received, the
managers fearing, iu that ease, to be overwhelmed
with claimants for instruction. The annual assemblage
of the native tribes took place at Parausatta un the
2ttth of December, but was k-s numerously attended
than usual, the extreme heat of the weather preventing
them from proceeding from the interior. About trio
persons of both sexes were present, anal were regaled
by the Uuvernur with provisions and liquor. 'Flee
examination of the &Abe children of the institution
then took place. and wane very creditable specimens
of their progress in writing and drawing were pro-
diced. The recognition ut the ehildreu by their pa-
rents and friends was described as extremely affecting.
The facilities of internal communication had been in-
creased, by putting the roads from Sydney to Para-
matt& and Nassau. before impassable in wet seasons,
tugger complete. impala The improved eaeltieosioa sof
the lamp in New Zealand has before been meotiuned
'lrvine trials were made in Janaary, at Sydney, of its
relative strength, *be I made iota cordage, compared
with that manufactured in England from the produce
of the Baltic, and determined materially in 14VOIlr ut
the hemp of New Zealand, which possesSed a degree of
strength superior by one-fourth.
elr.Lieorge Johnson, sou of the Lieutenant-Dovernor
of the colony, died un the 19th of Febtuary, in conse-
quence of a fall from his horse. The colony in ge-
neral was in a flourishing state ; European goods were
In demand. The Admiral CockbUrn,,which brought
these advicee, brings home an entire cargo of the pro-
duce of the colony. The Regalia, freighted in a si-
milar manner, was to sail in about a month. , The Ga.
:rife of the 9th of January contains an advertisement
from the Dr. O'Halloran, *ho has opened a school at
Sydney. „ .

Desaratn. ACCIDZST.—On Saturday inoroing, a
young man of tho name of Soookr*, a painter nsd. glut•
tier, was employe. at the bodge of Mr. Tabora, talkow•
timidity, of Marrie-honr, painting the windows , after
be had Axed his mashies outside the tine lloiorwhodow,
as Iwo thoegid solleicatly secure, ha got at, sad stood
oo fit a short time doing his work, whys it giro way,
sod he was preedelietastod to duo ravomost with great
ism. said was to ricers. lb was talon op, and
imisilowly egotist, to tiro Abell/ma Hospital for st
sinew. ; bat lot was pike dad. The body lies for a
barman's invest.