The Sun. — 1865-10-18 (London, England)

SUN, LONDON, - WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1865.  -This Day.  South Australia.  (From the South Australian Register.)  offender, the receiver, who could not be placed in the clock r owing to an accident since she had been in custody. The girl stole a coat from her master's house last Saturday, and he missed it on Sunday. The girl was discharged from the service of her master, and when the robbery was mentioned to her father an inquiry was instituted, and her mother brought her to Mr. Farrow yesterday morning, and she admitted having stolen the coat. She was asked where it was, and she said she had sold it to Mrs. Herdsman for half-a-crown. The receiver was taken ill in the stationhouse, and fainted away. Sho was seven months advanced in pregnancy, and it was feared she would miscarry. Mr. Farrow having confirmed the statement of his solicitor, the girl was asked what she had to say in answer to the charge.  The girl, with great simplicity, said—Please, sir, what am I say ?  Mr. Daniel Rose, surgeon, of Connaught-place, Commercial-road, said the prisoner Lucy Herdsman, of Old Gravel-lane, was labouring under uterine homorrhage, which in all probability would terminate in a miscarriage. She was not in a fit state to be brought to the Court. -Mr. Paget remanded the girl for a week. Mr. C. Young said it was not the wish of Mr. Farrow that the child, for so he might with propriety call her, should be sent to prison, and asked that she might be bailed until the leaving-shop keeper could attend to answer the charge of feloniously receiving the coat. Mr. Paget said as the application for bail came from the prosecutor he would accede to it ; and the sureties offered having been accepted, the girl was liberated. Police-sergeant Smith, No. 47 IC, said that the woman Herdsman was in custody at the station-house and attended by a female. He asked what ho was to do with her.  Mr. Paget could give no directions in the matter. The woman was not before him. If the police thought proper to discharge her, they could take her into custody again when she was sufficiently recovered to be brought to the court.  Mr. Livingstone, chief usher of the court, said that in the cases of people attempting to commit suicide and other offence; where the parties charged were too ill to be brought before a magistrate, they were removed to a workhouse and taken charge of until sufficiently recovered. There would be no difficulty in keeping the woman in a workhouse and providing ber with medical attendance until she recovered from her illness.  The husband of the woman said his wife was in danger, and she might die through being taken into custody. Mr. Charles Young—Hor arrest can be justified. She is charged with receiving stolen property.  ADELAIDE, Aug. 26. There have been some fine rains during the month, which, however, have not extended to the Far North. The flocks are suffering most severely, and the loss of property has been immense. It is feared that the season is now too far advanced to warrant the expectation that rain in any sufficient quantities will fall. The sheep on some stations have died by thouands. A commission, consisting of the Hon. C. Bonney, Mr. W. Cavenagh, M.P., and Mr. Valentine, Chief Inspector of Sheep, has started for the north to inquire into the condition of the runs there. Their report will be looked for with much anxiety. The wheat crops, though more backward than usual, are looking very well and promising. A great breadth of land is under cultivation for wheat. Parliament was prorogued by his Excellency on the 4th of August. It is understood that both Houses will meet again about the close of September. The Government have summoned Mr. Finniss to Adelaide, and the party at Adam Bay will remain, during his absence, in charge of Mr. Manton. They have engaged Mr. McKinlay for 12 months to explore and report upon the northern territory, and tho site of the capital will remain meanwhile in abeyance. Mr. W. P. Auld, lately returned from the Northern Territory, has been brought before the Police-court by warrant, charged with the murder of an aborigine near to Escape Cliffs. He has been remanded for a week, and bail refused. The Government are about to charter a vessel to take Mr. McKinlay and his party to Adam Bay, and to bring back Mr. Finniss. It is said Mr. Mcliinlay's instructions are to ascend the Liverpool and probably the Roper Rivers, so as to examine thoroughly the country now unknown. It is expected the vessel will sail in about a fortnight. The annual lessees of waste lands, whose runs have been sold by the Government, have refused to give up possession. An attempt has been made to impound the stock, which was resisted by the occupiers. The case has been before the magistrates in Adelaide, who decided they had no jurisdiction. The matter will next come before the Supreme Court.  A party of seven purchased an open boat at Escape Cliffs, with which they sailed to Champion Bay, rid Camden Harbour, a distance of 2,500 miles, over a comparatively unknown sea. Though exposed to much danger and suffering many privations, they succeeded in safely reaching their destination, and came on from King George's Sound by the mail steamer. Much anxiety was felt about the party when it was known they bad started on such a perilous voyage in a small boat, and their appearance in Adelaide safe and well was a cause of much satisfaction. The natives in the Far North aro still troublesome, owing, it is presumed, to the scarcity of their usual food. They are said to be suffering terrible privations. Mr. G. S. Walters has resigned the Agent-Generalship of the colony in England. No successor has yet been appointed.  A strong feeling has been expressed in favour of working the mail service to Gallo by a Colonial Steam Company. It is believed all the colonies would look favourably on a movement of this kind. The Legislative Council have passed a resolution in favour of such a scheme. The Devon flour mills, Port Adelaide, have been destroyed by fire. Insured, entirely in British offices, for £B,