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On the first reading of the Distillation
Bill, yesterday, Sir John Jamison said, that he
was disappointed that His Excellency had not
considered it expedient to prohibit the distil-
lation of spirits from sugar intoto. He ihmji
such prohibition would be greatlj to the ssV
vantage of the llower ?classes who ui*d i«di
large quantity of that article and it would also
encourage the agriculturist. The observation
being made by Sir John, out of its coarse
nothing further was said on the subject, except
Mr Berry's remark, that it would be just as ex-
pedient to prohibit the distillation of spirts
altogether as, if it were permitted from barley
-or wine, sugar would be certainly introduced and
the law evaded in this way. Sir John ? ?
would take an opportunity to bring the matter
before the Council at the second reading of that
bill.
On Sunday an extensive robbery was
committed in the house of a person, oiasfl
Smith, a reputed Pawn-broker, in King-street.
Property and cash to a large amount were asfl
stracted during the absence of the proprietor
and a servant, who had been but a short time m
the service of Smith, absconded on the day of
the robbery and has not been heard of since.
Mr Leslie, formerly assistant to Mr
Davies, Apothecary, of the Brickfield-hill, has
been under the protection of the PoIice for ?
days past, being utterly deprived of his reason
The unfortunate gentleman has not been of per-
fectly sane mind since his discharge from dthe
service of Mr Davies, which occurred on account
of the circumstances attending the confinement
of a woman for which he received a reprimand
from the coroner.
A men, named Cowley, has been
committed to take his trial for passing forg??
orders for the payment of money, purporting
be drawn, on Messrs. Flower and Co.. of Pitt
street, by Mr William McDonald, of Bathurst
superintendent for the estate of the late ?
Samuel Marsden. The prisoner passed sev?
of these orders to tradesmen in Sydney, lUsJ
which were pronounced to be forgeries wh?
presented for payment to Mr Flower. The
order* already discovered are one to Mr R?
Publican, tor £12, one to Mr Gasee, Saddler, ?
£7, one to Mrs Isases, Dealer, for i^oj»JiJ
Mr Andrew Gardiner, of the Bathurst road, ??
£5 7s. The. prisoner declared thst.he.Mg8J
oeived the whole of the orders from Mr M McC?
Publican, of the Bathurst-road.
Tuesday was the day appointed t«fj
the sitting or theLefiil*ti»eConncUb»t«af«
sequence or the illness or some of U«»«»*f
and thembwrnce on particular btuiaeisol -**«?
it did not ait. . ~. !?
The man, Leadbeater, who was
custody some time back, no doobtTeryjia™
on suspicion of robbing Mr Stirling, Grocer,
George-street, of a large sum of money, but ?
discharged for want of proof, was convicted
Monday, in the Court of Quarter Sessions,
stealing, and sentenced to seven years transpor
tation, the sentence being the heaviest punish
ment that could be inflicted.
The first Special Jury case, McDou
gall v. Jones, came on on Tuesday, occupied
whole of that day and was adjourned at a ?
hour until yesterday. The uii^was ?
ejectment brought to recover possession of a
piece of land in the township of Durham. The case rested entirely on the evidence of the boundaries? of two grants of land and was quite important except to the parties concerned. At last a clue has been obtained the robbery committed at Barnes' Hote, ? street. The pocket book which contained, ? bills and money, upwards of £300, was ? the bills being left, untouched, and nothing ? money abstracted. The two servants, J? Route and Ellen Hurley, who were the ?
persons who could have had access to the ?
from which the book was taken, are in cv—
and seperately confined.
On Tuesday evening a meeting of ?
members and friends of the Total A??
Society, took place in the School of Arts, ?
Street. Mr Rowe took the chair at seven o'clock
at which time the room was well filled. ?
Rev. Mr Watkins moved the first resolution
which he Prefaced', by an exhortation to
present, to adopt the pledge of the W?
Speeches were made by *«££;' teodea *?
Jeoffry and Kinsbury, which all tended to ?
same purport, and when the report of the ? gress of the society, now comprising sp??? 500 members was stated. The meeting ? up after passing a vote of thanks to the ? men who is also the originator of the ?.
The report ol the society's progress was ? gratify
gratifying. ?

Wn irt requeatod to call }he se
tt e »re *„*»... ,_ th, extensive) Sail'
?UHt, «'? ??*? the Town Property of the lat
o'clock precisely, the Town Property of the late
Quarter Master Macdonald, deceased offers every advantage to purchasers - a safer or more eligible hotbed of investing capital coudl scarcely be desired.
The six boys (the eldest of whom is
not more than 9 years of age) were taken
into custody on a charge of stealinga quantity
of axe handles have been admitted to bail on the application of their friends and relatives.
This it is to be lamented is not a solitary in-
stance of young children falling into dishonest
1'*?^ iJ.«- and more than one case has
?J*5i t«'i?hai torned out that the un
?^Skttten trained by the un
^W'.'S to'ontribute their dishonestly
»tlIllJP^h,m to the family fnnd. In the
!^f^o.^U«.tioni. conned, but
?'' * uT! .llawed to co at random in the
On the opening of the Quarter
Sessions Court, yesterday morning the two men,
Thomas Sullivan and William Jordan, were
brought before the Chairman of the Quarter s
Sessions and Mr Steel JP and tried sum-
marily. The prisoner Sullivan expressed
himself much injured by being held up to odium
press of the colony, and averred, that he
not the bad character attributed to him,
either at home or in the colony, which he desired
to make known to the Court and the public. He
then called Mr Scott, the superintendent of
Goat Island who gave both the prisoners a
good character during their sojourn on Goat
Island. An overseer, named Hollis also gave
the prisoners a good character. and said, that
Sullivan especially had made himself generally
useful on the Island. The home character was
left untouched. Tbe chairman aaid. that in the
absence of any person being called to prove the
circumstances, under which the prisoners were
found on board the Francis Spaight, the Court
was not quite satiified and the prisoners were re-
manded to allow of tbe evidence being itrength.
: wed. Tbe witnesses already examined, namely,
the second lieutenant of the Palomus, and the
guard from Goat Island were told that they need
not remain.
Ship News.
The Freak has been chartered by
Mr Wright, to proceed to South Australia with
Jour, wheat, and sugar. ~
The Strathisla will leave during the
day.for Timor.
The Indemnity and the London are
also down to sail this day, for Java.
The Abercrombie will also leave for
South Australia this day.
Coroner's Inquests.
On Friday last an Inquest was held
at the Currency Lass, on view of the body of
William Wilson an assigned servant to Mr
Matthews, of Lane Cove. The deceased had
complained of pains in in his bowels audiMr
Matthews gave him some castor oil. Wilson
continued to suffer until Wednusday night
when he expired, Verdict — " Died by the
Visitation of God.'
Same time and place, an Inquest was
held on the body of a little girl named Ellen
Murphy, aged eight years -It appeared that
the deceased was lighting her mother's fire on
Thursday evening and by some means ?g ignited, and she was burnt. ?

her extinguished the flames and took her to a Doctors
but she expired the same night about'
half past eleven o'clock. Verdict— " Accident-
death from burning.'
Same day, an Inquest was held at the
Bunch of Grapes, on the bodv of William Sims
a free man per ship Orient, who died in the
General Hospital about ten minutes after his ad-
mission. It appeared that the deceased wwas
found at Eight o'clock on Fridiy morning lying
insensible in the wet grass, at the back of Hyde
Park. He was taken lo the hopsital. Verdict
— ' Died by exposure and exhaustion.'
An Inquest was held on Tuesday, at
O'Mearas Public- house on the body of an old
man named James Byrnes, an inmate of the
Benevelent Asylum who died the previous day
in that establishmentt. Verdict— ' Died by the
Visitation of God".

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