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NEW SOUTH WALES.
J5Y way or f ortland we have Sydney (over
land) news to the 20th of March.
The Sydney Morning Herald announces the
death of Cantain Owen Stanley, of Her Ma
jesty s ship tiattlesnake, which took place on
the . 13th March. The fatigues incident to
surveying in a tropical climate had undermined
his health j on his arrival at Cape Yorke he
first heard of the death of his brother, Captain
C. E. Stanley, R.E., and on his coming to Syd
ney he was informed of the decease of his
father, the late Bishop of Norwich. These
bereavements acting on a system already much
debilitated, ended fatally. He was seized with
an epileptic fit on the 13th March, and died
about eight o'clock.
Some facts are stated by an English corres
pondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, n hich
may prove interesting here. Among other
things we are informed that to an application
from Mr Adderley as to the intentions of the
Colonial Office in regard of the Cape in the
matter of convicts, Earl Grey has declined to
give the honourable gentlemen any information,
but through the governor of the colony in
question. Moreton Bay however is doomed.
The Bangalore was advertised to sail for that
destiuation on the 30th November. From
some naval men who had navigated the Aus
tralian , 'seas being observed in frequent com-,
munication with the Colonial Office, it was sur
mised that some new settlement in New Hoi
land was on the tapis, designed for the special
reception of convicts. The Registrar-General
having announced the rather astounding fact,
that the population during the past year had
not increased, and trade and manufactures
being flourishing, it was believed that the rage
for emigration would be very materially
diminished- The following being an extract
from an emigrant's letter in this colony to his
friends in England, will be read with interest;
/?Dear Charlotte— I hope yon are all well— will you
please go to the Union, and aee my dear old mother if
aba is alive, and tell her we all send our kind loves to
her, and Mary and Ted— I with from iny heart she was
wi h us — we can have a joint of good fresh mutton or
beef every day now, that is what we could not get in
England, Charlotte. 1 should like you to com and
take a cup of tea with me, I could make yob a good
oue now— provisions are very cheap here — good beef
and mutton, 2d per lb ; tea, 2s per lb ; best sugar, 3d
per lb. ; batter very dear, and also cheese.'
;:( Certain parties have been endeavouring to
induce the Admiralty, to support a scheme for
.steam communication with the Australian
colonies, by means of screw propellers round
the Cape. The West Indian Steam Company
and the Peninsular and Oriental are also in
the field. Between the two latter it is said the
Admiralty will have to decide.
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