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Sydney.

SITTING MAGISTRATE-R. BROOKS, Esq. Assize of Bread, the Loaf of 2lbs. 5½d.

Average Prices of Articles at yesterday's market:

Wheat 9s. 3½d. per bushel ; maize 3s. 9d. per do. potatoes 6s. 6d. per cwt ; eggs 2s. per dozen ; butter 2s. 6d. per lb. and fowls 3s. 6d. per couple.

On Tuesday died, Sarah, daughter of Mr. William Evans, in Castlereagh-street, in consequence of a mortal injury received from her cloaths taking fire   eight days before that of her dissolution, at the house of Mr. Cooke. She was 14 years of age ; and was in the morning dressing an infant by the fire-side, when her cloaths took fire; under which dreadful disaster the child in her charge appeared to have been her chief care : she threw it to a distance from her; the master of the house went in upon the alarm and   with the assistance of his wife, who was also severely burnt in the effort, extinguished the flame-but only in time to protract the suffering of the unfortunate     young creature. During the short remainder of the time allotted to her upon earth, though miserably prolengthing her last stage of misery and torture, she was attended by a gentleman of the faculty (Mr. Bland) with a solicitude which reflects the highest credit to his feelings ; and for which the parents of the unfortunate child request us thus publicly to offer him their grateful thanks.    

George Grey and William Trimm, the two unfor- tunate men condemned at the Criminal Sessions in March last; the former for the crime of murder, and the latter for sheep stealing, were executed on the

11th inst. at Hobart Town, pursuant to their sentence.

By the Claudine, British Journals are said to be re- ceived down to March last ; though the latest we have   been able to procure a sight of is the Liverpool Ad- vertiser of Feb. 7, from which we have made some se- lections, as will be seen under the head of British In- telligence.

From the Calcutta Papers received by the Mary we have had occasion to make selections of a truly inter- esting nature, informing us of a rebellion in Ceylon,   where His Majesty's 73d Regiment, which but a short time since left numerous friends in this Colony, is gal- lantly engaged in the subduction of the revolters.

In the Extracts from the India Papers inserted in our present columns, we have felt our warmest sympa- thies excited by the melancholy tidings of the death of Lieutenant JOHN MACLAINE, of the 73d Regiment. The visitations of Divine Providence seldom produce a greater portion of regret than when youth and talent are prematurely cut off, and the prospects they hold out, of dispensing continued happiness and consolation to their Relatives and Friends, suddenly disappointed,   and fatally arrested by the hand of death ! This remark peculiarly applies to the lamented subject of this obituary. Mr. Maclaine entered very early in life into the military service ; and four years of that life were passed with his Regiment in this Colony, the chief part of which time, and until his return to Europe, he was Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency Ge- neral MACQUARIE, to whom he was nearly related ; and here all who knew him will bear the most cordial tes- timony to the goodness of his heart, the urbanity of his   manners, and those amiable qualities which distinguish the soldier, and dignify the man ; and though the le- vities of youth may sometimes be contrasted with the sober deportment of maturer years, and Mr. Maclaine might not be entirely exempt from his share of those frailties to which inexperienced youth is liable, yet they never threw a shade over his private virtues, or

derogated from that purity of principle which governed all his actions; and endeared him to his numerous friends and associates.

Mr. Maclaine left this Colony four years ago for Eng- land, where he remained but a short time before he joined the 2d battalion of his Regiment on the Conti- nent, and afterwards served under the illustrious WEL- LINGTON in France ; from whence he joined the 73d at Ceylon ; and in gallantly leading a detachment, fell, at the early age of 25, in the manner detailed in the extracts we have inserted.

In expressing our regret at an event that will be long and sincerely deplored by this young Gentle-   man's Relations and Friends, we are yielding an un- feigned tribute of respect to departed merit, which claims and will ever claim, an honorable rank and re- membrance in Society, and be transmitted, with, like endearing recollections, to posterity.

From the perusal of the English paper in our hands, we neither perceive, nor have we heard of any changes in the maze of politics which are at all impor- tant, so far as affects the general tranquility of Europe. Spain and her South American provinces are however still engaged in the contest for superiority ; and whe- ther this struggle of the soi-disant patriots for inde- pendence may not eventually involve other nations is a question which the chances may in time reply to. Ve- nezuela declares itself a Republic independent of every other, and assumes the title of the Seven United States of Venezuela. This is restoring to the world the realities of things that have for centuries past been looked upon as fabulous. The histories of Greece will be now more interesting than they have ever been in mo- dern times, from the strength of corresponding feature which must necessarily arise from the formation of a group of petty states and principalities neighbouring upon each other, and contending for pre-eminence. Dr. Morse asserts, in his Geography printed in 1797, that the population of the whole province of Venezuela was estimated at 100,000 souls. This pro- vince has been nine years embroiled in a contest with its parent country ; during which, its thin population could not have much increased ; for in the Torrid Zone (and Venezuela lies in 10° 30' North), the in- crease of the human species is even less than problema- tical -or why, since the year 1550, the annual impor- tation of thousands of African wretches to perish under the superintendance of their charitable owners, exuded from the countries north of Cancer? The islands of the Torrid Zone are by nature provided with fruits suf- ficient for the support of their original population ; and were not annual supplies of whites to arrive from Eu- rope, as blacks had been from the coast of Guinea, a few years would probably determine the question : The Venezuelans have been a good deal harassed by the fatigues of warfare -certainly in the climate they were reared in, which was much against the Spaniards sent against them ; but still it must be considered, that a distressing war is not likely to increase a population, that had not expanded itself during several centuries of such tranquility as they enjoyed under their Iberian conquerors ; and thence results, that the endeavour in modern times to establish a free Republic of large extent, being 100 leagues in length, and 100 leagues in breadth, with less than one eighth of the population of London only, must appear chimerical in the extreme.   The contest between the mother and its disobedient children is carried on with the most bitter vehemence; but it is nevertheless flattering to humanity, that the numbers which engage are not very numerous upon either side ; so that nothing like THERMOPYLAE or WATERLOO is likely to take place upon the isthmus of Darien, unless foreign interferences should arise. -It does not appear that any uninterested Power has manifested an inclination to participate in these hosti- lities; but we observe with satisfaction, that the Con- gress of Venezuela has declared her ports open to Bri- tish manufactures, which must there find their way through the other provinces, and insure a market on the shores of Spanish America, wherein the British interests have hitherto ever been respected.

In the House of Lords, Jan. 29, a Bill for repealing the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act was received back from the Commons without any amendment.

A letter received in London from Rio Janeiro, dated Nov. 20, states authentically the whole of Chili being in the hands of the patriots, except Talcuana, a port named after its Cape, from which it is distant 6 miles, and is one of two good roads in the Bay of Concep- tion.  

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