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SHIPPING.

(From the Hobart Town Courier, of June, id.)

Arrived on "Wednesday, the 15th inst. the biig Dart, 190 tops, Captain W. Hindson, from the Mauritius, with a cargo of sugar intended for Sydney, having touched at Hobart Town to tako on board a supply of biscuit, &c.-Passengor, Mr.

Polack.

Arrived on Thursday the 16th the ship Curler, 345 tons, Captain Jnmo3 Boyd, from London, 11th November,"and the Cape of Good Hope 26th April, with a general cargo of goods. Passengers-Miss Curtin, Messrs. Purcevnl, Cherry, Good and Rowe ; also for Sydney, J. Kinchela, Esq. the New Attorney

General for New South Wales.

Sailed on Thursday, the transport ship Elha, Captain Groves, for Penang and Calcutta in ballast, with Captain Moore, Lieutenant Lewin, and the detachment of marinos who go on to join tho crew of tho new teak built man of war the Calcutta at

Bombay, navigated home by Captain. Jervoise, late of the Success, now¡ordered to be broken up and sold

at auction in India.

Sailed on Thursday for Launceston, tho now schooner Farewell, lately built in Livorpool-stroet, by Mr. Macdonald, with a large assortment of goods, chiefly for the Van Diemen's Land Company.

The ship Czar has completed her loading at Laun- ceston, and the mail is advertised to be closed next week, affording a good opportunity to send tho duplicates of despatches intended to he forwarded by tho John.

' In consequence of the long continued dry weather on this side of the island, the progress of agricultural improvement is much retarded, it being next to impossible to breakup the new soil until it is well soaked with rain, and scarcely an acre of additional ground will, we fear, be added this

season to the former extent of arable land.

Although the weather during the week in the neighbourhood of Hobart Town, has been moist and showery, the fall of rain has been si tri- fling that the stiff lands continue unrelaxed, and the plough is still kept back in its operations. On the northern side of the island, howover, tho rains have been abundant. .The price of wheat continues at about 5s. a bushel, and a rise seems to bo anticipated, as it is understood the supply in the King's stores is diminishing, and some tenders for a further supply

are looked for.

Butcher's meat in general is good-and plentiful in town, and several now and well furnished shops havo been opened within the last few days. The competition among tho butchers seems as yet, however, to be trifling, and the price for mutton continues as before at 3\d. and 4L or in some in stances at 3d. by tlie carcass Pork this season is of a very capital quality, owing to the liberal pro- vender at the barn and the price of corn not being sufficient on the farms in the interior to defray the expense of carriage to town in addition to that of cultivation. Hams and bacon of the very'best kind are in consequence making in considerable quantities.

The question as to tho\ pauper emigra- tion from England to this country, we conceive,

will mainly rest upon this ppirjt, namely, whether

the emigrants are men of good character and indus- trious habits, but who in consequrnce of tho hue depressed state of things in England could not find employment, and consequently became burdens on the public, or whether they are habitually and here- ditary paupers from indolence and indisposition to work. Of the latter class, from our own experience of á long residence in a populous part of England, there is, and as long as the system of English poor laws lasts, always must be a very large proportion, and if they be the persons intended to be sent hither, we fear they will he as likely to continue burdens on the public on this side of the line as on tho other 73ut if the emigrants aro to consist of Üia former industrious class of useful men, the more wc can be the means of bringing to our shores the better, for they will speedily, by the fruits of their labour, remunerate any expense that may havo attended their passage.

A committee of public officers has, we learn, been appointed by His Excellency to consider the propriety, agreeably to instructions from homo, of levying a tax upon all assigned servants in the colony, at a minimum rate of 1 OÍ.each. We have so repeatedly, and with such unanswerable arguments, pointed out in our columns the very expensive na- ture of convict labour in this colony, that it would be a waste of time now to enlarge further upon the impolicy of such a measure as this. In the earlier periods of the colony, and during ColonelSorell's ad- ministration, that gentleman's estimate, as reported, wo believe, to the colonial minister at the time, was that the productive labour of a prisoner in Van Diemen's Land was equal to about one-third of that derived from the same description of labourers in England. Since that time, by the improved disci- pline which has been introduced by means of the poiice and other arrangements, this estimate has no doubt been in a considerable degree improved, yet the heavy tax which falls upon the head of tho em- ployer, both directly from the conduct and character of the servant himself, and indiroctly from the va- rious trying circumstances and losses incessantly to be encountered in a new country, makes it an appal- ling thing to contemplate even in prospect any mea- sure that would increase thoheavy load under which he now labours, or which would be the means of drawing from him any, however few, of the hard earned shillings he may have been enabled to scrape together to meet the emergencies, the expensive and unavoidable emergencies, of a settler's lile.

There are about 50 prisoners in Hobart Town gaol for trial at the next Criminal Sessions, which commence on Monday the 27th instant.

We regret extremely to state, no less

than 4 out of the 7 unfortunate men who were over-

whelmed by the fall of the rock, while digging in the New town road, as mentioned in our last, have since died of the very severo and internal bruises they received in the accident. The remaining 3 are, we hear, likely to recover.

An inquest was held on Tuesday at the King George Inn, Liverpool-street, before Joseph Hone, Esq., Coroner, and a most respectable jury, to investigate the circumstances attending the premature and distressing death of Mrs. Hammond, widow of the late J. M. Hammond, Esq., of this place. It appeared that Mrs. Hammond, who had been labouring under very severe illness, had been removed lost week by her relation, the Rev. Mr. Yalden.to Now Norfolk, notwithstanding that gen- tleman had received a letter from her medical atten

\ dant, Dr. Westbrook, of which the following is a

copy :

" Sir, I have just been informed that it is your intention to íemove Mrs. Hammond to New Norfolk to-morrow. If so, I bog leave to inform you that you do it at the risk of her life, and at your own peril."

She had not been at New Norfolk two days, when the unfortunate lady di:d, and her body was brought to town on Saturday. The inquest sat on Tuesday till one o'clock on V\ ed tcsday morning, when it was adjourned till three o'cluck in the afternoon, when after 12 hours further investigation a verdict was returned of ' died by t/ie vh-tfarion of God,'

A most distressing case of forgery, unprecedented in the colony, which has como to light dining tho week, hasoccasionodn considerable sensation among tbo morcantile part Of tho commu- nity. Like every thing of tho kind, however, wo trust,the reality will prove much less than rumour slates, and that tho caso, upon which wo forbear in the present state farthor to touch, will, upon investi- gation, be less serious than has been reported.

The arrival of the long expected Cur- ler, has supplied us with the long missing files of our London journals for the months of Octobor and

November.

The total produce of the whalebone, from tho Davis straits and Greenland fishery last year, did not exceed 100 tons, instead of about 1000, as in former years.

It may not be generally known, though it ought tobo, that tho application of common salt has beon recently found to be on effective euro for tho bite of serpents, and other noxious animals.

The new edition of Sweet's Hortus Britnnnicus, just published, contains Btfveinl boun- tiful specimens of the plants of this country, but the field for the botanist in Van Di em en's land may bo said tobe as yet almost untouched. , , ,

A very remarkable high tide, being

3 to 4 foot above its usual level, occttried at Hobart town on Sunday night. The lato gales on tho southorn coast wero no doubt tho cause of this, pre- venting the efflux of the water at its rogular time.

Five of tho piers at the new bridge across tho Derwent at Bridgewater, have ahoady been completed, and the solid ombankment beyond is rapidly proceeding. Before another year elapses we hope to soo this most desirable undertaking open to the public. j

We lately recorded a remarkable in- stance of the astonishing labour gone through in the course of a single day by the new Lord Chancellor. Brougham ; the following however will be allowed to be m>arly, if not quito as great, although similar instances aro of very frequent occurrence among our pin makers, as tho revolutionists of tho 23rd of last month were pleased to call -them. On Tuosday Mr. Hone presided as Coroner on the melancholy death of Mrs. Hammond, till one o'clock of Wed- nesday morning, and on Wednesday till the inquest was concluded, at 3 o'clock of Thursday morning^ At IO o'clock ho opened the Court of Requests for the Hobart town district, and before leaving tho

room decidod 124 cases which wero for trial !

Governor Stirling, it is stated, has written to the Secretary of Statoto the colonies, en- treating that convicts mnybe8ont to Swan river, and that that settlement may bo convertod into a convict colony on a similar footing with Van Diemen's Land

and Now South Wales.

The ponies lately imported from Timor, by the ship Edward, (Lambe,) were sold nt^lS each. A fine lnrge river had boen discovered he hind the Darling Mountains, and was called the

Avon.

The drama of Van Diemen's land still keeps its footing with the people of London, nnd is acted almost every altornate night at tho Surry, tho most popular of the minor theatres.

A correspondent sends us'the follow-

ing colloquy, which took place" the other day in Grey's inn lane. Dustmaiir-" I tolls you wot, Tim, I shall cutthat'ere Free and Easy, it's a grow- ing quite low nnd wulgar." * Sootbag-" So 'tis, Master Bob, you DIS tho only Gcmman as vas a Geminan, there last meeting.

MACQUARIE DISTRICT, JUNE 8,1831. The natives have yesterday committed a shocking murder in this neighbourhood. A poor young woman, only 16 years of ago, with a little infant at her breast, was suddenly surprised by these savages and most barbarously beaten to death, by repeated blows of their waddles about the head. The child however was left unhurt. They afterwards speared Mrs. Triffit, and chased Dr. Robertson, who has lately come to settle here, and who made a narrow escape. They walked off witth 3 bags of sugar, and 2 muskets from Mr. Triffit's. They also robbed Mr. Marzetti's of 2 guns, and 1 from Mr. Bell's, but were repulsed from Mr. Evans's.

THE OMNIBUS,-We last week men- tioned the intended project of a regular stage coach,

to travel between HobartTown and Launceston, two of which Mr. Webb hns brought out for the purpose in the Duckenfield. We sincerely hope this undertaking may bo sot on foot, and that it will succeed. Several gentlemen, we are glad to hear, have already signi- fied their wish to take a share in (ho undertaking. About 40 horses it is calculated will be necessary along the road, many of which might be contributed at the different stages by tho settlers in the neigh- bourhood, to the mutual advantage of themsolvcs and the public. ;

The author of Pelham and Paul Clif ! ford, has published a new satirical work called the : Siamese Twins, with humourous illustrations.

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