Valparaiso.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 24, 17 January 1844, Page 4

Valparaiso.

A correspondent of the Sydney Morn ing Herald, who has lived in Valparaiso, writes in a similar dolorous and uninviting strain : Ist. The climate is enervating to European constitutions, whereby the mechanic will have to lay by his tools from about 11 to 4 o'clock every day, inconsequence of the oppressive heat. 2nd. The natives, most of them descended from Spanish and Portuguese, regular enemies of En= glishmea, and a language very different to ours, 3d. |The black ants swarm every dwelling in countless myriads, not "a thing escapes them. $, -lib. The larjj« vampire bat frequents the bedi.H/ms of every inhabitant, and whose bite draws ill. blood very freely. oHj. On the testimony of Mr. liesketb, British Cm sol i,i Rio, out of every English family of

children landing, four out ot every six fall victims ■ o ihe annual fever of the country. The churchvards in the town will bear ample testimony to the ravages of the sick fever, as it is called. Parents ponder ere you embark yourselves and family to a country not English. You will bitterly repent when too late.

P. S. By-thesby, such rats, swarming every room, they are, literally speakirg, nearly as twice as large as ours.

Private letters from .Atliens, announce that the affairs of Greece had arrived at a crisis, and that nothing but a complete change of system could prevent the kingdom from falling a prey to anarchy.

A letter from Tabriz brings the disastrous account of an earthquake having nearly destroyed the whole of the town of Khoi, between the Luke of Uinia and Persia, by which upwards of a thousand people perished. The inbabitauis ot Tabriz had also beeu alarmed by frequent and violent shocks.

A feeling is gained ground in favour of consolidating all the state debts of America into one general public debt, the interest upon which is to be paid out of a tax upon laud, to be imposed by Congress. }

Pnseyism was exciting much attention in New York.

Transported Convicts. —An important act was passed on the 3d uit. respecting transported convicts with a view of amending the law relating to " Pardons and Tickets of Le;jve." By the statute 2 and 3 William IV., c, (52, a period was definitively fixed before the governors of the respective colonies could grant "tickets of leave" to the numerous convicts. In transportation for sevruyias, tour years of service was required before a " ticket of leave " could be granted; if for fourteen years, a period ofsx years; and eight years on a sentence of transportation for life. The present act repeals the former law respecting " tickets of lea»t>," -mul declares. ■ by the second section taat the governors shall, from time to time, recommend such ielons as they shall think fit to be recommended lor an absolute or con s ditional pardon. Persons who hold " tickets of leave," can, under the present act, possess peisonal property, as well as bring actions, notwithstanding a conviction. The property so acquired, on the ticket of lea.ve being revoked, to vest in the crown, and to be disposed of at the discretion of the governors of the colonies. The operation of this act is provided for by the fifth section; " And be it enacted, that this act shall be proclaimed by the governor or lieutenant-governor of every placs to which felons and oftenners have been or now may be transported by law, within six weeks after a copy of it shall have been received by him, and shall take effect in every such plaoe from the day of the proclamation thereof; and in case her Majesty shall be placed, with the advice of the Privy Council, toap. point any new plaoe or places beyond the seas to which felons and other offenders under sentence or order of transportation may be conveyed, this act shall take effect in every such place from the time of such appointment." Success of the Atmospheric Railway,—A trial of the Atmospheric Railway took place at six o'clock, and the deepest interest prevailed as to the result. It was completely successful. Some carriages being placed on the line, with the engine constructed under tbe superintendence of Messrs. Clegg and Samuda, the patentees, and alt tbe necessary arrangements being made, the train started from Glasthule, a little below Kingstown, and proceeded at a very rapid rate, travelling over a mile and a quarter in three and a half minutes, The arrival of this train, the first ever moved upon any regular lailwav by atmospheric pressure, was hailed by loud cheering at Dalkey, The line of railway from Kingstown to Dalkey, is almost a succession of deep curves, the Railway Company having been strictly limited by their contract to the old tiuin road used by the Commissioners lor ereciirg the harbour of Kingstown, and the ground, in some places, especially towards the terminus, presents an ascent, which, in the ordinary propulsion by steam, would require the employment of great additional power. Under such circumstances, the success of the atmospheric system may be regarded as completely established. Mr. James Pim, jun., and Mr_ Bergin, the treasurer and secretary of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, to whom the public are mainly indebted for the successful carrying out of this great experiment, were present, and several distinguished engineers and scientific persons had also an opportunity of witnessing the proceedings.

Assault and False Imprisonment—On Thursday, Mr. Corrie, a passenger by tbe _ Persian, obtained a veidict, damages £2OO. against Captain Oppenheim, the master of that ship, for coutiniDg- him for ten days to his cabin, without any reasonable cause.— Sydney Paper. Execution of Soldiers.—Accounts have been received of the execution at Manilla of the soldiers engaged in the mutinous outbreak at that place ; 41 wens executed on the 9th of February, hiid the remaining 39 on the lltb. The rin<r-'e-ider, a sergeant, had hij hand chopped oti pricr io his being h«og.