SYDNEY NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 137, 22 September 1847, Page 3

SYDNEY NEWS.

Yesterday's arrivals have put us in possession of Sydney intelligence to (he OtU instant. The domestic news is not of any general importance* The Legislative Council was still sitting. Among the latest notices of motion was, one respecting the reneual of Transpoitation to New South Wales, A- Bill to Naturalize Foreigneis had passed and received the Governor's assent. The new Act for facilitating the obtaining possession of tenements under a certain rent, so as to supersede the expensive and complicated course of proceeding by ejectment, is actively at work, and seems to give satisfaction. An animated dis ussion ensued on the Bth instant, on the subject of a Bill introduced by Government, to indemnify the Department of Customs for certain iarge expenses incurred unguardedly, and for having omitted to collect certain duties, which ended in the Bill having a second reading. Sir Charles Fitzroy had sent in the draft of a Bill to substitute other punishments in lieu of transportation from the Colony, to places beyond the seas. A Bill for the better regulation of Lunatic Asylums had also been brought in. A Bill for the Protection of British Seamen, and another for the Better Management of Intestate Instates, had both passed into law. We i egret to state that asserious drought affects the Couniy of Cumbetland, in particular, so a* to justify the expectation of a general failure of the giain crops in that part of the Colony — but beyond the mountain -ranges rain is reported to have fallen abundantly and the crops and pastures wpre lookin g most promising, The arable tiacts along the sea-coast to the southward | also vteie looking tolerably. j The Market for lloises to India is looking up; | but a slight decline in the prices of those two i staple articles of New South Wales' produce — wool and oil — has ta(cen place in the English maikets—wool from one penny totv\o pence per pound. The Deborah sailed from Sydney on the Bth instant, with a general cargo, and the following passeugets— Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald, four childien and two servants, Miss Fitzgerald, two Misses Johnson, Captain Briber, Mrs. and Miss Barber, Captain Bliss, Mr. New and servant, Mr. John Richards, Mr. Duker and Master Nagle. The schooner Coquette, which had arrived from the Islands, was to follow the Deborah for this poitdiiect, the schooner Terror, for the Bay of Islands and Auckland — and the Elizabeth Davies for the JBay oflsladds only,