VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 250, 21 October 1848, Page 4

VAN DIEM EN'S LAND.

We liave [Jobart Town pnpers to the 16th instant. The Legislative Council is in session. The Lieutenant Governor opening minute is too long for us to transfer it to our columns this morning. The Secretary of Slate had given up all claim on the land fund of the co'ony. Hih Lordship had also notified hit intention of bringing in a bill giving a Representative Council to the Colony during the present year. A long despatch notifies that in future all conyicts are to undergo a poition of their punishment at home, snd aie then to be sent to Van Diemen's Land with tickets-of-leave, and have their wives and families sent with them. The business before the Council was of an unimportant nature. We shall endeavour to make room fur the documents we have referred to to morrow. Trb Sydney Press.— -The Austtalian newspaper died yesterday. It was established in 1824 by Dr. "Warden and Mr. W. C. Worn worth, then juit Hrrived from England; since that time it has passad through many hands, and has for a long time lost that influence and position which it gained by the ability which it displayed in its earlier days. Want of support i< the reaFon assigned for its discontinuance. The Sydney Chivincte, alter an exiitence of about eight years, will, it is generally understood, breathe its la»t to-morrow, the Roman Catholirs, whose especial organ it has always been, not having given it sufficient countenance to enable the proprietors to continue it. There are rumour* of other papers being started ; how far they are well grounded we cannot nay. We believe, however, that a weekly paper, on " the liberal interest," is to be printed with the types hitherto used by the Chronicle. With the txception ot the Herald, there will be no paper in Sydney which has been in existence Jour years. The changes in the Colonial newspapers during the last few years have been in^st astonishing ; there is scarcely a person now connected with the pren who was so ten years since. The Sydney Gazette (the original paper of the colony), the Monitor, the Colonist, the Commercial Journal, the Observer, all papers which at one time appeared to be well established, having gradually disappeared from the political horizon, beMdes a host of minor publications which have at diff rent times been started, and after a thort existence scarcely known to the public, have been discontinued, because the printers have refused to give any more credit to the propristors. — Sydney Herald.