EXTRACTS FROM SYDNEY PAPERS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 43, 27 December 1842, Page 2

EXTRACTS FROM SYDNEY PAPERS.

ENGLISH INTELLIGENCE. (From the Sydney Morning Herald). We received yesterday, by the Seahorse, via Van Diemen’s Land, our files of London papers to the 18th August. The rioting in the manufacturing districts still continued, and was assuming an alarming aspect. Large bodies of men, in some cases from ten to fifteen thousand in a mass, were going through the country compelling persons to leave their employ, declaring that no more work should be done until the people’s charter was passed. In most cases, they had destroyed some portion of the steam engine attached to the factory, which of course stopped the entire machinery. The military, had come in contact with them on three or four" occasions, and several had been shot dead, and a great many wounded. Large bodies oftropps were moving towards the disturbed districts, and it was anticipated that there would be a dreadful example made before quiet would be restored. ... .., ~ Fine weather continued, and the harvest,: which was early as well as plentiful, was being rapidly got in.. Lord Hill had resigned the command of the army on account of ill health, and had been succeeded by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The Hobart Town Advertiser, quoting from a paper of August 20th, says, that a brig had made a passage from America in ten days, and had brought intelligence of the satisfactory adjustment of the Boundary Question,