SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 114, 2 September 1846, Page 2

SYDNEY.

[From .the Sydney Morning Herald.] H.M.S. Carysfort, guns, Capt. G. Seymour, arrived at Sydney August 2, with the new Governor Sir Charles Fitzroy and suite. Immediately that she was signalled, the Rose steamer proceeded to sea to tow the Carysfort into the harbour. The Carysfort left England the 18th March, and the Cape of Good Hope the 17th June. News had been received at the Cape of. Good Hope from England to the Bth of April. Sir Charles Fitsroy disembarked from the Carysfort the following day at noon, under a salute of nineteen guns. The yards were manned, and numerous boats accompanied him to the Circular Wharf, where the military and other officers were ready to receive " him. Upon landing, a salute, was fired from Port Phillip, and the procession then advanced towards the Government House. Mr. Spain, formerly Commissioner of Land Claims ip New Zealand, and Mr. J. M. Gould, formerly of Wellington, had been admitted as

attorneys of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. . Married, on Thursday,. July 9, at St. John's Church, Parramatta, hy. the Rev. Henry T. Stiles, M.A., Alfred Rush.-Esq., 58th Regiment, second son of 'George Rush, Esq., of Elfenham Hall, Essex, and Farthinghoe I«odge*vNQi:thamptonshjre, to Mary Warkman, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Anderson, C.B. and K.H., of H.M. 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment. Colonel .M'Cleverty.and Mrs. M'Cleverty sailed from Sydney August 1, in the brig Maukin for Auckland. | I

Sydney Markets.—Wheat 6s. to 6s. 6d. per bushel; flour, best quality, £16 per ton; bread, 21b. loaf, 4d.; maize, 4s. to 4s. 3d.; oats, 4s. 6d. to ss. a-bushel; English barley, 4s. 6d. to 55.; potatoes, £5 to £6 per ton; Van Diemen's Land onions, £30 per ton; good onions, 6d. per lb. retail; j Glenlee butter, 2s. 6d. per lb.; best salt butter, 2s. pet lb.; Bathurst'ebeese, Is. per lb. retail; bacon, 6d. per lb. wholesale; cattle, at from £3 to £5 per head; fat sheep, from 10s. to 12s. 6d. each.

The Weather.—We regret to state the farmers are suffering much in consequence of the want, for some time past, of rain. No improvement, therefore, has taken place in this respect since our last report; on the contrary, the mortality of the stock is ou the increase, and the crops at present exhibit an aspect by no means encouraging. The want of rain is very much felt in the Cowpasture District, as well as all along the great sou them road. It appears also that the drought is' so severe along the course of the Nepean, that the fish are dying in great quantities. Now that mail-steamers are running regularly between Callao, Valparaiso, and Panama, where the mails are forwarded to meet the West India steamers, there is every probability of communications from this colony reaching London via South America in little more than a hundred days. We have no doubt, therefore, that merchants and others having important letters, will avail themselves of this route whenever they have an opportunity, more especially at this season of the year, when so few vessels sail for London direct. The Carysfort, the Abel Gotver, the Coaxer, and the Columbine, are all expected to sail for South Amer ca in a few days. ' The barque Jane was sold at public auction, by Mr. Samuel - Lyons, on Thursday last; to Captain Hindson, for £950. Itis reported by the Caiysfort, that H.M.S. Kortii Star had called at the Cape, and had there disembarked her marines, who bad been sent to the frontier to reinforce the military there assembled to defend the outposts of the colony against the incursions of the Kafirs. The Vixen has met with most tempestuous^ weather since leaving Auckland, and being so deeply laden has had to contend with great difficulties! She had advanced some distance on her passage, and was in latitude 33*55 S., longitude 171*43 E., when the two lower pintles of the-rudder were carried away in a gale of wind, and she was compelled to bear up for the Bairier. After leaving the Barrier she again experienced a succession of gales, and had to seek shelter at Wangaroa, She spoke nothing on the passage. ' Our friends in England had been working at the Steam Navigation question. A public meeting was held on the 17th March, for the consideration of the subject, at which a strong feeling in favour of a line connecting Sydney with Singapore via Batavia was manifested. We have not a report of the proceedings; but we learn that Sir George Larpent was in the chair, and that the principal speakers were the Hon. F. Scott, Mr. Waghorn, and Mr. Mark Boyd. Emigration to South Australia had heen renewed.^ A vessel with emigrants was to sail for Adelaide every month.

The "Heroine." —We regret to state that the schooner Heroine, Captain Mackenzie, to whom the public have been so often indebted for his nautical surveys, and also for the gratuitous conveyance of Dr. Leichhardt and party from Port Essington, has been totally lost in Torres * Straits. The Heroine left Sydney on the Bth*April for Port Essington and Singapore, having .on board as passengers Mr. Percy Earl, Rev. A. Confalioniere, Mr. James Fagan, Miss Potts, Mr. Hogan, and Mr. R. Stubbs. The Lnchantress, which arrived at Copang prior t« the sailing of the Thomas Lord, reported that the Heroine had run on a sunken reef in Torres Straits during the night, and went down so suddenly that there was not sufficient time to lower the boats. Luckily the Enchantress was in company, and having missed the light from the other vessel, hove to until morning, when they rescued the survivors who had reached'some of the sand banks. Eight persons met with a watery grave, Mr. Earl, Miss Potts, and two other passengers, supposed to be the Rev. A. Confalioniere and Mr. Hogan; but of this there is no certainty, as Captain Se&grove did not receive a very au-

thenticated report. Four of the crew were also drowned, and Captain Mackenzie, with the others of the passengers and crew, had a very narrow escape from sharing the same fate. The Enchantress conveyed the whole of the survivors to Singapore, from which port we may shortly expect to hear the full particulars of {he unfortunate event. Mr. Earl intended to prosecute his researches as a naturalist on the northern coast of New Holland, and Messrs. Confalioniere and Hogan intended to establish a Roman Catholic Mission to the natives in the neighbourhood of Port Essington.