SYDNEY. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 139, 28 November 1846, Page 3

SYDNEY. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.)

Essence of Beef. —At the distribution of prizes by the Society of Arts on the 13th June last, a gold Isis medal was awarded to Mr.G.Warriner, for the "preparation and importation of essence of beef from Australia." The Criminal sessions at Hobart Town, just over, exhibited a black catalogue of offences, viz : unnatural crime, 3 —l found guilty; murder, 4 —2 found guilty ; house robbery, 2—guilty ; burglary, B—guilty; rape, I —guilty of minor offence ; forgery, 3 —guilty. Jackey Jackey was twenty-six years j of age only when he suffered. On the scaffold he solemnly protested his belief in the innocence of four of the men who suffered ; with him. He left behind him, in the possession of a clergyman who attended him, a long written history of his career in guilt, of which the following is the lastparagraph: " Sir the strong ties of earth will soon be wrenched and the burning fever of this life will soon be quenched and my grave will be a heavens —a resting place for me Wm. Westwood. Sir out of the bitter cup of misery —I have drank from my sixteenth year 10 long years, and the sweetest draught is that which takes away the misery of living death —it is the friend that deceives no man —all will then be quiet —no tyrant will disturb my repose I hope — Wm. Westwood. Sir I know bid the world ediue and all it contains. Wm. Westwood his

wrighting." A New Volcano. —The Columbine, which arrived on the 13tb, has made an exceedingly good passage from the Frieudly Islands, having been only fourteen days from Tongataboo. The following vessels were spoken by her on the Ist September: —Narwhal, Baker, of London, eighteen months out, with 1350 barrels sperm oil; Ranger, Cuthbert, of London, nineteen months out, with 600 barrels sperm; Midas, Davis, of New Bedford, twenty-six months out, with 1400 barrels black; Rambler, M'Cleive, of Nantucket, thirty-seven months out, with 1350 barrels sperm; Martha, of Nantucket, eleven months out, with 600 barrels sperm. Captain Strattan reports that a sudden volcanic eruption had occurred at the island of Amargura, about fifty miles . north-north-west of Vavou, the particulars of which we have extracted from his journal. " Having h»d occasion to visit Wallis's Island in my route from Tahiti towards Sydney, I touched there on the 20th September last, and found the French barque Adolph, Captain Moroon, lying there, laden with live pigs and poultry,-which he was about to convey to Tahiti, having obtained them from the Friendly Islands, After purchasing,

the stock he found that sufficient subsistence could not he obtained, and therefore proceeded to a small island, about fifteen miles distant from Amargura. Having dropped anchor and sent the boats ashorej they found, to their surprise, that the whole island was covered with lava to the depth of two feet. The cocoanuts had therefore been destroyed, and he was compelled to proceed to Wallis's Island for a supply. He stared that a large volcanic eruption had occurred at Amargura, and it being in my track* I resolved to call there to ascertain the particulars. September 30. — Weighed and made sail for the Friendly Islands ; saw nothing until the 9th October, when, in latitude 17*22 south, longitude 174*27, fell in with a great quantity of pumice stone. October 10th, made the island, and saw the volcano in full play, throwing up an abundance of smoke and stone. The fire was not perceptible during the days but, at night, the effect was awfully grand, as the reflection illuminated the sky for miles around. October 11th, arrived at "Vavou, and was there tcld that a week before the eruption took place several shocks of earthquakes were felt, and it was feared that a volcano was about to break forth there ; but on the night it occurred at Amargura, the wind being from the northwest, it was found in the morning that the trees were covered with sulphur.