SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 226, 29 September 1847, Page 2

SYDNEY.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald."] The Thomas Lowry. — Upon the detachment of ihe 99th Regiment arriving in Sydney by the Thomas Lowry, Irora Port Nicholson, a highly complimentary letter of thanks was addressed to Captain Graham, by Major Last, for the attention and kindness shown to the officers and men during the voyage. It was reported by a vessel arrived at the Mauritius from England, with news to the middle of May, that money was so scarce in Great Britain, though the great drain of capital fox the purchase of foreign provisions, that interest had risen to 12 and 13 per cent. The Will Forgeries. — Mr. Barber, the London solicitor, who was transported on a conviction of participation in the famous London will forgeries, and who, after a three years detention in that hell upon earth, Norfolk Island, received a conditional pardon, is now in Sydney, and has submitted the whole particulars of his case, both before and after conviction, to the Law Society, from which body, after mature deliberation, he has received a full and unqualified declaration of their conviction of his innocence. If Mr. Barber be really innocent, and who can doubt it after what has transpired, what compensation can be given him for the injuries hi has sustained ? The Governor has declined, from the state of the revenue, to place the sum of £5,000 on the estimates for deepening the Yarra.