SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 243, 27 November 1847, Page 3

SYDNEY.

[From the Sydney Morning Herald.} j The Influenza. — Some idea of the extent to winch this troublesome epidemic prevails, may be formed from the fact that in one school in Sydney, where the average attendance of -children for some months has been two hundred and fifty, there was last week only an average of sixty ; and that in another school of three hundred only eighty were present. Considerable alarm was lately created in the peaceable town of Parraroatta by the arrival of a considerable body of Hebridean savages, forming a portion of Mh Boyds imr portations, since armed with bludgeons, andall .x?Hi n g in unanimous discord. It appeared that they had broken away from their station, and were making their way for Sydney which they tried to do along the banks of theTParramatta river, but failing they returned and endeavoured to board the steamer that lay in the river, supposing it to be the same that had brought them, and ought consequently to carry them back. They were narro.wly watched but not interfered with by the police. At daylight next morning they set off again for Sydney. — Eighteen were picked up by the Emu steamer. — Some were in a state of nudity, others with a slight cincture only about the waist. Beyond theit extravagant shouts and gestures, they appear to have done up mischief, eight afterwards entered a shop, and one seized a loaf ior which be was captured. The continued importations of these people have caused general dissatisfaction. The military barracks ground in Sydney proposed to be sold, it is estimated, will bring upwards of £64,000 without the huildings. The Customs lately effected a seizure of 18,000 cigars on board the brig Governor from Manilla, not having been entered in the manifest. The period of copartnership of the Commercial Bank ceased on the Ist instant, but the business continues to go on under a remodelled plan. 1 ' On Sunday the 10th ult., such Was the heat at Camden, Cowpastures, that a therino"meter'in the sun stood at 120.