THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Tuesday, July 17, 1849.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume V, Issue 214, 17 July 1849, Page 2

THE SOUTHERN CROSS. Tuesday, July 17, 1849.

LUOEO NON URO. "If I have been extinguished, yet there rise A thousand beacons fronuthe spark r bore;"

■By the •" Maukin" we have' * Sydney news to July 2nd There had been no-further arrivals from England, although several vessels are over due. The convict question still continues to engross considerable attention. An address to "Sir C. Fitzßoy ;iad been j*ot up, protesting against the spirit of the recent meeting, 'but it only obtained a few signatures. ' : l ' . A bill " had been -introduced into the Legislative Council to re-appoint Mr. Scott j as Parliamentary agent in England for the I colony of New South Wales. " , • A petition- from the Hunter River Vineyard Association has also been presented to the Council, memorializing the Home Government to admit Australian wines on the same footing as those of the Gape. , The " Sydney Shipping Gazette,"' in order to correctthe' erroneous impression afloat respecting the number of people who have left- Sydney for California, states that 12 vessels have^ sailed in all, 1 carrying 299 passengers. ' ' Business still continues dull both -in upcountry and- town operations. <We observe the brig " Susan" laid on for California. The last five emigrant vessels landed no j less a- number than 1256 -souls,' chiefly" mechanics,; "who • have been distributed throughout the Colony.- (1 ! A case of ofllcial neglect on the part' of some of the Government officers,- who hadallowed ! an' act for the incorporation of Melbourne to fall aside, and lie 15 months undisturbed in Sydney before despatching it to England for ratification, is severely commented -on by the Sydney newspapers. The x aci having become of ,no.effectdn consequence of the delay.