SYDNEY.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume 19, Issue 62, 19 June 1841, Page 3

SYDNEY.

It is reported that Sir George Gipps, immediately after the approaching "session of the Legislative Council was over, would proceed to Port Phillip. The Maconochie system of dealing with convicts at Norfolk Island, after having been ridiculed as the scheme of a madman, is reported to be succeeding in a most satisfactory manner. The system regards a criminal as a human being, and appeals to the reason instead' of to the fear of the individual.

We obtain the following from the Sydney Herald. In addition to these letters, Dillon has written in the same style respecting "Missionary doings in Tongataboo. Knowing that the letters alluded to in the extract are a compound of ignorance and falsehood, we are not prepared to give evidence to his charges against thf Missionaries in the South Seas. The foolish man has laboured under the mistaken idea that language of the kind would be agreeable to the fastidious Lord John Russell. The treatment he will experience we suspect will doubtless be attributed by such a man as Dillon to any but the right cause ; it will however be such as the means he has taken to obtain some paltry post under Government will richly merit. New Zealand. — We received through the Post Office some dirj"s ago, a s,mal! pamplet entitled " Extract of three letters to the High t Hon. Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Chevalier Dillon, on the subject of Colonizing Xcw Zealand, 1841." After a hasty (we admit) perusal of 'he Chevalier's letters, which purport to be a kind of ri: ming historical notice of New Zealand, from 18M to ISiO, we were at a loss to divine what his drift was, until we rear-lied the close of his remarks, where he winds up by stating " I hope your Lordship will be so good as to excuse the liberty I have taken in trespassing on your time with this long letter, and that you will be pleated to consider my claim for employment for one of the many situations that must be filled in the Colony of New Zealand." We have not heard whether the Chevalier's modest request has been complied with or not — we suspect not however. Dillon is particulary severe on the Missionaries, who, he states, arc grasping and avaricious, and more bent on secular than religious pursuits. E. G. Wakciield also comes jn for a share of the Chevalier's good wishes. The inhabitants of Sydney were still suffering severely from scarletina.