SYDNEY.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume III, Issue 166, 10 August 1842, Page 2

SYDNEY.

Markets.— Trade was improving, a small importation of British goods was anticipated from. a rise in the United Kingdom, in all useful and consumable articles. Wheat and flour remained without alteration ; Valparaiso averages .6s. jper bushel, Chilian flour sold at £15 per ton; Pork .{lrish',), £s per barrel; Sugar. (Manilla,) £23 17s. -6d: In Spirits, the sales had been numerous. Shipping Iktelikjence. — The brig Julia for Bay of. Islands and Auckland. ' The brigantine Ann, 62 tons, for Nelson. ! The barque Jane Gpudie, 280, Goudie, for this- place. , The barque Brougham, arrived at Sydney, ira. 11th July ; she spoke the Clifford, from Nelson, for India. ' \ By the arrival of the Success, we have Sydney and other Colonial papers, up ; to July 14. , r ,c;;, c; ; _„ '. By the Bristolian* Auckland 'papers to the 20th af June arrived frpm. l which, we are glad_ to perceive that this interesting settlement is rapidly increasing in population and importance; the population, according tc a census taken oh the Ist June, being 1962 souls, and the number of houses 149. The Bishop of New Zealand arrived at Auckland on the 30th May, and on the -following day an Address, signed by three hundred " affectionate members of the Church of England, and other sincere well-wishers to her establishment," was presented to him. His Lordship sailed a few days .after bis arrival for- the Thames,

accompanied fey the protector of aborigines, in order to settle some dispute with the natives : and, on his return, immediately, sailed for the Bay of Islands, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Cotton, and the Rev. Mr. Kissling, the latter having recently arrived from England in the Louisa Campbell. Two very curious actions had heen brought in the Supreme Court. Mr. Coates,;the Sheriff and Clerk of the Councils, suM-MrrShortland, the ' Colonial Secretary, for defamation, the latter having told Governor Hobson that a Mr. Thompson had told him, that Mr. Drake, of Sydney, had said that Mr. Coates had presented a letter of credit dated after .the ship it came with had leftEnglaud,and thatabill cashed in Sydney,in consequence of that letter of credit, had been dishonoured when presented in England.; the Jury, after being locked up all night, were discharged without coming to a verdict. A similar action was brought against Mr. Thompson, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £40. Dr. S. M. D. Martin, formerly of Sydney, obtained a verdict of £541, against the proprietor's of the Auckland Standard, for dismissing him from the Editorship of that paper after they had engaged him for two years. Thirty-four allotments in the parish of Waitemate were sold at prices varying from £1 ss. to £3 6s. an acre. A saw-mill, which arrived in the Osprey, was ito be erected at Manakau, directly at the back of Auckland. .On the whole, the inhabiitants of Auckland were in high spirits at the prospect before ,them, having little doubt that they will receive a large influx of immigrants in the spring, and having no fear that the interest of the New .'Zealaed Company will have sufficient weight with the Conservative Government to induce them to direct vernor Hobsoirto remove -the seat of Government to Cook's Straits. — Sydney Herald, July 11.