SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 47, 29 January 1842, Page 3

SYDNEY.

The Newspaper Press.—The following are the general objects of the bill having reference to the Newspaper Press of this Colony, prepared by the Attorney General, and which was read a first time j n Council on Tuesday last:—No. 1. " A bill to repeal so much of an Act, intituled, 4 An Act for preventing 1 the mischiefs arising from the Printing a „d Publishing Newspapers and Papers of a like mature, by persons not known, and for regulating the printing and publication of such papers in other respects ; and also for restraining the abuses arising from the publication of blasphemous and seditious Libels, as relates to the sentence of banishment on a second conviction, and further to amend the same." It is proposed, by this act, to reperi so much of the said recited act, 8 Geo. IV., >'o.2,as authorise the punishment of banishment to be passed on persons convicted a second time of the publication of blasphemous or seditious Libels. That in future no actions shall be instituted tor the recovery of penalties under the said recited act, or the proposed act, except in the name of the Attorney General at Sydney, or the Crown Prosecutor a t Melbourne. That persons sued for penalties, under the said recited act, at any time before the passing of the proposed act, may apply to the .Court to stay proceedings, upon certain conditions. As to the mode of proceeding for the recovery of penalties—and appeal. Transportation.—lt appears that an order lias been received by the Indian Government, from the Colonial Secretary, prohibiting after the date of its receipt, the transportation of soldiers, or other British subjects, to New South Wales. The document does not substitute any other place of banishment in lieu of this colony, and in these circumstances of uncertainty, the Commander-in-Chief ofti\Q Indian Army had issued an order, restraining Courts' Martial from passing sentence of transportation upon soldiers until it was known whither they were to be sent. A Vagabond—On Tuesday last, a man named James Spring, who had a narrow escape at the Quarter Sessions' Court of being convicted of stealing a cash-box from Mr. Rowe, the Government Printer, was brought before the Sydney Bench,charged with being drunk and a rogue and 'ragabond. He was recommended to the notice of the constables, on account of the character given of him by the Chief Constable. He was sent back to goal, in order that inquiry might be made .into the mode of getting his living.

Town Lands,—The Governor is determined

>tkt those who think that the valuable lands in Sydney and its neighbourhood might be sold, so as to do away with the necessity of raising money on loan shall have their theory tested, I two new streets to be called Bay-street, and ' Globe-street, having been marked out at the south end of the town, and twenty-one allotments in these streets and Parramatta-street, king advertised for sale on the 10th February, at upset prices from £5 to £ 0 per foot frontage; the total upset price of the land is £9,364. As new streets are being marked out we would press upon the Government the necessity of putting up some small allotments, say thirty feet by seventy w eighty, fit for the erection of houses adapted for the occupation of working people. This would have the effect of reducing rents, as it would enable mechanics and other persons who We sums from £IOO to £3OO iu the savings' bank to purchase an allotment, and by the pursuance of |pd economy put up a house for tnemselves. By putting up the land in large allotmeuts, speculators are induced to purchase with the intention °i cutting them up and making an inordinate profit by them, Travelling Extraordinary.—A. Blaxland, Esq., left Wollombi at 2 a.m., arrived at Morpeth m time for the iron steamer 'Rose,' which left Morpeth at 7 a.m., arrived in Sydney 4 hours 19 minutes p.m., being the quickest trip on record, mtime for the ' Kangaroo,' steamer, which left Sydney at 5 p.m., and arrived in Parramatta 6 hours and 20 minutes p.m., being a distance 05 .1G0 miles in the space of 13 hours and 20 minutes.—So mnch for steam , The Flag-staff at South Head was yesterday afternoon struck by lightning, and was much Wired. This is the second time the Flag-staff ia sb?en struck by lightning. Supreme Court. —Mr. Rees Jones having filed the affidavits required has been discharged, y a Ppe ared that his creditors had signed the " ee d of assignment to the amount of £I7OOO, *!"le the whole amount of his debts is only i5 >000 more.

Quarantine Station. —We have been favoured by the perusal of a letter from this station, toted the 13th instant, and as the state of things «iere will be interesting to our readers, and as ° Ur information is from the most authentic source, * e will give a few of the particulars : The last Cf »se of Typhus Fever which occurred was sent *° the Lazeretto on the 4th of the present month ; J the Colonial regulations no class to which the " e patient had access can be liberated from P ri »g Cove until fourteen days have elapsed after

this separation, should no fresh case therefore occur the emigrants, with the exception of about twenty tedious convalescents, will be released on or about the 20th, There has been nearly ninety cases of Typhus, but only feight or nine have proved fatal; there has also been numerous cases of the.hooping cough, influenza, dysentry, scurvy opthalmia, and disorders of the general health, among all of which one child has died. This is a fearful list of disease, and we consider it a matter of congratulation that so few have fallen victims to the distemper which was only arrested on the very threshold of our dwelling,