SYDNEY NEWS,

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, Volume I, Issue 52, 16 February 1842, Page 3

SYDNEY NEWS,

(From the New South Walvs Government Gazette, of January 14,1842.) Colonial Secretary 4 s Office, Sydney, 12th Junuary, 1842. His Excelleucy the Governor is pleased to direct the re-publication, from the “ London Gazette, of the 6th of August last, of the following notice, relating to Emigration. By his Excellency’s command, E. Deas Thompson. Colonial Land, and Emigration Office, Westminster, July 31,1841. The following Regulations have been sanctioned by the Secretary of State, with reference to Emigration to New South Wales, on the Colonial Bounty: Ist. All orders for Bounty, which are to be acted upon in 1841, are to be sent to this office before the Ist of September next. 2nd. After the Ist of September next, no certificates of Emigration will be received at this Office. 3rd. No Bounty will be payable in respect of any passenger who will leave this country after the Ist of November, next, 4th. All persons who possess, and intend to of orders on Bounty, shall produce at this Office on the Ist of March, 1842, and in each succeeding year, the authorities under which they act, exhibiting the numbers for whom they are authorised to look for payment in the Colony. By order of the Board, S. Walcott, Secretary.

Sir John Jamison. —Dr. Bland returned to town yesterday evening from Regentville, whither he had been summoned per express on Saturday last, to attend Sir John Jamison, who had been taken suddenly and dangerously ill. We are happy, however, to announce through the medium of our paper the satisfactory intelligence that Sir John is now out of danger, and convalescing. Burglary. —On Sunday night, some thieves entered the back premises of Mr. J. D. Smithson, commission agent, Sussex street south, and stole therefrom, one ham, one side of bacon, and a quantity of leather. There had been about five pounds of bacon used from the flitch.

Mr. Justice Stephen.— The Royal Commission, appointing Mr. Justice Stephen as the third Judge of New South Wales, in the place Mr. Justice Willis, now resident Judge at Port Phillip, we read in the Supreme Court yesterday. Legal Promotions.— -The following appointments have been made in the Supreme Court department, in consequence of tne retirement of Mr H. B. Bradley. Mr Alfred Elyard, from second to chief clerk; Mr D. B. Hutchinson, from third to second clerk; Mr E.L Clarke, from fourth to third clerk ; Mr P. W. Montgomery, from fifth to fourth clerk ; Mr Colin M’Kenzie, from sixth to fifth clerk ; Mr Pownall to be sixth clerk. State of the Law. —His honor Mr. Justice Burton, yesterday, upon passing sence upon Francis Potts, a prisoner of the crown, who had been convicted of an assault with intent to commit a rape, said regretted exceedingly that the state of the law in the colony was such, that he could not order any andequate punishment for the very heinous offence of which the prisoner had been convicted : as the law at present stood he could not order him to a road gang, but was compelled to sentence him to the same punishment which was ordered for a free person, which was only making a change from one kind of labor to another.