SYDNEY.

Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 12, 10 May 1845, Page 3

SYDNEY.

(Extracts from the Sydney Herald.)

By the Star of China which arrived yesterday from Sydney, after a passage of twenty days, dates to the 19th of April have been received. Military for. New Zealand. —Yesterday morning, Captain Russell, Lieutenant Rush, two sergeants, one drummer, and fifty rank and file 58th regiment, embarked on board the brig Bee for Port Nicholson. Tomorrow morning at ten o,clock, Major Bridge, Captains Grant and Thompson, Lieutenant Westropp, Adjutant M'Leay, Quartermaster Kirby, Surgeon Pine, nineteen sergeants, eight drummers, and one hundred and seven-ty-four rank and file 58th regiment, and Lieutenant Elliot and Ensign O'Reilly, 96th regiment, will embark on board the Slams Castle, for Auckland. The Military.—The whole of the 58th regiment stationed here are stated to be under orders to leave Parramatta on Tuesday for New Zealand. Export of Gum. —We have repeatedly noticed the increasing number and value of the exports from the young colony; we are happy to find that the article of South Australian gum continues to be received in considerable quantities, and to command very high' prices. A few days ago, 50 casks, containing about 12 tons, just arrived per the 'Ocean Queen, from Sydney, were sold at from 70s. to 735. 6d. percwt! The'gum wattletree is, we believe, universal throughout Australia; but the colonists of South Australia only have had the sense to try the export of gum—and richly have they been rewarded as the above intelligence demonstrates. The cost is nothing but the expense of collecting it: so the fortunate shippers will by-and-by receive a very comfortable account of the sales, and find their remittance has been a paying one.— Colonial Gazette, November 30 . The Pentonville Exiles have only been landed two days, and already no less than one hundred and thirty have found employment in Geelong, at £15 and upwards per annum. There are now only forty remaiuing unengaged; and in two days more there will most probably be not one left. _ There is a letter in the Sydney Herald, signed " Justice and Mercy," giving ample

reasons why Captain Fitzroy should pass a" bill equally stringent with the bill passed for Ireland relative to fire arms-and proposing that the whole of the natives be disarmed. The Herald of the 17th April contains an advertisement for vessels wanted by the East India Company, to convey horses to India. Shipping will evidently be very scarce in this part of the world. The Bank Case.—lt will be seen by our report, that the long pending and much talked of action between the Bank of Aus tralasia and Bank of Australia has terminated lor tne present: the Jury, not having agreed to a verdict, were discharged under the Jury Act of last session. No verdict having been given, the late trial is of no effect, and the parties stand in the same position that they did before the action was commenced, except that the defendants have had the opinion c f one Judge expressed most unreservedly in their favour. Some months since we strongly recommended the parties to come to an amicable arrangement, and we now repeat that advice, which the gradual increasV on the value of property will render comparatively easy. To expend £4,000 in a second trial would be the height of folly. The shareholders of the Bank of Australia are willing to give up Hughes and Hosking's securities, and to pay something like £40,000,: and it is evident, that, if Mr. Justice Dickinson's charge be sound, the Bank of Austalasia will never obtain that amount at law. Our Fellow-Subjects in New Zealand.—The intelligence from New Zealand, shows us that a hundred families were driven from their homes at the Bay of Islands, and landed penniless, many of them without a change of clothes, on the beach at Auckland, and yet no general movement towards getting up any subscription for their relief has been started in Sydney. If a dozen gentlemen were to address a requistion to the Mayor, asking his Worship to convene a meeting for the appointment of a Committee to receive subscriptions, the work would then proceed ; but no one will take the initiative. We trust that this day will not be allowed to pass by without something being done. We may remark that yesterday,' at the suggestion of the Bishop of Australia, the Church of England clergymen, resident in Sydney, and a churchwarden' from each parish, met, and advanced £100, to be repaid out of the collections to be iria.de next Sunday, and thai £50 in coin, and flour to the amount of £50 will be sent to the sufferers by the Slams Castle, which is about to, sail. This, however, will not interfere with any general subscription which may be started, and ought to be started immediately.— April 9. Sundries.—The following are the prices of different articles at the Market Wharf:— Posts and rails, wholesale, 16s. to 18s., retail, 235. to 255. per 100; palings, wholesale; 45., retail, ss. 6d. per 100: slabs, wholesale, 235., retail, 30s. per 100; laths, wholesale, 45., retail, ss. 6d., per 1000; shingles, wholesale, 6s. to 75., retail, 9s. to 10s. per 1000; wheel spokes, wholesale, 45., retail, 6s. 6d. per 100; wheel felloes, wholesale, 305., retail, 355. per 100; sheet bark, wholesale, 55., retail, 7s. per dozen; firewood, wholesale, 3s. per ton, per boat load; retail, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per cart load; bricks, 18s. per 1000; trensils, wholesale, 305., retail, 355. per 1000; lime, 4d. per bushel. — Sydney Herald.