VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 112, 7 November 1846, Page 3

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND.

By the Shamrock, which arrived at Melbourne on the 15th inst.. intelligence had been received of the debarkation at Launceston, of Mr. La Trobe, th° Acting Governor, and family, on the llth inst. His Excellency left Launceston by the Royal Mail Coach for Hobart Town on the morning of the 12th, accompanied by the Police Magistrate. i Launceston.—A complete stagnation appears to prevade the corn market. Purchasers are shy at 6«. for samples of wheat, and the whole aspect of the market is depressed.--Advertiser, Oct. 12. Superintendent of Port Phillip.— A report has reached Sydney that Col. Barney was to be appointed Superintendent for Port Phillip in lieu of Mr. La Trobe, who assumes the Lieutenant-Go-vernorship ofVan Diemen's Land. We find that the Melbourne Argus of thel6th Instant is inclined to think there is some truth in the rumour, from the circumstance of a party in Melbourne, applying for office under Government, having received a letter of introduction from His Excellency Sir Charles Fitz Roy to Colonel Barney.

The potatoe disease has manifested itself, in several instances, in the new crops in England. Potatoes of the] same kind wereplanted in the autumn.some apparently sound, and the others diseased. On examination of the crops, it was found that though the disease existed in both, it was most developed in those grown from the apparently sound tubercles. On the three days "following last Whit Sunday, 101,000 persons visited Greenwich by railway, and the train to Brighton was, on one occasion, half a mile