SYDNEY.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 115, 18 November 1846, Page 2

SYDNEY.

NonTHErttf Expedition.—The shift"! Cbfnubia will proceed on' Friday neri with, Colonel, Barney, to select a site fa the new settlement. She' willjaptl Capt Perry at Mpreton Bay ; to trace tho course of the River Boj n! On the return of the Corntthia, the L«* Auckland will procpcd with store.', c to the place that shall have been select — Australian Journal Oct. 29.

NewUealad Legislation.—Thi*"" 1, managed colony 'axes political' infornis* lion 1 Every now and then, the tors of the Sydney Journals receive btf» their papers, marked by the Postmaster' 1 New Zealand 2d., being rejected by v journalists there, on j, account of s"* Vharge. The later cannot afford toP»! £2 12s. 2d. a-year for the $™f Herald, £1 6*. for the &c. Even on their own papers they ß " obliged to pay postage, when ihey them abroad ! When in the presentM| a colonyis so wretchedly poor, as to "' compelled to tax knowledge, il»P ove, j is indeed, and ire Government m* bave been execrable, But in the **

Grtvamm nt, we.mnan th-t of Downing, street. Tho Government never «va<i anything more than a \1 inifipal 'Corpo. ration, atiemp'ing to govern a country a thousand miles long—Australian. Goveiinment Changes.— Rumours by priyate loiter. —'Wo have been given to understand that a private letter ha'a b»nn received in Sydney, from Kniland, which states, (whether as 1 facts or more rumours, ff e know not) that the Port, Phillip, „ r Southern District is very shortly to be s e parated from the' Sydney, or Middle District, and that the present Acting-Governor of Van Diemeii's Land, Mr. Li Trobe, is 'to be tlio Lieut-Governor thereof: that the Hon- tlie Colonial Secretary, Mr. E. D. Thomson, is to be appoined Lieut-Go-vernor of the Sydney or Middle Di'stric, andj that our present Governar, Sir Cha. f\\z' li'»y» h Vo be created Govern or-General of all the Ausiralasiau Colonies. _-'\ustruiia'i Journal.