In a letter to Mr. Wheeler, manager of the South
Australian Com- pany, and in reply to some false statements of a correspondent of the Times respecting the colony of South Australia, Colonel Turret's mentions, that 200 working people had purchased amongst them a rural section of 134 acres, near Adelaide, for 1,000/ , in order to build their own houses on their own laud, and that mechanics were offered 14s. a day before they left the ships which took them to the colony. Yet, forsooth, some honest and well-informed persons assert that the colony is ruined, and the labourers are starving.
For several months past, the Sun newspaper has displayed an wirer. tisement, in prodigious types, over its leading article, of something called "the Gulden Sun." What this extraordinary production may have been, we cannot tell, not having seen it ; but we rind from a letter by a surgeon copied from the Medical Gazette into the Times inert other papers, including the Sun, that the process of pielen,gion has been very pernicious to the health of the persons employed in it : the go/den per- ticles having clung to the hair and turnied it a green culuur and produced a species of inflammation in the body.
The Havre papers give nun account of a dreadful storm which de- vastated that port on the 2d iti-tunt. Two water.spours were seen at sea; after which, one of the most furiuter hurtle:ones ever remembered broke over the town, injuring several vessels in the harbour, and doing much mischief to property of every kind. The dikes protecting the marshes of lloetleur were carried away. and the country inundated. A Jersey paper states that great upprehensione are entertained in that island fur the safety of the brig Betsey, belonging to Mr. i.e Gros, which has been absent from Newfoundland, hotneward- bound, consi- derably beyond her time. Should the worst fears be realized, nearly sixty human beiegs will be deprived of their natural protector..
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