After a long interval, accounts have been received direct from
the new colony of South Australia. Squabbles among officers of the Government still pestered the little community ; and until the arrival of the new Governor, Colonel GAWLER. who probably reached Adelaide some weeks ago, the plague was likely to con- tinue. What a spectacle, to see in the official newspaper of the colony virulent attacks upon official men Mr. STEVENSON, Pri- vate Secretary to Governor H1NDMARSH, and also Secretary to the Council, had been found guilty of libelling Mr. FISHER, the Resident Commissioner, in an article published in the Government paper ; but Mr. FISHER did not press for judgment against the defendant.
It is pleasant to turn from these bickerings to the accounts of the astonishing prosperity of the new colony. The town of Adelaide is rising rapidly—temporary huts and tents giving way to sub• stantial houses of brick and stone. A printing-office for another newspaper was nearly completed. Town acres, purchased but the other day for 1/., are worth from 40/. to 100/. Thirteen vessels, sevei al of considerable tonnage, were in the harbour. Plentiful supplies of rattle and sheep had been imported from Van Diemen's Lund, and sold at high though not extravagant prices, as the South Australians are not altogether dependent for their supplies on the neighbouring colonies. A large herd of cattle had arrived from Sydney, having performed the journey overland, in excellent condition. Altogether, the prospects of the colonists, as regards their solid and permanent interests, were most cheering.
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