At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held on
Monday last, it was stated that so much has the value of land increased in Australia, that Governor Hindmarsh, for two plots for which he gave SU each, obtained no less than 1,000/. on leaving the colony. Captain Hindinarsh has returned to England.
The Mayor, Aldermen, and leading merchants of Liverpool, have forwarded it memorial to Lord Palmerston, earnestly representing the necessity of putting an end to the civil war in Spain.
The Indian Steam Ship Company have announced their first vessel, the India, will be launched on the 3d of January next, and be ready to take in stores in the Thames by the middle of April. The vessel is building by NIessrs. Scott and Sons, and the engines by Messrs. Scott and Sinclair, of Greenock. She is of 1,200 tons burden, with accom- modation for eighty cabin-passengers, and 400 tons of goods. She is provided with a safety-apparatus, and built with two strong bulk-heads of plate-iron across the engine-room, in order to confine accidental fire, and :prevent a leak sprung in one division from spreading to another. It is also announced, that another vessel of 1,500 tons burden is on the stocks, and that a third will be ready within eighteen months, and that three more are about to be commenced. With this number of vessels, it is expected that twelve voyages out and twelve voyages home will be performed in each year ; allowing fifty-five days to accomplish the dis- tance from Plymouth to Calcutta, by the Cape of Good Hope..... Courier.
The protested bills, to the amount of' 2,000,000-2,000,000 sterling —which were sent out by the Bank of England to the United States for acceptance have been all paid, with the exception of 400/.-4001. out of 2,000,000/.; and of this sum 70/. has been amply secured, while the balance is considered good eventually. Mr. Cowell, the agent of the Batik of England, is expected to return in the spring ; and Mr. Blake, who went out with him as one of his assistants, has come home in the Great Western.—Morning Chronicle.
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