27 JUNE 1846, Page 2

From South Australia we learn that Captain Sturt had re-

turned, after absence for a year and a half, exploring the interior. He had made useful geographical discoveries, but had found no inland sea.

New Zealand, or rather the North part of it, had been pacified. Captain Grey had reduced the rebellious savages to submission ; and would now have leisure to begin the scarcely less urgent and much more important task of investigating the state of the Bri- tish colony, its past mismanagement, and accumulated griev- ances. That is the task which he was sent to execute; but hither- to he has been obstructed by the miserable "little war" that Captain Fitzroy left upon his hands.