20th. The barque Lavinia, with troops for Sydney. 25th.-The brig Tranmere, from New Zealand, with timber. 27th.The brig Clementine, 88 tons, Captain D. O. Ŏkinden, from Sydney 17th instant, with a cargo of cedar, coal, beef and barley. Passenger, Mr. Jay. 30th. The Enchantress, Captain Roxburgh, from London 4th Dec. Pas sengers, Lieut. Jacomb, Mrs. Jacomb, Mr. Harvey, 3 Misses Banfather, Mr. Wright, Mr. Hancock, Mrs. Hancock, Miss Stevens, Mr. Hutton, and Mr. Pearey. 31st. The brig Mary and Elizabeth, Captain Nicholls, from Newcastle, New South Wales, with coals. 31st.The schooner John Dunscomb, Captaiu M'Lean, from Launceston, with oats, wine and salt. 10th.The barque Georgiana, Capt. Thomson, in ballast, for Batavia. No passengers. 12th. The barque Merope, 312 tons, J. Pollock, for Swan River, with sundries. Passengers, Major Nairne, C. Whitmore, Esq., Master Carew, Henry Cockerell, Thomas Fogharty-11 lascars. 13th. The Gulnare, in prosecution of her voyage to Sydney. Passengers from this Port, Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, C. Gore, Esq., Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Rush, Mr. Elliott, Messrs. M'Cullock, Flowers, and Moses. 15th.-The Government brig Tamar, for Tasman's Peninsula, with Captain Booth,Mr. G. A. Robinson, and a detachment of the 21st Fusileers.-This vessel will afterwards proceed to Macquarie Harbour, to remove the remainder of the establishment there to Port Arthur. 20th. The brig Mediterranean Packet, for Sydney, Capt. Pugh, with part of her original cargo. Passengers from this place, Mr. Macgara, and Mr. Joseph Ring. 20th. The ship Ellen, Captain Dixon, with part of her original cargo and passengers for Sydney. 22nd. The American brig Mars, Captain Read, in Ballast, for Batavia. Supercargo, Mr. Farewell. 23rd.The ship William, Captain Boag, with part of her original cargo for Sydney. 23rd. The barque Clorinda, with part of her original cargo for Sydney. 29th.The Barque Protector, for Sydney. 31st.-H. M. S. Imogine, Captain Blackwood, for Sydney. 31st-The Bee, for the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 31st. The brig Isabella, for Port Arthur: LAUNCESTON. ARRIVALS. Joseph M'Lean, Mary M'Lean, Catherine M'Lean, Ann M'Lean. 11th. Arrived the brig Chili, from London. Passengers, Mr. Edward March 2nd. The Richard Bell, from Archer, Miss Sarah Archer, Mr. John the Cape Good Hope. 6th. The schooner John Dunscomb, Captain M'Lean, from London via Hobart Town. Passengers, Allan M'Lean, Hannah M'Lean, Malcolm M'Lean, Shields, Mrs. Shields and 3 children. 14th. The brigantine Thistle, from Swan River. Passengers, Messrs. John Henty, H. Smythe, J. Wright, H. Camfield, and J. Chipper. 17th. The Helen Marr, 255 tons, Captain Benson, with merchandize from London and Hobart Town. 24th.-The Lady Leith, from Sydney. Passengers, Messrs. Thomas Coutts and J. H. Lancey. DEPARTURES. Lawrie, for Sydney, with Colonial produce. 7th. The schooner Eagle, Pratt, for Swan River and Mauritius. Passenger, Mr. Hugh Valance. 16th. The Camilla, for Sydney.Passengers, Duncan M'Pherson, Wm. Wetherall, and Sarah Wetherall. 17th. The schooner John Dunscombe, March 4th. The Tasmanian Lass, H. M'Lean, master, for Hobart Town. Colonial Appointments. James Gibson, Esq., Thomas Fenton, Esq. Peregrine Lauton Massinberd, Esq. George Ball, Esq., John Whiteford, Esq., and Captain Charles O'Hara Booth, Esq., have been appointed Magistrates. James England, Esq., has been appointed to perform the duties of Commissioner of the Court of Requests, at New Norfolk, during the absence of Edward Dumaresq, Esq. Mr. Adam Thomson, appointed to the office of Gaoler, at Launceston, vice Mr. Gough, resigned.-Mr. Thos. Newton, to be Chief District Constable for the District of Launceston, vice Mr. Adam Thomson. Mr. David Skirving, Chief District Constable of the Police District of Campbell Town, vice Mr. Simon Grove Sampson, resigned. Mr. Ferguson, appointed pound-keeper at Great Swan Port.-Mr. Fletcher, appointed pound-keeper in Hobart Town. Mr. J. H. Lancey, appointed Pilot at Port Dalrymple. Auction Licenses have been granted to Mr. Henry Davis, and Mr. Frederick J. Houghton, both of Cornwall. Amongst what may be termed the ulterior arrangements of a civilized Government, there is nothing of greater importance, than a formal attention to the morals and information of the lower orders of the community, in other words to the Education of the People. This is a subject which has met with much opposition at home, chiefly because it has not been well and correctly understood, and because its zealous advocates made it at once a political question, thus poisoning and polluting one of the purest sources of human happiness, and neutralizing most effectually a rich and fertile source of moral utility. Deeply impressed with the extensive benefits likely to be derived from the general and well-directed diffusion of useful knowledge, we have watched with anxious interest every attempt made to advance the Education of the People; and never were we so sadly disappointed in the result of any great undertaking, than in that which was produced by the labours of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in England.Ostensibly established for the purpose of informing the working and lower classes-but, really, for that of binding together in an Institution devoted to Science, the numerous members of a powerful political party, what has this gigantic Society even done in the way of imparting knowledge-useful knowledge to the multitude? Nothing literally and truly nothing! It has published and put forth, with no trifling sounding of the trumpet, sundry sixpenny tracts on sundry stupendous sciences, much better adapted to the classic cloisters of a College, than the humble cottage of the labourer. We have treatises on Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Dynamics, Optics, Mechanics (Animal and otherwise) with a great variety of other high-sounding subjects, but, as regards the people-that is, the multitude, as utterly useless as if they had never been written, and, perhaps, more so. To the proficient, or, perchance, the advanced student, these treatises are doubtless, useful and interesting, as comprising a well-arranged epitome of the sciences, ર |