Cirrus@Austlit

The Colonist reports that William Watt has been committed to stand trial (for inciting and bribing a compositor in his employ to steal from the office of the Sydney Herald).

The Colonist congratulates itself that 'we have done our part of the work, in getting the Augean stable of the press cleaned in this colony. We are happy to find from the result of this case, which we think would scarcely have come to its present issue but for our interference in directing public attention to Master Watt, that we have not been working wholly in vain.' The writer concludes optimistically, 'we have not lost all hope of the colony yet'.