is prohibited from lending the bones over the counter, to decide in a iriendly way by Yankee-grab who pays for the shout., Drunkenness ia admittedly the stalwart vice of the polony. On a late occasion no fewer, than 101 culprits were arrested between a Saturday at sun-down, and the following morning, at sun-rise. If a multitude of churches, and extensive spiritual exliortp-tion could abate this evil, Sydney should have a purer moral atmosphere, for there are no

less than forty churches, and parsons to match, not to mention the class of Jabez Banflkettle, the Spiritualistic Shepherd of the Costive Christians, who do their spirit ing on the wharves on Sundays. Sydney people are not over loving to Vic toria, viewing that colony in the light of a rebellious offspring given to chaff from its cradle, and not having in its mature yeara paid for its juvenile Daffy's Elixir. A letter of recommendation from Melbourne is about as cheerfully received aa would be the pre sentation of a stale IOU for a card debt one had forgotten. New Zealand, on the other hand, finds condescending favour. Sydney, no doubt, bears in mind that New South Wales graciously sought, about 50 years ago, to annex your tight little island, and would have done so but that there were " impedimenta" in the way. The Yankee is by no means a bosom friend. Ho sneers at Sydney as the city of convicts ; votes it a one-horse place, and can't fix in, in a busi ness way, no hovr. The colony has been heretofore to some extent wooden-hammed and},wooden-nutmegged by the enlightened American, and now declines to be euchred. It is a city where the young and glorious bird of liberty might poise in mid-air till his bill arrived at maturity, without admiration or surprise, and hence it is that not many establishments in the city hang out the stars and stripee, even on tuat never-to-be-for gotten though somewhat over- apostrophised day the 4th of July. 