(BY SEVERAL CYNICS.)

,- Q', A, Sala notices that while Australians are in politics what would be dubbed ultra- Radicals in England, they are largely ad mirers of the Conservative party now in power there, and very angry with the late Liberal Government and Mr Gladstone. He notices also that in Australia the Liberals are advocates of Protection, whilst their op ponents are Freetraders, a complete reversal of Home politics, G; A. S, will find many more political anomalies m the land of tha Golden Fleece if he keeps his eyes open !

6. A. Sala, while admitting the prowess of the Australians as bad linguists, avers they .can't cuss worth a cent alongside of an Italian or a Frenchman. But somehow it don't sound so bad in those high-flown languages a3 our brutal Anglo-Saxon tongue, G. A. S. The gasman says he can swear fluently in five languages, and with tolerable volu bility in eight 1 He devote? a whole column of the Melbourne Argus to what Tom Hood would have called cursory re marks on swearing ! I wonder if he has heard a regular old V.D.L. bullock driver perform ? If not he ha 3 missed a chance of adding to his repertoire of oaths ! I heard one address a working bullock that had tried to gore him, as a sanguinary pleuro pneumocia-eyed looking — and desire to be informed if the said bullock wanted to kill an adjective imported man instead of an adjective gumsucker ! There used to be a lurid and blood curdling string of oaths ever ready for any emergency on the lips of those old sinners, that once heard ware not likely to be forgotten. I have been told by people who have lived here since the " forties "Ihat the old whalers and Cockatoo Islanders were equally proficient at blasphemy as their Van Demonium brethern.
