The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-10

McCulocb, a frse.rader naturally, AMI formerly
so proiessedlv lately brought for ward species of
protection calculated TO throw odium uDou that
system o! policy. Insteal OF taxing the silks,
satins, aud goods of the rich, he lrv,ed his
impots upon the boots, shoes. aud clothes of
the poor; imposed duty, not dd Udtorepl but on
bulk, SO that as much impost was level upon
pair OF miners boots as upon the satin slippers
of twenty OF the cyp ians OF Melbourne. In no
part of the world Is vice so Aourishing or virtue
so openly contemued. It's contrasts OF wealth
and poverty, luxury aud misery, b:utal splendor
and educated poverty exceed those of London
ITSELF Barrlsters and graduates of the best
universities of England are there found driving
cabs, while the lowest of the rabble are in office.
Victoria possesses TAR more extensive a1yiiec-
ous resources than New South Wales. Baarat
is The principal seat of them, aud gold used to
be taken out of the district on so occasions
to the amount OF $50, 900 600 per year The
produce of the whole of the Australian colonies
then amounted TO $50 900 000 per anuum, but 1t
has now fallen of one'halt, and is only to be got
by machinery. In the halCyon days of haud
mining the extravaganza of the miners far
exceeded that of their Sydney prototypes. They
regularly came down to Melbourne, and used to
pour out Champagne in buckettuls. Now, now
ever, they stop at home aud boast that there
they have equal attractions; and doubtless
among such attractions are others OF u yet more
disgraceful character.
Australia presents no desirable deld for emf
grafton. The British Government has lately
made strenuous efforts TO induce the Inhabitants
OF England, Ireland and Scotland to proceed to
employ ed agents to eXtol the various settlements,
but especially Queens, and in the most eXtTaya-
gent terms, and the result has invariably been
disappointment. In the last cargo of passengers
shipped off to this colony with infinitely less
and provision MADE for them than If they had
been so many beasts the discomfort was so
general, that as already mentioned, they con-
sideied even shtpWreck on the shores OF Mel
bourne as a relief, and scarcely ship arrives in
this port without the newspapers teemiug with
the most abominable reports of Outraees offered
by the officers of the vessel to female pass gers
There is no place IN the world where virtue,
on the part OF woman, is so little appreciated.
In the city OF Sydney which in this respect is
still worse than Melbourne, it Is positively
revolving to witness the number of girls of the
tendeIe9t a2es-from twelve down even to six
years of aee-tratued up to crime; and the
youth Of the opposite sex are in both cities
encouraged IN every species OF excess, but eSpe-
cially inebriatiou. The hideous policy OF Anne
of Austria who purposely demoralized her
soDs 10 preclude their interference in public
affairs, appears TO have ben revived Oy some
miscreaut here, and the consequence is that q
race Is growing up more depIaved aud degene-
rate even than their toreflihets. Physically,
they fall Off too, the girls born in the colonies
being dwar6sh, and the boys exceedingly weazel
faced. Both are amazingly precoclOus, however,
especially in vice. Ther public language in
the streets exceeds all belief; and it may be re-
marked that If O stranger asks I, T any intOrma-
ton, either from them or the groWn-up popu-
lation concerning his route, he is invariably
despatched IN the wrong direction; If q we'll
conducted Iemale, sue VIII Oe directed 10 tue
most improper quarter of the city, and both
will be "cTammed" with the tal- est information
as well as cheated, on every occasion This is
termed colonial" and greatly do the inhab-
tants rejoice if they can thus deceive any new
comer either from Europe or America, as they
surmise that it implies their superior sagacity.
Under such circumstances it is vain to look for
any improvement in the colonies; those who
have emigrated from England being only intent
in raising what they term "a piler Cor sum of
money! sufficient to enable them to return and
opeh tavern at home, while the natives have
no future before them at all.