New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-06
SYDNEY AND HER ARISTOCRATS.
From The San Francisco ArgOnaut

No other city in the world has arisen from such an
* sydney w iha erhtc"nt6 Of iast month It wa
Just Ioi years since six British conyictshipS, carving
COO men and $50 women all EngiSh--Ca.t anchor ~
Botany Bay Captain Phillip. who was In command
and who was the first governor IN these parts, not
finding Botany Bay suitable place in which TO os.
tabsh his interesting cOlonsts, removed them to Inr
Jackson sydney Harbor. and at the head OF what
is now Circular Quay, but was then called sydney
Cove the first settlement established From that
beginning has sprung mighty city OF nearly 400 D3
in6abtants fronting upon one Of the most beautiui
har6Crs IN The world In any direction takes upon
these waters. he VIII hnd continuous SUCCESSION ",
or surpassing the preceding one In lOvclnoss, The
hnrbor though Of ample pr2porionS Is ore IKE sr s
bay. The many points OF land uniting into the water
slepe down down to the waters edge which ia usually
marked by stone structure, or wall, thus giving
these places very substantial and nm.
shed appearance Many Of the hons houses o 9S
cssteiated towers. which overlook the bay and N
some instance the oSsao oTS bs sn5s If
Of Governor Phillips early subjects. MANY OIL thcI
have won distinction at the sar On W wealth and
educ alton came also ambition and dc'ire ior GSmn,
ton social and political ana nc hom% n,st ba
conferred titles upon some OF tho descendants OF thoN
Of whom one OF their own number wrote and published
In ms T rSSn pp,iri s gnas.,ooa
Inc most distinguished man produced by these
colonies was the son Of convict parents. ana msrrlch
the daughter Of convict TINS sonIsn row s.n,c
and WAC created prlvy councillor by The pr2S"h'
Queen OF Great Britain and ireland. an honor meyer
h( fore or snre conferred upon any other hubuaIan
Were Dickens alive and here what BOOK no tou"i
write about this city and its Inhabitants. paSi an
nresent for he who saw everything win the ey" o.
genius could repeope Sydney Cove. which u wItnh
tones throw OF where ! am now sitting, WIN inc
r ,deS Of The departed and would hold high conH m"
yg,th The tightly dead and make them speak = ~
M those hong voyages hher, under bolt and bar ana
~ the subscnuent ball and chain. which so dlNptcd
the gat of the poor wretches that even now yO9 .'
II said: d You can tell them by the way they drag
the right legn And bc II remembered that many vi
these poor creatures scnt here ioi me most
trivial offences, for killing hare or a partridge nVpn
the domain OF some great man. or. WREN pincben Dy
hunger for pluckng up and eating raw turnp grown
iinon The land OF another When Jean Vatican, VINO
broke a window IN BAKERS shop, and took tner. i
from loaf OF bread was asked by the Judge who tried
him what he had To say for hmsef, he made SIX rising
motions OF the hand indicating that there were six
hungy children. and for his crime he was sent 20
tho ealleys for fourteen years And for similar so
called crimes many persons were sent out here, IN
The latter part OF tho last and the early part OF the
nresent century But 10 cannot be deniod that sOmc
~ the most hardened and desperate criminals OF Great
Rrttan were sent hero also, and remembering these
tbtnes one IL asionished at tho intense pride OF The
cnin5ists LIncOn's favorite hymn, Oh. Why Should
~ anrit OF Mortal be Proud is not popular here,
ana doubt whether II Is ever sung with conri'e heart
Nv tbose lordy squAtters who own all tho best land,
Syyd who live IN those mansions with castcated lowers
lnan the surrounding hs overlooking such fairy Ike
srcneS OF blended water ard land NO, humility IS
not n prcvailng virtue here, and no one below the
rank Of an eaFi-wif suit them for governor.