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 LETTER VI.

OTWITHSTANDING all that has been said against our dear old colony, the accounts from Sydney place her, in the estimation of observant men here, first of the Australian group in the elements of solid prosperity. If political mistakes have been made, they know that worse mistakes have been made nearer home, and in the midst of it all they see that the colony is making real progress. The two millions which it appears Mr. Cowper wants to borrow will be readily obtained, and the alarm about Australian democracy is beginning to lose its potency to English ears. Englishmen at home believe in the English stock abroad, and there must be