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  There was a strange unnatural sorrow in this old man's piteous complaints that his daughters had got married. He said he had three girls, who were married and settled in Glasgow. "When the lasses were at home," he continued, "they earned fine wages at the printing fields; they were a great comfort; but there is little chance for the old people when the lasses get married." What the old man said led me to make inquiries of other people, as I had more than two hours to wait for the train; and I found that this was not a solitary case of hard pinching poverty in that neighbourhood.

I do not know of anything of special interest to Sydney people I can never make out what becomes of Australian notabilities in England; it is difficult even to hear of them. I suppose they will all be at the Exhibition, but then that will be the very place for them to be utterly lost,