tances, as Sydney. Nevertheless many of the buildings are very
large; and Mr. Wentworth says something (though not much) in their
favour, when he states that they would not disgrace the great metropolis
of England itself. In one melancholy feature, Sydney too nearly
resembles London, namely, in the immense number of its public houses,
of which, according to Mr. Montgomery Martin, there were about two
hundred in the whole town. The population in 1841 was 29,973 souls. Of
these, 16,505 were returned as belonging to the Church of England; 8,126
to the Romish Church, while the rest were returned as Presbyterians,
Dissenters, Jews, Mahometans, and Pagans. Sydney is divided into four
parishes: St. Philip, St. James, St. Andrew, and St. Lawrence; in the
two first of which churches have long existed, and in St. James's church
the cathedral service is daily used, with weekly communion; and there is
a choir, organ, &c.[138] In the two last named parishes no churches have
existed until very recently, but through the indefatigable exertions of
Bishop Broughton, which have been not unworthily seconded by the Rev.
W. Horatio Walsh, and the Rev. W. West Simpson, congregations have
been assembled together, which will, it may be hoped, continue to
attend the divine service of the Church of England, long after more
suitable buildings than those originally used,--_a brewhouse and a
threshing-floor_,--shall have been provided for their accommodation.
In St. Lawrence's parish a regular church was begun in 1840, and is
probably completed before this time; and, to the credit of Sydney, it
may be stated, that no less than 571_l._ were collected from those
present at the meeting in which the erection of the church was resolved
upon. In St. Andrew's it is proposed to raise the cathedral church of
the diocese of Australia; and, therefore, it must necessarily be longer
before the building can be completed; but the importance of this
undertaking cannot be more clearly shown than by the recent statement
of Bishop Broughton, whence it would appear that of 7000 inhabitants in
St. Andrew's parish, 3500 belong to the Church of their fathers or of
their native home--the scriptural and apostolical Church of England. But
more of these, and similar matters elsewhere. It was a wise and useful
arrangement of our forefathers, by which our parishes were made at once
ecclesiastical and civil divisions; and since this practice has in some
measure been followed out