127 of satisfying them, we will carefully cater for English, Colonial and Foreign Intelligence, and will add as much light and amusing reading as our limited space will allow.” Melbourne, was a wild and as far as Europeans are concerned, Uninhabited, when the Establishment of the proprietor of this journal arrived here in August, 1835, it is his boast that he caused Melbourne to become colonised. Mr. J. Batman had arrived at P. P. In June, 1835, but his taste led him to select Indented Head, in June 1836. The few settlers then arrived, subscribed and built a small place of worship, which still serves both for the Established Church (prayers and sermon being red therein by a Layman,) and for the the presby- tarian, each having two services on the Sunday—a Sunday school, is also kept in the same, in which is also kept a day school. Large Subscriptions are now in progress to erect two seperate Churches, one for each Establishment and the present place of worship is to be re served for a School. “We earnestly beg the public to excuse this our first appearance in the absence of the compositor who was engaged. We were under the necessity of trusting our first number (in print) to a Van Demonian youth of eighteen, and this lad only worked at this business about a year, from his tenth to his eleventh, 1830 to 1831. ifext the honest printer from whom the type was bought has swept up all his old waste letter and called it type, and we at present labor under many wants, we even have not so much as Pearl Ash to clean the dirty Type.” After the leader, we have the state of the weather, and the drowning of 26 cattle crossing the Yarra. Then comes a romantic Italian tale of love, murder and beheading. The next paragraph concerns the 50tli anniversary of the colony.—The Melbourne Races and Hobart Town Quarter’s Sessions are duly reported. The English news is succeeded by an affecting poem upon a mother dying of grief at the tomb of her child. The European sketches are good. A capital review of Nichol’s “ Architecture of the Heavens” is copied on the fourth page. The Colonial intelligence is crowded together in an odd form ; little justice being done to the editor by the careless printer :— “ We glean from the Colonial Times of Feb. 6th the following— The leading article is a paltry attempt at wit, upon the Lieut. Go vernors visit to Flinders’s we ask what purpose can such balderdash
