SYDNEY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 15, 10 November 1852, Page 4

SYDNEY.

Wo havo been favoured by E. Dorset, Esq., with a few numbers of the " Empire" for October. The flood of emigration seems to be the engrossing topic ; but, nevertheless amidst tbe turmoil we find tho Editor, with •' P.ilinuro's unaltered mood," landing by the rudder of th« state, and urging with undiminished energy the claims of the colony to moro liberal institutions ; plying that all powerful engine public opinion against the almost interminable sandbank of homo maternity, which " diinks, and still is dry." We extract from an able leader the following paragraph :— " One word more—arc iho people awake to tbe interests involved in their affairs — or are (hey not ? Our legislators believe, they have even asserted, that because the people do not petition or hold public meetings, they fe-cl no sort of concern. Our belief la tbat this inference is an error, nnd that there is an energy in this very population which only requires a test applied to provo it. A a » proof we may refer to the anti-tranipoiintion meetings. As another, we may recall the election of the late member for Sydney, Mr. Robert Lowe There are far other reasons why tho people keep silence." It will be seen that neither politics nor emigration, nor tho future, with all its paralysing influences, are able to repress the active intelligence of tha colony, or disturb its onward progress. Tho elements of national greatness ara even now taking root. The "Empire" of October 6, baa the following gratifying account of the inaugural ceremony df the Sydney University. Wo need make no observations : it will speak to every mind it, purport, and contains tbo useful lesson, " Go and 'do likewise." «• Next Monday Is fixed for tdo inaugural ccre^ mony of opening tho University of Sydney. Th occasion is one well calculated to awaken feeling l of generous interest in every class of the community 1 and, to tho parents and friend* of the firs' bahd of students, it must be ono of much gratification and pride. There are few so poor ns to be abut out from all hono of the honours of our University, and few so mindless of the future ns not to feel that it is destined to excrciso a wise and beneficial influence on the educational and moral character of the country. To all who bold a definite opinion on tho subject, the inauguration on Monday will be full of interest."