A Panorama of the New World Author:Kinahan Cornwallis Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Leaving the region of tents behind us, we now directed our steps towards the city, with the primary intention of breakfasting at the Melbourne Lar... more »der, the restaurant previously alluded to, and perusing the columns of the Argus newspaper. The Argus, as I have said, is the Times of Australia, and the advertisements which every day make their appearance in it, offer an even better index to the history of the time than do those of the great English organ. The very political feeling of the democratic colonists was plainly expressed in the advertisement that first met the eye, at the head of the first column: " Wanted, a Governor, apply to the people of Victoria." " Here I am, thought I, just in time; but the form of application is rather too general to suit my new chummism." I almost felt disposed to apply to the waiter in the first instance—a waiter here was as good as a king, and the son of Dick Turpin would have been esteemed and served as well as the son of " my lord duke." Notwithstanding, however, the evident circumstance of the people of Victoria in general, and the Argus newspaper in particular, being in want of a governor, 1 did not take sufficient compassion upon them, to induce the offer of my services. The reader, of course, will perceive that the then governor of the colony was unpopular with, at least, a class; nevertheless, he retained his office till the middle of 1854, fifteen months afterwards, when, having previously resigned, he took his departure for England, a few weeks after which, his successor arrived. I shall hereafter hold themirror up to these two. It is enough for me at present to confine myself to the things of the passing day. The Argus, as on the previous date, afforded a fund of information. The breakfast was as satisfactory, as the ch...« less