SYDNEY.

Wellington Independent, 25 February 1863, Page 1

SYDNEY.

Th°. Inter Colonial Cricket Matcn betwee o New South Wales and Victoria came off at Sydney on the sth, 6tb, and 7th February. Scares— -New South Wales 205, Victoria 121. 10,000 spectators present.

A Southern Gentleman been through Northern Spectacles. — Mr Roebuck, in his speech respecting the war in America, said that the Southern rebels were gentlemen of the good old English sort, and that the men of the North were the refuse and scum of Europe. This ill-timed and uncalled-for remark has roused the ire of the ••"New York Evening Post," which Bays, .in answer to Mr Roebuck, that Virginia was principally settled by convicts— by the cut-purses and strumpets of London — by men and women of whom the Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack of De Foe are excellent types. That State, as all the world knows, was for years a penal colony of Great Britain, which Massachusetts never was, because Massachusetts never would submit to the indignity. So, at a la re period, John Wesley found Georgia ho full of blackguards that, although he earnestly desired to remain and preach the Gospel, he was forced to return to England. As a general rule, the emigrant scamps, who left their country for their country's good, went to the Southern colonies. The Puritans of New England, the sober and honest Dutch of New York, the Quakers of PermHylvania, kept a sharp look out for incoming vagabonds, and sent them away again as soon as possible. So much for history: let us look at the present. If a man who systematically defrauda his laborers of their hire — who is coarse of speech and sensual in all his habits — who is at the best, but half educated— who sells his own children— who is alwayß ready upon the slightest provocation to assassinate his antagonist— who debauches all his maid-servants who happen to be good-looking who, being thoroughly idle, finds his amusement in drinking or duelling, in lynching and lasciviousness, in bar-room brawls and pot-room politics — who, in the isolation of his plantation, lives in a •*ort of semi-ignorance of all that is going on in the world — who pays his debts when he pleases, and very often does not please to pay his debts — the petty bullying, blustering autocrat of his neighborhood — if this man be also a gentleman, then Jti Roebuck is right. Mr Roebuck's remarks about the North are mild compared with this tirade of unmeasured abuse. If the Northern people generally endorse the opinions thus expressed, we should hare though that the Federal Government would have been glad to have «ot. rid of them, instead of spending rivers of blood and countless treasures to retain such worthless citizens. This, however, is a matter of taste. It is rather awkward sometimes to prove too much.