Among public buildings, by far the most important edifice, not only in Sydney, but in the whole of the Australian settlements, is the university, which stands on a commanding height, and in the center of a domain of about 150 acres. The principal facade is 500 ft. in length, and is flanked at its western end by the great hall, the pro portions of which are such that, were it in England, it would rank as the third in point of size. Lectures are delivered daily during each term on classics, logic, history, chemis try, natural and experimental philosophy, and jurisprudence. The museum contains a collection of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities presented by.the former chancel lor, sir C. Nicholson. There arc two suffragan colleges in connection with the univer sity—that of St. Paul's, to the church of England; and St. John's, erected under the auspices of the Roman Catholic community. The university, erected out of public funds, has a permanent endowment of £5,000 a year from the civil list; and each of the suffragan colleges receives aid toward its building fund, and the stipend of the warden and rector. Eighteen free scholarships, of the annual value of 250 each, are established in the university, in addition to several others that have been founded by private benefactors. The university is incorporated under an act of the colonial legis lature and by royal charter. It is only empowered, however, to confer degrees in arts, law, and medicine; and, so far as the university is concerned, instruction is limited to purely secular teaching. The religious training of the pupils is left to the affiliated
colleges. The metropolitan cathedral of St. Andrew is a handsome building in the later perpendicular style of architecture. Many of the churches, upward of 120 in number, belonging to different religious denominations, are tastefully designed. Among the buildings devoted to secular purposes, the most imposing and effective, in point of size and architectural design, are the residence of the governor, the museum, the exchange, the custom-house, the town-hall, time new post-office, and the public gpriimar-school. The neighborhood of Sydney, with every nook in the adjacent bays, is studded with elegant villas and snug cottages, surrounded by their parklike grounds, and gardens of orange-trees, bananas, and numberless semi-tropical plants unfamiliar to the English eye of the newly-arrived immigrant. There are numerous manufactories; one with 350 hands makes boots and shoes, and 32 make clothing, one steam joinery employs 250 hands. Sydney has three theaters, several mechanics' institutes, a large hospital for the sick, an orphan asylum, and other charitable and benevolent institutions, all liberally endowed and supported by public grants or private munificence. Public traffic is car ried by about 600 omnibuses and hackney-carriages.