AUSTRALASIA. 



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Tliis was followed by a long train of successful 

 pieces, and in this peculiar walk of musical 

 composition he was recognized as a master. 

 Scribe had furnished the words for many of 

 these, and the two artists worked then, as 

 always, in perfect harmony. It was not, how- 

 ever, until 1828 thatM. Auber ventured a higher 

 flight in his "Mute of Portici," prepared for 

 the Grand Opera, and which achieved a great 

 success there. His " Amour Sacre de la Pa- 

 trie" a duo which followed soon after, proved 

 another "Marseillaise," and was the signal of 

 the revolution in Belgium in 1830. He wrote in 

 the next few years a great number of serious 

 as well as many comic operas ; and, though 

 successful in both, he recognized comic opera 

 as peculiarly his field. We have not space, 

 were it desirable, to give a list of all his operas. 

 He continued to write, and his operas to be 

 popular, till he had reached his eighty-sixth year. 

 An able French critic says of him : " He had a 

 manner of his own, in which he had some imi- 

 tators, but few or no rivals. His music is or- 

 dinarily light and facile, almost always grace- 

 ful, often original. As ready as Rossini, he 



has also his movement and clearness, but less 

 distinctness, depth, and energy." He was, 

 however, more popular than Rossini. He had 

 been a member of the Institute of France since 

 1829 ; Director of the Conservatory of Music 

 since 1842, and Director of Music to the Im- 

 perial Chapel. He had passed through all the 

 grades of the Legion of Honor, and since Au- 

 gust, 1861, had been Grand-Officer. 



AUSTRALASIA. The area and population 

 of the Australasian colonies of Great Britain 

 were, according to the latest dates, as fol- 

 lows : 



The ecclesiastical, statistics are as follows : 



The column headed "others" comprises, 

 for New South Wales, 12,909 Mohammedans 

 and pagans; for Victoria, 1,672 pagans, and 

 24,551 non-Christian Chinese ; for Queensland, 

 405 Mohammedans and pagans. Among the 

 Protestants of Tasmania are 53,047 Anglicans, 

 6,644 members of the Church of Scotland, 

 2,420 Presbyterians of the Free Church of 

 Scotland, 3,931 Independents, 931 Baptists, 

 7,187 Wesleyans, and 82 members of the So- 

 ciety of Friends. Among the Protestants of 

 Western Australia, 14,618 belong to the An- 

 glican Church, 1,373 are Wesleyans, 880 Inde- 

 pendents, 528 Presbyterians, and 61 Baptists. 

 Among the Protestants of New South Wales, 

 159,958 belong to the Anglican Church, 34,692 

 are Presbyterians, 23,684 Wesleyans, 5,411 

 Congregationalists, and 9,863 other Protestants. 



The descendants of natives of Great Britain 

 and Ireland constitute by far the majority of 

 the population. The Germans are chiefly rep- 

 resented in South Australia (1866, 8,119); in 

 New Zealand (1866, 1,999) ; Tasmania (1870, 

 534). The total number of natives in Austra- 

 lia does not exceed 50,000 (in 1861, 5,046 in 

 South Australia ; 15,000 in Queensland ; in 

 1871, 859 in Victoria). In New Zealand their 

 number was 56,049, in 1860; but only 32,109 

 in 1869. The number of Chinese is increasing; 

 in 1871 it amounted, in Victoria, to 17,705. 

 The most important cities of the colonies are 

 the following : 



Population. 



* Melbourne (Victoria) 193,696 (1871) 



* Sydney (New South Wales). . . 



* Ballarat (Victoria). 

 Sandhurst (Victoria). 



Adelaide (South Australia). 

 *Geelong (Victoria) 



Brisbane (Queensland). 



Hobart Town (Tasmania). . . 

 * Auckland (New Zealand) 



Dunedin (New Zealand) 12,777 (1867) 



The receipts, expenditures, and debts, in 

 1869, were as follows : 



134,756 



PROVINCES. 



New South Wales 



Victoria 



South Australia... 



Queensland 



Western Australia 



Tasmania 



New Zealand 



Receipts. Expenditures. Debts. 



3,663.509 



965,834 

 772,858 

 103.661 

 346,467 

 1,746,623 



Total 10,809,276 10,361,792 



3,265,805 



2,214,303 



1,148,816 



796,235 



103,124 



441,528 



2,391,981 



9,546,030 

 10,385,900 

 1,783,700 

 3,459,750 

 (none) 

 1,148,000 

 7,360,616 



The English Government having declared 

 that it will no longer support any army in the 

 colonies, several of the latter have formed 

 corps of volunteers, which at present number 

 about 10,000 men. For the coast-defence, a 

 small flotilla of iron-clads is in the course of 

 construction; it was in 1871 represented at 

 Melbourne by the Cerberus, which had four 

 guns. 



The imports and exports, inclusive of pre- 

 cious metals, was, in 1869, as follows: 



* With their suburb a. 



