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New York. And the colonists, left to themselves for England maintains no troops there 

 now have fortified it strongly. Mr. Trollope tells us of five separate armed fortresses, 

 with Armstrong guns, rifled guns, guns of eighteen tons' weight, with loopholed walls 



VIEW IN COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 



and pits for riflemen, as though Sydney was to become another Sebastopol. " It was 

 shown," says he, " how the whole harbour and city were commanded by these guns. 

 There were open batteries and casemated batteries, shell-rooms and gunpowder magazines, 



