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What An Abdication Meant
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In 1688
abandonment of James'
the throne was accepted by the people as an abdication. It was parlia- ment's sanction that gave to Wil- Ham and Mary a throne with more enduring title than that of right divine.-
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of December 11,-1688, publication should be addressed to the great seal of Eng- the Editor, and be accompanied by land was tossed by a the Writer's Name and Address
A convention met in London James started out well as a James, a son who if his claim pre- Moi necessarily for insertion, but highly nervous man
fleeing from his palace hing, but soon met with diffical walled, would oust William's wife and after publishing a declaration Duty Paide rearantee of good faith.
from the succession to the throne-of right, resolved that James-had in London. It is not re-ties Severe measures were e During the summer of 1688 wi abdicated the crown. In February, corded that this act was forced by him against Scottish dialiam collected troops and trans- 1689, William of Orange and Mary isenters, and privileged posts were ports for an invasion of England, were crowned king and queen of accompanied by any given by him to Irish Catholics. In James them became
so upset by England. display of dramatics, Scotland there was a short-lived the threat from Holland that he Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 23, 19 and we may assume down the duke of Monmouth, aides. He cancelled bla. Gatholic
tha it was not, for the legitimate son of Charles II by sipointments, restored. Protestant day how a father, and a daughter early kings of England Walters, invaded West Eng- bishops and heads of colleges, and could be other than unselfish to
1: land with a band of mercenaries issued a proclaination pardoning ward each other. But in the ever were rather lack-from the Netherlands and pro- all Protestants against whom seventeenth century, as brought ing in imaginative and claimed himself king. Of England charges had been made.
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rebellion. Soon after that was put began making conzessions on all
during the time of the Monmouth rebellion Richard D. Blackmore
It is difficult to understand to-
out before, things were different. Ambition and greed overcame all family affections and blood ties. Mary: the new queen, was the The League of Nations is in theatrical qualities.
With the danger from Holland daughter of the ousted monarch, viting both Germany and Italy His tossing into the river of the Paints what has been said to be an
accurate picture in his delightful gradually getting the better of and her husband, the new king," Committee which is to study fight to France twelve days later of Monmouth was beheaded and command of his army at Salisbury king's sister. Mary was not as to appoint representatives to a great seal and his subsequent
romance, Lorna Doone. The duke him, James on November 19 took was the son of the dethroned international
the TAW constituted access to
¡James was' secure for a while. Many of his friends immediately bitter toward her father as might materials and upon their re- James I
fell away from him. Lord Churchill, be supposed, but William was a plies the peace of Europe may
↑his principal: commander, de hard and determined man. well depend
James kept a standing army of serted his cause, as did likewise How great a part Mary had in
abdication of
With the furore that was recent-
abdication
Iperitis of the present - critical of_King Edward Vill, people may 30,000 men ever ready for emer the cake of Grafton, his nephew, the taking of the crown from bër
It is not over-stating the stirred up by the situation to predict that with be wondering just what the surgencies. He continued to display and Prince George of Delimark, father has been the subject of no out some kind of understanding render of the crown may mean and favouritiam toward those of his his son-in-law. Even his daugn. le speculation.
on economic problems, without
some radical revision, of the isn't much in history upon which antagonism among the Protest saw there was little hope of resist-
existing controls and barriers,
would
Early in 1701 James was attack-
what may be its outcome. There faith, which naturally stirred up ter Anne fed from London. James to base predictions, and conditions ants. It must be borne in mind ing William of Orange. He sent war, sooner or later, is certain tave changed so greatly over the that in the seventeenth century word to William that he
years that what happened more people took their religions much like to treat with him, but wiled by paralysis. His death came A considerable time has that two centures ago may have no more seriously than they do now; liam sent a reply to the effect that 9 September 6 of that year. Out of the nearly sixty-eight years of elapsed since Sir Samuel Hoare, bearing at all on the modern ex-that religious tolerance was only the king would have to abjure his his life he had actually reigned as then Foreign Secretary, com ample, but we may recall out of a theory then. In June, 1681, the religion before negotiations could king of England only three. His mitted the British Government the dim past the case of James, king publicly. received the papal be undertaken. James decided to last words to his son, the child at Windsor two months dee, but first he sent his wife Mary who had caused so much agitation 07 raw who threw away a throne. Women nuncão materials or at least to all played an important part in the after his issuance of a declara- and the infant son to France.
in England at the time of his "inquiry and both Germanylabdication of this monarch of longtion of indulgence. He followed
birth, were: and Italy are likely to regard ago, just as one of that sex was this up by endeavouring by every
"Never put the crown of Eng- newly inspired sctivity, along involved in the crisis that led to means to convert individual noble-
On the night of December 11, as land into competition with eternal these lines at Geneva as some the sensitional retirement of Ed-men to his faith. This all roused previously mentioned, he stole out salvation “ what belated. Nevertheless, opward,
dislike for him among the Protest of Whitehall palace, dropped the So zealous was James during his ants. When in April, 1686, he great seal in the Thames as he life that after his death the ques portunity now offers, it is part
issued a second declaration of in- was crossing the river at Vanx- tion of canonization was seriously
to
conference 2
of Germany's plea for under-
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standing that her aspirations James was fond of women. By dulgence, and ordered it to be read hall, and fled to Sheerness. He considered by the Vatican. His re- are economic and zot political his first official consort, his secret in all churches, the Protestant changed his mind on December 15 maing were buried in the church William of and returned to -Whitehall: this of St. Edmund in St. Germain, but or territorial, and refusal to co-bride, Anne Hyde, daughter of Ed-bishops protested. operate now would do no parti-ward Hyde, estl of Clarendon, he Orange, son-in-law of James, sus-time William of Orange was estab- during the French revolution they cular good to her cause. bad eight children, two of whom. Pected him of forming an alliance lisbed. at Windsor. By William's were dng up and made away with-- There is growing apprecia- Mary and Anne, became queens of against him with France. William order James was taken te aches The widow, Mary Beatrice, d'Exte tion of the fact that if any England. By his second Reial had been in the habit of harbour- ter, and from there on December of Modena, survived, until 1718, Steing James" Protestant foes in Hol- 23 he was allowed by William to subsisting on the bounty of the thing constructive is to be done consort, Mary Beatrice
charity and piety."
in the present state of Europe, daughter of Alphonso d'Este, duke land. He was inked at the report fee to France. This was the end French and always model of undeniable economic grievances of Modena be had seven children, of a son having been born to of his reign have to be put in their true one of whom, James Francis Ed- perspective and as far as pos- ward, later became a pretender to sible redressed on a realistic the throne By Arabella Churchill he had three children, two - JOLE basis.
CHINESE WED
MARRIAGE OF MARSHAL LI CHAI-SUM'S SON
of
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It is true, too, that the dis- and a daughter. And by Catherine tribution of raw materials is Sedley, countess of Dorchester, he
The Hon. Commander G. F. The *Gazette" not nearly so lop-sided as is had one child, a daughter.
Hole, RN. (Retired), Harbour lengthy outline OF DEREUTes ́ for sometimes suggested. In the History tells us also that James last five or six years, for in-was no dastard at
The wedding was solemnized at Master in Hong Kong, and Mex, the control of air navigation with- war, although stance, producers of This final activities in that line end-the Hong Kong Union Church yes-Hole, are leaving for Home early in the Colony. materials have been failinged in ruin for him. He was a man terday afternoon, of Miss Ping-1 in March.
His Excellency the Governor over one another to find mar of considerable talent and strength Lee and Mr. Paiman Li, ao
The Hong Kong Travel Associa has been pleased to appoint Mr. kets for their surplus stocks at of character in his early years, but Marshal and Mrs. Li Chai-sum
thanks
Brian Charles Keith Hawkins to akmost any price they would toward the last he faded out into The Bev. Dr. James M. Henry,tion acknowledges with
as-Secretary for Chinese fetch. It is not seriously con- an almost complete failure. It is Provost of Lingnan University, the receipt of an additional subset
scription of $50, from Mesars Affairs, during the absence from tended that raw materials have said that he contributed too much officiated.
the Colony of Mr. Roland-Arthur Lloyd Triestiño. not been available. The diff of body and spirit to his early lifé
Charles North, or until further culty rather has been to find and land little left in reserve when the means of exchange, that, in faced with grave erises in his
Passing through Hong Kong on notice. the Rampura is Mr. F. Fletcher, The winter volume who has just retired from the firm Yellow Dragon" is out and con- of The tun, swinging the issue round later years.
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The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ying Dore Lee, and is a graduate student of the Graduate School of Lingaan University. She specialises in Biology.
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The bridegroom is a graduate of of Mather and Platt, with whom tains several interesting articles he has been connected for 50 as well as a record of Queen's There is the rub and the Jamen was a Stourt, a member Cornell University, USA. He re- years.
Mr. Fletcher is an old College activities in the last few most tantalising problem of the or the ruling family of England ceived his master's degree (US) Shanghai hand, having apent 28 months. several for which solution is and a direct descendant of the in the same institution. He is demanded. Palliatives have tragic Mary Queen of Scots. His now Associate professor of Hor-years in the Far East.
The Chief Justice, Sir Atholi been tried. The recent Anglo-father, Charles 1, lost not only his ticulture at the Lingnan UniveK-Į
Among the passengers on the MacGregor, will speak at the currency throne but his head as well, and sity, Canton. The bridegroom's)
Rampura are Captam Allen and Rotary Club tifin on Tuesday, the agreement, which brought most his brother; Charles I, occupied father was formely Governor the officers of the British title of his address being "Ban- of the countries of Europe off the throne after Cromwell's Canton and Commenter-in-Chief of trawler Cepolis, for many years a dom Peminiscences." The meet- the gold standard, was speci-periment had come to a dismal the Kwangtung and Kwangi zamiar ship on the China casting will be open to ladies, and fically undertaken in the belief failure. James became king at troops.
The Cépolis was recently sold toill be attended by His Excel- that it would contribute appre- the age of 51 on February 6, 1685.
Two Bridesmaids'
Japanese yards for breaking up. lency the Governor, Sir Andrew ciably to the clearing of the
The Miss Fel-ha Cheung and
Caldecott, and Lady Caldecott. channels of trade, speed up
Wei-tsing So were Eridesmaids.
The Executive" Committee” of] world economic recovery and
The bride was given away in mar- the Street Sleepers Shelter Society Christian Institute, Ber. Dr. K. L The Rector of Tao Fong Shan
many.
| going on furlough, leaving to-day
thereby automatically lessen complete acknowledgment that riage by her father. the force of the arguments em the response of the country's Dr. Chiu-sam Tsang and Mr. acknowledges with grateful thanks Reichelt, and Mrs. Reichelt, are
the following "donations:--The ployed to justify, for instance, manhood to the Army's heen Ful-kam Lee were best men. Ar Board of Directors, Tang Wan for Norway by the Helios, vis the Four Year Economie Plan for more recruits has not been porpriate huisie was rendered on now getting under way in Ger- as ready as the authorities the organ by Miss Alice Lee. Hospital 350: EK University Sisro, Barma and India, where
have desired. The Army is, in Following the ceremony & rutcher (Royalties on "Carden lecture and to
Christian Union $28, Min. W. Dr. Reichelt has The action has largely failed fact, considerably below estab- ception was held in the Sphinxing in Hong Kong) $15 Doma- in its objectives for reasons not lishment and there are hints of Room at the Hotel Cecil where as may be sent to Miss R. Mow be the easy to define, though a sharp important concessions by way Chinese ceremony took place. The ring, c/o Gilman & Co., Ltd. rise in commodity prices re- of conditions of service and room was charmingly decorated cently may be suggested as a possibly of pay which will with towers in the shape of a material factor.
render an Army career somme horseshoe, and a wedding bell Events, indeed, have tended what more attractive to the
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