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BRITISH TRADE AND COM-
MERCIAL MISSIONS
Importers in Colonia and other oversen markges, is loss than manufacturers and shig pershane, cannot fail to be interested, the Briksh Lite Review says. In the attempts which are being made to form so far as possible om organisation for promoting and fostering Britialade,
de throughout the world. Our readers, will therefore welcome the publicalfor of the latest, official document that has come to hand during the past month on this subject This takes the form of a report presented to the Board of Trade by the Advisory Cous- mittee on Commercial Intelligence, and deals with their proceedings from August, 1905, to August, 1909, The terms of reference of the Committee were (a), To advise the Board of Trade on file work of their Commercial Intel Igenoe Branch and on such matters relating to foreign tarifa and other commercial questions as the Board may refer to them; sad to im prove the main of obtaining and diffusing information for the benefit of British trade by mesis of commercial missions and correspon dents abroad, and otherwise as they may think
A brief history relating to the Commercial Intelligense Branch is given in the report, This department was established in October, 1899, as the result of recommendations made by a departmental committee, appointed by the Board of Trade in 1897, to inqung and report as to the best means of collecting and promptly dis- seminating accurate information on commercial matters. It was agreed flist, in addition to local commercial facilities for obtaining informa tion have been placed at the disposal of manu- facturers and traders in this country. That the work of the Branch is becoming more widely known and appreciated is proved by the fact that the number of written and personal inquiries dealt with last year was 11,267, as compared with 9231 in 1907, 5,544 in 1906, and 4,399 in 1905. In addition to answering in quiries on special subjects, an increasing amount of useful work is being performed by the Branch in disseminating information furnished by his Majesty's commercial attachés and Consular officers, as well as by the trade commissioners and trade correspondents of the Branch, with regard to the conditions and prospects of trade in their respectivo districts. The report mentions that newly-appointed Con- sular officers, before proceeding to their poste, are now attached for a short period of service to the Commercial Intelligence Branch, and that arrangements have been made by the Foreign Olle for commercial attaches and occasionally Consular officers to visit the chief menntastaring and commercial centres of the United Kingdom from time to time, in order to become better soquainted with the kind of information which it is desirablo should be furnished for the benefit of British trade.
The report shows that the Committee have continued the policy, so far as practicable, of sending out commercial missions for the called tion of information abroad and in the Colanies. Missions of this character have been despatched since 1905 to Australia and New Zealand, Canada sail Newfoundland, and Asiatic Turkey. The Committee describe the methods adopted to keep up to date the information acquired by means of special inquiries, and to provide, in the self-governing Colonies and other portions of the Empire, a permanent service of commercial intelligence similar to that already afforded by the Conslar officers in foreign countries. In Jane, 1907, the Committee were informed that at the Imperial Conferetios the question had been raised of the posibility of estab Ishing some organisation for the promotion of British trade with the self-governing Colonies by the appointment of reprezentatives there whose duty it should be to obtain and disseminate information on trade matter. 1t was agreed that, in addition to local commercial correspocidents in each of the principal contres in the Colonies, commercial agents of standing and remuneration generally similar to those of Consols General should be appointed, and also that it was desirable to a travelling agent who should pay periodio visits to each of the self- governing Colonies, and spend a portion of each year
in the United Kingdom. Those recommendations were approved by the Govern ment, and the following gentlemen were appointed Trade Commissionera: Canada, Mr. Richard Grigg Australia, Mr. C. Hamilton Wiokes; New Zealand, Mr. G. H. F. Rolleston; South Africa, Mr. Bothern Holland. The question of a travelling commissioner was left temporarily in abayanon
It is worthy of note that the report empha sisce the fact that the whole time of these officers is devoted to the investigation of the trade conditions and requirements of the respective Colonies with a view to watching the movements of foreign competition, and reporting to the Board of Trade on all mat ters which may tend to the promotion
were, Malik KAZ Kronik „diaMilf Insid to these tares than travellers of other aationali. ties, and, in those circumstances, the committee did not feel justified in singgesting that any action should be taken in the matter, Assistance was also given by the Commitime to the Hould of Trade in corection with the arrangemite which have been made for the issue by Chambers of Commerce in this country of certiffentes of value for goods exported to the United State: In connection with the proposal made by the Netherlands Government for an Inter- national Conference on the laws relating to bills of exchange, the Committee were cod salted by the Board of Trade, and com
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nicated with varibas Chambers of Com merce and Trade and other associations apon the subject. After considering the replies, this Committee came to the conclusion, and reported to the Board of Trade, that while it is probable that grave dificulties would be encountered any attempt to establish an international code of laws relating to bills of Archiatry suthoritative statement; prepared International Conference, of the diferences existing between the laws of different nations on this subject, and of the inconveniences arising therefrom, would be of value as a preliminary to the possible adjustment of points of difference by the various Governments concerned.
MODERN MARRIAGE.
By
ITS REAL DIGNITY AND SOME OF ITS DETRACTORS..
`BY LADY VIOLET GREVILLE.
The ruthlessness and pessimism of modern unreet bas toughed even the honourable estate of matrimony, which, once revered as a sura meat, and subsequently regarded as a serious contract, has now by women themselves been degraded to the level of a trade, Mr. Harold Owen has touched on the subject from the man's point of view with matter-of-fact sincerity. I should like to regard it also from the point of view of worse.
The spinster of the present day (and what does not the spinster know, especially about marriage P) assures us that marriage is slavery, and never tires of railing at the iniquities of man. No doubt marriage, like all human institutions, je imperfect. There are bad borlands and unhappy marriages, just as there suspicious spinsters; bat up to the present it are ill-tempered, scolding wives and sour, appoora to be the most workable and least un satisfactory scheme for the anion of the sexes
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The advanced person loudly advocates, and occasionally practises (but generally nuỞ TOBA), what are called free unicus, or marriage on. lease. No lose an authority than George Meredith once said, "Certainly, however, one day, these present conditions of marriage will be allowed for a certain period, say, ten years.
most cases, Experience, however, has proved in beginning with that of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneer of the now woman, that these unions have generally ended unhappily, and that as a rule the woman suffers in her life, her love, and her ambitions.
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of woman's tasks quite as well as she can, he can work, sew, design and make dresses, do hair, and nurse children, but he cannot give birth to them, a fact which supremely grieves the advanced woman, who calls hor married sisters
breeding machines."
When we come to marriage as a profession, the spinster can find no good word-fox hasten de There are women who are spinators born, for whom the wise system of old provided shelter and peace in the convent and the cloistered life There, secure from the attentions of men, the virgin lived happy in her study. her philanthropy, her teaching, and her prayers, which lightened hot days.. and soothed her
Note the strong and gentle band of the sur rebellion Instincts. At present there is plenty of hope for the spinster in the world of geon, the skilful way in which he wraps bandages she likes liberly and a latchkey, farnished and arranges pillows! No one can doubt that lodgings and discomfort. She may please a man can do the gentler tasks of life as well 8s a woman. The widower working man, the herself. Nocno objects to her coming or going. her occupations and her amusements. But the artisan whose wife is ill er employed while average woman still prefers matrimony. It may is forced to remain idle for lack of work, be she is weak or incapable, or has not thewill wash and dress the children, prepare the extergy or will-power to dafy fate and fight for food, and take the little one out for a walk. Berself in the area; or it may be she is simply perched on his shoulder and bubbling happily a normal creature, anxious to love and be loyed to him all the while. To her and her sisters the bald, hare, Bordid gospel preached by the spinster must inevitably smirch and dafaon the tons of family life.
A BOOTLESS CRUSADE. All the unpleasant talk about sex in which the modern woman delights cannot alter the Woman is not a slave; she is, as a rule, facts of naturo. In spite of the crusade against perfectly aware of her own importance and her men, women will still love and marry, legally own influence. In many cases she is the born or illegally, wisely and foolishly, so long as the ruler and counsellor, the confidanta and com- world endures, just because they are women, panion of her husband and children. The because they love to feel strong arms around advanced woman, however, reeks little of them and warm Kisses on their lips, because religion or the opted code of morality, but they adore the voices of little children and the reduces everything to a matter of pounds, light that shines in their eyes! It is worse than shillings, and pense, calmly asking for wages folly to touch young girls to despise men, look for the wife and mother. We know that the on marriage as degrading, and believe that wages of sin is death, but who shall compute its only privileges are the wearing of a gold the wages of love, the wages of the affectionate ring, and the permission to read erotic liters wife and the adoring mother; how can we tax tare? As a matter of fact, the working woman or value love?
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values a wedding ring as a symbol of tenest of new or increased trade between the No nice woman could endure to live in a love, and the young girl not only reads but Mother counity and other portions of the man's house ssp kind of superior servant, paid writes erotic literature, leaving her older friends Empire. The Committee believe that the organ wages monthly or quarterly, and losing all the dumb with astonishment.
What we want is, not to snarl and sneer and isation for Commercial Intelligence which has diguity of a wife. No, the true wife gives thus been elaborated would be of substantial bene ngrudgingly; her bounty is boundless as the dabase and make meno and ugly the accepted fit in promoting trade between Great Britain see, her ideal of Marriage that of Fortis, But form of marringe, but to raise a higher ideal of and the Colonies. The work of the officers now, I was the lord of this fair mansion, master clean, fresh love and self-respect in both ten
nominated by the Governments of the of my servants, queen o'er myself; and even and woman. O Colonies to answer trade inquiries now, but now, this house, these servante and from the Commercial Intelligenou, Branch, or this same myself, are yours, my lord Horo from individan maanfacturers and traders, speaks the trus dignity, generosity, and love of has been mpplemented by the appointment by the Home Government, at the instance of
MUTUAL HELP. the Committee, of correspondents who are
Amongst the poor, it is the house-mother thefuzelves engaged in, or possess practical experience of, the trade and industries of the who manages, contrives, lys, orders, whom the Colony in which they are resident. Their Tann calls his missus, and to whom in full duties consist in the main of auswering in confidence, he hands his weekly wage. In the quiries, but they are also required to furnish upper classes, operate settlement or pin. money is secured to the wife on marisga information on their own initiative with rogard Thurs is nothing to prevent the middle classes to a number of specified subjects, and to report from making and an arrangement and bestow- as occasion may require on all matters affecting ing freedom and independence on every wife. the trade of the United Kingdora with their re
The Woman's Property Act has regulated spective spheres of nation. Eight of these local the question of the woman's earnings. Oude,
Box England is the Home correspondents have been appointed by the Board however, infrather the lamentable of Trade
Canada, one in Newfoundland, fire conflict, once reduce the conjugal state from a of Good Tatloring~~~ in Australia, two in Now Zealand, and six in union of souls to a mere hard and fast bat- Bouth Africa, where it is intended shortly to gaining uchastering and wrangling, once inspire appoint one more. An arrangement has also the woman with a sense of injustice or a sum bben concladed with the Government of India, in order to secure co-operation Letween the redeally organized Department of Trade and Commerce and Industry in India, and the Com mercial Intelligence Branch.
picion of servility, and you introduce into the married problem a new and sordid element of discord
Marriage was intended not as slavery, but
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prefection for women and children, so that JOHN J. M. BULT, ablount of the work of this Committee in con- be the profession of women let the Cash Tellor.ATE altering the new Customs tariffs of foreiga fit themselves for it and wipe away the ignorance 140, Fenchurch St., London, Eng., countries and circulating information witht
Codacated and interested in domestic science, regard to them to this principal Chambers which in many cases they display, let them be of Commerce and Trade Associations. Among hygiene and sanitation and health matters, other matters dealt with by the Committee education and the care of children, so that a new
were the taxes which are imposedd
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