OUR LONDON LETTER.
ROYAL PROCESSION AND LÖRD MAYOR'S SHOW..
FLEET STREET, October 24th, After the King's procession to the City comes the Lord Mayor's slow. From pageant to peep-show London progresses serenely, for during the last few years we have grown as fond of street finery as the French, despite our harsher clinare. I write on the eve of the Coronation deferted procession to the City.. Fleet Street has donned a gorgeous costume which defies the fickle weather of autumn, and everybody is preparing to hold high revel Huge golden lions look down from high pedestals on Ludgate Circus, while overhead is a vast expanse of mingled banners, evergreens, festoons and emblazoned mottoes of welcome. Many provincial visitors are in town, but there is no prospect of a crush and on the Surrey side seats at half-a-crown on substantial stands find no great rush of patrons. Some of the more generous stand owners who paid their patrons a percentage of return money when the Coronation procession was postponed now invite them to lake a free view of this one. These, however, are the exceptions; most owners are trying to make what they can out of
their space.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1902.
The Colonial Office is well pleased at the progress of land settlement in the Orango River Colony The last return showed that the board had established no less than 4,300 settlers with aggregate capital of £1,370,000, The Transvaal board shows nothing like sucb. good results.
There is joyful, anticipation in the heart of the British schoolboy. Early in November a conference of headmasters and mathematicians meets at Oxford to consider the pe
EXCLUSION OF EUCLID
from the curriculum of public schools. They may decide upon some geometrical text-book asinorum seems to be doomed. England, to take its place, but the original "pons believe, is the only country in which Euclid is taught.to-day.
threw out an expensive scheme brought forward The London County Council on Tuesday by a special committes, to purchase a site on the Embankment just west of the Hotel Cecil, for £900,00, whereon a noble office for the growing work of the Council should be erected. It was declared by the opponents of the scheme that the building itself would cost nearly a million, and that if such an extravagant scheme
were higun there would be no telling where in would end. Those who favoured the ambitious.
oposal declared that the municipal offices of the Haurt of the Empire' should not be set in a available. There was a lively debate, ending of the scheme by a majority of 25. Public in some curious crossvoting, and the rejection.
opinion seems to support this ducision, but I ain much mistaken if the project is more than temporarily scotched.
The provincial mayors and other public dig.bicke stree: but should occupy the best site nitaries view the show from the London County Cunet's stand in Trafalgar Square. Tonight 30,00 tramps are in reidyess for duty, and Londoners have set their alarm clocks at an early bour: deter nined, wet or shine, to show that their loyalty is only more intense for having its expression deferred for a time. There is a holiday in the banks, bt nota general holiday. On Sunday there is a thanksgiving service at St. Paul's, on Monday a grand review at Back- ingham Palace, and then the King and Queen seck-rest the former for a week at Newmarket and the latter at Sandringham.
A few days later the new Lord Mayor, Sir Marcus Samuel, shapes his smaller course through the square mile" Sir Marcus is a large shipowner whose firm owns a fleet of tank steamers for oil carrying purposes. He introduced the transport of petroleum in bulk through the Suez Canal, and in 1898 for services
rendered in raising the Victorious in that quarter, he received i knighthood. trave led much
He has
IN CHINA AND JAPAN and years ago established a business, I believe, in the latter country, is he represents the Portsoken ward of which the Jewish quarter comprises the greater part, the Lord Mayor's show will this year pass through the famous Petticoat Lane and Aldgate in addition to the usual route. This is an innovation over which the London Ghetto is much excited. Sir Marcus is the fifth Jew to occupy the Mansion House, and he is in no way ashamed of his race. The chief feature of the show will be three cars representing the development of the ship- ping of Great Brit in. At the Mansion House reception in the evening one of the Lady Mayoress' maids of honor will by Miss Son Fukuzawa, the ten-year-old grand-daughter of Viscount Hayashi, the Japanese Minister
I am assured on good authority that the proposal is being considered of extending the tour of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, after the Delhi Durbar, to a complete circle the world, paying brief visits to China, Japan, United States, and Cond. The Duke I take to India a beautifully inscribed parchment containing the terms of the address in be read by the Viceroy at the Durber. A question arose as to who should he the owner of the parchment, but I understand it has 6 ly been dreided to place it in the archives of the Government house at Calent 4.
The Spanish government is taking step to encourage the iron and steel industry.. A: number of engineus, mining experts, and surveyors are being appointed to explore various parts of the country and report on the districts favourable for development, A special mining and survey department will probably be created. In the meantime an influential Spaniard of my acquaintance, resident in London, has succeeded in securing a company to run a railway through the mining districts, connecting Bilbao, Burgos, Madrid, and Biarritz, British engineers and capital control the line.
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The latest American invasion is upon the Paper trade, an Indiana syndicate having pur- chased the Thames Piper Mill at Purfect. Mr. W. J. Alford is over hère arranging. for the equipment of the mill on Ameri-
firm of London paper ngents
line A member of the leading telfs ma that English conteres have nothing to fear in this direction, for though there is a speedier machine in America than those used by English makers, the quality of paper is no higher and there is little likelihood of the Americans being able to reduce the price naterially.
easiness in London diplomatic circles as well The Macedonian unrest is causing un-
as in other capitals of Europe, not because anything serious is anticipated from the Balkans themselves, but because of the op portunities these periodical disturbances afford to the watchful Russian: put the screw on Turkey and the surrounding mall governments... In St. Petersburg and Vienna, I hear, there is jst now something of a sensation in con sequence of the disappearance of a disoatch sent by Count Lamsdorff, the Russian Chan cellor, to Count Goluchowski at Vienna. This dispatch deals with the present troubles and the influence they may have on the faiure relations af both Austria and Russia towards Turkey. Hence if it becomes public property diplomacy in several capitals may be difficult,
According to reports which have reached an official quarter here from Sofia, both the Turkish and Bulgarian authorities are seeking for 50,000 rifles and large stores of ammunition which it is known have been hid in varings parts of Macedonia and Bolgaria during the last few months. The rifles represent stocks which have been purchased from time to time in Bighim, Holland, and Germany.
Very little interest was taken by the general public in the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar. The Navy League decorated Nelson's Columa in Trafalgar Squire but the stands erected to view the procession maned the effect The old Victory at Portsmouth and,ibe Nelson Monument at Liverpool were also decorated,
Cimbridge University men are delighted at John Morley's munificent gift of the Acton library to their Alma Mater. This library of nearly 7,00 vélemes was collecte 1 by the late Lord Acton, "the most learne 1 man in Europ and on his death was bought by Andrew Cr negie and presented-to John Marley. Cam. bridge will be able to keep it entire and apart. for the use of students; a purpase which would have saped their collector very well indeed.
The latest annuncement-ins to the new:
Canadian Mail Steamship company is that all idea of using Galway Bay as a terminus bas been abandoned. It is stated, with some shov
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of authority, that the place selected for the | exhaustion, so, tor, must be that of Ger- terminus is Blacksod Bay, and that the Mid many and the other countries of Europe land Great Western Railway of Ireland, underwhere iron is produced in large quantities. a: working, agreement with the London and Mr. Carnegie's notion of a United States of North-Western, has agreed to build a line in Europe on an industrial basis" is about as - connection with their system and to so improve chimerical as Mr. Stead's bland suggestion to the line through County Mayo that the journey, the Pope to found a New Vatican on the may be made to Dublin in about four hours.50 banks of the Thames. If the "American The announcement of a giant Canadian Trust invasion" becomes a real menace, the Govern to supply Canadian goods to British markets ments of Europe will not be slow to effect at prices twenty to a hundred per cent below whatever readjustments are necessary to con- present charges has aroused great interest. front changing conditions; but if we may ven- The Earl of Aberdeen and many other well- tard to follow Mr. Carnegie into the realm of known men are connected with the scheme.prophesy we would predict that there is no Foodstuffs will be the principal articles dealt more likelihood of a United States of Europe with, and shops or distributing centres will be within a discernible period of time, than there opened throughout Great Britain. There is a is of Europe catering into the America Com great deal of war feeling towards Canada monwealth. The fact in that there are risks nowadays and that will help to give the about about the prognostication which may enterprise a good send off when the details of lead astray even a multi-millionaire. Mr. operation are completed.
Carnegie assumes several things that must remain open questions. He assumes, for in- stance, a period of unbroken internal peace and concord for the United States, 1s he quite justified in doing so, because the sky is cloud- less now?. The problem of the black races in the States will furnish a terrible complication some day, from the menace of which Europe is happily free. Again, certain that America will always remaja one and indivisible? The centre of power is steadily drifting westward, and greater agglomerations of people within, terests apparently identical, bave broken, up"
ME. CARNEGIE-AS PROPHET.
The British people, like the British army, is receiving plenty of advice just now. In the multitude of counsellers' there is doubtless copious wisdom, though much of it seems to be more repetition." We hope, the British nation will receive with das meekness the castigation Mr. Andrew Carnegie has adminis tered at St. Andrew's, and will blush when it reflects upon its "degrading tastes,” But it will occur to some of us perhaps, that Mr. Carnegie displayed rather dubious tact when he selected
such an occasion to lecture those who sought to do him honour. - Besides, is not this sort of thing a little overdoas? That Mr. Carnegie had some grounds for his diatribe need not be quenlined. As a race, the British play too much, and a section of the population-far amiller than external critics suppose-con- sume more alchol than is good for them. Yet we are inclined to object to r. Carnegie's manner of presentment of his views. Unless the exiguous Reuter has done him an injustice, he seems to have inferred that the failings he perceives among the British are not visible in these States. To that contention we are unable to subscribe. Let us admit all the stock arguments of comparison between American enterprise and British lassitude, and so on; the fact remains that the defects which Mr. Carnegie. discerns in British civilization are reproduced, and even intensified, in Atmerica. There is nothing in Great Britain to compare with the sinks of iniquity discoverable in Chicago. British pal ties are not yet shaped and directed from, the saloon. We did not make
cre this.
deemly descried at present, which may upset There is another factor in the situation, only all Mr Camegic's predictions. seventy-five years hence. He has fixet his gaze upon America for a good many years, but we marvel that be has not looked west, across the Pacific. China has almost untapped resources of coal and iron, which we believe will prove equal, if not superior, to those of the United States. She has the most industrious population in the world, which can underlive that of America and even that of India. When the exploitation of China begins, America will soon find the industrial equilibrium adjusting itself afresh. There will be more "Commercial invasions," but it will not be America that will do the in- vading; it will be China. If the nations of Europe were to combine to develop the resources of China, and bring Chinese labour into the industrial market, by setting the Chinese to manufacture their own raw materials, they would be giving America
far more effective check than could be offered by any "United States of Europe."No such impos sible effort will be made by Europe. These
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PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
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SAILING DATES. (SYDNEY and MELBOURNE, VIA THURSDAY, 27th Nov,
KASUGA MARU
H. Fraser KUMANO MARU
E. W. Haswell WAKASA MARU........
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J. W. Mcmillan........ BINGO MARU.....
T. Davies.....
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C. H.' Butler HIROSHIMA MARU
T. Murai KAGOSHIMA MARU
K. Kori
MANILA,
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TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE ......
(NAGASAKI, KOBE and YOKO-) FRIDAY, 28th Nov
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KOBE and YOKOHAMA
MONDAY, 1st Dec.,
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4 P.M.
KOBE and YOKOHAMA
TUESDAY, 2nd Dec
Neon.
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BOMBAY, VIA SINGAPORE and FRIDAY, 5th Dec
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Hungkong, 24th November, 1902
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Africa the American War Office made of the little unpleasantness in Cuba. Tammany has not yet arisen in our midst and the London police do not "face" innocent victims with their clubs. The difference between the drinking habits of Great Britain and the States
is only the difference between rye whisky and Scotch. The variation in the tobacco habit the two countries is a mere matter of cuspidors. The rude sport of foot-ball in England becomes in America the not less rude sport of baseball. If America has displaced Great Britain as the foremost nation in wealth and commerce, It is not because her Administration has fewer Aws, or because her people are less prone to fail victims to weakness of frail humanity She is triumphing in spite of the fact that she shares the filings of Europe. She owes her rapid progress to a stimulating climate that generates energy, lo har vast natural re- sources, and to that special impetus which must follow the sadder peopling of a great country, We do not deny all that is claimed for American business, enterprise and indus rial capacity; but we ob ject to the attempt that seems to have been made-if we interpret Reater's summary aright-to single.out Great Britian for special condemnation for the "degrading tastes that are certainly not absent from America. That does not minimise the general force after Carnegie's remarks of course; yet places a rather different complexion upon his compari-
son.
Mr. Carnegie's estimate of the probable. duration of the iron resources of England and America will be received with astonishment and and some alarm. The United States are already producing twice as much iron ore annually as Great Britain, The only consolation is that if the iron ore of Great Britain is approaching A.SK
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at P.M., the Company's Steamship "SYDNEY," Captain Negre, with Mails, Passengers, Specic and Cargo, will leave this Fort for MARSEILLES, við BOMBAY.
This Steamer connects at COLOMBO with the 5.5. Polynesien, which vessel takes on her Passengers and Mails leaving that Port on the 13th December Direct to Suez, Port Said and Marseilles.
to the promptings of prophecy. But that China is destined to upset Mr. Carnegie's calculations is tolerably certain which only suggests once more how dangerous it is to prophesy unless you know. These con. Carnegie's advice. Europe must work out her ederations do not affect the value of Mr.ON MONDAY, the 1st December, 1907, uwa salvation, and must not be dependant in any way upon the Asiatic factor. We only call attention to this aspect of the question because Mr. Carnegie seems to have over- looked it so far as we are able to judge, There are more continents in the world than Europe and America. There is Asia, and dream which previsions America dominating Asia will have to be reckoned with in any the commerce of the world. Depend 'upon it, before the "American invasion" has gone very far, there will be a general re-adjustment to meet the new conditions of competition. Americans have every reason to be proud of their rapid progress, and their kinsman in England are proud of it too but they do not possess a monopoly of iron or of enterprise, and, there are about 1,500 million other people in the world. Times of India.
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