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tinually propagated the distant boundaries | and while sems and justice, arts and letters; of Victoria's dominions, the tranquil and pro-were postponed in the general estimation to sperous state of the British Islands was deep manufacture and trade, these mercenary avoi ly felt, if grudgingly admitted, by every class cations were themselves pursued without of their population. There, if anywhere ou energy and almost without common 'shrewd. the earth, was to be found wholesome publicness. Like the ostrich of mythology, her feeling untainted by faction and wealth, un-head buried in the sand of obsolete traditions obnoxious to jealousy. The distinction of and antiquated success, Britain alone of the Conservative and Liberal preserved the name nations of Europe refused to educate her com of party government without its substance; mercial travellers or to accede to the terms and the purely formal opposition of deno- of payment required by her customers, clung minations, rather than of principles, served as to her chaotic weights and measures, and a useful check on the dominant party without haughtily announced to the world that it risk of cataclysm in the general policy of the must forego such goods as its wants demand- State.
ed, and purchase only what Britain was pleas ed to sell. In Germany, in Belgium, and in the United States sprang up keen and vic- torious competition; and though the vast wealth of England was as yet unimpaired, a few sagacious minds, while impartially blind to the more fatal deterioration of the nation's spirit, were already enabled to foresee and to predict the approaching disasters to its traffic.
At the same time as it was thus sought, by menace or persuasion, to extend the principles of free trade abroad, at home they were eating, like a deep and consuming canker, into the very marrow of Britain. The insidious principles of the whole world; but they brought to her the Bright and Cobden had made her the workshop
physical debility of the workman as well as his wages. The profits of the manufacturer and the cheap food of the operative were paid for by the starvation of the hind, the bankruptcy of the farmer, and the ruin of the landowner. On
THE "DAILY PRESS OF HONGKONG THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE Britain seemed to regard her condition. The
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The example of France, her secular enemy, emphasised the just complacency with which
Republic groaned under an alternation of licence and tyranny; the monarchy breathed freely in the reasonable acceptance of laws, enacted honestly for the general good, and applied indifferently by Judges of grave sacro- sanctity. In her foreign relations France alternately intrigued and precipitately withdrew from the consequences of her duplicity; Britain. pursued her designs with unyielding lenacity, but in uninjurious silence. Unvexed
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trying to the eyes. Mr. I'EELE has invented SUBSCRIPTIONS. neighbours, and recure in the protection of
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their invincible navy, the people affected the arts of peace, and received the accustomed reward of a single devotion.
II. THE CAUSES OF DECAY,
The workshop, of the world since two generations, Britain neither dreaded the com-
clever, though rather curious-looking double chairs, especially adapted for use when im parting shorthand instruction. At present be is training a staff of teachers, three of whom are ladies, when these are thoroughly versed in the respective branches of teaching for which thay are intended, Mr. PEELE saya that he will open branches at CANTON, SHANGHAI, and YOKOHAMA. At present his teachers have only been under training for a fortnight, whilst six weeks altogether will be necessary. One, a lady after 9 days' study, accomplished 40 words a minute, after 11 days 60 words; after ar days, Bo words; and she is now in the 120 words a minute speed-lesson. It is claimed that "Up-to-date" shorthand is easy to tran- scribe. There are no lines, arbitrary signs, gramalogues, or obluse angles nor any halving principal. The full course consists of ar lessons. Type-writing is taught by the blind touch system, new machines of the best make being supplied for practice. Other subjects include Book-keeping, Arithmetic, Languages, N.K.-A. Special Charge is made for Lines exchequer supported with facility all burdens
Memory-training, and Business Department.
From The Hongkong Daily Press. 8th April, 1904.
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petition of strangers nor listened to the cautions of the more sagacions of her own children. The "Recessional" of the sublime Kipling and the economic speculations of the inquisitive but censorious Mallock fell alike unheeded on the ears of those who were content to argue that the condition of the lower orders, though insufficient to their own appetance, was luxu rious compared to that of their fellows abroad, while the easy splendour of the rich inflamed the emulation of all mankind, and the public
which the ever-increasing exigencies of the Empire might impose.
It was scarcely possible that the eyes of con temporaries should discern in the public felici- ty the latent causes of decay and corruption. To the vulgar mind the British Empire was a triumphant proof of the possibility, as of the blessings, of a wise democracy; yet in that very
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THE NEW GIBBON, A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE,
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of ruin. In the domain of Government the political genius of the Anglo-Saxon race, its bias towards compromise and detestation of extremity, surmounted with impunity experi ments that would have proved fatal to any other people les singularly endowed. Bul while the leaders in the nation were satisfied with promoting or seeking to retard the popular encroachment upon the functions of govern. ment democrary infused a slower and nore secret paison into the vitals of society. If the opinion of the vulgar was unacknowledged in Parliament, in every other department of life it insensibly permeated the whole spirit of the people. It became a maxim of imperial policy a law of social development, a canon of taste. The Englishman of the beginning of the nine- teenth century was accustomed to demand that his policy should be glorious, the nccessories of his daily life unsurpassed in quality, the objects of his aesthetic admiration beautiful. The Englishman of the end of that perind of decadence was content if they were cheap
The student of that age will find melancholy evidence of degeneration in the printed records, and especially in the newspapers, of th: time. The reported speeches of public men, the venal arguments of leader writers, the talling of the parasites of fashion, the statistics of the markets, the very
advertisements, bear unanimous testimony to the debased ideas which then enjoyed a ready and unprotested
currency,
The Empire, that magnificent fabric founded upon the generous impulse to conquer and to rule, was now formally regarded as a mere machine for the acquisition of pounds sterling. A Palmerston and a Disraeli had been the spokesmen of the earlier imperialism; the latter found its apt mouthpiece in Chamberlain. The masterful truculence of the British gentle- men and the opulent imagination of the Anglicised Jew this generation cheerfully exchanged for the ambitions of a manufacturer fostered by the arts of a demagogue. Gifted with an extraordinary tuition of the changing predilections of his countrymen, Chamberlain was enabled to turn, to the advantage of his owa popularity, the flood of patriotism which [6: rose in the decade between the first and second Jubilees of Queen Victoria. He became the high priest of what was fondly saluted as the new Imperialium, on the lips of whose votaries British Empire was synonymous with British commerce. His declamations, while they will reward the curious investigator with little that Is alther original in thought or elegant in ex- pression, proclaim but too eloquently the altered feelings with which the later Britons regarded their greatness. Where they had once resolved so possess, they now aspired but to trade.
HIL-THE DECLINE OF COMMERCE.
every industrial benefit followed an agricultural calamity; and the prosperity of the town was remorselessly attended by the beggary of the hamlet. The movement of the population ac- companied, as in every age, the distribution of wealth; so that the towns distended to cities and the hamlets disappeared in a wilderness.
(To be continued.)
ACCIDENT IN AN ENGLISH COAL PIT.
While working in a Hanley coal pit some years ago John Henshall lost an eye from a spark at the pick-end. The injury set up inflammation, which compelled the doctors to remove the eye. Finding his occupation as a miner gone, he has since worked as a gar- dener and at odd work. He is a most respect- able and intelligent man, the victim of repeated misfortunes.
Mr. John Henshall, Victim of an accident at Hamley.
1904.
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"I am getting on in years," he said—"pearly sixty-eight-and since I lost my eye I, have done no work in the pits. That is, however not the only trouble I have had. For two years I was laid up with an attack of liver complaint, which caused acute indigestion. I also suffered from nervous debility. I had agonising pains MOORING VILLAS, No. 2.
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The close of the nineteeth century: beheld the British Empire at the highest pitch of its prosperity. The records of every contempor- Ary nation colorate, while they envy. the multitude of its subjects and the orderly feli
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many who have suffered from diseases arising The jargon of the day clamoured for the from poor blood and shattered nerves- the fairest regions of the earth; and its author open door," by which phrase was understood anemis, blle, consumption, eczema, headache, ity extended alike over the most dutiful of a market which British products could enter indigestion, kidney diseases, rheumatism, daughter peoples and, the wildest and most on terms of fiscal equality with those of the scrofula Dr. Williams' pink pills have cured mquestered barbarins, The Judicous dele- rest of the world. In the manlies age of Drake these and other diseases in countless cases gation of the minor prerogatives of govern and Hawkins, Britain had opened her own Women thay especially help in these character. ment conciliated the free affections of the door for herself; now her: diplomsey all } [stic troubles which they do not talk about. Colonias and the ruder dependencies were but petitioned for an equality of treatment, The pills are not a curs,all They ears by maintained in conte anenthusiastic, which the growing Incapacity of her own action on the blood and on the nerves, curing
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