By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the officers of the and Northamptonshire Régiment, the Regimental Band will play-In the Public Gaudens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 9 till 10 pan. The following will be the programme::.
March............*Ancfincer!**
2
Sybil".
Caveriimtiy” Selecthe Value............ Selectlon
Dyke. ..........Beret. ...... Celiler.
Walkeutel.
„España
Bohemian fire.
JOHN MORAN, Bandmaster.
THE liberty of the subject is one of the most valued prerogatives of the Briton, and although it is, after all, only a delusive phrase without very much signification, it is highly prized by the masses. Not long ago an officer of the London School Board was crossing Covent Garden market at a late hour, when he found little fellow making his bed for the night in fruit basket. "Would you not like go to school and be well cared for? asked the official." "No," replied the urchin. But do you know that I am one of the people who are autherised to take up little bays whom I find as I find you, and take them to school?" "I know you are, old chap, if you find them in the streets; but this here is not a street. It is private property; and, if you inter fere with my liberty, the Duke of Bedford will I knows the fact as well as
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 18:8.
THE PORTUGUESE-CHINESE TREATY.
Whatever may be said of the merits of the lately concluded Portuguese-Chinese Treaty, it can hardly be denied that it is a political event of essentially British growth. Portuguese patriots and Macaocse hot-headed scribblers may descant at their pleasure upon what they style the most glorious achievement of their noble country; laurels may be heaped ad libitum on the devoted head of Senhora Rex to whom is attributed both the initiative and the success of the Treaty; but the main facts remain unshaken and uncontradicted that Great Britain alone was the promoter of the treaty and that to British influence at the Court of Peking its successful completion is due,
Úrliish Influence than to Portuguese diplomacy. Dar Portuguese patriots are holding their Jubilee in borrowed phemes !
THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. "Williant" Lee of" dotborough,-Nottingham invented the first stocking-frame in the year 1559 Balloons were invented by Gusneac, a Jesuit pastor, in 1729, and revived by Montgolfier, a Frenchman, in 1783,
The Chander of 1nans at Venice, organized but 1150, was the first public banking institu tion ever established.
Paper made of cotton was extensively used in the Eleventh century. Linen paper was invented in i319. The use of straw in paper dates back to the opening year of the present century,
Edward Randolph was appointed Commnis sinner of the first custom house in New England, established at Boston in 1680. His authority was superseded when the, General Court created a Colonial Naval Office,
Forks began to be known in France towards the end of the Sixteenth century, and were intro- duced into England in 1608. They were first used in Italy toward the end of the Fifteenth century.
Russian Court; at 3o he was himself Minister to Prussia; at 35 he was Minister to Russia;, at 48 he was Minister to England at 56 he was Secretary of State and President at 57.
There have been twenty-two Presidents of the United States, five of whom were elected at 57 and six attained that great office before the age of 50. Three military men, past to have been elected. Two died very soon, and the other was General Jackson, and he was hut 61 when
elected,
Jonathan Edwards acquired early renown As the greatest metaphysician in America and as unsurpassed by any one in Europe. He commenced the reading of fatin when six years old, At so he wrote a remarkable paper upon the immortality of the soul. At the age of 13 he entered Yale College, where he graduated four years later.
General Grant was elected President at 46; but when a young man, in the Mexican war, he so distinguished himself at the battle of Melina del Rey that General Scott named him for pro mation on the field, and at the storming of Chapultepec his courage and ability cansel him to be specially commended by General Worth, And for these young acts of skill and valor he was made Captain the regular army, He was bur 39 when he gained his victory at Fort Donelson, and only 4 when he took Vicksburg.
THE IMPERIAL VETO.,
The first 'clock with a balance was made by De Vick in 1364, and the first with a pendulum in 1611. Watches with springs were first made-Boston Gazelle. at Nuremberg, about 1477, but the first succeed. fut pplication of springs to watches was by Dr. Hooke, in 1638 Haroun-al-Raschid, Caliph of Bagdad, in Boz sent in Charlemagne, among other presents, a clock of curious workmanship.
On April Toth there was unveiled at Neuilly a nonumental statue of Parmentier, who intro- duced the potato in Fruce
The germs of this international compact may be said to have existed for a long time previous to their final development. Portugal, as the de facto occupier of Macao for over three centuries. may be said to have acquired the de jure title of possession. The Chinese Government, however, thought otherwise. As China had. permitted the Portuguese merchants and sea rovers of old to settle in Macao subject to the payment of a ground-rent, China consistently enough stuck to its position of a suzerain towards a vassal state, and it has always maintained its relations with Portugal on that secure and undeniable be down upon you.
basis The overtures which were repeatedly you."
made hy Portugal to open negotiations for a Treaty whereby the cession. of Macao to the This morning before Mr. Wodehouse, Inspector Portuguese should be stipulated for were as Hennessy summoned a hawker, Teung A-tai, promptly rejected by China, while Macao, in aged 53, for dealing in Tsz-fa lottery tickets. recklessly plunging into the mire of the nefarious P. C. 174 said this morning at 9 a.m. he went to conlic traffic, in harbouring the proscribed game No. 42 Jarding's Bazaar and on going into the of fantan and the Vy-sang lottery, and by other Acts of open defiance to the laws and the interests house saw defendant suddenly blow out a light of China, had almost severe in diplomatic MANNERS-FOR-YOUNG-MEN: and make a run out of the room into a cook relations with the Court of Peking. In the Fouse at the back. On searching the premises plenitude of time-it so-happened that Great-young man who respects-himself-will with a light, witness found a great many lottery Britain thought it advisable in enter into negotia-restrain his propensity, if he have one, as to the tickets and other things connected with the tions with and to make certain, con essions taking of is much winent dinner. illicit trade On questioning-defendant he said
to Chinn, in order to bring to a successful A certain brutality of manner, supposed to be he was only acting as agent in the house, the issue the annexation of Burmah, a vassal copied from the English, is affected by some of regular, man being absent. Witness found. $state to the Chinese Empire and as a part of our young men. They answer harshly, affect in silver in the rooms and a great quantity of these concessions was the co-operation with not to see a lady to whom they owe civilities, cash. The accused explained to the magistrate China in the collection of that Government's and try to become boors. It is a very poor style that he was not the master of the house at all, Opium revenue, the colony of Hongkong was and if betrays the snob. It is not a common nothing more than the agent, but his Worship saddled with this highly undesirable but pro
American fault, but it exists. It should be fined defendant $75 or in default six weeks in gao!foundly political task. Then, all of a sudden, frowned down, for it is the vice of the mediocre at hard labour, the latter being chosen by the Macao, which had been sleeping in the oblivion A: good imitation is Ixi enough, but a bad unfortunate, adventurer as the cheapest way out of ages, rose to the surface as a possible com-iontation is very bad, of the difficulty.
petitor with Hongkong in the Opfum trade. If opiam were to be heavily taxed in Hongkong, by British concessions, to, China, it was only reason. able to suppose that the opium eierchants would soon leave these shores, settle in Macao, and make that the base of their operations. China saw by an appeal to arms, easily dispossess the Portuguese occupiers of the little peninsula, and plant her own Customs Station on the old arid rock of Amangad- and this was the policy advo. cated by Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of Canton,- she preferred to negotiate, and then England stepped in. The genus of the Fenuguese-Chinese Treaty were really incubated during the
MR. MARCUS PREIIN, OVCiseer of works, is a pretty well known resident of this colony, and West Point should be anything but a terra incognita to the officials of the local. Post-office.
American men should avoid boasting. It is sometimes the vice of self-made men, as Mark Twain says, that they "adore their creator" ton much. "I" is a very good pronoon, but it should be kept in reserv Men should also respect the To do the justice, decencies of conversation.
The New South Wales Divorce Bill, a measure pussed to relieve, in some degree, the hopeless misery of unhappy marriages, has been sent to England for the consideration of her gracious Majesty and Co--and has been ignominiously shelved. Two measures of a similar character, also drawn up for the purpose of breaking the chains of lifelong slavery, have reached London on previous occasions, and both shared the same fate. The tritish Government expresses, in pompous phrase, its opinionthatitis inexpedient to enlarge the grounds on which divorce can obtained," &c., and British newspapers incive, with grief, that Australia shows an inclination in this matter to follow in the factsteps of the United States and the nations of continental Eupe, instead of imitating the sound and igneous example" of the mother country. In other words, because, in this particular at least, Eng- and stagnates in the rearmost ditch of civilisa- ion, Australia must not advance, and because the English woman is the slave of her lont and master, the women of Australia must. In England, the wile likewise be seris. is, by law, a beast of burden. and if, as too aften happens, her taskmaster and owner is a brute, she must endure her lot_in_silence
But it would nevertheless appear that the the danger-at-a-glance; and although she could,)-nost-of-item-are-fär-morts particular than women and bow beneath the weary burden of
are Women are unfortunately falling into the fashion of repenting doubtful witticisms, and using double entendres much more than men do. They sin from ignorance, no doubt.
A young man's manners may be elegant and his accomplishments numerous without injuring his usefulness. To study manner, to make that enamel on solid gold which has made auch
her misery until death releases her. The man to whom the Church has bound her, body and soul, may be an irreclaimable drunkard who consigns his helpless depoints to utter starv ation, and leaves them to the hospitality of the streets, but a race of fat bishops raise their hands in horror when men of human sympathies bring for ward a proposition for the relief of the victims, and Whom God hath joined let ro, man pat
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
STEAM LAUNDRY MACHINERY. HE Undersigned has received Instructions
to sell by Public Auction, on
MONDAY,
the 4th June, 1888, at 2.30 PM,
at the lato STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS, Bowrington. (rók ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.)
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this audeal in N.S.W., from which we gather that his clerical advisers thought fit to suppress an important fact in their zeal for the great cause of truth. As matters stand at present miserable handful of land-jobbing clergymen, and their 'friends are permitted, by means of clever under- ground engineering, to defeat a reform of national importance, and so long as an appeal to the ignorance and superstitious prejudice of T a church-ridden foreign Government can retard the march of progress in Australia a selfish, and stagnant minority will be found to pull the strings. The question which. Australia has to settle is whether she is to be ruled by her own sons or by the impartert English curate and the English Cabinet to which the imported curate wails about the immorality of the land which keeps him in bread and gaiters. If the New South Wales Divoce Bill is permitted to drop, a new regimcol suufichas beeninau arated and a foreign Church has prevailed against the will of a nation, and if the Church is allowed to prevail in this one instance its snuffle will be carried io the foot of the Throne on every fiture occasion when its traditions are endangered. The British Government has an car which is always open to the appeal of the party of stagnation, and unless Australia is to forego all hope of progress. she must shake off the double incubus of Imperialism and Clericalism-the twin agencies which have weighed down the world for countless generations.Sydney Bulletin
AN Important Discovery is announced in the
·Parts Figaro, of a valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a mission- ary in Okl Mexico; it saved him from a miser- able existence and an early grave. We learn that the itev. Joseph Holines, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C., "will send the prescription, free-of-charge, on-
receipt of a self addressed stamped envelope.
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West Point. Now, although this street or road is Opium Conference which sat in the Library Americans as Everett, Motley, Livingston, Jay crush it with that well-crusted old blasphemy: Captain McCaslin, will be despatched for the payable at any of its Agencies.
existence of both Mr. Prehn and West Point were unknown not only to the leiter sorters and postmen but to the great Alfred himself. A letter was sent down from Amay on the 4th inst. addressed to. Mr. Frebn, which address any third- class idiot outside the Post-office would have readily understood to mean No. 1 Chater, Read, the only one in the locality containing private residences, the clever postal authorities could not find Mr. Prehn, and a'memo, to that effect was written across the envelope. The result was that the letter did not reach its destination for about three weeks. Mr. Prehn, under the circundatances thought he wax assified in making a complaint to the Postmaster and accordingly interviewed Mr. Lister. The great postal autocrat carefully surveyed the envelope the address on which was legibly enough written and then mincingly remarked A where'is West Point 7 p there such a place in the colony Mr. Frehn gave the Postmaster the information he wanted, and also favored him with a few trenchant remarks on postal mismanagement, general stupidity, etc. We never gave Mr. Lister credit for possessing a very great deal of knowledge, but we did think that a Postmaster who had been pearly a quarter of a century in Hongkong must have known of the existence of West Point. Evidently East Point has been the pole-star of Mt.. Ister's
affections.
THE Macao press heralds the celebration of the new Portuguese-Chinese treaty in a manner quite in touch with the intrinsic worthlessness of that international agreement, though hardly consistent with the loud braggadoccio with which it formerly hailed the news of its conclu- sion. The following remarks from the Indepen- dente of the sand inst, clearly demonstrate the accuracy of our assertion, and show what value there really is in this greatly vaunted diplomatic triumph-English newspapers have already reported the principal provisions of the Luso Chinese treaty, thereby showing themselves acquainted with a document which-we say it disgust-is still involved in mystery for the Portuguese press. It is nearly a month since the ratifications were exchanged at
at Tientsin and a Portuguesa translation of the Treaty has not yet seen the light of day in the Government Gazette. This may appear a trifle to many, but it is a fact which clearly characterises our indolent policy. All treaties generally possess ■ clause to the effect that they are to be enforced immediately after the exchange of ratifications, and in all probability the Portuguese Chinese treaty is provided with such a clause. It may thus come to pass that, according to its clauses, the treaty is already in force and must be executed under penalty of a breach of con- tract: But how is it to be carried out, if it has not yet been published and has not officially been made known? All the interest of the com- pact is concentrated in Macao. It is here that its good or bad influence will be felt. We would, nevertheless, lay a wager that this Colony will be the last to see the official text. It may be said that all this silence is imposed by dis-
of the Supreme Court of this Colony, The only "incubators who, brooded and sat, now jointly, now in turns, over this magnum ovum of a treaty to be made between Portugal and China, were the Opium Commissioners, Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Imperial Maritime Customs, and the Mandarin Shao on the part of China, Mr. J. Russell, the Acting Chief Justice, on the part of the behalf of the British Foreign Office. The bares Colony of Hongkong, and Mr. Byron Brenan on of the Opium Convention had been already discussed and agreed upon at the Foreign Office in London its practical execution was referred to the joint commitice which assembled in Hongkong, and it was at the debates and discussions which took place at these meetings In September 1886 that the Portuguese-Chinese Treaty was finally and effectively batched.
It was brought to maturity at Peking by the joint exertions of Sir Robert Hart, and the Chinese plenipotentiaries. Portugal's represen tative, Senhorda Roza, acted only as an interested spectator throughout all these proceedings. This gentleman had not the slightest diplomatic or administrative qualifications to fit him for the position, to which he had been appointed. Pos Selected from the cavalry barracks of his regiment to be aide-de-camp to. Dom Luis, he so far obtained the good graces of that monarch as to be appointed Governor of Macao. As the Governors of Macao arc ipso fatto, but, to a great detriment of law and justice, Ministers
Bayard, McClellan and Story Cannot be a poor study. The men who have influenced their race bave had fine mannera.
If manner is sometimes only a false enamel we must still admire it. The graceful and respectful speech, the frank smile, the courteous how, the hat raised on the staircase of a hotel ns a man passes a woman, the kindness to the aged, the willingness to give place who does not admire them?
If we see those trails even in what used to be called a country bumpkin we admire him. A man can be a person of real breeding even if he has no conventional breeding. The latter is but the guinea's stamp, to use the good old simile once more, but it is not current coin 'until it is thus stamped. A Society Woman in N. Y
Sun:
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YOUNG MEN WHO WERE GREAT. PROMINENT FIGURES IN HISTORY WHO WERE
FAMOUS IN EARLY MANHOOD.
Charles James Fox was in Parliament at 19. The great Cromwell left the University of Cambridge at 18.
John Bright never was any school a day after he was 15 years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament at zã and nt,24 was Lord of the Treasury.
Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge when 16, and was called to the bar at 21.
Peel was in Parliament at 21, and Palmerston was Lord of the Admiralty at 23.
Henry Clay was in the Senate of the United States at 29,-contrary to the constitution.
of
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asunder." He may be a degraded criminal lifetime in gael-but his unhappy partner must whose vices doom him to pass half an average labour and starve until olage creeps upon bes in order that an attainted wretch, when at last he is let loose to prey afresh upon the world, may find his helot waiting for him, and may force her by insult and cruelty to aid him in the 2ETLAND perpetration of new crimes. Or he may be a man who carries the taint of madness in his loods pitiable object who is periodically consigned to an asylum, but, all the game, the law Britain authorises bin, if his lucid intervals are sufficiently well defined to permit of his release, to clain his wife and force her to become the mother of a family of maniacs. These are a Jew of the features of the British marriage law, and it is for the purpose of perpetuating this loathsome female slavery throughout the Empire that the British Government contemptuously overrides the almost unanimous decision of the people of New South Wales. The pretences under which the Tory Cabinet bars the way of reform are worthy of the cause in which they are advanced Legal complications, it is alleged, would arise from the want of uniformity in the marriage law of the Empire :-
"It would make these who were wives or legitimate drea In one country unmarrial mothers and legismate children to the her and an action innocent in one country, poulbly (11 constitutiog bigamy, if followed by remanlage)," criminal in the
other,"
In other words, because a wife is declared by law to be a slave in England it would be awkward if she were treated as human being in New South Wales, and as the Goverdient does not see fit
woman must be degraded for the sake of uniformity. Something like so years ago, how ever, a similar difficulty was successfully met in the mother country. The black man was then
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Judge Hampton, after. graduating at Oxford, to elevate the English woman the Australian side of the town, consisting of TEN-
was a student at law in the Inner Temple at 19. Gustavus Adolphus ascended the throne at 16; before he was 34 he was one the great rulers of Europe as in Harvard at 5, in Congress
Judge Story was
at 29. and Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States at 37.
plenipotentiary to China, Japan and Siam, Senhor da Roza was approached by bir Robert | Hart on the subject of the much desired treaty with China. His Excellency jumped at the suggestion; a world of glory loomed upon him on the near horizon in the shape of promotion and rank. On the completion of his term of service he took the half-hatched egg to Lisbon, where the Foreign Office, the Parliament, and Dom Luiz himself wat and brooded over it and bustled so much over the petty germ, that they well-nigh broke it under them, had not been for the timely intervention Martin Luther had become largely distinguished of Mr. Duncan Campbell, who acted on behalf at 24 and at 56 ha i reached the topinost round of of China, under direct instructions from Sir his world-wide fame. Robert Hart in Peking.
Condé conducted a memorable campaign at It was when Senber da Roza, in his new rdiz17, and at 22 he, and Turcane also, were of the of Mlulster Plenipotentlasy, appeared in Peking mos illustrious men of their time. with the Treaty that a formidable adversary. Webster was i college at 15. gave earnest of arose in the person of His Excellency the Viceroy his great future before he was and
at 3o was of the Liang Kwang, Through Chang Chih-tung's the peer of the ablest men in Congress almost paramount influence in Peking treaty William H. Seward commenced the practice matters had nearly come to a dead-lock, and the of law at 21, at 31 was President of a State Portuguese Minister was about to return to Convention, and at 37 Governor.al New York Fortugal, once more convinced of his thorough Washington was a distinguished Colonel in inability to achieve the object of his mission, the army at 27, early in public affairs, commander when British influence was again brought to of the forces at 43, and President at 57.
Maurice of Saxony died at 33, conceded to bear on the Chinese Government and the
onvention thrust in the have been one of the profoundest statesmen and Hongkong Oplum eyes of China, as the sine qua now of the
one of the ablest genernis which Christendom celebration of a treaty with Portugal. China
At se he was not only one of the most illustrious Napoleon at 25 Commanded the army of Italy. generals of all time, but ore of the great law givers of the world. At 46 he saw Waterloo.
Leo X. was Pope at 38. Having finished his academic training, he took the office of Cardinal at 18-only twelve months younger than was Churles James Fox when he entered Parliament. Guly one civillan out of the Presidents of this country gained his first election, after he was 60; and that one was James Buchanan. The chance for the Presidency after 60 is small and growing less.
simply
because
has seen,
William Pitt entered the University at 14, was Chancellor of the Exchequer at 22, Prime Minister at 24, and so continued for twenty year, and at 35 was the most powerful uncrowned head in Europe.
tance, but we maintain that it is only the pro- finally ogien Convention with England. She dact
of a a lamentable want of foresight. The of her Opism Government was authorised by a special law to had a clause expressly mentioning this obliga- ratify the treaty by the same law it ought to tion on the part of Portugal inserted in the have authorised its publication in the Macao protocol and explained in the Treatys she did Government Gazette before it appears in the not absolutely cede Macao to Portugal, but Lisbon official paper. Our Minister to the Court only allowed that nation conditional possession, of Peking would then be enabled, as soon as the stipulating that Portugal must not alienate the fast formality of the ratification was over, to send colony to any other nation, and that the Just boy to our Gageffe, and thus all interests Macao authorities should: co-operafe in the would have been served. There is no end to the collection of the Oplum revenue for China questions raised between our Government, and Further, China has reserved the question of a that of the Chinese Empire. Up to the present delimitation of the Macao frontiers, which has we have settled them with praxis and the pre- to be settled by aniized committee to be cedents of other nations; but now a law has been subsequently appointed to that even to the enacted which must be fulfilled in the exact present day the Portuguese do not know where terma.io which it has been framed. We will
or what Macao-actually is, assume that a question suddenly arises, and that Under these peculiar, and in our opinion, the Mandarins invoke the Treaty on their side; highly humiliating circumstances, this treaty hás the Governor of Macno will not be able to settle been granted to Portugal, and now throughout the point either for or against them because be the Far East, subjects of Fair Lusitania are I still ignorant of the law. What a Good in their praises of their clever Minister and of spectacle this would be The velocity of the their noble nation for having obtained this inter telegraph would not fail to divulge such national compact with China. Micao residents The late Lord Beaconsfield left the cloistes stupendous ignorance. We ignore the reason went, raying with joy when telegraphic news and entered the great world carly, as did John why the treaty has not been published as in reached the Holy City of the final ratification Bright, and commenced his political carcer by 1863, when the convention was no sooner of the Treaty Te Deums were sung in the writing a book at sy, in which he predicted that approved by the Chambers than it was published churches, anivocs were fired from the centennial he would be Prime Minist College at 16 wien In the official paper. Although it ultimately forts Minister do Roza was gausited Viscount, Hamilton was in King's College at 16: failed, there was no farco, because its coming and appointed Portugal's Plenipotentiary at 17 he made a notable address on public affairs into force was dependent on its being ratified, Washington; in a word, a great deal of childish to the citizens of New York; at 20 he was which it never was We must confess that fuss has been made, overin supposed national intrusted with. A mail important mission to routine is all-powerful with us. There is no triumph- triumph which so closely resembles Generat Gates, was in Congress at 25 and Secret question of public atlity which is not sacrificed a humiliation that it difficult to tell the tary of the Treasury at 32 to certain formilar and red-tape which only difference, and the achievement of which, what delay Its solution. Sic itur ad sitra?.
ever it may the worth, in owing lar more to
From the earliest years of Queen Elit theth to the latest of Queen Victoris, England has had scarce an able statesman who did not leave the University by the time he was 20, and many of them left at an earlier age.
John Quincy Adams at the age of 14 was secretary to Mr. Danny then Minister to the
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England itself; he was a beast of burden in Barbadoes, while in London he was a human being in the mother country he was qualified to marry and to protect his wife, while in the dependencies he was only permitted to cohabit in order to raise a family to be sold in the slave market. In those days, however, Britain led the van of hum n progress; to-day, ahẹ lags hopelessly in the rear. And so anxious is she to figure as the apostle of latter-day barbarismahat she prefers
gb. perpetrate a high- handed outrage upon the spirit of the Constitu. tion of New South Wales rather than permit that colony to rise a single step above her own leve! of degradation. Yet the uniformity which she is so anxious to establish between the
codes of England and Australia she has never yet dared to enforce within her own life island. The divorce laws of Scotland have, for many years, been almost as liberal as those now advocated in ABOUT TEN TONS OF ASPHALTE, New South Wales, and yet no complications bave Grisco, and no English Minister has ventured,
on
moral or other grounds, to force on Scotland the legal system which the Salisbury Cabinet is now endeavouring to perpetuate in the colonies. Possibly, however, the heads of the Colonial Office never heard of the existing Scotch code! possibly they are not aware even of the existence of Scotland-it is difficult to set bounds to the ignorance of the modern English Tory; and, in that case, their action may be due to cammon stupidity. Let us charitably trust that this is the case, and pass on,"
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