To-day's Advertisements.
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(Assisted by the HONGKONG PHILHAR- MONIC SOCIETY ORCHESTRA) TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY), the 23rd December, 1897, * 9.15 P.M.
PART'L
1. Fest March......" Tanubiuser” ...........Wagues. Band and Orchestra. 2. Overture.........." Maritana"...Wallace, 3. Reed Quotatis (4.) “Trkamerel««.Schumann.
(4) Menuet from XII Symphony...Haydn, Flute-Corporal Harper. CharlensisCer
porals Scaborce, Scragg and Aella. Bassoon. --Musician Wheeler.
4. Oboe Salo..."Serenade Villageoise".„Riviers. Hostclan Quaid.
5. Selection...oo." Faust ".................................Garmicd.
1. Largo.......
INTERVAL.
PART II.
Bend, Orchestra and Organ,
Handel.
Piolin Obbligate.-M. A Giraud, Organist.—
Mr. G. A. Grimble.
1. Reminiscences from Bellini.........?, Godfrey.
f(a) Farewell to the Forest,
J. Brass
Quartette()The Huntsman's Mendelssohn.
Farewell.
Cornets Masclan, Haley and Sexbome. Baritone.-Maldian Good,
Musician Brown.
Rupkatum,~
4. Clarionet Sola...Romance to F....Beethoven. (Transcription by W. G. Bentley)
Mr. W. G. Besley, A.R.CM.
5. Grand National Fantaula...... W. G. Bentley. "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN." SEATS (81 & §1) may be booked a Mosnit. W. ROBINSON & CO'S on and after. THURS.... DAY, the 16th lost,
Proceeds to be devoted to local Chailties." Hongkong, 414 December, 1897.
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In the Master of ORDINANCE No. 2
1893,
and
In the matter of The Petition of MILES STAPLES CODY, of 233, North Callfornia Street, Stockton, California, United States of Americs, Inventor, for Leiters Patent for the exclusive use within the Colony of Hong- kong of an invention for Improvements In Mail Big Fasteners," adapted to effect- ually resist unauthorized opening of the bag or extraction of Mall matter therefrom for which Her Majesty's Letters Patent way on the 15th day of December, 1895, granted to the sald HILES STAPLES CODY,
Necdetten and Declaration required
JOTICE la boroby given that the Petition,
by the above cited Ordinance have been duly filed in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong, and that it is the intention of the Said MILES STAPLES CODY by MATTHEW JOHN DENMAN STEPHENS, hs daly an-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897.
•E 0-day's Advertisement.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
No. 553.
THE following Particulars and Conditions of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the spol, on
THURSDAY,
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By Command,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 11th December, 1897.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 33, 1897.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
There is no further news of political movements in the north at present. It is to be hoped the disturbers of the peace will confine their attention to the enjoy ment of a quiet Christmas, and give us a chance to do the same. The poor heathen Chinese may well wonder when told that the whole Christian world is celebrating the anniversary of a great teacher who gave man the gospel of love, peace, forgiveness and unseloshness. The Kaiser and the Tsar should have a Buddhist mission sent to them, to teach them how wrong it is to fight, or to steal, or to kill. When Peter saw the populaceof Jerusalem, and the Roman soldiery, coming in a menacing manner, te draw a sword in defence of his Master, who gently rebuked him"He that smiteth with the sword shall perish by the sword."
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Tim British crilier Edgar and the" destroyers " | merely going to make them the pegs on which | selvas within the range bi an påerpowering and Fame and Willing have arrived at Singapore to bang my l'erary venture ibla eventer, unbounded influence. It must not be forgotten and will leave shortly for Hongkong.
No one I think can read any of Milian's works, I also that the Ifveral authors are worthy of or llsten to the nable strains of Handel withont | intelligent scrutiny because their importance and tblaking of the vast importance to nations of influence are nöt - ollen correctly estimated. wholesome iiterature, and without endeavouring "Society" It should be remembered is zot to be to learn something of the history of music and rolled upon in thle coupectos. Il frequently to gange i loflaerce on Individuals and com- treats authors most tipukklausly. The same munities. I trust therefore lo pressot you with | genersilon which at first neglects and scouts a lecture on these subjects, exemplifying them them will often supply later on an army of com- by discussing the marits and effect of the great | mentators to praise and admire them. works and characters of thesetwo masters. Fan-
It is proposed that the Volunteers' annual 64-pt. competiifon between sub-divisions be held at Stone-cutters' Chinese New Year's day, THE Bard Street murder care was resumed at the Court to-day. At 5.30 pm, the case was adjourned ill 9.30am, to-monow. It is interded to try and frith the caus to-morrow. THE date of the adjourned Synagogra-case has not been fixed but it is understood that it wil be continued when the Burd Street murder caso, at present occupying the attention of the Court, is falshed.
Car constable for
was brought up on remind at the Police Court this morning on the charge of having committed two robberies in villages la Chins. As the Police had not yet received a reply from the anthorilles at Canton, the case was again remanded for a week, THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Netherson Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donation to the funds of the Hospitals
Ho Ngok lao xe
..$50 50
Á BOAT bullder at Tai-kok-isul, and his wile, were bound over in their own recognisances in the sum of $a; each at the Police Court ! day for assolting a school-master of that district, The cause of the assault was due to a misunder- standing of their son being builled by other scholars in complainant's school. Mr. C. 4. D. Melbourne appeared for the complainant,
We were surprised this morning to receive a wire asking for telegrams to be forwarded
German to the
Admiral at Klaochow. We have been genuinely Irlendly to the Germans in their present action, but never contemplated carrying our friendship to this length. What tele THE boy who was charged with stealing four Hankets from a private of the West Yorks while grams should we send him? Advice or
In camp at Stanley, was brought up on remand Instructions for his future' guldance in the
at the Police Court to-day and after evidence conquest of China? We are not the
had been given by the saldler from whom they Kaiser, nor the Reichstag; we have been were stolen of their loss and by Lt. Jogpen's boy & at various times mistaken by the Post Office that the defendant used the blankets, he was for a Consulate, a Colonial Secretariat, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. a Chamber of Commerce, and other
OUR morning contemporary publishes to-day a powers in the land, but never yet for special telegram received from Shanghai re- WILHELM II. It is overpowering. But sorting that the Bellish Fleet is at Chin. At we rose to the occasion; nobody shall the present time the vessels composing Admiral ever say we feared any undertaking. We Balfer's fleet include the Algerine, Centurica, authorised him to annex the whole Yellow Daphne, Immortallid, Iphigenia, Narcitius, River watershed, and leave the Yangtse Phrnir, Pique, Ratabow, Redpole and Un- daunted. This squadron will shortly be rein- to Great Britain. Alas for a lost oppor forced by the cralaces Powerful, Grafton and tunity! The message was not meant for Edgar and the "destroyers" Fams and Walling, us, but for the Telegraph Companies; the
now on their way hither from the South. Nothing Admiral has reopened communication is yet known la Hongkong of the movements of with Klanchor and wants his despatches the vessels composing Admiral Buller's feet. to be wired direct instead of going by sea
PROFESSOR Mercovitch gave an excellent exhibi- from Shanghal as hitherto, and the clerk fog of the projectoscope in the rooms of the of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Adm!-fastitis of Engineers and Shipballdan, op nistration had made a mistake. It is cruel Praya Cental, last night. There was a fairly to keep tantalising us like this. When large number of members of the Institution and Before the projectoscope are we to be given a genuine reward of their friends present. merit instead of all these elusive honours? was focussed on the large white sheet a few Fame, honour, glory, is only a will-o'-the wisp anyhow, but ours seems especially
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·Manager. the said Colony of Hongkong of the above named Invention. And Notice is hereby also given that a log of the Executire Council, Before whom the matter of the said Petition will came for decision will be held in the Counell Chamber, at the Goremment Offices Victoris,
Hongkong, rat March, 1897,
TAKE NOTE
IT IS UNIVERSALLY ADMITTED THAT
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January, 1898, at ET A.M.
Dated the 18h day of December, 1897.
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selections were given on the graphophone, the rendition quartetle enillled "High old time" causing much laughter and amusement. Professor Mercovitch's machine is of a strailar nature to those which had been brought to this And now the Post Office has reduced Colony but the pictures were nevertheless us to the grade of Volunteer Captain, and different. The abraat termination of an exhibi- hands us documents to-day addressed in tion of boxing, the umbrella dance, and print "Captain A. CHAPMAN, Oolonial Children's Tollet," depicting a couple of young talks with merry looks amusing themselves by Treasury." It would be something If we splashing wagt at each ther's face, were very were the Treasury; we would show Comra verdicht glasil
On the whole, at all, as in Antwerp-a much more suc cessful exemplar than the United States,
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exertions to please the audience.
THE transport Felsenga, which left England We publish to-day the full report of on the 11th November, is expected to mizive Sir W. ROBINSON's lecture to the "Odd | hers to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock Volumes" at Government House. Though with the following details for this station
1st Battalion Royal Lancaster Regiment, 3 officers and 101 N.C, officers and Men entitled "Two small sketches," it is rather large to be printed bodily in a daily paper, Royal Artillery, 1 Maske: Gunner; Royal but it is well worth while, for the Governor Engineers, 1 office; Army Medical Strif, 2 offi has handled two noble subjects in a mas-cers; Medical Staff Corps, 6 N.C officers and terly and scholarly manner. He has, in mes; Army Ordnance Department, x officer; fact, used the names of Handel and Army Pay Department, 1.H.C. officer; rit Bat Milton as typical of the two greatest tallon West Yorkshire Regiment, 1 N.C officer. things in this world--music and literature.
it was arranged that on her way out she should Our own preference is to place music first Lancaster Regiment consisting of 24 officers cill at Malia to embark the 1st Battal on Royal and highest, but that is a matter of taste.
Coal Store, now to the occupation of Messrs. WINES & SPIRITS.There is nothing erudite or cultured in
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It is our painful duty however, to dis agree with His Excellency. We dislike to do so, but we must, We entirely dis- agree with his definition of "good" literature, for according to his limitation, the school which has its strongest type In Kipling would be entirely excluded. Yet Kipling is a force in the world.
Barrack Room Ballads, but the world the better for their appearance
The British Empire is one of the greatest forces la the world making, for peace and pro- gress, and Kipling has done more for Im- periallam than any one writer whom we can name. But his principal characteristics are such as would disquailly him under. Sir W. ROBINION's deficition-st any rate, as we understand it, though it may be we misjudge the able lecturer, Milton'a beauty, refinement, grandeur, cannot in deed be too highly respected; but there is PORT after removal should be rested a month also a grandeur that is unrefined.
before use. When required for drinking at | And only the Mister shalt pralsy us, and only
the Master ball blames Dace it should be ordered to be decanted at | And so one shill work for money, and no one the Dispensary before being sent out. SHERRY.-Excellent Dinner and Aftar Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All aro true Xeres Wines, CLARET,—Das Clarets, focluding the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of, the gripe and are
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and 853 other ranks, officers' and ag soldiers' wives; 3 officers' and 4x midlers' children. The Falunga in to leave Hongkong about the 37th with the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regt ment for Slogapore. She also takes home sun- dry detalls belonging to the Departmental Corps whose eliefs she brings out. The West Yorks are at camp in Kowloss and the Lanca shires will go straight lato barracks on their aurival kere.
"TWO SMALL Sketches of TWO GREAT MEN" BY SIR W. ROBINSON, G.C.M.G.
[Lecture delivered to the Hongkong "Odd Tolumes"
at Covernment House, Dicember 13, 1865,3
The Odd Volumes Society la fagionato Jo poicing is its Secretary man ability and undying anergy in the person of Mr. H. Pollock. One would have supposed, however that after having spent 2 or 3 months amidst the seduc- tions of the land of the Rising Sun he would on his return is Rongkong have bean asalons to Interest and amare us, who bara spent a hot summer here, by his graphic relation of what be had seen and experienced in that charming country. Hal Wr. Pollock if he is an excellent Secreta y la alan dipicmat, and a paused master in chess, and as in that game so in this, he will not risk his own king, bat guards it care. | fully by pulling forward a somewhat prominent That is the position in which I stand to-night, Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Pollock whilst pro tecting ble best and strongest piece, brimming N-EXECU-over sin hels with loformation sospecting Japan, and with singles and experiences which would be amusing and delightful to listen 10, and which be will doubtless give you İster on,, sıkı me as President of the Odd Volumes to come sgula the front and to deliver Eat will I am afraid my fati lecture to you. Ladies and gen. tlemen, Mr. Pollock knew I could not refuse. He put a Leading Question to me; I could only beste falo and yield ; it was a case of check mite in a
Shall draw the Thing 21 10 Saat It for the
God of Things as They Arel
REUTER'S MESSAGES. THE CUPAN INSURRECTI
Martial
TION OF A SPANISH OFFICER.
LONDON, December 21st Col Rues, General Bianco's A.D.C., who was BRANDY—All our Brandy is guaranteed to
bo pure Coguse, the difference is price text to the Coben insurgent camp to negotiate being merely a question of age and vintage. Paco, was shot alter a trivasty of a Court WHISKY-All our Whisky is of excellent
quality and of greater age than most brând, GERMANY AND RUSSIA IN CHINA. in the market, The SCOTCH WHISKY The German Foreign Office profcasos not to markod *Z" is universally popular, and is | be surprised at the excupation of Port Arthur by pronounced by the best local connoisseurs Russia, and regarde li as of no aggressive gigni. to be superior to any ether brand in the fiance, and as not a'ashing with Granny's Hongkong market,
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That is my excusa in appenting before you again. And now what have I to offer to you Nothing I fear that is humorous, nothing amus ing, but a few jottings which I have attung gather and to which I have given the title "Two Smail Sketches of Two Great Keo," I hope that this somewhat euphonious title will met lead you to expect too LOCAL AND GENERAL.
too much. No one probably could guess without some little difficulty the names of the two The baying rate for sovereigns is $10.18 per giants to whom I intend to refer and when I tell you that I mean to speak of Milton and A MALAY #BRman of the steamer Peter Rickmers Handel you will naturally be surprised and may was to-day sentenced to one month's imprison. be disappointed and way, and done? What can muut, with hand labour for dention.
a lecturer tell us about thus iwo men which we cannot read in our Encyclopedias? But ladles FAREWELL concert by West Yorkshire Regiment and gentlemen, I am not going to limit my ror | Band, assisted by the orchestra of the Pallbare | maska to skla narrow toxi, I am guing to take a monis Society, as Thamira Royal at gas this petlo license with these bid masters ; I have something more in the back-ground, And I am 16' evening.
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fully I may liken my lecture to a ring with lis two precious stones set in a very ordinary site Ing.
Now let me ask you what is meant by litera- tere ?When we use the, word we mean cul- tered ibought, in cultured language. Is tube. tance is thought-elaborated by reflection.
embraces philosophy-klstory-paelry all human lie, all human sentiment and reil-
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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer ét Through which the sing Homer begret his broad, There are authors and suthers. There la one class, a popularity-seeking an e, which cringes to prevalent tastes and panders to unworthy and degrading passtour. There is another which cannot be intimidated by power, deceived by Blatttery or coupled by wealth: Tothlalaiter clase Mill on the first subject of my two imperfect sketches belonged. No cology can sufficiently celebrite his character and gestes-ko bid the castage of a martyr combined with the heavenbarn genfus of a poet. He despised wealth and was over animated by the love of liberty and virine.
"Nothing can cover hk high done bot haaren "No monument set of his memories **Pattha uterual sutarance of his greatness."
William Wordsworth, one of our later day poets, wilov thus of Milion.
Mizm thou showkdet de Uving at thin hour). England hath need of then, alia le a fen Of stagnant wa ara-altar sword and pau,
Wired, the herole was'th of hali and bower Hove Befolted their unclant dower, Ofinwand happinear-Wa are soldah meal Ohrala u up, recurs sous again, And give us manners, vizita, freacions, plaar. Thy soal was liku u star, and ¿wait apart: Then bådst a volcs whose sound was like the sea Furnas the naked heavens, majestic, fres. So didst thou travel on Ja's common way
reasoning-all physical, moral and plous truth and whatever affects man as sa Intellectual and responsible being. Its instrai ment is language. Painting expresies tiel through Hines and colours- Sculptore through mardla forms or some solid materials-Muile by a combination or succession of harmanlons sounds-Literature through wards artistically arranged. Its expo ents are books, not ex- clusively but mainir-By far the most valuable portion of literalore is that which is made per. manent and immortal by the arts of writing and printing. This is the trușit and most lasting Hie embodiment and representation of a bet on's and thought, Its sternal paucasian by which it will be known and judged for ever. Literato e may therefore be described as the thought of reflicting miats, elaborated by composition, reduced to writing and published by plating.
In cheerful godliness; ek pot thy heari It comprises all the intellects productions of a
The lowliest duties on huself did lay, natior, from the encyclopedia to the nursery Commencing la 1608, the life of Miten rhyme,—from the epic poem to the sticot ballad, | procends through the last sixteen years of the from the bistory to the essay, frous the trestles | reign of James” the First, Includes the whole to the profcandest theme. Whatever reproduces reign of Charles the First, the subsequent years the thoughts of a people or depicts their mangers of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and or in any way represents them, this when told io | then, pusing the Restoration, extenda. Itself to fitting words is their literaturo.. The Importance 1674, or through fourteen years of the reign of of a national literature can therefore scarcely be | Chsfies the Secord. overestimated. It is not only a 'measure of in- tellectual progress but a most influential factor in quickening or retarding intellectuel progress. Literature in one of the chief means by which a malton's character is not only known but formed, and to its literary productions far more than to i = climate, soll, or institutions, we look fa order to fad out what sort of men it will giwe birth in In the future, and what lafuences It will have though succeedlog ngen. It spoken words heedless and unpremeditated, are loged with power to bentfil o; lejure, to elevate or degrade, to blers or to curse, how much greater the potency of words fixed by willing and scattered bro deast from the printing prosa? It is true that much of our literature is temporary and evanescent. It is produced only to be destroyed, Bot it would be a grievous error to thỉ kihat even ibla portion does not produce lasting fa... fluence. That which dies and is forgotten may leave behind results that never die. Trifles may produce momentous results. Ephemeral and forgatten writings may indGaence nailon's destibles for ever. The polion which is com- municated by a glovo may kill the most wielol ille, or my spread the most violent pestilence. The spark truck from the iron bel of a labourer may fire a baig which will explode a magazine, and bury city in rular. The Importance of literature increases
in proportion to is diffaston. Books are now in
the hands of every one-Radlag, once the pri virge of the law is now the possession of the many and to puadu karaming a more untverasi power and. occupatiD. Тье Preis leems with tans intended for the militar. Cheay portost cals, cheap newspapers, cheap editions of standard authors sad of triahy novels are one of
the characteristic features of the times,
There is pot a large publishing house in the world which does not try to cuido and under-sell its rivals in manuals Intended to make all kirde
ol knowledge general and popular, and which does not keep a staff of accomplished men and women to produce just such works as will be sare to command a large male amongst general readers. There are not many books addiensed to the tlaking and intelligeat few in comparison with the number addressed to the unreflecting multitude, who are only too mech disposed to published, accept as true and good whatever is printed and
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Mliton was born in Bread-Strent, in the City of Landen, in 1608. Born in the middle of old Londor, the rights and sounds said which his childhood was matured were those of crowded street is. His father wit a scrivense and an *ccomplished musicias. Little Jobe sang nearly as soon as he could speak, and his father taught him music and also how to piny upon the organ, Tha child at on early age showed remarkable xbilly. At the age of 1o he composed poetry, Evey advantage in the way of education was given him in order that he might be an ornament to the Church, "to whose service (se says), by the intentions of my parents and friends, I was destined when a child. I had from my first years, by the conseless dritgenes of my father (whom God recompense), been exerclaed to the langues and sciences, na my aga would sufer, by sundry master at home and at the schools,"
From St. Paul's School be proceeded to Chelaf's College, Cambridge, where owing to ble good locks he was called "the Lady of the allege. | He took his Bachelm's and Master's Degrees In ordinary courie, and on qefiting cilega he gave up the idea of entering the Church and returned to his father's home, where for five years be studied the Greek and Roman writers and occasionally composed postry. After the expira- tion of that period he travelled in France and Italy, and in 1645 published a collection of
po: ms. Latin and English
He was shortly afterwards appointed by Cromwell to be Latia Secretary to himself and Parliament, which later effice he held till the restoration of Charles II His domenic relations were sahappy. His first wifs deserted him, hin second died In child-birth, and his third oppressed his children in his life time, and cheat.
ed them at his death,
At the age of 46 0147 Milion foit his eyesight, and it was only then that be applied him. self to the compos! loa of his greatest works, "Paradise Losi". was written at different times, and you will doubtless be surprised to hear that for this rema kable compiltion, which, wblo It Immortalised the name of the post, conferred an imperishable honor upon the nation signalled for his birth, the entire remuneration he and his family recolwad was £18.
In 1671 followed "Paradise Regained" and Samson Agonistas," and other poems.
It was not, however, la poetry that Milion alone excelled. His prose works are very num. erous. Amongst the most famour of them are
Much of our modern literature, it must be admities, is in its own nalare noble, and in its effects ennobling; it is Instinct with lotellectual A Difence of the People of England, Eike- and moral power i exbiblis an earnest striving nokisttes, "The Tasure of Kings and Magin s'ter high and exalting objects it is dialin-trates," of " Prelaties! Episcopacy" &c, &c. guished by an ardent love of truth, by an immor. able seese of right-by a profound appreciation of goodness by far reaching generalization and པ་ by grandly poetical rentiments. It is also marked by a thorough convicilan that the frue, the beautiful and the good are so interwoven that they cannot be separated the one from the other without destroying the web of nature.
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• ja lis general loflamce not only a highly civilizing power, bat it seems to be preparing a for the universal diffusion and reign of truth WAY and sig) tesusness, of wisdom and love,
But unfortunately much of our literature Is of another kind altogether, is the literature of evil passion, of baseness, poliation and lawless, Bess. It creates slo by making ala bezuilial. It makes beroos of swindlers and seducers, It Investa infamous crimioals with romantic charms.
There is not a vice or alme to the calendar
which it does not seek to put forward in forms Attractive through the fascination of literary merit. Sedilen, murdes, ilcentferness, theft and perjury are adorned with sensational interest and wondrous, wordpainting beauty, Every form of gallt has its own literature which read by thousands and iran lated from langage to language. Every kind of disgraceful action fa transfigured lato loveliness and heinous slas are not only Justified but glorified.
Man belonged to the "Independents,” a name in his time expressiva both of religions sad political tenets. Blabop Sumper bas said, "thets is much reason for regretting that the prose works of Milton, where, in the midst al much that is course and Imtemperate, passagea of such redeeming bounty occur, should be in the hands of so few renders, considering the advan. tage which might be derived to our literatore from the study of their original and nervoNE elegance."
Milton, holding his peculiar views way strongly, engrafied the pollicles as the poet, and employed all his energies la`endeavouring to overthrow a goverment which be considered Fatal to the interests of society, and in which civil precedence was frequently obtained on other grounds than those of vistas and publig Services.
In the Government of the Church be conste
dered sige that he had discovered principles analogous to those operating in 150 State, and tending to the same end. Against these too be concaired himself in duty bound to lift up bis voice. Berides being a poet, Milton (hui be came a controversialāt and a politician; and was therefore in constant opposition to the Civil and Religious powers,
Having himself been educated a Purlao, ka looked upon the Episcopacy with an unfriendly This literature, which has been called Salsale oye, and, in an Impetuous and eron uncompro and which has recently developed exceedingly, mieing manner, at once threw down the gauntlet
The spirit of the times, is exercising a terrible Lilgence for evil. It Into the Pielatio area. replaces conscience by sentiment freedom and was fierce abuse was mistaken for logic, and responsibility by blind and irresistible fate. If brotherly love fa the dealfage of tellgicas parties this literature makes much more progress and if the one with the other was dicidach parties count. Although, therefore, in a wittings hla public opicion does not arrest its orward march it will help le destroy merailty-and fictuurde position was maintained careatly and with cone the intellectual ille of the ention, Love of letters, ammata skil, there fi % manliest absence of leva of trub, love of country and love of religion courtesy and sometimes of Cartelan charity in make all good tien- and women wish that this them. corrupt and corrupting iterature may ultimately
The Monkichy bad fallen, and a government skin to public had bam catablished. In and at no great distance of time be abolisheil,
It can work only mischief amongst the reading England. There were two parties in the coun pabile and amongst the young, and they in try, one of which wholly condemned the execu- another generatiɛn will be the leaders of the | Ston of Charlow the First on the ground that he nation's thoughts and the arbiters of the nation's was a King, whilst the other maintained the desilates. For as we all know the strength and contrary proposition. pride of a cation is in its youth. From these generalities, ladies and gentlemen, li us descend to some practical and personal saxezilons. We must all admit if what I have stated is true, and few will care to deny it, that authors are exililed to a most prominent rank amongst the producing classex. fifrindeed hardly possible to malise the importante and influence of a great author, He may be either purifes or destroyer of publle fasit and morals. For cell or undoubtedly exercises a vast and momentous domination. These facts are worthy of the most serious reflection, Readers should understand At the close of his defence Milion saya. "By and realize most acutely that when they feel God's assistance I have finished the WOLK. I themselves secretly digwn by the magostic undertook, namely, lo defend the mobla action power of superior minde, either in a sight or of my countrymen, and towarsest the commo wrong direction, thay szapƐskapa bringing them," rights of the people against tho nejust dominne
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Miwo, throwing la with the latter party the whole strength of bli advocacy, was termeda # Regicide and the Advocate of Regicidew j " but this was a mistake, for, as far as Kings were lawful monarchs, bent upon exerdilug conscien- tiously and Jaully, the authority entrust- ed to them by the people, Milton con tended strenuously for their rights, proving they were "entitled to all just obed ince and honour as holding by general consent the Sovereign Power and amfni Majesty of the people,"
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