Mr Anthony Trollope.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 102, 24 October 1871, Page 7

Mr Anthony Trollope.

Mr Anthony Trollope was present at a p iblic dinner at Roekhampton a few weeks ago, and replied to the toast of his health. In a style of pleasant binter, speaking as an Englishman to the inhabitants of these Colonies, he says that Eaglishmen at Home think more about us than we do ourselves—not implying, indeed, that Australians are remarlcabla for lacking a gook conceit of themselves, but that they are marvellously slow to appreciate the superior advantages of their I position. Here are a few pregnant sentences, I in which he contrasts the condition of the I people of the Colonies and of England, in a | manner which ought to make many colonists! blush for their ingratitude : " Englishmen always speak of you with a degree of veneration and love, and our feelings are strangely wounded when on coming here we find one after another telling us that the Colonies are going to the devil. I can as3iire you that we believe you arc going straight to heaven.—(Choer3.) Although you all say that every thing is going wrong, and although you are all complaining, yet I never see a man that does not eat three meal 3 a day.—'Laughter.) It is not so at home. Tiiere you find men that taste meat only three time 3 a year. Here I see no one without clothes, if not of the bast kind, yet appropriate to bis position. There you often see a man clothed in tatterdemalion rags, who wears a coat cist ol' by some reduced gentleman, that belonged to some flunkey before him, and perhaps a nobleman before that. You never see that here.—(Cheers,) In England they are only considering how to educate the poor. Here the children of the poorest are educated. lam surprised to fine that, even where the population i 3 very limited, a free school is established, to which che children of the poor and rich flock together —(Cheers.) When I hear you grumble, I cannot understand the language you U3e. You are impatient, because you can't take wings as the eagle, and fly right off to heaven.—(Ohears.) sTou are really in a prosperous state. A3 a stranger, I have one piece of advice to give you—perhaps not to you, but to your children— vnd that is, do not be in such a hurry. When you see what is your position and also what you have done, what is the p>3itioaof labour—for after all that is the main thing— 70u have no reason to complain. The aim of all political energv is to ra : se the libourer, and the labourer here occupies a grand position."