The Evening Star FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1874

Evening Star, Issue 3396, 9 January 1874, Page 2

The Evening Star FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1874

Ai.THOifOH 'the electric ; telegraph. ,an ; d’ jptfrhals prepared ittJGreftft for the Goloni’es inform .BS sp£:;t|he, groat fEuropei'th©}prevailing can. be better gathered from a glance hi • Rep©tt» of) sarts df|the' for •ever^oi^^c^y.-'oPj^rVßui^t^f, 1 giVe ‘ tto > leading.« stu-te/snien tb and thus's6fli'o4^ea,,hi^y >, be- f6rmed ! of -the: cnrrenti Xrfmaiiidm '!;ff*he •■ i<): Mahche r sterL j.of r- i^e,/1:8th hberj' ciontalhs a report df«the j .pr<f ceedinga'at A banquet 'given by r 'thb , : Mayor ; of Xiyerpdol to,, tfie [;Ehrl qf a, BKa Bordship, jMihaion ■to political -party -questiond, .made.‘a characterized l 'by > singular felicity -of'jqexpressionj .and . possessing ■ equal ihtferest’ to ;, iur ;! in this parbiof the world Jft at Home. subjectß. the^Ashanteo; v war i ,, ; tjiat the-first'has an r : intimate ; beating .upon ‘ of our iMihigbation scheme, 'for;,ln jprpportiion ,tq ,th(e ri^; fa. wages at Btome will.be tije : dinicqliiy of ,insu-5 mn^ 1 to the:- Colonies, ri His object! was, I'howeVer,. to dhew the groundlessness tained. by many. at Home," and reiterated by some here, v; ijhat, England’s industrial supremacy is doomed ib 'diction /Of this rsort: in.an. Otago con-,. : ; temporary, based upon;; the fact ofia of iron from-America to ; ; Great Britain, renderedpossible, at a profit, by the highpricpit pas reached., .His.Lordship points to the ivast extept 'of jinbejbtled 1 in America/ihpd drawstbe cohclusicai 1 thatuntil that lis occupied* no, large population, jwill der •vote''themselves to manufacturing mdustry., Hpr , does he consider the nations on thb Continent of Europe,. competitors for he points put that tb.e same causes. • f which affect wages in steat Britain pperatp equally in them, while they have not, equal' capital afid natural : resources iat command. " Passing from 'the wages, question to that’of the/Ashantee war, >|ie expressed: decided to extending British td • savage; tribes., ‘The argument hp used is r dne he ‘/Urged against' guiding the jSteteetdriite ’Of Fiji, dnd is significant .of..the views ’of English, statesmen .in regard to extension of the British EmpirW " He Said: : I !■ > J trjust,that Jn<^ tropical emjjhc ifrAMca, ho exaggerated fancies , as to its being our duty to -pht a coat of moral Whitewash on every black man we come across, will MduS to extend b<4U further arprotecto- ' ftrttf which - 1 hold .had itetfter not jluive b|e’u allowed to reach its present dimensions.— (Hear, hear.) I doubt whether it to' f J^ready■ dbubt whether any man in or out of the Colbnial Office exactly knows, or could define the limits of our j authority and of our responsibility in regard to ' tribes included within the protected territory.

No doubt pledges must be kept, but the narrower the limits within which we contract our relations with those tribes the better, I believe, it will be. I have no great faith in that kind of moral influence whicL%qu acquire bydnimingn man’s house over his hefid.and tellfnrhlta Jjli is to be your subj —(Hear, hear,lfand beHeyej ajf# matter of fact, that, tradeMs'.;found tpl grow , quite as fast, if npt> rather faister,f id; where we do not exercise political .power thad 7 in those where we. do)j and- while I dmly lieye in the value to the empire of Colonies t6 which our own people ,can gd\out, and where they can work, X thinki ; tb, put the thing plainly, that we quite black men enough, and that we had better not go in for