THE DEATH OF GENERAL GORDON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 61, 13 February 1885, Page 3

THE DEATH OF GENERAL GORDON.

[Correspondent of Exchange.] The telegwng announcing the fall of Khartoum will, I am sure, be read >I with much regret wherever English hearts are found to heat or the Eng- . lirth tongue be spoken. Meanwhile, ■fortiier new* will be awaited with al- ' iDost'breathle>R interest until the fate of its brave and noble defender be made known. I suppose no name m the world has figured more prominently before the even of all than the gallant Gordon during the last few / - inonthH. ; Hhr skill ' and courage, his ■r ifclftreliance, his unbounded faith m his owu resources) and, above all, the ' ever-pvevaHin£ sense of duty which has characterised his public career, will, hi^ve won for him the esteem ' « and admiration of thousands and tens ; . /of thous»nd»* of England's right-think- :■ iiig sons and daughters. There is protMbty *io quality ao highly honored, no cause to which as a nation her people are so peculiarly devoted, an that which Nelson signalled to bis

famous capteth'3 whetl String- iiitd action tU Trafalgar 1 — not v glory/ Of "-Udtory," or •> honor," bitt simply " duty?" That one word doubtless inspired every man m I he' fleet on that memoiuble occasion, and that one thing only could prompt officers ! and men ou sinking ships, afior seeing the women and children safely em I.arke»l m the boats, to wave them a farewell and go down with a " Bi.itish cheer." '• Goodness and duty !" These are the qualities that England honors. She mny gape and wonder every now and then like an awkward clown at railway kings or foreigu potentates, but nothing stirs her grand old heart (lown to its central deptl.a, universally and long, except the right. She may haurile a shawl very biully, and prove awkward enough m a ballroom ; she may scarco know the difference between the voice of the nightingale and the croak of the jackctdw-jf bat " blessings large and long upon her." She knows >'ho\v to teach her sons to die like men amidst sharks or : bil lo^, am idst idiot. Q|" B|i«J],^-asj if duty wore the;itt)^^^^S^^|^ the world; ■£-- ; kZ?lob?W''~ :l