A PROPHECY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2720, 7 December 1881, Page 3

A PROPHECY.

The “ New York World ” says •“ So far as it is possible to read the future history of England, there will be no more Tory administrations, and the eddies of moderate Liberalism will be noted but rarely in the sweeping tide of Radicalism. The monarebial form will probably be preserved, but abroad we shall see a Canadian confederation absolutely independent, with Halifax, and possibly Quebec, held as American Gibraltar until some collision will compel their surrender. A similar confederation will be established in Australia without the retention of the Imperial station. _ A third will be formed in South Africa, even Cape Town may be abandoned. A fourth may perhaps be formed in the West Indies. England will retain India and such other possessions as are absolutely necessary to her trade. It is less likely that even the Radical statesmen of England a generation hence will be brought by pure reason to leave Ireland to her own devices. It the torpedo and earthwork system shall neutralise the value of monclads like the Dandolo and Duilio, England, freed from the fear of invasion and the necessity of adopting the Continental system of an armed population, ought to occupy a singularly fortunate and influental position at the beginning or that twentieth century which bids fair to be the most pregnant in the history •of the absorbing, assimilating, expanding race popularly known as the ‘ AngloSaxon,’ which is so rapidly carrying the English tongue and the outgrowth of England’s historical institutions into all I the corners of the globe.