AMERICA AND ENGLAND

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2017, 11 June 1885, Page 3

AMERICA AND ENGLAND

Tnh following article, winch was pub lislud in the Aigon.iut, one of the loading Aini'iicaii newspapeis, will be md witli mteiest at the pirscnt time • - \Vhate\ci concerns England conucins Amc-iit-i, and i wherever and wheuevei the English aic cny.iycd in wai the Anieiieans cannot ! stand by and look on with lndifleienre. We do not mum to as-beit that oiu sympathies ,uc iuvaii.ibly with England, for this would not be tine , we know that England possesses all the impoit.uit <l'ialities that attend piide, and I th.it invauably accompany the enjoyment of gie.it powei ; we know that as a Government England is exacting and aggressive, cuing but little if in her ambitions career of Empire she treads upon and cmshes out the feebler powers that may stand in hei way. This, lias been illustiatcd in the wais of Englishmen all over the woild ; their splendid achievements in Asia, which enables England's Queen to bear I the proud title ot Em pi ess of India; their acquisitions m South Aft ica ; their war in Abjssmia ; their icady use of Open-mouthed cannon fiom their omnipresent navy, winch is found in every sea and every harbour of every sea wheie English trade is to be piotected and English supiemacy maintained. We know the English aie merccnaiy, grasping, and UDS-CI tipiiloiib ; the} push then commence to the leinotcst bounds of the earth, and in ciifoicnig their tiade regard neither conscience, honour, nor humanity. The opium war in China illustiates our meaning. England is the pawnshop of the world, and in the miterest of its uncles of street, it sends its atmics abioad to patlici its coupons in the most distant lands. For this purpose the (lower and chivaliy of England are in the death-grapple with the Arab in the upper valleys of the Nile. We know that England is hypocritical and insin cere ; for long ycais the target at which she pieached and prayed, admonished and pleaded, was American slaveiy. Hei own emancipation of negroes in Jamaica and elsewhere was constantly and offensively paraded as evidence of the superior virtue of Englishmen over thcit degenerate and demoralised sons ami daughters in America; and yet, with the alternative of five millions of human beings in continuing bondage under the lash of the master, or free trade w ith a fiagment of the American Republic, England did not hesitate to prefer the destruction and dismemberment of the American Union and the perpetuation of American slavery, in order that the manufacturers, merchants, and money lenders might continue to emieh themselves from the sweat of millions in unpaid toil, Know that England, with all her bluster, is prudent, and, like our famous duellist, Colonel McClung, " knows whose face to slap." She cleats her deck for action, and burns the grass cottage of San Juan with the display of a marvellous coinage ; she sends her tnannes to the in let 3 of South Africa, and her armies to Znluland, with the feailessness of in \inciblc daring ; she challenges 'lheodore of Abyssinia to the conflict ot arms with all the confidence that Kiupp gun 3 and Spencer rides gam over Hint muskets and knotted war clubs in the hands of feeble savages, and calls that a war, and knights its leader, in w hich no English soldier was hit with a bullet or bmiscd with a club ; and yet she is not too proud to apologise in diplomatic language to the powerful among nations, or to pay nineteen millions of j omuls sterling to America for the mistake of her piophecy in reference to the destruction of our nationality, We lovj to icmembcr these things, and to call them up in leview whenever the display of her insolence provokes the reminiscence. We think wlifn she is about to embroil herself in war with some strong and equal powei that our sympathy is with the enemy of England ; but, whenever the death stiuggle comes, we (hid ourselves, in «.pite of everything, siding with om mother-land; we forget the eaily momings she gave us; we foiget that we inn away from home, and in the tussle to drag us back we thrashed the venerable old lady and toie her cap sti ings ; we foiget her invasion of oiu soil and the burning of our capital ; forget hci insolence, hypocrisy, and the injustice of her attitude during our civil war, and letiieinbcr, after all, that England is the mother-land, and whenever she embioils herself with a strong autagonist our sympathies go out to her and her biavc aimies natuially, and we icalise that the ties that bind us aie the ties of blood. It was so in the Russian war. We hung upon news fiom the Ciimea with eveiy heat t throb beating in hope of English vietoiy. We waited in silence, hushed with an\iety, for the fall of the MalakolF, and rejoiced when Sebastopol fell, under the assault of English, French, and Tuikish armies. Our own siege of Vicksburg or investment of Richmond scarce gave us a deeper anxiety, or when they surrendered, greater cause for exultation. It is bo now, and so it will be if England shall find that the Egyptian cmbroglio develops into a long, disastrous, and bloody war. We may criticise England's presence in that distant land, we may demand of her cause of her presence in those far away deserts, engaged in the attempt to drive the untamed barbarian from his native land. We know their fieice courage, their mi timed fanaticism. We know that over them the Khedive of Egypt his held out a questionable suzerainty. We know how the English tax the toiling fellah of the Nile Valley, and make linn sweat great di ops of blood to pay unjust taxes exacted for the English bond- holder We wish the British army were out of Eg) pt, that Gladstone w ei e out of his political complications. We think it would serve the bond- holder light to lose his piiucipal and intetcst. But, all the saint', the English army, under the leadership of Kngluli gentlemen is in Egypt, with the hand ot the uncivilised Arab at its tlnoat, and our sympathy is with England — a feeling that will strengthen and deepen as the ciicle of lire glows closer around this devoted band. If Gladstone's Ministry has blundred, w« caie not; if Wolseley is but a carpet knight, we care not. The tableau which presents itself to our imagination, and demands our sympathy, is the gallant Colonel Burnaby with his ii on grasp upon the dead Atab's throat, and the Arab spear piercing the breast of the murdered English gentleman. Gentlemen sympathise with gentlemen, civilisation with civilisation. Ib is only barbarians who can find a place in thenhearts for the wild and mciciles? Bedouin of the Arabian deseit against the men ot our own iacc, own language, and own civilisation. The sympathy of Atneiica is with England in this stiuggle; and if it shall become complicated by rebellion in India, and invasion fiom Russia, and assassination and niu ndiansm fiom lieland, that sympathy will stionger and deeper as the stiugglc advances.

A vmwka of Cincinnati, Jolin E. Flynn, is said to hast, diaun fiom the bunk 22,000 dol. the other d.i> to go into tlie hotel business ia Demur, Col , with, the money all being made nt ncuspapui selling. TliK Alexandria correspondent of the Times hays the Englishmen and Frenchmen who remember the coidial terms w hich existed between tho two n.ition.ihties in Egypt four years ago cannot but watch with anxiety the intensely bitter feeling now prevailing, which nt any moment may lead to regrettable consequences. Recently, at the Alexandria I Club, some members thought it necessary to apologise to an English officer for the gioasly insulting language towards England used by a Pienchman nt the table— language which foitunately the ofli«.er'H small knowledge of French tendered harmless. A meeting of tho Hamilton LogUlativc Association is tailed for Monday evening next, at r.o'J p m , in Waik*to I'imej buildings.

"I ( \i)M{vrooy you to say tliat join ihaige toi s ivu-e would be light," com pl.uuid the die nt w hen his l,a\\\ci handed him a tiemendons lull "I bihs\ > 1 s.nd ni\ fee would lie nominal,' was the iepl), " l>ut- 0, I .sec," intot i iijitftl the client, "phenomenal. 1 Tns I hd.idelphui C/n nun fi >-ajs the gtammai u-cd in t ho Moimou school-, don t iicogiiii-c tho "first pel son smgulai," which would upsit tlii'ii itglion. F.ut all tin.' sunc, the fitst poison must feel pit tty singnl.u whin hit husband aiiumulatcs a do/on moic wives "Cos si u rL\Kh " wiitosaucnthusi astic bummer wllei, "is a chat tiling place. It is alwiiji tcfu slung, and is kept up I>> sptings, fioin tlic bottom." Thue-> no ion,ma in that. Th< same can lie sud of a dentist's chair, and no one thinks it it a ehai tuing or refreshing place. Tin. Portsmouth people arc anxious to have the Wellington statue cteetid on Southsea Common, the parade giound of the troops included in the gairison of the town. The idea has something in it to commend it. It would he easy to c\poit the statue from tliat port, and no one would then be tioubled any more about it. TilK other day an up town gentleman, whose wife wished lun< to send up a coin doctor to the house, made the encage inrnt and telegraphed her to thU effu't"Chiropobist will be up at two c'clok." The lady was giately hiirpiised but some what consoled when she iceeived the message — "Cheer up, dearest. Will be up at two o'clock. F\RMhii Wi-k/xk (mooting the curate's w ife, who is a bee keepei) : " No, mum ; T'\e no call to find any fault with your bee-keeping', but I do wish as they 'oyan't light on my clover. I found one o' my sheep stungiu his mouth this moring." Cuiate's wife (naively): "and, pray, Mr Wur/le, wlieie would you look for its tongue but in his mouth ? '—Judy. I Bi.h.hthd Anticipations —A coloured men o'ei w hose head about 70 sumnieis had passed, was quietly but earnestly wiestling with a waterineloit near the maikct, when he was distmbed by the appeaiance of a small boy of his color. The boy sat down on a box and looked "indgingly at the melon, and the old man looked up at him and queried :— " Young man, I reckons I could give you half ills inelljon an' hab plenty left. ' "Thanks uncle." " 13nt I shan't do it, kase it might be the spilin' of ye. In de fust plate, de law am plain an' cl'ar on de pint dut what I leave behind goes to my nitual heiis. In do second place, a pusson widout anticipaslmn inns' be dreffully onhappy. As the case now stands you anticipate. You anticipate tint half this yer mollyon will stuff mo fnllan' I'll have to leave alllde rest You anticipate dat I'll git choked on de seeds, or get sun stt uek, or be 'tacked by de c lie. Asdcinellyongiaduallydisappeais you'll anticipate dat I wont gnaw de rinds worry clus. As do rinds disappear you'll console yerself wid de luck dat de seeds am left. As I w rap de seeds np in my handkeichicf you'll icckon on lukin' de bod whar' do mcllyon was cut an' catf n, but as I hf up dat bod an' gin ye a whack on de back yell anticipate bettei dan to ciowd in w liar' je ain't wanted. Now yon skip." — Detmit Fu« Puss How to Bfcomk a l'Honi Ki-\i>m — " What shall I do to make a tii&t cla-s proof reader?" To become a In it class proof reader is a very eisy task — so easy that the wonder is nioie young people don't take it up instead of ilcikmi; or copying. The fit at step is to seive an apprenticeship at printing, which enables the student to discern typoginphical ii regularities. A geneial acquaintance with history, biography, fiction, music, tfoogiaphy, the drama, etc., is impottant. Politics should have earnest attention, for you must be able to identify e\ciy man who has followed the business fioni Cain down to the present day No mattet v.heie his residence oi what his ciltbic — whether he is or wai the Premier of England, the Caliph of Bagdad, or a Diidgepoit " tarrici "— you should ha\e <i minute knowledge of his public and private life, and be able to select the proper spelling from the half-dozen ways which the author is sure to employ. Riad, ponder and assimilate Webster, the Bible, Shaksperc, Anthon's Classical Dictionary, Koget's Thesaurus, Lippiueott's (Jazcttter, Haydn's. Dictionary of Dates, the cyclopedias of Appleton, Zcll, Johnson and others ; Breniisch Ncidei «achsisclics Woterbuch, Hrnmltkc's Slownik dokladny Jczyka Polskiego i Niemicckieno, and any other woiks of a solid nature that happen to bo at hand. During tho long winter evenings you might scoop in a few languages— say Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, Russian, German, Chinese, Bohemian andChocUw. You will need them in the fashion article and Cai tcr's speeches. The foregoing ai c a few of tho requirements of a first-class proofreader. The business is Icained m a short time by any young man with a little perseverance, and affords constant employment (twelve houis seven days a week) at a liberal compensation ('JOdol.), with frequent honourable mention.— Chicago Ti i bune. CiiiXKHK Kqhity. — There is in China a cut tons institution, winch may cast some light on the determined resistance to the French in Tonquin. At the beginning of each now leign, or when an Kmpeior conns of age (as the ptescnt Empcioi will next year), a Court of Consols is ap pointed, before which every high olticial has to give an account of his chaigc, and prove, at the lisk of the utmost penalty, that the interests of the empire havo not suffeied in his hands. In 1861, after the war with France, and the death of one Emperor and the accession of another, the Conit of Censors cariied on a long investigation of the numberless class of officials. The adviseis of the Emperor had been of the nnti-Europcan party, and after the disasters of the war. the burning of the Summer Palace of YuenMing- Yuen by the French, and tho subsequent death of the Kmpeior, Hi Foung, the councillors of his sue cessois caused tho arrcstand iinpiisonuieut of the heads of tho anti-European paity, who had been formerly in favour. Three of them, who had held high ofHce, wne condemned to death by the Couit of Censors — Tsai-Youen and tho Prince of Tchun, and Sen-Chun— the two first being nearly related to the Imperial family. They were condemned to be chopped to pieces, but their sentences weie commuted, the two being compelled to commit suicide, and the other beiiig beheaded. These condemnations piobably had little justice, but were intended to ally the moi tification of defeat. Next year the Censois will sit in judgment on every man, high or low, .in olhcc under the Emperor ; and those whojiavc fd.ilril cither by actual weakness Of peifidy, or by ill-judged resistance, may be in danger, no matter what their rank, of the most honible punishment. We can imagine that the perplexity of the mandaiins may bo much gi cater than tliat of the French Cabinet. Their case is apparently another \ersion of the old plnase— " Heads I win, tails you lose." A Chinks: Witness.— In California, wheie th<K are plenty in China-nen, the usual Wftum me' hod is employed in sweating them; so, at least, ono may infer fiom the account of a recent tiial given in the Courier de San Fiancisco of '2!lth September. The judge, evidently not being quite satisfied that tho witness mulct stood the object of the form he has just gone through, asked him, as in usual in such cases, if he understood the nature of an oath. "Peifectly," replied the witness, with the utmost confidence ; " I know that if I tell a lie everyone in the court will be damned." An equally amusing illustration of tho ignorance of the Chinese in the matter of our judical oath was furnished home time ago by the natives usher in the Consular Couit at Shanghai. Ho was observed to be making an anxious search for sonic missing object ; and, on being questioned by the judge, he stated that he was looking for the little hook which is given to the witness to smell ! And this man bad been foe eightoon years usher of the couit !