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ENGLAND OF THE PRESENT DAY

Want

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the Last Fifty Years.

SOCIAL PROBLEMS sOLVED

External and Internal Perils Sur

mounted—The Present and the

Future.

The Londot correspondent of the N WwW York Post writes: A foreign observer in this conpiry )4 impelled, by what around him, to ponder over the actual position, constant progress, and likely pro already lef:

passe

spects of a people which has

an indelitie impression upon the of history, and promires to influence in future, even more powerfully than hither- to, the onward march of mankind. Swueb

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suggested bv the crowding evi exub weil-being, in- ellectaal activity, and moral vigor thet must become more impressive when accom pani- ed by a retrospective glance at the per plexities ard troubles which this country was struggling with only fifty yearr ago.

During the second quarter of this cen- tury Eogland was stil grappling with political and social problems, some of which seemed to present insurmountable lifficulties while others threatend by their yagnitude the very foundations of the Empire. An overgrown, starving, and riotous population, divided into extremes

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of accumulated wealth and aliect pevertyv

of scanda!lous privilegea on the hand, an j beip @8s Gepel dence Ob thé OLDers W)lLb

a crushing taxation and disabled

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ected and disabled colonies. w

with de} , Witha permanent state of famine and periodical uprisings tn Ireland, with frequent re- volts in India, and with as imiquitous

willofa maintenance millions of

foreign war, undertaken at the privileged class, and for the

ofan iefamous tyranny over men—such was the of Eagland some fifty yeara ago. It is doubtful if histcry chronicles a transform~ ation as stupendousand complete as tbat which haa over the British Isles during the halfof the Victorian era—an age fo which succeeding genera- tions will look back, with better reason than to that of Augustus, as toa period when peace, prosperity, well-being, and eulightenment prevailed overa vast em- pire.

Nowhere e'se can popular temper or social condition and tendency be batter gaaged thanin a nation’s heart and cen- tre, in a great capital like this, aod during a season of festive interlude and annua! stock taking. when those who harvest happivessevjov its blessings to the ful, aid those who suff¥r wrongor privativo ti.d @ more sympathetic bearing. On the woaole, then, an impartial observer is bound to admit that it wouldbe difficult tu itmaginea peorle more eontent their present lot or more confident of their future than the Hritich people to day Their ove great social problem, how to provide satisfactorily for the enormous in- crease of population, ofthe lower orders more especially, hae lost its former ter- rors. With the possible acceptionof France wherethe population is stationary,and of the

come

latter

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United States, where the land is sti!] thinly populated, there is no country in which the working classes are as wel

paid, as well-fed,ss comfortably clothed, as in E land. Moreover, iney are gener

ally better instracced and, consequent!y are becomiog more iatelligent and more independentihan thoseof France, while, being is closer and more sympathetic touch with the social strata them, they are more traciable than the inJ dustriai clasees in America. The board echools heve already transtormed the en tire moral tone and outward bearing of the workinyman in Englaud; and cbildren of parents who heve been tuught the ‘*three R’s” will, no d udt, be still better men and more humane women th echool-children of illiterate boors.

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HUMANIZING AGENCY,

Ar even more powerfal human‘ziog agency among the poorer classes bas been the widespreai activity of charitable co- operations end individuals philanthropists.

The new jife which some fifty vears ago wae infused into the Established Church wae manifested in the efforts of the clergy to elevate the moral and intel] ial con- dition of the lower classés. The m ve~

ment Spread rapidly, until “slumming” became fashionable with aristocratic ladies, and rich wndergraduates from Oxford and Cambridge volunteeres to

establieh themselves as “workers” in the poorest duarters of the E ast-end, bring~ ing with them every humaniz ng influence. Such familiar contact with their betters kas had a most pronounced effect upor. the morals and ideas of the English working» man. Love of respectability and pride in aristy racy are innate in English charact~ er. lL. is tie instinct which in ite exag~ geration efflorescence becomes snobbism. More than this, legislative enactments have made stringent provisions for the bet- ter housing of the poor, eo that the hor- rible dens in which a bestial existence en- gendered disease and led to crime have

almost completely dissappeared. Vast workmen’s tenement buildings, in which sanitary regulations are rigorously enford- ed, and in which home comforts and club Inxuries are freely provided, rise up in every quarter of London, and have even proved remuneraive asinvestments Peo

ple’s palaces, parks, and recreation groods are being mul'ijlicd. Village

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\ industries are being revived and encourac- | | sé] rial W bei weep labour

i Cal il have | ome rare by the for-

tf ipation of cone:hation boards and by the

i extension Of the principal of arbitration.

| England, tn anv care, is tle only eoun-

| trs whe te. thousands of work-

j}men may be On strike with, bardly a tv ice or riot. Itis this innate

erfnl Progress 01)

| love of fair play of the KEoglish, this res- pect for Jaw anodorder, which etrikes a eo forcibly; itis these funda-~ mentally healthy instinets that bave been strenythened extended mong ite lower classes by the clerical and aristocr: tic missions among the poor.

With ture: elevation, betier food, and

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better housing, drunkenness has diminish- {,and with ita restriction the extent of pees pauperism bas sbrnok. Conse-

y crime ha- become less fre quent; uniry in which asary to close some On the other hand, bospital accommodation has greatly mcreased, and now exceeds vonsiderably ‘bat of any other country ib proportion to pope lation; a fact the more noteworthy, 48,conlrary to the France aud otber Continental countries, cot a penny of public revenue is expended on euch charitable institutions, »!! of which in Hoglaod are maintained by voluntary cootributions.

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THE QUEEN'S INFLUENCE. In this connection it is ognize the decisive influence which the Queen and the Prince of Wales have exercised in furthering measures for the Queen by devoting the national) effering ou ber jubilee, to the training of nurses, eo that actually the

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relief of sickaess, the

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immediately above ;

British Sisierhoods of Nurses excel in number a:d efficiency all other similar bodies abroad, aud the Prince of Wales by inauguratiog @ national hospital fuod, and juste recently, by placiog himself at the nead of the movement for checking con- sumption, the disease which makes the grealest ravages amoog the Eng land. Itisthis sincere selicitude, tiis whole-hearted devocion to the welfare and interests of the people which, originating n the Queen, has become the distisguish- ing feature io the activiry of the Koglish Koyal family,aod has permeated, by an examble the force of which 1s irresistable

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een canseaasataaastceaaeer titties ante th de sii in

in @ monarchial country, the upper classes |

by quickening their ideas of Christian and

national dutp. The Prince of Wales, hedged inas he is by the uowritten law which preeludes bis participation § in

politics, bas yet ehown to what degree bir energy aod example can prove beneficent to the interests ofthe State at large. Ae to the Queen, since the days ef Queen Elizabeth ao sovereign has sat on the Bri- tie#h throne who has exercised so decisive an influence on the social and political development of the country as has Queen Victoria. No male occupant of that exalt

ed post could have been a more jealous or more determined—one’ had ShostMid, more fanatical promoter of the prestige abroad andthe welfare at home of ber people. It isin nosmall meacure to ber influences, her example, her assidious labours, and her constant urgings that the present high pitch of prosperity and power of this country is due.

Thus eyery element, from the highest to the lowest,*eems to have come tugevher, a4 if by fortuitous coincidence, for the attain~ ment of an almost idal perfection in the social erder and the public adiminstration vf this coantry. The great legislative assembly which controlathe whole of tuis delicaie and many-sived orgonism is, in itg moral tore aed its practicaly efhciency, ‘amnuch above the level ct other similar bodies that it may be said to leave little, to be desired. Party politice is carried on witb the least possible detriment to pubiic The administration of tbe country ia inthe handsof meu above suapiciou, imbued witha kigh sense of their responsibility, aod entirely free from fractions preferences. Abuse of public trust or cares of peculation have become aimostunknowa. Taxation ,is constad tly ligutesned, yet the revenueis steadly in- creasing. So with the po-t cflice, an or- ganization which, for magnitude, efficiency aod ecoaomy, is unrivalled by that of avy other country, and which, by the steady increase of its eavings-bank operations, 18 a faithful index of the growing prosperity of the poorer classes. Justice, that cor- nerstone of the welfare of the state, has at no time and ip no other country been dealt out more impartially, more ewifiiy, more unflncoiagly. And there is certainly no office, oot even that of av archbishop, more respected or more jastly bonoured than that of a British judge.

THE BRITI®@A ARMY.

raterests,

That branch of the British army which is really orgunized as an effective war machioe, the Indian army, though ioor- dinately expensive, is admitted, even by the German critics, to be atove reproach ; while the real strength of England, ber navy, bas never beea more powertul, bet- ter equipped, or more ready “to go any- where and do avything,” than at this time. Its vorivalled efficiency has been established by tbe fact—incrediible though it may seem, but vouched for oa high autbority—that the recent mobilization of the entire fleet evtailed an extraordinary expenditure of only $12,500.

India,in spite of inevitable drawbacks, ie administered us no other colonial des pendency of a European State. The British colonies are more Joyally attached to the Motiuer Country than they ever were. And Iieland, for the first time since the union, is quiesceut and free from agrarian crime.

To have achieved such unprecedented success in the highest and most exacting human underiaking—tine art of govern- ment-—to have insured the greatest good forthe greatest number, to have maia- tained even the social balance, and, at the same time, to have brought up the general level of prosperity, to have subjugated to its rule hundreds of millions of conflicting races in various climes, aud to have won their respect as completely as their sub-

mission—to bave done aj! this and more, a nation must be endowed with resources of

etatesmanshin, of moral fi ree, of self. reliance, Of sober temper, and fortitude uch as have never before heen combined in One and ibe same race. The achieve-

ment 1@ 8O compl x and stupendous that

ove who looka up tot, in its towering magnificent and perspective, contem - pistes it with that admiration which is hle 1¢0 With & lalent sense of AWP, lest jis

very height and its delicate beauty ebould menace its stability or endanger its yer- manence,

But ecareful ecrating of the more stam-~ ina and intelectual forces of his remarkable people would, I think, show that eo far, there is disceraible noeftect of those agencies which,with world-wideempire and vast accumulation of wealth, bave always engendered a weakening of the graep of power, moral decadence and inteljectual de generacy. Yet there are certain forces and some special circumstances which lie b-- yond the controi even of the soberest and strong st nations, and such circumetasces shovid not be overlooked. In the first place, Mogland no longer holds that pre eminence aed almost exclusive position which sbe held asa colonial, maoufact ur~« ing and commercial country. Although her merchant nayy still exceed. by far thatof any other two or three countries taken together,and the bulk of her trade is enormous, Evgland is now herd preseed in the race for \aiustrial preminence ty Germany and the United 8 ates, while, io the far east, Japanese manufacturers areap propriating markets formerly her exclueive preserves. The contest may prove a long end stubborn one, but there can be no cgoubt as to the eventualloss of exclusive pre-eminence in that field.

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