The news of the cancellation of the sale of the str. Brussels, which was commanded by the heroic Capt. Fryatt, will be read with pleasure by Britons in all parts of the world. That such a ship and such vessels as the Broke and Botha should be preserved to the Empire is a proposition with which everyone, who admires their traditional" performances, will agree. The regret is that the Broke and Botha go to Chili under a pre-war contract, but, surely, arrangements could be made whereby two other vessels equally as good could be substitute ed, and the original vessels retained and manned by men of the service who so ably used them against the enemy. With regard to the Brussels, no one would want to see her laid aside for many years to. come. Rather should she be put back on her old run, travelling the sea over which Capt. Fryatt had so often steered her, and doing what is the duty of every Briton in peace as in war—carrying on, Could her intrepid master voice his opinion it is almost certain he would prefer the ship to be doing her former work until, in the course of time, she meets her fate at the hands of the breakers,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.