To the Editor of the "Nonra-Ouxa Dany News."
Smy—I_ would ask the indulgence of your readers for again bringing before their notice' the projected International Chess Club of Shanghai.
The support that this proposal has received is now sufficient, I think, to ensure the suc ce the permanent suiccess—of a Chess Club in these Settlements, Thave to announce that a public meeting will he held on Thursday next, 19th October, at 5.30 p.m. in the drawing room of the Hotel des Colonies, (through the courtesy of Mons. J. M. Tavares), over which H. W. de Sausmarez Esq.,~ Judge of the British prome Court, has kindly consented to preside, and' he will be supported by several official representatives of the nationalities here whose active interest and ce-operation must be obtained to ensure the lasting success of a movement of this description. I am well aware, Mr. Editor, that in a cosmopolitan and democratic community such as the ole we live in there must of necessity be y-cliques and sots, both national, social, and personal.
The discrimination of inclination is the privilege of everyone, and all peoples, all classes avail themselves of it in a greater or, lesser degree, but the game Chess knows no such distinctions, and is the pastime handed down to us through the ages by the monarchs and subjects of antiquity, the equal heritage of, all nations.
To endeavour therefore to confine such club as this to any particular group of foreigners, any particular set of men,, would be unworthy of the great game whose interests we wish to advance, and would assuredly be fatal to the enjoyment of its study.
The Chess Clubs of the Old and New Worlds are surely the most Republican of institutions. They rely upon all kinds and. conditions of men for their support, and
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