We cannot preface " description of the opening of the new Shanghai Club, belter than by reproducing from our own columns of December 31, 1864 the following brief sllusion to the opening of the old Clab "The opening of the Shanghai Clab, although an event in the strictest sense' of the term, and therefore deserving of special notice, belongs more properly to some previous year in which the idea of establishing a clab first entered into the fertile brains of some few men sxious to make Shanghai resemble segment cat from the home circle. To stractare which takes ap 20 those men we now owe the stately
much room pon the Bund—to them wwe owe the cool reading room, the deep, comfortably-cushioned chairs where periodical can be enjoyed in combination; the pleasant Tule Bachelor dione gainst which the married rail, but which they nevertheless enjoy; the well-lighted billiard rooma and the other accessories of the modern clab. In this settlement where there are ea many dabable" men, such sri institution must necessarily id of the old building applies with even greater force to the new, which has taken its place in the nataral course of evolution; bat the writer who wont into sach raptores over the old Clab house would have been hard put to it to find words adequately to express his admiration of the new edifice opened by Sir Pelham Warren yesterday. The old Clab answered parpose well, bat for several y before its demolition there were many who realized that it bad servi ith the constantly inet membership, and the growing importance of the Settlement the building had become inadequate for the purposes for which it wax designed. We can sympathize with those of the senior members to whom the old Club was endeared by pleasant memories and associations, who viewed with sometbiog skin to dismay the pro-pet of removal to temporary and less premises while the Cluly was being rebuilt. Even they, and thoes of the younger members whose conserrajects led them to oppose the mast have realized by this time xy of the argoment that it was unnecessary to do anything for posterity as posterity had done nothing for And if we interpret aright feelings of there who attended the opening ceremony yesterday, they can best be expressed in Rnskia's aphorism:
The idea of self-denial for the sake of H. M. posterity, of practising present economy for the sake of debtors yet unborn, of plating forests that oar descendants og cities for fatare nations to in-re under their shade, or of
habit, never, I suppose, efficiently takes: place among publicly recognized motives ofexertion. Yet these are not the less our duties; nor is our part fitly sue-tained open the earth, unless the range'
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