He concluded by saking what was the part that was capable of being played by our own country in the fatare evolution of the great drama to which he bad called attention. Idess of territorial expansion in the East ocoupied no place in any Englishman's mind. We were concerned to hold what we hed gee sot total It was that our protectorate might be extended over tracts or territories con-terminoos with our owo boundaries, agreement with other Powers, though even that limited extension of responsibility seemed to him improbable. Oar energies were mach more likely to be concentrated upon the preservation of
the object of ever-increasing competi-vigorously assailed, and certain commercial stcndancy,. already
tion, and upon the adjustment of oar Tndian position from time to time, and the requirements of the day. Above all, we could not be disloyal to that civilisation of which we bad always beld the torch, Some of those whom he bad the honour of addressing mi upon to 'a part in the fatare rotation wes fret drama which be had endeavoured to describe. If 80, he would ask them to bear in mind three thinge—never to look down upon the East or the Eastern; to remember that the progressive elevation of the Esst was still the noblest work with which the Weet was charged; and to that each individual European in was not merely a soldier, but s standard-bearer of his race. (Loud applause.)
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