The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-17 00:00:00

HBO° KESHUB WUNDER SEN ON
ENGLAND.

A farewell soir63 was piven on Monday night at the
Hanower•Equare ROOMP, London, to the Baboo Keshub
Chunder Sen. The large room was crowded. Mr. C.
Thomas, of Bristol, presidmt of the British st,d
Foreign Unitarian AssocialioP, presithd, and short
speeches were delivered by the Bet a. Profp.gr Plum.
tee, W. Brook, ju.l., W. Jerson, G. Murphy, and
llawsm Burns, n. Emily Faithful], aid the IL,]•.
Dr. Cappel, a German clergyman.
The Bahco afterwarOir addressed the meeting at
great lernith, and de] c:ibed the Impree3ions made upan
him by his visit to England—

Ile said that the first thing that struck him on 1119 torte tl
in London last, ape Mg was the splendour of the shops. and the
tasteful ntanuor in which the goods exhild'api were arranged.
The number of shops that met los eye on all sides was to
him perfectly bewildering, :aid lie mired himself Where all
seemed to In, sellers where could be the be yeti the neat
thing that attracted his attention was the art of pulling.
herover he went he seemed to be patens; through a forest
of advertisements. Then he was struck With the &ebony of
the people. John bull seemed to have no time for contem-
plation or thought ; he conid think of nothitig bat work—
eternal, everlatting work. Another thing which made a
great impreislon on him was EaglLth eatiog. Au English
dinner appeared to idol %sort of hunting party, and as con-
firming this view of tho csse he Matte s found the ladles
asking the protection of the gentlemen before entering the
dlolng.roont , and the g netts were always armed with knife
and fork and won. lie saw birds and beasts and little.
laid out on lathes, seemingly ready to start into existence
again, and a Inuit array if toiled furl routed. All this
struck him with amazement, anti his flesh crept on his bones
when hi saw the huge pieces of roast beef on the table.
The ladies' drosses also, the babe° saint, very much aston-
ished him. He was one of ihme who did not believe in man
or woman's int allibllity. he thought that both wet e trahlo,
to commit croon and fall MO mistakes. There was, for
instance, the girl of the period. Ito hoped that she
would never make her apnetrence in India. There were
two things he particularly objected to in the ladies'
dresses he ram in England—their heads anti their tail..
The women of England and of European countries generally
t0...1,w have at flesh sight much longer hai4.th.sa the
women of India. Why, then, the huge prolurberanCe at the
back of the hoot? Then, too, he thought women ought not
to occupy more ground lh.n,c ben, tort a refined West-end
lady occupied five times as touch space as a gentleman. The
fair sex ,eight to he fair. After studylog this country as
the country of shone and advertisements, he began to turn his
Attention to the deeper extra life of the people and he must
say lee footed molly things which greatly ditsm,seed
lie was earthed:o'ly struck with the vitt amount of distress
and paupoil•ne that prevailed by the side of so much riches,
and at the foorful amount of ittemperauce, and the evil cnt,
mires that resulted. lie was also surprised to lind ea-
thlt country an Institution which he thought wu

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cOnfined to Me own country—namely, the institution of caste.
Several other thing. had shocked him very much In Eng-
land, and among them were ths baby farming and
breach of promise cases which so frequently appeared
hi the papers. All these things were a feartal dirgrace
to any couc try. There were, however, many noble, charit-
able, and benevolent insfltntions to England to counteract
these evil influences, of which Englishmen might well be
prund. _wet there wse another Institution on which he had
always looked with delight, and that was the English home.
There cmllel be nothing on urth so sweet as a happy English
home. Another matter width Arnett him was the strength
of 'ruble opinienin England. The English people were to
be congratulated on thts great blessing lie hoped that they
would soon have it In India, for they daily felt the want of
it. Passing from the social to the religious life of Eogland,
he said that English—he might say Western—Christianity
was too sectarian for him—it was not large enough or broad
enough. The houses for the body were small, and he was
afraid their houses for the soul were smaller stilL English
Christianity was also too muscular and hard, and was more
znaterialleic than spiritualistic.
The Baboo thee proceeded to expound at some length las
own concoptiona of what Christianity ought to be, and con-
clu,ted by heartily thanking the English people for the man-
ner In which he had been received by them, from her Majesty
down to the pooreet classes of h, enbjecte. Ile had alive's,
lie sold, been s. loyal subject of the Queen, but since his in-
terview with her Majesty he had • higher opinion of her than
ever.