The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-06-22


cause OF the telegraph, Australia cal
be more easily reached from LondoI
today than Liverpool could be reacne,
in 1897
With the establishment of steam ans
electrical communication came the
rapid development of the manufactur-
ing and seaport towns, and of London
itself Birmingham and Liverpool and
other large towns, had widely divsrg-
ing interests They were all governed
by the same cumbersome municipal
system of control, and in this rense
their interests were common. The
greater part of their inhabitants were
subjected to some low-wage scheme.
with no voice in local government. and
in a second way their interests were
common. The same spirit Of progress
that forced local government for the
colonies upon Parliament characterized
the efforts for municipal reform
Within the last few years efforts have
been made in london itself to substi-
tute a system of central municipal
control and government for the varied
parish governing bodies whose terri
tory has been absorbed by the growth
Of the metropolis.
A distinctive feature Of the reign has
been progress. The way was paved for
IL by the necessity for changes in the
old systems. and to a certain degree by
the legislative acts previous to 1897
These enactments do not lessen the in
fiuence of the reign in any degree Six
ty years of devotion to principle 60
years of beneficence cannot be lived
by the head of a nation without an
influence upon every subject Exerted
by a woman, there was all the more
reason why the condition of every wo-
man should be advanced. From the
time when the Earl of Shaftesbury
pressed the claims of the cause which
he defended upon Parliament, to the |
time when, few months since, Lady !
Aberdeen was the principal orator at |
the commencement exercises of a |
great university, and made plea for |
the higher education Of women, there |
has been constant development of |
that higher education.
In 1887 the Indifferent attitude which |
was exhibited toward social conditions
was manifest in the religious world
as well, unless, as it was sometimes
the case, it was feared that some rad
ical change was threatened. Then the
extremists arose in defense OF their
principals. The announcement to Par
lament that the Queen was to marry
her cousin, Prince Albert, served as an
for violent dissensions. The
question was raised as to whether or
hot the Prince was a Protestant, and
England was stirred from one end to
he other. Although Prince Albert's
louse had always been a Protestant :
louse, the mere omission OF the an
Iouncement that he was a Protestant,
n the declaration TO Parliament, was
onsidered ominous to the Established
,hurch. Such a dissension would not
e possible today, probably.
One thing which served to arouse re-
gious interest and to induce renewed
srvor in the churches was the with
rawal of DR.. Newman from the Es-
ablished Church, and his going over
, the Church of Rome. At the same
me the functions of the Church were
cling attacked by the Reform party,
nd it's right to hold property ques-
oned. This easily brought out a
ovement to re-establish the old au-
Iority of the Church. The center of
lis religious thought was at Oxford.
similar process of thought and rea-
ming was going on within the Church
Scotland, and an effort was made to
parate Church and State. The seces-
On of DR.. Chalmers and several hun
ed ministers and the formation of the
zee Church was the result.
At all times during the reign there
Is been freedom of thought Along
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pansion of trade have come new
cas-
The same influences that defended
e Church in the time of Newman,
Tended it little more in 1880 when
e Established Church was invited in
the Church of Rome because of the
istaken assumption of the Vatican
at popular feeling in England was
rning toward the Church of Rome.
sligious liberty had been tolerated to -
degree. In the Charita-
2 Requests Act OF 1S45 Irish Catholic Il
elates were given rank Immediately
ter the prelates of the Established
lurch of the same degree. This, and
e secession of many noted members
the Established Church was taken
Rome to mean that the whole of 4
otestant England was preparing to
cede The Papal bill directed the Il
of a Hierarchy of bish- X
s, deriving their titles from their
n sees" The mistaken interpreta- Z
N of the Vatican of the lassitude of
English Church served to call out
the latent fealty to the Established
urch. 1t induced a revival of relig- u
IS fervor that has never since sub y
ed. Lord John Russell ably rose to ii
defense of the Church, and meet =
s were held all over England. The
,ject was even thrust upon Parlia- a
MT in the form OF bill to prevent W
Assumption by Roman Catholics III
titles taken from any territory with ~