The times., 1898-12-04

of the great Mohammedan university.
which one day may have its seat in Cairo
or India.
With this latest Kitchener project in
mind. It is natural that Englishmen
should ask themselves, with just tinge,
perhaps, of cousinly anxiety, Is Amer C IS
new empire to be built as is Englard's.
is the world about To witness the fl st
grand failure of the Anglo-Saxon race
IN the government OF inferior races2
The Alger Report.
Secretary Ayers report, pub ished here
today, is taken to show that American
statesmen realize the gravity of the task
upon which they are entering. He calls
FOR an American army of 100000. Elimi-
mating the Indian army, which sta .ds
apart, the regular force upon which tie
whole British empire depends for the m J.
itary defence of its wide-scattered pos
sessions and innumerab.e little wars, s
only co,000 more, and expert English
opinion realizes that the increase of the
naval power of America must be propor-
tionately large. There is, besides. the
problem of using native soldery in sucl
dependencies as the Antilles and the Pill
ippines. The Times reminds Americans
of the toll and risk which the men who
laid the Indian empire had to face before
they thought they had learned this diff
cult art, and how long after the problem
seemingly had been solved came the In
dian mutiny of 1851.
The Spectator also has its lecture for
Americans To-Day. America, 1t urges.
must fail IL she makes the Philippines
close preserve for the American manu-
facturer. Spain governed her colonies on
that principle. and look at the result II
America seeks to make her new empire
her tied customer, she will infaliibiy
ruin her tropical possessions. We say
this not because we want an open mar
ket in the Philippines America need not,
ought not. to think for moment ab5ut
our susceptibilities. We shall do vecy
well whatever policy she adopts. What
America must think of alone is the in
terest of the governed, not of any desire
to benefit her own merchants, or, again,
to do this country a good turn.
The English Socialists are finding the
policy of the irreconcilables rather un-
profitable, and are celebrating new pol
icy of practical politics. a plebescite has
been taken among the Eng ish Soc alists,
and a noteworthy fact is that the total
vote was only S,SS5, suggesting that the
Socialist vote has become a neglis BILE
quantity in English political life
The poll on the questions upon which
legislation Is desired in order of urgency
shows that the referendum heads the
list, followed by old-age pensions in the
second place. The old social-democratic
federation proposal of free bread for all
applicants CONES last On the hist.
The Deep-sea Expedition.
George Murrays deep-sea expedition.
which has completed its work in the
North Atlantic. under the direction OF the
Royal Geographical Society. excites much
interest Its main object was to obtain
further information regarding the verti-
cal range of life in the sea. especially 10
test Prof Agassiz's theory that the inter
mediate depths of ocean are uninhabited,
life being confined to the uppermost 500
fathoms and the lowest l00 fathoms.
Depths of 1,37O and 1855 fathoms were
reached, samples of typical globSerina
ooze being brought up from the latter.
The full bearing of the results of the ex-
pedition must await many months OF sort
ing and cataloguing of collections. but
the general impression Of the members
of the expedition is that the Agassiz the
ory will not be maintained
The collections have special interest as
representing Winter fauna. All previous
deep-sea work off the British isles has
been done in Summer.