| I.
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| Robert Lowe in Sydney, |
p. 1-29
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| | Arrival in Sydney, 1842, |
3
| | Representative principle introduced in Sydney Council, 1842, |
3
| | Sir George Gipps' new Council, |
3
| | Dr. Lang on the first Australian Parliament, |
4
| | Robert Lowe nominated M.L.C. by the Governor, |
5
| | Wentworth and Lang, |
5
| | Motion for separating Port Phillip from New South Wales, |
5
| | Lowe's speech in favour of the motion, |
8
| | Resignation, |
8
| | The Atlas: a weekly Journal, 1843-45, |
9
| | Its Contributors, |
9
| | Opposition to the Governor and "Downing Street," |
9-13
| | Lord Sherbrooke's retrospect, |
10
| | Softened feelings towards Sir Geo. Gipps, |
10
| | Lowe's "rounded creed," |
11
| | Poems of a Life, |
11
| | Lowe on the relations of Britain and her Colonies, |
13, 14
| | The utterly unknown and doubly irresponsible Clerk, |
13
| | Lowe's Remedies—Local Self-Government and Representation in the British Parliament, |
13
| | Unwieldiness of a Common Parliament at Westminster, |
14
| | "Council of the Empire," |
15
| | Bismarck on the Council of the Confederation of the German States, |
15, 16
| | Colonial orators and Imperial councils, |
16, 17
| | Robert Lowe on the Tractarian movement, Newman, Pusey, and Keble, |
17, 18
| | The dominant Australasian Bishops, |
18
| | Lowe's admiration of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, |
17, 18
| | Sir James Martin's Creed, |
18, 19
| | Lowe's theology and the Sydney Morning Herald, |
20-23
| | Lowe on National Unsectarian Education, |
23-26
| | Sir Richard Bourke—a retrospect—ablest of Australian Governors, |
24, 25
| | Sir Richard as a Re-former, |
24
| | Dr. Ullathorne supports Sir Richard Bourke's Education Scheme, |
24, 25
| | Arouses Dr. Lang's bigotry, |
25
| | Lang wrecks Sir Richard's measure, |
25
| | Lowe converts Dr. Lang, |
25
| | Lang's repentance—estimate of him as a public man, |
26
| | Lowe's Colonial patriotism—a foremost Australian leader, |
28
| | Elected member for Sydney in the Legislative Council, 1850, |
28
| | Eight well-spent years under the "Southern Cross," |
28
| | Returns to England in 1851, |
29
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II.
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| Sir Henry Parkes in England, |
31-62
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| | London Flesh Australian Grass, |
31
| | A different type of Colonists now come "Home," |
32
| | The Colonial Exhibition and Conference, 1887, |
32
| | Two Emigration Commissioners, 1860-61, |
32, 33
| | Sir Henry Parkes and the Right Hon. W. B. Dalley, |
33
| | Mr. Fronde's Oceana, |
34
| | His estimate of Australian public men, |
34, 35
| | Description of Sir Henry Parkes, |
35
| | Parkes Letters to Sydney Morning Herald in 1861, |
33
| | Palmerston, |
37
| | Disraeli, Brougham, |
37
| | The American Civil War, |
38-49
| | Apathy of the Birmingham audience towards manhood suffrage and ballot, |
39
| | "Conservative reaction," |
39
| | Causes of the failure of Messrs. Parkes' and Dalley's emigration mission, |
39-41
| | "Perhaps we could spare old Briggs," |
42
| | Parkes' sympathy with the North |
43
| | John Bright the true representative of the English Democracy—on America and on Ireland, |
43
| | Beresford Hope and Tennyson both against the North, |
43
| | Carlyle and Gladstone in favour of the South, |
43
| | Personal influence of the Queen, |
45
| | Death of the Prince Consort, |
46
| | The Trent incident, |
46-48
| | Christmas Eve, 1861, |
46-49
| | Defenceless state of Australian colonies at that date, |
49
| | A timely warning, |
49
| | Disraeli on Prince Albert, |
50
| | Palmerston and "your Mr. Cowper," |
51
| | Colonial Defences Debate—Mr. Arthur Mills and "Sam Slick," |
51
| | "Including Mr. Childers." Twenty-seven members present, |
52
| | Social condition of England in 1862, |
53
| | Panegyric on Cobden, |
53
| | Odd speculations as to the future Statesmen, |
54
| | A government consisting of "Cobden, Gladstone, and Stanley," |
54
| | Brougham's Adress at the Social Science Congress, |
54-56
| | Brougham at the International Law Section with Travers Twiss and M. Gamier Pages, |
56
| | At the Social Science Soiree with Lord Shaftesbury, |
56
| | "The aged poet Dean Milman," |
57
| | Palmerston a D.C.L., Oxford, |
57
| | Sir Henry Taylor, |
57-59
| | Wheatstone and Palmerston, |
57-59
| | "A boy of fourscore," |
59
| | Rural Sights and Sounds, |
59, 60
| | Value of a Colonial Observer, |
61
| | Britain, America, and Australia, |
61, 62
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III.
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| Lord Beaconsfield and Young Australia, |
63-75
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| | Effect of the cable, |
63
| | Victorian Government and the broken cable, |
64
| | News only received monthly (until Aug. 22, 1872) during the Franco-German War, 1870—contrasted with the daily intelligence of the progress of the Russo-Turkish Campaign, 1877-78, |
64, 65
| | Russia and Australia, |
65
| | Beaconsfield's Imperialism, |
66
| | "Patriotic Sonneteering," |
66-68
| | Beaconsfield Demonstration in Melbourne, |
68-71
| | Speech by Mr. Service, |
69, 70
| | Mr. David Gaunson, |
70
| | Comments of Melbourne Argus, |
71-73
| | Meeting at Sydney, |
71
| | Congratulations from Ballarat, Adelaide, and Newcastle, |
71
| | Causes of Disraeli's popularity, |
74
| | and Mr. Gladstone's unpopularity in Australia, |
75
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IV.
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| Australian Democracy, |
77-114
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| | Australasia, seven self-governing democratic states claiming to be members of the Empire, |
77
| | Qualifications necessary in a historian, |
78
| | Causes of the failure of more than one Colonial Historian, |
77, 78
| | The anti-democratic bias, |
79
| | Wentworth's failure to create Colonial aristocracy, |
79
| | His love of Australia and his imperial instincts, |
79
| | Colonial autonomy and Colonial aristocracy, |
80
| | Wentworth's proposed Australian House of Lords, |
80
| | Opposed by Robert Lowe in the British House of Commons, |
80
| | and by Henry Parkes in Sydney, |
80
| | If it failed in New South Wales what chance had it in Victoria? |
81
| | Responsible Government in Victoria |
81
| | William Nicholson, |
81
| | Vote by ballot, |
82
| | Democratisation of the constitution, |
82
| | Mr. Rusden's History of Australia, |
82
| | Secret of the rapid triumph of democratic principles, |
84
| | The anti-colonial party, |
83
| | Wentworth and Stawell exceptional, |
84
| | Pessimism of the "upper-class" party, |
85
| | Optimism of the democratic leaders, |
85
| | An appeal to the Privy Council in 1869, |
86
| | Bribers and bribed, |
86
| | Hon. George Higinbotham's reply, |
86, 87
| | His faith in the body politic, |
87
| | Hostility of the English press, |
88
| | Mr. Finch-Hatton's Advance Australia, |
88
| | His estimate of Australian public men, |
89
| | "The wealthy lower orders," |
90
| | Mr. C. H. Pearson, Minister of Education, |
91
| | Sir Charles Dilke's Greater Britain, |
91, 92
| | his chapters on Democracy and Protection, |
91
| | his estimate of Australian public men, |
92
| | Aim of the democratic party, |
93
| | The Crown lauds and squatters, |
93
| | National education, |
94
| | The Rev. J. Dalton on the Educational expenditure in Great Britain and the Colonies, |
94
| | "Quill-driving" versus a handicraft, |
95
| | General Gordon's wise forecast, |
95
| | "Protection" in Victoria, Mr. Richard Heales and Sir Graham Berry, |
96
| | "The logic of events," |
96
| | Effect of "free soup-kitchen," in Collingwood, |
96
| | "What shall we do with our toys? " |
97
| | Change in the Fiscal Policy of Victoria, |
98
| | A Free-trade Cabinet introduces Protectionist tariff, |
98
| | Inter-Colonial restrictive duties, |
98
| | Can we have Imperial Free Trade with Protection against the world? |
100
| | A British Zollverein, |
100
| | Conversation between an Australian Protectionist and a great English Free-Trader, |
100
| | "Titles for Colonists," |
101
| | Mr. Higinbotham's view, |
102
| | "Impossible to discriminate their relative baseness," |
102
| | Messrs. Higinbotham and Francis decline a title, |
102
| | The rest have accepted K.C.M.G. when offered, |
102
| | Sir Robert Stout's remarkable Article, |
103
| | Sir George Grey's views, |
104
| | Opposed to Lord Carnarvon and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, |
105, 106
| | A merely "local" title illegal, |
105
| | Should the Colonial or British Cabinet "advise" the Queen as to the distribution of honours in a self-governing Colony? |
105
| | Sir R. Stout sums up controversy, |
106
| | Obstruction in Colonial Parliaments, |
108
| | Mr. Alfred Deakin's proposed remedy, |
108
| | Mr. Service's opinion of Sir Chas. Warren and the Police in Tralfalgar Square Riots, and murder of Sergeant Brett, |
109
| | Why Colonial public-men can be outspoken, |
110
| | Mr. Service on Armaments, |
110
| | On the Conscription, |
111
| | Australian Democratic Press, Age and Leader, |
112
| | Australia and America, |
112
| | Australian democracy must be met as a fact, |
114
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V.
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| Australia and Irish Home Rule, |
115-134
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| | A "solid" Australia, |
115
| | Mr. Parnell and Mr. Rhodes, |
115, 116
| | Mr. Parnell an "Imperial Federationist," |
116-119
| | Australian Irishmen may be Home-rulers, |
119
| | No section analogous to the Irish American Dynamite Party, |
119
| | Sir John O'Shanassy on the brothers Redmond, |
119, 12
| | Effect of Mr. Gladstone's "conversion" on the Australian public mind, |
120
| | Mr. Topp's Essay on English Institutions and the Irish Race, |
121
| | English Roman Catholics, |
123
| | Cardinal Manning, |
123
| | Celt and Teuton, |
124
| | Mr. Davitt on race, |
124
| | His "Mission of the Celts," |
125
| | Bismarck on race, |
126
| | Melbourne Review, |
126
| | The Highlander and Lowlander in Scotland, |
129
| | Bismarck on the German and French character; the former applicable to the English and Lowland Scotch, |
120
| | The relations of England and Ireland in a sentence, |
131
| | What is the Irish Problem? |
132
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VI.
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| The Irish in Australia, |
135-156
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| | Irish population in Australia, |
135
| | "An Australian Example," |
135
| | "The Irish in Australia," |
136
| | Contrasted with "Victorian Year-Book," |
136
| | Has the British majority played a minor rôle? |
136
| | Victorian autonomy and Mr. Balfour, |
137
| | Political capacity of the Irish in Australia, |
138
| | The Anglo-Irish and the Irish Celts, |
138
| | Marcus Clarke's nationality, |
139
| | Wentworth, "the Australian Patriot," |
140, 141
| | Sir Wm. Foster Stawell, |
141
| | Judge Molesworth, |
142
| | Wm. Edward Hearn. |
142
| | George Higinbotham, |
142
| | Their share in building up Victoria, |
143
| | Early English Emigrants, |
144
| | Sir C. Gavan Duffy on the two Irish Sections, |
145
| | The purely Celtic Claims, |
145, 146
| | "Why don't you stand ?" |
146
| | I am an Englishman! |
146
| | Disadvantages of belonging to the "Imperial and consolidating race," |
146
| | The Celt a powerful factor in colonial affairs, |
147
| | "The Roman Catholic vote," |
147
| | The English clergyman as a "wire-puller," |
148
| | "A political pessimist," |
149
| | "Poll early, and Poll often," |
149
| | Acts of filial piety, |
150
| | Irish domestic servants, |
150
| | An Englishman's anti-patriotic bias, |
150
| | What do the Irish contribute to Australian or Imperial objects? |
151
| | Australia's contribution to Irish famine fund, |
151
| | Criminal Statistics, |
152
| | Autonomy of Victoria not applicable to Ireland, |
152
| | Major-General Sir Andrew Clarke, |
152
| | Letter to John Bright, |
154
| | Toleration the mark of the Victorian Era, |
155
| | "The Weary Titan," |
156
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VII.
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| The State Schoolmaster, |
157-187
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| | Education in the colonies, |
157
| | "Free, secular, and compulsory," |
157
| | Not necessarily purely secular, |
157
| | Why was religion banished from Victorian schools? |
158
| | Voluntary and Board schools in England, |
159
| | Dr. Rigg and the "voluntary" Church of England schools, |
159
| | Australian difficulties and sociological differences, |
160
| | Wilberforce Stephen's Education Act, and before, |
160
| | Roman Catholic "Denominational" schools, |
160
| | The Policy of Bishop Perry and Bishop Moorhouse, |
161
| | What is to be done with an alien race? |
161
| | Assimilation by a "Common" Education, |
161
| | Mr. Topp's views, |
161
| | The Roman Catholic clergy much more hostile than the laity, |
163
| | Mr. Charles Fairfield's arguments, |
163-166
| | Working of the Roman Catholic system in Spain and England, |
164, 165
| | Criminal statistics, and the national and religious divisions of the people, |
165-167
| | Sir Robert Stout's views, |
166-168
| | "Waifs and Strays," |
166
| | Crimes prevail not because of, but in spite of, religious belief, |
168
| | Why religions not taught in State schools, |
168-170
| | Anglican laity despite their bishops have built up the Australian National system, |
169
| | "Common" schools, |
169, 170
| | Policy of the Roman Catholic Church in denouncing "mixed marriages," |
170
| | Real cause of the necessity for a "Common" system of State Education, |
171
| | Otherwise two permanently hostile races, |
171
| | Australia,—comparison with Scotland, |
171
| | An "up-country" State schoolmaster |
172-177
| | Charles Wesley Caddy the bush philosopher, |
172-177
| | The late Mr. Geddie Pearse, "A Roger-Ascham of the Bush." His system of moral discipline, |
176
| | Does the system justify the cost? |
178, 179
| | Mr Alex. Sutherland on the "Royal Readers," |
179
| | Opinion of the working-class electors, and of many of the Protestant clergy, |
180
| | Attitude of the Church of England, |
180, 181
| | A hope that the policy of Bishops Broughton and Moorhouse may be reversed, |
181, 182
| | What has the Church gained?—only run the risk of "dis-Australianising" herself, |
182
| | Result if she would assist in the work of the "common"; education of people, |
183
| | She might restore some measure of religious instruction, and make herself the Church of Australia, |
183
| | Are the State schools to be uprooted?—Opinion of an experienced Parliamentarian, |
184
| | The University Professor, |
185
| | Melbourne University, |
186
| | Melbourne and Sydney not truly "so democratic as Oxford and Cambridge," |
187
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VIII.
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| Native Australians and Imperial Federation, |
189-231
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| | Lord Carnarvon on Australian development, |
189
| | "Australia for the Australians," |
189
| | Census Returns—Three out of every five persons in Victoria natives, |
190
| | "Natives Association," |
190
| | Racial and national speculations, |
191
| | Anew "Utopia," |
191-194
| | Comments by an old Pioneer, |
195-198
| | Dr. Hearn's "Aryan Household," |
195, 196
| | Are the opinions of Young Australia day-dreams? |
199, 200
| | Echoes of the outworn traditions of Downing Street, |
201, 202
| | Sir Henry Taylor's minute to Lord Carlingford, 1865, |
202, 203
| | Sir Henry's comments thereon, 1885, |
204
| | Policy of Colonial independence originated with Sir James Stephen, but never countenanced in Australia, |
204, 205
| | Dr. Lang's "Coming Event," |
204, 205
| | The typical colonist apathetic about Imperial Federation, |
206
| | Lord Salisbury's opening speech at Colonial Conference, |
207-210
| | "A matter purely of self-interest," |
210
| | Are the colonies safer in the Empire? |
210
| | America after the Declaration of Independence, |
210
| | Colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries, |
212
| | Effects of steam and telegraph, |
212
| | Bars to legislative union, |
214
| | What is meant by Imperial Federation? |
214
| | Sir Henry Parkes' scheme of local federation, |
214, 217
| | Queensland and Western Australia omitted, |
216-218
| | Mr. James Service's successful efforts to initiate a "bund" between Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, and West Australia, |
217
| | "Foreign Pressure," |
218
| | New South Wales, South Australia and New-Zealand stood out |
218
| | "The Phantom at Hobart," |
218
| | Imperial Federation a misnomer without Imperial Free-trade, |
219
| | Victorian customs duties, |
219
| | Must we drift? |
220
| | The change of sentiment now shaping new Nationalities and combinations of peoples, |
220
| | George Borrow and the Spanish Alcalde, |
221
| | "The Grand Baintham," |
221
| | South American Republics, |
221, 222
| | Effect of the American Civil War, |
222
| | The Republic of George Washington and that of M. Grevy, |
223
| | The crux of the problem, |
223
| | Can the colonies be received on equal terms into an Imperial alliance? |
223
| | The question of Colonial Governorships—The Queen to appoint direct on advice from the Self-governing Colonies, instead of the Governor being a Downing Street nominee, |
224-231
| | Over-centralisation, |
230
| | Itinerant Councils, and peripatetic Secretaries-of-State, |
231
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IX.
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| The Moral of Queensland Imbroglio, |
233-252
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| | The Queensland Governorship, |
233
| | Sir Henry Blake, |
233
| | Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith, |
234
| | Poaches on Sir Samuel Griffith's "Radical preserves," |
234
| | Dispute with Sir Anthony Musgrave and with Lord Knutsford, |
235
| | Utility of "scientific imagination," |
235
| | Early and present-day politicians contrasted, |
236-239
| | "Plato and the preaching friars," |
237
| | "Colonial Jealousies and the Government" |
239
| | Loyalists and Disloyalists, |
240, 241
| | The Celtic element in Colonial Cabinets, |
241, 242
| | Mrs. Campbell Praed's Policy and Passion, |
247
| | "Thomas Longleat," Premier of "Leichardt's-Land," |
247
| | Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith's "Opportunism," |
245
| | Mr. Gladstone's "Idolatry of the Immediate," |
246
| | Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith and Sir William Harcourt, |
245, 246
| | Programme of the National Party in Queensland, |
248, 249
| | Mr. Gowen Evans on the Irish Home-Rule Party in the colonies, |
249-250
| | The "little finger," |
250
| | The Victorian vote on Colonial Governorships—Moral, |
251
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APPENDICES.
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| A. Robert Lowe on the Disabilities OF Colonists, |
253
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| B. Sir C. Gavan Duffy's "Royal Commission," |
258
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| C. The Colonial Office and the "Foreign Noblemen," |
263
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| D. Religion and Irish Home Rule, |
267
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| E. Education in Australia, |
271
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| F. "A Typical Australian Statesman," |
276
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| G. The Late W. E. Hearn, |
280
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| H. The late William Bede Dalley |
283
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