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