Show BRITISH LION metaphors are a nice thing A preacher can add most efficiently to hi sanctimonious unction by throwing in now and then a flowery trope to relieve the dreary monotony hii discourse or a lawyer can draw a mile of froni the intelligent tell igent jury by ariae eminently far fetched parallel or allusion editors are mortal and of the arail tie of humanity even in this point benca they have long since in vent ed a little band vocabulary of their own containing appropriate epithets and adjective fir the different nations find other animated or victims ol 01 their fabas sometimes the allegorical term are felicitous gome limea they fall to the ground short of the aim again they may by indira tion invent term in one denae which after a while may bo cups sups planted by another to illustrate we will tako the lion whose roaring was o often intended to intimidate youthful america without any BUC seas however the comparion ol 01 he english people with the king of eats had mainly a eulogistic use it wai to emphasize the undaunted courage the generous magnanimity th superior power of the british nation unfortunately however these are not all the characteristics of the noble lion ho can be ferocious he may show cruelty he often skulks away aa a mean rapacity is insatiable his sanguinary fierce ness indomitable thia side of the question ia generally overlooked and only the nobility grandeur and lofti noM are lauded and applauded that the carnivorous character of thy metaphorical beast can at timea assert itself in too well known and wo have before this commented on the conduct of great britain the champion of christianity and the pioneer of civilization in afghanistan it is the atrocities of the army and civil administration in unfortunate asia which hare furnished a most effective weapon to the english opposition in arousing tho sentiments of the people if as our latest telegraphic reports justify us to believe the government of jaiya ba gone down before the tidal wave of public indig nation tho truculent policy of wars with half civilized nations and con quits over naked ravages ha loen a pretty strong hafl in lord braconi felds political coffin As the tory party is just nor on trial before the soverign ove ot the united kingdom it may not be amir to beer some of the evidence or the prosecution and we will call axe the bar sir barnet wolseley Wol sely commander of the bruise troops in Zu lulan j to return hoisie receive his laurels and be made quartermaster acner ono of hi last acts which serve lo 10 endear him to christian england is his award of a remunerative job to the biazis who in consideration of a handsome sum of british gold preformed a neat feat of missionary crork on Seco corni and his tribe which is thus coolly described by a of the london daily at one of the captured kraals the men wera all billed the women and children were thrown into n heap aad the butchery commenced livery one was to death with the maegan the smaller children being tossed about like balls whoever has read mills brit ish india or the story of the rebellion or knows the oft repeated tale of ireland will see how sir garnet has earned promotion in the eyes of his countrymen the macedone ans rewarded their chief butcheri but chera but they were required to prove that their own hand lad done the butch ry and then the honor of crowning themselves was extended to those I kinds sir garnet however is a gentleman butcher who keeps servants for all kinds of work lie gains caste by what in the darn ages would have been deemed cowardice sir garnet does not come homo like the old knight proudly exhibit ing his wounds as trophies he cornea home a gentleman in clean linen and fall of sweetness another proof of what british civilization has accomplished complis hed abia is strong testimony but no stronger than we have seen advanced docena of times in the leading magazines of england A government laden with such a curse of butchered savaged ought to go down not to tho quiet repose of oblivion but to the nation of posterity |