40 RIGHT REV. BISHOP E. GRAHAM INGHAM, D.D., OX 



African in British Dominions (witli liberal compensation), which 

 came about as a necessary sequel to " abolition " through Fowell 

 Buxton, in the teeth of mighty vested interests, was perhaps the 

 finest bit of history we have ever made. It purged our good 

 name. It righted a great wrong. And probably it had much 

 more to do with the expansion of the Victorian Era than has 

 been usually thought. 



There are other and most interesting stories about the spread 

 of our race in AustraHa, Xew Zealand and elsewhere. But I will 

 only name here one further bit of expansion which came in the 

 early years of Queen Victoria's reign. It was in 1842 that 

 China, ha\ing ceded to us an island off its coast by the Treaty 

 of Nanking, exchanged it and gave us Hong Kong instead. I 

 gathered the following facts on my visit to this now flourishing 

 colony in 1909. The earhest traders on the spot were Scotch 

 people (you wiU not be surprised to hear that). For two decades 

 it was a most hopeless possession. The harbour was infested by 

 pirates. Signal Hill on the Peak was the spot whence the 

 pirates signalled the unhappy ships that were doomed to faU 

 into their hands. At the best Hong Kong was for long years 

 a cave of Adullam for those who had made the mainland too hot 

 for them. The foreshore, now so impressive, was a tow-path. 

 The Chinese Government, with that remarkable acuteness that 

 characterizes them in some ways, made the cession of Hong Kong 

 a dead letter by putting forth a Proclamation forbidding any 

 Chinese to go and live there. It was the Tai-Ping Rebellion 

 that made Hong Kong. Cantonese merchants discovered the 

 fairness, justice and freedom of the British Raj, and they flocked 

 into Hong Kong for safety. They soon made Hong Kong and 

 Hong Kong made them. This was about 1861. It has only 

 been during the last few years that Hong Kong has assumed 

 its present striking appearance. Its harbour registers the 

 biggest tonnage of any city in the world. It is the gateway to 

 the Far East, and from thence it is the doorway to the 

 West. 



It was very interesting to be there at that moment. Chinese 

 merchants had been obsening the beneficent influence on their 

 sons of our C.M.S. St. Stephen's College. Archdeacon Barnett was 

 turning out some excellent results. And these Chinese mer- 

 chants (their fathers) went to the Governor (Sir Frederick Lugard 

 of African fame) and said : ^^^ly should we have to send our 

 sons to Western Universities at tremendous risks in many 



