Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . it dealt was the deeperfrom the fact that Mr Barnetts own secondcousin, Baron Bloch, was the author of thearticle, which appeared above his pseudonymof Sympathicus, It was good to hear theoutburst of indignation with which this pro-posal was met in England. We were savedby the rally of our own blood to our side. Thearticle Git, which appeared in the principalAmerican newspaper in London, was undoubt-edly the turning point, after which the Cityand
Emmanuel Burden, merchant, of Thames St., in the city of London, exporter of hardware : a record of his lineage, speculations, last days and death . it dealt was the deeperfrom the fact that Mr Barnetts own secondcousin, Baron Bloch, was the author of thearticle, which appeared above his pseudonymof Sympathicus, It was good to hear theoutburst of indignation with which this pro-posal was met in England. We were savedby the rally of our own blood to our side. Thearticle Git, which appeared in the principalAmerican newspaper in London, was undoubt-edly the turning point, after which the Cityand the banking interest determined to supportwhat was feared at the time to be the vacillat-ing policy of the Government. Owing to the persistence of a very wealthyprivate member, whom no arguments couldmollify, unexpected difficulties arose in thetransference of the Delta from the Foreign tothe Colonial Office, a trifling but necessaryformality which could not be accomplished tillmuch later, in August, when the close seasonfor grouse was at an end. The correspondent of The Times at Kurij, ina long course of articles, which did more than ^^^^^_. BARON KLIJCH (FKOM A PHOTOGHM-H BY M. M. BALLARU ET CIE /,,> KUE ST. LOU,.. ,.KS CMCHES SONT ..A .KorKiETE EXCLUMVE DE LA .MAISOX) MR BURDEN 189 anything else to teach the monied classes whatthe MKorio might mean, never once men-tioned the company nor any of its supporters—and there are conditions under which suchneutrality is dangerous. Against all this Mr Barnett bore up with anheroic tenacity. There was but one feature in all the fieldbefore him which gave him any serious anxiety,and this was that unhappy vacillation which Ihave already so often shown Mr Burden tohave displayed, from the moment that heplunged into efforts ill-suited to his trainingand experience. It was necessary, upon the face of it, thatMr Abbott should be invited to join the originalpromoters, to chip in, as Mr Barnett put itin somewhat excessive joviality o
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