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itself even in the ' Times.' In its columns Canada was for 

 a while sneered at and told that it was a useless burden, 

 that it was wanted no longer, and that the sooner it assumed 

 its independence the better England would be pleased. 

 These insulting taunts originated the annexation party 

 above referred to. But things are very different in 

 England now, and the leading men on both sides re- 

 pudiate the idea of casting off the colonies. 



If the world lasts long enough there is a glorious future 

 in store for Canada. The northern countries and the 

 hardy northern races possess an energy and a vitality 

 which in all times have enabled them, in the long run, to 

 win the race and go ahead of their Southern rivals ; but 

 any attempt to hurry on the manifest destiny of Canada 

 would invite disappointment and defeat. Its place for the 

 present, as the most important colony in the empire, is at 

 England's right hand. When manufactures die away in 

 England and spring up in Canada, when capital and 

 population by little and little leave the former country 

 for the latter, then it will be time enough for the son to 

 set up house for himself, and not only to support himself 

 and his family in independence, but if necessary to lend a 

 helping hand to his parent. 



The emigrant going to Canada from England will find 

 religious controversies and creeds much the same in the 

 new country as in the old, with one exception in favour 

 of the new country, that there is less acerbity between 

 Churchman and Dissenter. There is no State Church to 

 provoke envy and discontent. In the United States a 

 common expression among men is, "We leave religious 

 matters to the women and children." It would no doubt 



