CONTENTS. XI 



America. Sugar culture in Louisiana. Slave labour in fac 

 tories. Effect of this on slavery and on the condition of free 

 operatives. Free-soil Germans in Western Virginia. Coast 

 survey. Smithsonian Institution. Reserves of land for 

 scientific purposes. Female freedom in Washington. Bales 

 of domestics. Making political capital out of trifles, . 351 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



NEW YORK AND BOSTON. 



New York. Its rapid growth. Interesting physiological problem. 

 Comparative growth of New York, Glasgow, and Birming 

 ham. Inferences. Modesty of the New York journalists. 

 Collins line. British workshops in American cities. 

 &quot; Bunkum &quot; of the Illustrated London Neivs. American 

 Institute. Exhibition of 1851. Schools and colleges in the 

 city. Universities and Board of Regents of the State of New 

 York. Staten Island, its soil and farmers. Sunday travel 

 ling in New England. Stoppage of trains. Boston. Lowell 

 Institute. Benefits of a rotation of office. Public hotels. 

 Prevalence of diseases of the digestive organs. Protestant 

 Episcopal churches. Changes in the English liturgy. Num- 

 bers of each religious denomination in the State and city. 

 Predominance of Congregationalists. Tendency to Unitariau- 

 ism. King s Chapel and its liturgy. Univcrsalism, its extent 

 and growth. Freedom of speech on religious subjects. Epis 

 copal Methodists, their strength. Roman Catholics, compara 

 tive numbers in Great Britain and the United States. Alleged 

 greater harmony of sects a consequence of civil and religious 

 equality, ....... 375 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



BOSTON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



Professions of members of Legislature. Majority law. Visit to 

 Lowell. Comparison of its manufactures with those of Glas 

 gow. Wages. Female labour. Opposition of employers and 

 employed. Manufacturing aristocracy, creed of. Buying good 

 behaviour in servants. Effects of the removal of protection 

 on the economy of manufactures. Free Trade consistent with 

 natural laws England and her colonies a self-sufficing 

 world. American tariff. Poor soils of Massachusetts. Ten 

 dency of the people to commerce. Society for the promotion 

 of agriculture. Eaiiy use of nitrates in fertilising the soil. 

 Importation of wheat necessary in this State. Influence of 



