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mighty State, with fifty millions of English-speaking people, 

 and a territory extending from Atlantic to Pacific. 



Our penal settlement in Botany Bay has developed into an 

 Australian Dominion, which, in company with New Zealand, 

 will be the future home of millions of our working-classes. 

 We are just now appreciating the wealth of the great North- 

 west of Canada, and it will be our people that assuredly will 

 reap the rich wheat-fields of Manitoba. Our position in South 

 and Central Africa has not been fully realised by placid stay- 

 at-homes, but unless I am very much mistaken, there is a 

 tendency northward from the Cape of Good Hope ; and unless 

 we become emasculated, I suppose that tendency will develop 

 and increase in its intensity. 



These outlets are mainly for what are called the working- 

 classes, and in the countries I have named there is room for 

 all and to spare. There is no fear for the future of our surplus 

 farmers and labourers, if they will but seek the soil waiting 

 for their advent. 



Coral Lands require a different class of colonists. The rich 

 archipelagoes of the Southern Sea demand for their advance- 

 ment, not only adequate capital, but intelligence of no mean 

 order. What I have said about the men that are wanted in 

 Fiji applies to the whole Pacific ; but I am of decided opinion 

 that in the present state of the outlying islands a hearty co- 

 operation of brains and money on a large scale would be not 

 only the best means of securing a just reward for judicious 

 enterprise, a future for educated men willing to work, and a 

 new field for our manufacturers, but would be the means of 

 preserving and civilising peoples worthy of our care, and of 

 ultimately building up a Polynesian Dominion under the 

 British Crown, of which even the race which colonised America 

 and governs India might be reasonably proud. 



