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She shuts the Mediterranean by Gibraltar, the Red Sea by 

 Aden, the Persian Gulf by Bushure and Karak. She needs only 

 the Dardanelles, the Sound, the Isthmus of Suez, and Panama, to 

 open and shut at her pleasure every sea and every maritime route. 



She has in contemplation a Railway across her Canadian prov- 

 inces to the Pacific Ocean, as a new and better channel for the 

 transaction of her Chinese and India commerce. Her aspirations 

 are to universal domination over the trade of the world. She is 

 wise in her foreign policy ; but while she is augmenting immense 

 wealth, she has no wisdom in its distribution. If the Government 

 of Great Britain is overthrown, it will be in consequence of the 

 centrahzation of wealth ; it will be because of the absorption of 

 the landed property of the country, — for in 1786, the soil of Eng- 

 land was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors ; in 

 1822, by 32,000 proprietors. The Duke of Devonshire owns 

 96,000 acres in the county of Derby ; the Duke of Richmond has 

 40,000 at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle. 



Let America learn a lesson from the example of the parent 

 country. 



In the year 1851, under the auspices of some of the most emi- 

 nent men in Great Britain, there was inaugurated a magnificent 

 exhibition of the industry of all the civilized nations of the earth. 



Then, for the first time in the history of mankind, was that 

 great Parliament of Nations convened in the city of London, on 

 terms of mutual amity and friendship. There, for the first time, 

 the products of every climate, the works of every art, the fruits 

 of every sky, were brought to that greater than regal palace, and 

 hung up amid national ensigns and radiant banners, the richest 

 trophies, borne from the peaceful contests of labor. Into this 

 wonderful exhibition thronged the dukes and duchesses of the 

 realm, — noble lords and accomplished women thronged to see the 

 marvellous skill and genius which flashed on every side. 



No art, that was not here represented — no trade, that did not 

 show its handiw^ork ! Far away from all this, in quiet homes, by 

 humble hearth-stones, were tlic workmen whose highborn intellects 

 had devised and whose cunning hands had fashioned all this vast 

 accumulation of the results of human labor. Scattered over dif- 

 ferent lands, speaking different languages, working under different 

 forms of government and under circumstances the most adverse 



