OF THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION, I03 



will be hard for some of Britain's sons to forget Lucknow and 

 Cawnpore. But we are coming upon brighter times. The children 

 who have been alienated so long, are now invited to sit down 

 together, and look each other in the face, and revive the memories 

 of early days by the light of the fire which the science of philology 

 has rekindled on the old Aryan hearth ; and as they take each other 

 by the hand again the meeting is like the peaceful meeting of 

 Jacob and Esau after their long years of separation. Our millions 

 of heathen cousins in India should be dearer to us to-day than ever 

 they have been. An event has recently occurred which may be 

 regarded as one of the most beautifully significant events in all the 

 world's history,— I refer to our Queen Victoria's assuming the title 

 of " Empress of India." We were not in the world when the dear 

 old Aryan household was broken up and the family scattered, but we 

 are glad to be present, after the lapse of some four thousand years 

 at the family re-union. We rejoice that our lot is cast in the day 

 when our dusky uncles and cousins in India, and our fairer fathers and 

 brothers in the isles of Europe, and we ourselves in this new western 

 world, can join hands beneath the peaceful sway of the noblest 

 daughter that has ever sprung from the noble Aryan stock, and 

 forming a circle of brotherhood quite around the world, can shout 

 sincerely, whether in Oriental phrase or in our own much-loved 

 Anglo-Saxon tongue, " God Save the Queen." 



SOME EVIDENCES OF COMMERCIAL 

 TRANSACTIONS IN PREHIS- 

 TORIC TIMES. 



BY WM. KENNEDY. 

 FIRST PAPER — NON-METALLIC AGE. 



Every year the student of commercial history obtains more 

 information from those valuable publications issued by nearly every 

 civilized nation in the world, entitled " Commercial Relation." In 

 these volumes are to be found detailed statements with a multitude 

 of figures showing the quantity and value of the articles sold to or 



