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its luxuries, but of refinement and the liberal arts. 

 If commerce brings wealth to our shores, it is the 

 spirit of literature and philanthropy that teaches us 

 how to employ it for the noblest purposes. It is 

 this that has made Britain go forth among the 

 nations, strong in her native might, to dispense 

 blessings to all around her. If the time may come 

 Yrhen her empire shall have passed away, these 

 monuments of virtue will endure when her triumphs 

 shall only be a name. 



Let it still be the boast of Britain to write her 

 name in characters of light ; let her not be remem- 

 bered as the tempest, whose course was desolation, 

 but. as the gale of spring, reviving the slumbering 

 seeds of mind, and calling them to life from the 

 winter of ignorance and oppression. Let the sun 

 of Britain arise on these islands, not to wither and 

 scorch them in its fierceness, but like that of her own 

 genial skies, whose mild and benignant influence is 

 hailed and blessed by all who feel its beams. 



In the tables given at pp. 187, 188, will be found 

 returns of free schools in operation in the colony 

 from the 30th day of June, 1854, to the 30th day of 

 June, 1855, and 31st March, 1857, to 30th June, 

 1858, for the education of the poor ; by whom 

 taught; under what superintendence; the average 



