The British Colonist

Whether the mere acquisition of wealth is the sole end of man's existence on the earth and the end of political economy, is a matter of opinion.

The productive power of Great Britain, rests not solely on the uprightness of morality, or intelligence of Englishmen, or merely on the possession of those natural advantages which she enjoys from her insular position, but on account as well of our institutions and laws and on the power which she possesses to carry out those laws

England is termed by her martial French allies "a nation of shopkeepers," and we cannot deny that she is fully entitled to such an appellation. While Russia is seeking to gain universal dominion by acquisition of fresh territory, and removing little by little her neighbor's land marks, England seeks to rule the world peacefully by the conquest of mind and arts of peace, by the development of various branches of industry, and by the increase of her Colonial wealth ; her Colonies although in one way a positive and heavy expense, supplying her with different products, and widening the market for English manufactures. It is for reasons such as these that we detest and abhor that modern fallacy especially promulgated by Mr. Goodwin Smith, the severance of Great Britain from her Colonies. England without her Colonies will prove a second Holland.