By producing the best or the cheapest, the manufacturing system is capable of indefinite extension; by its aid we can export goods to other countries, and import in exchange agricultural and other produce for the support of our manufacturing and commercial population. The "remedy," then, seems to be the scientific cultivation of manufactures, the developing this inexhaustible source of wealth, using our ingenuity and industry in making articles that other people require; thereby solving the problem, how to supply large towns where a great number of people are crowded, and where nothing for sustenance is produced, and yet everything is to be had; division of labour carried out by nations, each producing what it is best adapted for, the wants of the one supplied by the superfluities of another. Superabundant populations would then be an absurdity, emigration not resorted to escape from starvation, but to find a soil more cultivated to give scope to man's energies, and enable him to do with his talents the best for himself and his fellow-men.

Instead of telling our agriculturists there is no remedy for them but emigration, tell them to copy their rivals in the United States." The enormous increase of late years in the production of wheat in the West affected the farmers on the eastern seaboard even more injuriously than it did those of Great Britain, because they had no protection in the shape of freight and insurance, and thousands of them were placed in the greatest perplexity and trouble. But they, unlike their brethren here, are fertile in resource, and have no idea of giving up in despair, or seeking help elsewhere than from themselves. With a celerity of action and a vigour of will which did them