The manufacturing towns of England now use very large supplies of this new product of the Western Republic; and the winter before last, during a tour in India, I was surprised to find that cans of American preserves formed one of the principal articles of sale in all the grocers' shops. I think it nothing short of a national scandal that land should be letting close to London at thirty shillings an acre, that entire properties in the midland counties should be without a tenant, and that no serious attempt should be made, on the part of the great bulk of proprietors and farmers to start new industries; while the importation from the Continent of poultry, butter, eggs, cheese, and of every description of vegetables, continues enormously to increase; because our agricultural classes fold their hands and do nothing, while our friends in Normandy, Belgium, and Holland try every new process and do everything in their power to increase the quantity and improve the quality of products of the earth which should be raised at our own doors."
(W. E. BAXTER, M.P.).

The above quotation ought to be distributed broadcast throughout the kingdom; it supplies the keynote so much wanted. We had it our own way for so long, that, now we have competition, we seem aggrieved, surprised, and discontented, as though other nations had not the right to compete with us. Instead of meeting this frankly and manfully, glad of foemen worthy of our steel, we whine and grumble, blame everybody and everything, but ourselves. To regain our position-aye, to hold our present position-we must understand that the age requires of us, in every branch of production and distribution, "increased quantity and improved quality."