thousands instinctively take to this industry, or the other; and that the connexion between various industries and between the various parts of the same industry was as simple as the connexion between killing a sheep and eating it. How few imagine the skill and labour that have been given to all the details of the locomotive before it became as perfect as it is; or the natural aptitude to use wisely the various products of the earth; the labour that has been given to open out the remotest routes of commerce, and the difficulty of keeping up our immense export trade. Our foreign trade will not take care of itself; like the division of labour, the improvements of machinery, nature's law of competition, compel us to "improve our productive power," and the increased product, as the distribution of it, is mainly due to, and can only be realized by, superior guiding powers, in the organization and direction of labour. If you think a moment, you will see not only the necessity for, but the value of this directing power. Napoleon with 1,000 men was more likely to win a battle for France, than 10,000 men without the directing power of Napoleon. The navvies may have done the principal labour in constructing the Suez Canal, but the result is due to the genius of Lesseps, and his indomitable will in carrying his conception to a successful issue. A thousand men might be employed in fifty different groups, each group making some separate part of a watch, and each separate part might in itself be perfect; but unless these parts fitted each other, for all their perfection, they would be of no more value than pebbles; the value of the division of labour rests with the directing or guiding power. All wealth due to labour " - yes, but it is to the brain labour that invents,