Free trade has increased their food, without lessening their employment.

The politician who wishes to know the effect on agricultural life of that wise and just measure, may find it in Mr. Grey of Dilston's answers to the queries of the French Government.

The country parson will not need to seek so far.

He will see it (if he be an observant man) in the faces and figures of his school- children.

He will see a rosier, fatter, bigger-boned race growing up, which bids fair to surpass in bulk the puny and ill-fed generation of 1815-45, and equal, perhaps, in thew and sinew, to the men who saved Europe in the old French war.
If it should be so (as God grant it may), there is little fear but that the labouring men of England will find their aristocracy able to lead them in the battle-field, and to develop the agriculture of the land at home, even better than did their grandfathers of the old war time.
To a thoughtful man, no point of the social horizon is more full of light, than the altered temper of the young gentlemen.