The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

THE BORNEO MISSION.

In the Indian Ocean is situated an island of remarkable
beauty, five times the size of Great Britain, and the lar-
gest in the known world except New Holland. It is called
Borneo, (the name also of the capital), and is inhabited
chiefly by two races of men, the Malays and the Dyaks.
Many years ago a young English Man, Mr. Brooke, of
Widcomhe-crescent, Bath, was inflamed, l'ike Muugo
Park, with the desire of visiting distant countries, and
chance, or rather the Providence of God, ultimately di-
rected his course to this vast, and, to Europeans, unex-
plored region. Without any aid from Government that
gentleman, about nine years ago, arrived at Borneo in his
own yacht, armed with only six guns, and with but four
European sailors. Such, however, is the moral progress
that he has 'made, that he returns to England pith the
native honour of Rajah of Sarawak, a town elmtatning a
population of ten thousand inhabitants, and the title,
at the hands of his Sovereign, of her Majesty's !Commis-
sioner for the Nand of Borneo. The Pirates •of the
Soolno sea, we may add, have been punished and dispersed,
and all things being favourable, Mr. Brooke wishes to sig-
nalise his return to the land of his adoption by the crown-
ing mercy of the introduction of the Gospel. In this
work he is encouraged and supported by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and many of the
clergy and laity. Mr. 141'1)011gal and two other gentlemen
had undertaken the important and arduous work of mis-
sionaries, hut one of them, whose heart was in the work,
has been suddenly called away to a still brighter country,
and scenes of unfi'ding enjoyment. Still the effort goes on.
Perhaps the following particulars of the interesting re-
gion, which may prov, valuable as a point to which to
direct the stream-of emigration, may not be uninteresting:
Borneo, discovered by the Portuguese in 1521, lies
between the latitude 4.10 S.. and 7 N., and 109.15 to 119.
25 W. longitude. being in its extreme length 775 miles,
and in breadth 650, comprising a surface of 360,000. square
miles. Its capital, Borneo, is close upon the coast of the
Chinese sea, and the houses are built upon piles driven
into the swamps, the place being- inundated at high water.
Trade is carried on by means of boats and wherries. Al-
though the country is at the equator of the globe, the air

is not so excessively hot as might he expected, being fre-
quently refreshed with showers and cool breezes, the ther-
mometer varying from 82 to 94 of Farenheit. In the mon-
soon, from April to September, the wind is westerly, and
the rains are constant and heavy, attended with violent
storms of thunder and lightning. The rainy season con-
tinues for eight months. and during that time all the flat
country, from ten to twenty miles from the coast, is over-
flowed, and the air rent'..= red very unhealthy. For this

s, which
They have but one floor, with
.s; and the roofs are covered
s,the eaves of which reach within four
ttorn. Some of their houses are built

:es on it

upon pillars. a sufficient height from the surface not to be
deluged. The countries on the coast are inhabited by a
mixture of Malays, Javanee, and Macassars. It seems
to be here where Nature has united the chain of
animated creation, and placed the ourang-outang as
the connecting link between the articulating, modulating
and assigning, end instinctive; or, in other words
between the biped and the quadruped race of animals
On one s

. -
of the ouram,,--outeng, which seems to be
a native of the son of Borneo, the apes. monkeys, bears,
goats, deer, horses, buffaloes, and other horned cattle,
tigers, and the elephant; whilst on the other side is a

class of beings with apparently no other claim to the
character of man but that of the power of articulation ;
and yet. amidst this unsocial and unappreciating race of
beings, Nature seems to have bestowed in lavish profusion
all her most di lectable gifts ; with iron, tin, and various
other metals for purposes of utility, gold, diamonds, and
various other precious gems for ornament, abound. It is
here that the salangane, a species of swallow, constructs
its edible nest, which is exchanged, to gratify the luxu-
rious palates of the Chinese, at a rate double its weight
in silver. In the vegetable kingdom, in addition to rice
and maize for substantial subsistence, the sensations of
taste and smell are here to he gratified in the highest pos-
sible degree. Cassia, cinnamon. frankincense, and myrrh,
are indigenous productions of the country. The laurus
carnphoratus yields an endless abundance of its fragrant
and inflammable substance; whilst agarie, musk, aloes;
and various other substances and plants, are dispersed
over the country in endless profusion, to aid the social
and domestic economy of man, and to serve as alterna-
tives in case of accident or disease. On the other hand,
the pernicious and poisonous class of plants and reptiles
are also common, and the natives appear equally adept at
applying them in revenge against their enemies, as in the
application of alternatives to avoid their consequences.
Thus, whilst the soil of Borne, appears susceptible, by
social arrangements and due cultivation,• to subsist, in a
high degree of comfort and eninyment, a fourth of the
whole population of the globe, the total number of inha-
bitants are supposed not to exceed 3,000,000, divided into
numerous petty sovereignties. The English East India
Company formed some settlements upon the coast towards
the close of the 17th century ; hut, in 1706; the Dutch,
in the heyday of their valour, drove the English entirely
from the country, and for more than a century were the
only European nation that maintained any direct inter.'
course with the island ; and their grovelling policy has
ever been to preclude the world from all knowledge of
the position, people, condition, and resources of the coun-
tries with which they trade, as it is possible for them
to do so. During the war, subsequently to the peace of
Amiens, in 1812, when in their turn the Dutch were
driven from all their positions in Asia, the English again
established themselves on the coast of Borneo. There
are several fine harbours and roadsteads round the coast ;
the principal is Bandarmassing, at the mouth of Banjar ;
Sambar, at the south-west point; Sambas, on the west
coast; Borneo, at the north-west; and Passir, at the
south-east.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN SPAIN

In Spain, as most of our readers are aware, there was,
until within a very recent period, nothing in theremotest de-
gree resembling toleration for any religious worship what-
ever, excepting that of the established church of the
country. This was, the state of things, from the days of
Isabella and Ximenez until the commencement of the
late series 'of resolutions, when religion may be said to
have undergone as complete a change as every thing else.
In the numerous treaties between the British and Spa-
nish governments, no stipulation has ever been made for
securing to British subjects the exercise of their own reli-
gion on Spanish territory, not even at the conclusion of
the late war in the Peninsula, when British arms had re-
placed the reigning family on the throne. Far different
in this respect was the conduct of Cromwell : when in-
formed that the Portuguese refused to allow the English
merchants at Oporto to assea.ble for Protestant worship,
his reply was, " We will send a few stout frigates to cruise
on the coast." We are as far as possible from desiring to
see our faith propagated at the edge of the sword or the
mouth of the cannon, but still we think it might fairly
have been demanded, in return for the signal services
conferred by this country on the Spanish government,
that British subjects, who may be resident in Spain,
should be allowed the exercise of their religion, without
at any rate greater restrictions than those imposed by the
Austrian, Sardinian, Neapolitan, or Papal governments.
Yet, this was so far from being insisted on as a general
concession (we do not believe it was even asked as a favor),
that to this day no chaplain is appointed to the embassy
at Madrid, and until within the last ten or twelve years
no Englishman dying in Spain was allowed to receive
even what we may call decent burial : at the places on the
coast they were buried, usually at night, in the sand, as
1 near -••ssil to tb- Tt.' however

ds N -.0 _ —le edge ot the water, _dis, _
is no longer the case ; at Cadiz and Malaga land has been
purchased and appropriated, with the consent of the_ au-

ihorities, as a cemetery for the English. Both of these
have been consecrated; that at the latter place is a beau-
tiful piece of ground close to the town, laid out with much
taste and at considerable expense by the late and present

consuls, and kept in the neatest possible order. The ce-
remony of consecration, which took place last year, was
quite public ; it was attended by all the English, amount-
ing to a considerable number, including the workmen at a
large iron-foundry and their families ; and there were also
a good many Spaniards present, who all remained unco-
vered during the performance of the service, and showed
all possible respect. Still, this is nearly all that has yet

English clergyman established in any part of Spain,
though there would be no longer any difficulty experienced
from the civil or ecclesiastical authorities, excepting, of
course, some restrictions similar to those enforced in Italy
and Portugal, as to the external appearance of the cha-
pels, and on one or two comparatively important points.

)wever, we understand, a prospect of
being enabled shortly to provide funds sufficient, with the
assistance which he hopes to obtain from government
under the Consular Act, to maintain chaplains at a few of

the more jmportant_places

uch as Barcelona,

ga, Ca(

Engli-sh residents is considerable. These, or at any rate
some one of them, might visit from time to time the
smaller and more scattered communities, administer the
sacraments among them, and keep alive amongst our
eountrymeil some feeling of religion and of attachment to
their own church, until a more permanent and adequate
provision could be made for their spiritual welfare. The
English themselves have, in almost all cases, expressed
their anxiety to have a clergyman settled amongst them,
and their willingness to contribute, as far as their means
will allow, to his support. At the same time, as a consi-
derable portion of them are either workmen in the iron
and other works along the coast. or employed in the mines

in the interior, they are. of course, comparatively poor;
and they are, besides, scattered often at considerable dis-
tances from each other, so that much cannot be expected
from their unaided exertions. The largest numbzr in any
one place we believe to be in Seville, where, in addition to
several highly respectable families of merchants and

others, the-re is a large pottery established on the opposite

the river, in w

ormerly a

husian con-

The proprietor of this, though a Roman Catholic, has set
apart a portion of the churchyard of the convent as a
burial-ground for his countrymen, and has also expressed

his willingness to contribute to the support of an English
clergyman, and to give up either the old chapel or some
other part of the building for the performance of the ser-
vice of the Church of England, provided the consent of
the Dean can he obtained, which is not likely, it is said, to

be refi

there are B.

to tf.

leir ministra-

trations, whether publicor private, amongst their own
people, provided they abstained from proselytism, little
or no obstacle would, as we before observed, he opposed
by the authorities ; nor, we are convinced, would popular
feeling create any greater difficulty. • The present state of
Spain, ecclesiastical and religious, makes it, if possible,
more important than ever that our countrymen living
there should no longer be debarred from the profession
anal exercise of their• religion, nor compelled to appear,
what but too many of thpse around them really are,
utterly indifferent to; and indeed devoid of all religion
whatever.—Volonial Church Chronicle.

I DOMESTIC LIFE OF JACKSON KEMPER, D.D.,
BISHOP OF MISSOURI AND INDIANA.

(From the Calendar, published at Hereford, Connecticut,

U.S.)
From Waukeshaw it is twelve miles to the residence of
Bishop Kemper. Most of the way is through oak open-
ings, by which, in the west, they mean country covered
with oak trees ip clumps, and without underwood, pre-
senting the appearance of a natural park. Here they
stretched on, mile after mile, far as the eye can reach, so
that we could imagine ourselves in the middle of one of
the beautiful parks of England. They present, indeed,
prec•sely the same appearance. At last, through an open-
ing among the hills, we begin to catch distant glimpses of
lakes, from which we knew that our journey was drawing
to an end. About three o'clock we reached a tavern,
surrounded by a cluster of a dozen houses, the beginning
of a town to be called Delafield, where we were directed
to take a side road into the forest, with the information
that the second house was Bishop Kemper's. A mile
farther brought us to the gate, and in a moment the
Bishop, attended by the Rev. James Lloyd Breck, bead
of the Nashotah Mission, came forth from the house to
receive us.

Would my _readers like a description of the episcopal
palace, or do those who are living amid the luxury of the
east desire to know how a missionary bishop lives in the
far west ? We might tell them to imagine a clearing of a
few acres in the depth of a mighty forest, and then on the
verge of the woods a small cottage-like building, which,
as you stand in front of it, presents the appearance of a
single story, with but three windows and a door. It was
the first building erected by a settler, from whom the
bishop purchased the land for a farm for his son, and
then, at the expense of a few hundred dollars, he endea-
voured to make the house habitable. For probably eight
months of the year be is travelling incessantly over his
wide-spread diocese, "in perils by land, and in perils by
water,"—now, under the burning son, crossing a prairie
two hundred miles in length, without a sign of habitation
—now in districts where roads there are none, following
the deep-worn lnaian trail through the otherwise path-
less forests—and now, on some of the rivers of the west,

trusting himself to the frail canoe—always, unwearied in
labour, " seeking for Christ's sheep that are dispersed
abroad," far from the sound of church-going bells, that
he may win them to the true fold. I was told by a lay-
man of the diocese, that the bishop would land at Mil-
waukie, after a two months' tour of duty in Indiana, and
without even taking time to go home, set out at once for
the more distant west, to confirm the scattered churches
in lowa. Were he to hear that five persons desire confir-
mation at a thousand miles' distance, he would set off in
three hours.

When a visstation is finished, and he is able to return
for a short time to his family, this is his home. Without
a room large enough to contain his library—with his
books and papers often most inconveniently packed away
in boxes—exposed to difficulties which would horrify our
dwellers at the east, he cheerfully furnishes to his fellow-
labourers an example of primitive simplicity and self-de-
nial—sharing their hardest toils, and showing himself
everywhere, the first missionary of the diocese. His own
private means, and his missionary salary, are devoted un-
sparingly to this cause. In making these statements, I
trust I am not passing the bounds which delicacy would
prescribe, for I am only writing what I everywhere heard
through the diocese. Neither is it to honour the indivi-
dual that it is done. His record is on high, and faere
will he receive his reward. But it is well that our bre-
thren at the east shouln know how it fares with those who
are labouring beyond the Great Lakes, and while they
too often give to this cause with stinted avarice, let them
compare their self-denial with that endured by those who
are here breaking up the fallow ground, and striving to
sow the seed where a few years will see a scattered popu-
lation expand into a great nation.
We might add that the bishop shows not only the sim-
plicity, but also the open hospitality, of early times, where
the hearty welcome placed us at once at ease, while the
taste and refinement which his accomplished daughter
has imparted to her home, made us forget that we were
1,500 miles from the capital of the empire state, in the
far west, with its primeval trees rustling around us.

VULGAR DISCOURSE.—A correspondent of the Here-
ford Times says,—" One among the innumerable evils
prevalent in man is low conversation ; it makes one's
heart tremble as it were, to hear it upon times. Where
the public more frequently hear it is among that low set
of men who frequently stroll about our streets. But is it
only with these we hear it ? Alas, no ! Even a great
number of those we suppose to be respectable moral men,
tire in the habit of employing it when assembled together
at public-houses, workshops, offices, and such like places.
Let me say a few words to you who are in the habit of
conversing in a low, unbecoming manner. Is it not dis-
gracing the very name of man to apply it to you filthy-
tongued. You scarcely mention the worthy and meek
name of woman' without profaning it, and disgusting
one w.th your filthy comments! and you scarcely mention
the blessed name of the Almighty (He who could destroy
you in the twinkling of an eye) without blaspheming it !
It is through low conversation' you bring upon yourselves
disgrace ; you get the name of being blackguards,' and
many other abominable names. Will nothing shame you ?
What name will express fully your great wickedness ? If
same name from the depths of hell, written by Satan him-
self, was engraven on your foreheads in large black let-
ters, it could but express your fiendish wickedness. MEN,
BE MEN ! do not disgrace the name. Remember what
the Scripture says—' The tongue is a fire, a world of ini-
quity : it defileth the whole body."'

SUPERSTITION.-Mr. Words;vorth had taken the All-
foxtlen House, near Stowey, for one year, (during the
minority of the heir,) and the reason why he was refused
a continuance, by the ignorant man who had the letting
of it, arose, as Mr. Coleridge informed me, from a whim-
sical cause,or rather a series of causes. The wiseacres of
the village had, it seemed, made 14Ir. W. the subject of
their serious conversation. One said that "he had seen
bim wander about by night, and look rather strangely at
the moon ! and then he roamed over the hills like a part-
ridge." Another said "he had heard him mutter, as he
walked, in some outlandish brogue that nobody could un-
derstand !" Another said, " It's useless to talk, Thomas,
I. think he is what people call `a wise man'" (a conjuror!)
Another said, " You are very wrong ; I know what he is.
We have all met him, tramping away toward the sea.
Would any man in his senses take all that trouble to look
at a parcel of water ! I think he carries on a snug business
in the smuggling line, and in these journeys is on the
look-out for some wet cargo !" Another very significantly
said, "I know that he has got a private still in the cellar,
for I once passed his house, at a little better than a hun-
dred yards distance, and I could smell the spirits, as plain
as an ashen fagot at Christmas!" Another said, '• How-
ever that was, he is surely a desperd French Jacobin, for
he is so silent and dark that nobody ever heard him say
one word about politics !" And thus these ignoramuses
drove from their village a greater ornament than will ever
again be found amongst them."—Cottle's Reminiscences
of S. T. Coleridge and R. Southey.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,

ON THE IST DECEMBER, 1847,

(From Colburn'a United Service Magazine.)

Where two places are mentioned, the last:7named-is that at
• which the depOt of the reiiment is stationed.]

Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prkj36th—

-(lstbatt.) Corfu-

2d Ditto—Hyde Park (2d batt.) Cephalonia
ROyal H. Guards—Windsor 37th—Ceylon, Chatham
Ist brag.Guards—Birmingham 38th—Jamaica, Boyle
2d—Newbridge 39th—Canterbury.
3d—Piershill 40th—Galway
4th—Nottingham 41st—Limerick
sth—York 42d—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ;
6th—Dundalk

7thl-C. Good Hope, Maidstone
Ist Dragoons—Cahir
2d—Athlone
3d—Bengal, Maidstone
4th— Dublin

sth-
-6th—Newbridge
7th'illissars—llublin
Bth —Baliincollig
9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn
10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid.
stone
11th Hussars—Coventry
12th Lancers—Hounslow

14th—Bengal, Maidstone'
15th Hussars—Madras, Maid

Reserve batt., BermUda:
43d—Newport
44th—Newry
45th—CapeG.Hope,I.of Wight ;
Res. batt., Cape G. Hope
46th—Halifax, Guernsey
47th—Clonmel
4ht na
dn
ri sa
,ilCleb rnnatha
49th—Dublin
50th—Bengal,ts Chatham
5
52d—Portsmouth
Is3d—Bengal, Chatham
54th—Malta, Kinsale
55th—Templem,
ith 'st -It

stone
16th Lancers—Brighton
I7th—Dublin
Grenadier Guards—

(3d batt.) Portman-at. Bar

stst batt.) tiibraltar
(2d batt.) Isle Wight
57th—Hull
58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
59th—Templemore
60th—(1st Ut.) Bombay, Chatm
(2d bt.) Gosport
6lst—Bengal, Chatham

COldstreain Guards—
(Ist
batt.) Chichester
(2d batt.) Wellington Bar.

63d—Chatham
64th—Limerick
65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
66th—Gibraltar, Cork
67th—Cork

leer Gu-ar

• (2d Batt.) St. John's Wood
Ist root—
(Ist batt.)-
(2d batt.)-
2dAtlilone
3d—Dublin
4th—Madras, Chatham
sth-rMauritius
6th—Cape G. Hope
7th—Barbadoes, Dublin
Bth—Bombay, Chatham
9th—Winchester
10th—Bengal, Chatham
11th—N.. S. Wales, Chatham
12t1--Mauritius, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt.. Mauritiu

69th—Malta -
70th—Fermoy
' 71st—Glasgow
Reserve batt., Canada
72d—Gibraltar, Charles Fort
73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr
74th—Belfast
75th—Dublin
76th—Edinburgh
77th—Canada—Nenagh
78th—Bombay, Chatham
79th—Gibraltar, Boyle
80th—Bengal, Chatham
81st Devon port
82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon
83d—Rilkenny
84th—Madras, Chatham
85th—Dublin
86th—Bombay, Chatham
87th—Weedon
88th—Barbadoes—Tralee
89th—A shton-under-Lyne
90th—Cane G. Hope, Sheerness

-Antigua, Paisley
Bury

13th—Birr
14th—Plymouth
15th—Ceylon, Cheater
16th—Corfu, Youghal
17th,Dover
18th—China, Chatham

-Canada, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt., Canada

91stL-Cape of Good Hope, bde
of Wight
Reserve batt., uoPe of G.

Madras, Chatham

22d—Bombay, Chatham
23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt. Canada
24th—Bengal, Chatham
25th—Madras, Chatham
26tH—Buttevant
27th—Cape G. Hope, Fort G.
28th—Bombay, Chatham
29th—Bengal, Chatham ,
30thr—Newcastle-on-Tyne
31st—Manchester

• Hope
92d—Dublin
93d--Canada, Aberdeen
94th—Madras, Chatham
95th—China, Naas
96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham
97th—Malta, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt, Malta.
98th—Bengal, Chatham.
99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
Rifle Brigade-.-- • „ •
(Ist batt.) Cape.. '4* nope,
Brut°
(2d batt.) Canada, Isle of
wjght
Reserve batt.-, quebee,

Chatham

33d—N. Ilninswiek, Stirling
34th--Corfu, Waterford
35th—Mauritius, Jersey

COLONIAL CORPS. • ,
Ist West lUdia Regiment—Jamaica
24 Ditto—Nassau
3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone; &c.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon & China
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada
Cape Mounted Rifleinen—Cape of Goal Hope
Royal Newfoundland Veteran Company—
Royal Malta Fenciblea—Malta
St. Heleaa Regiment—St. Helens

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

W. Y. Peel, Esq., has resigned the representation of
Tamworth, in consequence of the death of his wife and
the illness of one of his sons.

In the House of Commons, on Friday, Lord John Rus-
sell confessed that " the advantages of free trade, like
those of every other measure, had been greatly exag-
gerated."
The petition against Mr. Grantley Berkely's election for
West Gloucestershire for want of qualification was pre-
sented on Monday " amidst audible marks of disapproba-
tion from both sides of the house."

SUNDERLAND.-Mr. Barclay is expected to retire from
the representation. Sir Hedworth Williamson and W. A.
Wilkins3n, Esq., are candidates. They are both Whigs,
but the former is an advocate of the navigation laws, and
being likely in consequerice to gain the Conservative votes
is almost sure of being returned. _ _ _ _

IRISH ARMS BILL.—The following Lancashire mem-
bers voted on Monday night in favour of the first reading
of Sir G. Grey's bill for the more effectual suppression of
crime and outrage in Ireland :—E. Cardwell, Sir Thomas
Birch, Dr. Bowring, J. Brotherton, J. Duncuft, J. W.
Fox, T. M. Gibson, C. P. Grenfell, T. Greene, G.
Greenall, J. Heywood, Col. Lindsay, J. W. Patten, J.
Pilkington, and R. A. Thicknesse.—Against it: W. S.
Crawford only.—Absent: Sir G. Strickland, J. Hornby,
J. Bolling, S. Gregson, W. Brown, R. Walker and John
Bright.
IRELAND.—In the year just ended, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year, Irish murders have
increased in the ratio of about three to two, the numbers
being— 1846. 1847.
Murders 6B 96
Attempts to shoot
Robberies of arms
Firing houses . 5l 116

381 868
Yet, on this state of facts, Sir George Grey only asks for
an Arms Bill. The Lord-Lieutenant may proclaim a
district and disarm it.

1813 AND 1837.—The following contrast by Prof. Alison
needs no comment:—ln 1813, the population of Great
Britain was about 13,000,000 ; it is now_pearly 20,000,000.
The income tax in that year produced £15,000,000 at ten
per cent. ' • now, at less than three per cent. it produces
about £5,500,000 ; in other words, at ten per cent. it
would produce about £19,000,000. It is not going too
far to affirm, that both the accun.ulated capital of the
empire, and the annual increment to that capital, is now
double what it was at the close of the war. But during
the war, which lasted twenty years, an addition of nearly
£600,000,000 was made to the national debt, being at the
rate, on an average, of 30,000,000 a-year borrowed by
Government. In the three last years of the war, 1813,
1814, and 1815, the sums borrowed by the State amounted
to the enormous sum of £154,910,982, being at the rate
of above £50,000,000 a-year. Yet so far were these
copious drafts from exhausting the capital of the country.
at the close of a struggle of twenty years' duration, that
the loan for 1814 was borrowed at £4 lls. Id., being a
lower rate than that paid at the commencement of the
war. Now if thirteen millions of men, with little more
than two-thirds of the present taxable income, could then
produce this immense annual surplus to lend to Govern-
ment at the close of twenty years of war, is it extravagant
to suppose that twenty millions of men, with double the
capital, could now be strained, if the currency of the
country was equal to its wants, by producing £33,000,000
annually for railway undertakings, after thirty years of
unbroken peace?