The illustrated London news . J PARSONAGE, AND SCHOOLS, HANGER-LANE, STAMFORDa the Parish of St. Clement Danes, In the County of Middlesex, by GE PRECEDING PAGE. , Strand, aforesaid.—Saturday, . XtAMSTRATgh m. OUR HARVEST IN this country out whole economy seems to be based on asystem o£ equipoise. It is avowedly the case in our politicalconstitution ; it is to be traced more or less in our socialarrangements ; it certainly exists in our climate; and, by nomeans least, it prevails in our producing power. We are essen-tially a commercial and manufacturing people ; but the balanceof our prosperit
The illustrated London news . J PARSONAGE, AND SCHOOLS, HANGER-LANE, STAMFORDa the Parish of St. Clement Danes, In the County of Middlesex, by GE PRECEDING PAGE. , Strand, aforesaid.—Saturday, . XtAMSTRATgh m. OUR HARVEST IN this country out whole economy seems to be based on asystem o£ equipoise. It is avowedly the case in our politicalconstitution ; it is to be traced more or less in our socialarrangements ; it certainly exists in our climate; and, by nomeans least, it prevails in our producing power. We are essen-tially a commercial and manufacturing people ; but the balanceof our prosperity is uw | by ouv a^i iculunnldevelopment. If anything were wanted to prove that the timehas not yet arrived when our urban industry is to be wholly pre-dominant as our means of wealth and subsistence it was to befound in the experience of last year. When a Chancellor of theExchequer deliberately states that a bad harvest cost Englandtwenty-three millions in money, the assertion proves the valueof the principles by which oar dealings with the question of the food of the people are now regulated, and equally proves 1istence of that balance of production to which we owe
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