The world: historical and actual . LONDON FROM GREENWICH PARK. in all justice to decide it. The Revolutionary Warwas thus a great lesson of non-intervention in colo-nial affairs. The Napoleonic war, on the contrary,was a great lessonof made England,in a certain highsense, master ofEurope, and moredisjiosed to dictateto other nationsthan to her owncolonies. With the con-sideration of onemore topic thereader will be pre-pared to take anappreciative sur-vey of the presentGreat Britain. That subject is the corn laws and free trade. Thosestatutes for the regulation of the grain trad
The world: historical and actual . LONDON FROM GREENWICH PARK. in all justice to decide it. The Revolutionary Warwas thus a great lesson of non-intervention in colo-nial affairs. The Napoleonic war, on the contrary,was a great lessonof made England,in a certain highsense, master ofEurope, and moredisjiosed to dictateto other nationsthan to her owncolonies. With the con-sideration of onemore topic thereader will be pre-pared to take anappreciative sur-vey of the presentGreat Britain. That subject is the corn laws and free trade. Thosestatutes for the regulation of the grain trade dateback to 1300, and their abolition in 1846 was the. Lations had been changed from tune to time, buttheir constant object had been to protect the manu-facturing interest of the country. In the final strug-gle over the re-peal, a strugglelasting severalyears, and inwhich RichardCobden took theleading part forreform, the prin-ciples of politicaleconomy, the lawsof supply and de-mand, were dis-cussed with greatfullness and Harriet Mar-tineau renderedthe cause of freetrade immenseservice by political tracts and novels which broughtthe arguments of the reformers down to the under-standing of the people. Sir Robert Peel, originally WINDSOR PALACE AND WINDSOR CASTLE -ffll>. 37- PRESENT ENGLAND. a protectionist and a leading statesman during thesecond quarter of the present century, came gradu-ally to adopt the veiws of Cobden, Bright and Mar-tiueau. From that time on, the national sentiment,with great unanimity, has been hostile to the doc-trine of protection, and at one time the indicationswere that the enlightened sentiment of
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