Page:Australian views of England.djvu/102

  for the display of products from your remote part of the world is sufficiently imposing to arrest attention independently of all considerations of the youth of the colonies I am glad to say that New South Wales vindicates her position as the eldest of the Australian contributors by her well-arranged and beautifully varied collection of products.

The political world is in a state of dull perplexity, with little interest in any question among the masses of the people. In the House of Commons there has been some rather hot-tempered debating about the public expenditure, and the radical economists and the philosophical conservatives appear to be working to the same end without any basis of a common understanding. We find Mr. Bright cheering and the Morning Star praising the financial views of Mr. Disraeli and Sir Stafford Northcote. The 3rd of this month was fixed for a decisive attack on Lord Palmerston's Government, the state of the finances being selected for the battle-field. Mr. Stansfeld—a young member who made a position for himself during last session by one or two happy speeches—had a motion on the paper affirming