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 much they may learn from each other in relation both to beauty of form and taste of pattern. The worker in iron has found that he can study with profit the productions of the manufacturer of lace; the printer has received valuable hints from the weaver; and the artist for the loom has profited by the artist for the hammer. The Exhibition gave overwhelming evidence of the immense value of the industry which we seek to set free from the fetters of monopoly. To emancipate such powers of production as those which here gave proof of their existence and their importance would be to open a new field of greatness for the English nation, and to place Britain onward in that career of destiny to which our land has been specially called by Providence, as the great civiliser of the world, and the true benefactor of the human race. The voice of truth has declared that 'Glory to God in the highest' can only be promoted by 'Peace on earth, good will towards men;' but the common interests developed by free trade are the bonds of peace, and the common justice established by equal commerce is the firmest cement of good will."

From the Morning Chronicle:—

"We consider this Bazaar, taken in connexion with the singular political movement of which it forms so conspicuous a feature, as a sign of the times well worthy of the attention of our statesmen of every party. As an indication of the progress of opinion, as a pledge of earnestness and determination in the assertion of opinion, it is more impressive than any kind or quantity of what we ordinarily call 'agitation.' No amount of public meetings, parliamentary petitioning, or popular noise and excitement, could give so significant a demonstration of genuine power. The immense mass of contributions, even yet continuing to arrive in quantities that far exceed the ability of the most skilful management to find room for them in the over-crowded stalls; the number and variety of the contributors, from the wealthy manufacturing and commercial capitalist, who gives by wholesale, as he makes and trades by wholesale, to the artisan whose donation represents the toil of spare hours painfully saved out of laborious days and short nights; the completeness with which all branches of our national industry—agricultural, manufacturing, domestic, and literary—are represented in this extraordinary museum; the evidences that everywhere meet the eye, of the lively interest which the women of Great Britain feel in a question which even the well known contributions of their sex to the literature of political economy have scarcely yet withdrawn, in common estimation, from the category of the abstract sciences; the enormous expenditure of time, money, labour, and thought, which must have been devoted to this undertaking, for many months past, in every part of Great Britain;