PART I. INTRODUCTION.-EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION.DESIGNS OF THE UNITED STATES.-RAILWAY JUNCTION BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.--DISPOSAL OF PAUPERS AND CONVICTS.-PRACTICAL DETAILS, &c. INTRODUCTION. THE following work is intended to display a gra. yet 1 simple remedy for the Distress of Great Britain: a subject occupying the public mind in a just proportion to the great and sad necessity of its present existence. We are suffering from debt, over-population, and the pauperism of a great portion of the community. The country is involved like an individual merchant. By a great exertion—a triumphant dash into a new channel of commerce-by a discovery, a patent, or a miracle, it may meet its liabilities; otherwise, it must pass through the Insolvent Court of a Revolution, and issue forth a broken-down hack, or a fresh and vigorous enterpriser, to begin the world anew: it must emerge a third-rate and degraded nation, or in a healthy second childhood of elastic strength. Which? But this is not our attempt to answer it. question, and therefore we will not Our object is to prove a means to escape the dilemma. The debt of the country is the result of years of false legislation: it is a vast tumour, or excrescence, of unhealthy origin. cations of expediency cannot do All the small appli more than keep it within the bounds of tight and painful bandages, or B |