We agree with those, and they are the majority of reflective minds,who, taking a survey of our half-peopled globe, and considering thepeculiar position which England occupies on it—her great maritimepower, her great commercial wants, her overflowing numbers, heroverflowing wealth—have concluded that colonisation is a work towhich she is especially called. She is called to it by her markedaptitude and capability for the task, as well as by an enlightenedview of her own interests. Without too much national partiality,without overlooking our own faults, and that canker of a toomoney-loving, too money-making morality, which has eaten into ourcharacter,