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charity, of public libraries, natural history
cabinets, &c., &c., on exhibition in this de- I
partment, convince you, at a glance, that all
the great industrial, educational and social
interests are in a prosperous condition.
  We have now made the circle of New Ilol-
land, and are certainly the wiser for all that
we have seen. We had repeatedly read of
the rich gold mines of Australia, but we had
no adequate conception of the vastness of its
total area, of the immensity and value of its
mineral and agricultural resources of the
rapidity of its growth in population, and the
degree of its social and industrial progress.
  From New Holland andl its several interest-
ing colonies, we are next very naturally
ushered into the court of
                NEW ZEALANDt,
Representative of another island several ile-
gress yet further to the southeast in the Pacific
ocean, and about as far south of the equator
as our Wisconsin home lies north of it. Area
about 100,000 square miles; population 160 -
000. Natives originally of the Malay race,
and until recently noted more for cannibal-
ism and infanticide than anything else: but
since the introduction of Christianity, making
rapid progress in the arts of civilization,
particularly in agriculture and commerce.
   The articles here on exhibition, consisting
 of rude implements of husbandry and of war-
 fare, together with a few products of agricul-
 ture and the more advanced mechanic arts,
 duly illustrate the condition and progress of
 this far off island colony of the British Em-
 pire.



  If now wve make oUt way into the crowded
galleries above, we shall have as good as
crossed the isle-studded waters of the Archi-
pclago and of the China Sea and planted our



inces; of the teas of Assam, Gurhwal, Kan-
gra, Dehra Dhoon, of Sylhet, Darjeeling and
of Cachar; of magnificent silks of various
Dmd brilliant (yes; of splendid, cashmere
fliawls from Srinuggur, the capital of Cash-
,,ere, with floss silk embroideries and embroi-
deries in gold and silver thread of unequaled
beauty, from Delhi; of carpets of novel pat-
terns and gorgeous colors; of handsome and
very cheap manufactures in straw, from
3longhyr; of plain and embroidered muslins
and of wool and woolens, cotten and cotton
clotlhs, fromn Bonmbay: of camiel's anl goats hair
and its manufactures, from Ehikarpoor ant
the Upper Scinde: of interesting specimens of
the famous Daphne paper from Nepal; of lac
work, cabinet work inltid with ivory and other
precious metals, silver filigree work, orna-
ments curiously wrought of ivory, black-
wool, and sandal wood; of cosly and beau-
tiful speciniens of skill in the gold and silver
smithls art ; of paintings on ivory alnd on
canvass; of plhotographs and other works of
art from Lucknow; of beautiful samples of
rich tin ore from Kassang, Malacca and Pen-
ang, and of iron, coal, earths and clays, and
their manufactures, from Singapoor, Saigon,
Borneo and Madras, and finally of a vast
number of most wonderful articles in all these
and in other classes which we have not time
to examine in detail.
   The shawls, the laces, the embroideries, silks
 and brocades, orkinkobs, and the inlaid fili-
 gree work are specially attractive, and many
 of them surpass every thing of the kind in
 the Exhibition.
   If Great Britain will exercise a wise and
 liberal policy towards the Indian Provinces,
 she may make them a source of immense
 wealth and advantage.
   A rapid glance at



feet on the fertile soil of                              THE IONIUN ISLANDS.
               BRITISH INDIA,                Seven in number, to wit: Corfu,
Paxo, Santa
A vast empire in itself, whose records of his-                          a
tory go back to the first rude beginnings of Maura, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zante
and Ceriogo,
the human race.                              where are the vine, the currant
and the olive,
  A splendid show is this of the timbers,nd we touch upol the dark shore
of
fibres, seeds, gums, rosins, oils and other pro- I          NATAL,
ducts of Bengal and the Northwestern Prov- In the extreme south of the great
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