Remarks on the historical mis-statements and fallacies of Mr. Goldwin Smith, in his Lecture "On the foundation of the American colonies," and his Letters "On the emancipation of the colonies".

has wrLten to the newspapers four letters on what he calls " the emancipation oi the colonies;" that is the retracing of the policy by which Great Britain has become the greatest national power of the globe ; the reduction of an empire over hundreds of millions to a kingdom including thirty millions ; the shrivelling of an empire on which the sun never sets to a minor island of Europe.*Mr. Goldwin Smith's attacks on England and the Colonies.As a native of Canada-to which Mr.Goldwin Smith's hostility is chiefly directed -I beg to enter my protest against the doctrine he advances, and the statements he adduces in its support.His four letters are but the one in substance -expanded by as- sertions, diversified by illustrations, and effervescing with attacks on the English establishment, English statesmanship, the English press, colonial lethargy, avarice ond meanness.On recovering from the momentary hallucination of Mr. Goldwin Smith's eloquent reveries and revelries, what do we find but that his history is ro- mance, his philosophy partizanship, his patriotism treason against all that makes British institutions the heritage of the freeest and most progressive countries of tho age ; and British civilization with its Christianity the most potent regenerator of man kind.Had there been no Grecian colonies, Grecian civilization had been little known or felt beyond its birth-place ; and had the states of North America not been once a British colony, they would not now have been the theme of Mr. Goldwin Smith's eulogies.Mr.il Fa \ts in support of his pernicious Theories, Whenever Mr. Goldwin Smith touches on America, whether in respect to Canada or the older British colonies, now the United States, he seems to lose sight

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