the circle of
the excluded becomes, consequently, the greater the range of
human beings cast forth from the pale of sympathy; and the more
contracted do the judgment, experience, and feelings of its
inmates become. The lofty walls, the iron spikes that surround
our villas, and the notices every where affixed 'that trespassers
will be prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law,' are meet
emblems of the social spirit that connects the different orders
of society in England. The effect of this is to produce narrow
minds, or, what is worse, narrow hearts on one side, and a host
of dissocial, irritable passions on the other. In each step of
the scale, those beneath see chiefly the unamiable qualities of
their superiors."

The disproportion of the happiness of society with its means, is a subject
which calls forth all the eloquence and sagacity of this writer. Nor is
this surprising; for it might startle the most sluggish indifference--the
most incurious stupidity. How does it come to pass, that with us misery is
the fruit of successful labour, that with us experience does not teach
caution, that with us the most munificent charity is unable to check the
accumulation of evil, moral and physical, with which it vainly endeavours
to contend? How is it, that while the wealth of England is a proverb among
nations, the distress of her labourers is a byword no less universal; that
while her commerce encircles the globe, while her colonies are spread
through both hemispheres, while regions hitherto unknown are but the
resting-place of her never-ceasing enterprise, the producers of all this
wealth, the causes of all this luxury, the instruments of all this
civilization, lie down in despair to perish by hundreds, amid the miracles
of triumphant industry by which they are surrounded? How happens it, that
as our empire extends abroad, security diminishes at home? that as our
reputation becomes more splendid, and our attitude more commanding, the
fabric of our strength decays, and our social bulwarks rock from their
foundations? Who can say that the skill and valour of the general who has
added a province to our Indian empire--who, triumphing over obstacles
hitherto insurmountable, has caused the tide of victory to flow from East
to West, and make the Sepoy invincible--may not erelong be called upon to
fulfil the thankless task of suppressing insurrection, and to control the
kindling fury