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~ DECEMBER 8, 1877.

“Trade Trophies and Businass Regalia.”

Tre Rev. Joun LatsHern delivered the first of the Y. M. C. A. Wimter Course of lectures last evening, to a good audience. We are unable to give a connected report of the lecture ; but, for the benefit of those who did not enjoy the great pleasure and advantage of listening to it, we publish some of its passages :—

Tae Emprne or Trapz ts a DomMAIN OF UnrivaALLEp Maeyiricence. The pomp and pride of Jsovereignity, with all their grand and glittering insigna, paraphernalia of throne and crown and - jeweled sceptre, pale before mercantile splendour. The capitalist, at the present time, rules the world ; and the spirit of commerce, typified and represented by its money magnates, controls Courts and Cabinets and constitutes the central commanding power of great and eivilized communities.

‘Even proud Britannia makes her humblest bow

Before her Baring’s, not her Baron’s, now ;

And pawns her diamonds, whilst she humbly craves,

Leave of the money king once more to rule the waves.”

The Barings Rothschild’s, and such as they, are great poientates of the money world. ‘‘ ‘fhese merchant painces,” says Arnold, carry their rank in their thoughtful foreheads and their gesture and bearing. You can see it in the greai paintings by Van- dyke and Titian, of the burgo masters of Amsterdam, and the merchants of Venice. ‘¢ T like to think of the old Venetian mer- chants—counting up their bales from the Indies, and their spice-boxes from Ceylon —discoursing with their brother merchants on the Rialto—entertaining eastern stran- gers in their long, flowing robes on the Baryzeito—discoursing high themics of peace

nd war and Govermnusnt — gathering beauty, skill and valor to the inusic into feasi,and ihe vrophies of art and genius, and tiie splendour of sea-girt marbie palace;” and there, watching his full-freighted ships as destined for distant : seas, as they slowly emerge from the lagoons of the Adriatic.

BRITAIN S GREATNESS.

The unparlelled and unrivalled grandeur and greatness of the British Empire are mainly aud pre-eminently commercial. Her merchants are princes, and her tratlickers are the honorable -of ‘the earth. Her sails whiten évery sca ; herships anchor in every port, and the vst and valuable’ preducts of her looms andforges tind a market in every cotutry of the globe. The capitalists of Gzeat Britain are the bankers of every nation : and the metropolis of the british Isles is the tnighty heart of the commercial world.

SUEZ CANAL,

The great event of the year in the British nation—the purchase of shares in the Suez Canal—bas been not so rench a_ political and governmental as a commercial transae- tion. This splendid feat of the British Premier and his Cabinet belongs quite as much to the domain of: Trade as to the De-

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| France—military glory —so the

partment of Goverpment. It is quite as decidedly a stroke of finance as « scheme of | foreign policy. The business men of Eng-} land read with breathless imterest, one! morning in November last, as they took up’ their copy of the London Tins, that the’ British ‘Government had bought from the , Khedive of Egypt shares of the Suez Canal to the amount of four millions sterling, and | had authorized the Egyptian Government | to draw upon the Rothchilds for “that amount at sight. The Eastern ques- tion — closely involved in this Suez Canal purchase,—which has so long and so often puzzled and perplexed statés-

en and diplomatists, is now likely to re- aolye itself into consideraiions of state

Jeans, drafts and financial manipwations,

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his splendid ‘prize and the prestige and tical advantages which it commands and ijeaves, bas been won and wrenched from rival parties and from European powers on the legitimate battle ground of Trade. ‘“The British people,” says a French

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‘Satirist, ‘‘ have commenced a new kind of

conquest,—conquest by mortgages,—not a had item we should say for the nation of

| shopkeepers—Brittania has won this vicvory

not by drawing the sword, but by drawing a cheque at sight.” ALBERT . MEMORIAL.

One of the most tecent monumental erec- tions of the British people, and one of the most magnificent of trophied structures, the Albert Memorial at Kensington, just now completed —is, in its genius and de- sien, mainly commercial. Just as the First Napoleon’s column of victory in Pavis sym- bolizes and ecrystalizes the nacional idea of

Albert Memorial, with its splendid relieis, superb frescoes, and equisite perfeciion of sculpture, expresses and perpevuaces che commercial character and dominan, idea of the British people, At its .our corners stand the grand allegorical intergadenal mi rbles, Europe on her bull, Asia_ on. her elephant,

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HALIFAX COM MISSION.

The Halifax Commission, which has just i . . é : -made its award, has been occupied chiefly

with questions of werceantile and matitime

importance, and belongs therefo.2 mainly to the départinment o. trate.

The principal question, to be determined | by the arbitvators at Halifax, was whecher laccess by the United States to our inland alue than the cor-

fisheries was of greater V ing pirivil * access. by Canada to responding privisege 0. access Dy Va Lat i the inland usheries of tue Unised States ; and if so, to determine the amount ef dif-

ference. :

‘he Commission at Halifax, like that of Geneva —by which 154. miilious of dollars were awarccd to the United Srates in saiis- faccion ot the Alabama claims—was provid- ed for wander the ireaty of Washington.

The Halifax Coisiaission has been of great im: ortance :—1, As the close of .a series Of disputes between the Governments

94 vs ar @¢ 2 4 2 "28 3 ‘ . ° ' T ., at : . Africa on her camel, and America on her} 6g Gog Gritaia and tie Unied Seates back

buffalo. The name and date of vhe first In- ternational Exhibition of which it isin part a memento, are suggesrively and con- spicuously carved upon 16. The idea of that wonderful palace, with its giant aisles, then unprecedented, has since been repeated,

EXCHANGE OF PRODUCTS [8 THE PHILOSOPHY

OF TRADE.

The earth is vast and varied in its resour- ces and productions. Portions of the globe are stored with mineral wealth, valuable devosits of coal, mountains ribbed with iron, and abundanee of gold stored away ™m rich veins and rifted rocks, There are ‘broad lands, plains, and prairies of exhaustless and unlimited agricultural resources ; val- levs {hat wave with ripened grain, and pas- tures that are covered over with flocks. There are maritime countries, covered with havens for shipa, forests for winter, and an abundance of wealth to deep sea. ‘There are climes of tropical rich- ness swept by healing — breezes, and gales that are laden with the perfume of _ spices. Each clime needs what every other clime upplies, and to this necessity we owe the sriumphs of commerce.

TRADE RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES.

To some extent, the commerce of this country is-fettered at the present time. With great and varied resources, the Gov- ernment of the United States—not appre- ciating fairly or fully the commercial capa- bilities of the New Dominion—has adopted, as much it thay be to its own injury and in- convenience as to our disadyantage, a policy of protection—a system of restrictive laws. If we cannot have reciprocal free tzade of natural staple products—then the next besi hing is reciprocity of tarifis, not one coun- try with a restrictive tariff, and tne other a slanghter market for its manufacturers. Bat while contending, in seli-deferce, for sutfi- ciently stringent trade regulations between this Dominion and the United States, one cannot feel butihat in these two countries having so much commercially in common, a policy of protection is selfish and suicidal ; and one cannot but hope that some well- considered measure of international tratflic which may promote the prosperity of bota these neighboring nations, may be mutually agreod’ upon and inauguraved—a_ policy which shall lead the van of the world’s pro- gress, and which shall ‘From growing commerce loose her latest

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OUR COMMERCIAL FUTURE.

And we may be forgiven in this new nation- ality—oeceupying a position commercially and geographically of such commanding im- portance—already favorably distinguished in mercantile enterprize—with abundant Za- cilities for the developement of trade, if we anticipate a grand and prosperous future— when our merchants shall navigate every sea ; when our wants of business shall,along the sea-board, become opulent and popu- lous cities ; when our traffic shall not only flow across the Atlantic to the nations of Europe, but beyond the Dominion—through the tunneled gates of the Rocky. Moun- tains, over the bright waters of the Paoiiic, until it reach the wants of the rising sun. Commercially the prospects and possi- bilities of this New Dominion are bright and almost boundless.

SCUM AT THE TOP.

With the conduct of our public men and sharp Government ‘transactions much in- dignation has, at different times, found ex- préssion. ‘There was a good deal of capiial sense and sound practical wisdom in @ toast proposed on tlie Fourth of July in an Ameri- can asylum, ‘‘ Our glorious Union in the boiling of the political pot, may the sevin neyer rise to the top,” ‘ine. scum at the top only indicates the impurity and cor- ruption which seethe and simmer in the boiling cauldron,

FAILURES.

There is,in financial affairs, such an inter- lacing and interthreading of interests, that, no matter where, in commercial crisises, the first shock may be felt, when one mem- ber suffers every member suffers with it ; and so ‘every few years the world seeins doomed to disruption and dislocation. -

Some of the failures in vhese business centres have doubtless been the result of de- fective business power, insufficient capital ; but, still, mary ere due to other causes. They seem periocical. They are apparently inseparable from ithe present system of political economy. The ablest and most en- terprising business men may be compeiled

to succumb in a season of wide-spread busi- ,

ness disaster. The most sensitive and high minded men may be dragged down by their connections. ~ Cases such as these call not for censure, but for sympathy ; not for

words of severity, but for deeds of substan-"

tial assistance. ‘There is nothing finer than the generosity which finds expression in the case of a stricken merchant, whose affairs— always honorable—have been paralyzed by

sudden and unexpected disaster, Only in

to the close of the last century. 2, Ag fur- nishing a noble precedent for Avbierawon ib the secslement of any fuiure dispates, 3, Because of the mass of valuable macerial which has beeu accumulated, and which will be available for the guidance of states- men on whom may devolve tae responsibility of negotiating fuvure Weauies between these comics. it has been a mater of pro- found satisfaction to us, all the more be- catge Canadian statesmanship has been wellrepresented in the recent Co.auission, that British and Canadian interests have received subsiantial jusdce. ‘Lhe dfpio- matie cuteness of Jonatian has geueraly, in matters of arbitration, proved .oo inuch for the slow and sturdy seuse of John Lull. in the hands of Cawadians, however, Do- minion interests have been conserved.

iven Prince Edward Island has received

be won from the |@2 unlooked-fo:, though long-delayed, meas-

ure ofjusiice. it is well known viac daring the Revolutionary War an American vessel Sailed into this harbor of Charlo.vetown, captured the Government, the Governor and hig Cabinet, and bore them off as a prize to General Washin;ion.

They were at once seat back; but there was the insalt. “time,” said Mr. Thonmp- son, works ample revenge. ‘he formidable representative of the United Siates, who came before the Commission armed with statistics and threatening, and fully expect- ing to demolish the case of the britisaecrs, fell into the hands of the Premier of. this same Prince Edward Island; and wy the time he had been riddled and turaed rnside out, andthen sammavilly dismissed go ius own country, the Island had received full satisfaction tor the humiliation oi the Kevo- lutionary insult.’

Let*.us hope that,. as Great Britain promptly and magannimously aceepted the award of the Geneva Commission, that for her own honor, the Republic will cheer- fully aecept the award of the Halifax Com- mission.

in the last number of the Toronto Grip there is a capital cartoon, worthy of the famous political caricatures in the palimicst days of Punch, suggestive of the way in which the*United States may deal with the Fisheries’ award. John bull, bluff and burly, as usually depicted, accompanied by a youngster, armed with fisning rod and tackle, representing Canada presents to Uncle Sain a document labelled *‘ Fisheries Award, Halifax. The Arbitrator’s award $9, - {500,000 to Great Britain. Kellog dissents.” iUucle Sam, in his usual costuine of blue stripe and swallow-iail, leaped upon ‘the edge of a cask bearing the inscription, ‘‘ Surplus of general award after paying all legitimate Canadian claims ’—wicu a pile of taxed lobster cans at his feet—holiing nm his right hand a bag, labelled ‘‘ isheries Award $5,500,000,” which he evidently in- tends to pass over at once to John Bull. Alongside, however, stands Mr. Commis- sioner Kellogg, holding in his hand a printed paper, on Which you read: ‘ Treaty of Washington loop-hole! Must che Treawy

Sam, with . genuine disgust and pure and lofty indignation ‘on fis countenance, ex- claiins : ** Crawl out through that loop-hole, Huckeyslides ! Never! Kellogg, never !,” I'll pay the award novly—with their own money,” May we not hope, moreover, in spite of the fact that half-civilized nations must still appeal to deadly baitle strife, as at the present time.upon the Danube; yet thai two ef the greatest of commercial na-

tian civilization—have consented to adjust their aisputes ‘at the Council Board, we are being led along into a new and nobler era of treaties and of international arbitrations, when the rivalries of the earth shall be rivalries of peace,—when the war drum shall throb no longer, and the battle tlags be furled

“in the Parliament of man,—

The federation of the world.”

May we not hope that these two greatest of commercial nations will be free from all

revaries but those of concord and industrial hnterprize, and that the fiags of these two great covniries—the Starry Banner of the Uniied Staces emblem: of God’s great and glovious work in creation, and the Red! Jvoss of England, emblem of God’s greater | and more glorious work in redemjtion—that flag which for a thovsand years has braved) the bavtle ‘and’ the breeze—may ~ wave to- | gether unsullied and undisturbed in their| harmony, wxtil their brightness. shall mingle | with the splendour of the Golden Year. — CLOSE.

Not being ambitious of mecting with a’ sudden extinguisher, I shall not venture’ further in the direction indicated. I may! close with a word or two to the young men around me. Twelve clerks in a store, twelve composiiors In a priniing office, welye apprentices at their work, twelve young men in a village. Of these, one of,

the villagers, who ploughs the field and

be unaninrous 2? “An open question !” Cncle,

tions—standing in. the very heart of Chris-}

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drives the golden corn to market, will be- come the owner of large landed estates and will traffic in corner lois. One of the ap- prentices will become a master-builder, and will live in a large house with brown stone front. Of the compositors, one will become the proprietor of an influential journal, which will wicld wide public influence. Of the clerks in the store, one will yet do busi- ness on his own account, and will accumu- late an ample fortune. Who of these are disposed to be the successful ones? There can be no doubt. The thing is certain as a problem in Euclid. The young man who masters his business, who stores his mind, who takes care of his earnings, who avoids all habits of evil, will distance all competi- tors, and take his place anong the crowned toilers.

The lecturer fully sustained his reputa- tion and’showed that he has closely ob- served the habits of business men and siudied the principles of trade and com- merece. One most pleasing feature of his lectures is that they are delivered extem- poraneously and not read from the manu- cript. Nothing is more pitiable than to see a lecturer striving hard to work up some enthusiasm in his subject, his hand striking out first on one side, then onthe other, while his eves are riveted upon a paper be- fore him. We. have only one or two good revlers of lectures in this community. Judge Hensley, at the close of last night's lecture, ina neat but short speech, com- plimented the lecturer, and expressed his thankfulness for the delight which he and the audience experienced while listening. Charles Palmer, Esq., moved a vote of thanks, and, ina few appropriate remarks, hoped the lecturer might be long spared to exercise his great ability as a lecturer.

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