Miscellany

We nmy find, in ihe constitution of the Englisli race, ihe first element of the argument, by which it was proposel to prove, tliot upon England alone devolves the du!yof giving the world an Ocean ! Pt-nny P'istage. Tlie English race is the resu'.t of :i remnrkable eiemenls, on a ; mackaUe tliealre of amalgnmations and at a remarkable time in llie world's history ; and fo'r the purpose, it would apI e:ir, of rtriking, inanew sense, of one lilood, nnd of the language, al! nntionsof ! men. These elements are tlio Celtic, Saxon, and Scandinnvuin, combinedon heislandofGre.it Britain, jusl before the discovery of the New World. Each of these is as esrntial to lhe integrity and vital energy of the English race, is any other of the three. Il' emigraron had commenced to the Weste-n or Eastern World, before ihis combitiation, or from eiiher of these elementnry rnces, the condition nnd prospecta of mankind would have differed seriously f rom !hose thiit distinguían te present dny. What would a colony of pure Celts, or Saxsons, or Danes, have done on the American continent? Would the Celts have launched ibrth into commercial and manufacturing enierprise, and have et the streams ! ofthenew world to the music of machinery ? Would not the Saxons báe folliiwed their old predilections, and have seltled down upon the ferlile lands, as mere agricullurists, and left the riversand intervening ocean scarcely whitened by a vard of canvas?, as they did in England when the Danes surrounded the Island with nearly a thousand of the little ships ï An would not the Danes havo overrun lhe new continent, as they were wont to overrun the seas ; without ever stopping to settle, or tarryinglonger than to gratify their reckless spirit of aiventure, by playing the Nimrrd n the wilderness, or by waging perpetual war with the Indians? An answer to these questlons may be found in the experience of evory elementary race, that has sought to colonize itself on the American continnnt, o any other foreign land. The Fiench is essentially an elementary race ; and it liad the first and best chance of .ion in Nonh America ; and this it attempted in the chjicest localities on the continent. Someoftlie best families of France setlled on the St. Lawrence, Ohio, and Mississippi. But what hns Deen the result ? Tho Canadian French, mav be a fair answer. So with regard lo Spain. She colonized her best blood in .Mexico anJ Peru ; and what came of it, but a listien race, without energy or enterprise ? Such, probably, would hnve been essentially the experience of ench of the elements oftlie English race, had it altempled the colonization of America. But combined, they have given the world a race, not only distinguished by the Celtic faculty of cohesión and endurance ; by the Saxon faculty of conformity to all climes and conditions of life, and by the hardy Scandinavian or Yankee spirit of adventure and migration, but also by a prodigious faculty of self propagation unknown to any portion of the human family. In evidence of this lattcr quallty, the French savans themselves assort tiiat tho population of the United States doubles itself once in 25 yearf ; of Great Britain, in 44years ; of Geri any, n 76 years ; of Holland, in 10G ; of Italy, in 135 ; of France, in 13S ; of Switzerland, in 227 ; of Portugal, in 23S ; and of Turkey, in 555 years. The stalistics of population in Asiatic and A frican countries are too lame to afford a ti-usty basis of calculation. But we know that there are many nalionsof men that do n 't increase at all in populntion ; that there are others gradually wasling, likc morning dow, bofore the rising sun of civilization. And perhaps we may safuly assume, that the nggregrate population of a!l the other nations, besides those mentioned above, doubles itself in 1000 yéBl-ft Thon, taking the average increar'e of all tho?e nntions, the population of the globe, exclusive of the English race, would doublé itself in 310 years ; and, if now 750 millions, would be in the year 2157, if the w. rLl endure so long, 1,500,000,000.- But the English race doubles ilself in 35 years ; and, putting in now ut the very Iow estimate of 50 mill'ons, if it should increase as it has done, it would nmcunt to 21,940,000,000 in 2157 ; or more than ticenty-seven times the present number of the inhabitants of the globe! and more than fourtcen limes the number of all the rest of the human family 310 years henee! Can there exist a rensonable doubt, then, of the uliimate prevalence of one bloei nnd one lanïuago over the eartli ? Is it not inevitable, ihat tliese luggish streatna and stngnant pools of human vitality, must be absorbed i tito lliat gulf-stream of populition, which takes ts hea! and Ímpetus in England 1 GrentBntain isnotonly 'lio heart in I wbich that blood of this wondorful race is elaborated, but the heart that propcls it, by organic pulsations, to the world's extremes. During the ten yenis ending wiih 1846, umler the pressiiro of a comtnon necessity, she pro;pllod 745,309 of hcrchildren aross the Atlant'c, 50 seek a field of labor and ufe in Norih America ulone ;- and 125,778 of thes during the last year. And this is only one direction in which she has propelled the blood of the Engli.sh race, to pronngate its kind among the distant tribes of men. America, with its 25 millions, of English lineage, lnngunge and genius is but a senior plantation. The vvhole g!ob. is alreruly sown wilh the like in kind ; and each nn evidetice of the prodigious fecunditv of the stnck. Sail the widc ocenns ove'-, and you will find one of these plantatimis striking itsvigorous roots doop and b' oad into ihe soi), whcreon the aborigines are me'ting away like iinsuited exotic-s. The The island-heart of Britain beats on ; ar,d ts blond acclimales itself lo every clime and condition of vitalily. And now its pulsations ire quickened and str ngthened by the pressure ofa nev necessitr, which has long been gathcring force. - IKr. sea-girt home is too contracted fur her landless millions, who are annually iocreuiltg in nuaïber, and relontless itnportunity fer bread, and frecr life and labor. And she must let her people go - go by hundreds, where thy have gone befure by scores- go to all lands, whero labor can meel the exigences of human life. During the last year, the official regisier numbers 120,851 emigrarjts, who went out from her on ths mission of existence. But what is this number pared with the host that will leavo the United Kingdom the present year ! Ii nearly a million have gone to distant lands during the last ten, will not a million more follow them in the next five years 1 And these will go, as their predeccs-sors went, with as strong home aflections and love of kindred as ever bound human hearts and habitations together. Ifony one doubt tliis, let him stand by and wit nesst'ie sceno that is enacted hen au emigrant ship unmoors fer the Western World; or let him go lo America ond try the streng:h of the w e-feeling with which the emigrant clings to the remembrance of his native land, and of those he has left behind. Now, then, it is with these millions of emigrant?, and with the millions of their poor kindred left behind, that we have to do, inaskiiig Englrnd togive the world an Ocean Penny Postflge. We will say nothing now of the convenience of Cornrnerce. The merdinnt can pay a.sliilling for the busines letter he sends or receives across the ocean But there are millions in the United Kingdom who cannot do thi, without pinching their means of subsistance. And there are a million abroad, born in these two islands, - nnd soon there will be millions of them, - scattered far f rom th& Atlantic sea-board, who can write home scarcely once a year, at the present rate of postagc. Why should England expatríate t-ese neecssitous myritidsof her c'hTldren,an3 then cut tlicm off fi-om all cominunion witli their old homes and thoir kindrecl ? Why, setling asido the humnnny and justice of the mensure, tho homo aflbclion of those r.illionsofemigrants might bemade a sou ree ofrevenueto England, wilh an Ocean Penny Postagp. l'ut wc reserve this department of the subject for future considerution. Let England aoprehend her desüny andduly now, when world-wide measures are requisito the wcll bcing of mankin:!. [I.iless some great pliysicil revolution suporvenp, to arrest or check the propagation of the English raco, in 145 yoars it must numler 800,000,000 souls : outnumbering tlic present population of the globe ! Shall Engjand bc tlie centre, ihe soul, and tcat of moni and commercial legislation of this might1 rnce,al such an epoeh of its history ? Then let her establish an Ocean Penny Postaoe voto. Rowland llill has stated publicly, that nearly half of tlio enlire correspondence of the United Kingdom passes through the city of Lando. Let him expand the Penny Post to the compase ( t!;e Ocean, and he may live to say, thnt half of the entire correspondence of the world passes through England and Englana's ships, to all the sea-divided habitations of men. - { Let the testimonial of England' debt to his beneficent genius be deferred, until the people of every clime, color and country, beyond the sea, ahí] the inhabitantsoftho fur off ocean Islands, may add a world's tribute of gratitudc for an Ocean Penny Posinge. hondón, May Olh, 1847.