ABSTRACT
While Englishmen were sailing away in one direction to land where they hoped to discover gold, other Britons as gallant a set of mariners and scientific explorers as their country has ever produced – were sailing away in another direction, hoping to discover the one remaining track of water-way which would complete the North-west Passage. The divisions in the religious world continued, as they must, under constitution of any Protestant Established Church. Some grateful mention has been made of the benefactors that society has lost during our period of forty years. It is unnatural to conclude without some grateful mention of those who remained among us at the close of the period. The British Museum admits, on Easter Monday, more than the total population of a provincial city; and there are hundreds of artisans in London who can now tell their brother-workmen about gods and heroes of Egyptian temples and tombs, and monuments of Assyrian monarchs mentioned in the Bible.
