ABSTRACT
The feeling of British Canadians towards England is as warm as any reasonable Englishman can desire. The French are French, and their hearts turn to their own mother country. The community of interest between the two is that on which each so greatly depends for employing the property of both, and this requires freedom of exchange for the commodities which each produces. The great wants of the United Kingdom are, established customers for her manufactures, and fresh homes for her superabundant children. In the demand which representatives of the colonies make for a closer commercial union between them and the mother country, it is constantly assumed that 'preferential fiscal arrangements' among them, as against foreign countries, will promote such a union, and are of the essence of such a union.
