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Show A (slooinj Picmrt; fcutjlttud OolDg lo ICuiu. London, 7. The Spectator, in a remarkable article snowing that iug land is on the road U decay, looks forward to the time when her factories will close one by one and her iron and coal mines will be shut up like the tin m'nes of Cornwall. The fires in the forges will be blown out, the ships will be laid to rot, and so forth. Tbe only suggested remedy is tbe diocovery of some new industry to replace those already waning. Tbe writer, who is certified as sue of the shrewdest, ablest men of the day, in speculating upon the social and political iuture, says: Taxation will be light, for the debt will be none, shaken off as beyond the nation's means. Tbe throne will be gone as too expensive and useless, and the country, organized like Switzerland, will be thinly peopled by a race with tbe hereditary habit of education, and with but few desires or opportunities ol excitement. The inherent conser vatism of tbe people will have its fullest scope. The ambitious and the enereetic will go eUew here there will be nothing to do here. |