already passed away. As a people, they sank entirely, an left only a part of their civilization and of their instit tions to their successors in dominion, the Danes and No mans. The transition took place amidst the same shock and the same bloodshed which still mark every importan and radical revolution in the history of nations. Th Danish-Norman, or perhaps more properly, the Scand navian national character, usurped the place of the Anglo Saxon. It was certainly built upon the foundation laid b the Anglo-Saxons, but it must be observed that it has mad greater progress in all respects. To it especially is owing the development in England of a maritime skill befor unknown, of a bold and manly spirit of enterprise, and of a political liberty, which, by preserving a balance between the freedom of the nobles and of the rest of the people, has long ensured to England a powerful and comparatively eaceful and fortunate existence. justly proud of his native land, of external greatness. But when spect only of its being "Anglo erits of the Anglo-Saxons and be unconditionally condemns the ettlements, as having been merely e commits both an historical e. The Anglo-Saxons per zation of England, and the but it ought not to be forglishmen, who are so nearly e latter also very essentially d greatness for England, and greatness, are in no slight blood. From at least the (about the year 1000), the adinavian, national character has leading one in England's history, ues to be at the present day. ery remarkable evidence of this is the sympathy which the English people in general feel for the North, the ancient home of their fathers, and particu larly for Denmark. The Englishman himself will generally aver, with a sort of pride, that he derives his descent from the North. A Dane travelling in England will everywhere find an unusually cordial reception. He will in general be regarded more as a countryman than as a foreigner, merely because he is a Daue. He will discover that the English, instead of having forgotten their kinsmen beyond the sea, with whom they were formerly united, feel themselves attracted to them by the ties of blood and friendship. He will continually hear complaints of the deplorable attitude which the policy of England assumed with regard to Denmark at the commencement of the present century; and he will adopt the conviction that in this mistaken policy, the people themselves, at least, were not to blame. He will at times be induced to forget that he is at a distance from his native land and from his nearest relatives; for the highly-striking agreement between the character of the English and that of their Scaudinavian kinsmen causes a Due to imagine that he is still among his own friende, in the home which he has long since left. It was certainly also something more tuat mere accident that, during the last war in Denmark, the Danish cause nowhere, out of the North itself, awakened sucu general sympathy among the people, nor found so many bold champions, both in speeches and publications, as in England. May we not in these facts trace tuc effects of near relationship, and perceive tuc ties of blood? It should not pass altogether unnoticed that the sympt thies of the Englist for Denmark and their faterial foc.ing towards tue Danish people, uave increased it proportion as they have been obliged to achovicuge that the Danes of modern times stil know how to defend thei independence, liberty, and honour, with the bravery inherited from their forefatuere. Not to speak of the last contest, so giorious for Denmark, it is particulary the |