10 per cent. Of cotton New Orleans exports the most, then Georgia and South Carolina; of coffee the Brazils and Cuba produce nearly half of the estimated annual production throughout the world, with the exception of Arabia, which is not mentioned. Holland and Germany are the greatest consumers, and England the least. Of the native Indian population in Mexico, our author gives, as all other observers have done, an account of the state of ignorance, stupor, and degradation, to which they have sunk; and he also agrees with them in observing, that with this they preserve a moral feature and mildness of disposition much superior to those of the lower orders of the different castes (the mulattoes, sambos, and mestizoes,) which appear to become more depraved as the intermixture of one race with another becomes more considerable, by marriage or otherwise.' Of the Real del Monte mines, now purchased and worked by an English Company, Mr. Tudor, who visited them, observes, that during a period of 24 years, from 1738 to 1762, they produced 27,800,000 dollars; they were then the property of the Condé de Regla. From 1738 to 1781, and from 1794 to 1801, the enormous amount of twenty-six millions of dollars was produced. The construction of the works when at the Nacienda del Regla, cost the proprietor 416,000l.; the fortune he made of them is supposed to be more than between two and three millions sterling : what the present owners may derive, is still a question in posse, and will so remain, till the shaft of Los Terreros is completed. The total number of mines in New Spain is three thousand, of which Mexico produces annually more than all the rest united: but that money does not produce wit, or sense, or good feeling, or piety, among these people, we are sorry to say, appears from what Mr. Tudor mentions took place in the capital on Good Friday, and is a deplorable specimen of what the Roman Catholic religion becomes, when it finds a people willing to credit its delusions. "In the streets of the capital was exhibited, as in a tragedy on the stage of a theatre, the whole history of the betraying and taking of Christ,-the personification of Judas Iscariot approaching with a band of soldiers, and accompanied by Indians, to salute and seize the Saviour, who is represented, with unparalleled impiety, by some other of the actors of this most unholy drama, the bearing of him away, and the subsequent awful circumstances that followed the event." Indeed, the state of ignorance, vice, and every kind of wickedness which seems to pollute from high to low all classes in the Spanish provinces, as in Cuba and Mexico, are positively fearful, and are in strong and humiliating contrast with the blessings which the hand of Nature has so profusely lavished on these luxurious climes. "My soul, turn from them;' turn we to survey" the more delightful picture of the growing wealth and prosperity of the moral community of the Northern States. It appears that British commerce occupies considerably more than one-third of all the mercantile transactions of the United States with the whole world.* In 1830, the value of imports from England amounted to 22,755,040 dollars, and that of the exports to 23,773,020, while no country but France amounted to more than 5,000,000; so deeply interwoven are the interests and prosperity of the two countries. But we must now draw to a conclusion, and leave the inhospitable and beastly

The receipts of the United States in 1830, were 24,844,116 dollars, of which the Customs furnished 21,922,391; the year 1831 exceeded the former by three millions, and the year 1832, by five millions; leaving a surplus revenue on the expenditure of 16,734,797 dollars. The National Debt amounts to between 5 and 6 millions of pounds alone, which it is said will be paid off in 1834.

Kentuckians, and the unfortunate and ungenteel Mrs. Trollope, to our author's castigation, who has gibbetted them both, and left them to swing side by side on the shores of Cincinnati.

Never can we contemplate any thing connected with the history of America, without feeling the deepest interest in her future fate, and breathing the warmest wishes for her prosperity and peace. "Peace be within her mountain walls, and plenteousness within her civic palaces." Te, natura potens Pelago divisit ab omni

Parte orbis, tuta ut semper ab hoste fores.

Hers is emphatically the land on which the eye of Hope delights to dwell, and where the bosom of Piety is expecting that growing harvest of blessings, which the hand of Providence seems preparing for a renewed world. How few years comparatively are passed, since her impenetrable forests and interminable deserts echoed to no other sound than the howl of the hungry and cruel panther after his evening prey, or the wild solitary cry of the bird of night, or the murderous war-whoop of the still wilder and more savage Indian! Forest after forest rose, and flourished, and fell, in long successive generations, only to increase by their decay the rank luxuriance of the useless soil. The putrid and pestilential marsh suffered nothing to approach it but the slimy reptile, as venomous and loathsome as itself; a dark and barren cloud of umbrage, a night of shade, was spread on all. The cataract poured its living flood of waters, only to deluge and destroy.

densis hunc frondibus atrum

Urget utrimque latus nemoris, medioque frag us
Dat sonitum saxis, et torto vortice torrens.

Man had sunk to a level with the beasts on which he fed, or against which he warred, and his entire generation was mouldering away in vice, and solitude, and misery. In every face he beheld an enemy. Hatred strong as death, and revenge that could only be satiated by the agonies and blood of its victim, was the food on which he lived, the great master passions of his heart. But the fullness of time was come; and the mansion was at length prepared for its true master; Europe poured forth the dense swarms of her peopled hives, her eager and thickening myriads, over the land that spread its bosom to receive the children of enterprise. The Genius of the Western World stood on her rocky promontories, to welcome the stranger to her shores. Arts and civilization, and polity, and government, and religion, followed in the train. The ploughshare opened its way into regions of inexhaustible fertility. The massive and umbrageous forests bowed beneath the axe of the European peasant, or drooped their giant bulk, as the devouring billows of flame passed over them. Flocks and herds, and corn-fields and orchards, were seen around,

"While bowers and copses green the golden slope divide."

Smiling villages and sheltered farms arose in the very heart of the desert. The mighty and destructive volume of waters was drained off, into the veins and arteries of canals, cut through the granite bowels of mountains, or carried over their aërial summits; and lastly, where the eagle's scream alone was heard, now "the sound of the church-going bell," and the hymns and songs of praise chaunted by the lips of thousands of grateful worshippers, gave the delightful assurance, that they who had the privilege of sharing these benefits and blessings, had not been unmindful of the sacred source from which they flowed; that they saw and felt, as all re

flecting and religious persons must, the hand of Providence manifested in this great work of love, of civilization, and of Christianity; and that they had seen it proceeding in a manner and direction which never could have been contrived by the blindness, or executed by the weakness of mortality. How gigantic the scale of these operations! how rapid the progress; how simple and beautiful the means; how astonishing the results! History in all her pages knows no event like this. "Digitus hic Dei est." It is an enlarged dominion over nature given to man in his later days; a new creation in the aged womb of time; an additional realm bestowed for the exercise of virtue, and the enjoyment of happiness; and in it we may humbly and reverentially acknowledge the rapid advancement of the prophetic declaration, as beheld in our days and in our sons' days, "that the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the waters cover the sea. '

ST. GILES'S CHURCH, OXFORD.
With an Engraving.