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LETTER VI.
The Reputation of the Colony in England—Australian Interests in the House of Commons—British Connection—The London Poor 56
LETTER VII.
Mr. Gladstone—Mr. Cobden—The Iron-clad 'Merrimac'—Emigration of Women—Poverty among the People 71
LETTER VIII.
The International Exhibition—The Queen—Prince Arthur—English Politics— The Turning Tide in the American War 80
LETTER IX.
The Exhibition—Party Conflict in the House of Commons—Lord Brougham and the Social Science Association 89
LETTER X.
Lord Palmerston and Mr. Cobden—The Distress in Lancashire—Confederate Sympathy in the House of Commons—Commemoration Day at Oxford 98
LETTER XI.
Rural England and the Railways 110