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CONTENTS
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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 |
