England is not yet a commercial country in the sense in which that epithet is used for her; and let us still hope that she will not soon become so.

She might surely as well be called feudal England, or chivalrous England.
If in western civilised Europe there does exist a nation among whom there are high signors, and with whom the owners of the land are the true aristocracy, the aristocracy that is trusted as being best and fittest to rule, that nation is the English.

Choose out the ten leading men of each great European people.

Choose them in France, in Austria, Sardinia, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Spain ( ?), and then select the ten in England whose names are best known as those of leading statesmen; the result will show in which country there still exists the closest attachment to, the sincerest trust in, the old feudal and now so-called landed interests.
England a commercial country! Yes; as Venice was.

She may excel other nations in commerce, but yet it is not that in which she most prides herself, in which she most excels.