The next move against the Disintegrationists was made four years later, in 1872, when “The United Empire Review” revived the now familiar watchword of the old “U. E. Loyalists” of 1776 (those Abe Lincolns, who fought for _the Union_ a hundred years ago), “a United Empire;” and in 1873 an agitation was begun in the Premier’s own constituency (Greenwich) against the dismemberment policy of the Government, that six months later drove them out of power at the general election. While Gladstone was deliberately striving to breed disunion between the people of England, Scotland, Ireland and “gallant little Wales,” and to get rid of our Colonial Empire, his exact antipodes in everything, Bismarck, that _Colossus of the Nineteenth Century_, was devoting his giant energies to his life-work,—the unity of Germany, and the creation of a German Colonial Empire. It is possible that, as Sam Slick’s works are among his favorite books, he may have imbibed to some extent Sam Slick’s ideas as to the value of our colonies, and the incredible folly of those that wished to get rid of them; and that we may here find a clue to the unmeasured contempt which the Prince used so often to openly express for English politicians. But he must have been most interested in _Rule and Misrule of the English in America_, one of the most profoundly philosophical and prophetic works to be found in the literature of any country. Published in England, and by Harper Brothers, New York, in 1851, a troubled time all over Europe, and even in America, which had its Tammany Hall rule, and, later on, its “Know-nothing Movement,” it pointed out that American republican institutions, which dated back to the old Puritans, were of slow growth, and could not be acquired or preserved in European countries by revolutions and universal suffrage; and he foretold the collapse of the French Republic, the rise of Communism, the stern rule of self-imposed Imperialism, and nearly all the leading features of the political history of Europe and America since that date. Time, however, had a marvel in store, the fruit of half a century of social and political development, which even he did not foresee—a French-Canadian Roman Catholic, supported by a Liberal majority from Quebec, ruling from ocean to ocean over a new Dominion! Some of his views, visionary as they may have appeared fifty years ago, seem to have taken a practical shape at the Queen’s Jubilee.