Produced by Paul Murray, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Text that has been changed to correct an obvious error is noted at the end of this ebook.] CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. III. Essay 9: The Expansion of England London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND. Politics and History 291 In relation to the eighteenth century 294 Mr. Green and his _History of the English People_ 297 The secession of the American colonies 300 The mechanical and industrial development of England 301 The Americans and Independence 303 The moral of Mr. Seeley's book 305 Organisation in time of war 306 Sir Henry Parkes on Australia 307 Mr. Archibald Forbes and the Australian colonies 313 Proposals made by the Earl of Dunraven regarding the colonies 316 The formation of an imperial Zollverein or Greater Customs Union 318 Sir Thomas Farrer's _Fair Trade_ v. _Free Trade_ 318 The colonies to be represented in the British Parliament 319 Lord Grey 320 Mr. W. E. Forster's address on our Colonial Empire 321 The Newfoundland Fishery dispute 329 The Germanic Confederation 331 Conclusion 334 THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND.