text:  In face of these incontrovertible facts of which hereafter and now that the record of them is consigned to that wide circulation through the world which the pages of Blackwood only can afford misrepresentation remains without excuse on the question of that fostering protection to which in a larger degree if not exclusively the cotton manufacture of Great Britain is indebted for its growth to its present colossal mammoth-like and almost unwieldy grandeur