text:  The extraordinary breadth and boldness of the fiscal measures propounded and carried out at once in the past year with vigour and promptitude no less extraordinary wisely calculated of themselves as they may be perhaps and so far experience is assumed to have confirmed to exercise a salutary bearing upon the physical condition of the people and to reanimate the drooping energies of the country can however receive the full the just development of all the large and beneficial consequences promised only as commercial intercourse is extended as new marts are opened and as hostile tariffs are mitigated or abated by which former markets have been comparatively closed against the products of British industry