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SM,—Your correspondent, R. A. is a wag. The Icng story
about " The Midshipman and his Log," is evidently intended
to be a quiz on the spurious circumstantiality and affected mo-
desty of the unhappy Scotchman win gave rise to the present.
jof a parody which was composed discussion. In order, therefore, doubtless, that his joke might
not be mistaken in the present matter-of*et age, he bas
udiciously represented his Gallic Socrates (who, of course, is
's Miscellav with," Judy Callaghan.
pace, reciting to his nautical Ai/minus, gloat the time oc the
battle of Corunna, "as much .she could remember," forst,. it
P:°s:lel da
believe,illrie French
Henry,".lc• htiu "o2;;;i::eretie:ai n:etah2 an
First Volume of Bentley
not sufficient to insure credence t'. And ane other "Reliques of rather Prom." And as it this word
forward his young hero, like a second Daniel, " telhng the 4r earn," as well as giving th7e*interpretation thereof ; for i..s lb.
" Old Veteran" recited. 'his jocularity, he brings
only " as much as ha could reraem-
Pung', gentleman's inspiration supplied, of course,
Dr. v" , '7 - rather translation of Wolfe's
i_ s (?)parody, 01 . .
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...1,'5, is really so good, and so slyly introduced in " Prout's
Reliques," as to have actually imposed on some people as the
original • and 11. A.'s irony also is so grave, that
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without this explanation it might spread the delusion almost
coextensive with the circulation of your journal. However,
remem-
ber,
wtall:/".. eine- (,fl the originsl.
should I have misconceived your correspondent's de-
sign, by mistaking lightness of judgment for gravity of
humour, I heartily beg his pardon; but at the same
time advise him, if, he really did intend to start fur the prize, to
withdraw his `rbeast" as fast as possible. As it must be ob-
vious to the meanest capacity that the statement of his qualifi-
cations, &c., &c., &c., will not bear a scrutiny,l dare ray there
might have been as much likeness between " The Warrior's
Burial" and " The Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore," as
we may conceive to have existed between the spoutings of
Mons. " D'Almand," which inspired the former, and the com-
position of Dr. M. (?), which travesties the latter..--I am, Sir,'
your very obedient servant, M.
Monday, April 19.

PRICE sd.

TFIE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES.

The fidlowing are extracts frout a ve7sensible
address lately issued by " The Institution for
Bettering. the Condition of the Industrious
Classes :"

The Institution earnestly recommends the formation, in
every parish and town, in the kingdom, of
A Committee for the protection and encouragement of
the indus!rious classes :—The mernbcra of this Commit!ce,
to consist of enligLten,A and worthy persons, of every
rank and station in society; so as to unite the experience
and co-opera ul of the rich and the poor, and to pro -aAte
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ehraetsut noifo noa.en,dy
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austst:aal
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sdescourees sae nbtair:7l,
etr against everyo real in-
inroad of injustice and violence.

The immerse importance of suppressing drunkenness
by every probe; means. i'o this end, the co-operation of
every Christian, every reasonable person, should be
earnestly directed ; and nose can be at a loss for the most
pressing reasons, for urging the indispensable necessity' of
sobriety to every one who prefers con.fsrt, respectability,
and future happine:s, to squalid want. unnatural diseases,
' untimely death, and the more terrible, but scarcely less
certain alternatives—domestic di cord and cruelty, the
commission of the most revolting orimes, and the utter
misery of human And divine retribution. The countless
reetords of the shocking effects of drunkenoess, will con-
vince every one, that is is incompatible with comfort or
happiness; and that it justly merits the placo which the
Gospel assigns to it amongst the moat flagrant crimes.
In a pecuniary point of view, it causes such waste as to
render even liberal wages nttetly insufficient for mere pre-
sent comfort ; ansl, fulterity is left exposed to every
vicissi-
tude of misery.
Pril?. Committees, or sections of theos, might constantly
form and casry into effect, plans fisr augmenting the wages
of goad workmen, or rendering them more adequate to
their expenses, and for procuring employment for workmen
of good character; end, with reference to the great in.
terests at issue, to testeh over the progress of manufac-
tures, &c., nod prevent the loss of vast markets from illicit
pecotices and deteriorated articles ; and also to use every
exertion to render war impossible, and our friendly rela-
tions with Foreign States advantageous to all parties.
Other plans for leading every family and individual to
make some provision for future contingencies, old age,
&c., which should be encouraged by every proper means.
Plans to turn these savings to advantage, so as to improve
the general circumstances of the owners ; plans of small
loans for tools, or email undertakings, which have been
successfully adopted end managed by the ladies of one of
our noble fingien, in the north of Elagland ;--plans for '
asseiing supplies of good food et the fair market price, so
as to ensble the poor today out their money as advan-
tageously as the wore ane:nithy classes; and for hav-
ing duties regulated so as to render them more pro-
table and los burdensome. The Corn-law question
night be so treated in these Cermeittees as to prevent in-
justice to any party ; and the lastitution suggests the
propriety of examining whether justice and good policy
do not recommend a reduction of the corn duty at least
commensurate with the aumeatation of our population
since Taking that augmentation at about per
cent, per annuni, or perhaps 20 par cent, in all, the pro-
portionate reducdon of duty on Gt.l.4s. would be about
Its. 5d., leaving the duty pen that price at l2s. 3d. per
quarter, and the °thee :rotes in proportion. It seems to
be admitted. ',loot our average crops have been insufficient
for cur pnpulatio.r ; and the fact, and the excessive price
of butcher,' meat, sail to be caused by the want of pas-
ture, seem to justify a reduction of duty, at 'least propors
tioria'se to the annual inesearts of population ; and, may
serve as the bass's of a further yearly reductice, so as to
meet contending views of justice, and finally to relieve the
statf of lite from duty, without any violent perturbation.
Such views may deserve the sttent;.on of landlords, as
serious fluctuations in the, value and security of property,
public revenue, &:e, rosy occur, should excessive duties on
corn still e.epase the country to sudden and exhausting
dre.ins of gold, which might at least be mitigated, if nut
wholly avoided, by the facilities which would result from a
regular and gradual itres,mrtstion. It is grievous to reflect
on the hard trials vtleish now press upon the less fortunate
workmen, tstnnias of whom scarcely gain 4-5 of the rum
rcpluired to enable them to exist, without injury to their
health. This most painful fact has been fully proved by
recent investigation; ; and the institution calls upon all par-
ties to adopt some means of reducing the burdens of the
worthy and industrious poor. By a general and patient
effort, the relief granted by the Poor-laws might be ren-
dered far more v fileacious. The honest and industrious
should he distinguished from the undeserving applicants,
and be so tenderly dealt with 89 to soothe their feelings in
distress, and encourage their worthy efforts to live by their
own industry. Our Jewish congregations adopt many
kind and successful regulations, tending not only to reli'eve•
present want, but to re-establish their unfortunate bee.
thren, and thus stop the progress of pauperism. Should
such an example be lost on Christians? Our care fps; the
welt tre of such classes will lead to the discouragement of
itinerant beggars, This Institution has been
informed by
an excellent Nlagistrate, that, in his own '3
~listrict, the cou-
ld3,4:ms collected by such individuals
are found cetual in
j amount to the whole poors'-rate
thou' the great extra
!of the indigent populatioss est , , less tnsn
.niees that rate not
ss. 4d. in the pound..;ntn-.
nearly the full rents of about
10,000 houses. ;4.4
-irunisr pressure, and still worse
results, of stle..", cat
I b"-3,b' u. The plan should
beade,,,(l.4 :vi must be obvious.
sueesess
• .eetional relief Committees (pursued with
.-russia), or even a still greater subdivision,
one contributors really acquainted with the re-
hey—
and rendering the system far more advantageous to
both parties. The Committees should never lose sight of
the very great advantage of small allotments of land,
enabling the poorer classes to grow their potatoes and
other vegetables, and affording them agreeable and prat-
able occupation when they are otherwise unemployed.
Some reasonable and healthy recreation should be encou-
I raged, but so as to amuse the whole family, and not with-
draw the husbao..,l and lather to some brutish debauch,
apart from, and to the grief of iris poor wife and firmly.
Then who love; the gracious Giver of all their worldly ad-
vantiges•—i'se only safe foundation of enviuring happiness
O. sly make the worthy poor partakers of the fends,
&C.e they set apart for the purposes cf hospitality and en-
teettainmett. They will respect the heevenly command,
arid will become partakers of the transcendent blessings
hon'scinueet on its fulfilment.

BREAD TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- _
•Sra,—ln the leading article of your journal, nearly a
'month ago, you stated that the evil inflicted on society by
the bread-tax, end its injustice, were such that it ought to
be resisted, and you seemed to regret that no way pre-
sented itself by which it could be resisted, unless by the
wealthy merchants and shipowners.
At the very time when the opinion was given by you
there issued from the press, in the West Riding of York-
shire, a pamphlet on the subject called " Daily Bread, or
Taxation without Representation Resisted, being a plan for
the Abolition of the Bread.tax," by one of the million,*
showing c'iearly the way by which a successful resistance
might be made b) the people themselves.
In the populous districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire
the pampihlet is obtaining a very extensive circulation, and
creating a deep interest, and meamres are in the course of
progress r putting the plan in practice.
Its legal ity is unquestionable—this is admitted on all
hands. The Anti-Corn-law Circular has said of it,
" The Man. is at once bold, startling, yet perfectly legal."
Even the Morning Chronicle has admitted, " For aught
it spy ears the process would be perfectly legal." Again
it sa' Whatever the wisdom, justice, or expediency of
any one step of the process each is yet free from the
cbr .rge of unlawfulness. The proposition is legal, and it
is entertained." The Morning Chronicle does more than
:mit the legality of the plan, for it afterwards says,
Analogous experiments have been tr:ed on former oc-
rsions .
hi story. . . . They were scouted with great super-
linusness, but they did the work."f
I ave the means of furnishing you with a copy of a letter
or the subject from the author of " Daily Bread" to a
mr maser of the League, the whole or part of which appears
to me soited for publication in The Sun.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
A REPEALER.

(:The Sun gave a long extract from the pamphlet
abCve-rue..tioned on its firs: appearance. The letter re-
f:A.l.'ld to by our Correspondent is too long for our columns
at rese• SUN.]
* London publisher, Effingham Wilson.
+ Morning Chronicle, April 13.

Cil URCH-RATE FRUITS. Amongst the
Church. rate defaulters lately summoned before a Bench of
Magistrates at Hackney, was George Offor, Esq., a Ma..
Ostrate in the Tower Hamlets, who, though he declined
to deny • the legality of the rate, refused to pay the demand
made u p, in him and his tenants, on the ground that he did
not att, tot d the parish church, and that those who did were
wealth: r enough to pay for themselves. This opposition to
their cl evil-, the clergy have not Leen slow in avenging.
Mr. 0 r ar has fur many years been a Commissioner of the
Tower j iarnlets' Court of Requests—the most active and
useful a ,ember, it is believed, ever found in the Commis-
sion. 7
'hese Commissioners represent the various parishes
in the '1 .ower Hamlets. Hackney elects eighteen. Up to
the pre ;cut time, party feeling formed no ingredient in the
selectic nof suitable persons from this parish ; and so little
intercs. has usually hc!ia tak:n in the matter, that rarely
have t a'f.a-dozen inhabitants attended to appoint the
e:ghte en commissioncri. 'lbis Easter, the proceeding;
i took a new tura. The clergymen and chutchwardens of
the ' district ia which Mr. 01T,,r resides, attended by a
trop' hiends and supporters, came down to the mectii.g.
nod nit only turned out Mr. Offer, but also five or six
on
other gentlemen, lacking no other qualificati for
F the
off cc thao that of an exclusive and intolerant spirit. From
the disgust which this proceeding has excited, there is
little doubt ,hat the next year retaliation will be made
and thus it is that the church and the clergy, whilst nomi.
nally existing tor the promotion of puce, become, even in
▪ attera which way coaccra them, the femen'er clic_
rt 'rences and hostility among neighbours.— Chrons
icle.
It ought to be generally known that members of
, a Mr. Liscombc,
To wn Councils are not only exempt from, but absolutely
ualifietl for. scrv:ng on juries. In a recent case tried
having nnoti
ofe Stibxericiff,io'wnCocurotuntictil Dorevtohnapt crbtorough,
?c:ed ' Sr ne on, a jury on the ground of his 'being
over-
ruleda
b objection was
',nem
for. sum, berofutnhacer:lsoh.n(iouAncfi,le,rtle
time, a copy c•f tne Act of Padiamcnt was eh-
for the the trial had proceeded
..nti the. di7e-Arzrod. Mr. Lisornb.i
turned, E
•fore directed to leave the jury box, and ano"ht r
was then, q who had been summoned as a juror, and had re-
gent lona ,
mained fir; couri, although not called, was sworn in his and.