The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-08 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

[From The Plynigath Telegraph.]

DOMESTIC IMPROVEMENTS.

Ir is equally gratifying to the eye, es it is to the
mind, to iook around at the present- Moment and
twhold the political and moral tranvillity which
is fast succeedsing to :he din of warfare auil in-
quietude of stormy passions, not inertly in this
ci;outoy, but throughout the wog Id, despite of
agitating disrootetired spirits. Order replaces
civil freedom lyratipy, and industry the
long-eiteris.t.sed 4741tit5..,f ; and !hough
there,maybe a tewthings of a vexatious nature,
and rather conftary to our wishes, yet it should
he recollccucd that a mass of evils,'accionulated
and c,mented together by a war of (fxrraordinary
dur,,tion and rancont, cannot he broken and dis
sipat'ed at once. rime is rt quire(' to annihilate
them all, and substitute in their stead what
may be more pleasing and more beneficial to ge.
neralsociety. Itt conducing to this object, an
earnest, attention to the means or i;otneNtic im-
pr-vements is principally called tor. By amelio-
rating our stwe at home, in* all those points in
which it is reasonably susceptible of improve-
ment, we shall incretSe both oar national sit ength
and ow- moral welfatie, which, in every well re-
gulated Government, ever ought to be intimately
united, And this object it appears to us we are
rapidly etfecing The system of saving banks, the
wide-spreading education of the lower classes, the
Bilkie societies, and the intended construction of
new c,binches, bid fair, in the course of another
generation, to exalt anti dignify this favoured land
far beyond any period of her former hist°, y.

.(FrpniThe Nqrihanipton .llercury.)
CERTIFICATED CONVEYANCERS.

The public, says a correspondent, must have
great satisfaCtion in learning that a petition is
intended'to'he presented early in the next Ses-
sions of Parliament, for leave to bring in a Bill
to prevent .persons practising as Scriveners and
Certificated Conveyancers,-Without having been
prev.ionsly admitted a 3 attornies. It is no uncom-
mon thing now to see a watchmaker at one hour
of the day regulating the machinery of a watch,
and at another taking inEtructions to prepare the
conveyance of an eState; in like manner a draper
is seen with his yard wand in his hand at one
time of the day, and at another tip a build,
or drawing a mortgage•deed. Jr is not only HD
injury to professional men, dirly educated, that
these persons are suffered to practise, but the in-
jury arising to their employers is „past all eaten-,
lation, inasmuch as the Man who fills Lis coffers;
with deeds of their preparation is gulled to sleep.
for the moment, but he• May rest assured the,
day: will arrive when lie must seriuus!y pay for his

DUELS.—A duel was fought on Hounslow-
head', yesterday morning, between two Gentle-
men named 1-11LLsot; and MARSDEN, which arose
-out of :a dispute in-one of • the stands at Egliam
races. The latter was wounded seriously on the
left side, and was conveyed a wayin a gig. Some
peace officers had followed the parties from Old
Oak Common, where they fir-t met, but they
were too late to prevent tbe•misehief.—Saturday
se'nnigbt a duel was fought between Gravelines
and Calais, by I Wo English Gent kitten, a Mr, B—
and a Mr. They fired one shot each, when
Mr. B. received the ball of his antagonist in the
pistol hand; which rook oft two 'ot his fingers :
th.c seconds thcit interlete4, tind.the dispute was
settled. The difference which catied the tencontse
occurred iu l_ ii 111111) tt hence the parties
arrived, eat) on the affair terminating I'S 3thuve,
they quitted Flat= tt..r this Country.