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PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

PARIS, APRIL 17.—1 t appears that there
was a settled design for not allowing the discus-
sion of the two laws which have been so hastily
withdrawn to come to a conclusion. They were
introduced solely to flatter the wishes of the pro-
vinces, to avoid the appearance of performing a
mere farce in getting them prepared by the six
months' labours of a Royal Commission, and
to make at least a show of keeping the pro-
mises made in the speech from the Throne at the
opening of the session. The whole affair is
only a solemn mystification, the consequences
of which may yet be serious. In the mean
time it ought to be remarked, that these import-
ant law projects, the importance of which has
however been exaggerated, were never laid be.
fore the Council of State. It was anticipated
that the discussion would expose the faults of
the law projects, the adoption of which was ex-
pected, but the abandoament of which was to
be justified by- the first difficulties opposed to
them by the Chamber.
The debates have now changed their colour.
Resentment and distrust have succeeded to those
favourable dispositions which it was heretofore

prudent and advantageous to cultivate. It ap-
pears that the party seks to depart more and
more from the course which the elections of 1827

traced out for public affairs. The other day our
Ministers published a list of 55 honorary gentle-
men of the King's Chamber, all of whom arc
marked by that line of opinion which is far from
being the prevailing one in society. This Court
distinction is certainly, in itself, not of much im-
portance, but in the present circumstances such a
choice of persons gives rise to serious reflections.
Among them we perceive a Baron Saillard, the
son-in-law of the Count de Portales, keeper of
the Seals, a gentleman of very obscure origin,
and whose father and brother have been bank-

rupts.
On Sunday evening, when the Court played
at cards, the Marquis de Boissiere, an old Yen-
dean chief, distinguished for the vehemence of
his anti-national opinions, was selected by the
Dauphiness for her partner at whist. This favour,
shown to one of the most furious opponents of
the withdrawn laws, did not fail to be observed
and felt.

Thus, then, for the sake of avoiding to do
what would have been at once easy, becoming,
and just, the finest opportunity which has pre-
sented itself these fifteen years, for reconciling
parties and planting the Royal standard in the
midst of the nation, has been lost.

Some pretend that the irritation manifested
on the part of the Court is specially caused by
the electi-m of General Clause' by the Electoral
College of Rhetel. General Clause! was one of
the officers of the Imperial army, and it was he
who obliged the Dauphiness, then Duchess of
Angouleme, to quit Bordeaux in the month of
March, 1815. However, those who affect to
be best informed on the subject, assert that this
Princess, sensible of the attentions which the
General had paid her, addressed to him a letter
written with her own hand, assuring him of her
protection under any circumstances in which it
might be needful. If the first reason assigned
for the irritation of the Court be the real one, it
would unfortunately appear, that a feeling of re-
sentment, which length of time ought to weaken
and obliterate, had for a very long peried been
cherished and encouraged.
The very few persons who still remain at-
tached to the Ministry, affirm that matters will
be arranged much better than it is generally sup-
posed, and that the future good conduct of the
Ministry will cause to be forgotten a proceeding
deserving of condemnation by all wise and pa-
triotic men. A report is spread that a Royal
ordinance is being prepared for the purpose of
effecting what the Chamber shewed itself un-
willing to effect, by refusing to join in the adop-
tion of projects which it considered improper. I
cannot believe that this course will be adopted,
for the ordinance ill such case, will not possess
the necessary authority and legality.
A piquant anecdote is related in the political
circles. It is said that M. Le Vicomte de Mar-
tignac, in order to remove from himself the
odium of keeping from a part in the Administra-
tion of the country those men whom the public
voice and their own merits demand should form

part of the Government, endeavours to make it
understood that the obstacle rests not in him,
but in a much higher quarter. He laments the
circumstance—he hopes fbr a change—he is in-
clined to hope so. Time will remove all the
obstacles, and will assuredly expose all this
trickery.
The Count de St. Aulaire, who has become

puhtiiceh s. had T
irteet uArinieud is
by the death of his father a Marquis and a Peer
of France, notified to the Ministry his desire to
be made President of the Electoral College
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not accede to his wish. This might doubtless
have been easily done, but would the King like
it The Marquis, it was said, has been so long
ssscedtealilulvin placed )la
whether
in the ranks of the opposition, where he was dis-
tinguished by his character and his talents, that
Inrntbe
eofa suddenly
ca)TheMarquis,iifideiiee ca
desirous
was or was not the fact, requested and obtained
an audience of the King. The King received
him graciously, and promised to remmber the
wish of the Marquis to be made President of his
Electoral College. A few days afterwards, the
King authorised the Duke of Reggio to an-
nounce to the Marquis of St. Aulaire his nomi-
nation to the place. The Marquis immediately
repaired to the Minister for the purpose of re-
turning thanks. The Minister, astonished at
this proceeding, requested to he informed what
it was that occasioned his gratitude. The new
Peer replied, " Your recoaamendation of me
to his Majesty for the Presidency of the Elec-
toral College of Verdun."—" N. le Marquis, I.
have not recommended you." " Oh, your Ex-
cellency is surely joking; and I must say that
you keep up the part in the most perfect manner,
but that will not prevent me from entertaining 'a
due feeling of obligation towards you."—" I am
s2riously in earnest." " Are you, then, not jest-
ing ?''—" By no means." " The King has,
nevertheless, informed nte, through the Duke of
Reggio, of my appointment ; and that this fa-
vour has been conferred on me only through
your intercession, I am the more convined, since
your Excellency has not allowed me to remain
ignorant of the unpleasant objections which the
King entertained towards me.' The Minister,
overwhelmed with surprise and embarrassment,
was unable to collect more than a few vague and
disconnected expressions of congratulation.
The report respecting a change of the 'Mi-
nistry becomes every day weaker ; excepting that
it is still maintained that the Comte de Rayne-
val might very possibly accept of office before
the arrival of M. de Chateaubriand, who is
about to quit Rome for Paris, if he be not al-
ready on his way. BLit in our country, where
the mode is so variable and fugitive, M. de
Chateaubriand is no longer the saint of the
day. The Journal des Debats, which used
to be his tripod, now utters only inarticulate
sounds.

It is said that M. de Rayneval is to be suc-
ceeded in his office of Ambassador of Switzer-
land, by M. de Gabriac, formerly Minister Pleni-
potentiary at Brazil.—Times.

EXERTIONS on BEHALF of the SPITAL-

FIELDS WEAVERS.

The Lord Mayor received the following note from
the Marquis of Cleveland, which will be read by the
friends of liberality with great satisfaction, and will,
it is hoped, be followed by many communications
of the same kind :

" Cleveland House.

" My Lord,—Having observed an advertisement
of a concert to be held at Guildhall, under your
Lordship's patronage, for the benefit of the distress.
ed but deserving and meritorious class of our fellow-
subjects, the Spitalfields Weavers, I regret that ruy
health will not allow me to attend.

" I therefore request the favour of your Lord
ship to convey to the Committee fcr conducting
the Spitalfields Relief Fund, a further subscription,
which I now beg leave to enclose.
" The very patriotic and meritorious exertions of
his Majesty's Government, so happily carried into
effect by an Act of the Legislature, to afford good
fellowship and tranquillity to 7,000,000 of our fel-
low•subjects, evinces the strongest proof, that what-
ever public measures can be consistently and bone-
fically adopted to the relief of the partial distress in
the country, with due consideration to the public
interest, arc certain to meet with the attention of a
Prime Minister so vigilant as the present, and so
indefatigable in his exertions for the benefit of his
country, a Secretary of State for the home Depart-
ment so devoted to the prosperity of time umpire,
and a Government so worthy of confidence and sup-
port.--I have the honour to be,. your Lordship's
very obedient servant, " CLEVELAND."

It is in contemplation to blend a great deal of the
music of the Messiah with the concert music with
which the public ear is to be delighted on the 2d of
May. This change was suggested by the know-
ledge of the fact, that at that period the town tciil
be tilled with Dissenters, and the mixture would, in
a great measure, do away with the comparative
levity of the usual plan of concerts. The number of
persons whom the Committee are now drily re-
lieving, amount, we are given to understand, to up-
wards of 20,000. The letter cf the Marquis of
Cleveland, which enclosed a cheque for 500/., has
received the most unqualified admiration.

The wife of the celebrated HUMBOLDT died
a few days ago ; she accompanied her husband in most of
his journeys.
BALLOON ASCENT.—Mr. GREEN made
another ascent in his balloon, accompanied by two friends,
on Monday evening, from the Jamaica Tea Gardens, Ber-
mondsey, for the amusement of the " motley group" on
their way to Greenwich Fair. Mr. GREEN ascended a
few minutes after six o'clock ; the balloon took a north-
easterly direction, and, there being little wind, it was
visible to the naked eye for nearly twenty minutes. Those
persons who had assembled in Greenwich Park had a de-
lightful view as it passed.

TIIE ESSEX INCENDIARIES.--The iniqui-
tous gang of incendiaries who have been the cause of so
many destructive fires at Witham and its vicinity, have at
length, after much exertion and inquiry, been discovered,
and the greater number of them taken into custody. On
Saturday last five of thorn, against whom the evidence,
though circumstantial, is said to be most conclusive, were
conveyed to Chelmsford iu post-chaises, and deposited in
the Old Gaol. The person who has hitherto beets in cus-
tody has been the instrument of their apprehension, and
will, it is supposed, be permitted to become an evidence for
the Crown.

SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A youth, named
JAMES RiDEIL, who resides at 23, poster's-buildinp,
Whitecross-street, has been suffering for a week past froln
the effects of au extraordinary accident. On Wednesday
last, while trying a bird-call, he unfortunately swallowed
it. The instrument, made of tin, snick/in his throat, and
with each respiration sent forth a whistling sound. The
poor boy was for some hours in danger of suffocation;
but at length a surgeon, who found it impossible to. ex-
tricate the bird-call, removed it from the windpipe to, a
lower position. The instilment is still in the body, fre.
quently occasioning acute suffering to the unhal.py youth.
FIRE.—An alarming fire broke out about
nine o'clock on Monday night on the premises of Messrs.
AUSTIN and Co., wine-merchants, in Botolph-street.
The flames soon communicated to the premises, of Messrs.
LOWELL, and to those of Messrs. BELL and Sons, orange-
merchants, in Pudding-lane. From the very confined
nature of the houses in the rear of Messrs. LowEi.r.'s
premises, it was thought the destruction of property:mist
have been much more considerable than it has been.
Great difficulty was experienced in bringing the engine to
play. Pipes were carried through the hall, and various
means resorted to to quell the flames, but it was not until
Messrs. LowELL's. back premises had been reduced to a
heap of ruins that there seemed any prospect of getting
the fire under. The inhabitants of the surrounding
houses began to remove their goods, but so dense was the
smoke that but little property was saved from the Mouses
which have been destroyed, The fronts of Messrs. Low-
ELL'S and BELL'S premises are standing, and the furniture
in the first and second floors of the former is now being
removed, not much injured. The stock of Messrs. Low-
Ell. is all destroyed, anti the total loss must be very great,
There were no lives lost

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We see with satisfaction that Bristol is following 1
the footsteps of other great commercial towns, in
its decided resistance to any attempt that may be
made for a renewal of the East India monopoly. A
meeting was held there on Tuesday, the 14th instant,
for the adoption of resolutions against that pernicious
and odious measure, should it ever again be pro,
posed; and from some of the speeches we conjec-
ture, that the subject is as well understood by the
Bristol merchants, and the right spirit as prevalent
amongst them, as in any other part of this intelligent
and commercial country. One gentleman, Mr,
Acraman, recurred with much force and success to
the declarations of the late Director, Mr. Grant, and
to the evidence of Sir Thomas Munroe before the
Parliamentary Committee, to prove how monstrous
was the contrast between the predictions of these
interested or prejudiced parties and the facts as they
have since been exhibited, in relation to the rapa-
city of India and its inhabitants for establishing and
extending, almost indefinitely, a trade the most
profitable with Great Britain. The value of
any self-interested assertion by a monopolist upon
subjects connected with the exclusive privileges
of his monopoly may be judged from a single
statement, drawn from official records. Mr. (Di-
rector) Grant assured the world, on the strength
of a 40 " years' experience and observation," that
it was impossible for India to increase either her ex-
ports or imports beyond the level at which they
already stood; ergo, that she was quite incapable
of bestowipg benefit upon England by an enlarged
consumption of her manufactures, or of deriving it
from an enlarged production and exportation of her
own raw materials ;—ergo, that it was idle to think
of releasing her from the gripe of Leadenhall-street,
or in any wise touching the sacred monopoly of the
" Honourable Court." Sir Thomas Munroe,.—in
all respects a superior man to Mr. Grant, and per-
haps the very ablest statesman as well as soldier
that grew out of the Company's service,—gave
evidence as decided as the declarations of Mr.
Grant, and altogether as conspicuous for its fallacy.
He stated, that " owing to the prejudices of the na-
tives, no importation of British goods, beyond that
of a few hundred pounds' worth of scissors and
needles for the use of British residents, could ever
make its way into:lndia." The best commentary upon
all which wisdom is, that in the year 1818, woollen
goods were exported from this country to India of
the official value of 500,0001.; in 1827, 940,0001.
In 1814, the plain calicoes that were exported from
Great Britain, to India measured 200,000 yards; in
1827, 20,000,000 yards. In 1813, the printed ca-
licoes exported hence to India measured 300,000
yards ; in 1827, 14,000,000 yards. To prove even
the recent and enormous growth of the export trade
to our Indian empire, it is also stated, that so short
a time ago as in the year 1824, there was exported
of cotton yarn to India 105,0001bs.; and in 1827,
4,600,0001b5. But cotton yarn must be put in the
loom before it can be made available for consump-
tion ; so here is a proof, not only of the extent to
which India, under a relaxation of the monopoly,
has overcome " her prejudices" so far as to prefer
the staple manufacture of this country to her own,
but of her power to extend her native cotton manu-
facture, though the use of cotton twist supplied by
England, simultaneously with her consumption of
British calicoes, the product of her own, or
of American, raw cotton. her " prejudices," in-
deed ! We doubt if there are half so many
or a tenth part so inveterate or mischievous, on
the banks of the Ganges, as among certain docks
and warehouses on the banks of the Thames.—
Bishop Heber arirms that the British manufactures
have already penetrated to the least accessible spots
in the Peninsula, even to Pelee, on the confines of
the Desert, where, until recently, no European was
ever seen. Among other fruits of the monopoly of
this leaden despotism, it appears that according to
Mr. Acraman, we have bad cotton, bad rice, and
many bad things from India, which would all be im-
proved in quality, were Englishmen enabled to pro-
ceed thither to cultivate the soil, and to settle.—
The change which has taken place in the article of
indigo is adduced as a striking instance of what
would happen, was the culture of Indian produce
generally free. That article is now grown by
private English traders, who have permission to
visit the interior districts, and in consequence its
reputation and value are so raised as to beat every
other out of the market. But we said on a former
day, that there is yet a more important production
of the climate and soil of India, on which
Leadenhall-street leans with a cruel pressure, to the
infinite depreciation of a highly valuable interest,
and to the benefit of our foreign rivals. In the
silk trade, if we are unable to contend on all
occasions with the French and Italian fabrics, it is
greatly owing to the want of an equally excellent
raw material, purchased on equal terms. In all re-
spects but this, our manufacture stands on a foot-
ing not inferior to theirs ; the price of labour in
Lancashire and Nottinghamshire differs little, if at
all, from that at Lyons; the ingenuity of our work-
men dreads no comparison with that of any other
country—our machinery is far better—our capital
more powerful—our home-market more extensive,
and our access to foreign markets as easy and se-
cure. France has not raw material sufficient for her
own purposes, and cannot afford it for ours. The
finer silks of Italy are required on the spot, and we
have the wisdom to exclude them by a duty.—
Turkish silk is coarse, and will not answer. Our
supply from India might be made abundant for our
most extensive demands, and suitable to our very
finest fabrics, if English enterprise, intelligence,
and capital were tolerated by the Company for its
cultivation. The silk of India, like the tea of China,
is a monopoly by the factors for the India-1
House—not, perhaps, a formal monopoly, but a
virtual one of the strictest nature ; and the de-I
terioration or non-improvement of the silk of
India is the inevitable consequence. The pri-
vate adventurer has been driven out of the
market, through the unfair means resorted to
by the Company for carrying on this branch
of commerce. At each station there is a Company's
agent, who makes advances to the peasantry en-
gaged in the care of the worms, by which he se-
cures a mortgage on their whole crop of silk. The
silk pods are brought into the Fillatures, or Com-
pany's factories, and there reeled after the Italian
method. This is the whole share which the Com-
pany's servants have in the production of the silk
for export; and for this they recei‘e a commission
upon their advances, which yields each of them an
income of 5,000/. or 6,0001. a year. _ With a full
command of the revenues of the State for this pur-
pose, the agent multiplies his advances to the ut-
most, that he may proportionally augment his com-
mission. Private adventurers have tried a competi-
tion with these leviathan capitalists, but have been
invariably ruined. The peasantry are all in debt to
the Company; but they are not honest enough to
withstand the temptation of advances offered them
by private speculators, who know not that their
crops are already mortgaged, and whose liens upon
the peasant are always.superseded by the Exche-
quer writs of the Company. Thus do the merchant
rulers, by laws of their own making, or practices of
their own authorizing, make a joke of the pretended
equality stipulated for the private merchant under
the Charter of 1813; and tricks, of one kind or
another, directed to the same end of crushing
private trade, are visible throughout their whole
commercial system. That system, moreover,
is a fatal one to themselves. If they dis-
courage the individual speculator, the trade
by which they overpower him is carried on
at a calamitous loss—that on silk alone being
estimated annually at half a million sterling. It
follows from this vicious and rotten course, that the
best Bengal silk finds its way to no market but that
of England : yet, that with every disadvantage of
climate, the silk of Piedmont is, in the same mar-
ket, 40 per cent. above the price of that of India.
The best China silk, also, is 10 per cent. better than
the finest Bengal. It was only since 1804, when
private traders began to deal in India silk, that any

large quantity of this article was introduced into
England ; and since the first application of the Ita-
lian mode of winding, although there has been a
vast increase of quantity, in the quality there has
been little improvement. The truth is, that the
producers and cultivators of Indian silk are semi=
barbarians. The species (or at least variety) of the
mulberry, and of the worm itself, is the subject of
hut slender attent'on. Throw open the culture to
Englishmen—relieve them from the unfair burdens
and embarrassments laid upon all private residents
in the interior of the country : the raw material,
from the worst but one in the market, will then
have fair play, and prove the more skilful hands
into which it will hare fallen. In every natural ad-
vantage India far excels Italy or China for the pro-
duction of the finest silk ; and it is a mortifying and
miserable fact, that of these advantages a misma-
naged monopoly should deprive our industrious
countrymen.--2iimcs.

The Quarterly Review for April, which was pub-
lished yesterday, contains an article of nearly three
sheets, on the "state and prospects of the country,"
executed in a rapid and brilliant manner, and dis-
playing considerable knowledge; but as it is impos-
sible in a long article to be always striking and
always solid, there are not a few of the writer's po-
sitions which will not bear the test of a severe ana-
lysis. At the head of the article is placed the first
volume of Mr. Murray's Family Library (The Life
of Napoleon Bonaparte), a work says the Re-
viewer, " which no one can take into his hands
without perceiving that the supply of the reading
market is undergoing, or about to undergo, a com-
plete revolution ; which in the names of some of
its writers, furnishes evidence that the very highest
talent no longer disdains to labour for those who
can buy cheap books only." This leads the Re-
viewer, in his sketch of the great changes which are
in progress throughout Europe, to notice the late
extraordinary spread of education. " Another cha-
racteristic of the present time (he says) is the ex-
traordinary increase of education which has taken
place within the last forty years. That a much
larger proportion of the people of Europe non•
read and write than formerly, is indisputable.
Those parts of it which are Protestant, were
early distinguished from those which continued
Roman Catholics, in respect of education;
and they have ever since retained their supe-
riority. But, with the exception of Spain and
Portugal, it is impossible not to perceive, that the
means and habit of reading have of late increased
every where. The multiplication of newspapers
and periodical publications ; the number of book-
sellers' shops ; and the profusion of literary institu-
tions and circulating libraries, are infallible indica-
tions of the extraordinary spread of education and
reading. What effect this change may eventually
produce on society, it is too soon to decide; but
we cannot help expressing an apprehension, that
both education and reading have been pushed too
far among the lower classes, and that among the
higher they are not taking a very desirable direc-
tion. With regard to labourers and mechanics, ex-
perience has already proved to demonstration, that
the instruction which consists merely in being
taught to read and write, will by no means insure
that proper regulation of the mind and conduct
which some enthusiastic friends of education ex-
pected from it. To render reading and writing
really useful, that moral and religious discipline
which parents, pastors, masters, and relatives, can
alone bestow, must be superadded ; and yet,
strangely enough, this is a branch of education
which those who are most solicitous about mere
reading and writing, have almost totally neglected.
It will also, in all likelihood, become manifest
ere long, that the labouring' classes will not per-
manently devote a large portion of their leisure
time to the acquisition of knowledge, either
by means of reading, or any ether sort of appli-
cation. Novelty and variety may give a tempo-
rary impulse, and the curiosity which is natural to
man, may prolong the exertion; but in no age or
country can a large proportion of those whose lot it
is to earn► their bread by the sweat of their brow,
be prevailed on regularly to begin intellectual ex-
ertion when their daily task is ended. The body
then requires repose; domestic concerns demand
attention ; and if the few hours which remain are
applied to that which with all men ought to be the
chief concern—the improvement of the heart—it
would probably be the means of advancing the im-
provement of the head also. If the mechanics and
labourers could be persuaded to make a study of the
Bible, it would be found to convey more useful
knowledge, for this world as well as the next, than
all the volumes and lectures which are likely to be
prepared for their education. Let it not be under-
stood that we are hostile to the introduction of any
order of society. There can be no doubt that the
facilities afforded to those among the lower orders,
who really have a love of learning, and the zeal
which has been shown to improve them, are among
the most signal peculiarities of the present day, and
deserving of all commendation ; but we confess we
are not satisfied that the rage for education and
reading—the cheapness of Looks—the multitude of
teachers—and the spare time created by the exten-
sion of machinery, will produce ultimately that
practical good which some philanthropists anti-
cipate. That the present course produces re-
finement is indisputable; but whether it is to
render those classes between the high and the low,
which now form so large a part of the community,
more able and willing to discharge the relative du-
ties of life (which after all is the chief business of
education to teach), is a great deal more doubtful."
Now, really, with all submission to the Quarterly
Reviewer, this is little better than twaddle. With
respect to the substitution of the improvement of
the heart for reading, which improvement of the
heart would be the surest means of advancing the
improvement of the head, this, if it means any-
thing, means that the improvement of the heart is
impeded by reading; and as the improvement of
the head is improved by the improvement of the
heart, which reading impedes, the improvement of
the head is most rapidly conducted by abstaining from
reading. Reading and writing are always useful—the
degree in which they are useful depends, .of course,
on the use which is made of these qualifications.
They are not impediments surely to moral and re-
ligious discipline; arid though it is always advis-
able that the moral and religious discipline should
be as perfect as possible, yet a person without
moral and religions discipline, and without the
ability to read and write, cannot surely be considered
in a better state than a person without moral and
religious discipline who can read and write. He
who can read may, if his life has been bad, be led
by what he reads to amend it. Reading multiplies
the chances if he is put in the right road. Reading
also multiplies the chances of escaping vicious
courses, by affording an excitement which supplies
the place of the gross sensuality to which all igno-
rant men are prone as a means of escaping ennui, and
the indulgence in which is the parent of the crimes
to which they are usuully driven. The qualification
of reading arid writing in servants is found every day
of great advantage to persons of moderate incomes,
•.vho formerly used to be exposed to constant annoy-
ance in the delivery of letters to wrong persons, and
found their verbal instructions, when they related to
a number of particulars, often misunderstood or par-
tially forgotten, and who now, on leaving home for
a time, can leave written instructions. Any one
who has parted with a servant who can write, and
receives another who cannot, will feel the inconve-
nience from the change ten times a day. Men
who labour hard cannot be supposed to have
much relish for severe studies after their work
is over ; but they can gratify their curiosity by read-
ing the occurrences of the day in the newspapers, or
amusing publications ; and it would be very odd if
they did not also derive instruction from these
sources. However little they may read, that little
may be of some benefit to them. Who is to benefit
the lower orders by moral discipline, when it is no-
torious that the more favoured classes, the higher
and middle ranks of this country, are left almost
altogether without it ? Education in England means

the being tan& to read, write, and ecrtain other ac-
complishments at public schools or boarding schools.
Principles are supposed to be a superfluity which
can be acquired at any time; and in the mean time
mamma takes care, by stipplying young master with
pocket-money in abundance before he can ',lse it pro-
perly, to give him betimes a relish for vicious prac-
tices. But there is no reason why we should not
call ourselves, notwithstanding, the most moral and
religious people in the world ; for it is as easy to
give ourselves a good name as a bad one. We have
not space to advert to a hundreth part of the topics
entered on by the Reviewer—his criticism of the fa-
shionable literature of the day, and his hopes of a re-
medy for the growing evil of an ephemeral and superfi-
cial literature, from a time arriving when all classes of
the community " shall be able to read less and
obliged to think more,"—his strictures on the in-
feriority in point of acquirement of the higher
classes to their inferiors in circumstances (as" those
who must live by their exertions, or whose means
debar them from expensive pleasures, are induced
and compelled to improve themselves with unre-
mitting assiduity"),—his complaint of the want of
correspondina; energy and judgment on the part of
rulers to command the marked and growing resist-.
ance on the part of the people, &c. &c. We do
not draw the same inferences which he does from
the improvements in manufactures on the Conti-
nent, and are astonished that he could speak of" the
moderate limits of Great Britain as compared with
Russia, Prussia, France, or Austria," and thence
infer that " the preservation of the ascendancy we
have acquired in the commonwealth of nations
is a subject well intitled to inspire deep and
constant anxiety," it being certain that with re-
spect to one of these powers, -the European ter-
ritories of Great Britain are one-tenth larger
than the dominions of Prussia, to say nothing
of the comparative barrenness of the latter. The
concluding observations of the Reviewer, however,
deserve particular notice, from their appearance in
a publication connected .with the Administration.
" Both reason and history (observes the Reviewer)
indicate that there is a point at which improvement
mint cease; and though this point is in every
particular instance uncertain, yet that improvement
becomes slower as it advances, and every practi-
cable amelioration must be adopted in order to
prolong its continuance. This is now the case
with England. Symptoms now and then appear,
which look as if all were wearing out, and the pre-
sent order of things were verging to one of those
great changes to which all sublunary affairs are
subject. But the power of renovation, which our
Constitution possesses, forbids us to entertain so
dark an apprehension. If we are to keep our
place, however, it is indispensibly necessary that
every incumbratice should be removed, which
clogs the activity and energy of individuals or
the Government. Every part of the machine
of society must be adapted to the increased exer-
tion it is called upon to make. If this be so, every
branch of our public and private economy; the ad-
ministration of the affairs of parishes and counties;
the state of charities, corporations, public schools,
colleges, the law, the church, and the whole ma-
nagement of our foreign-dependencies, must suc-
cessively submit to examination and amendment.
Wealthy as the country is, and attached to ancient
institutions as it has always wisely been, it can no
longer support the burden of places or proceedings,
which can be simplified or dispensed with. It is
utterly impossible that every thing established by
our ancestors should remain for ever untouched,
either in form or substance." Allowing, with the
Reviewer, that " the main strength of the church
has ever lain in the purity of her doctrines," we
had imagined, that every thing in the country ought
to give way to the preservation of what some people
think detracts from the effect of the doctrines. But
it seems we were in the wrong; and to think that
we should be set right by a Government Review
—Morning chronicle.
The valuable time of the worthy Magistrates at
Marylebone Office, was wasted during the two last
days, in hearing frivolous and unfounded charges, by
common informers, against Licensed Victuallers.
These fellows are become so audacious, that though
defeated and disgraced they again return to the
charge, and often beard those Magistrates who con-
descend to submit to their impertinence. On both
the alluded days, as indeed on all occasions, Mr.
Rawlinson and Mr. Hoskins sifted the informations,
heard both sides of the question, and, on both
days, all the informations were dismissed, with the
exception of one which was so very trifling that the
party was only fined five shillings. Yesterday,
Johnson was defeated on every information which he
laid, and was told by Mr. Hoskins that in future
the evidence of his witness would not be received
on similar occasions at the office.—Morning
Advertiser.

CANTERBURI, April IS.
We have a good sumly of Wheat and other kinds of Grain.
Wheat was from Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper. l'ease and Oats
remain the same, but Barley and Old Beans were 2s. per quarter
lower than our last quotation.
Wheat, white ties. to 755.

red 'Bs. to 70s.

Barloy, Malting 36s. to 389 Grinding. 265. to 303.
Oats
Beans 26, to 345.
l'ease... 3.25. to 355.