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ciated my conduct, The cordial and affectionate manner in
which you hive expressed t 9 me your good wishes, demand
.my warmest acknowledgments, and you must permit me to
add, the thanks of Lady Sarah Maitland to my own, for
the mention you have made of her. I request you to be
assured that we both leave you impressed with a most
grateful sense of the kind and friendly attention we have
experienced in our intercourse with the inhabitants of the
town of Halifax." _ _ _

..,....
Sir Charles and Lady Ogle have returned in good health
from the Canadas.

Hamburg Papers to the 7th inst. have been
received, the contents of which will be found in

another column.

We cannot resist the satisfaction of quoting
from an able article in the Quarterly Review
just published, entitled, " The Finance Com-
mittee," an estimate of the increased consump-
tion of a variety of articles, which strongly con-
firms the view we recently took of the im-
provement that has taken :place of late years in
the condition of the bulk of our population.
From the documents laid before the Finance
Committee, the Reviewer has compiled a table
of the consumption of twelve articles of daily en-
joyment, and household necessity, for every year
since the peace. It will be sufficient for our ar-
gument to compare 1816 with last year, which
stand respectively as follows, the unit of the
numbers being taken as one million :
Candles S Tallow, lbs Bl
t Wax, lbs

1816.

1828.
115

Soap, The '7o 104
Starch, lbs 2.8 7.3
Bricks, thousands
Sugar, cwt 2.2 3.2
Tea, lbs 2O 2 26.7
Brandy, gallons
Rum, gallons 2.88 3.90
Coffee, lbs 7.5 16.5
Tobacco, lbs.
Wine, gallons 4.4 7.5
Raw, lbs.
Silk I Thrown, lbs .230 .613

We thus see, that in the last year the people
of this country have consumed one half more
of candles, starch, soap, bricks, sugar, brandy,
rum, and wine, and one-third more of tea, than
in 1816 ; that the quantity of coffee has doubled,
and that of raw and thrown silk respectively been
multiplied by six and three. If we take the po-
pulation of 1816 at a mean rate between that of
1811 and 1821, according to the censuses, it was
132 millions, and reckoning that of 1828 at
15 2-3 millions, the increase is much under a
fifth, a rate considerably under that of the aug-
mentation of the above articles of subsistence.

Thus have our national industry and resources'
enabled us to bear up against an enormous
weight of taxation, against severe fluctuations
in trade, and against an alteration of circum-
stances which has left us no longer masters of
the markets of the world, but has introduced us
to rivals from all quarters. Of the accumula-
tion of British capital some idea may be formed
from the returns of the produce of the Legacy
and Probate Duty, which stand thus :

England. Scotland. Ireland.
1817 £1,626,285 48,973......53,775
1828 1,938,994 108,894 69,217

The growth of national wealth, even in Ireland,
is thus indicated to a considerable extent, though
it may not really equal the increase of the duty,
and a gratifying proof is afforded of the continu.
ance of our ability to bear our burthens. We
do not altogether concur with the Reviewer, that
if a crisis were to happen to the National Debt,

its fate would depend more on moral than on
political or financial causes, for we can well con-
cieve a state of things in which a reduction of
the interest of the freeholders might become
both a necessity and a moral duty of the Govern-

anent. Such an event is, we trust, far distant,
but there is much truth in the observation of
HUME (not the Member for Aberdeen) that

" the reverence of national debts is the worship
of MoLocn," and a nation that offers up its
people as a perpetual sacrifice to the fund-
holders, may be well said " propter vitarn vi-
vendi perdue causas." Far less do we agree
in the eulogies pronounced by the Reviewer
upon the late war, and in the " productiveness
of the expenditure for the deliverance of Europe
in the contest between right and wrong, reli-
gion and Atheism," &c. &c. ; nor are we very
confident " that if the question could be laid
before our countrymen anew, they would fight
the good fight once again." Yet what is done
cannot be undone, and our chief business now
is to husband our resources, and invigorate the
energies of our people, that the enormous debt
with which this war, of whose glories we hear
far more than of its evils, has saddled us, may
not accelerate the hour of our decline.

Mr. RICHARD Fox has just returned with
Ids amiable and beautiful bride to Cotton-hall, the seat oi
the Countess of FAINHAaI, near this city.—Lichfield Men

A new mail coach has just commenced runn-
ing between Cork and Waterford, by the route of Yuughal,
Tallow, Liamore, and Cappoquin.— TipperaryFreePress.

We have some authority for stating, that it
was the intention of the Heir Presumptive to have ho-
noured the citizens of London with his presence at the
dinner which took place at Guildhall on the 9th instant ;
but from mistake (we suppose) no card of invitation
reached his Royal hlighness. We can only account for
this apparent mark of neglect, by a supposition that the
Invitation Committee (the Loan ilLayott has no concern
with this part of the arrangement.) either neglected their
duty, or that, commencing their invitation from the last
letter in the Peerage, their cards were exhausted before
they ha I reached the Royal Family. Perhaps it was the
aversion to ask another " illustrious" personage that in-
duced the committee to limit their invitations.—From a
Correspondent of the Times.

'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE."—An old in-
habitant of eirencestei• having occasion to visit London
about " sixty years since,". was ask:ed by a friend if be in-
tended to go by the coach or diligence, which at that
period slowly wended its way to the metropolis. He re-
Plied " Jam in too great a Intrry, and therefore would
.
rather walk." He started accordingly, and actually reached
the end of his journey some hours before the eoach,""
Cheltoima Chraoick.