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*' Law of Population," we have no .space here to speak. But we think, 

 that Mr. Sadler would render a most benevolent service to the community, 

 by drawing up a brief view of what may be called the " Philosophy of 

 Population," from the period at which the subject was revived by 

 Mai thus to the present day, when we may almost say that it has been 

 triumphantly fixed by himself among the great established truths of 

 human knowledge. We desire this especially, because, doubtless, from 

 this principle flow all the chief peculiarities of the social condition, 

 whether in new colonies or at home. Poor-laws, the division of agri- 

 cultural labour, the apportionment of taxes, tithe, rents, every thing 

 connected with the necessities and pressures of society, all form topics 

 closely connected with the principle. Their due consideration might 

 suggest remedies for the chief calamities of civil life, and to the mind 

 of a philosopher whose natural benevolence is exalted and directed by 

 Christianity, must open views of a nobleness and beauty in the prospects 

 and progress of the human race, which no man could contemplate with- 

 out an increase to his virtue and his wisdom. 



Every body regretted the late Mr. Huskisson's death ; not that there 

 was any thing in the man himself to regret, for he was a trading poli- 

 tician, a name which comprehends every meanness of the human 

 mind. His desertion of the friends of Canning, so immediately after 

 his having been brought into office by that unlucky minister, gave rise 

 to the strongest public contempt ; and his subsequent exposure of him- 

 self in the paltry and abortive attempt to regain office under the Duke of 

 Wellington, made him ridiculous for ever as a statesman. But the 

 manner of his death was so sudden and frightful, that the public com- 

 passion, which it was impossible to offer to the political trimmer, was 

 freely given to the dying man. The following odd announcement of 

 widowed gratitude has lately made its appearance in the papers : 



" Mrs. Huskisson has, in the handsomest manner, presented to Mr. Surgeon 

 Ransome a gold snuff-box ; to Mr. Surgeon' Holt, of Eccles, and Mr. Surgeon 

 Whatton, each a silver one ; and to the other surgeons who attended her late 

 husband, on the occasion of his fatal accident, the sum of five guineas 

 each." 



This seems one of the most novel styles imaginable, of recompensing 

 medical men for their attendance. The five guineas may be regular 

 enough but the snuff-box presentations ! We have generally heard of 

 such donatives as connected with matters of congratulation. The 

 freedom of cities, &c., is conferred in a box : it might be too " critical" 

 to suppose, the freedom of widows signalized in the same mode. But 

 this snuff-box prodigality is the first instance of its being made the 

 expression of a matron's sorrows. 



St. John Long has distanced the majesty of British justice in the 

 persons of the coroner, the bailiffs, and the Bow-street magistrates, after 

 all. We knew that he would do so ; but in this we take no possible 

 credit to ourselves, for every one knew that he would do so. Public 

 opinion is, we must confess, still divided as to the place of his retreat, 

 some pronouncing it America, where his purpose is, to set up a bank 

 with Rowland Stephenson ; others, New South Wales, by a natural 

 and pleasant anticipation ; and others, Paris, which of late years hag 



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