]«If).l Literary and Philosophical fnieUigence.-^UniversUy Claims. 157 



Wc have uioie liiaii once cnlicd 

 the atlciitioti of the literary |)ul>r 

 lie to the principles of a law passed 

 aliout two years since, niulor the spe- 



-taxcs liav( caused the mischiet, and they 

 jnust he redi.cod. 



p. 198. — Mr. Wyerley Birch says, he 

 Jias let one farm without len', and another 

 for tool, instead of 8001. He can find no- 

 body to take farms offered rent free. At 

 a sale, under a distress for rent, seventeen 

 borses were sold for 20!. 



P. !i!07. — Mr. T. Carr states, that horses 

 which, in 1813, fetched 401. on March 1, 

 1816, sold for 111. Sheep 331. hut 191. 5s. 

 per score, and other thinas in proportion. 



P. 232.— Sir R. Brooke de Capell 

 Brooke states, that the overseers let out 

 the men to any person who bids from 2d, 

 to 8d per day, tlie parish making up the 

 difference, to a single man os. to a man 

 ^d his wife 6s., and 2s. for each child per 

 week. 



P. 249. — Mr. W. J. Calvert gives a simi- 

 lar statement ; he says that the overseer 

 calls a meeting on Saturday evenintrs, 

 where he puts up each labourer by name 

 to auction, and they have been let gor;e- 

 lally at from Is. 6d. to 2s. per week, and 

 their provisions, tlieir families being sup- 

 ported by the parish. He gives other de- 

 tails of this shocking system. 



P. 3-i, Part n.— Mr. E. Moor says, the 

 labourers are billetted by the overseers 

 upon the farmers at 6s. per week, the pa- 

 rish allowing for tlie wife is. with one child 

 2s. with two 3s. Gd. and so on. 



P. 42.— The Rev. J. Buck objects to all 

 machinery, as reducing the quantity of ma- 

 nual labour. 



If this volume should not be allowed 

 to be publicly sold, we should be happy 

 to be enabled to give place to any au- 

 thentic copies of the answers of particu- 

 lar persons, with which they may be 

 pleased to favour tis. Wc regret that 

 our limits and our opportunity have not 

 at present enabled us to give copious 

 extracts from a work printed under 

 such high authority, but our remarks 

 may probably create such a feelhig as 

 Mill lead to its early publication. 



Mr. Clarke will commonco his win- 

 der courses of Lectures on Midwifery 

 and the Diseases of Women and Chil- 

 dren, on Thursday, Oct. 3. The lectures 

 are read every morning fiom a quarter 

 past ten to a quarter past eleven, for the 

 convenience of students atteiiding tlie 

 hospitals. 



Mr. Taunton's Lccfurcson anatomj', 

 pliysiolo;.cy, pathology, and surgery, 

 '**ill comnu-ncc on Saturday, October 5, 

 at ei^lit in the evening, and be conti- 

 nued every Tuesday, Thursday, and 

 iiatnrday, till completed. 



^>ra(;ula Cominunicalions, addressed 

 In students of the mcdir;d profession, 



cious pretence of encourajiing learning 

 It was very properly assumed, that tite 

 libraries of the Universities ought to be 

 liberally replenished with books; but it 

 did not follow from this just piiuciplc, 

 that tlicy ought to be .supplied at the 

 exclusive expeuce of publishers and 

 authors, already overwhelmed by the 

 first cost of books in duties on paper 

 and advertisements. The true way ta 

 encourage learning would be, to applj 

 annually to the purchase of b(K)ks for 

 the Universities the sum uselessly spent 

 on any single company of any regiment 

 of cavalry. This sum would pmchase 

 eleven copies of every book that is pub- 

 lished, and thereby cficct the double 

 purpose of patronizing literature and 

 supplying the University libraries. iJucii, 

 truly, would be the means of encou- 

 raging learning ! But a statute whicli 

 calls exclusively on one branch of in- 

 dustry to effect a public ben.'fit, fails, in 

 our opinion, to possess the gemiiiie qua- 

 lities of an English law. It is contrarj ' 

 to JNIagija Charta and to right reiison, 

 witliout which no law in Englaml can 

 be obligatory, or be entertained in our 

 courts of judicature. The publishers 

 and authors of Great Britain are, in 

 trutii, by it, called upon to pay a mulct 

 to the public service, without having 

 either committed any crime, or received 

 any equivalent. Common law, or the 

 law of right reason, gives fhem a pro- 

 perty in their works, which this statute 

 not only presumes to limit (o twenty- 

 eight yeais, or the life of the author; but 

 it then directs, under the unwarrantable 

 pretence of encouraging learning, that 

 without remuneration they shall give 

 eleven copies of every new book and 

 improved edition to certain public li- 

 braries ! AVe question whether any 

 constitutional .Iiulge would not refer the 

 provisions of this statute back to tlie 

 revision of the legislature. But, at any 

 rale, it beliovcs the publishers and au- 

 thors, without loss of time, to pelilioii 

 the legislature Hgainst its oppression and 

 injustice. Tor our own parts, in regard 

 to til is Magazine, we have not jet 

 oomplii'd with ifs alledgcd juovisions: 

 1st. because the proviso at the end of 

 the fifth section releases every Jong 

 established periodical work from the 

 obligation to enter; and the ciifry, by tlie 

 cailj' ijart of the same sccUon, is the 

 staiutuble 



