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divided into fourscore and hundred 
portions, one of which is felled every 
year. The second, or underwood, is 
left in fifteen or twenty divisions, one 
of which is cut each year. The woods, 
when the timber-trees are grown so 
high, that their tops and branches 
cannot be injured by the browsing of 
cattle, afford good pasture, but chiefly 
for sheep and hogs; which last, in 
years productive of acorns and beech- 
mast, make themselves thoroughly 
fat.” 
The sheep-houses at Harbké are very 
-extensive, with ample conveniences 
_for wintering, washing, shearing, and 
every purpose of that husbandry. On 
since consulting the Count, relatively 
to the inferiority of Anglo-Merino 
wool, his opinion decidedly is, that the 
superiority of the Continental fleece 
results entirely from the sheep being 
housed in winter, and the wool de- 
fended from the injurious effects of 
frost, and kept in a constant state of 
genial and productive warmth. Count 
Veltheim, being a member of the 
Brunswick.states, was in 1821 elected 
their second president. They assem- 
bled on business of great importance 
to the landed interest, in consequence 
of certain changes in the Prussian le- 
gislative measures. J. L. 
3 — 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
T has been noticed, that in certain 
parish churches in Durham the 
celebrated new Marriage Act was read 
instead of a sermon last Sunday. This 
seems to me a heinous indignity to the 
Almighty, inasmuch as it is converting 
the house consecrated to His service 
into a school for the propagation of 
human instead of divine laws. But 
still I think the course pursued by the 
Durham reverends attaches no blame 
upon them, considering the length of 
the Act, and the impatience and dis- 
gust which the reading of it must have 
excited in the hearers, and possibly 
in the reverend gentlemen themselves; 
and doubtless their conduct in this 
affair met with less disapprobation 
from their respective congregations 
than would have been manifested if 
they had thought proper not only to 
read the whole. of the Act, but to rcad 
a more than ordinarily long sermon 
thereon, which was the course pur- 
sued last Sunday in the parish of 
which I am an inhabitant, near Bi- 
shopsgate-street, where the minister 
On the New Marriage Act. 
[Dec. I, 
detained his hearers half an hour be- 
yond the ordinary time, insulting their 
feelings, and dishonouring the office 
which he fills, by expatiating on ‘the 
benign consequences wich must: re- 
sult from the operation of the adorable 
new Marriage Act,—an Act which 
in his judgment seems the most expe- 
dient, and withal the most wise and 
christian-like that ever proceeded from 
our omniscient legislators. This young 
expounder of dark: things adinits that 
the old marriage-laws were imperfect, 
and framed by? mere ignoramuses, with- 
out having a due regard to the princi- 
ples of Christianity. Whata blessed or- 
dinance must that be which prevents 
old sinners, of fifty years’ standing and 
upwards, from marrying, because they 
are unable to procure legal testimony 
that they are above twenty-one years 
of age! 
Well might the reverend and devout 
young preacher complain of the stiff- 
necked wickedness of the people at 
despising such a religious law as this, 
and deriding the gracious inventors 
of it. Well might he declaim with 
a loud voice against the ungodliness _ 
of the people at suspecting the wis- 
dom of Parliament, and thinking and 
insinuating that laws were made by it 
contrary to the will of Heaven, and 
inconsistent with the precepts of our 
Saviour. Well might he exhort his 
hearers to repentance from their poli- 
tical sins, and point out to them the 
path of humility and submission. 
Notwithstanding the serious exhor- 
tations of this young man to his hearers 
to receive the new Marriage Act with 
becoming decency and gratitude; 
notwithstanding his loud praises of 
the wisdom and the goodness of the 
present Parliament; notwithstanding 
his animated assurances that the pre- 
sent Marriage Act was an especial 
blessing, as it were, from heaven; not- 
withstanding his zealous denunciations 
against those who contemn it;—in 
spite of allhis efforts, there was scarce- 
ly an individual of the congregation 
who was not sensible enough to be 
disgusted at it, and who did not visibly 
evince his displeasure with the ser- 
mon of this new-marriage-act adyo- 
cate. C. A. 
Clifion-street ; Oct. 17. : 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
MONG the various improvements 
in every department, I am sur- 
prised 
