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Mr. Bootn’s Letter to Mr. Malthus 
on the subject of Population, with an 
examination of the late censuses of 
Great Britain and Ireland, will be 
published in the first week of January. 
{t will contain some remarks on the 
proposed atieration in the poor laws, 
to which we shali hereafter draw the 
attention of our readers. 
Proposals are issued for the publi- 
cation of an uniform edition of the 
Works of Dr. John Owen, to be edited 
by T. Court, M.A. 
The unparalicled circumstances of 
distress In which the cultivators of the 
soil ave placed, have had no effect in 
damping the zea) and ardour of seve- 
ral of those who, under the auspices 
of the great Duke of Bedford in 1798, 
established the Smithfield Ciub, for 
the purpose of inducing, by the offer 
of premiums, the sending to.Londen, 
at the time of “the great market be- 
fore Christmas,” annually, specimens 
of fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, of as 
many as possible of the different 
breeds and varieties of our island, for 
comparison with each other; thereby 
affording to the breeders and feeders 
of these important domestie animals, 
in conjunction with the authentie par- 
ticulars certified, (as to breeders’ and 
feeders’ names, breeds, ages, feeding, 
&e.) the means of judging, which par- 
ticular description of animals will, by 
their proneness to early size and matu- 
rity, as to fatness, afford good profits 
to them, and at the same time benefit 
he public, by causing ‘‘ plenty of the 
eheapest and best meat;” and that, in 
spite of adverse cireumstanees, the 
elnb is still numerous, and its finances 
ja arespeetable state. The show this 
year, as usval, tool place in Goswel!- 
street, on the 13th, 14th, and 16th of 
December; and, both for the number 
and excellency of the animals exhibit- 
ed, is believed to have never been 
exceeded: on the latter day the crowd 
of visitors was proportionally great. 
The premiums were awarded and 
delivered at the annual dinner at the 
conclusion of the show, in plate, bear 
ing suitable inscriptions, viz. 
, Value fifteen guineas, to Mix Edward 
Lucas, for a 5-years cld Hereford ox: 
whose fattening had been completed by 
oil-cake. 
Value ten guineas, to Mr. Joseph Lucas, 
for a ditto. 
Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Ralph 
Oidacres, for a 5Z years oid Devon ox: 
ail-cake fed, 
Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
{Jan. 1, 
Value ten guineas, to Mr. James Senior, 
for a G-years old Scotch ox: oil-cake. 
_ Value ten guineas, to Mr. Ralph Old- 
acres, for a 63 years old Hereford cow: 
after four calves, on oil-cakes. 
Value fifteen guineas, to Mr, Richard 
Gurden, for three thirty-two months old 
new Leicester wethers : turnips. 
Value ten guineas, to her Grace the 
Duchess of Rutland, for three 32-months 
old new Leicester wethers; Swede turnips 
and carrots, 
Value fifteen guineas, to Mr. Stephen 
Grantham, for three 32-months old South- 
down wethers: Swede turnips. 
Valne ten guineas, to Mr. John Ellman, 
jun. for three 32-months old Sonthdown 
wethers: turnips. 
Value ten guineas, to Mr. George Dodd, 
for three 22-weeks old Suffolk pigs: bar- 
ley and pea meals. 
—The judges who awarded these pre- 
miums were four graziers, viz. Messrs. 
John Buckley, John Hitchins, John 
Price, and Samuel Sandon; and two 
butchers, viz. Messrs. Robert Curtis 
and Michael White. At the mectings 
of the club, the Marquis of Exeter, 
and sixteen gentlemen, were added to 
the list of its members; and 210 gui- 
neas were assigned for nineteen pre- 
mivums at the shew-in December next. 
—The Highland Society of Scotland 
have, in the year which is passed, ori- 
ginated a similar society in Edinburgh, 
who have proposed, a few days before 
the present Christmas, to distribute at 
their first exhibition ten premiums, 
amounting to seventy-five guineas, for 
fat oxen. Thus it is, that one of the 
most sensible classes in the country 
silently rebuke the puerilities of minis- 
ters, as to “over-production,” which 
this class know not to exist, save of 
the class of state annuitaats, pen- 
sioners, and placemen, who are crush- 
ing the industrious of every class ta 
the earth. 
Dr. YATEs announces a work on the 
Establishment, Patronage, and Pre- 
eminence, of the Church Tstablish- 
ment. 
On the 15th will be published, No. I. 
of a new literary work, to be entitled, 
Res Literariz, or Monthly Journal of 
Foreign and Domestic Literature. 
The Belfast newspaper informs us, 
that, in consequence of the publication 
of Mr. CaMpPBELL’s edition of Ossian, 
researches have been made in that 
town; and in an oakcen chest, found in 
the ruins of an ancient abbey, a 
copy of Ossian has been discovered of 
the fifteenth century, and also a theo- 
logical 
