488 
Average Price La Provisions. 
1820 40-1821. 1821 to 1822. 
Bread, per Quartern 0s. 93d, . «Os. BEd. 
Meat, erStone . 4 3- . . 38 6 
Legs and Shins, do. * 1 6 L.-k 
Butter, perCwt. . - 82 0 78 0 
Cheese, do. C ; 46 6 44 0 
Items of Expenditure. cms 
Population Expenses . 3 - £ 66 
Casual Poor relieved by Overseers 268 
Reliefs, Examinations, Removals, by Beadles, ot 
c. 
Slispended Orders, and Relief by Em loyment 195 
Poor relieved by Order of Guardian Board and 
Officers s . 679 
Weekly Pensions to Out-door Poor 4 . 3,649 
Infant Poor at Enfield d ‘ , 444 
Lunatics at Bethnal Green ; 4 « » 373 
County Rate . ° F 921 
Annuities, ae Interest ‘on Bonds 5 4 662 
Bonds paid off ° . . . 707 
Bread and Flour ° g 4 - 884 
Meat i . “ . . - 878 
Beer . s . ’ * 375 
Butter and Cheese “ - ail 
Milk. 9 4 . e : 89 
Groceries and Oatmeal 5 i * 148 
Vegetables . : ° 62 
Linen, Sheeting, Calicoes, elite) Freier acige8 
si peme ery and Hosiery . ° ° 110 
Woollens and Corduroy 5 ° ° 215 
Shoes and Leather F 
Men’s Clothes, Hats, and Girls’ Bonnets » pope 
Soap, Salt, Oil, and Vinegar 2 
Coals and Candles. é . 252 
Bedding and sbatends * A ~ 202 
Earthenware. . ‘ ° 7 
{ronmongery . F el 
Counerye Turne Baskets, &e. 4H 
Cost of Flax Mac jinery and Gratuities to the Poor 143 
Insurance and Taxes’. 1] 
Midwifery = . ° 7 
Matron’s Disbursements a ‘ eo 
Wines and Spirits for Sick and Infirm . 75 
Repairs. of Workhouse . ~. 484 
Gas Light . 4 . 50 
Stationery and Printing : - 104 
Clerk’s Salary 300 
Clerk’s Disbursements for sehen &e. 103 
Salaries to Master, Matron, Clerk, and Apo- 
thecaries © . i 360 
Apprentice Fees. a 120 
Fire Plugs and Rewards for Engines. 66 
Subscriptions to Finsbury and Electricity Dis- 
ensaries, Fever and Lock apes ee 
russ Institution 25 
Funerals f > > 5 . 77 
£15,025 
eee) aoe 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
BOOK-CLUBS and. SOCIETIES. 
N_your last Number you suggest to 
country booksellers the propriety 
of their taking advantage of this leisure 
season to canvass persons in different 
districts, so as to form new book-socie- 
ties. In this sentiment all your readers 
will accord; and, as a country book- 
seller, allow me to express a hope 
that, by the activity of my brethren, 
every parish in the kingdom may in a 
short time possess’ its. subscription of 
from ten to twenty members, for the 
purchase and circulation of afew pe- 
riodical publications and popular 
books. 
Annual subscriptions amounting to 
eight or ten guineas, are sufficient for 
every purpose; but if they can be ex- 
tended to twelve or: fifteen guineas, Hier 
+ 
2 
Plans of Book-Clubs and Societies. 
[July t, 
purpose will be more bec dg ri ef 
fected,’ For exanrmple— * 
Tere s, d. 
The Monthly Magazine, at 2s. for ““ 
fourteen Numbers; costs +++ 1 8 O 
The Gentleman’s, or European-+>1; 8» 0 
The Monthly Review, or British 
Critic, fifteen Numbers at 
Qe Gilen aassnsgavasesust uke se hae 6 
The Journal of New Voyages and 
Travels, twelve at 3s. 6d.---- 29 “0 
A Religious Magazine, at 1s. 6d. 0 18 ~“O 
ga teory 
O39 FRG 
To which may be added some®six or 
seven stock publications ‘in the year, 
not exceeding 10s. 6d. each, which 
with the periodicals, bound in half- 
yearly volumes, would in‘a few years 
form a delightful, usefal,-and instruc- 
tive collection. 
In my own experience, T have found 
that the schoolmaster of the parish®is 
always the very best secretary and 
treasurer ; and next to him any intelli- 
gent and urbane person who is fond of 
books, and who therefore would: keep 
and circulate them for the gratification 
of being their keeper. The business 
of such person is to receive the books 
from the bookseller, sewed | im vear- 
tridge paper, and then address them 
among the members. But blank lists 
and rules for book-societies have long 
been published, and are sold: by the 
dozen or 100 at a cheap isa for the 
use of secretaries. 
It has been computed that there 
exist at present nearly 2000. of these 
book-subscriptions. But, | including 
large towns, they might easily be: qua- 
drupled. A bookseller at a’ market- 
town in this county lately established 
fifteen within a few months, merely by 
stimulating one or two persons to set 
them a-going, in as many districts. 
Subscriptions of 12s. a-year, or 1s. 
a-month, from abeut sixteen members, 
are found to answer best; but inssome 
cases 5s. per quarter from twelve 
members are more practicable. The 
advantages to the local booksellers 
are incalculable, ‘as they not merely 
supply the club with books, but gene- 
rally ‘serve the members with other 
publications, called for by that appe- 
tite for reading, which reading itself 
creates. In a moral, religious, «and 
social point of view, nothing can be 
more desirable than the general esta- 
blishment of such clubs.) 
: A Couyrry BooKsELLrn. 
~ Leeds ; oi 
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