Supplementary Varieties. 
eye must exist to a certain degree; as the 
flow of “teats was évident./~ 
The Bubble Mania of the Eighteenth eine : 
tury -London; at this time ( 1698) abound- 
pi mewsprejects and schemes, promising 
mountains of gold. Writers:about this time 
‘complaim heavily.that-the Royal Exchange 
Was ;crowded with» projects, wagers, fairy 
ompanies..of new inventions and manufac- 
mres; (stock-jobbers; | &c.,..so. that, very 
soon afterwards, the. transacting of this airy 
trade) of; jobbing was: justly removed. from 
off;the,| Royal; Exchange into the place 
‘called Exchange Alley. | But-in 1720, the 
destructive effects of the South-Sea Bubble 
palsied. all.-the:\ energies. of industry, and 
gave sucha shock to public and -private 
eredit, as rendered the lapse of years ne- 
cessary before confidence could be restored. 
The, absurd speculations, the bare-faced im- 
postions and Srauds, the infatuated credu- 
dity, and. the egregious | folly which: distin- 
guished, this period, were all,in the extreme, 
and cannot be paralleled in any other era of 
\British;history,:; Even after the procla- 
mation against “Bubbles,” that frantic 
trade,soon revived, -and even increased 
more than ever; and whilst these bubbles 
daily, advanced in price; every one was a 
gainer, so: thatthe lower class of people fell 
into. ducury and. prodigality, as well as their 
betiers.. Not a week-day passed without 
Fresh projects, recommended by pompous ad- 
-wertisements in all the newspapers, directing 
where to subscribe to them. Some of the 
obseare keepers of books of subscriptions, 
contenting themselves with what they had 
got in the forenoon, by the subscription for 
one or two millions, were not to be found 
-dn the afternoon of the same day ; the room 
_ they had hired for a day being shut up, and 
they and their. subscription-books never 
_deard of more. - Some of the schemes were 
_ divided into shares, instead of hundreds and 
‘thousands, upon each of which so much was 
paid down; and both for them and the other 
there were printed receipts. Persons 
‘of, quality. were, deeply engaged in many of 
them, avarice prevailing. over all considera- 
ions of either, dignity or equity ; lords and 
sae _attending, taverns and coffee- 
uses pk meet their, brokers, and ladies 
ine the shops of milliners and haber- 
e Tua the, same end. » Any impudent 
; fells w , to. hire, a room near the 
mee brrs 
en. a subsoription-book for 
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Li & Suppose inventions. 
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stolen Iron mm some, Bit 
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gigie' his brain, or else 
many abortive. pro- 
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‘ ii pers, of, the preceding day), 
a fee. heute bndiwibacrad- 
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two millions, ands in. some 
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when they: generally. got rid Ws them in the 
crowded. Alley to others more’ credulous 
than themselves. So great was the wild 
confusion in thé ¢rowd in eee ie ak 
that the same projector bubble; hasbeen 
known. to ‘be::sold,; at; thei:sameinstantéof 
time, ten per cent. higher 'at.one'end ofthe 
Alley: than: at, the others«-The infatuation 
was at length so. strong, that» one praject 
was advertised thus :—‘t.Kor subscribing 
£2,000,000 to a certain. promising: dad 
profitable design, which will’ heneafter:'be 
promulgated.”’.. And another writer says, 
*Change-alley was more like a fair, crowded 
with people, than a mart: of exchange, as 
were all the avenues leading: to it; and 
there was a little hump-backed, man,  iwho, 
seeing this mania, made his fortune by-lend- 
ing his back, as a desk, to make transfers on, 
to those who couid not afford time: to run 
to the coffee-houses. 
Reform at the Bar —It has beni sug- 
gested that no counsel should: put’ ques- 
tions, save in a decorous and) becoming 
manner (for it, is by courtesy that.counsel 
are allowed to plead im criminal. courts of 
judicature); that they should: not be-put 
in the slang way of the: place, butoso as 
not to injure the feelings ‘of, the person 
under cross-examination; that they should 
be modified, so as not to be offensive, ‘but 
calculated to elicit the truth; that -they 
should not be repeated. with rapidity, so/as 
to confuse the examinant; and unless‘these 
tules were observed, that the judge take 
the case in his own hands, and put the 
questions at the suggestion’ of counsel. 
Until these rules, are observed, nothing 
like decorum will ever be attained. 1! 
Increase of Crime.—Last, year was’ the 
heayiest year of crime we have ‘yet had. 
The year 1819 was 14,254: this was’ the 
year in which the body of the people was _ 
subjected to the greatest privations.. In 
1820, the amount fell to 13,710, andthe 
following year to 13,115. While foodwas 
cheap; thieving naturally decreased; with 
high prices, it has naturally increased. An 
analysis of the returns of 1824 will ‘shew, 
in the most striking manner, the necessary 
connexion between poverty and’ crime. 
The whole number of persons committed 
for the manufacturing and prosperous coun- 
ty of York, including the separate jurisdic 
tions and the commitments for the assizes, 
was. only 641. It is) generally «supposed, 
that large towns are: hot-beds of erime, 
but here we include the: towns) oft Leeds, 
Halifax, Sheffield, York, Wakefield; °Hud- 
dersfield, &c, Contrast with:this the Nor- 
folk circuit ; the commitments: for°this 
circuit, in which theresare comparatively 
few large towns, are: b086:04 Phe Som 
tion of Yorkshire ji is1,173;18%s cthatwfthe 
Norfolk circuit is cless;jnamely;11j002/184. 
According. to, the  Panliamenitary Reburis, 
Dorset was the! county;in whichotheswages 
cé labour seemed. lowest, being tot niore 
than 7s. a week. » The commitmenitsto*the 
sessions 
