wun

PRT PA Ce Lee‘

HE Second Volume of our Magazine being now com-

pleted, we take an opportunity to addreſs to our Readers

a ſhort retroſpe&t of what we have been Ri to petform, and an outline of what we ſhall a/pire to pertormereafter,

In Agriculture, we bave finiſhed the ſketch of education attempted by the Rural Œconomifſt, and imagine that little de- viation from that plan would be neceſlary to form the intelligent landlord of the next generation. The delicate taſk of rearing female propriety is well delineated,$#y a lady to whom we hold ourſelves and the public equally obligated. While man wglks in very various paths of life, woman‘is nevert ſo reſpectably» employed as in the orderly arrangement of a farm-houſe. There only, perhaps, cuſtom has permitted her to emulate the utility of her huſband. It will be ſeen, that to the dairy this volume bas dedicated many pages. The uſe of ſalt in milk, the œconomy of a foreign dairy-country, and an improvement in the butter- churn, will be found uſeful information. The benefits of irri- gation are ſet in a ſtrong light. But, above all, we have been careful to colle information about the intereſting propoſal of Sir John Sinclar for,a Joint-ſtock Farming Society: never was any ſpeculation fo eminently beneficial in intention: we lament that, as yet, certain difficulties of form, do not ſuffer us to an- nounce to the Public the commencement of the-operations of this Society. Our Reviews of agricultural publications‘are of ſome length, and, we flatter ourſelves, will convince our readers of particular attention in that department,

In Commercial diſcuſſions, we venture to believe we have communicated much original information to the public. The Britiſp Merchant will be found an able concentration of the hiſtory of the various„ſtations of the wandering Genius of Trade. We hope to complete this ſeries of papers in our next volume. The queſtion-of ſcarcity(of a magnitude paramount to all others) has filled many of our pages; but not in vain z ſince our later numbers havye’entered into the queſtion of mono- poly in ſo radical à manner, as only to aſk attention to aſcertain conviíion. The Corn and Bread Laws have been diſcuſſed in a chemical, as well as legiſlative light; we ſeized the preſent ſeaſon(as one of probable attention to theſe ſubjects) to iraprint ſome neceſſary axioms on the publiz mind. Our notices of Va2a=- rious Commercial Towns, have been numerous and âmple; and the completion of our Foreign Commercial Directory, gives to the Engiiih Merchant a maſs of information which elſewhere he would ſeek in vain,