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CHARLES KNIGHT, 22, LUDGATE STREET, AND 13, PALL-MALL EAST.

MDCCCXXXIV.
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IT EXUTRAGE

Dec 16, 1938

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE First Volume of the COMPANION TO THE NEWSPAPER has been closed earlier than was originally arranged. The Annual Retrospect and Chronicle of Events which are now published, naturally determined the completion of the present Volume; and the arrangement allows a change in the plan of the Work, the expediency of which has been established by a sufficient experience. It is, for the future, intended to discontinue the publication of Supplements, which have been found inconvenient; and to enlarge the size of the Monthly Publication. The "Companion to the Newspaper" will, therefore, consist of 24 pages instead of 16; and the additional space thus gained will, for the most part, be devoted to a "JOURNAL OF FACTS," which will not only keep the most important political events more completely before the reader, and form a tolerably full record of the progress of Statistics and Public Economy, but be a Register also of such other circumstances as may appear to demand a place in a work calculated for future reference, as well as present information. The enlarged Number will be charged 4d. instead of 2d.; so that the annual cost will be 4s. for 288 pages. This advance of price, beyond the advance arising out of the increase of size, is rendered necessary by these circumstances. The expense of conducting this work has been greater than originally estimated, and the sale, though large, reaching to 20,000, is not a remunerating sale at the original price. The nature of the subjects treated on, interesting and important as they are, preclude the expectation that the work would attain the extensive circulation of others of a more miscellaneous nature issued by the same Publisher. To have lessened the literary expenses, would have been to produce a Journal of inferior quality. The small advance of price, founded upon the experiment which has been made, is the just and natural course; and one which will not be objected to by those who perceive that every literary undertaking must stand or fall, in proportion as the public demand makes a return for the capital and labour employed in its production. If the demand had been doubled, the price would have remained the same. The present demand, with the increased price, will enable the work to be continued without any sacrifice of the character which it has attained, and with new and strenuous attempts at higher excellence.

December 31st, 1833.

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uses. There are a number of scattered materials neces-

sary for the proper understanding of any political question,

which are apt to be overlooked in the unavoidable hurry of

newspaper controversy; and many details of the highest

importance to Commercial Interests, are in the same way

neglected. These materials are to be chiefly found in Par-

liamentary Reports, and in Foreign Journals; and it will

be the duty of this publication to collect and simplify them,

so that they may be easily referred to. The course of

Legislation, too, upon matters which affect the daily actions

of large bodies of persons, ought to be pointed out in a clear

and untechnical manner, so that those who are called upon

to obey any new law may know of its existence, before

they incur its penalties or neglect its protection. This object

will be here systematically attempted. Again, the great

measures of national improvement, which are going forward

in the shape of Private Bills, are very imperfectly borne in

mind, except by the few who are directly interested in their

success or failure; and it is of the highest importance that

the mass of the people should understand the real nature

of such measures, which, more than any other, indicate the

advance of the country in civilization. This information

will be found in the proposed work. Lastly-it has been

shown, in several recent publications, that the science of

Political Economy may be rendered intelligible and interest-

ing to all persons, by pointing out its bearings upon the

circumstances of individual life, and by selecting illustrations

within the reach of every-day experience. To diffuse the

knowledge of those principles of the science which are most

capable of practical application, may do something for the

correction of popular error and the advance of general hap-

piness.

From this imperfect outline it will be seen that the Coм-

PANION TO THE NEWSPAPER, treating of matters of univer-

The law demands a stamp upon periodical publications of sal and lasting interest, aspires to become an assistant to

a certain bulk, which discuss " any matter in Church and every newspaper reader, whatever may be his individual

State," but exempts those which are published at intervals opinions as to particular measures of Government. It pro-

poses carefully to examine those materials which the writer

of twenty-eight days. It has therefore been thought that a

MONTHLY COMPANION TO THE NEWSPAPER, published at of the day has not always leisure to consult; and to bear in

that very cheap rate which can only be obtained by a large mind those comprehensive principles of political philosophy,

circulation, might be an important instrument in the diffusion by which every passing question must eventually be tried.

of sound Political Knowledge. Politics, in the highest sense

In general, the work will contain a number of short articles

of the word, constitute a science which it is of great moment

on subjects to which the public mind is directed; but,

should be well understood by the people; for in this, as in occasionally, some matter involving a great many facts must

all other matters, the uninformed will ever be the dupes of be treated at length. To accomplish this, a SUPPLEMENT

the designing and mischievous. The extremes of indiffer-will appear, either quarterly or every second Month, also at

ence and of violence with regard to public affairs are equally the price of Twopence, which will, in most cases, be occu-

the result of want of knowledge.

pied by some complete question of Political Inquiry. At the

end of the year, one of these Supplements will be devoted

to a Retrospective Chronicle of Events, so that the entire

Volume, which will not exceed the price of Three Shillings,

sewed, may serve the purposes of an Annual Register.

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