of the earth;" but have opened innumerable channels for conveying knowledge and truth to every part of the globe, and furnished ample means of support to the numerous societies established for this God." like purpose. While commerce has been spreading her sails in every port, agriculture has been widely extending its improvements, and dif fusing its blessings. "Our garners are full, affording all manner of store our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets s" and our manufactures have acquired a facility, variety, and abundance, almost as much beyond enumeration as they are beyond example That mad much distress abounds amidst these advantages, must be acknowledged and deplored; but if we examine the principal sources of our distress, it will enhance, rather than diminish our esti, mate of the advantages themselves. Years of enlarged and costly war, resulting in the greater security of our nation, but in no adequate territorial recompence, have entailed upon us a pecuniary burden, which the peace of a century would be scarcely sufficient to remove while the overflowing abundance of our lands, and of the lands of Europe, since the war, has so as so reduced the price of the necessaries of life, that our husbandmen are not able to pay the hire of their labourers, and the tribute demanded by parochial and national exigency." C Qur commerce, the true basis of England's prosperity, is re-.. viving, but agriculture must decline, and a large portion of the capital employed in. it, must be diverted into other channels. This inevitable reflux will occasion extensive ruin and distress; but the fault lies, not in the present times, but in the times of war and profligacy from which, we are emerging; in the unnatural depression of the currency, which is reverting to its former value, and the fatal system of high prices. It is in a moral respect, however, that it is safest and most profitable to contemplate the superiority of the period in which we live; and the sentiment which Mr. Lacey advocates, is perhaps of more practical importance, in connexion with the discharge of our social obligations, than may at first appear. The temper of the gloomy alarmist is neither favourable to exertion, nor is it allied to benevolence. The censorious declaimer, the indignant satirist, to whatever party he may belong, is seldom foremost in works of Christian philanthropy い TO CORRESPONDENTS. 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