ght after than any others.

Amusements are said to be cheaper; but, admitting that, the places of
amusement are oftener resorted to, and in consequence as much money is
spent abroad as in England. It is true that there are an immense number
of theatres in Paris, and that most of them are very reasonable in their
charges for admission; but be it recollected that there are not above
three of them which are considered fashionable, if even respectable; and
there the prices are sufficiently high. If people went to Sadler's
Wells, the Coburg, Victoria, Queen's Theatre, Astley's, and other minor
theatres in London, as they do to the Theatres Saint Martin, Gymnase, et
Varietes at Paris, they would find no great difference in the prices.

What then is there cheaper? Wine. I grant it; and, it is also
asserted, the education of children. We will pass over these two last
points for the present, and examine whether living is cheaper on the
Continent, provided you do _not_ hive in any of the capitals.

That at Tours and other places in the south of France, at Genoa, at
Bruges, in Belgium, you may live cheaper than in London, I grant; but if
any one means to assert that you can live cheaper than in the country in
England, I deny it altogether. People go abroad, and select the
cheapest parts of the Continent to live in. If they were to do the same
in England, they would find that they could live much cheaper and much
better; for instance, in Devonshire, Cornwall, and Wales, and, indeed,
in almost every county in England.

The fact is, it is not the cheapness of the living which induces so many
people to reside abroad. There are many reasons; and as I wish to be
charitable, I will put forward the most favourable ones.

In England, we are money-making people, and we have the aristocracy of
wealth as well _as_ the aristocracy of rank. It has long been the
custom for many people to live beyond their incomes, and to keep up an
appearance which their means have not warranted. Many, especially the
landed proprietors, finding their rentals reduced from various causes,
have been necessitated to retrench. They were too proud to put down
their carriages and establishments before the eyes of those who had
perhaps looked upon them with envy, and whose derision or exultation
they anticipated. They therefore have retired to the Continent, where a
carriage is not necessary to prove that you are a gentleman. Should
those return who hav