d by this
jumble up of every day conveniences of little value, showing how much
more comfort depends upon the necessaries than the luxuries of life. I
may add, now that I read what I have written, that this carpet bag
increased in dimensions to a most extraordinary compass for several
weeks afterwards. Everything that was missing was declared by the
servants to have been in the carpet bag, which, like the scape-goat of
the Jews, wandered in the wilderness, bearing with it all the sins of
all the nurses and every other domestic of the family.

On our road, the landlord of an inn put the following printed document
into my hands, which I make public for the benefit of those who are
sportsmen without being landholders.

"COMFORTABLE INN.--The proprietor of the Red House, at Burgheim, on
the road from Aix-la-Chapelle to Cologne, pleasantly situated in the
middle of the town, opposite the Post-Office and Post-House, has the
honour of recommending himself to travellers. The `Galignani's
Messenger' and other newspapers are taken in. The English, German,
and French languages spoken. Having excellent preserves of game in
the neighbourhood, he is happy to inform travellers that he can
provide them with good sports in wild boar, deer, and hare hunting,
and wild duck and partridge shooting. Horses and carriages of all
descriptions supplied for excursions in the neighbourhood.

"AJ HONS."

_Prussia_.--I fear that our political economists are running after a
shadow, and that their reciprocity system will never be listened to. It
is remarkable, that, after subsidising this and other powers to break up
the continental system established by Napoleon for the expulsion of
English manufactures and the consequent ruin of England, now that the
world is at peace, these very powers who, by our exertions and our
money, have been liberated from their thraldom, have themselves
established the very system of exclusion which we were so anxious to
prevent. A little reflection will prove that they are right. The
government of a country ought never, if possible, to allow that country
to be dependent upon any other for such resources as it can obtain by
its own industry. We, ourselves, acted upon this principle when we
established the silk manufactories in Spitalfields; and it is the duty
of every government to do the same.

The indigenous productions of the soil may fairly be admitted on a
system of reciprocity and