MORE INTELLIGENCE WANTED ABOUT THE " PEACE-PUDDING." Several correspondents ask
for further information respecting the small tract on maize, noticed in our number for the 24th January. We will tell all we know. The tract is entitled " Maize or Indian Corn, its Advantages as a Cheap and Nutritious Article of Food for the Poor and Labouring Classes of Great Britain and Ireland, with Directions for its Use." It was received by us from the United States through the post; and, we presume, was sent by the writer, Dr. John S. Bartlett, M.D., editor of. the New York Albion. We gathered that it was reprinted from the newspaper, in the shape of a tract, for extensive circulation in this country. Several of our corre- spondents, however, have applied for it in vain at the booksellers. To some wbo have inquired we should have been happy to lend our own copy; but, unluckily, as we did not know its scarcity, it was broken up in the print- ing-office, and so lost.
If any of our readers happens to possess a copy, and would favour us with it, we might be able to put it into a way of being more generally useful.
If this notice, too, should meet the eye of the benevolent writer in New York, he will see that there is more work for him to do—that there would be a demand for many more copies than he sent.
The tract, indeed, might be the basis for one to be distributed under Government authority in Ireland, if not in England. No matter if some of the receipts are too elaborate for the cookery of the poor: they might in- gratiate the palates of the classes. who are better off, and thus induce a useful example in that difficult work—the popular adoption of a new article of diet.
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