MORE MESSAGES ABOUT MAIZE.
Du. BARTLETT, editor of the New York Album., has responded to our call for " More Information about the Peace-Pudding," with a liberality worthy of his philanthropy : he announces tho transmission of a hundred copies of his pamphlet. Dr. Bartlett began this movement to supply the people of Ireland, and the potato-feeding portion of the English people, with a bstter fpod in 1842: his ingenuity and perseverance appear likely to meet with a .full reward. The trial of the new food in Ireland has thus far been amply successful : those of the labouring class who have used it find that their sustenance does not cost more, and that they work better upon such food than when they depended on potatoes. There are, indeed, still some prejudices to encounter ; and the poor fools in a workhouse, here and there, have broken out into riots in resisting the attempt to change their diet from " a coarser kind of food." To check ebullitions of prejudice, it is desirable to bring the grain in use as soon as possible among the richer classes. There is a strong disposition to use it, even out of curiosity, to say nothing of economy and philanthropy : but we hear heavy complaints that it cannot be procured in Lon- don, or only at .prices as high as wheat ; that it is, in short, sold at " fancy" prices. This will be mended simply by the contin- uance of the demand, which must induce a fuller supply. Meanwhile, Dr. Bartlett's pamphlet will be a seasonable cookery- book for the corn when it does come; and when we receive the copies from the worthy sea-captain who has the charge of them, we shall gladly aid in distributing his present to the English people.
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