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On Tuesday the President of the Poor-Law Board opened a

literary institute at Willenhall without succeeding in giving

utterance to very much beyond the conventional congratulations. Within thirty years, said Mr. Villiers, the place has so far changed that then you could not have found fifty copies of the public journals in its thousand houses, whereas now a thousand copies of the public journals enter the town weekly. This glorious change would, Mr. Villiers thought, be further advanced by the literary institute be was then opening, and he hoped to have penny readings in it and to put it into communication with the School of Design. No doubt excellent advice to 1Villenhall, but why are such local remarks uniformly reported for all England ?

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