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The Parish and the Union, is an industrious and readable

digest of the Evidence taken before Mr. WALTER'S Poor-law Committee of last session. The questions and answers are arranged under the subjects to which they relate; and are interspersed with a variety of remarks, philosophical, critical, or explanatory, as the case may be. There is a useful table of contents, or index, pre- fixed ; and an appendix is added, containing the Committee's Report, and other matters. To decide upon the fulness or fairness with which the volume is compiled, would be almost as laborious as to write it. We can only say, that the book appears complete in its topics, and that its compiler is an advocate of the new Poor-law.