WE are 0 - ratified to find that the plan, which we
imperfectly developed last week, has attracted considerable attention. We have received a a
number of letters approving, of its principle, and some of them urg,ing the propriety of au immediate general meeting. We are most desirous that, previous to such a step, the plan should undergo as much discus- sion as possible ; for it is only in that way that real defects can be so merely for the sake of definite example. In fact, the greatest in- supplied, and seeming defects explained, and that the objections though the scheme of our journal does not admit of the publication of than among the middling and lower ranks. an extended correspondence, they may depend on the least of their suggestions being carefully considered. Next week we intend to show TRADE WITH INDIA.
in the subordinates of such a society as we have proposed. For the with the prices of certain articles in our estimate. We have only to prices in the metropolis. The Advertiser's more general observation, that "there is no pecu-
writers there may be as many on the one side as the other ; at least liarity in the plan, nor auytthing to exempt it from the common fate of we should be inclined to believe so, from the power and wealth of the all such plans—failure," is best met by the fact that no such plan as party attacked. The " itinerating quacks" must mean, of course, Mr. that which we contemplate was ever projected in the metropolis, much BUCKINGHAM, who with all his faults is not " three gentlemen rolled less entered on, and therefore no such plan ever failed there ; and by into one." Again, the outcry against the East India Company's the example which we gave last week, of similar societies, instituted
under circumstances infinitely less favourable, and carried through tradesmen, by i
TOPICS OF THE DAY. and the club will be made up of consumers only. We look to our own
interest—let the sellers look to theirs. The affairs of society arc al- CLUB FOR CHEAPENING THE NECESSARIES OF LIFE. ways best managed when every class attends to its own. Tradesmen
have not hitherto shown any want of knowledge or of inclination that way—the ignorance turd the inattention have been wholly on the part
of the customers. Our object is to enlighten the latter—the former are sufficiently enlightened already. We shall only now . add, that when last week we mentioned incomes of 300/ or 4001. a year, we did their removal or reduction less likely to be entertained and approved,
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