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DOMESTIC MANNEES OF TUE PEUSSIANS.

Our friend the blacksmith, on tlic other liand, when hewrites a letter, always puts a small i for the first personalpronoun, and finds, indeed, any literary Performance a workof sucli extreme labour, that he keeps on biting liis tongiiewhile engaged in the act, as if it were positive physical pain tobim. Yet ask John how the revenue of the government israised, and whether he thinks it wisc or just in a Communityto levy its taxes by imposts on the meat and fiour of thepeople; or ask bim how wages are regulated, or whetherthe number of paupers in the country are on the increaseor decrease; and our word for it, this same grimy blacksmithwill answer in a manner that, though pcrhaps neither gram-matically correct nor rhetorically elegant, will nevertheless befüll of good, rough, common sense, and exhibit such attention tothe principles that contribute to the well-being of a nation aswould go far to found a new reputation for a German Weiser.

This knowledge our blacksmith acquired, certainly not inthe schools, but, on the contrary, at the little coffee-shop wherehe takes bis morning's breakfast, and where he sees all the dailynewspapers; so that even he, as well as the richest in the land,reaps the benefit of that large machinery for the daily supplyof worldly wisdom which makes up a London morning Journal.Not a single question affecting the happiness or welfare ofthe country that is discussed in Parliament, but our blacksmithhas the opinions of many of the wisest minds in the countryconcerning the measure, reported verbatim for his perusal onthe morrow; and thus he has either the prime-minister of thekingdom for his teacher on the subject, or eise he takes a lessonin politics of my Lords Palmerston, or Russell, or Macaulay,or Messrs. Gladstons or Roebuck, as he pleases. Nor isthis all, for writers who have made the subject their specialstudy have plied their pens during the night, in order to con-dense the matter of the previons evening's debate within the