BILL OF MORTALITY, from December 24, 1811, to January 28, 1812. Christened. Males - 1157 Females 1038 Buried. Of whom have died under 2 years old 500 Peek Loaf 5s. 8d. 5s. 9d. 5s. 8d.5s. 8d. bs. 5d. Between 2 and 5 153 | 50 and 60 165 Salt 1. per bushel; 44d. per pound. 20 and 30 40 and 50 187 90 and 100 18 AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending January 18, 1812. INLAND COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barly Oats Beans s. d. s. ds. d. s. Middlesex 112 351 746 11 35 d. s. d. 1 MARITIME COUNTIES. Wheat Rye Barly Oats Bean s. d. s. d. s. d.js. d. s. d. 105 454 047 832 454 0 108 654 045 433 051 4 000 049 835 000 0 556 9 Essex 112 Bedford 102 1156 045 233 655 Of Suffolk 103 552 044 431 248 O Norfolk 101 554 643 731 347 0 off Lincoln 96 100 047 1128 551 5 90 049 844 029 255 5 0Durham 95 800 044 330 200 Derby 94 800 048 0 Northum. 84 751 443 129 200 Stafford 102 900 054 832 962 2 Cumberl. 90 650 440 929 200 Salop 106 11 69 058 535 583 6 Westmor. 92 850 040 028 300 Hereford 111 1164 057 035 065 6 Lancaster 93 1100 Worcester 113 659 456 1037 756 5 Chester 92 0100 Warwick 115 600 Flint 105 700 Wilts 112 058 056 8 35 860 4 Denbigh 100 1100 Berks 113 400 049 1133 260 0 Anglesea 00 000 Oxford 110 000 048 730 856 3 Carnarv. 96 Bucks 112 600 046 934 955 1 Merionet. 102 Brecon 122 100 062 428 1000 0 Cardigan 116 Montgom. 103 200 051 233 700 O Pembroke 96 Radnor 116 600 057 431 200 0 8 York Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Devon 114 .........102 11 53 949 630 655 PRICES OF FLOUR, January 27 : Fine per Sack 90s. Seconds 75s. to 85s. Bran per Q. 14s. to 17s. Pollard 26s. to 30s. OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, January 18, 50s. AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, January 22, 45s. 6d. per Cwt. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, January 27: Kent Bags......... ............4%. Os. to 6. Os. Kent Pockets..............51. Os. to 71. 76. Sussex Ditto........ ...........31. 15s. to 5. 12s. Sussex Ditto...............4/. 15s. to 6%. Os. Essex Ditto................41. Os. to 6. Os. Farnham Ditto 10. 10s. to 11. Os. AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, January 27 : St. James's, Hay 4/. 10s. Straw 21. 8s. Straw 21. 11s.-Smithfield, Clover 6l. 5s. Old Hay 51. 5s. Straw 21. 12s. COALS, January 27: Newcastle 44s. to 53s. Sunderland 00s. SOAP, Yellow 92s. Mottled 102s. Curd 106s. CANDLES, 13s. per Doz. Moulds 14s. TALLOW, per Stone, Sib, St. James's 4s. 11d. Clare 46. 11d. Whitechapel 4s. 8d. Stock. Stock. Bank India South Sea S. Sea S. Sea | 3perCt 3 per C. 3per Ct. 13 per Ct. 14 per Ct. 15 perCt5perCt | B. Long Stock. Ann. New An. B. Red. Consels.. 1726. An. 1751. An. 1789. Navy. 1797. EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN JANUARY, 1812. Om nium. India Bonds. Ann. Exchequ. Irish | Imp. Imp. Bills. 5perCt. 3perCt. 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LOTTERY TICArts, £21. 5s. Od. WILLIAM CARTER, Stock-Broker, No. 8, Charing Cross. 791 941 161 dis. 17 a18 pr. 2 a 6 pr. The average degrees of Temperature, from observations made at eight o'clock in the morning, are 33-87 100ths; those of the corresponding month in the year 1811, were 28-87 100ths; in 1810, 32-24 100ths; in 1809, 33-17 100ths; in 1808, 33-47 100ths; in 1807, 31-33 100ths; in 1806, 37-7 100ths; in 1805, 33-16 100ths; and in 1804, 33-50 100ths. The quantity of Rain fallen this month is equal to 79 100ths; that of the corresponding month in the year 1811, 2 inches 62 100ths; in 1810, 90 100ths; in 1809, 4 inches 12 100ths; in 1808, 1 inch 5 100ths; in 1807, 2 inches 28 100ths; in 1806, 5 inches 97 100ths; in 1805, 2 inches 44 100ths; and in 1804, 4 inches 43 100ths. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for Feb. 1812. By W. CARY, Strand. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINË, For FEBRUARY, 1812. EDUCATION OF THE POOR. "Just education forms the man." GAY. Mr. URBAN, Feb. 1. HE "bountiful eye" sees the Tpoor, and the "benevolent heart" feels for them, as brethren, who contain within them the common excellent nature, intelligent minds, and capacities for improvement. The truth and liberality of this sentiment, to the honour of the age and country in which we live, is spreading through the kingdom, from the worthiest motives, the warmest hearts, and with the most extraordinary pro ptitude and energy, to ameliorate the condition of the poor, from the pressures of extreme poverty, to a practical system of intellectual culture and proficiency. It is only to develope talents, in order to improve them; and it is not too much to say, we may expect, from the obscured endowments amongst the lower classes of the people, "to hail the general dawn" of understanding that illumines and invigorates the mind of man, as the dawning day opens all nature, and expands all her powers. Acts of charity are distinguished in, as many different ways as there are different occasions for them: but the finest feelings of humanity are those expressed in the comprising plan and happy combination of" eleemosynary alms and elementary instruction," that the poor, provided not only with sustenance, and other human comforts, to the relief of their necessities, may be taught" also to improve their condition in common life, and in the approach of death to acknowledge thankfully the "gift of knowledge," aud religious education. We have an instance upon record, and that record, it is to be hoped, indelible, where an Act was proposed [Ric. II.] "that no villaines should put their children to school," or, in plain language, that the poor should not be taught to read ; and was rejected, in the Council of the Nation, from the most generous feelings, and lively sense in the cause and interest of humanity. If ever there has been a question, it is no longer entertained in these enlightened days, whether "in having been taught to write," the poor have not derived, from this manual ac quirement, a benefit to themselves as essential as their services to the community.-Instruction, it is true, may be perverted, as fine penmanship may lead to forgery: but, if semina ries for educating certain classes of the people," who are unable to pur chase instruction," are not encour aged; if institutions similar, for in stance, to that of Christ's Hospital, are not filled as at present, and, it is hoped, ever will be filled, with youth trained to industry and integrity, edu cated and exercised in all branches of knowledge useful to themselves and to the community; then the successi ›n of able men, and of assistants, must fail to serve the commercial world, the church, and state. Here the "original observation of Sir Robert Ladbroke, knt." in the House of Commons, is to be recorded, "that not one of the thousands educated in Christ's Hospital had ever held up their hand at the Old Bailey." If then material qualifications are obtained from education, for the purposes of common life, how deplorable is the state of the uneducated," where the seeds of knowledge have never been sown, or the latent sparks of improvement have not been elicited! The mind of man, depressed, detained, en laved by ignorance, is lost to virtue and exertion, in the deprivation or neglect of the "intellectual better half," whilst the machine of body, the wonderful structure, and the work of God, remains on earth to vegetate and rot, till it shall be restored to a |