2. Message from the President of the United States in compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, relative to the execution of the Act of March 30, 1802, to regulate Trade and Inter- course with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve Peace on the Frontiers, transmitted to the Senate VII. THE PROSPECT OF REFORM IN EUROPE L'Avenir. Par M. J. L. de SISMOND). Extrait VIII. POPULAR SPORTS AND FESTIVALS a Copious Index. By William HONE. IX. HARVARD UNIVERSITY 216 Letter to Governor Lincoln in relation to Harvard University. By F. C. Gray. Second Edition, with an Appendix. X. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY BROUGHAM 227 1. Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M. P. on the Present State of the Law. 2. Practical Observations on Popular Education. By H. BROUGHAM, Esq. M. P. F. R. S. 3. Publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. XI. NORTH-EASTERN AND NORTHERN BOUNDARY 262 1. Decision of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, on the Questions submitted to him by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain, for determining the Boundary Line be- tween the United States and the British Provinces. 2. Protest of the Envoy Extraordinary and Min- ister Plenipotentiary of the United States, against the Decision of the King of the Netherlands, on the Questions submitted to him, as Arbiter between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the Boundary of the United States. 3. Report of a Joint Committee of the Legislature of the State of Maine, on the answer made by the King of the Netherlands, in relation to the North- eastern Boundary of the United States ; read and accepted by both branches of the Legislature. 2. Message from the President of the United States in compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, relative to the execution of the Act of March 30, 1802, to regulate Trade and Inter- course with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve L'Avenir. Par M. J. L. de SISMONDI. Extrait de la Revue Encyclopedique. Letter to Governor Lincoln in relation to Harvard University. By F. C. GRAY. Second Edition, with an Appendix. 2. Practical Observations on Popular Education. By H. BROUGHAM, Esq. M. P. F. R. S. 3. Publications of the Society for the Diffusion X. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HENRY BROUGHAM 1. Speech of Henry Brougham, Esq. M. P. on the Present State of the Law. 216 2. Protest of the Envoy Extraordinary and Min- ister Plenipotentiary of the United States, against the Decision of the King of the Netherlands, on the Questions submitted to him, as Arbiter between the United States and Great Britain, relative to the Boundary of the United States. 3. Report of a Joint Committee of the Legislature of the State of Maine, on the answer made by the King of the Netherlands, in relation to the North- eastern Boundary of the United States; read and accepted by both branches of the Legislature. XI. NORTH-EASTERN AND NORTHERN BOUNDARY 1. Decision of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, on the Questions submitted to him by the Governments of the United States and Great Britain, for determining the Boundary Line be- tween the United States and the British Provinces. PAGE. II. ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 1. A Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Tongue, with a Praxis. By ERASMUS RASK, Professor of Literary History in, and Librarian to, the University of Co- penhagen. A new Edition, enlarged and improved by the Author. Translated from the Danish. By B. THORPE, Honorary Member of the Icelandic Lit- 2. Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. By JOHN JOSIAS CONYBEARE, M. A. &c. Professor of Anglo- Saxon and of Poetry in the University of Oxford. VI. DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDence of the RE OLUTION The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution; being the Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams, John Jay, Arthur Lee, William Lee, Ralph Izard, Francis Dana, William Carmichael, Henry Laurens, John Laurens, M. Du- mas, and others, concerning the Foreign Relations of the United States, during the whole Revolution; to- gether with the Letters in Reply, from the Secret Committee of Congress and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs; also, the entire Correspondence of the French Ministers, Gerard and Luzerne, with Con- gress. dent of the United States, from the original manu- scripts in the Department of State, conformably to a A Visit to the South Seas in the United States' Ship Vincennes, during the Years 1829 and 1830, with Scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. By C. S. STEwart, A. M. Chaplain in the United States' Navy, and Author of A Residence in the Sandwich Islands in VIII. EXHIBItion of PicturES AT THE ATHENÆUM GAL- Remarks upon the Athenæum Gallery of Paint- ings for 1831. NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. No. LXXII. JULY, 1831. ART. I.—The Laws of Population and Wages. 1. Two Lectures on Population, delivered before the University of Oxford in Easter Term, 1828. By NASSAU William SENIOR, late Fellow of Magdalen College, A. M., Professor of Political Economy. To which is added, a Correspondence between its Author and the Rev. T. R. Malthus. Svo. pp. 90. London. 1828. . 2. Three Lectures on the Rate of Wages, delivered before the University of Oxford in Easter Term, 1830; with a Preface on the Causes and Remedies of the present Disturbances. By the same. 8vo. pp. 62. London. 1830. 3. Three Lectures on the Cost of obtaining Money, and on some Effects of Private and Government Paper Money, delivered before the University of Oxford in Trinity Term, 1829. By the same. 8vo. pp. 103. London. 1830. The author of these works appears before the public under the imposing character of Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford. This Prosessorship is a recent establishment. It was founded by the munificence of a private gentleman, Henry Drummond, Esq., upon a plan, as far as we are informed, before untried. The Professor is appointed for five years, and is bound by the charter to publish annually one or more of his lectures. He is not eligible for a second terin. One object of this arrangement is understood to be that of obtaining successively from the same chair, a developement of the different, and in some respects contradictory theories, VOL. XXXIII.-NO. 72. 1 which prevail in different circles respecting some of the leading points in the science. It was also probably supposed, that, as the acceptance of a Professorship of this description would not a be understood to involve an abandonment of other pursuits, a competent person might be secured at less expense than would be necessary on the usual system. Without inquiring at present whether the new plan be or be not on the whole an improvement, we have no hesitation in saying, that we know of no way in which the required amount of funds could have been employed with better effect for the advancement of knowledge, and the permanent satisfaction and reputation of their owner, than in founding this Professorship. We cannot but hope that the example may serve as a guide to the liberality of some of the munificent patrons of learning in this quarter of the Union, where there is yet no establishment devoted exclusively to instruction in this most important subject. Mr. Senior, the first Professor on the foundation of Mr. Drummond, and whose term of service has, we believe, already expired, appears to have exhibited an industry and zeal in the discharge of his duties, which is creditable to himself, and may be thought to afford a favorable comment on the results of the new plan. His labors, though conducted with a laudable spirit, do not, however, strike us as of any great importance to the science; but as they have attracted some attention in this country, and have even been republished in extenso in some of our best newspapers, it may be proper to give them a passing notice. We shall take the different works in the order in which they were published, and first, the Two Lectures on Population. The causes that regulate the state of population and the effects that result from its increase and diminution, have been for many years past regarded, and with justice, as among the most interesting questions in political economy. The objections to the theory of Malthus on this subject have been repeatedly stated in this journal, and we have, on the same occasions, submitted to the consideration of our readers, what we consider as a more correct opinion.* The principles of Malthus were never, we believe, very generally adopted in this * See our reviews of A. H. Everett's work on Population, Vol. XVII. p. 288; of McCulloch's Political Economy, Vo XXV. p. 112; and of Phillips's Manual of Political Economy, Vol. XXXII. p. 215. |
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