Withdraw the custom of 7,000,000 pounds per annum, which has ceased to be paid in wages, from the shopkeepers, and the consequence must present itself to any rational mind.

We have then another class--the young men of superior education employed in warehouses and counting-houses.

A great number of these will rapidly sink to the condition in which you find the operative classes.

All this will add to the distress and the embarrassment of this part of the kingdom.

Now, to meet this state of things you have the poor-law relief, which is the only relief we can rely upon, except that which comes from our own voluntary exertions.