savings of the economical, such as the invaluable Scotch banks,
have tended most injuriously to discourage economy; and where that
principle was strongly ingrafted, have converted it into a practice of
hoarding,--have caused that to stagnate in unprofitable masses which,
spread through proper channels, would have stimulated new industry and
new accumulations, and added both to the wealth of the owner, and to
the general stock.--_Ibid_.

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INVENTION OF PRINTING.


[Our Correspondent, W.M. of the Regent's Park, should read the
following announcement, which supersedes the necessity of printing
his communication. At least, we do not feel ourselves justified in
doing so, without reference to the undernamed German work.]

It is proposed to erect a monument in Mentz, by public subscription
and support of all nations, to Gutenberg, the great inventor of the
art of printing, and to celebrate the immortal discovery in a grand
and becoming style. The erection is to take place in 1836, being the
fourth centenary anniversary of the great achievement, for it is
capable of historic proof that Gutenberg communicated his discovery of
movable letters to some friends at Strasburg in 1436, to which city he
had retired on account of some disturbances in his native place: vide
Schaab's _Geschichte der Erfinding der Buchdruckerkunst_, Mainz,
1831, 3 vols. 8vo. The subscriptions and support, in particular, of
printers, booksellers, authors and literary bodies, is solicited.