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iilg cold , beinga badge of party , are the principal of them . Let any one consider for a moment , and then say whether there is any thing like season in anyone of them . Are gray hairs or a bald head a disgrace ? Are they not in the course of time as natural to us as the full flowing and perfect coloured hair once was ? Why then strive to conceal them by artificial means , and consume , unnecessarily , an article of the most essential importance to the support of life , and of which , if it does not create a scarcity , it enhances the price to thehalf-slaived

poor . As toils benefiting ihehair when itis apt to come off , we shall , without entering into the physical truth or falsehood of the idea , only ask if it is not better to lose every hair of the head , than to hazard robbing the hungry child of its scanty morsel . The looking undressed , if it could really be so , is a contemptible plea , and any body who will think for a moment , must see it to be the effectof custom only . Let powder be universally laid aside , and the eye , then accustomed to the hairas nature gives it to us , will consider it just as much dressed , andperhaps somewhat neaterthan when loaded with and dust . They will then ^

, grease perhaps , -find out also that nature gives a better shade to the face than art . The catching cold may bean inconvenience of a few days , but there it will end ; and even this may probably be avoided , by forbearing for a day or two to put fresh powder in , before it is quite , taken out . To such as cannot comply with a plan of general utility , because they were preceded in it by those of different political

opinions from themselves , and to whom they fear to be thought converts , we can suggest an easy method of obviating this difficulty . Let the leaving off powder be universal , and it cannot then be a badge of any thing but the philanthropic wish , to alleviate the miseries of a large and useful portion of the inhabitants pf Great Britain , by rendering more plentiful , and of course cheaper , the prime support of existence . ' To those who are considerate enough to attend to this suggestion , it can hardly be requisite to mention the unnecessary consumption of flour , in cakes , and

various oilier luxuries , which they will of course lay aside . To a country calling itself Christian , and necessarily therefore believing in a day of future retribution , we think it is not an improper question to ask , whethep it can be supposed , when called to an account "for brethren an hungred and ' not fed , " that it will be received as an excuse , that fashion had made it necessary for us to use so much of what should have been bread for our hair , and the other luxuries of life , that the starving of the poor was unavoidable . Generosity . —A short time sincethe non-commissioned officers and privates of

, the Royal Lancashire Regiment , doing duty at Dover Castle , opened a subscription , and collected 37 I . 17 s . fid . which they applied to the noble purpose of liberate ing a poor old man confined in the prison there for debt . Two strange gentlemen passing through Haverfordwest ,, called at the Castle , where was an old man in gaol for about SI . which they immediately discharged s and gave him half-a-crown to defray his expences home .

A Singular Pair . —There are two well dressed men upon fhe town , and genteely connected , that procure a tolerable income by the following practices : the one of them lives by summoning and fining Hackney Coachmen ; the other by going 10 clubs and public dinners , and changing of bats ! Criminals . —In Scotland , -at- the late assizes for Inverness , one Jane Macdonald was sentenced to be banished for seven years " beyond seas , " for cbild-stealing ! and one Essie Fraser only banished to England for child-murder I

The Dutchess of York , one of the most amiable women in this country , amongst other exertions for the benefit of the poor mar Oatlands , has erected a Stocking Manufactory . —The making of legs she leaves to other branches of the family . The Princess of Wales ' s accouchement is expected very early in January . Apian has been laid before Mr . Pitt and the Duke of Portland , by an Irish gentleman of the name of Fenar , for clothing and educating the children of the-Irish peasants . Gallic Humour . —The French , even amidst their horrors , still contrive to mix & share of their national pleasantry . They lately put on board some Surges ne » r