TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We have received a number of ingenious communications on the proper computa- tion of the Century : now as that is a matter almost self-evident, unless it is under- stood at a glance there is little prospect of making it plainer by reiterated explica- tion; so it would be idle to occupy more space with it. One correspondent pushes his argument for the heterogeneous mode to an extreme which tells on the other side —he begins the series of years with the year -nothing!
On this profound subject, it appears, no one can be infallible ; for even we have erred ! A correspondent sets us right in the matter of the Irish Union; the year 1800 was the year of legislation about the Union, but the Union itself did not take effect till 1801. We were for beginning the [era of the Union with its year nothing— before there was any Union !
By the by, that was just the way in which the proverbial country-maid began to count her chickens—and some Century-philosophers would hold that she was right.
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