19 MAY 1832, Page 20

Our table is well covered with candidates for notice; and

the political calm which begins to set in just as the week is closing, promises a season of more congenial occupation for book-readers and critics, and better times for publishers, by and by. Mean- while, we may mention that the new Number of the Foreign Quarterly Review (the Eighteenth) is worthy of the attention of our readers, on account of its general excellence, and more es- pecially for the sake of an admirable article on the Prussian Commercial Policy, from the pen (we believe) of Mr. M'CuLLocH. It is a most instructive lesson on the folly of the restrictive system, exemplified in all its phases by the measures now pursued in Prussia; concerning whose polity the article abounds in curious facts.