At a meeting of the Drury Lane renters, held on
Monday last, it was resolved to appoint a Committee of ten to look after their rights; to report on the 11th of' May. Some severe observations against the recent style of performances at the theatre. were made ; but eat bone?—the renters and " their rights" will be sacrificed to other interests, as here- tofore.
In a letter to the 31:,,rning Chronicle, Mr. London, the ingenious and industrious editor of the Gardener's Magazine, explains the probable effect of a low uniform rate of postage on his own correspondence. Ile says that his contributors are generally master-gardeners in the provinces, whose incomes vary from 50/. to lout, a year, and journey- men-gardeners, with wages of from Os. to 12.s. a -week. To such per- sons the payment of postage is a heavy tax, and consequently their correspondence is much restricted. Mr. Loudon calculates that the postage on the letters he receives. many of which are from Scotland, is on the average Sd. for each ; and he is sure that were it only Id., he should have eight letters where he now gere one ; and as his replies mould also necessarily be multiplied, he anticipates a Immo, iiiceeage of correspondence 011 the whole. Mr. London dwells upon the advan- tages which the increased facility of cowmen:eh:300n would create among gardeners, botanists, and others, iln/111 he is more imme- diately connected ; and thence infers benefit feom the same cause to persons employed in other pursuits.
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