The encouragement given to Saving Banks by the act of the last session shews the high opinion in which they are held by the legislature, and we hope was not excessive nor injudicious, though the attempt

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.Not that a golden age is to be expected, in which poverty and disease shall disappear : even when the mother evil, the poor rates, shall be removed,

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