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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 52, 1 August 1844, Page 2

Advertising Subscriptions.-The expediency of advertising subscriptions •for chat -liable purposes lias sometimes been disputed, and occasionally 'represent*d as so much useless expenditure; but those who entertain thai opinion are ill acquainted with human nature. Among the community, the nurabei of truly charitable and liberal givers being comparatively few, have getietaUy their ; good nature severely taxed ; but there is a large body of individuals who contribute when they see that others do it, and who would esteem five shillings a large subscription in ordinary circumstances, yet if they know their names are to be published, readily give five pounds. Their self-esteem comes into operation, and they cannot bear to be supposed thai they are not so liberal as some other patty, for whom, probably, they entertain a sovereign contempt. Il it were hoUo wound the feelings, and possibly injure the cause we are anxious to promote, some curious examples might be given in illustration ; but we merely U'ive the remark of a gentleman who was one of the greatest advertiseis of his day, and who patronized every newspaper published. in Edinburgh —he maintained that, he never published an advertisement which did not pay him a hundred per cent., and when engaged in promoting a charitable object, that the return was more than a thousand per cent.—Edinburgh Observer,

A Quaker's LeTteh. Piiend John,—l desire thee to be so kind as to go to one of the«e sintul men m the flesh, called attorneys, and let turn take out an instrument with a seal thereunto, by moans whereof tie may seize the outward tabernacle of George Green, and brin&j him before the lambskins men at Westminster, and teach him to do as he would be'done by. Enjoy the blessings of this day. says Jeremy Tavlor, if God sends them, and the evil* bear patiently and sweetly ; for ihe day is only oun; and we are not born to to-morrow.