The advantages of the system recommended is so obvious to common observation in the repair of old roads, and has been practised to an extent so considerable, during the last four years, that the minds of most people have become reconciled to it; and objections, founded on old prejudice and suspicion, have given way to experience, but the application of the same principles to the construction of new roads, has necessarily been much more limited. It will, therefore, require more liberality and confidence on the part of country gentlemen, and also more patient investigation of the principles on which the system is founded, before they will allow of its adoption on new lines of road. It is to be hoped, however, that the importance of the subject will recommend it to general consideration. REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HIGHWAYS OF THE KINGDOM: TOGETHER WITH THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THEM. REPORT. The Select Committee appointed to take into consideration the Acts now in force regarding the TURNPIKE ROADS and HIGHWAYS in ENGLAND and WALES, and the expediency of additional Regulations for their better repair and preservation, and to report their Observations thereupon from time to time to the House; and to whom the Petitions of Joseph D. Bassett, John Richards Reed, and John Martin; and of several Trustees of Turnpike Roads in the Counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, were referred;—HAVE, pursuant to the Orders of the House, examined the matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following REPORT: Your Committee considered it their indispensable duty to direct their first attention to the Reports of former Committees, appointed to investigate the same important subject; in these Reports, as well as in the documents subjoined to them, are to be found much scientific information, and many valuable suggestions, which have doubtless tended to aid the progress of improvement in the art of making and preserving roads. Still the object of amending the laws which relate to them has been unattained, the bills introduced with a partial view to that purpose having been lost in their progress through Parliament, and the suggestions for more general improvements having been allowed to remain without further notice.