Thus, we start, and not unappropriately, with notices of vessels _to sail_ for India and the new settlement on _Swan River_. What temptations for adventure and avarice--what associations of industry and indolence--luxury and squalid misery--do these announcements create in the reflective mind. The nabob in his chintz--the speculator with his last hundred--and the half-starved agriculturist--are but sorry portraits beside the class to whom the next notice is addressed.--Packets to Calais, Dieppe, and Margate--necessity on her last leg, and luxury on the fantastic toe--the wasted mind and famished visage beside hoyden mirth and bloated luxury. Then the South American Mining Association Deed "lies for signature:"--what a relief in this sheet of _chiaro-scuro_--a kind of tinsel to set off its grave parts, with gold dust enough to blind half its readers. To this little flash of golden light succeeds shade--Chancery and creditors' notices--proving debts and consciences--followed by civil contracts for Bridewell and building a Lunatic Asylum in Kent. The association is too obvious, and verily, the maker-up of the Times newspaper is a Hogarth in his way; for what Hogarth did with pencil and brush, he does with metallic types. Next is a Saw Mill to be sold cheap, constructed for the express purpose of being sent to the Swan River settlement--how fortunate--for surely any idle wight would make his way with such assistance, especially as the machine is "on improved principles." _Luxury_ again--paper-hangings, French lamps, and French roses--_necessity_ again--Money on mortgage, and bills discounted: how obvious the connexion--the very cause and effect--the lamps will not burn without oil, and the roses will not bloom without money--at least they will only waste their fragrance in the desert air of the nursery-ground.