Decay Oe American Families

foreign born population grcatly exceed tho uatives o procrea ion, and if this continúes to bo tho caflè, there must ultimatcly bo a propondurancu of the Iriijh and Geiuüin element n our populution. An nflnuntial Doctor of Divinity, who ministers to a weultby and fashionablo church, alluded to th8 fitot recunlly in bis ininistrations. He said thero was a most uonatjiral proportion of families in Lis eongrogation that liad no children, or only ono or two, and ho believed thcre must bo a sad violation of the natural laws soniowhure. The subjoct is one worihy the attention of :ill oilizens, and thu pulpit may welj niako it a Ihemo of its coinment. Ilundreds of young people marrj with tho predóterruiriation not to have childreu, and live for yenra in this unblcssed condition. The artificial nd exponsive munner of Wfo now prevalent among Amorican., (ind tho desirn to nvoid honcst toil, is the cliief impodiment to tho increuso of fnnii'lies nrnong the mi.diilo classes, It is c rtainly honnuliiny; to bo greatly regrelted ; but tho cvil, iustead of bi-ing limited, appears to be on the ineruasc Abd el-Kader left Englnnd because ho was not invested with the Order of tbe Bath ag well as the Bey of Tunis,