If persons in moderate circumstances would receive such during the travelling season in their houses, space would be left in the same apartments in the winter, when the rush of travel is over, for those who cannot endure cities when nature is dressed in her best. We have remarked abroad extensive arrangements of this kind. Knowing travellers on a tour of pleasure in Scotland, for instance, are picked up at modest private-looking houses, where a clean bed and a good breakfast have been furnished for shillings, where the hotel has taken dollars for nothing more whatever. There should be no complaints of want of occupation, when such sources of respectable independence are open in all cities for honest people.

• The political economy, (we use these words for want of better,) of the matter is to be considered. These exteriors of houses are so well finished, and the furniture so costly and well polished, for gullible people to see. We are just as comfortable, and more so, writing on an old friend of a desk, and wearing; a most easy office coat, and using the light of a window pierced in a stone wall, as if the desk was of malachite, the coat trimmed with gold lace, or the window ornamented outside with lapis lazuli. It is well to take pride in the possession of precious and enduring things, instead of perishing things. We never could see the comity or appropriateness of lodging travellers, who at home live in wooden houses, in marble caravanseras, whose annual rents would purchase a principality. The interest of the money expended on the outside would be much better employed, in some instances, in the utmost attention to cleanliness within. We should not then hear of infested beds, and nests of mosquitoes and expensive ornamentation without. We never enter a marbled-faced hotel without a feeling that on our next visit we may find it tumbled into the street to make way for something even more polishly costly, in obedience to the so-called progress of society.

Take off the interest of what is for show only, and extend the sum for comfort. Many hotels are not deficient in this quality, but they could give the same accommodation for a third or fourth less if they would give up mere outside appearances.

If it is the particular province of our Journal to look most to rural and suburban affairs, we are still too dependent upon cities not to feel an interest in what is going on there. Country people pay no small portion of the store-rents in the city: connected with this subject, we have a word to say. A custom prevails in America of paying very high rents for places of business when there is no necessity for such enormous outlays. Not to be invidious, we would ask why the business of selling paper hangings, taking this as an average amount of trade, should oblige the vender, to be successful, to pay three or four thousand dollars for his store. Every piece of paper hangings he vends must have a charge upon it for this rent, which the purchaser must pay, while if his business stand was in a more private street, and the rent four or five hundred dollars, we might all get a corresponding reduction, or he might obtain a greater profit. This, and a hundred other instances might be adduced, in which not only the citizen but the countryman is unnecessarily taxed. The mechanical dentist must occupy a palace, even if he cannot afford it, or he may be thought to be unsuccessful.

The price at hotels has already been alluded to; there is no good reason why we should be lodged for a day or two in passing through a city, in its most costly thoroughfare, though to be near it would certainly be convenient. Thirty thousand dollars of rent obliges the landlord to look sharp after his income, and induces him too often to charge extravagantly; he not unfre-quently makes out a bill to a traveller who arrives at twelve o'clock at night, that includes an uneaten and undesired supper, simply because it is on the table, and you can have it if you ask for it, which you do not; for this and a bed and a breakfast, if you leave after the earliest dinner hour without partaking, charge is not uncommonly made of two dollars or two dollars and a half. The proprietor may be right to do this, if people will submit to it, but the whole thing wants revision. We want clean, comfortable accommodations when obliged to remain in town for a few hours, and we want them at fair remunerating prices. An easy bed and a scentless pillow are of more importance than marble or Pictou stone outside; and a recent trip to Niagara Falls induces the remark, that it would be infinitely better to lengthen the bedsteads and put a bureau in the rooms, while the music at the dinner table was shortened to furnish the means.

Every traveller on the continent of Europe may see stores in back streets containing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods, where the rents are one-eighth, and the business transacted eight times as large as in many of the flashy stores of Chestnut street or Broadway; the consequence is, you there get merchandise at moderate prices. For fancy goods in America, it may surprise some country people to learn, we pay from four to eight prices beyond their original cost. Such a thing brings such a price in Broadway, and the retail dealers all over the town take their cue accordingly, and prices are high everywhere. We know the answer is, that goods are as cheap in Broadway or Chestnut street as anywhere else; but if there was no Chestnut street or Broadway, they would be cheaper everywhere.

Country folks and travellers are sadly treated in cities and at hotels; it is a branch of public economy that will regulate itself perhaps in time, but so thoroughly convinced arc we that some classes like the impositions, that were we anxious to make a fortune in haste, we would face a palace with cornelians, purchase a service entire of gold plate, rig out our servants in full livery, and charge five or six dollars a day; depend upon it the patronage would be unprecedented. Seeing this, we do not condemn the paper hanger who pays the high rent, nor the hotel keeper who makes out such enormous bills; we condemn ourselves and our countrymen who patronize and encourage unwarrantable outlays in the forms we have indicated. Till the people themselves will enforce a change, they deserve and will continue to be fleeced. But this we do say - there must and will soon be a reform in hotel accommodations, and consequently a reduction of prices. We shall then have what we want, clean beds and wholesome food; the country will then reciprocate the visits of the citizens, and we shall become a more homogeneous people.