The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-28 00:00:00

EARLY CLOSING.

TO THE EDITORS OF. THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.,
Liverpool Early Closing Association, 7, •Heathfield-street,
24th November, 1860.
Gentlemen,---I have just, received the folloWing letter; will,
you kindly insert .it in your paper.? .In the hope that others
may go and do likewise, I remain yours truly, •
CHARLES BREWER, Sec.

TO-TILE' SECRETARY OF TILE EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.
The Butter Place, Liverpool, Nov. 21, 1860.
Sir,---Enclosed we,beg to hand a guinea towards your funds.
We owe a great deal to the promoters of early closing. At
ore time we did not close before ten ; w 0 were then "unknown,
unfriendad,
melancholy, slow!" The early closers persuaded
us to try nine.; we did so, and our trade doubled That
enlightened us considerably; so we then tried eight, and to. our
great surprii6 the trade increased as before ! I This was rather
more than we could properly attend to ; but. as an experiment,
we tried seven. Strange to say, another jump in the trade was
the cons2quenee ; hence the repent extensions. Who shall say
now that we arc either " unknown" or " slow 1"
We may thank certain gentlemen for all this; and hereby
express gratitude accordingly, not only for the above-men-
tioned pleasing results, but for the many leisure hours and
other, benefits more tangible arising therefrom. -(How could
any'person write an advertisement after ten p.tn. ?) • ,
We now have it in contemplation to close at six, but must
our pres, at resources.--
power, judging by past
p
not do so until we complete the erection of our little fixtures
forx cutting
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wouldbutter
by steamoverwhelm
With best compliments, and many thanks for your good
experience
the
ed
rfolsdhi
advices,'Nve remain, dear sir, yours,
as usual,'
EDWARD KELLY & C 0.,.
Usually styled
KELLY THE BUTTERMAN.

LEBANON.—UnIess it be in the spring of the year,
when the hills of Syria are dressed in abundant verdure,
and the green is variegated with thousands of flowerinc,
heather ; when the broad plains of Ccelo-Syria, of, E:_
draelon, and of the Maritime, are positively glittering in
the morning light, like waving seas of gold,—unless at
such period, nothing can be more Wearying to the' eye '
than the general aspect of the country, stretching-from
the Dead Sea northward to Tripoli. In one portion of
the Lebanon, particularly in that which lies between
Beyrout and the Cedars, the land is thickly covered
with bouldersfof a dark and
generally consists -or and in many places vitrified,
character; but the country
un-
ending and exhausting hills and mounds of dreary
barren limestone. Timber is a thing positively unknown,
except among the solitary trees of the few remaining
cedars occupying one little plot upon the summits of,
Lebanon ; or in that happy valley which , the Barada
(the Abana and Pharpar of ancient Siriptures) cleaves for
itself amongst the fastnesses of Auri-Lebanon, bursting
rock madly over and crag, and driving onward furiously
.until it . makes its way into the plain of Damascus.
Wherever those "waters of Damascus" rush along,
there is timber and shrub, plant, flower, verdure,, rich-
ness Except in some very rare exceptions,
asa and len
at Baas,
tty. the
ancient
Cwsarea4Thilippi,
places -are the only ones wherein "timber "the above
.' is to be
found; and throughout the rest of the land the eye
meets with nothing but olive, mulberry, vine, walnut,
and fig trees. These are in abundance, but they give no
effect of foliag?, and are consequently most unsatisfying
to the eye, which thirsts for shadow and for something
green. It was well. in ancient days to describe this as a
land of corn, wine, and oil. Such it was ; and despite
Turkish misrule, Druse and Maronite animosity, such it
still is. But these are very poor and unsatisfactoty
elements in the picturesque.—.4ev. T. C. M. Bellew, itt
4i Temple Bar," No. I.