The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1874-05-30 00:00:00

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The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL of
COOKERY.

The Duke of Westminster presided on Thursday in
last week, at a meeting held in London, in the build-
ing of the Society of Arts, in topped of the National
Training School of Cookery. The small, although dis-
tinguished gathering„ included Lord Granville, Lord
Bsrrington, M.P., Mr. Cowper-Temple, M.P., Mr.
A. J. Mundella, M.l'., Lord Clarence Paget, the
lion. E. F. Beet...on-Gower, Admiral Omnianney,
Lady Barker. Mr. H. Cole, C.B,Sir Daniel Cooper,
Sir Walter Stirling, Mr. C. J. Freake, Lieutenant,
Colonel Durum, Mr. James Bateman, F. KS.,
Cantain Hans Balk, Mr. Scott Russell, Dr. Irons, dm.
'the Duke of Westminster read a letter from her
Royal Highness Prince., Louise, Marchioness( of
Lorne, who had promised to be present, and who ex-
pressed her regret that she we, unable to be there,
having to visit her brother (Prince Leopold), who is
ill at Oxford.
The report states that the Comartissioners of the Ex
hibithon of 1851 have, for a time, placed at the dispose
of the committee of the school a building in Exhibition-
road, that the services of Lady Barker have been
se ured as Lady Superintenslent, and a classoof learners
salio pay fees for their instruction haa been funned.
The receipts from learners' fees have been R 203 1 la.,
and from seats at the lectures £2B Is. But into the
most important part of the work--the task of training
persona to become instructors in cookery throughout
the country-- the committee cannot enter till theyhave
received adequate support from the public.
The President in his address sal they had rightly
met in the house of the Society of Arts, for cookery
is an art, and if .art is long, while life is short, to
make life long it should have the support of culinary
art. In fact, we might shorten or prolong life as we
attended or not to the business of preparing food.
Some misapprehension existed WS to the object, of that
institution. It was established at a meeting last year
held at Grosvenor-house, in which Mr. Leveson-Gower
and Mr. Cole took a prominent part, and the first
branch of the echeme had been carried out successfully
in the School of Cookery at Kensington. The fees of
two or three guineas which young ladies willingly paid
for the course actually left a surplus. But, as the
me Ind and more important aim, it is desired to pre-
pare a certain number of young women to be instruc-
tors at various centres in the provinces, and so to
spread the operations of the society throughout the
country. It will be necessary to hire a house, to build
a kitchen, and to receive the future instructors while
they go through about three mouths' training, lie
looked to an improvetneet in cooking for an improve-
ment in the temper AN in the digestions id Englishmen.
Speaking more seriously, he eatiol, if working women
could give their husbands a better dinner, there would
be less drunkenness to be deplored.
Mr. Leveson-Gower proposed the adoption of the
report. The lectures, he said, were only preliminary
to other operations, for nobody could learn to cook by It was reserved for our American cousins to intro.
listening to a lecture, but they had served to show the duce, not only offers of marriage, but marriage itself,
great amount of interest felt in the matter. The by telegraph. The New York Tines publishes an
school had been a financial success. They began at account of a marriage ceremony performed "over the
(lrosvenorhouse with a subscription, to which their wire," with the minister at one end and the engaged
noble President resputeled with his accustomed couple at the other. At live o'clock, the hour fixed
liberality. The Duke of Westminster gave RlOO, but for the celebration, the officiating clergyman in the
the whole of the subscriptions did not reach £4OO. He office at Keokuk (Iowa) of the Western Union Tele-
thought, however, that was due to the want of publicity graph Company, received a telegram from the bride-
and of canvassing. They had paid preliminary ex- groom and bride, saying that they were in the telegraph
penses out of the sum subscribed, and they hoped to office in Bonaparte (same state), and " ready to pr o-
repay them from the proceeds of the school as ilia- reed." The following message was then sent :-
tinguisited from the normal school. Doctors wild " Koekuk, Lowe, April 16, 1874.-John Sullivan and
tell them that ill-digested food, as much as the want Frances Goelown, Bonaparte, lowa', Please join
14 food, amounts for illness, 811.1 they hoped to intro- hands and take the pledge.--Wm. C. PRATT."-
&tee the si modes of preparatiion which alemnded in The following is a copy of the pledge which
France. fire linauenote, as .\I r. Helps had said, had been left with them :--" You mutually and
repaid us :or our hospitality by teaching us to make solemnly pnanise before God and the witnesses present
soup of . stalls, and he hoped that they mialit, by. that you will each take the one you helot by the haul
their lows similar efforts, increase the amount oof hood to be your lawful and wedded companion ; that, for-
in the eie :dry. The hon. gentleman's speech included The REV. S. GLADSTONE on the GOVERN- Bakine all others, you will cleave to each other in sick-
a vigor:. denunciation of the cooking in country MENT and the LICENSING BILL. miss and in health, and perform all the duties of a
houses asoi in the beet hotels, faithful companion until you are eeparatril by death.
„Speaking, at the annual. meeting of the Che-eter If to this yen agree, send me a message to this effect."
Lord Barrington seconded the motion that the report -
le• adopted, mei t teleran i oupgame aomety on Tuesday, the Rev. Then came the response : " Bonaparte, April ha 1874.
Isord (I ninville Laing eallsol upon said that three Stephen allaulaione said the existing state of things in -- Win. C. Pratt, Keokuk. -We take the pledge. -
connecttion with the Homer traffic put a barrier to nine-
principal leans brought hiu, there in the first ',lace, • JOFIN SUI.I.IvAN, FRANCES lionowN." The concludin,
ha affection fig his broother, the i sirnian id the tenths oof the. effoorts ti o spread the Gospel od Christ. 1 disqoateh Wag as follows : --" Keektik, lowa, April 16,
He slid nit identify teetotalisnt with temperance, but
IF Cominittee (Mr. Leveson-lSower); secomlly, ! 1874. JOhn Sullivan and Frances (Saloon, Bonaparte,
his love of the fine arts and, by implication, of that art lie was 88 anxious as anyone to promote the former. I lowa,- By authority I pronounce you husband and
without which none of the others could be exercised ;He was brought up to look upon intoxicating liquors ' wife, and mag Gool bless you.-Wm. C. PRATT." Con-
and, in the third place, the inportance of the work, nit as ordinary beverages, and he started with that I gratulations were then sent from all the stations along
A very brilliant French writer said the fate of nations advantage, but some live years ago he began to con- the line to the happy couple who had just been united
depended on their diet, arra though Englishmen were shier whether the teetotal movement was 21.4 a by the "lightning process:,
satisfied of the fate of Britain, we should be glad to sound one, calculated to do a great deal of good, --
and he thought he would make the experiment.
supple oleficiences in her social conditions. The want
He made it, and ha,l mot suffered from it. The rev.
of food among the poor is greatly aggravated by the
gentleman then referred to the Licensing Bill. He
want of the means uof preparing in the most naurishing
said he had hooked upon the Conservative party
manner that which they have, and he was glad t . see An interesting lecture was given in London, on
that a person of high literary attainmends and very as a party whose motto-a noble one -was never to Tuesday evening, at the Pall Mall Restaurant by Mr.
no
cultivated tastes like Lady Barker u
r had turned her at- los anything that was good. He did not know Frederick Yowls, to the members of the Royal Colonial
tention in a practical and businms-like way to an art that any party in the world could have a nobler Institute on New Zealand. After describing its
which might be thought vulgar, hut which would con- motto than that, unless, perhaps, it was to increase natural features and referring to the extinct rams, a
tribute vastly to the happiness of the country. The the good already done. He was sure it needed a bird Our 10 feet in height, he gave an account of the
committee had not incurred a debt and then appealed great ilcal of courage in the late Government Maories, accepting their tradition that they arrived
to loring in the Licensing Bill they passed ; but
to, be extricated from it, but they had shown by ems from the Sandwich Islands ale out 500 years ago, prior
Lees that theywere worthy of some confidence, and th Al hat should be said of those who were trying to
ey to which period Nov Zealand was probably uninhabited.
desired to be put in a position to spread their teachers unoloo good so bravely done two years ago? They Having sketched their high mental and ployeical en-
over all the country to give instructions in cookery for w,ould remember a certain letter which contained dowmente, he mentioned that several of them sat in the
the advantage ,-f every class. soometaing about " harassing and worrying trades and General Assembly, that Maori chief', were among the
Mr. Thomas Hughes, being called upon in turn. said classes of society. ' Which was the worse--to worry officers of the colonial forces, that they were still the
that the differootia of man was that he was a "rook' the public or to worry a trade? When he mentioned that largest landowners, and that in the district of Napier
ing animal,' and the noire civilized the nation the the trade said to be worried was the trade which pro alone they had leased their grass lands to the is
the cooks. Ile was afraid, however, England, noted the sale of intoxicating liquors, he thought all ters for £20,000 a year. They appeared likely, hiow-
which haul the best material in the world, did not dhow would agree in feeling that such a trade as that ever, to disappear, having decreased between 1856
that advantage by the use made of her succulent re- isight to be-he would not say worried, but under the and 1672 from 53,700 to 36,359, while on New Zealand
serves. He could not follow Mr. Leveson-Gower in atrietest supervision; and therefore he deplored the re- becianing a British colony their estimated number was
thinking there was not enough good cookery among the mission of the present restrictions. It would have 100,000. They had been fighting against extinction,
upper classes. There was, in fact, too much. But he been far sounder to think of the interests of the public finding that they haul alienated their lands for muskets,
regretted the grevious waste which occurs in the generally than of the interests (4 one class. a hatchet, a bale or two of blankets, or a string of
matter of cookery in the part of the best artisans. beads. Great efforts, however, were being made by
Mr. Mundella supported the resolution, affirming themselves told by the Gos eminent to stay their dc
the necessity ot placing the school upon a permanent HOURS OF LABOUR IN SHOPS. struction. Mn. Young then gave a summary of New
foundation, and regretted the little profit with which Zealand history since its discovery in 1642 by Tasman,
the present high wages od workmen were spent. After An agitation, eemmencing in the north and extending to paying a warm tribute to Edward Gibbon Wakefield
the Lancashire famine, a 110,1111/er .-f his family avho the metropolis, has been going forward for some thee pest and die New Zealand Company, soul noticing the et-
a-kited his workpeople load said to loins "1 dint know woth a view to obtaining an Aet of Parliament which shall tempts of the French to obtain the South Island, their
which is the lei gee, the famine they euffereil froorn loe- rul:.:..ulate the poll. thoul0;1r 11,1481TpiS Tile fir:aLlyht:ht,i,,,l.i.of
7 expeo Rion arriving a few days after the conclusii on iof a
fume or the cookery they are suffering nunfno AV." Ilia ti ti which issued in the prochunatiun id Her
s'otio6'iutTl'eubalarTogof nTiag.ereat'leive efuTt'it'; ffiair duty io
wife found the women on returning from the I draw op a statement of their views on the subject In that Majesty's Sovereignty over all the islands. Ile spoke
factory " frizzling " good meat over the fire to ii rosiest they review what has already been accomplished warmly of the services of Sir G. Grey as Governor,
the selsetance if the consistency of shoe leather. through their agency, and proceed :- and remarked on the withdrawal if the Imperial troops
In three years an additional £13,000,000 was paid in "At present experience in regard to the Workshrops' as an act of questionable poliey which at one time Mi.
Ifugland for meat. The greater part id that sum must Regulation Act affords scant encouragement to those periled the connexion of the colony with the Mother
have been applied for the censumption of the working who look fur an Act if Parliament to regulate the Country. Mr. Yeuns, then ainunented on the pro-
classes, and he had no doubt that a eery large proopor- hours of business in shops and warehouses. The ductions of the country, laying special stress on its
don id it might have gone into the savings-banks beard if management readily admit that (over-work is gold mines, coal-fields, and the value of the fibre (of
ineteall if a smaller quantity of feal had been bought, an evil wherever it exists, and ought not to be per- the phoral Me a i tes.c, and iof the Kanri pine, as also on
but that quantity well and ecomotnicay treated. petrated behind a counter any more than in a factory the rapidly-increasing export of wool. He concluded
Mr. Coveper'Peruple proposed a list of sice presi- or workshop. So far a, the theory is concerned, by urging the advantages of New Zealand as a field for
dents, which included the names of the Archbishop of diere is much ti plead in favour of a law which shall emigration.
York, the Nlarquis (of borne, the Duke of Sutherland, limit the hiours of labour for women and children In the discussion which followed, the Duke of Men-
the Duke iof Banana, Lord Derby, igma Granville, in places of business. Nevertheless, owing to cheater, who presided, and all the speakers, deprecated
Lord Co owper, Lord Brownloiw. Lord Dartmouth, Isiord the difficulty which woman experience in ob- the extinction of the Magic's, some ~f theni disputing
4 'arington, Lord Wharneliffe, Lent Barrington, Sir I). taming employment, it is doubtful whether they its probability. Sir C. Clifford, Nlr.• John Hall, a
Coooper, slr, Browne 4•liiiston, Mr. Lees-eon-I bower, look very favourable on a measure which threatens late New Zealand Alinieter, and 'Mr. Dennistown
Mr. C. iT. Ereake, and s!r. Thomas Brassey. Mr. to place them at a disadvantage in competing ; Wood, formerly Attorney-Genmal of Victoria, M-
eow-per-Temple sail that if we could ill)' intro 'duce with men for situations in trade. There is also a difti- sated that the natives hail had fair play, dwelling, on
among the working classes the use of sett a cauldron culty lometting all legislation which attempts to deal the suppression of cannibalism, the money expended
as we see abroad always simmering upon the fire we with matters involving varied circumstances and in education, the value of the lands reserved to theta,
sheuld ald immensely to our people's means of menials numerous details. The complications and emergencies the loans granted for agricultural implements, nulls,
ment. of trade lead toexceptional cases, and in attempting to , and ships, the provision made for hospital and
Mr, Edward Wilson seconded the resolution, and provide for these the law bee. anes embarassed with in- outaloor medical treatment, and the prizes awarded
Mr. Bateman proposed a vote of thanks to the congruities, and weakened by ' loopholes,' providing , for ploughing. Sir C. Cliff(ord, who emigrated in
ohairrnan, really passage for the traditional ' coach and six.' 1812, maintained that a blanket, axe, or keg of powder
The Duke of Westniinster, in replying, said that Stich is the complaint with regard to the Workshiupe ! was at the time of purchase more valuable to the
allasien hail been made to cooking ~, the Amoy, and _get ; still mere so lilt likely to occur and,' the endless : Maori than 100 acres of land, while that purchase gave
lie hopeol that lois Royal Highness the Duke of Cam- rantiticatioons if the retail trade. Another projected' • a specific value to the native lands adjoining, and he
bridge might be induced to join them in their endue,- ' mode if dealing with the question of labour in shops is ' attributed the disputes and wars to conflicting tribal
yours to bring about a bettet knowledg,e and practice ; that of onsets? parliament which shall (ileac all hosting ; claims' all of vs hich it was impossible to satisfy. He
of cookery. establislornents (subject to exceptions) at a fixed hour. denied that the Mendes were a conquered people,
Here weembark onion entirelynew anduntrialprinciple. stating that they hail found it their interest to be
Referring to this important step towards securing greater Such a law aim me ur ein its operation a number of friendly, and were now anxious to be employed in con-
-1 ' Id ' 1 1 • ' •
ecoonoomy and greater comfort In the homes of rich and poor,
establishments where the sogeat majority iof the eni- structins", roads tlgough their idol strimgholds. He con-
The Timea of Monday has the following leader , -
No one can doubt that the National Trainin School ployed are adult noales. It is to be wished that all tussle(' that but fig British colonization the Maorea
of Cookery will find ample scope for its operati gons, and
drapers' shops and many others were closed at eight would have before this been exterminated th g rou h
no ordinary i aportunities of usefulness. Indeed, we
o chuck; but it is certain that 'unless a very decided feuds and female infanticide, and expressed a hope
finil it impossible to assent to the proesition advanced
change comes over the British legislature there is not ; that a remnant would so assimilate with Europeans as
b M mas Hi
Th hes at the meeti
d n
last-that th mpg
of the Training
the slightest chance of a law being passed for this pus ; to avert extinction.
Ph y r. Tho
pose. Supposing the principle were conceded, an it i Ma C. W. Eddy mentioned the keen bargains driven
ilized th
Schools' e on ursay e ore
were held to be right thus to interfere by force of law I by the Maories in letting their lands, and Mr. Hall
cive atronsnati en th e better the cooks ; fir without
with the hours lif business, it is extremely difficult to see approved the withdrawal of British traps as having
iorese a les, o o 1 , ems
standi - ion order id id I iig I n voksno.invid. -
na how any practical shape conloi be given to the idea. It isi he to a istolution sof native difficulties; while Ma Wood,
agnlansions, we do claim tam place arnoong the nest
1 . 1 admitted by those who advocate a measure of admitting that intoxicating drinks were unknown prior
civilized of Eureiguan nations. Yet it is certain a tem 3.'
this kind that exceptions must be allowed. All shops to the arrival of Europeana urged that the settlers
that as professed cooks we are servile and not
ve successful imitato gs, While in I -polar Cookery cannot close at eight o'clock, and in its application to the could not be expected to become teetotallers themselves
ry s
we am abs lit ly nwhWe d not kno-av tied provieion trades the law is to be moilified. But there onto force total abstinence ron the Maiories. '-u me of
ooeioere. o
this seeming contradicti on is very difficult of expla-
is i dten a blendinss, of trades, especially in the provinces; these positions were contested by speakers, who deemed
nation. For ourielves, we are inclined to refer it to o
awl the law, to be effectual, must prescribe that no it a scandal that British colonization should almost
the peculiar Coll4litiolis of our Enalish existenee an ior woman shall be at once a draper and a grocer. uniformly result in the extinction of the aborigines.
o
i he fact that many licensed victmullers sell tea, and that
We have lived in a 1.01.1, 1110111. 1.1111111. t.., where us ,
yesterday there Wag 110 scarcity of fuel. Our .„ ;t. public-houses are not to be affected by the early-closing
i
statute, will excite the apprehensions id the tea dealer.
len& were saved tit ne by seams of coal apparen' . a in-
But there is another element to be considered. Among
eehauetibla. Even before the lava of railroath we
the poorer classes of the metropolis the astermongers,
had cheap water oarriage all round the shores iif our The Dane Niece has the foilowing leader on the death of
small htlanol. Since the days when our British with their barrows, form a very important department Mn. sylvain Yen he Weyer :-
(of trade, and if shops were chosed by act of parliament
ancesters cut their fuel in the forests -',it their doors We deeply re,ret to record the death, after a long and
.our fireplaces have been small furnaces that went at an early hour these itinerant tradere would become lingering illness': of Si. Sylvatin Van Is Weyer, Minister
roaring up great draughty ithimneys. Then, living increasingly active and enterprising. lf, in order to of State, and, for a period of nearly forty years,
in England has always been comparatively easy, prevent the barrows from competing with the shops, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Belgian Kingdom at
in spite of all our grumbling. In the sense of lan attempt were made to banish the costermongers the Court of St. James's. This melancholy issue of a
plenty, tor in the absence of any feeling of sharp i front the streets after the hour specified in the act the pnolonged and complicated oaalaaly hail been long
privation, o our people have always done their cook- I police would have a duty to perform of a most danger- anticipated by the physicians, and more than once
mg on role anol oaeteful principles. There was I on, and critical nature. Disturbances approaching to
had seemed 80 near that the family were summoned to
the open tire, end there the piece o d meat, large or the maenituile of riots would ensue ; and no doubt the patient's beolside. For nearly three years past
small. The meat was thrust on the slat or tossed very decioled testimony on this point %amid be at once recurrent symptoms of the disease to which he sue-
into the pot, and the fierce blaze prepared it quiekly farfficoming if the chiefs of the police torce were called to climbed on Saturday morning, in the seventy-third
for human consumption. The roast might shrivel it I give evidence. The circumstances and exigencies
iato to-Of its bulk. the beileol meat might be boiled of the poor must be considered in this matter, and year of his age, anti in all the unclouded vigour of his
fine intelligence, hail betrayed an increasing; and
down to a residue of shut-ohs and filores, utast the ;in this respect, the question.relates to the customers alarming severity, and haul compelled a regi-
fluid essence that contained the sustaining principles as well as to the traders. In many of the poorer men of comparative seclusion. He was unable
.of life hail been run i off and thrown away ; but that neighbourhoode the proposed law would be little to accept invitations, and his absence left a blank at
was what hail happened from time immemorial, hers than cruel, and the stroke of the clock would many a dinner table and in many is drawing-room
and it gestured to no one that things might lie better loe dreaded almost RH much 88 the curfew in the where his kindly smile and deightf al conversation had
managed. We are wasteful certainly, as WO always a:Lys of the Conquest. The act, however carefully so often animated and charmed the company. To the
have been: but then there is hardly tale of the nations framed, would be felt--amid that not among the poor very last he retained his interest in public affairs.
of Europe to the South of Scandinavia who could only-as an unconstitudional interference with the Propped up loy pillows, he listened while the journals
aave ventured to indulge in snch waste had liberty of the subject, and if ever such a law were of the day were read to him, and kept himself
they wisheol it. The pressure of circumstances has 1,11,M:11 it WOlll.l lie inevitably repealed at an early (late, thoroughly informed on all topics of importance
cempelleui them to cook more scientifically. Fuel Tfie hopelessness of attempting ti regulate the closing in politics and literature. Few men, a cynic has
wise scarce with them, anol reinously dear. Coal, if shops by Act of Parliament is, in practical annals, said, are ever really missed or regretted a week
in most places, is a ',parry altogether beyond the a sufficient reason why the Early Closing Association after their departure ; but M. Van de Weyer was
ilteatia if the million. The wood a omes fro on, the should not expend its energies for such a purpose. The keenly missed and regretted lons, before he passed
neighbouring ferests, which are administered with ass ovation has neither
time nor money to spare fora 1 away wherever he had once b
the most eevere parsimony loy the State anthorities or ho oi orb,. enterprise. atsfi.rthe other 'immure, one which ' een and was no
' longer a frequent and familiar guest. 'There
the Com in mune. It is weighed tby the pound like shall virtually extend the legal machinery of the I WAN a sunshine in his looks and a cordial ring in his
groceries, and each partimilar chip is precious. The Energy and Workshops Acts to the retail trade, al.
though in theory there may lie no objection to Hsieh I
' voice, and a simple serenity and sweetness in all his
amen close staves and the fire places are constructed ' o ways and words, that not only set the humblest and
sanitarily with im eye to extreme economy. Roasting a law, yet in practice it would unquestionably break , obseurest at their ewe, but made all sorts and COlldi-
Is generally ont of the question ; for the same reamon ohown. 'fiu use a proverbial expression, t i ere hi 'a i dons of people happier and better • for meeting and
mp it is iossible to WI a joint (of any size, and as the third course ' (open, that of ' perrniaiiive legislation. 1 egag
se in-' with one whose heart was as gentle and as
logical coonsequence ou are reilucal to stew or
An Ait to regulate in some way the hours of businees guileless as his intellect was strong and searching, and
y,
otn,r to ,dnaner. The serape of meat disappear in eight he reseed, which any township or parish should
he at liberty to adopt. But there is reason to believe ' whose whole nature throughout a brilliant career of
time plekin with anythina else eatable that may the highest political and eocial distinction was so
that the result wo oulol he vel y limited, and that if the unspotted by the world and so unsts oiled by success.
have eerie. to hand ; whither the ingredient;
Act were adopted at all it would be in small comma- To converse with him as he sat m his armchair
hook tempting la of little importance, seeing
they are at o.nce hidden out of sight. But as armed with his favourite weapon-a paper knife--
hides, where the pressure of long hours and uverwork
in connection with trade is but little known. ' and cutting onen the last new pages of history or
knife--
she pipkin and its unattractive contents go on
slowly grumiering fer bona, the poorest loisople get .«.-so-s-isaie-a- philosophy, was more than a liberal education;
the full bebefit of all they have bought ; while our it ail to be at once instructed, elevated, and etrength-
weffitedo clasiiee, Cu, the other hand, content them- SIR RAINALD KNIGHTLEY ON THE w
ened against debasing =shalom; and vulgar discontents.
aelvert with the refuse id the joints they have paid so LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. No one enjoyed the pleasures of society more, or played
dearly for. Our foreign neighbours are compelled to The Northarnptonshire Chamber of Agriculture his part in it with a livelier zest,; no one had a more
Psaa 11.
t'e etx'"4Y and extreme deliberation, an uss d these discea the question af compensation for unsex- indulgent toleration for its vanities, a more generous
are the rudimentary elements of all good Ccokery handed impromments on Saturday. Sir Rainald indifference units absurdities, or a happier capacity for
The art necessary to make the most of their poor Knightley, menober for the southern division of the finding siomething even in its dull distractions not alien
materials ig eirenms,ibed vvithin the comparie of the el Runty Kahl the 12th clams of the Landlord and to his sympathiea He knew well how to make the
solitary pipldn, which often repreeents the whiae Tenant', Bill, introduced by Messrs. Read and Howard best of human eircumstancesandconditions, touse with-
asaffeeie de cuisine'
gs anal the class and the natiion get hit toussiion, was the great stumbling-block in the out abusing the ailvantagee they brought, and to keephis
credit for the teachin oof hard necessity. If the small way of legislation upon this subject. He was in sacred "city of the soul" unshaken by the blandieh-
farmer of Central Spain, who, lives in neat comfortless favour of the general principle of that bill. He moved ments of fortune.
fashion, can offer you a savoury slid pi-Arida compomed that it (+honid be referred to a eelect committee, and When one remembers that Si, Van its Weyer held
of coarse beans and uffireds of rusty bacon, it is only be- was' ire arid to support its second reading. But the his own in diplomatic fence against Talleyrand, and
cause it is so hot on those treeless plains for great part 12th, chi:nee did away with freedom of contract, and maintained the cause of his country and of a Revolui
of the year. Had the father chanced to take refuge in wa.s very much stronger than any part of the Irish thin against the Courts and Cabinets of great military
England during the civil troubles of the begireling of Landlord and Tenant Bill. That bill only did away Monarchies with a resolute persistence of will and

It im the purpose of the School of Cookery, as we
understand it, to do for English people what circum-
stances have done for foreigners, inculcating by ex-
ample and precept the sound principles we have
wantonly neglected. Hitherto English people have
begun at the wrong end, and have been educating
downwards instead of from below, even when they
have borrowed ideas from abroad. We have grafted
foreign ideas on our English system, as we serve
French entrées before a sirloin or a saddle of
mutton. Our more pretentious cooks have imi-
tated foreign artistes, more or less successfully,
but their work has been inharmonious, and the
best of it artificial. They are imbued by the heresies
they have learnt in their youth, and they only depart
(rein them in particular instances. It is of com-
paratively little consequence. There is no hurry
about improving the Cookery of the upper classes, and
if there is a great deal of waste in their establishments
they can retren,h if they please by living with less
ostentation. What is of real importance is to teach
the poor man to do the most with his humble means ;
to enlighten the ignorance and to dissipate the preju-
dices that make his life so much harder than it need
We might hope to see the peasant and artiaan
improve xisibly in health and spirits ; middle class
households might live more comfortably at a cheaper
rate, being relieved in consequence from much worry
and anxiety ; while cooks all over the country would
be brought up in more sensible and frugal ideas.
Where prejudice and immemorial custom stand in the
way, we cannot expect to see great results immedi-
ately. lint we have confidence enough in English
go4sl SVIISe to expect that the Training School will do
much good from the beginning, and dear coal and the
general rise in prices must undoubtedly help to make
its teaching popular.