Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-05 00:00:00

THE MANURE TRADI

A review of the Manure Trade of the past year, as
compared with that of 1857, presents it in a similar
aspect with other branehes of Commerce, although the
causes which have led to the depression iu this depart-
ment are of a different character. It was natural that
the unprecedented demand for all kinds of artificial fer-
tilizers, during the Spring of the latter year, arising
partly from the high prices farmers had been getting for
their produce, and partly from the scarcity of Guano,
should lead manufacturers to anticipate a similar amount
of business last spring, and to provide stocks accordingly.
It soon became evident, however, as the season advanced,
that there would be a great falling off in the con-
sumption, The heavy fall in grain, and in the Autumn
the failure of the root crop, rendered farmers
unwilling to part with their money for manures, through-
out the year. It seems scarcely necessary to point out
the impolicy of such a course, and it is to be hoped
that practical agriculturists will, in future, understand
their own interests better than to think of deprivini, the
soil of the very means necessary to render it productive.
In these times, when the British farmer has to encounter
competition from so many quarters, it is not by par-
simonious cultivation, but by a judiciously liberal
expenditure of capital, that he cm hope to hold his
own. It is in one respect matter of congratulation, that
throughout the country generally those makers and
dealers who have - always maintained a reputation for
supplying genuine manures have not felt the contraction
of business by
.any means so severely as others of doubt-
ful character. If really good articles have been dull of
sale, inferior and worthless ones could scarcely be sold
at all. Probably in no year has so- great a quantity of
rubbish been passed off upon consumers as in 1857. A
better state of things prevailed last season, and such
parties have themselves been the greatest sufferers, from
the impossibility of gettino• rid of their stocks. No doubt
every means will be used to pass off these stocks in the
course of the coming season, and I therefore take the
opportunity of recommending• my friends to send their
orders only to firms of known standing and respectability.
Price is no criterion of quality,—for whilst on the one
hand_bad Manure is offered at very low—on the other
it is sold at extravagently high figures.

LORD CLYDE'S FATHER.—" Senex," in a letter to the
Glasgow Herald, says :—" Lord Clyde's father was an
apprentice to an eminent cabinet-maker in Argyle-street,
Glasgow. It is said that Lord Clyde had for many
years allowed his father an annuity of £3O, which the
old man said was quite sufficient to keep him comfortable.
Lord Clyde entered the army by the advice of his
mother's relations, who assisted him at that time. Mrs.
M‘Liver's maiden name was Campbell, and Lord Clyde
assumed that name as being a more dignified military
name than INl`Liver."
THE MILITIA RIOT IN EDINBURGH. The police court
was opened on Friday, at ten o'clock, Sheriff Haßard
presiding, when the soldiers who were engaged in the
late disturbance—viz., fourteen men of the Royal Sussex
Militia, and one 'of the 16th Lancers, and a civilian
Mimed Baird, a tinsmith—were again placed at the bar.
The public prosecutor (Mr. Linton), after consulting
with the judge, agreed to withdraw the charge, on the
understanding that there would be no after proceedings,
which Mr, Logan at once guaranteed, and the prisoners
were discharged,—Scotsman.