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vagance ? But here I shall leave the pecuniary expanses
on one side, which a man of wealth can easily surtukont
when required. So now, dearest, for the 'v_Ttraordiilol
fact ; imagine on the top of the above-mentioned hill it
rushlight of a boy just entering his tenth year, snr-
! rounded with the recherche provisions and delicacies
claimed by his rank and wealth, taking merely the
medium consumption of his daily meals. By closely
calculating, he would be surrounded and gazed at by
the following number of quadrupeds, birds, fishes, &c. :
—By no less than 30 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200
lambs, 50 pigs ; in poultry, 1,200 fowls, 300 turkeys,
150 geese, 400 ducklings, 263 pigeons ; 1,400 part-
ridges, pheasants, and grouse ; 600 woodcocks and
snipes; 600 wild ducks, widgeon, and teal; 450 plovers,
ruffes, and reeves ; 800 quails, ortolans, and doterrels,
and a few guillemots and other foreign birds ; also 500
hares, and rabbits, 40 deer, 120 Guinea fowl, 10 pea-
cocks, and 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120
turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel,
300 whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders,
400 red mullet, 200 eels, 500 haddocks, 400 herrings,
5,000 smelts, and some hundred thousand of those deli-
cious silvery whitebait, besides a few hundred species of
fresh-water fishes. In shell fish, 20 turtle, 30,000 oys-
ters, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps,
'sardines, and anchovies. In the way of fruit, about 8601bs.
of pine-apples and grapes, 600 peaches, 1,400 apricots,
240 melons, some hundred thousand plums, greengages,
apples, pears, and some millions of cherries, strawberries,
raspberries, currants, mulberries, and an abundanee of
other small fruit, viz., walnuts, chesnuts, dry figs, and
plums. In vegetables of all kinds, 5,475 lbs. weight,
and about 2,4341b5. of butter, 684 lbs. of cheese, 21,000
eggs, 800 ditto plovers. Of bread, 44 tons, half a ton
of salt and pepper, near 2i tons of sugar ' • and, if he had
happened to be a covetous boy, he could have formed a
furtificatien or moat round the said hill with the liquids
he would have to partake of to facilitate the digestion of
the above-named provisions, which would amount to no
less than 10,5161 gallons, which. may be taken as be-
low:-49 hogsheads of wine, 1,3681 gallons of beer
584 gallons of spirits, 342 liqueurs, 2,3941 gal
lons of (coffee, cocoa, tea, &c., and 304 gallons of
milk, 2,736 gallons of water ; all of which would actually
protect him and his anticipated property from any young
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gular meals of the day, from which I have taken my
basis, and in 60 years it amounts to no less than 59
tons, 5 cwts., 1 quarter 201 lbs. weight of meat, fari-
naceous food, vegetables, liquids, &c. ; out of which I
have named in detail the probable delicacies that
would be selected by an epicure through life. But
observe that I did not count the first 10 years of his
life, at the beginning of which he lived upon pap,
bread and milk, &c., also a little meat, the expense of
which I add to the age from 10 to 20, as no one can
really be called an epicure before that age ; it will thus
make the expenses more equal as regards the calculation.
The following is the list of what I consider his daily
meals :

" Breakfast. —Three quarters of a pint of coffee, four
dunces of bread, one ounce of butter, two eggs, or four
ounces of meat, or four ounces of fish.
" Lunch.—Two ounces of bread, two ounces of meat
or poultry, or game, two ounces of vegetables, and half
a pint of beer or a glass of wine.
" Dinner..—half a pint of soup, a quarter of a pound
of fish, half a pound of meat, a quarter of a pound of
poulti y, a quarter of a pound of savoury dishes or game,
two ounces of vegetables, two ounces of bread, two
ounces of pastry or roasts, half an ounce of cheese, a
quarter of a pound of fruit, one pint of wine, one glass
of liqueur, one cup of coffee or tea ; at night one glass of
spirits and water.

..:" Now that I have given you these important details,
perhaps you will give me some little credit for my exac-
tion and se we' :ty respecting*the. attentiod.which ought
'‘-o. be dailygpaid to the—intlispensable and usefiil art of
:'•cookery by lour middle clasges.' shall also observe to
you, that those masses of provisions above described in
the expose of 60 years, have been selected, dressed, and
served, by scientific hands, every real epicure choosing
through life the best cook, and consequently the best of
provisions, which, had they have fallen into the hands
of inexperienced persons, would very likely have wasted
one-third, thereby increasing the expenses, and never
g:ving any real satisfaction to the consumer ; therefore,
let us act in a small way as becomes us, as the wealthy
do according to their incomes ' • let every housekeeper
devote more time to the study of domestic and practical
economy ; and in many instances it will increase their
incomes as well as their daily comforts, for, as I re-
marked to you that the pleasures of the table being not
only th• most expensive part of human luxury, but also
the soul of sociability, they require more attention be -
stowed upon them than is done at the present day."

Glees and Madrigals. Printed for the Society,
and sold by Ewer and Co. Leader and Co.,
and other booksellers.
" Glees and Madrigals," sung by the Concordia
Society, are lying before us, and remind us of the
pleasure we have derived from the able perform-
ance of the same at the Society's rooms.
We happen to be among those who appreciate
and love the quaint compositions, in word and
note, of such writers as Herrick, Carew, Lovelace,
Shenstone, and Sir J. Suckling ; and such musicians
as Mornington, Horsley, Callcott, Webbe, and
Wilbye, with a host of others of similar genius and
feeling. The choral of these exquisite strains must
ever afford a pure delight to all who have a soul
attuned to Nature's key note ' • and, for our own
part, we would rather listen to the harmony of
When the wind blows," " How sweet in the
woodlands," or " Come with me, and be my love,"
than be doomed to sit out a " modern opera."
There is something in the rhy Liles to these old-
fashioned melodies, we suspect, which materially
helps the charm.. Who will not admire the follow
ing simple and pretty conceit ?
" In going to ay lonely bed,
As one that would have slept,
I heard a wife sing to her child,
That long had mourned and wept.
She sighed sore, and sang full sweet,
To lull the babe to rest ;
That would not cease, but cried the more,
Upon its mother's breast.
She was full weary of her watch,
And giieved with her child;
She rocked it, and rated it,
Till that on her it smiled.
Then did she say, ' Now have I found
This proverb true to prove,
' The falling out of faithful friends
Renewing is of lover
Then let any one hearken to these words with
Horsley's beautiful music wedded to them, and
many of our every-day " ballad-mongers" will lose
by the comparison, we fear. '
" When the wind blows in the sweet rose-tree,
And the cow lows on the fra.rant lea,
And the stream flows all bright and free,
'Tis not for thee, 'tis not for me,
'Tis not for any one here I trow
The gentle wind. bloweth,
The happy cow loweth,
The mei ry stream floweth,
For all below.
Oh ! the Spring, the bountiful Spring,
She shineth and smileth on everything."
We warmly congratulate the Concordia Society on
the patronage it deserves and appears to meet
with.

Newton's London Journal.
This useful repertory contains its usual account
of recent, patents &c., and all other mechanical and
scientific intelligence. •

The Art Journal.

The three plates of this number represent "The
Suppliant, "Nymphs Bathing," and "Dr. John-
son in the Ante-Room of Lord Chesterfield." They
are of the usual degree of merit. No. 21 of the
" Great Masters of Art" is devoted to Cornelius
B ega, a Dutch painter of the seventc .nth century.
" An A rtist's from Antwerp to Rome " is
continued, illustrated. ' "Dress as a Fine Art"
also progresses, and the figures given are numerous.
The article on the " Dublin Exhibition " presents
us walt a number of specimens of vases and orna-
ments.

Life andl3F, rai
The Church of England Quarterly Review.
There are remarks made in this number on seven p u
‘L‘ enttre. • eInJo
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of attention is the first article on the " Holy
"Niebuhr'sortaiit
Scriptures and the Hebrew Language." Among
other reflections on the vast influence and sublime
dignity of ling aage, it is suggested
that language
is not riglily respected. Its universality and
rity prevents us from regarding as one of
the highest boons of Heaven. It is observed on
this subject :
o! "Many persons suppose that language is an invention
man—that it was very rough and imperfect in its ori-
g.nal state, and became more polished and more copious
as civilisation advanced, and the wants of mankind were
multiplied. In the case of Adam, such a supposition is
obviously untenable. The language he spoke was that
which he bad first heard from God, and it must therefore
have been a perfect language as coming from God himself;
and the faculty both to comprehend its meaning and to give
it utterance must have been implanted in the first man by
the Creator. The child who needs to 'be taught to
speak, and the savage who speaks enly a jargon until he
is bei.ter insti acted, are not anomalous cases, for Adam
never was a child—never was in the condition of a
savage. He was created a full-grown man, perfect in
body and mind, and his speech, like everything alike
before the fall, was pelf 3t—not, as is supposed, rude
at first, and gradually pearected by use. We maintain
that the primitive language was perfect, and that all
deviations from this standard have been co..aptions
rather than improvements, when language is regarded
in its highest application as having reference to spa ;tual
and eternal things, and not merely to the things of earth
and the passing events of social intercourse."

WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL-lEs Grace the Archbishop
of, Canterbury preached a sermon yesterday morning at
the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, in the pre-
sence of Vice-Chancellor Sir J. P. Wood, Mr. Whateley,
Q.C.,. Dr. Sutherland, and a crowded congregation, in
aid of the funds of this charity. The appeal produced a
collection of 43/. 7s, 10d.