The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-17 00:00:00

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LAUGHTER.--11l 1662, an Italian astrologer, published a
treatise of about six sheets, wherein he distinguishes the dif-
ferent temperaments of. mankind by their different modes of
laughing. Thus the hi-hi-hi, notifies melancholy people; the
he-he-he, phlegmatic persons ; and ho-ho-ho, those of a
sanguine disposition.—[What dOes the ha-ha-ha notify ?)
To DESTROY THE WORMS ON LAWNS.—RoII the lawn
twice, then water it with lime-water of the following strength :
—One pint of unslaked lime to ten gallons of water. Two
dressings of this liquid will quite destr, y them. If you wish
to bring the worms to the surface, water the grass with the
following solution :—A quarter of an ounce of corrosive sub-
limate to .three gallons of water, this Will bring every worm
to the surface without destroying the grass.
GENEALOGY.--The whole science of genealogical accu-
racy is derived from the children of Israel, whose individual
families indulged a hope that the promised Messiah might be
born from their stock : a pure authenticated pledge became,
consequently, one of the peculiar features of Jewish polity ;
such a qualification was deemed absolutely necessary to all
candidates for power and honour.—Quarterly.
CLIMATE.—In no class of diseases is the influence' of local
climate more strongly evinced than in the spasmodic affec-
tions of the lungs : at the same time it must be admitted,
that there is nothing apparently more capricious than this
very influence, since the atmosphere that in some is so apt
to produce disordered respiration, is to others the very air
that affords relief and exemption. This bolds good with
asthma in particular •, and I have known many who are al-
ways subject to attacks of the spasmodic form of this disease
while they reside in London, who get rid of it almost the
instant they quit it.—Dr. Weatherhead on the Diseases of
the Lungs.
The celebrated Mrs. Thicknesse undertook to construct a
letter, every word of which should be• French, yet no French-
man should be able to read it, while an illiterate Englishmari
or Englishwoman should decipher it with ease. Here fol-
lows a specimen of the jeu de mots :-=`_` Pxe, Dire Sistre, come
and se us, and pass the de here if, yeux cantle, and chat tu
my dame, and dine here ; and yeux mai go to the faire if
yeux plaise ; yeux mai have fiche, biotin, pore, buter, foule,
hair, fruit, pigeon, olives, sallette, for ure diner, and excel-
lent te, cafe, port vin, and liqueurs ; and tell ure Bette and
poli to comme ; and Ile go tu the faire and visite the Baron.
But if yeux &int comme to us, Ile go Ur 'ure house and se
oncle, and se hone he does : for mi dame ses he bean ill ; but
doux comme, mi dire yeux canne ly here yeux nos—if yeux
love musique yeux mai have the harp, lutte, or viol here.—
Adieu, mi dire sistre."
THE USE OF ANIMALS.—In many parts of the British
colonies, Canada especially, the people have actually lost
their land from want of domesticated animals. The soft
land, from which the timber has just been cleared, yields one
crop or two by simply turning or scratching the surface ; but
it is too tender for bearing the full action of the sun and the
atmosphere, from which it has been previously concealed for
ages ; and the soil of which it consists being in great part
composed of leaf mould and other very light matters, very
speedily loses its fertility, and becomes a wilderness of an-
nual weeds, in which not even the coarsest of the pasture
grasses can find substance to germinate ; . whereas if, by any
means, the very same surface could be left with a partial
shade of trees over it, and made a pasture of sheep or cattle,
according as might be most suitable, it would acquire firm-
ness to maintain its place and fertility sufficient to repay the
labour of cultivation, with an ample increase.—Mudie on
Domesticated Animals.
A PLEASANT PRESCILIPION.—A lady of rank consulted
Dr. Ratclicffe in great distress about her daughter. The
Doctor began his investigation of the case by asking,
" What ails her? " " Alas ! Doctor," replied the mother,
" I cannot tell ; but she has lost her humour, her looks, her
health ; her strength consumes every day, and we are ap-
prehensive if something is not done she cannot live." "Why
do you not marry her ? " said Radcliffe. " Alas ! Doctor,
that we could fain do, and have offered her as good a match
as ever she could expect." "Is there no other that you
think she would prefer to marry ? " " Ah, doctor, that it is
that troubles us ; for there is a young gentleman, no doubt,
she loves, that her father and I can never consent to her
marrying." " Why, look you Madam," said Ratcliffe, " the
case stands thus ; your daughter would marry one man, and
you would have her marry another. In all my books I find
no remedy for so singular a case."
NORWAY.—A summer trip to Norway has become rather
a fashionable excursion lately. The facilities, therefore, of
getting there, may be facts worth treasuring up for another
season. At the last meeting of the Storthing, a sum of mo-
ney was granted for two more steam boats to be added to the
three lately established to form aline between the towns of
Bergen and Christiansand, Christiana, Gatheborg, and Co-
penhagen. One runs along the northern coast from Dron-
theim to Tromsal and Hammerfest, only eight leagues from
North Cape ; and it is proposed immediately to start another
to fill up the interval between Burgen and Dronthiem, so that
with the exception of the few miles between Hamburg and
Lubeck, the whole distance between London and Hammer-
fest may be travelled in steam-boats. The Norwegians are
sanguine in their expectations of the advantages of these im-
provements, and some private companies have been formed
to open the communication through the great lakes of the
interior.

A NOVEL KIND OF ELECTRICAL MACHINE—ELECTRI-
CAL EXCITEMENT IN LEATHER BY FRICTION.—The Rev.
Theo. Duly, under date of December 17, 1838, at Keighley
Rectory, Yorkshire, England, communicates the following
fact to Dr. Farady. He speaks of what he terms an extraor-
dinary electrifying machine, which is no other than a leather
strap which connects two drums in a large worsted mill in the
town of Keighley. " The dimensions and particulars of the
strap are as follows:—It is in length, 24 feet ; breadth, 6
incheS ; thickness, k inch ; it makes 100 revolutions in a
minute. The drums, over which it passes at both ends, are
two feet in diameter, made of wood, fastened to iron hoops,
and turning an iron axles ; these drums are placed at ten feet
distance from each other, and the strap crosses in the middle
between the drums, where there is some friction ; the strap
forming a figure of eight. There is no metal in connection
with the strap, but it is oiled. If you present your knuckle
to the strap above the point of crossing, brushes of electrical
light are given off in abundance ; and when the points of a
prime conductor are held near the strap, most pungent sparkS
are given off to zi knuckle at about two inches. I charged,".
says Mr. "a Leyden jar of considerable size in a few
seconds by presenting it.to the prime conductor. The gen-
tleman who told me of this curious strap has frequently
charged his electrical battery in a very short time from it ;
and he informed me, that it is always the same, generating
electricity from morning to night, without any abatement or
alteration. If this strap had the advantage of silk flaps and
a little amalgam, it would rival the machine in the lecture
room in Albemarle-street.—Silliman's American Journal of
Science and Arts.

SAFETY IN TIIUNDER STORMS.—PeopIe are often ,led to
inquire what are the best means of safety during a thunder
storm. If out of doors, we should avoid trees and elevated
objects of every kind; and, if the flash is instantly followed
by the report—which indicates that the cloud is very near--
a recumbent posture is considered the safest. We should
avoid rivers, ponds, and all streams of water ; because water
is a conductor, and persons on the water in a boat would be
the niost prominent object, and therefore most likely to at-
tract the lightning. If we are within doors, the middle of a
large carpeted floor will be tolerably safe. We should avoid
the chimney ; for the iron of and about the grate, the soot
that often lines it, and the heated and rarified air it contains,
are all tolerable conductors, and should, on that account, be
avoided. It is never safe to sit near an open window, be-
cause a draft of moist air is a good conductor. Hence we
should close the windows on such occasions. In bed we are
comparatively safe; for the feathers and blankets are bad

conductors, and we are to a certain extent insulated in such
situations.—Practical CheniiBt's Guide.

AVERAGE MORTALITY OF ALL MANKIND.—The popu-
lation of the whole earth has been variously estimated be-
tween eight hundred thousand and a million millions of souls.
If we fix upon an intermediate number, say 946,080,000, and
assign 30 years for the continuance of each generation, we
shall find that the "children of men" come into the world

and go out of it at the following averages :-Every.
1 ; minute, GO ; hour, 3600 ' • day (21 hours,) 86,400: week
(7 days,) 604,800; month (30 days,) 2,592,000; year (365
days,) 32,536,000; generating (30 years,) 946,080,000. It
thus appears that every stroke of a pendulum ushers a human
being into existence, and heralds the departure of another to
the vast bourne from whence no traveller returns. It would
be well that all should ponder and consider the certainty of
the latter great event, and set their house in order, as be-
cometh good members of society, having the interest of their
parents, children, or relations at heart, by endeavouring,
while they have the opportunity, to study their welfare by
assuring their lives.—Pocket Diary, 1840.
CHASE ON A BEAR.—In the afternoon, one of our men
had a somewhat perilous adventure with a grizzly bear. He
saw the animal crouching his huge frame in some willows
which skirted the river, and, approaching on horseback to
within twenty yards, fired upon him. The bear was only
slightly wounded by the shot, and, with a fierce growl of
angry malignity, rushed from his cover and gave chaise. The
horse happened to be a slow one ; and, for the distance of
half a mile, the race was hard contested, the bear frequently
approaching so near the terrified animal as to snap at his
heels ; while the equally terrified rider—who had lost his hat
at the start—used whip and spur with the most frantic dili-
gence, frequently looking behind, from an influence which he
could not resist, at his rugged and determined foe, and shriek-
ing in an agony of fear, " Shoot him, shoot him !" The

man, who was One of the green-horns, happened to be about
a mile behind the main body, either from the indolence of
his horse, or his own carelessness ; but as he approached the
party in his desperate flight, and his lugubrious cries reached
the ears of the men in front, about a dozen of them rode to
his assistance, and soon succeeded in diverting the attention
of his pertinacious foe. After he had received the contents
of all the guns, he fell, and was soon despatched. The man
rode in among his fellows, pale and haggard from overwrought
feelings, and was probably cured of a propensity for meddling
with grizzly bears.—Townseild's Sporting Excuilions in the
Rock) Mountains.
COMICALITY OF ALL TIIINGS.—II is not in literature
alone that the tendency to the ridiculous is shown. In many
recent scientific speculations it is strikingly and abundantly
obvious—some of those on geology may be quoted as exam-
ples. The offspring of the sciences—those pledges of dice.
tion which they present to art, almost all of them come into
the world with a caricature-like smirk upon their faces. Air
balloons and railroads have something funny about them ; and
photegenic drawings are, to say the least, very curious. The
learned professions are all tinged with drollery. The law is
confessedly ridiculous from beginning to end, and what is
very straage, is that no one should attempt to make it other-
wise. Medicine is comical—or rather tragi-comical—the
disparity of opinion among its professors, the chaotic state
of its principles, and the conduct of its students being con-
sidered. No one can deny that the distribution of church
property is somewhat odd, or can assert that the doings, at
least, or those who are destined for the clerical office, are
now and then of rather a strange character. Political meet-
ings are very laughable things, when we reflect upon the
strong asseverations of patriotism there made and believed.
The wisdom of the legislature is by no means of the gravest
class, particularly when it offers municipal reforms as a sub-
stitute for bread. The debates in a certain House must be of
a very humorous character, if we may judge from the fre-
quent " hear, hear, and a laugh," by which the proceedings
there are interrupted. Our risible faculties are continually
called into action at public lectures of all kinds ; and indeed,
no lecturer, however learned he may be, has much chance
now-a-days of instructing, unless he can also amuse his audi-
ence. Nor can the various public and even private buildings,
which are daily springing up around us like so many mush-
rooms, be contemplated without considerable emotion of
mirthfulness. The new style of ecclesiastical architecture,
entitled the Cockney-Gothic, affords a good illustration of
this remark ; but the comic Temple of the Fne Arts, in Tra-
falgar-square, is what Lord Bacon would have called a
" glaring instance " of its correctness. The occurrences of
the day bear all of them the stamp of facetiousness. The
vote of approbation lately passed on a certain course of po-
licy is a capital joke ; the tricks that are constantly played
upon John Bull by the Russians, French, Yankees, and
others, though somewhat impertinent to the aforesaid John,
must seem very diverting to lookers-on. The state of the
drama may also be brought forward in proof of our position.
Tragedies are at a discount ; farces are at a premium ; lions,
nay goats and monkeys, are pressed into the service of Ma-
mus. Even then the various institutions for the advance-
ment of morals have not escaped the influence of the pre-
vailing taste. To mention that respectable body of men, the
Teetotallers, is sufficient of itself to excite a smile. In short,
look wherever you will, you will find it a matter of the great-
est difficulty to keep your countenance. The truth is, that
people are tired of crying, and find it much more agreeable
to, laugh. The sublime is out of fashion ; the ridiculous is in
vogue.--Comic Latin Grammar.

Much intellect is not an advAntage in courtship. General
topics interfere with particular attentions, A marl, to be
successful in love, should think only of himself and mistress.
Rochefoucalt observes that lovers are never tired of each
other's company, because they are always talking of them-

Dr, Schlegel states that there existed in Paris a society
calling itself " The Friends of Suicide.". It was composed of
twelve members. A lot was annually cast to decide which of
them should commit suicide in the presence of his colleagues.

• A GREENWICH PENSIONER'S DESCRIPTION OF SIR
SIDNEY SMITH.—But let us have recourse to other and less
refined evidence. It is that of a worthy old-Greenwich pen-
sioner, who held au office about our officer's person, and who
had the fullest opportunities of seeing him in all situations
and in all moods—in full dress, in undress, and in no dress
at all—and such
.is nearly the words of the veteran. " Why,
sir, after we skivered the mounseers away 'from Acre, Sir
Sidney was looking as taut set up as the mainstay by anew
first lieutenant ; but, for all that, Sir Sidney was a weaselly
man—no hull, sir—none ; but all head, like a tadpole. But
such a head ! it put you in mind of a flash of lightening rolled
up like a ball ; and then his black curly nob, when he shook
it, made every man shake in his toes !" " Was he then
handsome ?"—" Blest if I can tell !" . " You know, sir, as
how we don't say of an eighteen pounder, when it strikes the
mark at a couple of miles or so, that's handsome, but we
sings out beautiful!' though, arter all, it's nothing but a
lump of black iron. You're laughing, sir. And so you
thinks I'm transmogrifying Sir Sidney's head into a round
lump of iron shot. Well ! I'm off like one. All I can say
is, that he was Most handsome when there was the most to
dor"—Memoirs of Sir Sidney Smith, by the Author of
Rattlin the Reefer.

THE WAY OF WOMEN.—In the Newcastle market, on
Saturday, a lady asked the price of a goose. " Four and
threepence," said the woman at the stall. The rejoinder.
of course, was, " I will give you four shilings." " Very
well," said the woman : "you may ha'e 't for four; fur, you
see, I clapped t' threepence on, because I knaw'd you'd want
summat off. Aw always finned that the way o' women is,
to hey threepence off the gvuse, and a penny off t' giblets—
an' se aw axes accordin'ly ! Shopkeepers less candid than
the goose merchant, are not in the habit of confessing their
practices ; but we think we may venture to assert, that, when
they have to deal with ladies who " wait summat off," they
take care to "ax accordin'ly." Heber, the celebrated book-
buyer, being asked by a friend ie he did not receive good dis-
counts on making his purchases, replied, " No, sir, it is an
absurd system—a discount will only answer once ;at the se
cond and all future purchases, the tradesman, in self defence,
will lay something on, to be prepared for your demand.—
Gateshead Observer.

THE GREAT . SEA SERPENT."-An animal, which appa-
rently belonged to this class, was stranded in the Island'ot
Stronsa, one of the Orkneys, in the year 1808, and was first
seen entire; and measured by respectable individuals, and
afterwards, when dead and broken in pieces by the violence
of the waves, was again examined by many; portions of it
being secured, such as the skull, and upper bones of the
swimming paWs, by Mr. Laing, a neighbuting proprietor;
and other portions, such as the vertebrae, tic. being deposited.
and beautifully preserved in the Royal Museum of the Uni-
versity of Edinburgh, and in the Museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons. An able paper on these latter frag-
ments, ar.d on the wreck of the euirnal, was read by the late
Dr. Barclay, to the Wernerian' Society, and will be found
in vol. I. of its transactions- to which we refer. We can
allow space only for a very sfiort abridgement of these docu-
ments, which, be it remembered, furnish an account of the
animal principally after it had been mutilated ; and hence we
cannot wonder if the original accounts are both imperfectly
and contradictory. It measured fifty-six feet in length, and
twelve in circumference. The head was small, not being.a
foot in length, and twelve in circumference. The head was
small not being a foot in length, from the snout to the first
vetebrse ; the neck was slender, extending to the length of
fifteen feet. All the accounts agree in assigning it blow-
holes, though they differ as to their precise situation. On
the shoulders something like a bristly mane commenced,
which extended to near the extremity of the tail. It had
three pairs of fins or paws connected with the body ; the
anterior were the largest, measuring above four feet in length,
and their extremities were somewhat like toes. partially
webbed. Dr. Flemming, in his notice of this animal,
suggests that these members were probably the remains of
pectoral, ventral, and caudal fins. The skin was smooth,
without scales, and of a greyish colour ; and the flesh ap-
peared like coarse, ill-coloured beef. The eye was of the
size of the seal's the throat was too narrow to admit the
hand.--,-Dr. Hamilton, in the Naturalist's Library.

NOVEL STEAM APrARATUs.—The Oxford Herald gives
the following description of an ingenious application of steam
power, by which, in the Oxford Union Workhouse, the
whole of the clothing and other articles used in it are washed,
dried, and ironed, in an almost incredibly short space of
time. No less than 1,25 articles of apparel, bed-clothes,
&c. were washed, dried, and ironed, in two days, with the
assistance of only eight women and two girls from the school.
This unique and elegant machine is the invention of James
Wapshare, Esq. of Bath, for which,. we understand, he has
obtained a patent. The apparatus consists of a small steam
boiler, with two pipes for the conveyance of steam. By the
one pipe the steam is conducted to the coppers used for
boiling the clothes, and supplying the washers with hot water ;
by the other, the steam is.carried to a closet, or large box,
in which the linen is to be dried. The exterior of this box
is a wooden frame, covered with zinc ; within it is fitted up
with pipes, increasing in number according to the extent of
drying power required. These pipes are arranged horizontally,
onelabove another, connected at one end by a bend or turn,
thus forming a continued duct for the steam. The steam is
admitted at the upper pipe, and passes its condensed water
at the lowest. On either side of this tier of pipes is a
moveable clothes-horse, which is drawn out to be hung with
clothes. These horses are made close at the top of the box,
so that no heat may escape over them ; and the clothes are
so disposed on them as to form an entire sheet, completely
enclosing, and preventing any escape of the heat radiating
from the pipes, by passing through the articles to be dried.'
This deposition of the clothes is easily accomplished, but
difficult of description. On the outside of the horses, or on
that, side which is not next the pipei, a valve or dpeninK is
-made on the top of the box ; and, a current it being ad-
mitted at the bottom, the steam or air derived front
the clothes as they dry is carried off as fast as it is generated.
One, set of these pipes, with two horses, would be sufficient for
any moderate family. In an establishment so extensive as a
Union Poor House, more is required. In the closet or box
erected are three ranges of pipes, and consequently six horses.
or two to each range, having an air space, with its valve
between each set of horses. Attached to the flue that
surrounds the boiler is a small oven for heating the irons, so
that the whole operation of the laundry, as far as heat is re-
quired, is simultaneously effected by one fire.

ILLUSTRATIONS OP THE PERMANENCE OF COMMUNI-
CATED MOTIoN.—It is in the case of a revolving body. that
we can most effectually diminish these resistances to motion,
by causing it to be supported and to turn on a very small
surface, as compared with the dimensions of the body itself;
as, for instance, a large wheel round a slender axle, or a large
spinning-top on a fine point, by which contrivance the re-
- sistance of friction is made to act at a great mechanical dis-
advantage, as coMpared with the force of the body's rotation ;
and we may, further, remove the resistance of the air, almost
to any degree we Choose, by placing the revolving body under
the receiver of an air pump.. Now, if we thus remove the air
froin'the' receiver of an air pump, and then, without re-ad-
mitting some mohanical contrivance, put rapidly in
motion Un6r"the receNer, a large wheetivith an exceedingly
small axis, or, better, a large spinning-top with a fine hard
point, we shall- find that 'motion, Which would, under other
circumstances, soon cease, lasting, apparently unaltered, for
hours. And a penduluM, delicately suspended on knife
• edges, and having thus yet greatly less friction to contend
with than either the axis of a wheel or the point of a top,
when once a motion has been given to it, will retain the force
of that motion, and continue to Oscillate with it for more than
a day. Mr. Roberts, of Manchester, is' said to have con-
structed a body which is of such a form, and so trulybalanced
upon a fine point, that, having put it in motion round that
point, it would not lose the force of its motion, but continue
to spin with it for forty-three minutes. These are all proofs
of a tendency to the permanence of motion, and the force of
motion which accompanies it, when causes of retardation from
without are more or less removed ; that is, of its tendency to
absultee permanenee, sd far as any cause within itself is con-
cerned. It does not die or diminish of itself; there is within
it no principle of death or decay,--to cease, it must be opera-
ted upon by causes external to itself. ,The proofs hitherto
given show, however, only the probability of this truth. It
is probable that, since when we continually diminish the ex-
ternal causes of a body's retardation, its motion approaches
to a state of permanence, if we were completely to take away
those causes of retardation, that permanence of motion would
be completely attained. But we cannot take away these causes
of retardation--,we cannot completely take away friction and
the resistance of the air : we can, therefore, only speak of
what would probably happen if these were completely re-
moved. To complete the proof, we roust look out for some
case of motion, in which there is no friction, and no resistance
of the air. Such a motion we cannot find on or near the
earth's surface, but we do find it in the heavens.—.3losley's
Illustrations of Science.

THE TEST OF CIVILIZATION.—Cookery is a true test of
civilization. Civilization, we admit, is a strange mixture,
but still cookery implies taste, and there can be no civiliza-
tion without it. Man certainly is a cooking animal in gene-
ral ; it distinguishes the genus ; and, indeed, he was a cook
in times of barbarism ; but still it never rose to an art. Cad-
mus, not content with inventing the Greek alphabet and other
things, was, we believe, the first regular cook, and to him we
are indebted for its origin as such. What the exact date of
thiS was is unimportant : we all know that the arts rise and
fall with the rise and fall of states • but still we know that
cookery, being often amongst the fine arts, flourishes best in
their decline, and that therefore the Greeks could hand it
better over to the Romans. Here, until all other enjoyments
have been exhausted, we never .hear of either Apicius or
Lucullus, or, in fact, that dinners were ever talked of until
national decay plainly showed itself. Now, how to explain
this can only be done, perhaps, by physiology, for here na-
tions are only like individuals-. it is generally admitted, I
believe, that eating is one of those pleastires that holds out
the longest, or, in other words, that of all our organs, the
stomach is the ullimum moriens;—in fact, we often hear of
broken hearts, but never of broken-stomachs ; _and even the
heart-broken seem often to recover at seeing the cloth laid.
It is very clear, therefore, that all our organs must give way
to such ; that all our sympathies, secretions, feelings, fluids,
&c., &c., must surrender to the gastric, and that even our

,
tears, for most swallow them as they fall—such are the laws
of our nature, we cannot help it—head, heart, and stomach,
alternately get the better of us, according to our age; but
the last is nearly a despot through all.—Metropolitan Ma-
gazine.

A PAIR. OF REAL TOP BOOTS. ".Why, thin, I'll tell
you," said Rory. " I promised my mother to bring a pre-
sent to the priest from Dublin, and I could not make up my
mind rightly what to get all the time I was there. I thought
of a pair o top boots ; for, indeed, his reverence is none of
the best, and, only you know them to be top-boots, you
would not take take them to be top-boots, bekase the bot-
toms has been put in so often that the tops is wore out
intirely, and is no more like top-boots than my brogues. So
I whit to a shop in Dublin, and picked out the purtiest pair
o' top-boots I could see ; when I say purty, I dont mane a
dourishin' taarin' pair, but sich as was tit for a priest, a
respectable pair o' boots ;—and with that I pulled out my
good money to pay for thin', whin fist at that minit, remem-
bering the thricks o' the town, I bethought o' myself, and
says I, I suppose these are the right thing?' says Ito the
man.— You can thry them,' says he.—' How can I thry
them! -says Pull them on you,' says he.—' Throth, an'
I'd be sorry,' says I, to take sitch a liberty with them,'
says Why, aren't you goin' to ware thim,' says he.—
'ls it me?' says I ; ine ware top-boots ? Do you think it's
takin' lave of my sinsis I am ?' says Then what do you
want to buy them for ?' says he.—' For his reverence, Father
Kinshela,' says Are they the right sort for him ?'—
How should I know ?' says he.—`You're a nurty boot-
maker,' says not to know how to make a priest's boot!'
—` How do I know his size ?' says he.—' Oh, don't be
comin' off that way,' says I, There's no sitch great differ
betune priests and other min T—' Tell me his size,' says the
fellow, and I'll fit He's betune five and six fut,'
says Most men are,' says lie,' laughing at me. He was
an impidint fellow. It's not his five, nor six, but his two
feet I want to know the size of,' says he.—" So 1 persaived
be was jeerin' me, and says I, Why, thin, you respectful
vagabone, o' the world, you Dublin jaekeen you mane to
insinivate that Father Kinshela ever went barefutted in his
life, that I could know the size of his foot ?' And with that
I threw the boots in his face. ' Take that,' says I, you
dirty thief o'. the world you impidint vagabone of the world!
you ignorant citizen o' the world !'
.And with that I left the
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place.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
DEC. Houa.
17. 13retherton and Harrison, (2nd)
17. John Warburton, (div.) Commissioner's Rooms, M'ehester, 12
17. James Lenox, (2nd)
18. John Wood Russell, (div.)
18. James Ramsbottom, (div.)
18. Thomas Wilson and William Wilson, (Ist) Ditto, 2
19. Charles Goadsby, (div.)
20. John Montgomery and Joseph Brereton, (final) Ditto, 12
20. Thomas Johnson, (2nd)
23. Nathan Litherland , Ditto 13

24. Henry White Hayman, (2nd) Ditto, 11
24. William WGill
22. Henry and George M'Minn, (special) Avison anti Pi lit's, 11
28. William Robinson, jun. (div ).... Davenport and Collier's, 12