The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-19 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OxFoltz), Feb. 14.
This day the following Degrees were preferred :
MASTER OF ARTS.
Fitz Roy Blackford, Brazenose College, grand compounder.

SELECT EXTRACTS.

TEST OF EXCELLENCE.—As Bannister stood one night
unobserved, a small coterie of scene-shifters were discussing
the performers of Hamlet ; one admired Henderson, another
Kemble, and each commented on his favourite. At last, one
of them said, " You may talk of Henderson and Kemble, but
Bannister's Hamlet for me : for he has always done twenty
minutes sooner than anybody else."—Bannister's Memoirs.

USE OF DISAPFOINTNENT.—A story is told of a Scotch
nobleman, who, in order to break his daughtefs of too ardent
a pursuit of pleasure, would allow them to accept of an invi-
tation to a ball—dress for it—order his equipage to the door,
but just as the expectant girls were about to step into the
carriage, would suddenly remand it to the coach-house, order
the young ladies to lay aside their ball dresses, resume their
common habiliments, and return to the quiet avocation of the
family circle.
A GzivmmuAN.—lf you detect a juvenile pickpocket in
the act of " prigging" your pocket book, and seize him by
the collar, he indignantly repels your grasp, and informs you
that he is ready to walk as far as the police-office, but expects
to be treated " like a gentleman ;" the porter who is employed
to carry your luggage is very sorry that he is " bespoke," but
in less than no time at all he will send your honour another
" gentleman ;" the hackney coachman, to whose demand of
thrice your lawful fare you are inclined to demur, winds up
his tornado of imprecations with a thundering crack of his
whip, and a polite intimation to the bystanders, " that you
are a scaly blackguard, and no ,gentleman,"—Backwood.
TILE BRITISH NAVY.—We commend the following passage

from the late Lord Littleton's Persian Letters, to the earnest
attention and thoughtful meditation of our whig ministers :
" I had lately the pleasure," says his lordship, " of seeing a
sight which tilled my mind beyond all the magnificence that
an eastern monarch can show. I saw a British •fleet in full
sail. Nothing can be imagined more pompous, or more
august. The whole spectacle gave me the highest ideas of
the strength of the nation ; a strength not confined to their
own coast, but equally formidable to the most distant parts
of the globe. Were I a king of En4land, I would never re-
ceive an ambassador with any solemnity but in the cabin of a
first-rate man-of-war. There is the true seat of the empire,
and from that throne he might awe the whole world, if he
understood how to exert his maritime power in all its full
strength !" If Lord Littleton lived now, and saw the neg-
lected state of the British navy, under whig-radical auspices,
he would blush for his country':'

SELF-TRAINED HORSES.—When a colt is weaned and
turned out, it has, of course, a shed or stable ;to,lie and feed
in. By making a slight fence about the height of the colt's
knees, a few yards from the door, you compel him to walk
over to get to his corn. When he is quite used to this, raise
the fence six inches. This will make him rear up and get his
fore legs over, and he will soon find it ig;easier to jump over
than to draw over his hind legs after him. When he does
this freely, raise the fence still higher, till he is .obliged to
make a good standing leap over it every time he goes in.
When he is perfect at this, which he will be in the course of
a month, then dig a ditch, and throw up a bank with earth
instead of a rail, and he will first walk into the ditch, and
then get his fore legs on the bank, but in a day or two he will
quietly jump on the bank. After being perfect in this, have
another ditch on the other side of the bank, and he will jump
on and off in a few days as well as any hunter. The writer
has a thorough-bred colt, only nine months old, which is as
perfect at all sorts of fences as the best huuter.—Diary of a
Huntsman.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.—A college for the education
of those who are destined for agricultural pursuits, is about
being established in the vicinity of Maidstone, under the
title of the Kent School of Agriculture. The course of
instruction will embrace the following branches of agricul-
tural knowledge, both experimentally and practically, viz.—
Gardening, planting, and the general management of farms
and woods ; and with that view the mode of cultivating
arable, pasture, hops, &c.; the nature of different soils, their
chemical properties ; the manures proper for each; and the
formation and economy of manure. The different courses of
husbandry ; the best rotation of crops in different soils ; the
knowledge of grains, seeds, &c. The knowledge of useful
animals ; how to breed, feed, and treat them ; their points,
condition, and diseases. Agricultural book-keeping and
accounts. Agricultural mechanics ; the power required to
draw given weights, and how to combine speed, power, and
economy in draught ; the construction and use of implements
of husbandry. Surveying and valuing lands, &c. Such an
establishment could not fail to excite an extensively beneficial
influence on all within its sphere of operation.
MANUFACTURERS AND CHURCHES: But there are
many who have far greater cause to think seriously upon this
subject. There are hundreds among us who have made for-
tunes as manufacturers. How does the case stand with
them? They have set up a factory; it may be in some
sequestered spot, where a village has immediately arisen.
The population has increased from year to year ; the capital
of the manufacturer has increased with it ; his works have
been extended ; new labourers have arrived ; and in the
evening of his days he retires with a handsome property
honourably gained, and it is his joy that he owes nothing to
any man. But is this indeed the case ? He has paid his
labourers for their time and strength ; but how has-he remu-
nerated them for their souls ? He invited them from their
country villages, from the homes and the church of their
fathers ; he allured their children from school to the factory ;
and what has he given them instead ? Has he not too often
left them in a situation of peculiar danger and temptation,
without a church, without a pastor, without a school ? Can
he acquit himself of having grown rich upon the ruin of im-
mortal souls?—Wilberforee's "Parochial System."

ON NEWSPAPER PATRONAGE.,—SoIomon Smith, Esq.
the proprietor of the Mobile Mercantile Advertiser, has re-
cently sold his paper to Messrs. Langdon and Harris. In
his valedictory address he says some true things in an
amusing style, as the following extract will show :—Of all
trades, professions, or callings, I know of none—l have fol-
lowed a great many—so poorly paid as publishers of news-
papers. Many patrons of newspapers, otherwise worthy;
punctual men, think it not unrighteous to let the publisher
wait year after year for his dues, and at last, if he is com-
pelled to pay, he does it with a very bad grace. " Mr.
Type must have his money, must he ? Give me a receipt ;
and, do you hear, stop the paper7--I have patronized that
establishment six years ; there is no such thing as gratitude
in the world." Another will tell you he never subscribed
for a paper; the boy has left it every morning, it is true,
and as it was left, I did read it occasionally, but I never or-
dered it." There is another class of patrons, who never
subscribe at all, but are great friends of the paper, and al-
ways read it; in'fact, this is the class who may be termed
your " constant readers." " Here, Sam, go over the way
with my compliments to Mr. Tompkins, and ask him for the
loan of his paper—and, Sam, tell him, as he never reads it
before breakfaSt, I'll thank him to let John bring it over
every morning—it's an excellent paper—that editor really
knows what he is about ; I begin to think of patronising him
myself." There ,yet remains to be mentioned one more
class of patrons—supporters I should say—for they are the
support and stay of publishers. This class is composed of
those who say—" Here, Mr. Clerk, be so good as to place
my name on your subscription list—and write opposite to it,
paid in advance." In looking over a list of some thousands
yesterday, I saw a hundred or two of this class. If I had
any golden types, their names should literally appear in
letters of gold. There are now from twelve to fifteen thou-
sand dollars due to this office • and I am convinced the pro-
prietors would willingly sell all the debts for 5,000
,dollars !
It is thus with all newspaper offices ; and why ? Because
publishers are good-natured, and submit to their own de-
gradation in the scale of tradesmen. Let this state of things
be •amended ; " reform it altogether." Adhere strictly to
the terms of your papers ; for, take the word of an ex-
perienced man, you had better keep your ink and paper than
furnish them and your labour for nothing. You may get
popularity, but you will get no pork and cabbage for your
dinner. I now take my leave as proprietor of the Advertiser.
I forgive all, and ask forgiveness of all (if any one has any
thing to forgive) and conclude by repeating the advice I gave
my Cincinnati friends 15 years ago, with a slight amend-
ment—" Live honestly—love God—and pay for your news-
paper."
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THE SPLASHING SHOP.—Somewhere in the neighbour-
hood of Piccadilly there used to be, and most likely is still,
" a Splashing Shop," the well-known resort of Cockney
sportsmen. It was a large room, and in the middle of it
stood a wooden horse, on which the said Cockneys were wont
"to go out a hunting." On each side of this gallant hunter
was a trough containing a quantity of dirt, with a wheel
wherewith to bespatter the sportsman, and give him the ap-
pearance of " a hard run" with the hounds. Here came the
would-be fox-hunter, who had probably never crossed a real
live horSe since he was born, and demanded to be splashed.
" Yes, sir," said the polite sportsman maker, touching his
hat, " which hounds, sir ?" "Eh ; oh, why I hunted with
the Surrey yesterday, I think ; then I hunt—yes—with the
East Kent to-day, I think." Upon this the splasher calls
out to his apprentice, " Tom, two buckets of East Kent."
" Coming, sir," says the boy, and in he comes with a couple
of buckets containing a quantity of dirt similar to that usually
found in the country hunted by the East Kent foxkhOunds,
and empties them :into the troughs. " Now, sir," says the
splasher," if you please, be good enough to mount. Tom,
hold the horse while the gentleman gets up." Up he gets,
and finding himself quite at home in his saddle, cries out,
" all right—let him go." " Hard run ?" asks the splasher.
" Infernal," says the sportsman. "Go it, Tom, with the
wheel," says the splasher, " lay it on thick ; well ! I never
know'd such a gentleman to ride as this here in all my born
days. Tom Smith's a fool to him. What a pity 'tis he can't
cut the counter for a month and go to Melton. Round go
the wheels, splash goes the mud, and boots, breeches, coat,
and all are covered with East Kent. Hold hard," says the
splasher, " capital run ; won't your honour please to dis-
mOunt ?" Down comes the Cockney, after a hard run with
the East Kent fox-hounds of exactly one minute and a half,
as fine a specimen of hard-going as you'd wish to see. Out
he sallies, sneaks down two or three hack streets, and emerges
into Piccadilly, somewhere near Anderson's livery stables ;
lounges up and down, whip in hand ; meets a friend—boasts
of his prowess in the field, and points to his boots by_ way of
proof, concluding with " monstrous fine run to-day with the'
East Kent, 'pon my honour."—The Great Metropolis.

SPECIES OF MUSIC LONG PREVALENT IN ENGLAND, BUT
NOW ALMOST FORGOTTEN.—It is said that England has no
national music—that it has neither poetry nor songs. But
there is a part of the island proverbially rich in both. Moun-
tainous countries are the birth-place of song. Scotland and
Switzerland have ever been famous for their songs. There
the shepherd and goatherd wile away their time among their
echoes. Rousseau, speaking of this mountain music, de-
scribes the performer playing a strain, which he listens to,
as returned by the echo, and softly plays an under-part, pro-
ducing the harmony of a duet.—Who has visited the wilds of
Scotland, and not heard the cheering effects of the human
voice in those dreary dells ? While the silent flocks are
sprinkled on the mountain sides, the shepherd hears nothing
but the return of his own voice and the murmurs of the wa-
terfall. Music is as sensibly felt by the lowest ranks as the
highest ; and, as regards the qualification of voice, we find
that nature has been impartial. Nay, if we look back into
the history of vocalists, the most eminent have risen from the
lowest stations of life. In the time of Charles 11. the taste
for convivial music began, and the songs of that age were vo-
ciferated over the librations of the bottle. These were ge-
nerally in praise of wit, women, and wine ; and were com-
posed by Purcell, Eccles, and Wise. Those of a softer kind
to be submitted to the ears of the fair, were not so much to
the taste of the day. In these effusions the personages
Daphne, Phillis, Colin, and Chloe made a distinguished
figure. As commerce increased, and trade was protected by
our ships, a new order appeared of naval songs. During the
contest with America, and the twenty years' war with France,
the country was amply stored with these productions. Dib-
din, it is said, wrote more than a thousand. No other music
was heard in public or private. They increased with our vic-
tories ; but at the close of these struggles they disappeared,
and are now nearly forgotten. Though our country at all
times has been famous for the sports of the field, the sub-
jects of hunting had not claimed the attention of poets till the
time of Harry Carey (1737.) Like the naval songs, every
place of public resort teemed with these productions. The
delights of the chase depend upon the fleetness with which
the game is pursued, and scarcely a stanza upon the dull
routine of hare-hunting appears.—The stag is the only game
honoured by being recorded in verse till the introduction of
the more enthusiastic sport of hunting the fox. These songi,
for nearly half a century, formed the chief entertainment of
convivial parties. I was then in the habit of travelling to
most of the principal towns in the kingdom ; and wherever
I rested for the night, I was sure to be regaled in the travel-
lers' room with a variety of these songs. Scarcely an inter-
val was allowed for conversation, so closely did they follow
each other. It will scarcely he believed at the present day,
that these masculine subjects were generally sung by ladies,
in the higher and more refined parties. Indeed, there was
scarcely any other music. But as the piano forte became
more generally known, they were abandoned for those of a
-more tender cast.—Gardiner's Mimic and Friends..

OVER-FsEDLNG.-IVlr. Abernethy agreed with the oPinioil.
entertained by Franklin, who said that nine-tenths of. the
diseases were caused by over-feeding. The learned surgeon,
in one -of his lectures in 1827, thus addressed his hearers :
" I tell you honestly what I think is the cause of the com-
plicated maladies of the human race; it is their gormandising
and stuffing, and stimulating their digestive organs to excess,
thereby producing nervous disorders and irritation. The
state of their minds is another grand cause ; fidgetting and
discontenting themselves about that which cannot be helped ;
passions of all kinds—malignant passions and worldly cares,
pressing upon the mind disturbs the cerebal action, and do a
great deal of harm."

•
TEA IN RUSSIA.—The Russians are the most inveterate
tea-drinkers out of China; and, with such excellent tea as
they have, the passion is quite excusable. Tea in Russia and
tea in England, are as different as peppermint water and
senna. With us, it is a dull, favourless dose : in Russia, it
is a fresh, invigorating draught. They account for the differ-
ence by stating, that, as the sea air injures tea, we get only
the leaves, but none of the aroma of the plant which left
Canton ; while they, on the other hand, receiving all their
tea overland, have it just as good as when it left the celestial
empire. Be the cause what it may, there can be no doubt
of the fact, that tea in Russia is infinitely superior to any
ever found in other parts of Europe. EngliShmen are taken
by surprise on tasting it : even those who never cared for
tea before drink on during their whole stay in Russia.—
Bremner' s Excursions in Russia.

ANIMAL SAGA c rrY.7-Smellie mentions a. cat which, be,
ing confined in a room, in order to get out and meet its mate
of the other sex, learned of itself to open the latch of a door ;
and I knew a pony in the stable here, that used both to open
the latch of the stable, and, raise the lid of the corn-chest—
things which. must have been learned by himself, from his
own observation, for no one is likely to have taught them to
him. Nay, it was only the other day that I observed one of
the horses taken in here to grass, in a field through which the
avenue runs, open one of the wickets by pressing down the
upright bar of the latch, and open it exactly as you or I do.—
Lord Brougham's Dissertation on Subjects of Science.

CONSUMPTION, OF COAL IN BRlTAlN.—Altogether, it is
believed, that nearly 23,000,000 tons of coal are yearly eon-
sumed in Great Britain ; supposing this quantity, therefore,
on an average, to cost the consumer 10s. a ton, a return
amounting to £11,5000,000 is yearly produced to the owner
from this article alone. What, then, must be the aggregate
of mechanical contrivance, to get, to convey, and to deliver,
this enormous quantity of goods I For such a consumption,
we might well suppose, an almost endless supply would be
necessary, and therefore be reasonably fearful that it must
shortly grow scanty, and in the end cease, a circumstance
which, in a country like this, where the daily•support of so
large a portion of the inhabitants dc nends upon the employ-
ment afforded by our manufactories, would be to be deplored
as a misfortune of the utmost moment. But from fears of
this kind we are happily relieved. Mr. Taylor estimates
that there is an extent of land occupied by coal-fields, of not
less than 837 square miles, of which, however, 105 have been
already excavated. This space, he states, at a moderate
estimate, would yield 6,046,320,003 tons, adequate to sup-
ply the present vessels from the principal coal ports of the
North for 1,727 years. Besides this mass, however, there
are extensive beds in the Northern and Western parts of
Northumberland as yet unexplored ; and, in addition to this,
Mr. Bakewell, in his Geology, in a passage quoted by Dr.
Buckland, in his evidence before the 1-louse of Lords, says
that the coal-fields of Wales alone would supply the demand
of the whole country for more than 2,000 years.—Gilbert's
Railways of England and Wales.

WORDSWORTH'S CHARACTER.—Wordsworth's attach-
ment to nature in her grandest forms grew out of solitude
and the character of his own mind ; but the mode of its growth
was indirect and unconscious, and in the midst of other more
boyish or more worldly pursuits ; and that which happened
to the boy in mimicking the owls happened also to him. In
moments of watching for the passage of woodcocks over
the hills on moonlight nights, in order that he might snare
them, oftentimes the dull gaze of expectation, after it was
becoming hopeless, left him liable to effects of mountain sce-
nery under accidents of nightly silence and solitude, which
impressed themselves with a depth for which a full tide of
success would have allowed no opening. And, as he lived
and grew amid such scenes from childhood to manhood, many
thousands of such opportunities had leisure to improve them-
selves into permanent effects of character, of feeling, and of
taste. Like Michael, he was in the heart of many thousand
mists. Many a sight, moreover, such as meets the eye
rarely of any, except those who haunt the hills and the tarns
at all hours, and all seasons of the year, had been seen, and
neglected perhaps at the time, but afterwards revisited the
eye, and produced its appropriate effect in silent hours of
meditation. In every thing, perhaps, except in the redund-
ant graciousness of heart which formed so eminent a feature
in the moral constitutidn of that true philosopher, the cha-
racter, the sensibility, and the taste of Wordsworth, pursued
in the same course of development as in the educatio of the
Scotch pedlar who gives so much of the moveme?rt to the
progress of "The Exeursion."—Tke Opium Eater, in Tait' s
Magazine for February.

A GENUINE PRIZE. The net proceeds of the Spanish
Heroine (known by the name of the Golden Heroine,) cap-
tured off Cadiz, 21st May, 1762, by the Active frigate and the
Favourite sloop, two of Sir Edward Hawke's cruisers, after
the deduction of all charges, was £519,705105.. of which the
flag ,share amounted to £64,963, and each of the captains
to the same sum ; the lieutenants £1,300, and each seamen
and marine £4Bs—Barrow's Life of Anson.—[We add an
anecdote in reference to the capture, which affords no bad il-
lustration of the character of the British sailor. Such a sum
as £485 the blue jackets of the "Active" fancied could never
be expended in the ordinary routine of domestic life. In
order to conquer the difficulty, therefore, they devised many
ingenious methods, such as frying their watches over the
galley fire ; subscribing a sum of money to gild the figure-
head of the ship, &c. Finding, however, that their cash did
not melt away fast enough, it was at last proposed that every
man on board shpuld wear a gold-laced cocked-hat; and
every cocoa-nut was, accordingly, with all convenient speed,
provided with a gold-laced hat, save one—this unhappy wight
presented himself to his shipmates with a silver-laced hat.
This would not do—the ship was disgraced by such damned
stinginess. " Lets ax the Leeftenant not to let him come
aboazd." The supposed culprit begged a hearing. Jack loves
fair play, so silence having been obtained, the deliupuent tloin
pleaded his cause,—" There warut a gold-laced hat in the
town, so I was forced to take this here ; but I made the fel-
low take the money for a gold-lacer all the same." On
these last words reaching the ears of his comrades, he was
received on board with universal greeting and acclamation.—
EDS. U. S. G.]
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—One has heard of writ-
ing by steam ; but drawing by sunshine (or moonshine) is a
novelty for which the world is indebted to M. Daguttre, of
Paris, the dioramic painter. " Figure to yourself (says a
Parisian contemporary) a mirror which, after having received
your image, gives you liack your portrait, indelible as a pic-
ture, and a much more exact resemblance. Such is the
miracle invented •by M. Daguerre. His pictures do not
reproduce colour; but only outline, the light and shadows of
,the model. They are not paintings ; they are drawings ;
but drawings pushed to a degree of perfection that art never
can reach. What is the substance endowed with such
astonishing sensibility to the rays of light, that it not only
penetrates itself with them, but preserves their impression :
performs at once the functions of the eye and of the optic
nerve ; the material instrument of sensation, and the sensa-
tion itself ? M. Arago and M. Blot, who have made reports to
the Academy of Sciences on the effect of Mons. Daguerre's
discovery, have given up all attempts to define its causes.
The complaisance of the inventor has permitted us to see
these chefs d'ccuvre, where nature has delineated herself.
At every picture placed before our eyes we were in admira-
tion. What (perfection of outline what effects of chiaro
obscuro—what delicacy—what finish! But how can we be
assured that this is not the work of a clever draftsman ? As
a sufficient answer, M. Daguerre puts a magnifying glass
in our hand. We then see the minutest folds of drapery,
the lines of a landscape invisible to the naked eye. Every
thread of the luminous tissue has passed from the object to
the surface retainins it. The impression of the image takes
place with greater or less rapidity, according to the intensity
of the light. It is produced quicker at noon than in the
morning or evening, in a summer than in a winter day. M.
Daguerre has hitherto made his experiments only in Paris ;
and in the most favourable circumstances they have always
been too slow to obtain complete results, except on still or
inanimate nature. Motion eeeapes him, or- leaves only
vague and uncertain traces. It may be presumed that the
sun of Africa would give him instantaneous images of
natural objects in full life and action."

THE INEXORABLE CREDITOR.—The following afflicting
narrative is found among the notes of a volume of American
poetry, published in Philadelphia, by Mr. Woodworth :
" Some years since, a young man by the name of Brown,
was cast into the prison of this city for debt. His manners
were very interesting, his fine dark eyes beamed so much in-
telligence, and his lively countenance expressed so much in-
geniousness, that I was induced, contrary to my usual rule,
to seek his acquaintance. Companions in misery, we soon
became attached to each other. Brown was informed that
one of his creditors would not consent to his discharge ; and
he had abused him very much (as is usual in such cases), and
made a solemn oath to keep him in jail ' till he rotted.' I
watched Brown's countenance when he received this infor-
mation ; and whether it was fancy or not, I cannot say, but
I thought I saw the cheering spirit of hope in that moment
desert him for ever. Nothing gave Brown pleasure but the
daily visit of his amiable wife. By the help of a kind rela-
tion, she was enabled to give him sometimes soup and fruit ;
and every day, clear or stormy, she visited the prison, to
cheer the drooping spirit of her husband. She was uncom-
monly pretty. She seemed an angel, administering consola-
tion to a man about to converse with angels. One day the
hour of one o'clock passed, and she came not. Brown was
distracted. A messenger arrived ; Mrs. Brown was very
dangerously ill, and seemed to be dying in a convulsive
fit. As soon as Brown received the information, he darted
to-the door with the rapidity of lightning. The inner door
was open : and the jailer, who had just let some one in, was
closing it as Brown passed violently through it. The jailer
knocked him down with a massy iron key which he held in
his hand ' • and Brown was carried back, lifeless and covered
with blood, to his cell. Mrs. Brown died ; and her husband
was even denied the sad privilege of closing her eyes. He
lingered for some time, till at last he called me, one day, and
gazed on me, a faint smile played upon his lips, he said, he
believed death was more kind than his creditors. After a few
convulsive struggles, he expired ! Legislators and sages of
America! permit me to ask you how much benefit has that
creditor derived from the imprisonment and consequent
death of an amiable man in the bloom of youth, who, with-
out this cruelty, might have flourished, even now, an orna-
ment and a glory to the nation ?"

A DISAPPOINTED EPICURE.—The late Mr. Baron Thomp

son was very curious in all matters of and concerning eating ;
and was, moreover, somewhat selfish and uncommunicative
when he had made any gastronomic discovery, to the pursuit
of witch he frequently made his Summer and Spring circuits
subservient ; and it was known that he often jockeyed his
less eager brethren out of the Oxford circuit that he might
get the best sausages and brawn at Oxford, and eat the first
stewed and potted lampreys at Worcester, and finish with
simnel cake at Shrewsbury. One day, looking over the bridge at
Carlisle, he saw, a man fishing with what he fancied was a new
bait (boiled cheese) ; and as the judge was in a logical mood,
he considered that the using a new bait was all in favour of
catching a new fish. He smoothed down his wig, as well as
he could, smoothed the wrinkles of his face into a smile, and
asked the man ' what he was fishing for?' Allmax,' was
the answer. The judge was right; new baits for new fish;
he had never before heard of a piscine Allmax. His curiosity
ana his generosity were at once excited, and slipping into the
fisher's hand a retaining fee of half-a-crown, bound him over
to bring up the bodies of all the Allmsx caught that day
before him at his inn, in time then and there for dinner ; in
short, a piscatory habeas corpus was issued. The judge trotted
nimbly home, and prepared for court ; first, however, impart-
ing to his marshal that he should dine alone, and confiding to
him that a certain man would bring a certain new kind of fish,
which he desired should be carefully dressed in three different
ways—plain, boiled, fried, and boiled. The court rose. It
is not pretended any justice was done, neither did the guilt?
escape; nor were the innocent convicted, that the judge
might dine : but those who were accustomed to the judge's
manner saw that, as the hour of dinner crept round, a slight
cloud of impatience passed over his brow, and that there was
less sifting of the evidence, and less subtlety of logic than
usual. The judge got back to his lodgings ; the dinner came
up ; the judge, with his mouth watering, was all impatience :
the marshal led the way with a small dish, in which were
four fried gudgeons, two millers' thumbs, and a bream.; and
the next two clishes contained a boiled perch, and a boiled
eel, and a samlet. The'judge started : and then, to his'mor-
tification, first leared that Allmax. meant " all sorts—'what
one can catch:"