The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-04-16 00:00:00

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METHOD OF IMPARTING A YELLOW TINGE AND SUM-
MER GRASS FLAVOUR TO WINTER BUTTER.—The follow-
ing method of making butter has been found to be a great
improvement :—Grate 4 oz. of the best scarlet carrot, and
pour some boiling water on it the evening before churning
in the morning, strain this off, and pour the liquid into 42
quarts of cream. This prevents the butter from becoming
hard (as is generally the case in winter) at the same time
imparting to it the yellow tinge, awl the richness and flavo r
which the summer grass gives it. It may also be applied to
cheese. The injudicious application of carrot in butter made
to retail in small quantities has given rise to much complaint
on the part of the purchasers ; but, by reducing the quantity
in proportion to the cream, in the above ratio, a decided im-
provement in the tinge and flavour will be imparted.—Larne's
Literary and Agricultural Journal.
ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER.—DanieI Webster was
a farmer's boy, in the state of New Hampshire, whom his
father had to rebuke for his absent-mindedness, so much like
a scholar, and scold him to his task in the field. 'Whereupon
Daniel said, " Father, my scythe hangs badly*" His father
endeavoured to fix it ; but still the boy complained that it
was not right. " Hang it yourself, then," said the father.
Daniel smiled, walked off with an arch look directed to his
father, hung his scythe on a tree, and said, " There, father,
it hangs to suit me now." And the father sent Daniel to
Exeter Academy, and next to Dartmouth University. What
Daniel Webster is now the world is sufficiently advised.—A
Voice from America to England.

CLASSIFICATION OF INSANITY.—EngIish medical writers
are not disposed to admit moral insanity as a distinct class ;
neither was Esquirol, in the first instance ; but in his note,
Mononzanie Homocide, he avows having met with it in seve-
ral cases, and concedes to it a separate character. The fol-
lowing are its characteristics, as developed by Dr. Pritchard :
—lst. Acts of homicide, &c., are generally preceded by the
other striking peculiarities of conduct in these individuals.
2d. The same individuals have expressed a wish for death ;
have attempted to commit suicide; and have begged to be
executed as criminals. 3d. They act without motive. 4th.
The imprudence, nay, the stupefaction, of their subsequent
conduct, is conclusive of their state. sth. They seldom have
accomplices. Under this head, also, is included that irresis-
tible impulse to do much mischief and commit injury which
is sometimes to be observed, and many cases also of suicide.
In France Esquirol, Broussais, Orfila, Andrei, Mare, Gurget,
Michu are all believers in the distinctiveness of moral in-
sanity as a class of madness ; Regnault and Collard de Mar-
tigny, on the other hand, advocates of eminence, have opposed
it in their writings. Their reasonings from the effects of de-
bauchery, bad education, and early habits of cruelty to ani-
mals, or of tyranny to playmates, will easily suggest them-
selves to the reader ; and they put forth one remark Which
will satisfy every lawyer, that the doctrine of moral insanity
can never be made available in an English criminal court :
it is this, that, were the doctrine admitted, fne criminal act
itself would be deemed the material proof of the insanity.—
Law Magazine.