The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL iTANDARD.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Pease. sow some early white Warwicks.
Sow cucumber seed in po►s, and place them in a temporary
hat-bed, prepare other beds for the reception of the plants.
The open weather keeps everything in a gros ing state. and it
is easier cut by the frost. Keep a sharp look out for all those
that requireyotection.
Kitchen gardens generally as last week, unless frost interfere,
which will stop most of the operations.
Greenhouse and conservatory management continues the
same, but care must be taken to guard agaitot frost, though
fires are not ads isable even if nights of no frost occurs. Watch-
ing is necessary.

Stove, the same as last week.
Bring in successions of flowers for forcing, American plants,
hyacinths, pinks, &c.
Orchidious plants should be by no means kept growing hard
they require rest like other plants.—Gardeners' Gazette.

AIM AT THE ATTAINMENT OF CLEAR AND ACCURATE
HABITS OF THoUGHT.—ThitlkingiS theexerche which strength-
ens the mind, anti without which no progress can be made in
mental cultivation. A man may read, and hear, and talk—be
may devour volumes, and. listen to lectures every night —and
yet, if he does not think, he will make after all but little, if
any, improvement. His head will be full of something; but it
will lie a crowd of lumber, like the articles in a broker's shop.
He must fhb& ; he must. turn over subjects in his mind : he
must look at them on every side: he must trace the connexion
between ideas, and have every thing orderly arranged. A man
may even think a great deal, and not Think clearly : his mind
may be at work, and yet always in contusion : there may be no
clear arrangement ; antra is quite possible to mistake muddi-
ness for depth. There are some men who appear very thought-
ful ; but from never aiming at accurate habits of thought, tnes•
talk most unintelligibly. There seens to be neither beginning,
nor middle, nor end, in what they say; all is a confused jum-
ble. Now, writing carefully is a timid plan fir acquiring habits
of clear and connected thought, since a man is more likely to
detect the disorder of his thoughts in writing than iu talking.—
Rec. J. Suughton'a Address.
REMARKS ON THE POF.TIC GENIUS of BURNS.—The poetic
genius of Burns, nourished on scanty learning, and inspired by
nature herself, will furnish a text for the philosopher, who spe-
culates on the influence of book-acquired learning on gifted
minds of the first order. rtiilton, on the one hand, stands au
example of the poetic benefits of much learning ; whilst Shaks-
peaie and Burns confront and refute the assertion, that "a
iNtle learning is a dangerous thing." That much learning is
covetable by a pilot, has liing ceased to be my opinion. In the
bare toil of acquiring it, his mind exudes much of its natural
strength and sensibility ; but that some learning is useful, has
been illustrated by Shakspeare, whose mind—an alembic oil
sweets—distilled more of the essential odours of classic mytho-
logy, and more of the beautiful in classical history, than the
Minds of a thousand pedants could have collected. burns. ap-
parently still leSs learned than Shakspeare never looked back
to ancestral inspiration; but was hitmelf an ancester in poetry.
I )
my
classical partialities, but I confess the truth
(reaßounrontsFie ,up
s vwniri,,when he derides those '' who think to climb
Parnassus hill by dint of Greek;" and his strokes of nature
bring down my conception of the quantum of learning, that is
needful for a genuine poet, to the lowest point. I could point
out in Burns's songs; thoughts exactly similar to those of beau-
tiful Greek epigrams. of which Burns could have never heard.
Here Burns wrote Greek poetry without having learnt the very
characters. When nature takes genius by the hand, she alway,
conducts her pupil to the tender and beaUtiful, and by a shorter
toad than the learned languages. If I had found Burns at
Greek grammar,-1 should have pulled him away from it. Selden
one of the greatest of scholars, could afford to say that no mail
is ever wiser far his learning. This is untrue in a strict sense.
but it is true in a more general view, for we know that the na
rural weakness of the mind is only made more rickety by a load
of ironing. The best of liurns's poems, in my opinion, is hi'
"Tam O'Shanter." it was said of the most perfect Greek
sculptures, that they seemed to be rather melted than ehiselleo
marble. In like manner, this poem always appears to me as
the poet had not written but improvised it ;- as it he had never
blotted a line or clipped riff a fragment of its language; but hau
cast it off unpremeditated trom the glowing mould of is imagi-
nation.—The Scenic Annual.

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E 'up o r tO.
EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD POPE, 4e.
Rosserulale. (297; 1, t t Friend, from Calcutta, 140 bags saltpetre, 2148
bags sugar, 20 bales safflower, 4 cases silk piece good-z, 3 packazes
Ones, order-284 hats sugar, C Fletcher and co-770 do 300 bales
jute, 10 • bales munjeet, 400 sacks flour, 100 .sacks split peas, 2 cases
cigars, Ileyworth and co—P

WEST INDIES AN!) MADEIRA.
Countess Dunmore, (233) W Small, from Demerara, 96 Ws 34 brls
sugar, 50 hhds 6 puns rum, 216 puns hhds molasses, 3 hales cotton,
Booker and co-28 puns 27 hhds rum, ordor-5o hhds sugar, N
Waterhouse add Sons— 20 do, 30 puns rum, J Wilsoti—aildids sugar,
Willink—Q
Eliz theth & Jane, (335) W Hart, from Belize, 299 logs mahogany, 33
tons logwood, R. and J Benhow-6500 coker nuts, 5 lugs mahogany, a
quantity log ends, the master-11 D

SOUTH AMERICA.
Laurina, (205) J Kirk, from Laguna, 250 tons logwood, W Nevett—
G D
Venus. (162) J Dainow. from Bahia, 9 cases sugar, II NI iller-32
bags cotton. Chapman and Willis-1 box samples, Miller, Mackay and
co-10 pipes wine, 21 eases sugar, 717 bales cotton, order—G D -
Thomas Armstrong, (121) CNI •Allister, from Terceira, ;88 boxel
oranges, order-15:i do, landed at Limerick—C:4 D
Albion, (505, T Keswick, from NI aratiham. 1861 bags cotton, Moon
Brothers-424 do, S Phillips-100 do, J Rushton-35 do, C L Nletolez
and co-298 do, A Parlane--!11 do, Duarte Brothers and co-12 do,
Todd. Naylor and co—lou bags coroa, 9 hrls 3 bags 9 eases India rub-
ber,-12 tons fustic, 38 brls 3 cases 8 tees 1 bird isinglass, Moon Bro-
thers-9 crises 2 c,,sks 5 pipes 15 bags India rubber, 4 lids 1 case 1 cask
isinglass, 35 bags cocoa, J A NI iirta-112 haw( cocoa, Poster Brothers=
2; Iris India rubber, 4 brls cajaputa oil, Foster Brothers-168 b„,4,
cotton, 8 hf pipes 5 pipes 18 brls India rubber, 22 brls isinglass, order
I'D

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Archer. (257) W Grayson, from Savanilla, 1076 bales cotton, 80 tons
fustic, order-84 hales cotton, Smlerson, Fox and cn—q D •
Elizabeth Walker, i 303) J II Hall, from Val paraiso, :ttt tons Nicara-
gua wood, J Hibhv and co-290 tons copper ore, 161 cases 71 serons
Peru bark, 100 aprons 15 cases Peru bark and rhatania, 52 bales cotton,
3 bales wool, 1 box contents unknown, order-176 bales sarsaparilla
A Gibbs nod Sons-20 bundles do. W J Myers and co-13 casks spqm
oil, F Huth and co-2 casks S cases 1 bale cantents unknown, W Gem_
mell—P D _
UNITED STATES.

Tremont, (393) S Hall. from Nateln.z, 985 hales cotton, W and J
Brown and co-315 do, A Dennistoun and co—P D
John Taylor, :541) J C Luce, Charleston. 1232 bales cotton, W and J
Brown and co--IS hods stmr, H Frodsham-343 do, order-128 do,
Wainhouse, Son and co—P D
Medora, (332) E Pyke, from Richmond, Virginia, 39 hhds 2 hf hhds
tobacco, W and 8 Irving-56 do, Evans and Trokes—..:7 do, W Oxley
and co-42 do, J Stewart-39 do, W 11 Gilliat-31 dn, W A anl
Maxwell-66 do, 15', bales cotton, .1 Maury and sons-498 do Roskell,
Ogden and c((-10,. handspikes, the master—Q D
Benjamin Moraan, C F Tubbs. from Charleston, 1202 bales cotton,
W and Brown and co-71 do, llathhone Brothers and co—Q D
Sir John Harvey, (465) It Cuthhertson, from Itichihucto, 300 pees
fir timber, 1338 deals, 20 fms lathwood, Anderson, Garrow and co—
BD
Oxford, (707) J Rathbone. from New York. 220 hales cotton, Coll-
mann, Lambert and ro-137 do, It A Fletcher-212 do, J Holford and
co-133 (10, Wainwrizht and co-190 do, order-230 brls turpentine,
J Eccles and co-68 brls apples T Fletcher-420 brls turpentine, 103
hrls iron ore or manganese, 19 brls apples, 1 waggon, 23 packages
contenes unknown, order—W 1)
Francis Depau, 5) C Forbes, from Charleston, 363 bales cotton,
Baring Brothers and co-1179 do, lioskell, Ogden and co-123 do,
Order—W 1.)
BRITISH AMERICA.

Eliza, (.111) J Nowlan, from St. John. Newfoundland. 375 ens' scud
oil 31 casks blubber, 28 casks dregs, 2 casks seas oil, W Tarhet—S D
St. Andrew, (553) J Leitch, from St. John, N.B. 850 pees fir, 170
pees birch, 5c29 deals, 107 e staves, 5 cords lath wood, 7 bales Foreign
cotton. 5 pees mahogany, 33c fustic, Gibbs, Bright and en
William .Ward, (295111 0 51orrison, born Pugwash, 275 poes juniper
timber, 4750 pees deals and deal 4 cords lathwood. k 750 stavesl.
81 handspikes, Holderness and Chilton-11 D ,

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M EDI TE It RA N EA N.
Freedom, OK J Cox, from Smyrna, 9: bags 44 brls yellow, berries,
114 bales madder roots, 4 drums figs, 4 drums raisins, z 0 tons valonia,
order—S D
AZORES.
Ebenezer, (59) 1' Adams from St. Michael's:62l boxes oranges, W
Reynolds-2 do, the master

Years ending sth Jan.
1837 1838 Incretse. Decrease.
£ £ £ £
Customs 19,716 440 18,826.281 890.156
Excise.. ....... 12,714.174 11,794,338 919.836
Stamps.... 6.750,411 6,131.153 318,208
Taxes 3,689.701 3,677,718 12.013
Post-office. 1,490.01;0 1,517,743 27,743 --
Miscellaneous.. • • 40,830 34,9 6 5 894
lmprest and other
Moneys, 8z.c... • 569.538 817,6',9 248,071
Total Income 45,001 161 43,10 ..811 I 275,814 2,176,167
Deduct Increase ...„ 275,814
. --
Decrease on the Year ..... .... 1,900,353
Qrs. ending sth Jan.
1837 1838 Increase. Decrease.
_---
,X£ £ £
Customs
Excise - 212.900
Stamps .... 1,573 529 1, i 44,400 29.129
Taxes 1,594.660 1,579,018 15,632
Post-office 349.000 376,000 27,000 ---
Miscellaneous 9,873 174 --- 9,699
lm rest and other
Moneys, Scc 187.995 188,188 193 ---- --
Total Income 11,588,759 11,801,932 48 . ,533 267,360
1 - Deduct Decrease.. - 267360: '
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Increase on

the Quarter

213,173