The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

FROM PUNCH IN LIVERPOOL.

HOW TO CHOOSE A DWELLING-HOUSE.
Tbere are certain classes of houses which it is most
desirable to avoid, if you are in search of comfort. Steer
clear of all cottages in the gothic style, with little gardens
and rockeries in front, and porches at the back. Nine
out of ten are no better than bandboxes. The ornaments
outside are generally in proportion to the dilapidation
and inconvenience inside. " Pretty, romantic-looking
places," your friends may call them ; " not very cheap,
but so stylish !" You have to live in them, however,
and to pay the rent. You can't sleep comfortably in a
turret ; and pendant ornaments from the roof or win-
dows, resembling the drops from the nose of an Indian,
squaw, are dear at a pound a-year each.
Semi-detached villa., with a garden in common, or
divided by a privet hedge or a railing, are to be avoided.
If your next-door neighbour is fond of gardening, and
you are not, your cat is always destroying his tulips or
his dahlias ; and if you are fond of gardening, perhaps be
keeps hens. Or he has Sunday visitors, who smoke
cigars and drink bottled stout upon his grass-plot ; and
you wish to reverence the Sabbath, and hate the idea of
living next door to a private pothouse. In short, the
disagreeables attending this kind of joint occupation are
numerous and obvious.

As a general rule, avoid stucco-fronted houses of a
pretending style of architecture, wherever situated. They
are like jerry-built bcots—all blacking and polish, and no
leather.
Choosing a landlord is another weighty affair, requiring
great circumspection. Never listen to a man who tells
you that his rent will do any time. The chances are that
he is at you before breakfast on the very day it is due;
that he has bought some property, and it will particularly
oblige him this time.
Don't take a house from a man who has a joiner's
bench, and prides himself on his amateur joinership,
does his own repairs, his own painting, or his papering.
Such men are often botches, and generally humbugs.
Lastly, don't live next door to such a landlord, if you
can help it. You can't knock a nail in without his ima.
gining that you are knocking down a wall. His children -
always think that your house is more theirs than your - -
own, and take liberties accordingly.

THE APPROACHING ELECTIONS.

TO THE ELECTORS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Fellow-Countrymen,—The warm and enthusiastic re-
ception which you gave to the appeal which I presumed
to make to you in 1828, when the voice of Protestant
England sounded through every valley, and each sur-
rounding bill re-echoed the cry of no surrender of those
great religions principles upon which our civil and reli-
gions liberties had been based, leaves me without the
shadow of a doubt that the appeal which I am about to
make to you will be responded to through the length and
breadth of the land—for it is the cause of suffering hu-
inanity—a cause in which no division of sentiment can
arise amongst us from religious or political party differ-
ences—a cause which I am confident will receive the
support of all bodies of my fellow-countrymen, whether
they are Roman Catholics or Protestants, Whigs or Con-
servatives, Radicals or Repealers, a at all will unite
as one man to preserve that hr. gem which England
placed in her national crown,-when, at the costly and
noble sacrifice of twenty,Anillions of her treasure, (the
beat and cheapest expenditure of public money to be
found recorded in the annals of any country.) sho gave
freedom to the slays' population of her West India Colo-
nies, and wiped from her statute-books those acts which
had too long been suffered to disgrace and degrade ns as
a Christian country, by which she had given open coun-
tenance and /encouragement to that most accursed traffic
in human flesh, called slavery—a traffic as revolting to
the best feelings of our nature, as it is sinful and odious
in the sight of our God, whose attributes are mercy, pity,
justice.
The act which has passed the lower house of parliament
repealing all duty upon slave-produced sugar, I will not,
upon constitutional grounds, deign to entertain when it
reaches the House of Lords, for the majority by which
it has been passed through that branch of our legislature
no more speaks the sentiment of the great body of cite--
tors of Great Britain than it did upon the withdrawal of
all protection from native industry.
A general election cannot be far distant. I call upon
you, in the name of your country and of our God, to
raise your indignant voices against this most odious and
accursed measure, which is a direct encouragement to
the slave-trade. I earnestly implore you not to suffer
England to stultify herself by undoing with one hand
what she has so nobly done with the other, and to save
her from the charge of hypocrisy, which will be justly
levelled against her by surrounding nations, should this
act be allowed to remain on our statute-books one mo-
ment longer than you can prevent. Let our motto be—
" Great Britain expects that every elector will do his
duty, and degraded may every one be who gives the
slightest countenance or encouragement to slavery."
I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen,
With every feeling of respect,
Your ever devoted and sincere friend,
WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHASE.
Haverholme Priory, August 10, 1846.