The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

YELLOW RICE

TO 'rug EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
B'll,-1 enclose an original receipt for yellow rice,. a,
preparation, I believe, unknown in England. It is re-
markably cheap, as the quantity mentioned may, be made
for 9d. If you think it likely to prove useful, beg you
will make use of it, and believe me to, remain with sincere
respect and esteem, AMICUS.

Take one pound of rice, wash it clean, and put it into a
saucepan which will hold three quarts, add to it half a
pound of currants picked and washed, one quarter of an
ounce of the best turmeric powder, previously dissolved
in a cupful of water, and a stick of. cinnamon ; pour over
them two quarts of cold water, place the saucepan unco-
vered on a moderate fire, and allow it to boil till the rice
is dry, then stir in a quarter of a pound of sugar and two
ounces of butter, cover up and place the pan near the fire
for a few minutes, then mix it well and dish up. This is
a very favourite dish with the Javanese, and will be found
an excellent substitute for potatoes, with all roast meats,
poultry, &c. It also forms a capital pudding, which may
be improved by the addition of raisins an a toy blanched
almonds.

THE MERCURY'S PROF

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—l cannot refrain, although a private individual,
from bringing before the immediate notice of the public,
and that through the means of your truly constitutional
paper, an insertion, if I may so term it, which appeared
in the Liverpool Mercury of Friday last, and which, by
the editor's kind permission, found a place in the columns
of that journal. It purports to be A New Translation
of the 12th Chapter of the Ist Book of Chronicles ;" and
under the title of " brochure" it conceals such a
mixture
of imaginary satire and- unblushing profaneness, as was
perhaps never before given to the eyes of an enlightened
public in. a Christian empire.
What could have possibly been the object of the writer )
what the probable tendency of his production ? It might
be be supposed that the one was the seizing of an unim-
peachable record of ecclesiastical history, to convey the
irreverent phrases of a newspaper politician ; and it can
not but be supposed that the other will ex;iteionntleahnear
in-
effable feeling of mingled contempt andeilny
of every true Christian, and every unflinching
Y andg uphoulndheereoj

the sacred testimonies of Jehovin Joie a.—
tatingly assert that it is profane, and that it must be
offensive in the sight of God. Let party skirmishers in
political matters at least confine themselves to the debat-
ing of such matters in the language usually adopted by
the parliamentary speakers, and which is commonly seen
in the broad sheet of the public press; but let them not
have recourse to the floly Word of God to clothe their
often malignant ideas, or breathe the sacred and inspired
records of his sanctuary in the same breath with the angry
declamations of the orators of the Council chamber.
With the abstract consideration, of the matter in ques-
tion, as regards its political bearing, we have nothing to
do ; but the effrontery which would plagiarise the very
Scripture for such a purpose, merits justly the stern dis-
countenance of every lover of the Gospel, and is no way
creditable to that paper whose pages have been its pass-
port to the eyes of the pubic.—l am, sir, &e.

HOMO

Liverpool, Jan. 16, 1847
[The preceding letter was omitted i. our paper a last
week.]

Jan. 26, Ig4t

ROPOSED REMEDY FOR THE IRRUPTION O
IRISH PAUPERISM INTO LIVEI4I,OOIi.

We insert the.following letter which we have receiiea
from. London, signed "An Old Naval Officer;" for the
purpose of offering a few remarks upon the reconimendu,
tion which it contains : 1,

Landon, January 22, 1847.
Stiff—Observing in the St. James's Chronicle art
extract from your valuable paper, relating to the influx of
paupers from Ireland into Liverpool, and sensible of the
great evils' arising from it, not only to the population of
your great commercial town, but, eventually, as adding to
the great pressure of paupers here and other parts of the
kingdom, I take the liberty of suggesting that the remedy
lies in the power' of the Mayor and Corpolation of Liver-
pool, as also with the authokities of Glasgow, and other
ports under similar circumstances, who, in such times as
these, should act with some energy, and press upon the
steam-packet companies., and other owners, the necessity
of giving strict orders to their captains to take no_paupers
on board at the Irish, ports ; and if any are' found on
board, on arrival in England, by the police authorities
stationed for the purpose, the captaiq commanding such
vessel should be charged irr his account with the mainte,
ranee and expense of the return of such paupers by his,
vessel. Unless this or some such plan is adopted the mis-
chief will go on, and the increasing evil must be borne as'
the-necessary result.

Remaining your wg/-wisher,
AN OLD' NAVAL OFFICER
To tlit,._Editor of the Liverpool

Standard.

Our correspondent is doubtless aware that something
very like his plan is adopted by the United States towards
the commanders of vessels bringing. emigrants to their
ports. In-every case of a ship arriving in New York, or
any other American port, with passengers, the charterer
or his agenth must give bond that he will either find em-
ployment for them or take them back—in other words,
that he will. bear the city harmless for any charges to
which the authorities may be put in respect-to them. In
the case of packets bringing emigrants frotr Ireland, we
have no power to• insist upon any regulation-of this kind,
that country being an integral portion of the British
empire. With an efficient poor-law for Ireland we might
pass them back to the parish from which the.?g sailed, as
is done with paupers in our own country. Ai' arrange-
ment of the kind proposed between steam-packet compa-
nies and their captains, is, we fear, out of the question, an
offer having been already made by our authorities to take
the decks of all steamers plying from Ireland'to- Liver-
pool, and refused by the companies.

LIVERPOOL CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCH-00t
SOCIETY.

I TO THE EDITOR OP TITE LIVERPOOL STATMARD.
SlR,—The report of this valuable institution f0r1.846
has been lately published, and I am anxious that the
following extract should be brought prominently before
the clergy, who, in my humble judgment, have not given
to the society the support it deserves, nor the support
originally promised to it :
" "In presentinothe tenth'. Report of the proceedings of
the Liverpool Church of England School Society, the
Comilittee are enabled to state that in consequence of the'
increased amount of the Congregational ColleCtions, the
funds of the Society are in a - better condition than they
were in last year. In 1845.- the Collections were 'only
£l4O 4s. 7d. from nine Churches'; and in 1846 they,
amount to £289 Bs. 3d. from thirteen Churches. They
return their very grateful acknowledgments to those Cler-l'
gymen who have preached and made Collections, and'
take this opportunity of stating that the continuance of
the-Society in anything like a state of efficiency, seems to
depend, under Providence, entirely upon the exertions of
the Clergy, and the success of their Church Collections.
If the Clergy are able to preachlnd make Church Collec-
tions, and increase the funds by soliciting Annual Sub-
scriptions, the Schools can be *maintained ; if not, it is
hardly possible to imagine how-'Schools in such poor
neighbourhoods as Broad-street and Naylor-street can be
kept up at all, as the Congregations-are of course quite in-
competent to maintain them. They trust, therefore, that
the Clergy will kindly continue to bring the Society an-
nually before their Congregations, and so continue to
assert the great and important .principle of Scriptural
Education for the labouring Poor err-tire Principles of the
Church, of England."
T have always looked upon church-collections as a vegy
desirable as well as very easy mode- of levying contribu-
tions for charitable purposes ; and after the acnowledg-
ment in the above extract, and the great good which has
resulted from a few extra collections, I trust that the
present year will see a great accession of church contribu-
tions. lam not too bold in suggesting that there ought
to be collections at half the churches in Liverpool this
year, and at the other half next year.;,indeed, I think it
would be well if the committee sent a. copy of the above
extract to every clergyman in Liverpool and its neigh-
bourhood, calling his particular attention to it.—yours,
&c. A LAYMAN.iiverpool, January 23, 1847.