The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

Twa gardener's work will now, in all the departments,
consist principally in keeping up the artificial temperature
in glass structures, and in preparing ornamental and culi-
nary plants for forcing. Of the former kind, the various
flowering shrubs recommended in our previous instructions,
such as moss-roses, lilacs, Deutzias,Wiegelas, besides which
the beautiful Himlayan primulas, lilies of the valley,
violets, mignonette, &c. ; a good supply of these beautiful
and easily forced plants is indispensable where a large
quantity of cut flowers is in demand, because, if judiciously
used, they will economise the more valuable camellias and
other greenhouse and stove species. In the kitchen garden
the forcing beds must be prepared for rhubarb, sea-kale,
asparagus, &c.
Mr. W. P. AYRES, the eminent horticulturist, of Black-
heath, who is so well known by his numerous valuable
and practical works on plant culture, has published the
following useful suggestions in the Gardener's Chronicle :
USES OF La&vES.—ln the present state of agricultural
economics, when our leading farmers are debating the
value of long straw or chopped straw, or no straw at
all for bedding their cattle, it is remarkable that leaves
which are everywhere at the present time, and voted a
nuisance, should not be used for littering farming stock.
For some weeks past my cows and horses have been
bedded with leaves, and nothing can answer better, being
cheap and plentiful, and moreover forming an excellent
bed. Of the quality of the manure from such a combi-
nation of nutritious substances, it is scarcely necessary
to speak, but .it may not be out of place to remark
that a combination of horse and cow manure, with leaves
properly fermented and reduced, would perhaps for horti-
cultural purposes, especially for pot plants, form one of
the finest manures that could be used. The bailiff of
a gentleman in Sussex, on a heavy land farm, used leaves
for litter some years back, and by using them plenti-
fully in the fold-yard, produced such quantities of
manure as quite to eclipse his neighbours in the quantity
and quality of the corn crops he produced. Here then
is a source of manure which even Mr. Mechi, with his
prejudices against timber trees, cannot object to; indeed
it is questionable if the leaves of the "brave old Oak "
were they collected and made the absorbent of animal
excrement, would not contribute as much to the land, and
rather more than they bad taken away. However, the
experiment is worth trying, and at the present time leaves
in most country places may be collected in abundance. I
would strongly recommend gardeners to try the experi-
ment of manure for potting purposes, prepared as inti-
mated above. For soft-wooded plants I think they will
find it perfection, especially if fermented at a tempera-
ture sufficiently high to destroy all insects and their eggs ;
for I find cow-dung, which' has been subjected to sufficient
heat to char it, is just as good as when kept until it is
three or four years old. It is an excellent plan to subject
all composts intended for potting plants to a temperature
sufficient to destroy both seeds and insects before using
it, and if it is a little warm at the time of using it, tender
plants will be much benefited thereby, and at this cold
season men will do much more work in a warm shed
with warm soil, than if their hands are in a cold soil from
morning till night. In fact, a heating apparatus, such as
a stove for the purpose, or arrangements for using the
waste heat of a hot-water boiler, is a very necessary and
profitable appendage of an establishment where much
potting is to be done.

NOVEL MODE of POCICET-PICEING—A lady, returning
from church on Saturday week, was accosted in George-
street by two respectably-dressed females. The tallest of
the two requested assistance in deciphering the address on
a letter, which the lady, in her desire to be of service to
a stranger to the town, readily tried to give. While doing
so, she remembers that the younger of the two pressed
unnecessarily close upon her, but she thought nothing of
that at the time, imagining that she did so from her eager-
ness to ascertain the proper direction. Before the lady
had gone far, she found that she had been relieved of her
purse, which, however, fortunately only contained a. few
shillings. The elder female was rather fashionably attired,
and appeared to be above 80.—.8dinburgh Adverturen

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1853,

" You began by observingpthat it was truly gratiking us
to you to feel the improved freedom of expressing Brat
opinions ; that three or four years before you could nct:
have ventured, even before a Bible Society meeting,
speak so explicitly.
" You then went on to observe, that the enemy of souls
had invented different delusions, accommodated to different
nations, most readily to beguile them ; that to the
perior levity and gaiety of the continental character he
usually addressed temptations to. profligate dissipation;
but, regarding the English as too reflective and sober to
be thus caught, his trap for us was to send among is
professed teachers of religion, who perverted us by circa;
lating ' the soul-destroying doctrine of repentance: DI,
cuse me for saying that I was horror-struck by such
a
phrase, which to my ears sounded like a direct contradi°
tion of the great subject of our Lord's Baptist forerunner s
preaching ; of his own while on earth ; and of that which,'
after the consummation of his ministry, his inspiratil
directed his apostle Paul to preach ; and to oppose "'hie
I must regard as utterly subversive of the very intro
tory stage of the Christian discipline of the soul.
am well persuaded that such was not your real meni`aird
but that you meant only to reject the idea which sho r
consider our own repentance as the meritorious cause,_,°
as the real expiatory act, producing our own forgiven'i
" But I hardly think more than a small minority
your audience would have been led to this candid ex-
planation, or caught anything but the coarse and abusiv,e
language in which you stigmatized the preaching rep
ante generally.
" Believe me, while I feel myself called on freely. tn.
express my sentiments on what appear to me 111-adviseO
and misleading statements, still (with full conviction tha'
t
I myself often run into heavier indiscretions of langua.e)
with general respect for your long course of Christian
usefulness, " Yours faithfully,
-" W. D. CONYBEAO-

" To Rev. Hugh 111`Neile."

IRELAND.

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n;
THE MEAGHER CLUB have agreed to present a coei
gratulatory address, and a purse, containing a .
money, to John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, on his
val in New York. had
THE CHOLERA AT CORR.—No new case of:cho,era 0.
occurred on shore at Queenstown up to Friday afte,rfh°ad
The poor man who died of this disease at Whitegt,' had
been engaged carrying the clothes of the parties w",,1 also
died of cholera on board the Kossuth, and he
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ent several hours assisting in that ship.
REPRESENTATION OF CLONMEL.—Mr. Sohn for
is the favourite With the Romish priests of Cleland, s
the prize to be contended for in that borough. lie
Romanist—a man after the heart of li`Hale, and, cn As'ers
quently, just the thing for the reverend returning 1:4-
of the borough of Clonmel.
SALE OF THE GLEOGALL ESTATES.—The DWI° cot •
Estates Court had, on Friday, to deal with one of the In
extensive properties that has as yet come before it for so
so
It was in the matter of Lord Glengall, who aPPearr,„ to
owner and petitioner. The object of his lordshiP
• •-
dispose of a portion of the family property, with a emu.
relieve the rest from the encumbrances which had
mulatad upon it. This object is, we may say, '
attaia
for the produce of the sales effected will provide them es-r
required. The principal portions of those lots of the Csh.
estates sold on Friday were bought by the Earl of Glen
gall's family trustees. ate
ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—ThOS. Hughes, third al
of the Eblana, one of the Dublin mail-boats, betWeL
t° '
Holyhead and Kingstown, while on board attending '
that a
duty, at eight, p.m., on Saturday, heard the cry
woman and child had fallen over the jetty. Hehol af
diately jumped overboard and succeeded in getting dhe
the woman and bringing her to the surface. She 4 t 4,0
time had lost the child, which had sunk. He dived
after it, and held it up by his teeth while he adjust_,7ed
rope round the body of the poor woman, who was Ilan,
up by the persons on the jetty, and afterwards brought ;e
the child himself, with the assistance of another Or
which was thrown to him.—Dublin Evening Mail-
IRISH WAY OF GOING TO AMERICA.—On 111,1"
ul
night, the captain of the Leibnitz, which is about to
for New York, was alarmed by one of his sailors infanta!
him that there was fire in the hold. An examination
made, when it was discovered that there were as malt;
sixteen persons concealed in a cargo of old rags, molt
view to getting a free passage to America. They l'-+A
supplied with oatmeal and water, on which they were -
subsist during the voyage, and were with much
-iffficultY
the
routed from their hiding-places. It was fortunate
.th
discovery was so soon made, for as they were provided the
matches and candles it is more than probable, *on he.
dry nature of the rags, a fire would have broken out ,
fore they could have got half way across the Atlantic, 911.;
which might have ended in the destruction of the vessel.
Galway Packet. ftv first
DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—The .0
half-yearly meeting was held on Monday, at the officeq,
Dublin. The surplus of receipts on the half-year's trams,
after payment of all working charges, repairs of ive6 out
and other disbursements, amounts to £25,266 185. au., ~:„0
of which the parliamentary investment of one per eenW,"is
the capital has been made in government stock•
result would have warranted the directors in reconnue,,le
ing the payment of a dividend of three per cent. for tile
half-year, were it not necessary to provide for the losso;
the steamer Queen Victoria. The directors regret t?
t.,
that they have been obliged to abandon all hopes of „1s
that vessel, and, therefore, the amount at which sh enW:to..
at present in the company's books must be wris,„,,nend
The available balance enables the directors to rec°"ear.
the payment of a dividend of 2 per cent. fir the half-)was,
A CASE or WITCHCRAFT.—An extraordinarf.‘„ca'ecoe.
tried at the Petty Sessions, on Monday co'ury and
coran, acn. and jun., were charged by —from them,
under the following circumstanies
Sally Conry with extorting money and va'ne hus-
band had been ailing of some distemper which bathed
medical medical appliances previously employed, upon which
Cer-
applied to Mary Corcoran, who told her that unless
tarn herb were administered, and a portion of the IT:,
band's clothing burned between sunset and sunrise, that
e „
death would impend over the house. As the g't_terd°fi •
their mystic skill, the brace of sorceresses reedy/ of the
stones of potatoes, sevenpence in cash, and a portion
hnsband's clothes. But notwithstanding the potent ,1811,70.„
employed, no good effects followed, and the poor ""„ett
becoming at length sensible of the imposture, cumin the
Coury s _
the pseudo-witches before the magistrates, who sett
two Corcorans to the Quarter Sessions for trial, ha/7
refused bail for their appearance.—Galway Vindicator
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.-- ea,
deeply regret to announce the death of a fine young gde-
tleman under peculiarly painful circumstances. 'Pie son
ceased, Mr. Howard Straton, aged about sixteen, wasi of
of the late John Straton, Esq., cousin to the Ea a
Roden, and agent to his Dundal estate, who died erf;;o-
- of months since. The deceased was out on .cuto,
day, in apparently perfect health and vigour, and %that
acted business through the town, though it is stated the
since his father's death he has not been at all well. In 0„,
course of the night he is supposed either to have toied
while in a state of somnolency, or to have precilAt
himself out of the bed-room window, at the family 11i4
deuce in Seatown-place, and, on being missed I.'
in
brother, who slept in the same apartment, was found e be
state of almost insensibility in the yard, from wheneo
was brought to his room, and although there was 11 vere
pearance of any of the limbs having been broken, or seday,
external fractures, he expired at an early hour on Tnes in-
his death having probably been occasioned by severcos
ternal contusions. The deceased young gentlemanie ip
very much esteemed, and was the pride of every cird
which he moved.—Newry Examiner.
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MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—The Wale., or .00
gives an account of a mysterious affair which has „g., is
rise to numerous but as yet unsatisfactory conjectu,' art,
that city. As the gravedigger, m St. John's churcah A
was, on Thursday week, closing up a grave in ,geei a
body had been newly deposited, some children re"' In'
cry that they had discovered the body of a fatale' tian,
vestigation not only proved the truth of this asset one
but further showed that the body, which must to of
time have been interred, was in such an advanced sichave
decomposition as to prove that the individual 0115 held,
been dead zearly twelve months. An inquest u'are (te-
at which Dr. Cavet, having inspected the body o.middle
ceased, stated it appeared to be that of a female o of
age. It was very much decayed—in fact, the Serf ,ed
putrefaction was over, and the flesh had been eoT!,,;tis of
into matter resembling soap. There were the rein and
the grave-clothes on the body. There was some s..!Twi tll.
a piece of ribbon about the face, a scapular arcA",, atan
neck, and a row of ribbon on the right wrist. Thei
which composed the clothes was very much oce hail
deponent saw no reason to suppose that any, yul°,
edeeas t
been used in the present case. He presumed
ntern'e at
died a natural death, as she was dressed for ed at
He considered that the death must have occnhrreanfod rendeela
twelve months ago. The jury, after hearing t
evidence, returned the following verdict not
and the jury are of opinion that the deceaseatend
by her death from any foul or unfair means. 4 dePll:
POLICE JUSTICF.S' JUSTICE.—'On -ijtto."'regal
consisting of Major Boyce, Messrs. Marthi,i'tite
Vice ucn-
Bonsall, waited upon the Lord Lieutenant ai" an mug
Lodge, with a memorial, which was adopte".„,- se 0' ---„a to
tial meeting held some days ago, for the Ptirr- pursn'han
into consideration the course that should beo,c,nag
act
bring the conduct of Mr. Police Magistrate, that tr. g
before the executive. This personage dc idea /slat%
distributor had committed a breach of the Peace non,
a tract into the hand of a person named re _raja 1;
he awarded punishment against the aggressor 9,,c,_cur
The conduct of Mr. O'Callaghan in this Inal 114 add, n'd
the liveliest feelings of contempt, and, we rilig.bertY, 513
dignation, amongst all who regard rational bichilit th:
are not the slaves of bigotry and intolerance'
es.
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Ultramontane party lauded this justice to Op 1,0,100::
deputation having read the memorial to Inn , t,,tiott!
received the following reply :—" I have listeenraea_a it
w°hr"-ose
Lord St. Germans) with much pain to your In n
is a matter of deep regret that the meeting 0
the use a
half you are present should have sanctioned ristian
n the Pn,
charity, and to be calculated to prejudice i-oists
language which appears to me inconsistent wi,th " bile
mind the right of free discussion. The mennoe_ . they
say that he audaciously,
pute to a magistrate gross misconduct in hist
atnnuatictl,
bigotedly lent himself to sustain the intolera
they descrl
and to crush the rights of British subjects daring,„wot
the judgment pronounced by him as being
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stitutional, tyrannical, and intolerant—an
..4.uated
daringly, unconstitu i
a/big.ote.
that in pronouncing that judgment he was actge thg
pray me to institute an inquiry into the facts lt
hn.t,
improper motives. Having thus stated thee,.CZ w
not advert farther to the language of this mett that if
the charges which they prefer against Mr. 0 C
well founded, his office can afford him no Court of
s
will proceed at once to remind the memoriah„.as.t_s_ben he
he is amenable to the law, and that the Court t
Bench is the proper place in which persons can.a.'',dso
not only whether that judgment was righteous, In,...ateti
in pronouncing it were improper. That triblVatioe
whether the motives by which the magistrate was anct," can
correct an error, and can punish an offender. -r rot. the
rayer, 10,0
reasons I must decline to comply with the P
memorial."—Mr. Martin intimated that they la"
I Court
of
advised by competent legal authority that the Which
Queen's Bench was not the proper tribunal before
to bring the matter. His Excellency, in reply, redid
did not think the Executive should be called uP°ll,. souto
stage of the business to interfere, as by doing so_n 44_u
eeds
be trespassing upon the prerogative a the Court of
Beach.--The deputation then withdrew.