The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

CONTRASTED.—In A paper r
British At.sociation, at Scutt.

Howard- furnished carefully
lishin

average per foot, to t
week ; in 1535, for from 8s
of about 7060 feet ; in 1814, for from
reaching about 23.000 feet ; and in 1846. f

xtent of about 5000 feet per
) 9s. per foot, to the extent
per foot.

manufactory cos

d operation
ing at 12g. ;

se of the small
3 1816, a eom-

profit realised when se

1 panv, with a paid-up capital of £130,0(0, realised a net
profit of £30,000, selling at from ss. to 6'. Looking at
this extraordinary increase, in spite of the severity of ex-
cise restrictions, the author asks, what would be the pro-
bable demand, if the price were reduced to 4s. or 3s. 6d.
per foot—which, free as the trade now is from excise in-
terference, would yield an ample profit ? _

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RICE AND TURNIPS A SUBSTITUTE FOR POTATOES.—
Throughout Scotlaad the entire potato crop being unfit
for human food, and abandoned almost wholly by all
classes of society as dangerous even to be given to stock,
the u..Ee of rice and turnips in equal quantities has, we
observe, been recommended as a wholesome, substantial,
and palatable food for rich and poor, and as Csubstitute
for potatoes. Blended together and seasoned with butter,
1 LI-

The turnips and ri

i separ

id when the

then

Fuit Ilium," we c-jtcul,iteti, and sighed. There
was a shop, howt ver, uoon the loved site, a flaring plate
glass affair, with abundance of wares of all kinds and gew-
gaw ornaments in great abundance ; and on looking more
intently we discerned, in huge gilt letters, filling up the
whole of the otherwise unappropropriated front of the
house, the name Peter Bennett. The chrysalis had cast
its skin and become the butterfly. The old-fashioned
trader. who used to pride himself that he never sold any
goods but the best, and at the best prices, had become a
modern pilfer of cheap wares
Bur. if PE

as Peter himself,

shop was changed. much more changed
Whilst dressing, and still glancing
towards the source of our bewilderwe,t,
from the shop door, and
proceed with a somewhat hasty step across thestreet. He
was no longer the plump little Peter, whose every move-
was redolent of contented ease, but the anxious—
,oo anxious—man of business. He was some-
- h ; hot his hearing was mnreerect,
'ant. He had no longer " a
but moved past all he
..oulgence and the practice of
,s would not befit his new positi-
from his whole manner, that Peter
was not u happier man for the change.

we ob,,erved the owner emer

wbat fal:en away in

and Lis air more selt

t very old acciliiint,nc

met, as if the rime for
such rid world courtes

Ytt tt struek us,

We pissed by the shop itself s••veral times in the course
of the day, expecting at least to find our dear Mary in her
accustomed place, or at least to get a glimpse at her plump
rosy face, .nd arms 'o watch : but no such vision met our
eyes. We did, indeed, hear an unaccustomed sound of a
ro.,m above the shop ;
had any more ear for

spinet jingled out rf to
but Mary never played. She hex,

music than the shop till

the caul

It was not long before we arrived at the whole trulh—
.,od proc( ss of transformation of Mary, of Peter
Bennett, and last, not least, of Peter Bennett's shop.
The reader has heard in the last chapter a hint of the ex-
istence of a certain John, who had imbibed the new lights
of trade in the county town, and during a short sojourn
an the metropolis, where he dispensed tea, sugar, and the
other et ceteras of a groc ry establishment in the refined
but stirring locality of Lan,beth Marsh. Very shortly
after Mr. John's t-ngsg m,nt wiih Peter Bennett, which
by the bye he considered as a kind of sacrifice of his
shining abilities, he began to indoctrinate the old fashioned
trader lot) the modern ways of bu,int•ss. Daily he re-
gretted that he could not b induced to "push" more—
talked of " small profits and quick returns"—showed how
a " trernendwis stroke of bu,ines,"

could be done with a
small cap'tal—s*ated hos cheaply he could buy if allowed
to go occasionally into the leading markets, but more
than all urged the impos~i~•ility of doing anything in such
a small crib as that of Peter Bennett, which he urged
d be made into fine pre..,ises by taking in the little
tiug up a large pla-e glass front.

parlour, and

We need not trace the process by which Peter was at
length drawn into the adoption of the new principles of
Lis enlightened journeymen. At first he was very stub-
born. Ue could not see the advantage of selling three
hogsheads of sugar, or tree chests of tea, for the same
amount of profit he had been accustomed to derive from

the sale of one. He thonzht that c:mtinually " selling
off at prime cost and under," v-;:ls not the way to get rich,
or to keep up your cregit ; the" dodge" of purchasing
"bankrupts' stocks to be sold at 50 per cent under prime
cost

he thought was very like a swindle. That Peter
would ever have yielded up his honest old world opinions,
would have been very problematical, had not the influence
of his d*ar little 111,ary have been brought to bear upon
him. How that was brought about, the sequel of this
over true history will show.

Sunday in every country town and village gives the
index, of many a mystery; and especially amoisest,
young. There is the meeting in the churchyard; the walk
he.rce. dutimt which we see what louk4, or courtesies nags
between youths and maidens. The-re are the quasi diplo-
rnatic.sa:utations of their respecTive parents, all of which
are watched by the go;siping, and give rise to conclusions
which, though sometimes wide of the mark are not always

and w i

.
palpitatine heart we
pew in which Peter

n accustomed to

Peter himself, with his (laugh:

compromises would make the fortunes of a firm, with da-
maging their character with their neighbours. To all
John's remarks, of " Oh, sir, we do these things every
day in town," he was resolutely deaf ;• and he was totally
incredulous of the assertions of the same party, true
enough nevertheless, that their credit would be all the
better afterwards. Even when new goods came pouring
in to their order, entrusted to them because, in the opi-
nion of the wholesale dealers, it was not likely they would
attempt a compromise for a few years to come, he could
not be persuaded to take heart ; but absolutely moped
himself into a state of almost idiocy, alternating with fits
of sottish self-opinion.

TIES

The mine of Scripture is inexhaustible; and from the
time at which it was first opened, till the time when faith
shall be exchanged for sight, ►,ot one labourer who works

therein, even from the most robu,t to the most fed
will remain unrewarded by a participation in its wealth

TEN GRANDFATHERS AND GRANDMOTHERS —l❑ the
parish of Aldbuurn in the county of the-e is now
person named Lidiard, who has five grandfathers

living a

and mothers are still living; on the father's side there is
grandfather and grandmother, and great grandfather and
great grandmother.
A LESSON FOR PLATE PRESENTERS.—A Scottish
regiment, more famous for fighting than fluency, pur-

chased a silver jug for the colonel, and summoned him to
receive it. When all were assembled together, the
spokesman of the subscribers grasped the " piece of
plate," and said, " Colonel, there's the jug." " Ech !"
siys the colonel, "is that the jug !" And the thing was
done.