The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

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;cious of any such operation having taken place ; the
only thought he had was that he had been attending a
ecture.—Neweastle Courant.

PROVI MINTS (IRELAND).—A return of the aggregate
amount of provisions imported from Ireland into England
in the lastthree years, ending January, 1847, shows that
the quantity of corn (of Irish growth) so imported,
amounted, in 1844, to 2,801,206 quarters ;• in 1845, to
3,251,901 quarters ; and in 1846, to 1;825,394 quarters.

The quantity of

heat, flour, and oatmeal amounted re-
to 839,567 cwt., and 1,150,976 cwt. ;
and 1,15%976 cwt. ; and in
148 cwt. The number of

i 79 cwt
wt., and 55

1846, to

Feb. 9, 1847.

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PLANTING POTATOES IN THE AUTUMN.--Mr. Jones,
4eedsman, of Shrewsbury, planted some potatoes in the
autumn, called " Summer Manly," they have beenin the
ground, four inches beneath the surfacc,,, uring the late
severe frosts, and are perfectly souud. Those planted
deeper are in good condition, but those nearer the surface
were injured, and those just covered with soil were en-
tirely destroyed. We are informed that it is best to sow
potatoes in November or Decembe!, nine inches deep,
with a little dry straw placed over them, and then the
earth to follow. Before planting, dust the seed with slack
lime, finely powdered.

SUBSTANTIAL SOUP AND PORRIDGE FROM
A gentleman writing to the Cork Constitution says, that
as beef and veal may become scarce, an excellent substi-
tute, one which would give vast employment and remu-
nerativb wages to thousands, may be found in the article
of fish! Sonia years since past, he says, being wind-
bound in my yacht in the Clyde, I became the guest of a
Scotch gentleman, who gave me every day for dinner
capital soup of different kinds, in which a particle of meat
was never used. It was made of all kinds of fish as they
came to hand, The fish being washed, and the entrails
removed, was cut into junks and boiled in a digester until)
the bones were dissolved. The skin and oil being skimmed=
off, salt, pepper, onions, peas, meal, Scotch Barley,,
bruised carrots, or whatever pleased were added. And
excellent soup of different kinds was the result. Fish
boiled into mummy in a digester affords rich gelatine,
which added to " beans' meal, bruised peas, rice, and a
mall portion of commissariat biscuit," according to Mr.
Barry's receipt, would make Nutritive soup.
A POET IN DISTRESS.-Off Saturday, a boot-closer,
70 years of age, preferred a complaint at the Mansion-
house, London, against a relieving officer. The applicant
said his name was Thomas Mills, his age upwards of 70,
and hisprofession, poetry. He had written a great deal
of verse upon subjects moral, rural, and lyrical, and he
had received the highest praise for his compositions, which

so a p LlLAildr tar-
cumstances' which it was unnecessary to detail, but which
arose from his attachment to the muse, he, had been

yougea to leave, temporarily, in the possession of a sta-
tioner, at Bethnal-green, 1004 copies of verses, which he
felt assured would make him independent. He applied
to a relieving officer to advance-him £2 to release them,
but the applicant was met by an exclamation of " such
nonsense," and the offer of the Shoreditch Workhouse.
Mills expressed to the lord mayor a strong conviction
that if his verses were released, and he had a fair chance
of writing, he couldin future make- £l5OO a:lrear. One
of his pieces was on the uses and

granite

tin um uses or steam and gas: The
lord mayor,•after, a conversation which only the more ex-
hibited the disorder of the applicant's mind, intimated
that he could not interfere.

ItIGHLAND• DESTITI3;IO.N.-FrOrll tV report just issued
by the committee in Scotland for the relief of the desti-
tute in that country, we'make the following extract;--
" It will be found, from the above statement of facts, and
while some of the most distressed districts are not in-
cluded, such as both the Ijists, Harris and Barra, not to
speak of the whole of Orkney and Shetland, that a popu-
lation of 145.33 l are involved in the destitntio.. -e

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all of these, by far the greater _ ,r—indeed the whole,
with but few exceptions—must now be suffering under
the calamity. The number of cotter families in the same
districts fall to be considered as already entirely destitute,
being in number about 7000, and representing a popula-
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tion of nearly 3fino entll.2 -1-

numbe

.1.-6 must also De ,
that in many of the returns the number of these isconsidered not
specifically given, and accordingly not included.in the
above summation of the cotter class. The number of
families reported as actually destitute of food, at the dates
of the several returns, was nearly. 3000 ; and taking the
ornissickis made in this department also in many of the
returns, and where, at the same time, in accompanying
communications they are represented as numerous, the
extreme,- nreccur. _ . .

be can,
thousa

pressure of destitution and actual famine must
dered as now really endured by upwards of sixty
souls, in these districts of the Highlands and•
And it cannot fail to be observed, how near tho
>sure of destitution, in most of the districti, is•
Iriod to ho_"

A. COACHMAN IN TROUBLE.—The coachman of Lord
'ngs, on Wedtiesday week, was orected to drive a
'Melton Con-

Havlet

as a wifo