The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-26 00:00:00

means, been ascertained by thelate King that thiscelAr

footstool of Tippoo Saib was intended for the then sovereign
of England. it was ultimately, after remonstrances on one
part, and negociations on both sides, handed over to Wil-
liam the Fourth, and it has been ever since preserved
in the plate room at Windsor Castle. A splendid golden
model of a peacock, nearly covered with an immense profu-
sion of precious stones, and estimated to be of the value of
£30,000, was commanded by the Queen to be forwarded
from the Castle to Buckingham Palace, to ornament one of
the royal apartments on the day of the christening. A
special messenger arrived at Windsor to carry them to town.
The magnificent gold and crimson canopy, under which the
peacock is placed in the gold pantry in the castle, and the
two beautiful flags taken from Tippoo Saib (forming part of
the ornaments), were also despatched to Buckingham
Palace.

A CURE FOR SMUT IN CORN.—Take as much dunghill
water as will make your quantity of corn swim ; add as much
salt, with a pound of pulverized saltpetre, or in lieu thereof
2 lbs. of copperas, as will cause the water to bear an egg ;
steep your corn twelve hours; after skimming off the light
corn, strain it out and dry it with slaked lime, or dry turf
ashes. Be careful to sow it the next day, or the day follow-
ing ; for, if wet weather happens, and it be kept four or five
days out of the ground, the corn peels, and will not grow.
As the pickle decreases, it may be augmented by adding more
water and salt, &c., until all the seed intended is pickled.—
G. S. R.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.-It may be safely affirmed,
that the whole success under God, of the present widely ex-
tended plan of education, depends upon the character of our
parochial clergy. Human intelligence is said to be in quick pro-
gress ; but human intelligence must travel much in the night,
—and along the highway of national improvement there are
numberless pits and precipices, which require the stationary
public lights to be kept burning and bright. He, who, having
the patronage of a benefice, consults the safety of his own
soul, by setting over the souls of others a ministry of godly
sufficiency for his spiritual charge, does more for the public
happiness and improvement, than would result from the
establishment of many schools, useful as, under good manage-
ment, such institutions undoubtedly are. Parish schools
produce their specific benefit only under the superintending
genius of a wise and zealous parish priest. On the right use
of patronage, therefore, in the appointment of such a super-
intendent, the character, the peace, and the happiness of a
neighbourhood depend ; and can a man, with any right feel-
ings in his bosom, enjoy any peace there, after putting an
entire vineyard of the Lord out of due cultivation ?—The Call
upon the Church (Prize Entry), by W. Roberta, Esq., M.A.

CHEAP LIVING IN BRITTANY.—The markets are bounti-
fully supplied, and the provisions are excellent of their kind.
Beef of first-rate quality, five sous per pound ; veal six sous;
mutton, four sous, sometimes five. Poultry remarkably
cheap, and particularly fine ; chickens, twenty sous a couple ;
full-grown fowls, from thirty-five to forty sous a couple-;
capoons, a trifle dearer ; turkeys, three francs each ; small
ones less. The fish is superlatively good, and remarkably
reasonable :—soles, from three to four sous a pair; mackarel,
from two to three sous each ; turbots, thirty sous to three
francs, according to size ; John Dory. a franc, and thirty

Servants

sous ; red mullet, two, three, and four sous each
wages vary from three to four, and five pounds a year, ac-
cording to their acquirements. A single man may live like
a prince upon sixty pounds a year at L'Orient, and so he
may at Quimper ; but this is on a grand scale : he could live
respectably on forty ; and a married couple could enjoy every
luxury with a rental of a hundred a year.—The Sportsman
in France.

NEW AMERICAN DICTIONARY.—Cat—An animal that old
maids love, because it gives out sparks when it is rubbed.
Treadmill—a retired place for those addicted to appropria-
tion. Bonnet—A. kind of inverted coal hod, in which ladies'
heads are carried. Misery—The life of an unpaid printer.
Nothing—the conscience of a thorough politician. Um-
brellas—Common property. Independence—A strong de-
termination
.to place yourself where you are not wanted.
Tempest—Something that comes to married people after the
honeymoon. Alerit—That which receives no praise. Money
—A fish peculiarly difficult to catch. The Grave—An ugly
hole in the ground which lovers and poets wish they were in,
but take uncommon pains to keep out of. Modesty—A
beautiful flower that flourishes only in secret places. Sensi-
bility—A quality by which its possessor, in attempting to
promote the happiness of other people, loses his own. A
young Man of Talent—An impertinent scoundrel who thrusts
himself forward; a writer of execrable poetry; a person
without modesty ; a noisy fellow ; a speechmaker. Lawyer
—A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your
enemy, and keeps it himself. My Dear—An expression used
by man and wife at the commencement of a quarrel. Watch.
man—A man employed by the parish to sleep in the open
air. Rural Felicity-potatoes and turnips. Thin Shoe—An
article worn in winter by high spirited young ladies, who
would rather die than conceal the beauty of their feet.—Nero
York News.

EMPHASM—Emphasis is the distinguishing of some word
or words in a sentence, on which we wish to lay particular
stress, by a stronger and fuller sound, and sometimes by a
particular tone of the voice. A. few illustrations of the im-
portance of emphasis will be, perhaps both agreeable and
useful. When a young lady says to a young gentleman, "You
are a nice fellow; you are!"—she means one thing. When a
young gentleman, addressing one of his own sex, remarks,
" You're a nice fellow ; you are ;"—he means another thing.
" Your friend is a gentleman," prondunced without any par-
ticular emphasis, is the simple assertion of
.a fact. " Your
s
friend is a gentleman," with the emphasis on. the w.orit
" friend" and " gentleman," conveys an insinuation besides.,is
So simple a question as " Do you like pine -apple _app_e tusiiit-.
ac-
cordingsusceptible of as many meanings as there are re wordsliine
really
apple rum ?" is as much as to say, "Do . you t
to the position of the emphasis. Do yhoouughk . pine-
the pine-apple rum ?" "Do you like pin
le an (or lady)
tantamount to, " Can it be that a young gentleman
,u 4. Do you like pine-
like you, can like pine-apple 11111' •
that instead of disliking,
ne.taptinple rum ?" is
apple rum ?" means,
you are fond of pine-apple ruin. t Do you like pine-apple
th ou like that kind of rum
" Is it possiblep"
rum ?" is an enquiry as to w
_c_ Y
"blio yon like pine-apple ram ? '
in particular. And. lastly
you think that the flavour of the
is equivalent to asking it y .
s that especial . form of alcohol. A. well-
pine-apple improve
emphasis improperly placed was fur-
known instance of
an on who read a passage the Old
nished by a certainpars
'unlucky man . . in --"—
Testament in the following manner . And he said
• saddle me the ass, and they saddled him."
unto his eons,
nx ladies are usually very emphatic in ordinark discourse.lmitvhit a little dear ! Oh! how sweetly pretty ? Well! I
never did, I declare! So nice, and so innocent, and so good-
tempered, and so affectionate, and such a colour I And oh !
such lovely eyes ! and such hair. He was a little duck ; he
was, he was, he was. Tzig a tzig, tzig, big, big, tzig, are.,
See., UGC.-00Poit Begliak Grammar.

EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENT,

An experiment was tried on Saturday afternoon, of one of
those inventions of whose marvellous destructive powers so
much was said last autumn. The trial took place in the
grounds of Mr. Boyd, in the county of Essex, a few miles
from town, in the presence of Sir Robert Peel, Sir George
Murray, Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Francis Burdett, Lord
Ingestrie, Colonel Gurwood, Captain Britten, Captain Web-
ster, and some other gentlemen, who all appeared very much
astonished at what they saw. A boat 23 feet lour and I

broad was placed in a large sheet of water; the boat had been
the day before filled in with solid timber, four-and-a-half
feet in depth, crossed in every direction, and clamped toge-
ther with eight inch spike nails. When the different parties
had. taken up their positions, on a signal from the inventor,
the boat was set in motion, and struck just abaft her star-
board bow, and instantaneously scattered into a thousand
fragtnents. At the moment of collision the water parted,
and presented to the eye the appearance of a huge bowl, while
upon its troubled surface he noticed a coruscation precisely
resembling forked lightning. A column of water was lifted
up in the air like a huge fountain, from which were nroiected

upwards for many hu'ndred feet the shatiJeFiragt.mejntsof
the vessel, which fell many of them several hundred yards'
distance in the adjacent fields. Our informant (says the
Times) examined many pieces, and found the huge nails
snapped like carrots ; the mast looked like a tree riven by
lightning, and never before, as he assures us. has he wit-

nessed so sudden and complete a destruction, though he has
seen shell and rocket practice on the largest scale. Such
seemed to be the unanimous opinion of all present. How

this mighty effect was produced was of course not disclosed
to SQ numerous a party, but two naval officers present were
perfectly aware of the mode of operation, and the inventor

offered to go into details confideniiilly with one or two of the
distinguished officers present. In answer to a question from
Sir Henry Hardinge, the inventor stated that without a bat-
tering train he could transport on a mule's back the mear
of destroying the strongest fortress in Eur
ment that wrought so terrible an effect or
into the air a boat weighing two and a IN

The instru-

Saturday, lifting

in with five and a half tons of solid timber, and displacing at
least fourteen or fifteen tons of water, was only 181 h. weight.
It is portable and at the same time safe—a point of vast im-
portance, when we remember the daily accidents that are oc-
curring from the detonating shells now used in our service.
At Acre most of those employed burst before they reached
their object, and they are liable to explode when rolling about
a ship's deck, as was proved by the fatal accidents on board
her Majesty's ship Medea, off Alexandria, and the Excellent,
at Portsmouth, and are dangerous to carry in a common
ammunition cart on a rough road. Whether Lord Melbourne
will Condescend to examine into this matter, and secure these
mighty powers for this country, or permit them to pass into
the hands of our enemies, is more than we can venture to
predict, but about which we cannot think England will re-
main indifferent

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