The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

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4, MT. GEORGE'S-CRESCENT, LORD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL.

The celebrated Bunhill-fields was originally opened as a
burying place in the year 1G65. It contains about seven
acres. It is supposed that considerably upwards of
100,000 interments have taken place in this ground, and
that £1,000,000 sterling have been derived in fees, &c.,
from the burial of the dead. Among other celebrated
characters, it contains the ashes of John Bunyan. author
of " The Pilgrim's Progress." The ground is in the pos-
session of the corporation of the city of London.
BUTTER PRESERVED Br BOILING.—A physician, who
has travelled through Switzerland, describes a process of
preserving butter as adopted in that country, and which
he states to be far preferable to the English plan of salt-
ing. The'process is as follows :—lnto a clean copper pan
(better, no doubt, tinned) put any quantity of butter, say
from 20 lb. to 40 lb., and place it over a gentle fire, so
that it may melt slowly, and let the heat be so graduated
that the melted mass does not come to the boil in less
than about two hours. During all this time the butter
must be frequently stirred, say once in five or ten mi-
nutes, so that the whole mass may be thoroughly inter-
mixed, and the top and bottom change places from time
to time. When the melted mass boils, the fire is to be
so regulated as to keep the butter at a gentle boil for
about two hours more, the etirring being continued, but
not necessarily so frequent as before. The vessel is then
to be removed from the fire, and set aside to cool and
settle, still gradually: this process of cooling is supposed
also to require about two hours. The melted mass is
then, while still liquid, to be carefully poured into the
crock or jar in which it is to be kept. In the process of
cooling there is deposited a whitish cheesy sediment, pro-
portioned to the quantity of butter, which is to be care-
fully prevented from intermixing with the preserved but-
ter. The caseous grounds are very palatable and nutri-
tious, and are constantly used as food. Butter so
prepared will last for years perfectly good, without any
particular precaution being taken to keep it from the air,
or without the slightest addition of salt.
FACILITY OF LEARNING THE WELSH LANGTJAGE.—
It is a mistaken idea to suppose that the Welsh language
is hard to be acquired—the very reverse of this is the
fact ; there is probably no spoken language of Europe,
not derived from the Latin, which may be so soon or so
agreeably acquired as the Welsh. A good knowledge of
it, so as to enable the learner to read and write it cur-
rently, may be attained certainly within a year by even a
moderately diligent student : and the power of converging
in it with ease and fluency is to be gained within the
course of perhaps a couple of years. The language is
daily studied more and more by persons not connected
with the Principality and acquired by them : nay, what is
a remarkable fact, next to the galaxy of the Williamses.
the best Welsh scholar of the present day is Dr. Meyer,
the learned German librarian at Buckingham Palace ;
while Dr. Thirlwall, the present Bishop of St. David's,
has made himself, with only a few year's study, as good
a Welsh scholar as lie had long before been a German
one. We believe that, if the present system of eCuca-
tion be steadily carried out with its consequent develop-
ments in the Principality, the two languages, English and
Welsh, will become equally familiar to those who may be
born in the second generation from the present day ; and
that the inhabitants of Wales, becoming thoroughly Li.
lingual—for we do not anticipate that they will abandon
their ancient tongue—this apparent obstacle to a more
complete amalgamation of interests between the two races
will be entirely removed. One thing is certain, that the
aptitude of Welsh children to learn English of the purest
dialectic kind is very remarkable, and the desire to acquire
English is prevalent amongst all the people.—Blackwood..
THE EVERY-DAY LIFE 0-F LORD BACON.—During
meditation he often had music in another room, by which
his fancy was enlivened. He had many little whims and
peculiarities, some of which may excite a smile : for in-
stance, in the spring he would go out for a drive in his
open coach whilst it rained, to receive (in the quaint lan-
guage of Aubrey) " the benefit of irrigation," which he
was wont to say was very wholesome, " because of the
nitre in the air and the universal spirit of the world."
He had extraordinary notions respecting the virtue of
nitre, and conceived it to be of inestimable value in the
preservation of health. So great was his faith that he
swallowed three grains of that drug, either alone or with
saffron, in warm broth every morning during thirty years !
He seemed to have been very fond of quacking himself :
once a week he took a dose of the " water of Mithridate"
diluted with strawberry water. Once a month, at least,
he made a point of swallowing a grain and a-half of
" castor" in his broth and breakfast for two successive
days ; and every sixth and seventh day he drank an infu-
sion of rhubarb in white wine and beer immediately before
his dinner. He made it a point to take air in some high
and open place every morning, the third hour after sun-
rise ; and, if possible, he selected a spot where he could
enjoy the perfume of musk, roses, and sweet violets.
Besides thus breathing the pure air of nature, he was
fumigated with the smoke of lign-aloes, with dried bays
and rosemary, adding once a week a little tobacco. On
leaving his bed, he was anointed all over with oil of
almonds, mingled with salt and saffoon, and this was fol-
lowed by gentle friction. He was rather a hearty feeder,
and, when young, preferred game and poultry ; but,
in after life, gave the choice to butchers' meat which
had been well beaten before being roasted. At every
meal his table was strewed with flowers and sweet
herbs. Half an hour before supper he took a cup of
wine or ale hot or spiced, and once during supper wine
in which gold had been quenched. The first draught
which he drank at dinner and supper always hot, and
on retiring to bed he ate a piece of bread steeped in a mix-
ture of wine, syrup of roses, and amber, and washed it
down with a cup of ale to compose his spirits and send him
to sleep. In the spring he was fond of a glass of spiced
pomenranate wine early in the morning, and greatly enjoyed
water cresses. These little points may be unimportant in
themselves, but they assist us in drawing a mental portrait
of the math—Bentley's Miscellany.

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LONDON MONEY MARKET.—YnsTisnnAY.

The. English funds have undergone a decline this morning,
which is attributed to the disquieting nature of the intelligence
received from Constantinople. Consols opened per cent lower
than the closing prices of Saturday, namely 921 to for money,
and 22i to 1 for acc,unt ; they have since partly recovered, be-
ing quoted at present 921 to 1 for money, and 921 to I for time.
Exchequer bills maintain the rates of Saturday, being marked
38s. and 41s. premium.