The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

FINE ARTS

MR. ALEXANDER HILL, of Edinburgh, Publisher to
the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture,
and Architecture, begs respectfully to inform the Inhabitants
of Liverpool and i:-s vicinity, that he will have the honour to
EXHIBIT for PRIVATE VIEW, on MONDAY next, the
9th instant, and for a few days following, in Mr. Lacey's
Exhibition Rooms, 100, Bold-street, Mr. DUNCAN'S cele-
brated Picture of PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD and the
HIGHLANDER entering Edinburgh after the Battle of
Preston.

This exquisite Work of Art, which so beautifully illus-
trates one of the most Romantic and Picturesque Events of
Scottish History, has just returned from the Exhibition
of the Royal Academy of London, where it formed, perhaps
without any exception, the chief attraction. It is to be en-
graved on the most important scale, and in the very highest
style of Line En zraving, by FREDERICK BACON, Esq., of
London, whose high talents have been secured, to produce a
Plate worthy of the advancing epirit of British Art, at an ex-
pense which has probably never before been incurred in the
production of a Line Engraving.
Tickets of Admission to he had of Mr. LACEY. Hours of
Attendance from Ten A.M. till Four P.M., and from Six till
Eight in the Evening.
Liverpool, Nor. 5, 1840.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
NOTICE.
PT HE Public are informed that, after SATURDAY, the 14th
I instant, and until further Notice, the 12 15 P.M. TRAIN
from LIVERPOOL and MANCHESTER, and the 2 15
P.m. TRAIN from BIRMINGHAM, will be Discontinued.
BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORS.
Liveipool, 4th November, 1840.

TO THE FARMERS OF LANCASHIRE AND
CHESHIRE.

BROTHER FARMERS,--4 have for a long time considered
the system of laying down land with ryegrass and clover to
be bad. In Cheshire, upon Sir Thomas Stanley's estate, as
well as upon others, they let the land remain four years, to
rest ; but I differ with all who tell me that when land is sown
with ryegrass, it can be at rest : it is a pernicious cloak for
twitch, the enemy of a wheat crop. I have been told that
wheat will not grow as productively in Cheshire as in the
south. By this plan wheat would be sown only once in
seven years. This plan must for ever keep the land poor,
the farmer poor, the labourer idle and in starvation, and it
is ruinous to trade. After a severe frost the crop would
fail ; or, if it did not, it would be a poor one. The farmer
gets about 10 acres of wheat. When he has taken his seed
out, and supplied his family, the little he has to sell is but
trifling. This is ruinous farming.
As I have taken some pains to improve this part of the
country (Cambridgeshire), I first recommend that no rye-
grass should be sown. The next thing, and which is of the
greatest. importance, is to sow south country wheat, the
golden double-podded beans, and German marrow-fat tares.
I am prepared to show that the grower will raise more with-
out manure than with, by following this plan. I have now
given directions to one of my friends, who has experienced
what the south country wheat will produce, to try this plan,
and he has proml.aed to sow no rye-grass, and also to sow
all his land ones in two years with wheat. My plan for the
variation of enops is as follows :-
10 acres wheat.... 10 acres beans.
10 do. do. .... 10 do. clover.
10 do. do. .... 10 do. peas.
10 do. do. .... 10 do. potatoes.
10 do. do. .... 10 do. beans.
10 do. do. .... 10 do. German marrow-fat tares.
10 do. do. ....10 do. turnips.
A small farmer will by this means be highly benefited : it
will afford him an opportunity of improving his land. To
back my opinion, I have challenged all England, for £l,OOO,
to produce a field of wheat more in quantity and finer in
quality than I can.
I am, brother farmers, yours respectfully,
THOS. FULLARD.
Thorney, near Peterbro', Cambridgeshire.

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The following anedote is related of a battalion of young
soldiers at Waterloo " When first they went into action their
colonel watched his young soldiers with an anxious eye, but
was soon relieved from all apprehensions. There was a re-
port that some hussar regiment was driven back. ' They
have driven back the - hussars,' said one young soldier
to another. ' What of that ?' replied his comrade: 'they
must blow off the froth before they come to the porter.'
CURE OF SQUINTING.-Our readers have no doubt seen
accounts or the surgical operation for curing ,quinting having
been performed in different parts of the kingdom and we
have now to inform them that the same has been successfully
performed in Preston during the week on several patients, by
our townsmen, Mr. Brown and Mr. Howitt, surgeons; Mr.
Barris also ha, been equally successful. His patient was
the daughter or Mr. James Hunt, wine merchant, and the
operation took place on Tuesday morning, and was performed
on the left eye, which was turned inwards, the pupil being
directed towards the opposite eye. The eye, on the division
of the inner straight muscle, was instantaneously drawn out-
wards. The operation we are told only occupied about a
minute, and the patient spoke of the pain she had experienced
as but very trifling, and not at all equalling the apprehensions
she. had..entertained. Up to Thursday evening no redness
or other sign of inflammation appeared to have arisen,, and
she has expressed herself as being quite free from pain and
other annoyance since the performance of the operation. We
have now only further to say, that the eye continues straight,
and that there is every reason to believe that the cure will be
foupd a perfect one. Persons, therefore, who labour under
the defect of squinting may thus be satisfied that the surgeons
in Preston are quite prepared to afford the remedy they re-
quire.--Presion PO.