The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

CONSECRATION OF NEW CHURCHES,

Our beloved and persevering diocesan has this week been
busily occupied in the performance of incessant but very
gratifying duties in this town. We have elsewhere noticed
his administration of the rite of confirmation, and now we
have the pleasure to record his consecration of no less than
three new churches in our own immediate locality.
The first consecration was that of the church dedicated to
St. Clement, recently erected at Windsor, and of which the
Rev. Frederick Parry, late of Chester, has been appointed
the officiating minister. The service was well attended by
the surrounding population: among whom the zeal and piety
of the respected minister will doubtless effect much good.
Yesterday the Bishop consecrated the new church erected
on a plot of land between Greenland-street and Parliament-
street, at the expense of the Liverpool Church Building So-
ciety. It is dedicated to St. Barriabas. A tolerably full
congregation attended on the occasion, amongst whom was a
large body of clergy. Prayers were read by the Rev. James
Nolan, after which the Bishop preached an excellent and im-
proving sermon adapted to the occasion. Mr. Nolan, as we
stated some time ago, has been appointed to the incumbency
of this church. The rev. gentleman is a staunch advocate of
Protestantism., Previous
to his arrival among us he was
curate of St. Peter's Church, in Stockport : and to shew the
estimation he was held in there, we quote the following para-
graph from the Stockport Advertiser:—
" Since Mr. Nolan nnounced his intention of resigning
the curacy of St. Peter's, a most strenuous effort has been
made by his congregation to retain him as their pastor. A
memorial has been presented to him, signed by almost every
pewholder in his church, and by a very large proportion of
the congregation, generallly expressing their entire satisfac-
tion with him as their minister, and praying him to remain
amongst them. \V hile this document was in course of sig-
nature, several very pleasing incidents came to light, of the
estimation in which Mr. Nolan is held by the humbler mem-
bers of his congregation. We believe Mr. Nolan would have
gladly complied with the flattering request made to him, but
the delichte health of Mrs. Nolan, to the complete restora-
tion of which sea air seems indispensable, finally determined
him to accept the situation, painful as it might be for him to
leave a town where he has experienced so many acts of per-
sonal kindness, and where his ministerial labours were so
useful and so generally appreciated. We again congratulate
the congregation of St. Barnabas, Liverpool, on the choice
which has been made for them of a pastor ; and we devoutly
pray that ' the 'Lord of the Harvest may send many more
such. labourers into his vineyard.' Beset as the church at
this moment is, by traitors from within, and fierce foes
without, there never was a period in her history when her
usefulness, and even her very existence, depended more on
the character and conduct of her ministers."
This morning (Friday) the Bishop will proceed to Waterloo,
to consecrate Christ Church, when the Rev. Mr. Bates, late
curate at St. Bride's, officiates with zeal and success.
We are glad to say, that in a very short time one or more
additional churches in the neighbourhood will be ready for
consecration. Our venerable diocesan cannot be too fre-
quently occupied with discharging this portion of his episco-
pal duties; and we are satisfied that there is none in which he
takes greater delight.

PIITHISIS, OR CONSUMPTION.—This dreadfuldisease has,
with much truth, been called the scourge of Great Britain ;
nor can this be wondered at when it is recollected its victims
are generally the young and beautiful, and those whose every
feeling endear them to their home and friends. We perceive
that Mr. Cronin has taken a view of this affection different
from the generality of medical practitioners : deeming it to
arise from diseased heart, he treats the primary state as dis-
ease of this important organ, which, in almost every instance,
will be found seriously affected, and to cause that languor
and lassitude that invariably precedes confirmed plithisis.—
See Cronin on Diseases of the Nervous System.
MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-PROOF BOXES.—We have be-
fore us a curious old document, drawn in the reign of Henry
VIII., and ratified by five individuals. Of course the writing
is on parchment, but there is nothing so curious in the con-
tents of the deed as in the style of its ratification, which is
not a little indicative of the spirit of the age. Clerkly skill
was not then so general as at the present day, and but few
individuals were capable of subscribing their names to a docu-
tnent. Signing, therefore, was less common than sealing,
and many a doughty baron was fain to adopt the latter mode
of attestation. Many of our readers
may
have met with a
copy of an old title deed, whereby William the Conqueror
conveyed certain estates to, we believe, the family of How_
and for the feudal service of
A crossbow and arrow
When he should go and hunt ati lr'k who drew therow.
It will be remembered that the ryhming clerk
deed caused the monarch to say,
And in token that the thing is soo h,
I have bit the white wax with my tooth.
It was very commoe, for even the greatest dignitaries use
the tooth, or the nail', or the impress of the finger even.in lieu
of a seal. The deed before us bears no signatures, but
pended to it are five seals, four of which are impressed
is
the devices of exceedingly rude workmanship. The fifth
merely marked with the finger, and the grain or surface of
the skin of the individual who has been for centuries laid in
the dust, is distinctly visible on the wax. This document
was, with a number of books and papers, ulaced, on Monday
last, in one of Milner's patent fire-proof lioxes, which was in
the presence of the mayor, Sir Thomas Braucher, and several
gentlemen of high respectability, put into the centre of a
large fire, made with a quantity of wood, and about 6 cwt
of coal. The box was kept in the fire for two hours, when
it was taken out, suffered to cool, and then opened. The
whole of the documents were found to be as perfect as when
they were first placed in the box. The deed of which we
have spoken, had been purposely placed near the surface, and
it now lies before us almost as fresh as when it was first en-
grossed. A notification of the ordeal to which it has been
subjected has been written on the back of the document, and
subscribed by the mayor and the other gentlemen present.
Onr readers will find a copy of it in an advertisement in
another part of our paper. The box and its contents, with
She ancient deed, are in the master's room, Exchange.

!JR, GEORGE WILBRANAM AND THE con>:

LAWS

One of the most extraordinary productions we have met
with for some time has just fallen under our notice, we allude
to the address of Mr. George Wilbraham, the present mem-
ber for South Cheshire, to his constituents and other electors
of that division of the county.

When we look back at Mr. George Wilbraham's career as
a legislator, when we examine the cameleon-like changes
which have periodically taken place in his opinions—we can-
not wonder very much at finding that another " variation of
shade" has presented itself to view. Mr. George Wilbraham
has been termed " the farmer's friend" ; now what has Mr.
George 'Wilbraham done for the farmer, we should like to
know ? Can any agriculturist in the county of Chester point
to any one item in connection with a farm or with farming
generally, that Mr. George Wilbraham can be said to have
benefitted by his return to parliament? "The honourable
member" has advocated a total repeal of the corn-laws, then
he became a convert to the extension of opinions in favour of
a moderate fixed duty, next, he spoke in favour of the corn-
laws remaining in their present state. When the last debate
on the corn-laws took place, Mr. Wilbraham said he could
not consent to make this country dependent for its supply of
one of the first necessaries of life upon foreign kingdoms. If
they threw themselves upon foreign countries for a supply,
what guarantee had they that Russia would not close her
ports against them ? The supply from Central Europe
would be precarious, and France, Spain and Portugal were
generally speaking more importing than exporting countries.
It was his firm belief that there was no grain in Europe so
good as that which was grown ir4 England ; and he should
be sorry to see this country obliged to ransack every part of
the globe, and yet reduced to the greatest extremity, as al-
ready had occurred in the year 1729. And now we come to
the document we allude to at the commencement of this ar-
ticle—namely, Mr. George Wilbraham's address to the elec-

ton :

"The corn law is a subject of universal interest throughout
the kingdom."
It needs " no ghost to tell us this."

" The question at present is rather as to the comparative
expediency of a fixed duty, or of the present sliding scale."
What Mr. Wilbraham means by a comparative expediency
is not very clear; nor is the next sentence more lucid:—

" I am ready to support a fixed duty in preference to the
present sliding scale; but I consider a duty of Bs. per quar-
ter inadequate for the protection of the farmer, and I shall
not be satisfied without a higher amount of duty."
Now, what is the amount of duty which will be adequate to
protect the farmer? Why, Mr. George Wilbraham knows
right well that Bs., which he honestly avows he will not vote
for, will not be sufficient; and he knows that neither 12s.
or 155., nor, indeed, anything short of 205., will protect the
farmer; and when we find the honourable member proceeding to

" Consistently with these opinions, I shall vote for the
proposition of the government, which does no more than
affirm the general principle of a fixed duty, but I shall do so
with an express understanding that I do not thereby assent
to the rate of duty proposed by the government, and that I
shall not be satisfied without a full protection to the farmer,"
We consider that this is an avowal tantamount to a positive re-
fusal to support the government in their measure, and a mere
truckling to the opinions of the electors for electioneering
purposes. Mr. George Wilbraham knows that for the
protection of the farmer the ministry care not a but-
ton—they only care for the interests of the dense po-
pulation of the manufacturing towns, where Radi-
calism, Papacy, and Infidelity infest their purlieus. It
is not in the free air of the country, amongst the right-
minded, honest yeomen, uncontaminated by the rubbish
pottered and mumbled at "institutes," that the present
wretched administration look for strength ; no, it is in the
towns that man bath made—not in the country—Gon's
bright creation. Mr. Wilbraham will not deceive the agri-
culturists of Cheshire again. The wealth of the country is
very great, and its interests must not be left in the hands of
an experimentalist as Mr. George Wilbraham assuredly
is—to play with. He has " turned, and turned, and turned
again"—but having taken all the turns on the subject, there
is nothing now left for him to do but return to his first posi-
tion, and advocate a total repeal, which he will do, should
the electors be so foolish as to place confidence in him again.
The registration for South Cheshire we are assured is in
a most prosperous condition. Mr. Tollemache's reception
has been most enthusiastic every where, and when we declare
that he has secured three votes out of every four, we are
within the mark. Mr. Tollemache's persevering and phi-
lanthropic endeavours, in procuring for the poor benighted
Weaver river population and navigation the great benefits
and blessings of religious instruction, will not be forgotten.
The great want of church accomodation throughout the line
of the Weaver is too well known ; and when the Sunday
trading was abolished, the state of the flatmen and hawlers
was worse than ever, for their idleness proved a powerful
incentive to crime and vicious indulgence. Few men have
such facilities for plunder as has this class of people, and
their conduct ought to be morally good in every possible way.
Mr. George Wilbraham opposed this measure, having the
fear of the ratepayers before his eyes rather than the fear of
God, for the question at the time was not well understood
by the generality of the Cheshire inhabitants, some of whom
expected nothing less than that the passing of the act and the
building of the Weaver churches would entail upon them a
heavy country rate.

There is much to be done to secure Mr. Tollemache's
election, but let the farmers of Cheshire mark well Mr.
George Wilbraham's address, let them note its absurdities,
its waverings, and its indecisive tenor, and let them ponder
well before they give him their vote. - The address is a type
of Mr. George Wilbraham's principles, his abilities, and his
consistency. We will now conclude with the close of the
address, which is as soft, and silly, and vague as any other
portion :

" These views do not at all connect with any general ap-
proval of those measures recently proposed by the govern-
ment, which have for their object the advancement of the
commercial and manufacturing interests, the alleviation of
the distresses of the poor, and the general prosperity of the
country."

INQUEST ON THE BODY OF THE STEWARD OF
THE UNITED STATES.-VERDICT OF WILFUL
MURDER AGAINST A PASSENGER.

On Wednesday an inquisition was held at the Sessions-
house, before P. F. Curry, Esq.,Coroner, touching the death
of Eli Robinson, a coloured man, steward of the ship United
States, which arrived from New Orleans on Sunday last.
The prisoner is a stout-built, round-faced, and rather
good-looking young man, with nothing of apparent ferocity
in his countenance. He was dressed. in blue trowsers and a
fustian jacket, and, from his accent, is doubtless a native of
Ireland. His name is Patrick Cahill. Until told that he
might sit down, he stood with his hands locked against his
breast. When asked, after the first witness had been ex-
amined, if he had any questions to put, he said,in a quiet
tone, "No ; I ask no questions—l have done that." The
following evidence was adduced
:
Robert Rolston Deakin examined—l am second mate of
the American ship United States. The deceased, whose
name was Eli Robinson, was steward on board the same
vessel. He was about 55 years old. We left New Orleans
about the middle of April last. The prisoner was a steerage
passenger. We arrived at Liverpool on Sunday night
and on Tuesday morning went alongside the Prince's pier-
head for the purpose of docking. I observed the deceased
and the prisoner together at the fore part of the vessel. The
prisoner was asking him for some tobacco, and the de-
ceased said he had none. The prisoner said " giveit to me,
or I'll kill you." The deceased then run to the starboard
side of the vessel, and the prisoner followed him. I did not
observe that the prisoner had anything in his hand. They
ran round the vessel a second time, and the prisoner caught
the deceased close by the main rigging. He laid hold of the
deceased by his neck, and I saw him strike him on the back
and neck. The deceased turned round and raised both his
hands up. The prisoner then struck him in the abdomen,
and I saw that the prisoner had a knife in his hand. I ran
to his assistance, but before I could get to him the prisoner
struck the deceased again with the knife two or three times
in his breast. I got hold of the prisoner and made him fast
to the main rigging by a rope. The deceased was sitting at
the time on the hatchway. I went to him, took off his
handkerchief, unbuttoned his waistcoat, and found that he
was bleeding freely, but did not observe how many wounds
he had in his breast. I had him carried into the cabin, and
directly after he was taken on shore. The only words I
heard pass between the deceased and the prisoner were those
before stated. The prisoner, during the voyage, had always
conducted himself in a quiet, peaceable manner. The pri-
soner was quite sober. We arrived in the channel on Friday,
and I expected to be in town on Saturday night, and made a
remark that I would never place any dependence on wind or
weather again, and said I did not believe there was anything
certain but death. The prisoner was then standing by. The
following morning, the prisoner came to me and said, "What
was that you were saying about murder last night ?" I told
him I had said nothing on the subject. He appeared to have
something heavy on his mind, and walked the deck all that
night.

-A. number of other witnesses were examined, who proved
the fact of the prisoner having repeatedly stabbed the deceas-
ed. The last witness examined was

Edward Parker, Esq., who deposed as follows :—I am as-
sistant house-surgeon at the Northern Hospital. The de-
ceased was brought there on Tuesday morning, about eight
o'clock. I saw him immediately, and found life quite ex-
tinct. I have since made a post mortem examination of the
body. There was a wound about half an inch long on the
left breast, which had evidently been occasioned by some
sharp instrument. It was situated at the junction of the
fourth rib with the breast bone, and appealed to penetrate
the cavity of the chest. It passed in a direction downward,
between the fourth and fifth ribs, and pierced the purse of
the heart, and wounded the right ventricle of the heart.
There were several ounces of fluid blood in the purse of the
heart, and the cellular tissue in front of the purse was infil-
trated with blood. The wound on the heart was about the
third of an inch in length. The bone of the breast, at its
junction with the fourth rib, was nicked by a sharp instru-
ment. The wound on the heart was the cause of death.
There was a flesh wound on the right breast, two flesh wounds
on the back, and a wound at the back of the head ; and a
small portion of the skull was clipped off.
The prisoner, after being cautioned in the usual way, said
he had nothing to say.

The Coroner briefly addressed the jury. From the evi-
dence of the Surgeon, it clearly appeared that death was
caused by a wound in the heart ; and from that of the other
witnesses, no doubt could be entertained but the prisoner's
was the hand that inflicted it. In order to give a verdict of
murder, it must be shewn that there was malice either pre-
pense or implied. There was in this case evidently an evil
design—the prisoner having said, "If you don't give it me,'
--meaning something--" I'll kill you." The circumstance,
too, of using a deadly instrument such as the knife, implied
malice. He had no doubt of this on his own mind, and if
they held the same opinion, the verdict would be wilful mur-
der against the prisoner.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of " wilful mur-
der" against the prisoner, who was committed, on the coro-
ner's warrant, to take his trial at the assizes. The witnesses
wire bound ever t appear against him, in the DM of £lOO
each.

PALMERSTONIA,NA:
ton THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.)

" I admire the man who acts from principle "!
Lord Palmerston's Speech on the Budget

We always thought, dear Palmerston, that you
Stood pretty high in your own estimation ;
But to another now, it seems, is due
Your lordship's condescending admiration
For PRINCIPLE You now admire, we see—
" The man of principle " ; and who is HE ?
This man, preferring principle to pelf,
'Tis very plain, PAL, cannot be thyself!

PROTE U 9

How the following correspondence fell into our bands,
and by what means we expect to be favoured with the re-
mainder of the series, we " say not." The letter alluded to
in the noble lord's " protocol" we do not publish. It is in
truth too noodle-ish even for the worthy perpetual chairman
of the mobocracy of Liverpool.

INTERCEPTED PROTOCOLS
(NO. 1.)
_ _

MY VERY DEAR KNIGHT,—Her Majesty's Secretary for
Foreign Affairs Plisaw ! I thought I was commencing a
despatch to that booby, Sydenham, about some mighty Ca-
nadian affair, when I'm only writing a confidential letter to
you, Sir Joshua, about my election for the borough of Li-
verpool—my elevation to the seat once occupied by Canning
and H uskisson ! Lord, how George would stare if he could
only dream of his old tape-tying chum as the foreign secre-
tary of a whit-radical government, and the anti-corn-law,
anti-colonial, pro-popery candidate for Liverpool ! But
there 's no end to the marvellous nowadays ; so to business.
You say you are getting on well amongst the electors.
Now don't expect to barn me, Sir Joshua, into such a folly
as leaving my snug quarters at Tiverton upon such a wild-
goose expedition as this would be into which you would
gladly draw me. I repeat, I have not the slightest objection
to your putting me up—even to he knocked down again—if
you can secure a respectable number of votes; but I won't
be committed, mind. If you could screw up your strength
to anything approaching to an equality, we might perhaps,
by such aids as need not be mentioned, turn the scale ; and,
truth to tell, things look so very blue at head-quarters, that
some coup de main of this kind is the only thing that can
keep us all out of perdition, and in place. But I won't,
mind, on such a forlorn hope, "desert the electors of Tiver-
ton" I 'Twould break their hearts—poor, dear innocents !
But you ask to what principles you are to pledge me.
Why, Sir Joshua. 1 didn't think you could have been such
a noodle. Principles ! Just fancy me, Lord Viscount Pal-
merston, enunciating that sublime sentence—" I ADMIRE
PRINCIPLE ; I ADMIRE TEE MAN WHO ACTS FROM PRIN-
CIPLE " ! Lord Johnny declares that Morpeth couldn't
have done it with such sublime effect. But to ask ME what
principles you may pledge me to at an election is—pardon
me, Sir Joshua—a little too ridiculous. Haven't I " boxed
the compass" already from ultra-toryism to ultra-radicalism
—and talk to me about principles? Sir Joshua, I have no
fixed principles; and never had. You may pledge me to.
what you like—anything, everything ; but surely you don't
expect any pledge of the kind to be redeemed. Make me
member for Liverpool, and—a fico for your pledges ! I
wouldn't care a rush for corn-laws or constituents.
" Populus me sibilat ;
At milli plaudo,— simul ac contemplor
Nummos in arca."
But you don't understand Latin, Sir Joshua ; and more 'a
the pity. Why don't you get some of their reverences to
" cram" you with a little for parliamentary purposes? But
they don't understand it either—more's the shame, when
the vagabonds have it under their noses " in swcula sceculo-
rum" —or. in the vernacular, " morning, noon, and night "
—or, better still, " for ever and a day."
With respect to the other matters you talk about in your
prosy epistle, they are really not worth my notice. It is
enough that you can use my name just as you like, and pro-
mise just what you like; and I can afterwards use a similar
license, and perform just what I like. If it 's "no go
after all, why I shall be a peer and you a baronet, for your
" disinterested efforts in the cause of civil and religious li-
berty, free trade," and all that sort of thing—perhaps at
least, for you know I may be out, and then—" c'est autre
chose"; but you don't know French—" worse luck," as
my friend Dan would say. Therefore I remain your knight-
ship's most obedient servant, and would-be-
Downing -street , Ist June, 1841. PAL:

THE KNIGHT IN REPLY
(No. 2.)
. .

MY VERY DEAR VISCOUNT,—I am glad to find that, with
respect to your principles, you give us a fair " margin,' as
we say in our prices current; for, to be plain, my lord, we
have such a motley set to do with, that, in order to bring
them all together, we must not be nice to a shade or two.
I have just hinted to a radical fellow who was very obstinate
about the new poor law# that although as a member of the
cabinet you supported that measure, yet that privately you
were,opposed to it, and that its repeal would immediately
follow the repeal of the iniquitous bread-tax.
There is one subject—a very important one too—which I
omitted to touch upon in my last—the subject of your lord-
ship's religious principles, or rather professions, for you
seem touchy upon that word " principle." It is necessary,
you know, to profess something; and I cannot for the life
of me remember—and the Mercury's " log-book," even,
which contains all the notabilia of the last half century,
affords no clue to the mystery—what is the religion which
your lordship professes. It would be a great acquisition to
our chances of success if I could be allowed to hint that you
are a Socinian, a Socialist, or anything of that description ;
or that, privately even, your opinions leaned towards infi-
delity in any other shape. The hest and surest card, how-
ever, would be Popery. If I might say that you were, even
privately—for all the world knows that you are not so pub-
licly—a member of the Roman creed, we should carry the
day to a certainty—if bludgeons and brickbats could do
anything in Liverpool. You can't think what an effect the
hint that her Majesty herself only waited the overthrow of
the landed aristocracy to declare herself openly for Popery,
has excited amongst the lumpers and hodmeu ; and they are
our only hope in this borough. We can't win in the way
your lordship points out—with treasury gold or with factory
gold. We have tried that before. The " protectors" and
their shillelaghs are our only chance ; and that is but a sorry
one, if it comes to hard blows.

I' receive in good part your lordship's suggestion with
respect to the usefulness of Latin to a senator, and have
already got by heart Lord Morpeth's quotation about the
sliding scale-
" Labitur et labetur, in mime voluminus oevum."

I can't say that I understand very well what it means though,
or that I spell it very correctly ; and the Alercury is not very
clear upon it. Don't you think, by the bye, that, upon
Welsh subjects at least, a Welsh quotation will be very ap-
propriate ? lam getting quite a dab at Welsh.
I have shown your last letter to several of the committee,
who are delighted with the convenience of your lordship's
principles, which slip on and off as the wind changes. What
a luxury it would be this hot weather, if we had our garments
made in this convenient fashion ! Especially to me it would
be a luxury when I have to attend meetings of our constitu-
ents who have a filthy habit of coming without washing
hands or face, or changing their boots, (after having been
working all day, perhaps, in sewers,) and smell, in conse-
quence, of anything but rose water. It is scarcely fair in
you who enjoy all the profit to leave me all the work, which
I assure you is not the pleasantest possible ; but never mind
so long as " victory crowns our efforts"—as my address
says, or will say rather.

Waiting an early reply,
I am, your lordship's obedient servant.
(The signature is unfortunately obliterated, with the excep-
tion of one word which is written very large—" KNIGHT.")

THE DOWNING-STREET SALE OF ANIMALS,

CONTINUED

AUCTIONEER, JOHN BULL

Lot 9.—MINz, a late favourite dog at Brummagem—a
cross between the bull and mastiff. Long ears, short legs,
bushy muzzle ; mumbles, but cannot bite.
Lot 10.—CoRosER, the fire spaniel. This animal has the
very strange propensity of setting fire to its own kennel.
Lot 11.—MORBY, a lady's lapdog; a pretty little animal;
a great pet; will dance, beg, and perform a variety of fa-
vourable little tricks.
Lot 12.—CHANCELLOR, a curly-haired poodle, has some
bad propensities, but is a tolerably good dog.
Lot 13.—A pair of hacks, which have lately run in the
Westminster stage, but are no longer wanted, will positively
be sold.

Lot 14.—This lot consists of a curious animal, species not
known. It has been called a Mounteagle. Is known to be
very fond of Rice. At times becomes inflated, and is then
of an enormous size. _

Lot 15.—Six. GEORGE, a Grey roadster ; a tolerably steady
hack.

Lot 16.—SPEAKER, a ponderous heavy animal ; is com-
monly known as Wigsby ; suitable for a plough or team.
Lot 17.—SIR HEATRCOTE, a favourite donkey, and in
good condition. Would be very useful at Fleetwoood or any
other watering place ; sure footed, but without brains ; ♦ery
long ears. . .

Lot 18.—The Salford parrot repeats most distinctly—
' What's o'clock, Poll ?"7" Past twelve: go home."

Lot 19.—SHRILL, an Irish screech-owl. -
Lot 20.—BuLLwrie, a novel animal ; has no peculiar qua-
lities. _ _ _

Lot 21.— MORGAN, JACK, and MORRICE, whelps of the
Irish blood-hound. _ _

These animals must be cleared off the premises the day of
sale, as there is much small vermin to be destroyed, and it
is fully expected the place abounds with rats.