The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

Tim gardener's work will now, in all the departments,
consist principally in keeping up the artificial temperature
in glass structures, and in preparing ornamental and culi-
nary plants .for forcing. Of the former kind, the various
flowering shrubs recommended in our previous instructions,
such as moss-roses, lilacs, Deutzias,Wiegelas, besides which
the beautiful Himlayan primulas, lilies of the valley,
violets, mignonette, &c. ; a good supply of these beautiful
and easily forced plants is indispensable where a large
quantity of cut flowers is in demand, because, if judiciously
used, they will economise the more valuable camellias and
other greenhouse and stove species. In the kitchen garden
the forcing beds must be prepared for rhubarb, sea-kale,
asparagus, Sit-
Mr. W. P. AYRES, the eminent horticulturist, of Black-
heath, who is so well known by his numerous valuable
and practical works on plant culture, has published the
following useful suggestions in the Gardener's Chronicle :
USES OF LEAVES.—In the present state of agricultural
economics, when our leading farmers are debating the
value of long straw or chopped straw, or no straw at
all for bedding their cattle, it is remarkable that leaves
which are everywhere at the present time, and voted a
nuisance, should not be used for littering farming stock.
For some weeks past my cows and horses have been
bedded with leaves, and nothing can answer better, being
cheap and plentiful, and moreover forming an excellent
bed. Of the quality of the manure from such a combi-
nation of nutritious substances, it is scarcely necessary
to speak, but it may not be out of place to remark
that a combination of horse and cow manure, with leaves
properly fermented and reduced, would perhaps for horti-
cultural purposes, especially for pot plants, form one of
the finest manures that could be used. The bailiff of
a gentleman in Sussex, on a heavy land farm, used leaves
for litter some years back, and by using them plenti-
fully in the fold-yard, produced such quantities of
manure as quite to eclipse his neighbours in the quantity
and quality of the corn crops he produced. Here then
is a source of manure which even Mr. Mechi, with his
Prdudices against timber trees, cannot object to; indeed
it is questionable if the leaves of the "brave old Oak "
were they collected and made the absorbent of animal
excrement, would not contribute as much to the land, and
rather more than they had taken away. However, the
experiment is worth trying, and at the present time leaves
in most country places may be collected in abundance. I
would strongly recommend gardeners to try the experi-
ment of manure for potting purposes, prepared as inti-
mated above. For soft-wooded plants I think they will
find it perfection, especially if fermented at a tempera-
ture sufficiently high to destroy all insects and their eggs;
for I find cow-dung, which has been subjected to sufficient
heat to char it, is just as good as when kept until it is
three or four years old. It is an excellent plan to subject
all composts intended for potting plants to a temperature
sufficient to destroy both seeds and insects before using
it, and if it is a little warm at the time of using it, tender
plants will be much benefited thereby, and at this cold
season men will do much more work in a warm shed
with warm soil, than if their hands are in a cold soil from
morning till night. In fact, a heating apparatus, such as
a stove for the purpose, or arrangements for using the
waste heat of a hot-water boiler, is a very necessary and
profitable appendage of an establishment where much
potting is to be done.

NOVEL MODE OF POCKET-PICKING—A lady, returning
from church on Saturday week, was accosted in George-
street by two respectably-dressed females. The tallest of
the two requested assistance in deciphering the address on
a letter, which the lady, in her desire to be of service to
a stranger to the town, readily tried to give. While doing
so, she remembers that the younger of the two pressed
unnecessarily close upon her, but she thought nothing of
that at the time, imagining that she did so from her eager-
ness to ascertain the proper direction. Before the lady
had gone far, she found that she had been relieved of her
purse, which, however, fortunately only cpntained a few
shillings. The elder female was rather fashionably attired,
and appeared to be above we—Edinburgh Advertirere

ECCLESIASTICAL, INTELLIGENCE.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1853.

" You began by observing, that it was truly gratifYing
to you to feel the improved freedom of expressing
opinions ; that three or four years before you could not
have ventured, even before a Bible Society meeting, to
speak so explicitly.
" You then went on to observe, that the enemy of soda
had invented different delusions, atcommodated to different
nations, most readily to beguile them ; that to the su-
religious
perior levity and gaiety of the continental character he
usually addressed temptations to profligate dissipation;
but, regarding the English as too reflective and sober to
be thus caught, his trap for us was to send among us
professed teachers of religion, who perverted us by circa-
lating `the soul-destroying doctrine of repentance. Ei-
a
cuse me for saying that I was horror-struck by such
phrase, which to my ears sounded like a direct contradi?'
tion of the great subject of our Lord's Baptist forerunner s
preaching ; of his own while on earth ; and of that which,
after the consummation of his ministry,
his inspirat
directed his apostle Paul to preach ; and to oppose which
must regard as utterly subversive of the very introdun;
tory stage of the Christian discipline of the soul. Now, A
am well persuaded that such was not your real meaning,
ion
but that you meant only to reject the idea which should
consider our own repentance as the meritorious cause, or'
as the real expiatory act, producing our own forgiveness.
" But I hardly think more than a small minority of
your audience would have been led to this candid ex-
planation, or caught anything but the coarse and abusive
language in which you stigmatized the preaching repent-
ance generally.
"Believe me, while I feel myself called on freelY.
to
express my sentiments on what appear to me ill-advlse
and misleading statements, still (with full conviction the
I myself often run into heavier indiscretions of langung._.,eP'
with general respect for your long course of Christi'
usefulness, " Yours faithfully,
" W. D. CONYBEARE.
"To Rev. Hugh 31`Neile." .

IRELAND.

TIIE MEA.GHER CLUB have agreed to present a oalli
gratulatory address, and a purse, containing a sura...,,C)
money, to John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, on his aril
val in New York.
THE CHOLERA AT Cosar.—No new case of:cholera i'•"
occurred on shore at Queenstown up to Friday afterll°°:i
The poor man who died of this disease at Whitegate - d
al
been engaged carrying the clothes of the parties who bad
been
died of cholera on board the Kossuth, and he had
spent several hours assisting in that ship. p„oaell
REPRESENTATION OF CLONMEL.—Mr. Sohn
is the favourite with the Romish priests of Clonmeya-
the prize to be contended for in that borough. SC 10
Romanist—a man after the heart of In-hie, and, cons&
ll
quently, just the thing for the.reverend returning offieers'
of the borough of Clonmel.
SALE OF THE GLEOGALL ESTATES.—The Encemberet
Estates Court had, on Friday, to deal with one of the me
extensive extensive properties that has as yet come before it for salt"
It was in the matter of Lord Glengall, who appeared to.
owner and petitioner. The object of his lordship. is -
dispose of a portion of the family property, with a view to.
relieve the rest from the encumbrances which had ace„Ae.
mulatad upon it. This object is, we may say, attailw:
for the produce of the sales effected will provide the met'',
required. The principal portions of those lots of the CO
estates sold on Friday were bought by the Earl of Glen-
gall's family trustees.
ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—Thos. Hughes, third mate
of the Eblana, one of the Dubin mail-boats, hetweell
Holyhead and Kingstown, while on board attending tot
duty, at eight, p.m., on Saturday, heard the cry that
woman and child had fallen over the jetty. He intlne;
diately jumped overboard and succeeded in getting hold
the woman and bringing her to the surface. She at the
time had lost the child, which had sunk. He dived down
after it, and held it up by his teeth while he adjustedl
rope round the body of the poor woman, who was hole'
up by the persons on the jetty, and afterwards brought tiP
the child hiMself, • with the assistance of another rope
which was thrown to him.—Dublin Evening Mail. any
IRISH WAY OF GOING TO AMERICA.—OH
night, the captain of the Leibnitz, which is about to sa,,.
for New York, was alarmed by one of his sailors inforinin="
him that there was fire idPie hold. An examination Ira:
made, when it was disco Wed that there were as manysixteen persons concealed in a cargo of old rags, with
view to getting a free passage to America. They were
supplied with oatmeal and water, on which they were tt°
sublist during the voyage, and were with much diffiellih/o
roufed from their hiding-places. It was fortunate ,t,
discovery was so soon made, for as they were provided he
matches and candles it is more than probable, froni t'
dry nature of the rags, a fire would have broken out he;
fore they could have got half way across the Atlantic, an'
which might have ended in the destruction of the vessel
--
Galway Packet. first
DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—The
half-yearly meeting was held on Monday, at the office,
Dublin. The surplus of receipts on the half-year's trade,
after payment of all working charges, repairs of vess„t•
and other disbursements, amounts to £25,266 18s. 4d-, °-
of which the parliamentary investment of one per cent. ell
the capital has been made in government stock. IV.
result would have warranted the directors in recoraroe..o
ing the payment of a dividend of three per cent. for ti. 4
half-year, were it not necessary to provide for the loss
the steamer Queen Victoria. The directors regret to
that they have been obliged to abandon all hopes of to
that vessel, and, therefore, the amount at which she stance7l.
at present in the company's books must be WL'it„„tennlend
The available balance enables the directors to re`W_year-
the payment of a dividend of 2 per cent. for the h was
A CASE ON Wx,rcitenivx.—An extraordrii ry Cor-
tried at the Petty Sessions, on Monday las". -
COlni,anci
coran sem and jun., were charged by Diary
Sally 'Conry with extorting money and value from tool,
under the following circumstances :—Mary ConrY's 111
band had been ailing of some distemper which baffled
she
medical appliances previously employed, upon which cbe r-
applied to Mary Corcoran, who told her that unless
taro herb were administered, and a portion of the
that
band's clothing burned between sunset and sunrise, of
death would impend over the house. As the garrd°ufice
their mystic skill, the brace of sorceresses received the
stones of potatoes, sevenpence in cash, and a portion spells
husband's clothes. But notwithstanding the potent;
employed, no good effects followed, and the poor chirp
becominc, at length sensible of the imposture, summa the
the pseudo-witches before the magistrates, who sent
two Corcorans to the Quarter Sessions for trial, having
refused bail for their appearance.—Galway Trindicalocire
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLE:sfaN--"ea.
deeply regret to announce the death of a fine yentl,,,g gde-
tleman under peculiarly painful circumstances. lue sop.
ceased, Mr. Howard Straton, aged about sixteen, Was of
of the late John Straton, Esq., cousin to the Ear„
Roden, and agent to his Dundalk estate, who died °Me,
couple of months since. The deceased was out on 311;,,
day, in apparently perfect health and vigour, and triabat
acted business through the town, though it is stated the
since his father's death he has not been at all well- It_luea,
course of the night he is supposed either to have fined
while in a state of somnolency, or to have preciPn
himself out of the bed-room window, at the family rios
deuce in Seatown-place, and, on being missed
in
brother, who slept in the same apartment, was foullae he
state of almost insensibility in the yard, from whent
was brought to his room, and although there was ne".„ere
pearance of any of the limbs having been broken, or s_vde,,,
external fractures, he expired at an early hour on severe jo-
his death having probably been occasioned by iro
ternal contusions. The deceased young gentlem:lnde
very much esteemed, and was the pride of every er
which he moved.—Newry Examiner. dsit
MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—The Water ,vca
gives an account of a mysterious affair which has„ 6C's in
rise to numerous but as yet unsatisfactory conieelvard,
that city. As the gravedigger, m St. John's char'hieli a
was, on Thursday week, closing up a grave ised
body had been newly deposited, some children r fa'
cry that they had discovered the body of a fenla'e'rtionr
vestigation not only proved the truth of this asset one
but further showed that the body, which must °tato of
time have been interred, was in such an advanced st have
decomposition as to prove that the individual Inns, held,
been dead Eearly twelve months. An inquest lyeatlle &-
at which Dr. Cavet, having inspected the body
ceased, stated it appeared to be that of a femaleeo!,tage
age. It was very much decayed—in fact, th f_vorteao,
putrefaction was over, and the flesh had been ce;jos ;
into matter resembling soap. There were the r off Ole
the grave-clothes on the body. There was some
_joid
a piece of ribbon about the face, a scapular 4ue
_11!
neck, and a row of ribbon on the right wrist,
which composed the clothes was very much defence ha`j
deponent saw no reason to suppose that anythe accelt,
been used in the present case. He presumed ••terale
died a natural death,
He considered that the death must have nceltfieforegepti;
as she was dressed forted13 at
01011 c
twelve months ago. The jury, after hearing v 0,014 cora°.
evidence, returned the following verdict ou
and the jury are of opinion that the deceits.' OW'
by her death from any foul or unfair mete; a deo., oa
POLICE JUSTICES' JUSTICE.—On MOJT;, Ottr, regal
consisting of Major Boyce, Messrs. 3,farlthe
Bonsall, waited upon the Lord Lieutenant at all w
Lodge, with a memorial, which was adopteo_e of taking7d to
tial meeting held some days ago, for the 1,111,-e purl khan
bring the conduct. of Mr. Police Magla
into consideration the course that
trate, that sing
SW" o'Colltact
before the executive. This personage deideci„, by put
and
distributor had committed a breach of the Pea' oan,
haetraacwtaridnedto
punishment
ihsahnindenotf a person named 013accre ording.tejr
The conduct of Mr. O'Cagallaaingshtatnheiagn gthil°varatteraedlitie:nniaci
the liveliest feelings of contempt, and, we mightlibertY, the
di nation amongst all who regard rationu whilst
are not the slaves of bigotry and intolerance'.to the sa-.' gencyl
Ultramontane party lauded this justice gsce „th
deputation having read the memorial t° tend (cla"it
received the following reply :---" I have u."....eraorial• be-
Lord St. Germans) with much
that
to your 1.4.3 n whose
of
is a matter of deep regret that the meeting the nafito
half you are present should have
charity,language
andwhich
to appears
he
calculated t o ni e inconsistentl es:
to Paluewmenioriali6ts;ei
mind the right of free discussion.
say that he audaciously, daringly, in? ranee of .
the intolerance ,„scribe
bigotedly lent himself to sustain
b' cts daring (1` ea'
panudtettoocarumshagiesetrriatgehtgrs
oofssßirinisticsoihisduu_
subjects
in hisoffiei:oo:e:
the judgment pronounced by.him as being
actuatethpy
consaitvniastduitialittnihhoesnt:Claulshrie:tPb'usg-itgo:libetic:
improper motives. a.
tshtiattutiinonparle,
nteyrianneinnigcalihaant.djuidntght:):lernasttnatht—ede
the case, 1 win
not advert further to the language of u
will proceed at once to remind the memorialists
t
aL""...-tha
the charges which they prefer against Mr. 01)
pray me to institute anH ivnicinugiry into thetta.cstsmoefraiet.rd,hiti
rotection
law,can aaffndordthl
Bench is the proper place in which persons ea-hot alLi
well flie is ounded,
not only whether that judgment was righteous,
munedneadblehitsootffihecealitmthneo CPourtZ, fluucietne.i
ctua
in pronouncing it were impr.oper. That
whether the motives by which the magistratetwasribnanal fa:e
For
correct an error, and can punish an offender. tb°_
reasons I must decline to comply with the pros:ed bee!.
memorial."—Mr. Martin intimated that they 11,,,,•t
advised by competent legal authority that the_t'_',hiet;
Queen's Bench was not the proper tribunal beo
.r
to bring the matter. His Excellency, in relaly.;io
did not think the Executive should be called 1111°it %root
stage of the business to interfere, as by doing so,fmeea
be trespassing upon the prerogative of the Court o
4.-
Bench,—The deputation then withdrew.