The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-23 00:00:00

THE SHETLAND ISLES.

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The following extract from a letter, dated "Manse of Fetlar"
(one of the Shetland Isles,) the 7th of October, 1836, contains a
few concise staieinents regarding a class of His Majesty's 'sub-
jects about whom alinost as little is known as•• concerning our
faithful allies in the island of Tongataboo. From the concluding
sentences, it will be observed that the labohrs•of an Oicadian
minister are more arduous than his brethren of the -south perhaps
wut of :--" Fetlar is only About seven miles long and four broad,
and contains about 800 inhabitants.. it is in- general petty
fertile, though, like ;he rest of 'the Shetland Isles, there is
neither tree nor shrub to be seen, audit intist'to strangers appear
very barren and uncultivated. Every one has a little-farm at-
'tached to the cottage, and consequently they can be but poorly
suppled with meal; but every one reaps the harvestof the de9
during the summer, at-the halve' or lingfishintr, and of late
years the herring fishing has been introduced,..and trery success-
fully cart ied on, through the whole!islands, till last year, 'when
both ling and-herring fishing failed in a great measure, which,
together with bad drops, reduced the most of the poor people to
the greatest want. Last winter was so bad that they had to give
the cattle a great quantity of the coin to keep them alive, and
many lbst all, not'svitlistanding. I-fear much there will be a
general imbibe thiswinter • the weather ii so dreadful'that The
'crops cannot be got in. i'here.vvas a frost stbauta month ago
(September) uhich nipped the oats completely. 'God help
them, for, except he iiitet poses. there is fitilelOne. The land-
lords arein general very humane, but there ate exceptions. I
should suppose the Irish. with a:soil 190 times more fertile, are
in much the same circumstances; but how different is the dis-
position of the people! Here you may leave your door unlocked
in all seasons, except in •LerWick, our metropolis,-where there
are sonte bad characters. Fetlar is about 30 miles from it : it
is sittnited on iher•inainland as it is called. -Yormerly lived
in NOrth Marine, a parish On the mainland, Goias which' he
removed six years ago, thinking his charge Avnuld 'be easier;
but notch th'ure haviug, addition to
this h;1,.11:ltt
e:sioi'ignodt i
to Noi th Yell -every alieinate Sabbath. which is
most absurdly joined to Fetlar by hi- church law,. though nature
has said 3;:ail)st it, having placed a sound six miles broad
with
,
a dangerous- tide Between them. You may think his family
us hear while he is away; be has no fear
lasnfoit,'d of the sea. Flow would yonr dry shoe
and
southern! clergy , to. placeswith,
hhhimaovwee?n: caru,
sadN. ah stocking :anxious hour while he ts away; lii' ha no fear,
however ssiid is fond of the IQW would your dry shoe
and stocking southern! t.ergv ls tq chamie places with
him ? We have all kept our health in spiteof the weather."--;
• Mats.
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ToaAcco.—What can be more deleterious than tobacco'?
'l4l.,iny an honest Deutcher have I seem smoking himself into
the grave!
Ilauch—Ranch—immer Rat.ch!
The count6nance. m pale and haggard; the frame emaciated; the
propensity to smoke irresistible ! •
" A piper a pipe! my .heart's blood for a pipers
Neither is there need of much
'pernicious
acuteness, to ac•
count for tbe bad effects of this pernicious haliit au the health,
Tobacco is a vary powerful narcotic poison. If the saliva,' the
secretion of which it provokes, be impregnated with its essen
tial oil and Co swallowed, the deleterious influence is communi-
eated or if, as more frequently happens,directly to the stomach;
it is ejected, then the blandest fluid of the huthan frame, that
which, as a solvent and diluent, performs an office in digestion
seeoudary only to the gastric -juice itself,is lost. Even snuff,
trirold frnlnd Abernethy used'to say, Riddles the nose; but the
fumes of tobacco all the senses
and all *the ficulties
ito-iess w,p6wer.of stuplfying •
rbvilow:kniveilduriug intozieatitm, in dull
übliviousuess.=-iia;11; r /iridqEstitateficeliem,

LIVERPOOL INFIRMA RY REPORT,
From' Ihe 15th of December, to thc IkeeMber, 1836.

DIACHARGIED.
In-patients cured
Relieved and at own request
Made Out-patients
Irregular
Dead .....

1
3

ADMITrED.

1 In-pati n
eL t ii.
1 Out-patiets , 0
1 Casual during 4 1. I'. ....
Ithe last week 5 0 P.
Remain in the house 206

Consulting Surgeon; Mr. Forshaw.
Tionsi Visitors—Mr. Ripley and Mr. Lawrence. -
Chaplain, the Roe. R. Davies.—House Surgeon, Air. J. •Asheroft.

LOCK HOSPITAL.
,admitted. 9 1 In thd Hospital '4l 1 Discharged.

'1 EI.EGRAI'H OFFICE, DECEMBER 22,1836.
Wind at Holyhead, V.N.W.—Blowing fresh.
Off Holyhead, inward;bound—No. 1663, Victoria, 11 S, fin Quebec,
at 1 p. m.
Off GreatOrnishead; inward-bond—No.l23l, Betsey Hall, B Behnr,
from River Plate. at 12 noon.
Off Puffin Island, outward-bound—No. 342, Oporto, B Schnr, for
Oporto, at 12 'loon.
Sailed from Braumaris, a brig, called the Annie, for Africa, at 1 prn•

LIVERPOOL TIDE "PAI3LE

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