The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

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in nature; but if badly cooked, few substances are mor
apt to disorder the bowels. Two extremes are to h
avoided. Ist. Rice ought not to be eaten at all raw
This state is detected by crushing a few crams betweei

of the grain, it is not sufficiently cooked. But, again,
rice cannot when cooked be too dry or grainy,—by ‘thich
is meant separated ; for if it be eaten in a pasty, starch
like form, the gastric juice cannot penetrate it readily,
and it will occasion dyspepsia. Again, unless the water
absorbed in the boiling process is evaporated, the stomach
would surcharge with fluid.
No RAIN BEFORE THE FLOOD.—Your correspondent
who signs himself " B. B." remarks that it is his opinion
that no rain fell before the flood, and starts it by way of
an original idea! I much fear the ancients have long
since stolen his thoughts ; for he will find the matter
fully contested by Jewish writers, and in later times by
Burnet and Whiston, both of whom held that " no rain

3. B." has mitt&

principal argument generally brought forward in support
of his theory—namely, the concluding portion of Gen.
vii. 11. But I confess it appears to me a thing utterly
immaterial whether rain fell before the flood or no ; for
in either case the objection of the infidel may be satisfac-
torily met. Let it be granted that rain had fallen, and
that the bow had oftentimes been seen in the skies bear-
ing upon its fragile arch the heavy masses of clouds above;
what then ? The words, "I do set (or appoint) my bow
in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant
between me and the earth," would cause it for the future
to be looked upon with the same increased degree of
interest and veneration with which the Christian beholds
the sacramental bread and wine, though familiar with the
common uses of them both : he sees in them the symbol
and the pledge of the benefits he receives from that
Gracious Being who gave them, when thus employed, to
be " effectual signs of grace and God's good will towards
us." So would it be with Noah—so is it with his de-

scendants. However dark the cloud, no sooner is the
rainbow seen in it than the most faithless cannot but
believe that a second deluge is impossible ; and he hails

remaining from the turnip. The result the day atter it Mat, Ut:autGuLaa usx.. -'—
came from the oven was, that it weighed Blbs. The bread • and good will to man. Thus, again, we are told Rev.
thus made is found to be good and economical. iv. 3, " there was a rainbow round about the the,"
A. POWERFUL TRIO. —At the first levee which Mr. evidently to teach us that at that day when, in the second
-ton and Mr. Pitt attended after the resignation of tempest of God's wrath, fire shall do what water once has
liPemier, the King, drawing them into the done, the weakest believer may look up with safety and
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Then turning to Mr. as an emblem of the covenant that God has made with us
sure that, in appointing in Jesus Christ.—Correspondent of the Church and State
what you would yourself Gazette.
. Pitt replied, " Sir, in saying THE BACK STREET.—The back street is remarkable
that, your Majesty has expressed every wish I have in the for the perpetual mutations of its inhabitants. It has one
world."—Miss Addington's Notes of her Father's Con- or two families of four years standing, who look upon
",cations. themselves as quite an aristocracy among the rest, on,
broker, and -

keep together, all will do well.
Pitt, his Majesty said, " I am

Mr. Addington,_ I have dor

The game of chess. being a pawn
esents the natural I big tavern whit

CHESS A REFLECTION OF I
* * * The chequered board reps
vicissitudes of existence. The pieces, the various pov
nncsions. and actions with which humanity has to co

the other t. keeper of a thriv-
-' But the bulk of the

gives no credit

people are of a year's co
F. ea r eel yso much. The f

t is, the back street is only a

...Eames of the pis-aller, a harbour of refuge for persons quite at a loss
It is in -chess as in the where to go to. Men-sertants discharged for marrying,
s depends upon tin skill with go frantically and set up a shop in the back street. Youths
Ire played. Great pieces can only be brought interrupted by poverty in the midst of their studies fox
- These are ever :In the professions, plunge headlong into the back street, in the
or defeat mad hope of living there by keeping a school—forgetting

we see the reprc

minor actions and dutie!
world : much of our suc

which thes

into action on great oceasor
front of hnttle. and U

depends. In the motions of the king and Queen are re- mat wuerever Li.v. ~.- ---
presented the swiftness and security of power, whilst in less inclination for a bad education.
Tradesmeii who
the crooked movements of the knight we recognise the have failed in considerable streets, faintly thinki to get
representative of those unaccountable accidents which along: under a jury-mast in a small shop in the back
step in and disconcert in a moment the wisest and most street. Shops, wake, therefore, into new life every few
deliberately planned schemes. The castle typifies the months, and almost inimedia theirtely.die gain and make no
straightforward thrust of brutal force; whilst the oblique sign, like babes which have
given up breath before
passage of the bishop, expresses the keen cutting edge of they have well drawn it. Presently come the bill-stickers,
mental power. If the imagination thus looks upon these like so many Robin Redbreasts, and cover them all over
bits of ivory as embodiments of the power and passions with leaves. Long does the landlord wait for a new
of humanity, . the chess-board immediately resolves itself tenant ; insanely, but vainly, does lie denounce
his the bits-
,. a_ —.._.,_i A, ' D.- ...W.. Tiviprm n 1 stickers : paste keeps the ascendant maugre all effor.

into an epitome of the worm.' —l-topie N Jouritut.
M. Gutz OT AND Tllll.l RS —M. GU izot has more
method, connexion and vigour in his extemporaneous ad-