The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

LAWYMIS IN CHINA.—NO attornies are authorised ./,'Y
lavr in China; those self constituted are thus defined grid
described by a Chinese classic writer :—Villainous arid
perverse vagabonds, who are fond of making a stir, and
who, either by fraudulent and crafty schemes, excite dis-
cord ; or by disorderly and illegal proceedings, intimidate
and impose upon people l"—Chinese Olio.
THE DOG'S-EARED BOOK.—We respect a stained, dog-
eared book. It is a veteran who has seen service—not a
mere gilt ornament to an unread library. It has fulfilled
its mission among books. The marks it bears are the
scars of honourable service. It has been read, and re-
read ; pored over pensively or joyously. It has excited
high aspirations; rendered forth golden stores of wisdom ;
it has delighted, or instructed—or both. It has charmed
away idle hours, or soothed sad ones; and many, per-
chance, have risen from its pages better and wiser men.
We would not give your old, thumbed, half-worn-out
tome, for the dandy, gilt and purpled volume, virgin in its
unread purity. The dog's-ears show that the midnight
oil has not been wasted. The more worn we find a hook
in the cottage window, or on the humble reading-table,
the greater is sure to be its author.—llluminated Mag.

ADVICE TO AUSTRALIAN SETTLERS.—There are two
descriptions of persons who are likely to do well. in this
country—men with considerable funds, and those with just
enough to support them until they can procure a desira-
ble situation as overseer of some absentee's concerns. I
do not speak of labourers, mechanics, or such as Lauch-
lan Mackay : they will do any where in Australia; but I
allude to young men in the higher grades of life. Those
who arrive here with £5OO to £lOOO ought never to buy
sheep : their capital is swallowed up at once by the ex-
penses of a new station, and they never recover the out-
lay. The following table, which I shall proce ed to give,
will show how short a way such a sum would go in pro-
curing even mere necessaries, and how inadequate it is to
meet the extra expenses to which a beginner is liable on
his first introduction to the bush. It is not the first out-
lay only of an establishment that is to be considered, but
the expenses of the following year. Wages—which, by
the way, have not fallen as they ought to have done in
these times—and casualties are annual; •and the wool will
not pay these and other demands the first or even the se-
cond year ; and the luckless settler who has laid out all
his capital at first, finds himself, before he is fairly started,
involved in debt, and generally irretrievably so. I only
know one case more hopeless ; and that is, where the
newly-arrived settler, wishing to become at once a large
holder of stock, borrows beyond his capital, to accomplish
this, at ten per cent. interest. This is ruin and misery on
a greater scale, but not more certain. The following table
has been prepared, after very careful inquiry :
.1,000 sheep may at present be got at as. each, ewes..
1 shepherd's wages
1 hutkeeper's wages

bullock-driver's wages

.€250

Rations (provisions) fOr four persons, at £2O so
A dray and team of bullocks 9O

Two huts, and hurdles for sheep

Plough, seeds, tools, mill, tarpauling, &c

A horse, F, addle and bridle . . ......
Travelling in search of a station, and removing to it
Wear and tear _ _ _ . __

Casualties from death of sheep and loss of bullocks
Stockholder's own extra expenses, beyond rations
License and tax
Washing. shearing, and delivering wool first year, where