The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-26 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

THE WrcirxD WON'T PROSPER.—SamueI Ross, of Geneva
Wisconsin, " who didn't pay for his paper" when he left the
east, is now in the Kingston Penitentiary.—American paper.
SHERBET.—This beverage, so celebrated in Oriental song,
is a decoction of, or preparation from, barley-meal and
sugar, perfumed with extract of roses, orange flower, violets,
or citron.

CARROT PODDING.—HaIf a pound of flour, half a pound
of suet, chopped very small, half a pound of currants, the
same of raisins, and half a pound of grated carrot. These
ingredients to be well mixed up together, without any liquid
tied up tight in a cloth and boiled five hours. A little grated
lemon peel improves the flavour, and sweet sauce is an agree-
able addition. That the proof of the pudding is in the eating
every one knows, and wherever the carrot pudding has been
tried it has become a favourite, and is generally preferred to
those plum puddings which are made with eggs, milk, and
sugar.—The Magazine of Domestic Economy, for April.

Twit RETURN OF THE LADIES TO CABUL AFTER THE
SLAUGHTER IN THE KYBER PASS.-11th. We marched,
being necessitated to leave all the servants that could not
walk, the Sirdar promising that they should be fed. It would
be impossible for me to describe the feelings with which we
pursued our way through the dreadful scenes that awaited us.
The road covered with awfully mangled bodies, all naked ; 58
Europeans wets counted in the Tunghee and dip of the Nul-
lah ; the natives innumerable. Numbers of camp followers,
still alive, frost-bitten, and starving; some perfectly out of
their senses and idiotic. Major Ewart, 54th, and Major
Scott, 44th, were recognised as we passed them, with some
others. The sight was dreadful; the smell of the blood
sickening : and the corpses lay so thick it was impossible to
look from them, as it required care to guide my horse so as
not to tread upon the bodies; but it is unnecessary to dwell
on such a distressing and revolting subject.—Lady Sale's

THU BATTL2 OF THE BLOCKS.—The subject of greatest
metropolitan interest which has occurred for many years is
the introduction of wood paving. As the main battle has
been fought in London, and nothing but a confused report of
the great object in dispute may have penetrated beyond the
sound of Bow-bells, we think it will not be amiss to put on
record, in the imperishable brass and marble of our pages, an
account of the mighty struggle of the doughty champions
who couched the lance and drew the sword in the opposing
ranks ; and, finally, to what side victory seems to incline on
this beautiful Ist of May, in the year 1843. Come, then, to
our aid, 0 ye heavenly muses 1 who enabled Homer to sing
in such persuasive words the fates of Troy and its wooden
horse ; for surely a subject which is so deeply connected both
with wood and horses is not beneath your notice. * * *
The first pavier, we fear, is unknown, unless we could iden-
tify him with Triptolemus, who was a great improver of
Rhodes. * * A mere smoothing of the inequalities of the
surface over which the oxen had to be driven, that brought
the grain home on the enormous plaustra of the husbandman,
was the first idea of a street, whose very name is derived from
stratum, levelled.—Blackteood'e Magasine for May.
PROPULTIEII OF BUTTERMlLK.—Buttermilk is generally
prepared by churning sour cream ; but is also procured from
milk that has become acid. When procured from the first,
it is more rich, nutritious, and agreeable, than when made
from the second. The acid which it contains is the lactic at
acid of milk. Buttermilk is a very good alimentary liquid
for a healthy person, although not so nutritious as sweetmilk ;
and is much used by the peasantry of Scotland and Ireland.
On account of its acid properties, it is not well adapted for
those who have delicate digestive organs ; as it is liable to
occasion flatulency, acescency, and sometimes diarrhoea. As
a drink or diluent, for which purpose it is very frequently
employed, the most healthy and robust should only use it ;
and even for them, if not previously done by the maker, it
may advantageously be diluted with water. It has been re-
commended in fevers and other febrile diseases, on account
of its cooling properties, but it is not well adapted for their
treatment, as it often deranges, to a greater or less extent,
the functions of the stomach and bowels. It may, however,
be used as a safe and pleasant drink under ordinary circum-
stances, if modified by a mixture with an equal portion of
boiling water. The boiling water coagulates the caseum or
curd, which falls to the bottom, while the diluted whey swims
above and may be decanted. A little oatmeal, beat up with
the milk before the addition of the water, improves the flavour
of this diluent.

WANTED A GOVERNESE.—Perhaps in the annals of ad-

•ertising and governess-wanting, the following from the
Times of last week has never been surpassed :—" Wanted, a
Governess, in the family of a surgeon, in a retired village,
400 miles north-west of London. It is desired that during
her youth and the greater part of her education she associated
with respectable society, and in or near the metropolis; that
she be by experience versed In the books and routine of some
good school; that she possess a good know/edge of the rudi-
ments of French, drawing, dancing, and practically of piano
music and singing; and especially, she must be of active and
strong health, and of cheerful, but patient, studious, and
taciturn disposition. At the commencement of her tuition
she must be intimately acquainted with the prior three and a
half parts of Murray's Abridged Grammar, ready in the first
rules of arithmetic, and have as thorough a knowledge of the
several usually taught sciences as every well-educated intel.,
lectual boy of twelve ought to possess of any one of them.
She must be able to teach writing, and (advertising vaguely)
to communicate the elements of a sound ample English edu-
cation. The pupils are two boys of seven and six, and two
girls of four and three. The education of them is conducted
by their parents, and it is an indispensable condition that
their governess he able, by precept and example, to inculcate
a rigid observance of time and order, and also that she her-
self shall (with assistance, but without deprivation to her
pupils) day by day, and assiduously, endeavour to acquire
and maintain, in any branch of education she is directed to
teach, a proficiency so far forerunning and exceeding that of
her pupils as will enable her to instruct them in it thoroughly.
Address, post-paid, stating parentage, circumstances of edu-
cation, age, abilities, required salary, &c., to P.A.P.A., **."

DESCRIPTION OF A DRAWBRIDGE AT Bowcomuit CREEK
NEAR KINGSBRIDGE,DEVON. By George Clarisse Dobson,
Assoc. Inst. C.E.—Ths drawbridge spans one of five open-
ings in a stone bridge built across a navigable branch of Sal-
combe Harbour, it is in one leaf, fifteen feet nine inches
wide, and thirty-two long, from out to out, supported upon
a cast-iron shaft or axle, placed seven feet six inches from
the end, working in the abutment pier, which is built hollow
to receive it, and thus the part within the axle end acts as a
counter weight. To the centre of the end cross-beam of the
counter part, a chain is attached, and after passing over cast-
iron sheaves in the masonry of the face of the abutment, is
coiled on a drum fixed on a horizontal shaft, carrying on one
end a pinion, worked by a rack attached to the piston of the
hydraulic press : by this means, motion is given to the shaft
and drum, and consequently to the leaf of the bridge. Ba-
lance boxes are hung to the counter-end, by which the shut-
ting is regulated. The struts for supporting the leaf, when
raised, are also thrown in and out of their places by a rack
and pinion. The hydraulic press used for opening and
closing the bridge is simple in its constrution, and the whole
works so easily that a female can open and close the bridge
I n about fifteen minutes without difficulty. The fresh water
used for the pump is contained in a cistern beneath, and
seldom wants replenishing, as it is returned in the reservoir
every time after being used. The bridge was designed and
and erected by Mr. J. M. Rendel, about twelve oears since,
when he was engaged in improving the turnpike road in the
south of Devon. The expense of repairing, oiling, packing,
&c., since its erection, has averaged under £i. per annum,
including a small salary to a neighbouring millwright for oc-
casional inspection. The communication is accompanied by
a drawing showing a plan and sectional elevation of the
bridge and machinery.

PROTECTION' TO AGRICULTURR.—PoIiticians and philoso-
phers may talk coldly of the transfer of old family estates—
of throwing immense tracts of the inferior soil out of cultiva-
tion—of burying for ever the immense capital expended on it
—and of the transfusion of an agricultural into a manufac-
turing population; but let them remember the ties which
must be broken, the villages which must be deserted, the
gardens to be laid desolate, the second nature of habits which
must be altered, the hearts which must sink, and the hands
which may rebel under trials such as these." . . . " But
the ancient landlord's position is still more hopeless; in ad-
dition to the public burdens, he is required to meet, with a
reduced rental, an increased charge; ruin must be his fate;
his tenants and his labourers will sink with him ; the former
from. the weight of their fixed engagements, the latter from
want of employment and a fall of wages greater than the re-
duction of taxation. In such a state of affairs we must come
to a tenantry without capital or leases, and to a population
eking out existence by potatoes." . . . " The clergy and
the landowners, the poor and the proprietors are coparceners
in the soil; they must stand or fall together on their existing
tenure ; they may fall indeed, but religion and mercy, and
justice will fall with them—' and they who are buried in these
ruins are happier than they who survive them ;' " . . .
" Let not the landowners lose this great advantage—let them
rivet the gratitude of the community to their cause ; let them
exert all their power, and insist on the revision of Mr. Peel's
act of 1819, an act no less fatal to the landowner than to the
payer of taxes, an act which from its first introduction goaded
the people to insurrection." . . . " Here the landowners
may with safety make their stand, the position is impregnable ;
the payers of taxes—the productive classes—are ready to de-
fend it : substantial duty is on our side, and who are they
that are against us? The annuitants, the fundholders, and
the economists !—a body which the landowners, if true to
themselves, and in concert with the people, cannot fail to de-
feat." . . . "This is the present fate of the landowners
of this country ; they are oriving in vain against engagements
which they cannot meet. Creditors in general receive an
undue proportion of earning, and a sure but destructive revo-
lution is in progress, by which, if it he not arrested, the an-
cient aristocracy of these realms must ultimately be sacrificed
to creditors and annuitants." . . . "He may sell his
estate, indeed ; this would be considered only as a transfer
of property. But what agony of mind does that word con-
vey? The snapping of a chain, linked, perhaps, by centuries?
the destruction of the dearest local attachments, the dissolu-
tion of the earliest friendships, the violation of the purest
feelings of the heart !" . . . " What, then, is the alter-
native which presents itself? Either he must drag out a de-
graded existence on his paternal estate, exercising no more
the hospitality of his ancestors, but gleaning from his tenantry
their earnings or their savings, himself the bated steward of
the annuitant and the mortgagee, or, unlike the country gee.
tleman of England in a happier day, he must leave his native
home, become a wanderer abroad, or a jobber, a sharedealerf
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