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_„,„ Kitchen Garden.—Continu3 to make sowings of beans,
This season of the year arouses all our fondness for peas, and lettuce ; get in potatoes without delay ; dress
flowers ; and wi:Ather in the open air or the conservatory, asparagus beds, taking especial care not to hurt the young
the eye rests with peculiar pleasure upon any blossom, roots, which are now beginning to push forward.
however simple. How is it, then, that so little attention
is paid to the early-flowering greenhouse plants ? And -----
ANSWERS TO CORRESPO NDENTS.
why should they meet with legs care than those which ex- Cottager.—Your auriculas are suffering' froth want of
pand their blossoms at a time when the beauties of the sufficient air. They require a thorough ventilation and a
garden lessen their value, and make us feel that the open moderate supply of water.
air and the gay songs of birds are more attractive than J. N.—You will run a risk of losing your
the close and damp atmosphere of a glass plant-house, you sow now : the latter end of the month is
even with the gaudiest flowers in bloom, Winter and enough.
spring, then, are the seasons when the greenhouse and John Symes.—The principle of demandi•
conservatory ought to contain the greatest attractions, money at exhibitions is quite fair, pre-''
because we have no others of the same kind to fly to, made between subscribers and non-subscribers
and a covered walk is desirable. Gardeners ought, there- of the former.
fore, to exert their skill fully as much upon those plants Amateur.—The following six roses will form
which flower in winter and spring as upon those of variety as it is possible to have with so small a i
summer. Geant de Battailes, Madam Laffay, liazrisor
There is too much reason for supposing that the neglect Hip, Smith's Yellow, and the Luxembourg Yof early flowering plants is one of the evils of summer ex-
hibitions. These plants not being available for that par- "--
pose, they are in many cases begrudged even house-room,
and scarcely ever meet with that attention which is neces-
sary to fit a plant for the exhibition table.
In this respect gardeners are decidedly wrong. The
pleasure and gratification of their employers should be
their first consideration, and ought to be paramount to
the profit and honour of successful competitorship.
There are two distinct classes of plants available for
spring decoration : one, soft, herbaceous plants ; the
other, hard-wooded. The former are all worth care, be-
cause they are extremely easy of culture, and produce a
fine effect when judiciously placed amongst other plants.
The latter are all capable of high cultivation, and there
are but very few amongst them which are not deserving
the greatest amount of attention the cultivator can be-
stow. There are many of the heaths which flower in the
winter and spring: these are all beautiful, but we rarely
see them grown as specimens. The Epacrises come bet-
ter off ; their extreme beauty is so conspicuous that it
cannot fail to be appreciated ; nevertheless, we are very
far from perfectly understanding their culture. The le-
guminous plants of Australia furnish numerous speeies
which flower in the spring, all capable of that artistic
training which is considered the height of horticultural
excellence. The Chorizemas are neat in growth, and
very gay : the light and lively Pultenteas, the Mirbelias
and Kennedyas, several of the Acaceas, and the neat and
elegant Hoveas, are of this class, and all available for
spring use. Besides these, there are the Pimeleas, than
which no plants:are more beautiful or capable of higher
culture. Camellias and Rhododendrons, which are almost
too large for small conservatories; but they are sure to
secure a full amount of attention from the fact that they
are fashionable plants; notwithstanding which, they are
not more worthy than those we have mentioned, and are
rendered much more attractive by being placed in juxta-
position with the gayer flowers of the smaller plants.

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Colonial policy engages
The minds of legislative sages,
But Lord John Russell seems 'to doubt
if they' know what they talk about,
And so, to clear away k:11 mystery,
He gives them a colonial history;
And then, with a true statesman's view,
Says what he would and would not do.
He tells his listeners wondrous tales
Of what he'll cto for New South Wales;
Unless his crime is very grave,
A convict shall not cross the 'e;
And those who live in Goo ope's Cape
Have had a wonderful e pe,
Foi' all the desperate nsport band
Are packed off to V Dieinan's Land,
One thing his Lo ship dwelt upon,—
That all mono.. y was gone,
And favour'. :hould no nation be,
To check c. mercial policy ' •
The trad• :nd produce of each land
Should • • ual with all others stand.
So Hy only seeks to be •
Uni uenced by monopoly :
Gi • him a fair and equal trade,
• d then of naught is he afraid
ink not he tempts with vain device
Because his goods are low in price ;-
Come to his Mart, inspect and see,•
And let yourselves the judges be;
Examine well each coat and vest,
You'll find them of the very best;
His overcoats and trousers, too,
Are choice and of a cut quite new.
You'll say at once they far surpass
All others as to price and class;
Dismiss, then, from your mind all doubt.
And Hyam's worth you'll soon find out ;•
Home trade with him will better be
Than all colonial policy.

HYAM,
NATIONAL CLOTHIER,
LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

PAPERS ON AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY

NO. XXII

The method of using lime, and the instances in which
it can be used with good effect, must now be noticed. In
these respects it e lifers from any other substance used as
manure. It can be used both as a carbonate, in the form
of chalk, and as caustic lime: the latter is in every re-
spect most valuable: As a general rule, it should not be
applied to a chalky soil, or to land which has been heavily
limed. In the latter case deep ploughing should be re-
sorted to, because lime sinks deep in the soil, and may be
brought by that means to the surface, and made availa-
ble; but if, upon examination of such land, it is thought
that the quantity of calcareous matter is insufficient, it
will be well to apply ;t lightly in the caustic form, after a
dressing of farm-yard manure, the effect upon which by
the lime is quite extraordinary; almost every particle of
the dung is speedily rendered available for the purposes of
nutrition.

An extraordinary assortment of BUCKSKIN and DOM
TROUSERS, for Men and Boys, from Bs. 6d. a pair.

Elstritt litlUs.

It is said that the Earl of Carlisle will succeed Lord
Campbell as Chancellor to the Duchy of Lancaster,
Considerably more than £2,000 has been subscribed
for rebuilding All Saints' Church, Manchester.
The Bishop of Manchester will preside at the annual
meeting of the Manchester Lord's Day Stociety to be held
this evening.

On Sunday week, the Rev. R. Wilde, curate of Tad...
ton, preached his farewell sermons. He has been ap-
pointed to the living of Bangor, in Trelard.
At Preston, a man was killed by a dose of cayenne
pepper and herb tea, administered by a quack. To Burn-
ley, Martha Lord, aged 18, was also killed by a quack
who prescribed a decoction of heterogeneous herbs.
Nearly all the depositors in the Rochdale Savings'
Bank have received back their pass-books, and signed an
engagement to release the trustees and managers on pay.
ment of 10s. in the pound.
The petition in favour of the Manchester Rectory Divi-
sion Bill, which was forwarded to London last week for
presentation, was signed by 13,000 persons, including
thirty-one clergymen of the parish.
On Sunday week, at noon, two houses in Oldham-
street, Manchester, at which some alteration was taking
place, fell into the street, fortunately without injuring
any one in the houses, or passing by.
A herbalist, at Oldham, has been committed to Kirk-
dale on a charge of manslaughter, for having caused the
death of an ailing man by ordering him vapour and shower
baths.

As a general indication of the sufficiency of lime in land,
if it produces the common colt's-foot and thistles in abun-
dance, and rich crops of wheat, thickly mingled with the
red corn poppy, then there is no need for any additional
liming. But if the soil is sandy, and produces heath,
rushes, lichens, or buck-wheat, then lime may be applied
with benefit, and, strange to say, will soon destroy the
heath, bent grass, rushes, and other weeds peculiar to
land deficient in lime ; and, fortunately for man, those
plants against which it wages war, are those which are
useless, and upon its application they are speedily
destroyed, and give place to meadow clover, which springs
up spontaneously, accompanied by sweet, nutritious
grasses.

It is on waste heaths and moorlands that the great va-
lue of caustic lime is most powerfully shewn ; for if spread
over the surface, the heath, gorse, bent, and other coarse
grasses give way, and are replaced by a fine herbage,
thereby rendering such places capable, in the first in-
stance, of producing good pasturage. If further improve-
ment is desired, it will be found of much advantage to
pare off and burn the surface, which still retains a portion
of the lime applied ; this, by the process of burning, is
again rendered caustic, and reacts beneficially upon the
soil when the burnt heaps are again spread over the sur-
face. The land thus treated will bear heavy crops of
wheat, of a fine quality. But poor soils, of a healthy cha-
racter, may be materially benefitted by the application of
any soft kind of limestone; thus the fine wheat of Port-
land Island is owing to the debris of the Portland stone
(Oolitic limestone), with which the few acres devoted to
its culture are thickly strewn. The disintegration of the
fragments of stone proceeds slowly, and furnishes the
wheat with just a sufficiency. The grain produced is ra-
ther small, but very plump, thin-skinned, and of superior
quality. Much as it has been used, our knowledge of the
uses and proper application of this valuable manure is far
from perfect, and we believe that much will be gained by
future experience.

LANCASTER ASSIZES.—We understand that there is no
instance on record, previous to this year, of the criminal
business at these assizes having been concluded in one
day. _ _

The overseers of the poor of Manchester have purchased
the Socialist Hall, at Campfield, and intend to appropriate
it as a free lending library and news-room for the work-
ing classes.

Few people attend the meetings called in the different
towns to petition in favour of the Marriage Bill. At
Preston the attendance was so small—though the meeting
was convened by the mayor—that it was obliged to be
postponed.

A boy was accidentally hanged at Breightmet, near
Bolton. He was taking a swing from a tree when, by
some means or other, his neck became entangled in the
rope. He fell, and his neck was disjointed by the
jerk. When discovered he was quite dead.
On Sunday e ening-, as the down train on the Yorkshire
line was leavit g the Upholland station, one of the guards,
named Thomas Taylor, in attempting to get on the train,
missed his grasp and fell, when a portion of the train went
over him. He was so shockingly mutilated that he died
in about an hour.

A respe"table meeting was held in the Town-hall, in
Manchester, on Tuesday last, to open a subscription
towards defraying the expenses of the industrial exhibition
of 1851. The Mayor presided, and the Bishop, with
other gentlemen, supported the project. The sum of
£2,635 was subscribed. Several firms subscribed £2OO
each, others £lOO, and others £5O.

The block of Ravenglass granite, weighing six tons, has
been removed from Stony Knolls to Peel-park, Manchester,
where it may long remain to remind the reflective mind of
those mighty changes which, in the lapse of ages, have
been effected, since the unknown year when this stone
was torn perhaps from the granite rocks in Cumberland,
and deposited in the once clayey sea bed, where stands
Broughton Church.
A deputation from Manchester, consisting of the Rev.
Canon Stowell, Mr. Robert Gardner, Mr. Robert Glad-
stone, accompanied by Mr. Heald, M.P., had an inter-
view on Thursday with the Marquis of Clanricarde upon
the subject of closing the post-office department through-
out the country during the 24 hours of the Lord's-day,
including both the transmission of the mails as well as the
delivery of letters.

LOVE AND DISAPPOINTMENT.—At the Manchester
Borough-court, on Friday, Robert Hodkiason, a shoe-
maker, was summoned by Ann Fryer, servant to Mr..
Alfred Sowcroft, butcher, Church-gate, on a charge of
assault :—" Wo cooartet 'gether," said she, " for abeawt
three months, an' he didn't offer nowt gradely like
weddin', an' so aw ginn him th' bag—an' he will keep
comin' ; an' this time he geet howd o' my hont, an' stuck
to me whether or not." Mr. Walsh " Well, you hear
what she says ; she does not want you—will you go to her
again ?" Defendant (scratching his head) : " Now; awl
ha' no mooar." (Laughter.) The case was then dis-
missed on payment of costs.
NOVEL CASE OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—AIII2.
Eason, of Crewkerne, applied at Chard petty sessions, on
Tuesday, for an order of affiliation against Henry
Stuckey, of Merriott. The justices were satisfied witk
the proof, and were on the point of making an order,
when a suggestion was made by the bench that defendant
should marry the girl, and so compromise the matter.
The man instantly said—" I have no objection to marry
her, and would have done so before, if it had not been for
her mother." The question was then put to the girl if
she agreed to the terms of the compromise, when she,
without any false modesty, very innocently answered
" Yes." The man was then directed to seal his bargain
with a kiss. The girl was very strenuous in insisting that
the marriage should take place as early as possible, and
begged that the case should stand adjourned till the next
justices' meeting, when, if the man had fulfilled his promise,
she would beg that the information might be dismissed.
TILE ST. HELEN'S SAVINGS' BANK.—The total actual
deficiency of money deposited is now ascertained to be
about £lO,OOO, and when interest upon the various ac-
counts tampered with is calculated up to the 20th Janu-
ary, the two brothers are found to be indebted to the
St. Helen's bank about £13,400, as far as is at present
ascertained : but a considerable portion of one of the
ledgers has yet to be examined, and it is feared that what
is there discovered will make the entire sum (with inter-
est) not far short of £14,000. The trustees have taken.
prompt steps to realise the assets placed in their hands by
the deeds executed by the brothers ; and are making ar-
rangements for the payment of a first dividend of 6s. and
Bd. in the pound upon all legal claims out of the money
held by government and that in their hands, and they wilt
make krther divisions as they realise the property. The
time for the trial at Liverpool now fast approaches, as the
commission for that division of the county opens on
Thursday the 21st of March. We hear that Mr. Sergeant
Wilkins has been retained to conduct the prosecution,
and will be assisted by Mr. Hall, recorder of Doncaster,
and Mr. Aspinall, who appeared before the magistrates.
Mr. Pollock has been appointed for the defence of Mr.
John Johnson ; who will appear for his brother. has not
yet transpired. The indictments will be voluminous do-
cuments, and not fewer than thirty witnesses will be re•
quired to support the allegations made in them.

MODERN FIGIITING.—The hurried, hasty, indiscrimio
nate, reckless, abandoned manner in which both sailors
and soldiers now-a-days fight is really painful to any
serious-minded, methodical old gentleman, especially if
he chance to have systematized his mind as an accountant.
There is little or no skill and bravery about it. Two par-
ties. armed with lead and old iron, envelop themselves in
a cloud of smoke, and pitch their lead and old iron about
in all directions. If you happen to be in the way, you
are hit; possibly killed; if not, you escape. In sea actions.
if by good or bad luck, as the case may be, a round shot
fired at random through the smoke happens to send over-
board your foremast, another to unship your rudder, there
you lie crippled, pretty much at the mercy of your foe;
who, accordingly pronounces himself victor, though that
honour properly belongs to the law of gravitation opera-
ting on the enemy's balls in the smoke. Instead of
tossing this old lead and iron into the air, therefore, it
would be much better amicably to toss up a copper and
let heads witi.—White Jacket; or, the World in a Man.
of