The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-31 00:00:00

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MAID SERVANTS.—TRE NURSEMAID.—The nurse-
maid next claims our notice. She has a child's-maid un-
der her, or could not have left the nursery even for family
yrayers. She is a smart lassie enough, but not with such
pretty little shynesses as the lady's maid. She has not
been so much closeted from the eyes of men. Her brow
is more bronzed with sun and assurance, for she has been
much in public walks with the children, who have secured
to her many an opportunity of a flirtation with the gen-
tlemen. No harm has yet been done to her, and sorrow
to him who would effect it ! She (God knows) means
harm to no one; but her situation is, perhaps, the one of
all others needing circumspection, and the sooner ehe
meets with a Dick Robins the better. Handsome fellows
stop her to a little innocent play with children ; and
glittering epaulettes, especially, are bright playthings for
great girls as well as little ones. Parades and ramparts
are generally open, airy healthy places, and the music
stimulating ; but we must deny the assertion that, " where
the banners flout the sky, they fan the people cold."
Take care, Jenny—take care. Nurse your innocence as
fondly and faithfully as you are nursing your mistress's
child, and, with that child's growth, shall thrive your soft
heart's happiness.—Fra.ver's Magazine.
AUTUMN MORNING.—The sun's disc peeping above an
eastern hill—the ecstatic voices of a multitudinous throng
of larks, rushing heavenward, and pouring out the while a

flood of tremulous yet triumphant song—the jocund voices
of labourers in the farm-yard, of reapers in the harvest
field, and early gleaners in the bowery lanes—the clinking
of harness, and the creaking of ponderous wains already
astir and tending towards the harvest fields ; what plea-
santer sights and sounds than these to usher in the glo-
rious day ? And as the blue mists roll away—veil after
veil withdrawn, and distant hills shine clearly out, and
winding waters leap and sparkle in the sunshine, and hill-
side cottages send up their slender wreaths of white and
vapoury smoke into the pure, bright, morning air, and
the awakening breeze runs riot amidst the huge gnarled

arms and waving boughs of every tree it meets with in its
course—what seemeth it but a renewal of the primal
beauty of the earth, order and light revolving out of chaos
—life teeming, vigorous, and lusty life, up springing from
the heavy death-like sleep of night? So morning life,
and sunshine dawn unon the world ; morning climbing

the firmanent's blue arch—life in that vocal air, life in the
dancing waters, life in the twinkling grass, life in the so-
lemn, woods, life in the thrilling song of the exalted birds,
life in the red-veined vine-leaves clustering round the
cottage porch, life in the haunts and homes of men, and
sunshine brooding over, embracing and informing all.—
Illuminated Magazine.

Furs, generally speaking, are very little understood in
Eng!and. Our fair country women are really seen to wear
rubbish, which a Russian lady's maid would disdain. And
this is not because, as is commonly imagined, furs are
cheap and abundant in Russia; on the contrary, strange
as it may appear, the great mass of furs used in Russia
comes from London, and every fur is worth fifty or a
hundred per cent. more there than in England. Even the
famous Siberian sable, is not Siberian, it comes from the
Karile Islands in the Pacific, whither the Russian govern-
ment, every other year, despatch a vessel or two, which
completes the circuit of the world, and returns laden with
the productions of this distant possession. In London,
one constantly sees well-dressed wome❑ with imitation
sables, although the real skin does not cost above twelve
shillings, the darkest coloured from twenty to thirty ; but
the sable of the Karile Islands may run as high as six
guineas a single skin, and is seldom under four in price,
whilst in the beauty of its long, thick, light-feeling, and
dusk-coloured hair, there is more difference than in the
price. This is the sable used by the Russian dames; but
in addition to this, two furs are generally worn in Russia,
which are almost unknown in England—the most valuable
of all furs—the sea otter and the black fox. The former
is used for offi:vrs' collars, and this narrow strip cannot
be obtained under ten pounds, in its most inferior quali-
ties. The black fox is used for ladies' cloaks and muffs :
a single collar of it is worth at least sixty guineas.

At:IACTIVE .MAGISTRATE.—DAUNTLESS COURAGE.—
In 1829 strong symptoms of fresh disturbances began to
be manifest among the " Boys of Doneraile," and the
magistrates learned that a conspiracy was on foot to mur-
der several of the gentry of Doneraile, amongst others
Mr. George Bond Low, Admiral Evans, and Mr. Creagh.
Mr. Bond Low was fired at on three different occasions,
and his escapes were really marvellous. He was a very
active and zealous magistrate, and from his extraordinary
determination, nay, his downright heroism, was a most
formidable person to all who meditated deeds of violence.
He was a very large and heavy figure, possessed a cool and
daring spirit, and with the exception of the King of the
French, no man was, perhaps, so often attacked by dis-
tardly assassins ; but all parrallel ceases between Louis
Phillippe and Mr. Low, when the fact is noticed that the
latter. riding amongst his foes without guards, and by
himself alone, more than once captured his assailants, and
brought them to the gallows they deserved. On one oc-
casion, in the noon-day, two strong and active peasants,
. . . .

armed with fire arms, attacked hina-from behind 'a
hedge.
Nothing daunted, although his mare was severely wound-
ed, he jumped off and crossed the fence. The men fled
before him, and he gave chase. but being rath-r unwieldy
he had little chance of catching them. He had pistols
one of which he ineffectually discharged—they bad guns
which they reloaded. He was afraid to fire lest they
shou!d be beyond his reach, and when the men halted to
fire again at him, he calculated that by running in on them
even at the hazard of his life, he would still have a chance
of capturing them. He did so—one of the men fired—
missed—and ran away. On rushed Mr. Low, when the
second assassin had discharged his piece without effect,
though he grazed the shoulder of his dauntless pursuer.
Mr. Low having lessened his distance, fired his remain-
ing pistol, and mortally wounded the peasant. With as-
sistance he caught his other assailant, and brought him
to trial, at which he was capitally convicted and executed.
Such was one of Mr. Low's extraordinary escapes.—
Ireland and its rulers since 1822.
MAID-SERVANTS . THE COOK.—The cook. Ah ! how
shall we adequately apostrophise thee, thou important
ruler of the roast? Thou vestal of that flame, which
gives life and strength to carnivorous man ! Who shall
dare impiously to intrude on thy orgies, armed as thou art
with tongs and ladle? What a touch-me-not is there in
thy chop—chop—chop—chopping-knife! " Hands off !"
thou exclaimest, " or I make mince-meat of your fin-
gers !" Lusty is thine arm, and radiant thy visage ! Portly
thy form, and capacious that heaving, well trussed-up
bosom, as though to prove
‘‘ Who roasts fat mutton should herself be fat," _

Yet, take her from the kitchen, and how she loses all cha-
racteristic dignity ! Look at her away from the burning
glories of her own stove, and the radiant constellation of
her suspendid dish-coves, and she appears like the heaped
embers of a dying bonfire, or the huge machinery of a
melodram by daylight ! Far be it from us to say that it
really is so, but nothing can look more out of place than a
thorough-going, regularly-built cook, at family prayers in
a library. She always seems as if she had left her leg
boiling in the pot, and her heed roasting before the fire.
Every thing about her seems so tiny, and so cool, and so
white, that she sits, as it were, appalled at her own size,
hotter in the sense of her own heat, and redder under the
apprehension of her own redness. She weeps perspira-
tion ; and, pathetically wiping her eyes, she seems to ex-
claim aghast, " What bands are here!" while she vainly
endeavours to hide them under her apron. We say vainly,
for they gleam through its whiteness with a lurid glare
like the blood-red moon through a mist ! But she is a
good soul, and praised be her skill and her endurance.
Well does she merit all the importance and homage which
belong to her station. She is (spite of Mrs. Housekeep-
er's pretensions and governance) the grate women of the
house. With no one does such heavy responsibility rest.
No other has more right to be ill-tempered and well-paid.
Thoroughly well done, as she must needs be, and there-
fore tenderly given, may he who she favours with a sop in
the pan prove worthy of her substantial virtues. The bai-
liff is the man for her. Let her well-warmed heart be
dished up with his broad shoulder, and a central dish of
frizzling young cutlets be supplied between them.—Fra-
ser's Magazine.
THE CHURCH..—" In the case of multitudes," observes
Dr. Vaughan, who is a dissenter, in his work on Congre-
gationalism, " the zeal' now evinced in the cause of the
established church has its origin, no doubt, in much
laudable purpose and feeling, such as the men who think
it mistaken should be prepared to respect. In the view
of no small numbers of her children, the Church of Eng-
land is possessed of such attractions as belong not to any
other institute on earth. Among all the ordinances of
God or man she is esteemed the most lovely, the most
benignant. Her antiquity carries the mind back to the
infancy of our condition as a people. Her visible struc-
tures, in every form and shade of beauty, are the still and
sensible links which connect her history with all the
changes of the past. In every completeness, or as they
take the shade of the ivy-mantled ruin, they serve to call
up the bygone in lengthened succession, until the imagi-
nation rests upon the rudest appearances, amidst the
deepening shadows of the most distant time. Before her
altars all our fathers stood on their bridal day, and to her
sacred inclosures they surrendered their ashes when their
race was run. Her solemn forms of worship became more
or more impressive to the living, as being through so many
ages mementos of the dead. Beneath her roofs—beneath
the humblest in common with the proudest—the men of
all degrees have worshipped for more than a thousand
years. The very paths leading to the spaces on which her
spires and turrets lift themselves towards heaven, have
been in a measure sacred in the usages of our people ;
and the Sabbath-morning groups in our parishes are
among the social pictures we hare always been fond of
cherishing. But the institution thus interwoven with
our homestead remembrances and sympathies has still
higher claims on our veneration. As we look back on the
history of this church, we see monarchs, a line of dynas-
ties, do homage to her sanctity. Queens also, from the
mother of Alfred downwards, bow at her shrine, and give
up their children to her blessing. Her rulers, her scho-
lars, and her devout men, arc often seen as the only august
spirits of their times. Not a few of them appear like per-
sonifications of the repose of another world, coming forth
amidst the darkness and turbulence of the present. Such
men, resting on their own profound thoughts, and strong
in their own strength, are often seen rising high above all
the men of their own age. When the season came, some
of these could take the place of the confessor and the
martyr, giving to the dignity of their episcopate the high
adornment of a spirit ready to be offered as an oblation
an the altar of truth and sanctity. Such were Latimer
and Hooper, and such
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THE FARMERS AND SIR ROBERT PAEL

On Tuesday last at the dinner of the Tamworth Far-
mer's Club, Sir Robert Peel presided and from his
speech on the occasion we take the following extracts ;
—A friend of mine some time ago made a careful and
impartial experiment with respect to the merits of a
manure lately introduced, and of which you all must
have heard--the guano. I desired him to communicate
to me the result, which he did; and you will perhaps
excuse me for stating it to you. He planted potatoes
on a piece of land about two acres ; the ridges were of
the same length, the potatoes of the same quality, and
the manure laid on in perfect fairness, the soil also being
exactly the same. Three different manures were used
—guano, stable manure, and Potter's manure. The
produce of the several ridges was at length taken up,
and the average result was, on equal proportions of land,
nine bushels to the stable manure, eleven to the Potter's,
while the guano produced fifteen bushels. (Cheers.) I
asked for further and more complete details with regard
to this particular experiment, and found that the guano
and Potter's manure had been mixed with wood ashes
and fine mould, in the proportion of one bushel of guano
or Potter's manure to six bushels of ashes and mould ;
a bushel of guano weighs 831b5., and three bushels of
that manure and three of Potter's weigh siolbs. ; three
bushels of the mixture was put on the ridges at two
different times, at the rate of three cwt. per acre, one
half of each being put under the ridges when the pota-
toes were planted, and the other half was applied when
the potatoes Lad appeared about one inch out of the
ground. The potatoes were planted on the 4th of April,
and were taken up in October ; the produce on the two
acres exceeding 600 bushels. The total expense was
£l6 ; and calculating the value of the potatoes at ls.
per bushel, the profit would appear to be £l4. The
rentable value of the land was about £1 per acre. This
was the result of an experiment made in perfect fairness.
At the same time I cannot expect you—when you pro-
bably find that stable manure answers your purpose—to
go to a great expense in the purchase of guano. But I
am prepared to do so, and will willingly devote a por-
tion of my land to make experiments, under the superin-
tendence of a committee of the most intelligent of my
tenants. (Cheers.) And so with respect to other clas-
ses of manures, by applying them on different parts of
the land, and then submitting the results for the benefit
of the tenantry. There is another mode by which the
landlord may render important services while thus
co-operating with his tenantry. On a late occasion, and
in a neighbouring city, I alluded to the subject of leases
and said that if any tenants of mine felt that by an ex-
tension of their leases their confidence would be in-
creased, and if they would apply to me with that view,
I should be disposed to give a favourable ear to such ap-
plication. lam of the same opinion now, and beg dis-
tinctly to repeat it. That is not an empty declaration,
for in the case of the only application yet made to me
I have granted a lease—it was to a new tenant, whose
professed object was the improvement of the soil. He
had a capital sufficient to undertake such improvements
—which I think every landlord ought to require—(hear.)
I granted a 19 years' lease, with the stipulation that
for the first seven years a reduced rent should be paid,
and for the remaining twelve years the same rent as had
hitherto been paid. There is another matter I wish to
advert to, in which the landlord has the opportunily of
effecting much improvement—l mean in the regulation
of game. (Hear.) There are few more eager sports-
men than I ; but seeing the competition to which I am
convinced the farmer is exposed, and must look forward
to, it is certainly the duty of every landlord to make
some sacrifice of personal pleasure for the purpose of
affording a convenience to his tenants. (Cheers.) 1
believe the damage done by an abundance of game is
chiefly by hares and rabbits. The occupier does not
sustain much loss from partridges and pheasants, but by
rabbits and hares. I have no hesitation in saying that
I shall be pleased if not one single rabbit is allowed to
remain on my estate. I do everything for their des-
truction. And with regard to hares, I would willingly
forego the sport ; and if any tenant of mine will inform
me that the hares exist on his farm in such numbers as
to do him serious damage I will immediately give orders
for their destruction.

THE NECESSARY CAPITAL FOR A FARM."" Let no
one venture on a farm," says Mr. Low, " without having
a sufficient capital to work it, which from long experience,
I compute to be about £6 per acre : that is, £9OO money
in hand, if his firm be 150 acres, and £1,500 if the farm
be 250 acres, and £3,000 if it be 500 acres. The follow-
ing five will be the heads of his certain expenditure for
the first year :—I. Implements, £1 per acre ; 2. Live
stock, £3 per acre ; 3. Labour, £1 per acre ; 4. Seeds
and manure which last he must take of the outgoing
tenant,) £1 per acre : total £6."

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—OD Sunday
night, about sis o'clock, Mr. Hastie, a surgeon residing
in Broughton-place, Edinburgh, who had recently re•
turned trom abroad ; since which he has for a short period
been in a state of mental derangement and in confinement,
committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He
was in the house alone with a female servant, and previous
to the attempt, locked the door and hid the keys. He
then entered his bedroom, where he accomplished his
purpose, and immediately came out streaming with blood,
and the razor in his hand, with which he mode an attempt
to cut the throat of his servant also. She, however,
wrested the instrument from him, not, however, before
he was much weakened by the loss of blood, and had her
hand severely cut. The inhabitants of the vicinity were
made aware of the catastrophe by the loud screams of the
female, and her calls of " Help, help, burst open the door
—he is dying—he is dying—he is dead." The servant was
seen at a window, struggling with her master, and partly
outside, upon an iron balcony. Some persons immediately
broke open the panels of the door ; but ny this time the
life of the unfortunate gentleman was at the last ebb from
loss of blood.—Edinburgh Evening Post.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—This institution has
obtained a new charter of incorporation, with increased
powers, under the title of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England. The principal features thereof consist in
the creation of a new class of members, to be called fel-
lows, who, with the exception of those first elected, must
be 25 years of age, pass a special examination, and pay an
admission fee of 30 guineas. To this body is to be in-
trusted the election of the council, which is to consist of
24 members, three of whom (those who have been longest
on the council) are to go out of office annually, but are
eligible for re-election. No general practitioner, even if
he be a fellow, is eligible for the council, nor any pure
surgeon who resides beyond five miles from the General
Post-office. Should any councillor practice pharmacy or
midwifery, he becomes ipso facto liable to removal from
the council. The present members of the council are to '
be life members, and to be at once admitted as fellows,
the specific number of 300 being made up by their selec-
tion from among the members. If any vacancy occur
during the year, a substitute shall be elected to hold office
for the remaining term of duty of the person whose place
he supplies. The election of councillors must be by the
personal voting of the fellows, 15 of whom must be pre-
sent to form a meeting. if any eligible fellow be twice
passed by, or, when hallotted far, not be elected, he will
lose his eligibility of election. A certificate of recommen-
dation, signed by a given number of fellows, stating that
the candidate is a fit and proper person to be a member of
the council, and particularly that he does not now, nor
has within five years, practised pharmacy or midwifery,
and resides within five miles of the General Post-office,
is requisite previous to election. The present court of
examiners to continue for life, their places being filled up,
as vacancies occur, by the council. The privilege of the
sergeant-surgeons, and the surgeon-general of the forces,
to be admitted examiners in preference to others, is abro-
gated by this charter. The president and vice-presidents
are to be elected from the council. Any diploma obtained
by fraud or misrepresentation to be void, on proof thereof.
—Observer.

WITCHCRAFT REVIVED.—CURIOUS TRIAL.—A wo-
man was last month tried at Dingwall, before Sheriff
Jardine and a Jury, on a charge connected with the almost
exploded belief in witchcraft. In 1836, Donald Matheson,
a small farmer residing in Stratbconan, having lost some
of his sheep by death and other causes, applied for ad.
vice to a divining woman or sorceress, named Catherine
Beaton, the itife of a sawyer at Dingwall. He travelled
thirty miles on this important mission, and Mrs. Camp-
bell having duly weighed the circumstance of the case,
told him that there was great trouble coming to his house,
through a woman who lived in his neighbourhood, and who
had consulted Miss Hay of Inverness—a once noted sor-
ceress—for means to carry out her intentions. Fortunately,
however, Mrs. Campbell could avert the machinations of
all wicked women, and the means were very simple.
" Bring me a pound note," she said, " I will tie it up in a
parcel, which you must take home, and your wife must
place it under her pillow while she sleeps. After this re.
turn to me with the pal-at], when you will get the pound
note as good as before. onald immediately borrowed
the money from a meal dealer, and delivering it to the
skilful woman, had it " charmed," and tied up. He trudg.
ed homewards, plumping himself on his sagacity and
foresight, and his wife duly slept on the packet as desired.
In a day or two, however, female curiosity got the better
of her superstitious dread, and she opened the mysterious
packet. The pound note was gone, and in its place were
found some sand, rags, and a piece of paper. Donald
then returned to Dingwall to claim his money, but the
sorceress was inexorable—nothing could be obtained from
he:. The " charm " was unavailing and the money was
gone. Another deception was practised by Mrs. Camp_
bell. A widow in Lochbroom, named Elizabeth Murchi-
son. about ten or eleven weeks ago, lost a sum of two
pounds. She consulted the diviner as to the restoration
of her money, when she was told to provide herself with
other two pounds. This was done—Mrs. Campbell ut-
tered some words over the money—and the widow, at her
request, spat upon the parcel in the name of Providence!
'the widow was charged not to touch the parcel till Mrs.
Campbell would return the following morning; and she
was further informed that, if she did not sleep during the
night she would see a person come and place the two
younds which had bee stolen, in the window. The honest
thief, however, did not appear to replace the money, mi.
ther did the sorceress return, and the parcel being opened
was found to contain merely some crumbs of bread. These
facts being fully established in evidence, Sheriff Jardine
sentenced Mrs. Campbell to three months' imprisonment.
The worthy Sheriff, at the same time, remarked on the
ice that so absurd a superstition
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