The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

.astrian, Mr. Skirvi

of Liverpool, and distributed gratuitously arnmi,
of the tenantry as had prepared their laud for ita rccep-
tion. The weight of the crop is the best proof of the
excellent quality of the seed and the care that has been
taken of the land and looking after the crop until it
arrived at maturity. The issue refl-cts much credit upon
all parties, and has been productive of nrrietir.l

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the tenant and prospective good to the landlord
of premiims was prepared, to excite emulation amongst
the Shirley tenantry. Two gentlemen, Mr. Lane and
Mr. Shiel, were appointed to examine the crops and
award the premiums. In three days they traversed a
property of nearly 70 square miles in area.
The judges, and others connected with the management
of the estate, were entertained, on the 16th ultimo, at a
dinner at the Shirley Arms. Amongst the toasts were—
J. Shirley, Esq., M.P. ;" "E. P. Shirley, Esq.,

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M.P., and the other mernbers of the Shirley family ;"
" George Morant, Esq.," &c. The judges start(' that
they had viewed 100 acres of turnips ; that the minimum
quantity per acre was 30 tons, which, at the present
market price of £l, would realise £3OOO. The premiums
were 10s. and 405., and were awarded to 16 competitors.
The gratifying result is due to the praiseworthy exertions
of Mr. Shirley and his relative and agent, Mr. Morant.
The writer of the communication concludes by stating
that the interchange of good feeling between landlord and
tenant here evinced, must he attended with the happiest
results, and trusts that it will be as lasting as it has proved
beneficial.

A " CATHOLIC" DISPENSATION.
"Young M., who fears to shock his mother,
May look our way and row the other,
Provided, when his sire comes hack,
He shifts his sails for a Romeward tack."
Northampton, St. Janus' Day, 1846.

But if, meanwhi'e, " young M." should die,
Which church would save him from the lie?
Between two stools, St. Guido Fawkes' Day, 1816,

SELECTIONS

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PROPOSAL OF THE REPEAL OF
THE UNION.—" I can have no hesitation, to whatever
amount of obloquy, or of forfeited friendship, the avowal
may expose me, in stating the conclusion, which anxious
and repeated consideration of the state of Ireland has at
length forced upon me, (Cheers.) It is, that the time has
arrived for re-considering the state of our relations with
Ireland, with a view to a repeal of the Legislative Union
between the two countries. (Hear, hear.) I see no other
adequate remedy for the ills which desolate that unhappy
country. and think that such a step would also happily free
England from a burden long felt to be intolerable. (Hear.)
I am fortified in arriving at this result, by a review of the
favourable effects produced on Ireland by the measures
which, during the last few years, I have had the honour
to bring forward in this house, and see carried into effect
by the legislature, (Cheers.) I am aware that this avowal
may startle some of the more timid (hear, hear) of those
gentlemen who have usually done me the honour to act
with me; but an imperious sense of duty compels me to
be prompt and explicit upon this vital question, which I
am fixedly resolved to settle in the way I propose; and
I will, for that purpose, avail myself of every means which
the constitution places at the disposal of her Majesty's
responsible advisers, (Cheers.) *
I claim no credit for proposing this great measure of
justice and mercy, nor wish to detract from the merit due
to those whose minds the light of truth and reason reached
earlier than mine. Whatever credit is due. I have no
hesitation in ascribing to—Daniel O'Connell," (Cheers.)
Is there a man in the empire who would be seriously sur-
priseds t a
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session after, might we expect a similar announcement
with reference to the Protestant succession to the throne;
and then—but by no means to stop even there—the con-
version of our form of government from a limited mon-
archy to a republic. Yi bat, in short, may not be pre-
dicted of such a statesman as Sir R. Peel?—Blackwood.
SPEARING FISH IN AUSTRALIA.—Some of the canoes
made by these people, from the bark of several species of
Eucalyptus, are capable of carrying from six to ten per-
sons ; as they subsist chiefly on fish, the traveller may
often notice them engaged in the peaceful occupation of
catching the several species found in these waters. The
night is the favourite season, when their fragile canoes,
having a fire in them, °laced on mud or stones, may be
observed creeping along the shores in great numbers.
Torches are lit and held high above the head of the fisher-
man. who waits patiently, scarcely moving except to wave
his light, and so throw out a stronger glare upon the
waters. Presently a fish is discovered at a great depth,
perhaps ten or twelve feet, about the length of the spear
used. The native, now intent upon his much-coveted
prey, balances his spear in expectation that the fish may
rise to the surface; but no—it remains almost stationary;
the temptation is too great for the poor darky, and, taking
a steady aim, taught by nature to make an allowance for
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capsize his canoe, and oblige him and his wife to swim on
shore ' • as for drowning, that is out of the question. At
length, after playing his fish for some time, and still
keeping hold of the spear, he proceeds to draw It in gently
towards the bow of the canoe, where he is stationed with
a tomahawk, with which instrument, when near enough,
he inflicts a heavy blow on the fish's bead, and so makes
it an easy prey. Where the water continues deep close
in-shore, great numbers of fish are speared from the land.
In the day the mode of fishing is generally with hooks
made of bone.—Haydon's Five Years' Experience in
Australia Felix.

PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF MR. ROEBUCK.—Mr.
Roebuck is small, even diminutive, in stature, and he
has not those symmetrical proportions which, in some
little men, supply the want of height. Continual ill-
health adds to an appearance of feebleness which not even
his mental energy and activity are sufficient to neutra-
lise. His voice is also feeble. It has a harsh, sharp
sound, like that you will often hear from persons of a
confirmed ill temper. His face bears a soured expres-
sion, and if ever a smile finds its way to the mouth, it is
the smile, not of good-humour, but of irony oc sarcasm.
A livid paleness of complexion may be the result of ill-
health, but it is more likely to be the consequence of
habitually indulging a splenetic disposition. His exhi-
bitions in Parliament, even his most successful ones of
late years, present a melancholy spectacle of diseased
vanity and overrated powers. Conceive that sort of
person we have described, always ill-attired, sometimes
culpably slovenly, sometimes extravagantly ove r-dressed,
taking up a prominent place in the House, from which
he continually lays down the law to his Radical associates
around him, who usually repay his arrogant interference
with contemptuous smiles; conceive him keeping up a
running commentary of ironical cheers, supercilious
smiles, and theatrical gestures, on what is going forward

in the House, and attracting attention, which does not
always take the shape of rity, towards the absurd atti-
tudes and contortions into which be puts his diminutive
person; conceive biro, after having thus, by involuntary
pantomime, let out the conceit and self-sufficiency of
his disposition, rising to address the House, with a full
conviction stamped on his countenance that he alone, of
all men there, can grapple with the subject before them
—that he alone can extract truth and wisdom from it.
Remembering all that we have said about his arrogance,
his petulance, his needless repetitions, and his outbreaks
of passionate violence, imagine him confronting the
House, his head, while be is standing, scarcly reaching
above the level of those of others who are sitting around
him, his arms swinging about with convulsive energy,
now raised aloft in the air, now stretched downward to-
wards the floor, and now pointing horizontally across
the House, his voice elevated to the highest pitch of its
little capacity, and now lowered to so feeble and inarti-
culate a whisper as to be scarcely audible even to his
next neighbour ; imagine, too, the conceited air of invin-
cibility, the impotent attempts to express scorn, while
rage alone is uppermost in the mind, the sarcasm enfee-
bled by spite, the irony arrested by chuckling self-ap-
proval, the mysterious threatenings, the awful enuncia-
tions of nothing, and puerile denunciations of every one,
the waspish, snarlish recognitions of the slightest inter-
ruptions, even though of the most friendly character;—you hate some idea of the aptness and truth of the epi-
thets so aptly applied to his oratory by Mr. D.lsraeli,
when he twitted him with his "Sadler's Wells sarcasms"
and " melodramatic malignity." The longer Mr. Roe-
buck continues in Parliament, the worse he seems to
grow. Once, these exhibitions were rare exceptions, oc-
casioned, and even justified, by provocation, and the
main body of his speeches was such as to repay his
hearers for the trouble of listening, whilst they reflected
credit on himself. But now, all his errors are multi-
plied, while the qualities which once redeemed them are
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to the last session of Parliament, we shall find his faults
of such a steady and progressive decline, there dot
future.—Fraser's Contemporary Orators

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TILE GREATEST LADY OF TII li LAN I).—There is now
exhibiting in Bold.street. the celebrated Mrs. Armitage,
dimen-
sions must therefore be stupendous. She is exceedingly
sprightly, and her conversation is lively and entertaining.
wlnhowsaelkwi
nary mahogany has a fear of its coming, to the ground.
Indeed in our presence the chair was creaking beneath her,
:cogs eo
on o: di -
and the castor was carried off the sofa by her seating her-
self upon it. Her countenance is intelligent and expres-
sive ; her hands and wrists are comparatively small, while
the feet are even smaller in proportion. One of our con-
temporaries says she forms in herself an 4. e.vegiive
acquaintance," and those who visit herwilt believe WV
fact when they see the circle she ocelot, . . . 0
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