The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

VARIETIES

Theodore Hook, meeting a friend just after leaving the
King's Bench prison, who said to him that he was getting
fat, " Yes," replied Hook, " I was enlarged to day."

A contemporary says, that transcendentalism is the
spiritual cognoscence of psychological irrefragability,
connected with concuitant ademption of encolumnient
spirituality and etherialised contention of subsultory con-
cretion.

NICE DISTINCTION.—The editor of the Louisville
Journal, speaking of a brother editor, makes the follow-
ing nice distinction don't mean to call him a liar,
although I must admit that he is a butcher of the truth
and an assassin of facts."

There are in London and its environs 107,962 female
servants, and in Holborn alone 29,000, of whom from
14,000 to 15,000 are constantly out of place. In En-
gland and Wales there are £130,000,000. of property in
household furniture, £16,000,000. in wearing apparel, and
£31,000,000. in plate, jewels, &c. under the care of fe-
male servants.

To INCREASE THE PRODUCE OF LETTUCE.—By cut-
ting off lettuces immediately above the life knot, instead
of pulling them up by the roots, when wanted for the ta-
ble, a single or at most two sowings will suffice for the
year : the root will send out a crop of shoots, which are
just as good as those first taken; but they are required to
be used before they become large, or they are apt to run
up to flower.

CIGARS.—The cigar nuisance has wonderfully abated
within these few years. There is, to all appearance, not a
tenth of the number of smokers there was some time ago ;
and those who continue the practice seem to belong to in-
ferior stations. Imitation has knocked cigar smoking on
the head. Having descended to shop lads, and all sorts
of apers of gentillity, it has been abandoned, as a matter
of course, by those of higher rank.— Chamber' s Edinburgh
Journal.

RAPIDITY OF VEGETATION IN INDIA.—When Lieut.
Eyre, the author of the interesting account of the Cabul
insurrection, left Meerut for Afghanistan, two years ago,
he had commenced Botanical Garden at the Horse Ar-
tillery mess-house, and had planted a number of choice
trees. On his returning lately to his old quarters, he was
astonished to find the trees grown so high that he could
sit under their shade at noonday, many of them being
twenty feet high.

ANCIENT DEED.—The following conveyance of land,
in the year 1189, is in the hands of a gentleman, at
Sowerby-bridge, in as perfect a state as the day on which
it was executed. It is in abbreviated Latin, and is about
5 inches long by 21 broad. The deed may be commended
for its brevity as well as its antiquity. It runs as fol-
lows :—" Know all men present and future, that I, Gilbert
de Aubigne, have given, granted, and by this present
Deed have confirmed. to William de Charnells for his
homage and service, one oxgang of land with its appur-
tenances in the Vill of Corringham, the same oxgang
which Ralph held of —, with all its appurtenances, in
Vill and out of Vill, to be held by him and his heirs of me
and my heirs freely and quietly, wholly and hereditarily,
in woodland and plain, in highways and footways, and in
all places and liberties to the said Oxgang belonging. He
and his heirs paying thereout annually to me and my heirs
one pound of Cinnamon seed, at the feast of St. Michael,
for all service to me and my heirs belonging, except fo-
reign service.—And for this donation and confirmation,
the aforesaid Wm. de Charnells has given to me Twenty
Shillings Sterling. I have thereon taken his homage.
These being Witnesses, Wm. de flulm, Gerard de Can..
vill, Sheriff* of Lincoln, Adam de Parnell, Roger of St.
Martin's, Ralph his Son, Adam de Rokeby, Robert de
Offington, John de Stafford, Ralph the Duke.

" Temp. Richard 1189."

LORD MELBOURNE.—Lord Melbourne spoke in the
House of Lords on Thursday night week for the first time
since his recent indisposition. The Ex-Premier took the
early opportunity to make the following declaration—
which, if it is to be understood in the plain unqualified
sense that the words naturally afford, is much to his
honour:—

" He would take that opportunity of stating, that he
had several petitions against the educational clauses of the
Factory Bill. As her Majesty's government had expressed
a determination not to persevere in those clauses, he hoped
that they who had intrusted him with petitions on the
subject would not think that he was neglecting his duty
and their interest by declining to present them to the
house. As he had stated, government had abandoned
that bill. HE FOR ONE HAD ONLY TO SAY THAT HE RE-
GRETTED THE SUDDEN TERMINATION OF A MEASURE
SO WORTHY IN ITSELF, AND ONE SO MUCH DESIRED BY
A LARGE PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY."
Suffering and seclusion from the business and the plea-
sures of the world—its graver or gayer follies—suffering
and seclusion are the best advisers as to our highest
duties, and they seem to have been regarded as such by
Lord Melbourne.

POPISH AGGRESSION.—In the debate on the Irish
Arms Bill Mr. Wyse expressed himself in the House of
Commons as follows :—" Let no man suppose that Catho-
lic emancipation was a final act : it was the last of a se-
ries, but it was also the beginning of another series.
That was the natural course of things : the history of Ire-
land throughout bore evidence of it; and the right hon.
baronet, who had said the other night that concession had
gone far enongh, could not have read the history of Ire-
land : he must know that one concession naturally pro-
duced another; that the constitution of England, being
an unwritten constitution, admitted of that more than
any other; but he must know, also, that every concession
that was made by England was for the advantage of Eng-
land. Ireland said that whenever concession had been
made to her, it had been accompanied with insult ; that it
was not till England was apprehensive of a French fleet
thundering on her shores that she gave them their com-
mercial rights ; that it was not until she saw 100,000 vo-
lunteers, with their 83 pieces of cannon, that England
spoke of her as a free nation ; that it was not until, as the
Duke of Wellington said in the other house, a ch it war
was inevitable that Catholic emancipation was granted,
not to justice, but to necessity. From 1793 to 1829 con-
cession had followed concession : England had passed
from necessity to necessity. She must go on ; and delay
but a little longer to grant justice, and the whole world
would force her to do it."

THE DISSENTERS OPPOSITION TO THE EDUCATION
BlLL.—Human nature teaches parents to care for theed-
ucation of their children ; therefore the state has no right
to interfere with it! How will this reasoning apply to
the other obligations which human nature imposes upon
parents ? Suppose that parents disregard the precepts of
human nature, and refuse or neglect, as very many do,
to provide for the education of their children, what then ?
The opponents of Sir James Graham's Bill are bound by
their recent objections to say, that, however general may
be the neglect, and however extensive the mischief result-
ing from it to individuals and to the community, the state
has no right to interfere for the purpose of remedying the
evil. But why has the state no right to interfere ? On
this point we want explanation. The writer from whom
we quote places education in the same category with food
and clothing. Will he, thcn, maintain, that, when pa-
rents neglect to teed and clothe their children, then the
state has no right to interfere; that the matters must be
left to " the principles of human nature," and " the pre-
cepts of Christianity" ? We know we would not main-
tain any thing so absurd. He would say at once, that,
when parents neglect their duty, and leave their offspring
destitute of the means of supporting life, the state must
interpose, and the state does interpose, to provide those
supplies of food and raiment which are indispensable to
the existence of the deserted children. Manchester
Guardian—radical paper.
DEATH OF TAM RAEBURN, THE HERMIT OF THE
ARK.—This extraordinary man died on Friday the 23d
ult., in the 74th year of his age. He w;,s a man of robust
and athletic frame, and of very eccentric manners. Man y
thousands of spectators were attracted to his solitary cot,
which he has occupied since the death of his father, in
1807, at which time he became the sole proprietor. He
was distinguished for nothing remarkable till the memo-
rable law-suit, about twenty-eight years ago, with a
neighbouring proprietor, regarding the closing up of a
road through his grounds, leading to Holmhead, better
known by the name of the Ark, to which, by use and
wont, he conceived he had a right, and which, by an ad-
verse decision, led him to the strange resolution not to cut
his hair, nor shave his beard, nor change his clothing till
justice was done, a resolution most carefully kept to his
death. About two months ago he became somewhat se-
riously indisposed, and was attended for some time by Dr.
Mitchell, of Dalwhirran, and ultimately, by Dr. Miller,
of Kilmarnock. From the commencement he was appre-
hensive of death, and by the advice of a friend, was in-
duced to make a deed of settlement, by which he deprived,
owing to some former quarrel, the heir-at-law of the pro-
perty, but which, he not having survived sixty days, falls
to the ground. The ruling passion, the love of money,
was strong in death. Although attended by sever al cler-
gymen from Kilmarnock, he never manifested any visible
change of mind. Shortly before his death, when asked
by a friend to shave his beard, he replied, " No, never,
till I get j ustice done." His beard, his almost entire
stock-in- tr ade, was the chief source of his revenue, which,
by parsimony and av arice, was very considerable, having
left £2,400, besides the property.