The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

THE DEJEIINER

which was supplied on a most ample scale, by Mr.
Franklin, of George-street. About 350 persons sat
down, nearly one half of whom were ladies. The chair
was occupied by Mr. Getty, of the firm of Jordan and
Getty, the builders of the vessel. Several excellent
speeches were delivered by Mr. M'lntyre, Mr. S. Holme,
Mr. Jonathan Duncan, the lecturer, and others. The
room was then cleared for dancing, which was kept up
with great spirit for some time.

At the recent rent audit of the Duke of Rutland, those
tenants whose rents were reduced at the late revaluation
of their farms were agreeably surprised to have the
amount of the reduction made and returned, not only
upon the last half-year's rent, but for the whole year
previously.
A farmer's labourer has been fined £5 by the York
magistrates for sleeping between the rails of the York and
Newcastle Railway. A train of sixteen carriages passed
over him ; but the fire-box of the locomotive chanced to
be a high one, and the man escaped death. It is not
stated if the foolish fellow had been drinking when he
chose such a place for a nap.

REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTY.—The new act (14
and 15 Victoria, cap. 36) to repeal the window duty and to
substitute a house duty, has been printed. The new
house duty wall date in England and Wales from the sth
of April last, and from Whitsuntide last in Scotland, from
which time the window duty will cease and determine.
The new duties are to be under the care of the Commis-
sioners of the Inland Revenue. Armorial bearings are
still to be charged. The duty on inhabited dwelling.
houses in Great Britain is to be at the rate of 9d. in the
pound, where the same shall be worth £2O or upwards by
the year. Where a dwelling-house shall be occupied and
used for the purpose of trade, &c., the duty is to be at the
rate of 6cl. in the pound.
Dr. Bunting and Dr. Alder have both resigned the
office of Secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society,
and the places thus recant will be filled up by the ap-
pointment of Mr. George Osborn and Mr. Wm. Arthur,
A.M. Dr. Bunting retains the presidency of the Wes-
leyan Theological institution, and Dr. Alder is to be ap-
pointed superintendent of the Fourth London District.
A swindler is at work robbing tradesmen by altering
Post-office money-orders. The swindler goes to a post-
office a few miles from London, and gets an order for Is.;
then he sends to a tradesman in London for goods, de-
spatching the post-office order in payment, the " Is."
being erased, and "X 5" neatly inserted. The tradesman
is thrown off his guard, and forwards the goods: on apply-
ing at the Post-office he finds he has been cheated.
WHAT Is AN ANGEL ?—Among the proofs given by a
government commission of stupidity in the children of a
Welsh school, was their failure in the interrogative prob-
lem, " What is an angel ?" Now, my dear reader, if
you were suddenly asked, " What is an angel ?" when
you were not occupied with beatific visions, but were
staring at educational commissioners, and wondering what
would come next, would you have an answer ready ? We
have all our vague notions of angels ; but if you were
called upon thus, at a minute's notice, to become analytic
and descriptive, and to make other persons comprehend
your private idea of angel, could you do it? I do not
think the school children were stupid for not answering
the angelic question. I think the marvel rather is, the
sort of questions they do contrive to answer.—Hon. Mrs
Norton.

TURKISH MODE OF MAKING COFFEE.—As usual, pipes
and coffee were at once tendered, and here I may as well
observe that the Turkish way of making coffee produces
a very different result to that with which we are accus.
tomed. A small conical saucepan, with a long handle,
and calculated to hold about two tablespoonsful of wa-
ter, is the instrument used : the fresh roasted berry is
pounded, not ground, and about a dessert spoonful is put
into the minute boiler; it is then nearly filled with water,
and thrust among the embers ; a few seconds suffice to
make it boil, and the decoction, groucds and all, is poured
out into a small cup, which fits into a brass socket much
like the cup of an acorn, and holding the china cup as
that does the acorn itself. The Turks seem to drink this
decoction boiling, and swallow the grounds with the liquid.
We allowed it to remain a minute, in order to leave the
sediment at the bottom. It is always taken plain ; sugar
or cream would be thought to spoil it ; and Europeans
after a little practice (longer, however, than we had), are
said to prefer it to the clear infusion drunk in France. In
every hut you will see these coffee boilers suspended, and
the means for pounding the roasted berry will be found at
hand.—Christmas's Shore:. and Islands of the Mediter.
ranean.

TELEGRAPH-OFFICE, trn AUGUST, 1851.
Wind at Holyhead, E.N.E., light air.
Orr HoLynnAn•—Glenlyon. ship, from Quebec? at nine,
a.m.; Lady Hobart, ship, from ditto, at ten, a.m. ; Sirßickard
Jackson, ship, from Anticosti, (out nineteen days,) at four, p.m.
OFF THA PORT AT. 7 43, ead,—olle ship, two barques, two
brigs, tad ULM 4000aer1,