The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

Co be ealti or EEL

TO be SOLD or LET, in Dublin, one of the most ex-
tensive and best situated SEED ESTABLISH-,
MENTS in Ireland, in consequence of the present
Proprietors retiring from business, after having carried oa
the above, in connexion with other mercantile business!,
for a period exceeding forty years • it is at present in fa'
business, and has a numerous and respectable connexie°
attached. These concerns consist of a superior Dwelling'
house, Office, Shop, and extensive Warehouses; and toe
Person of Capital anxious to embark in the Wholesale
and Retail Seed Trade, or general Mercantile Businett
presents a more favourable opportunity than has offered
for many years.
For particulars apply to KELDAHL and Co., House and
Land Agents, 18, D 'Olier-street, from Principals only
Dublin, January, 1814.

IRELAND.
COUNTY OF DOWN.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS for IRELAND
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that they will reedit
Proposals in writing for
THE HOUSE, OFFICES, AND DEMESNE
LANDS OF DROMORE,
containing 226 statute. or 139 2 14 plantation acres, lately
the residence of the Bishops of Dromore. The House is
of the first class, with Pleasure Grounds and walled Gar-
dens, admirably suited as a Residence for a Nobleman or
Gentleman's Family, and the Out-offices are very eaten'
sive, well adapted for farming purposes.
The Land for the most part is excellent Tillage and
Pasture, well divided, sheltered, watered, and fenced.
This Property adjoins the post and market town of Dro-
more, on the great northern road from Dublin to.Belfastt
through which several stage and mail coaches pass daily '+
is 14 miles from Belfast, and 15 from Newry, from both
of which towns there is a large export trade.
The above Lands will be LET for any term of lives or
years, or lives and years, with a covenant against the sub-
letting or assigning any part thereof without the previoul
consent of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, testified ill
writing under their common seal.

Persons proposing are required to specify the particular
term desired, and the rent proposed to be given; and if it
be desired to fine down any portion of the rent, the same
is to be particularly specified, and at what rate per cent.
Proposals (post paid) to be addressed to the Secretor!
of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, No. 30,
Upper Merrion-street, Dublin, (where a Map of the Pre'
mises may be seen,) and to be sent in or before the 29th
day of February, 1844.

KIREDALE DISPENSARY.—It always affords us ex-
treme gratification to chronicle the efforts of the charitable
to alleviate distress, and more especially at this cold
season, and in these pinching times. With this feeling
we are pleased to find that a number of gentlemen con-
nected with toe locality have determined upon establish-
ing a dispensary for the relief of the sick poor in the
populous district of Kirkdale. On Monday last, a meet-
ing on this subject was held in the Everton and Kirkdale
school-room, the Rev. D. James occupying the chair;
the resolutions adopted at the meeting will be found in
our advertising columns. The gentlemen present at the
meeting consisted, amongst others, of Messrs. Walker,
Steele, Chadwick, Roskell, J. C. Thompson, Mure,
Gardner, Tunstall, Cassion, Hampson, and Johnson.
It

is stated in the Times, that the city of London, with
a street surface of 500,000 square yards, and with its
enormous traffic, pays £2OOO a year less for scavengers
than Manchester, where the traffic' is much less.
BRITISH MUSEUM.—The number of visitors to this
national establishment in the whole of last year, 1843,
was 517.375. This was a falling off from the previous
bear, 1842, when they were 547,718. In 1839 the num-
ers were 280,850 • in 1840, 247,929 ; and in 1841,
319,374. The number of visitors during the late holiday
week was 41,151, being, on Tuesday, 18,377 ; Wednesday,
13,281 ; Thursday, 1,683; and Friday, 7,810.
PRICES IN 1745.—According to a copy of the Oxford
Gazette and Reading Mercury, dated Monday, Decem-
ber 16, 1745, the period of the rebellion fomented by the
Pretender, Charles Stuart, it appears that the prices of
grain were much lower than at present:—Wheat was
£1 2s. to £1 4s. per quarter ; Rye 12s. to 13s. 6d. ; Bar-
ley lls. to 13s. 6d, ; Oats 13s. to 14s. ; Pease 18s. to £1 ;
Hss. ogto peas 14s. to 16s. ; Beans 17s. to 19s. ; Pale Malt
1 17s. Brown Malt 14s, to 16s. ; New Flops 7s. to
9s. and 10s. per hundred ; Clover Seed £1 to £1 2s ;
Fine Flour £1 per sack.
EUROPEAN-MADE SUGAR.--It is well known that
sugar is yielded largely by the roots of carrots and beet.
In Russia there are upwards of thirty beet-root sugar
factories in full operation. This manufacture is also
thriving in Germany. A few years ago Messrs. Fies and
Staneward, of Quedlinburgh, Westphalia, discovered a
process whereby, in twelve hours, ten pounds of pure su-
gar perfectly chrystalised, may be extracted from 1001bs.
weight of beet-root. The secret was immediately pur-
chased by M. Brokhoff, of Wisborg, for 2,000 francs
(£800), on condition that it should not be used beyond
the Rhine and Westphalia. A beet-root sugar manufac-
tory has been established in Essex ; and in 1837 some re-
fined samples of English beet-root sugar, of good quality
and colour, were sold in the London market, at £5 per
cwt. M. Roolsey states that forty tons of mangel-worsel
raised upon a single acre yielded three tons and a half of
molasses.— Quarterly Journal of Agriculture.
A MEMBER OF CONGRESS BIDS ADIEU TO MARTIN'
'---" We are going to part, sir," said Pogram.—" Pray
don't distress yourself," said Martin : " we must bear it."
all. It ain't quite that, sir," returned Pogram, " not at
But I
oration." should wish you to accept a copy of my
--" Thank you, said Martin, " you are very
good. I shall be most happy."—" It ain't quite that, sir,
neither," resumed Pogram : " sir, are you bold enough to
introduce a copy into your country ?" " Certainly,"
air s; rosnalo.,
Martin. " Why not?"—" Its sentiments
no differ-
ence,"• " hinted Pogram, darkly.—" That makes
.k,, Sir,"
M • "I'll take a dozen if you It e. said Martin.
"Not a dozen. That is
"No, sir," retorted Pogram.
more than I require. If you are content to run the ha-
zard, sir, here is one for your Lord Chancellor," produ-
cing it, " and one for your principal Secretary of State.
I should wish them to see it, sir, as expressing what my
opinions air—that they may not plead ignorance at a fu-
ture) time. But don't get into danger,sir,on my account
.'
'"i
" There is not the least danger, I assure you," said
Martin. S 3 he put the pamphlets in his pocket, and they
parted.—Martin Chuzzlewit, No. 13.

OPERATIC EXPENDITURE.—My personal expenditure
lately has induced me to reflect (which I do sometimes)
on the enormous expenditure of the opera administration
in the one item of wardrobe. Are you aware that they
furnish the artistes with every article of dress, from a hair-
pin to a shoe-string, with every intervening mystery of the
female toilet from powder to paint? You emerge from
your carriage at the stage-door of the opera in a sombre
robe-de-chambre, to be converted, by a touch of the ward-
robe-keeper, into a sylphide or gipsy, wings and tambou-
rine included, at the whole and sole expense of the direc-
tion. They do you up in the most complete and radiant
manner, as bright as the reddest rouge and the whitest
muslin can make you, and all you are required to find are
your own smiles and entrechats. When you take into
Consideration the six or eight first dancers, the dozen or so
of coryphes, and the capering legion that constitute the
iin corps de ballet, you may then infer the outlay necessary
tricots and petticoats. Then think of the consumption
in satin shoes; I seldom use less than three pairs every
night, and the slightest soil condemns them, and that upon
the dirtiest stage in the world, purposely kept so to avoid
slipping. These opera shoes are of such peculiar make,
uniting a certain stiffness with the most perfect pliancy,
that only one man in Europe has been found with genius
adequate to the work, Jansin de Paris. No wonder poor
M. buponchell, my amiable director, looks grave and re-
flective at times. I feel a kind of remorse at the expense
I have been to him. Ilow coul I have insisted on the
!clditional 20000 francs in my last contract just renewed ?
felt so penitential that I could dance a week for his be-
Ilefit•—Praseee Magazine.