The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

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COOL, TO SAY THE' LEAST.—The review A
" Had Moore been possessed of a thorolighiThon
he ought to have known that a single-fninnee"t bei
in the Dublin University' Magazine for last al°,11;
tleinan, with a brave and true heart, need o;
to confess his love for any lady in Christer.t if
diffidence shows a sad want of self-respect' ad
are born to no other heritage than sac"' 0
brains as it has pleased Providence to givells'oti
just as little, if we were assured of the fact, _ Ali
and lovely creature, with a fortune as large oh;
dett Coutts, had a liking for us, and ant 'lel 4+
for her—would think just as little of asking Pero
tion as we would of writing this article. t it;
may be called Irish impudence ; we do
think so."
ettO THE 'WOMEN OF CASHMERE.—it iS tug G p
east for all respectable women to conceal ril)
figure as much as possible ; and although "IA ei
case in Cashmere than perhaps any
other, Te
i
still an Englishman cannot become :IWO'
;age
appearance of many. The girls of a foal' appo
and all those at all remarkable for persona coo"
are kept shut up. We could therefore form ltv
only from the few of the commoner classes or of
town and surrounding country. The Yell,cgaaclO
come down to the river to was% their fee' ,ait
but our boat, with its gay pavilion and mimed"!
was a marked object wherever we went; 811,10
from fear, whenever' we approached, the yonr!-,i,
off as quickly as they could. On a few occas tithe,;
sharply round a corner, we surprised a fair
sels, and a glimpse thus obtained confirneu.sof
generally entertained of the beauty of Cashinefitty,
They better deserve the name of fine than ;
are tall, stoutly limbed, with a majestic o'3' V
and upper lip beautifully formed ; the dark er.fle:
soft, like that of the gazelle, with the long' Si
V
lashes. and: magnificently arched eyebron,io
parted in the centre, gathered into several, P,,arte
again collected h
llreceateeding to
in to one,tile t
wwohrisctiledarie aga tail,ntoaunukles'• iire't
white fillet is bound round the head, co and the 10
sista of a large woollen loose frock of a red
tie,
reaches a little below the knee, and soinetifne,!ty
it round the loins with a white scarf. At a 1110
it has a very pretty effect ; but the coarl4
material injures very much the appearance
closely. We were told that the high r classes
e
in • their houses, wear loose silk trousers, 0, if
silk shirt; all generally of a red colour. sos'
bright eye from behind the closed lattice, guil,
strange-looking Feringhees, with their ug.uti,
and still uglier head-dresses. Protection irobst,:.
was our chief aim • and- the broad-brimmed, e
few pounds of muslin' wrapped loosely rounair;tior
sadly with the graceful turban and flowing
bed
their own countrymen. Occasionally, Perc
arf
in some verandah, beyond the reach of ordrvwhole families might be seen seated, in the ,en. the
often the women accompany their husbandaL
but the face is concealed from the gaze of t"'fo'r,
passer-by : they might be so many muminies;he
he sees.—Journal of British Officers, in
Gazette.

454
COST OF GROWING WHEAT ININTHE ~.. xf IS- j,
LET.—Mr. Mackay, in his travels in the Vi!fte
iotItl;
1846-7, gives us the following :picture :=, „o 0
better serve to convey to the reader's minVy, 0
idea of the exuberance of the Mississippi vt„eji, s°
ease with which, the little expense at Wr.',„ ill,
abundance in which wheat can be produced "'tiro'
and grain-growing section. Throughout its 61100
and breadth Indian corn seems to be almostBsoo
-- productionthe difficulty seeminglybeing, n?„bto
it, but to prevent it from growing in too
great ,7, 0
The farmer in the valley is remunerated it' hit
cents, or about 6d. sterling a bushel for it °rides?
For want of a greater domestic and foreign rr°
great portion of the enormous quantity annually ..,
it rests upon the ground. Wheat, of collt:„119 A
00:
more attention to be bestowed upon it, and 1,07
to produce it. But it is astonishing how littlera ty
cost it requires to draw exuberant croirs'fr°4l4,
prairie lands. The following estimate of the, 'it
ing wheat, for the first time, from prairie 1111,°'. proi
from a gentleman in Washington, himselfbe'ro,
farmer in the west, and, at that time, a menju
gress for a western constituency :—For plong'l,solll
of sod, S'2 • seed, Sil ; sowing seed, 41; hark. d
t2hsec.w; threshing,hule ex expense
then, we have seven dollars, or about 295. 'Al°
se'*olf producingntaalu euxcpreenusfes;:e;
wiec (44
Hotta of the valley ;.and this is the cost at '''
can be cultivated for the first time. In subseglA 01
it is diminished ; as, after the sod is once tur,rl'efagle
land can be ploughed for en° dollar per acre. '3,111/
the aggregate cost to 255. per acre. But it ela t 5
posed that, as the husbandry is rude, the vier/.
be very abundant. The average yield of good P 5 pil
when properly tilled, is about thirty-five shillis'4,ol,
but as it is generally farmed, it yields an aver 1 bushels. This gives the cost of production at '0.41
is. the first year, and at 10d. in subsequent l'elib,
American is somewhat smaller than the Enzlise6
but, making ample allowance for this lifer 91.1
sterling may be assumed as the cost of product ~., fi
ter of wheat in most portions of the missislitoii
where the land is prairie land. Of course,
~,
toi
forest land, the cost of clearing will enhance teroi
duction. It therefore follows, that all the far 's ,
over 10s. sterling per quarter for his wheat on ltlidtl
clear profit to him.—From British Agriculture I
reign Competition in Blackwood's Magazine.
REFLECTIONS ON VISITING MODERN JEIIII Taken as a whole, Jerusalem is one of the le°, ,
complicated eastern towns I ever visited ;
WI If
of the Hill of Acra are completely waste, and e1,,,i
with ruins. The Hill of Zion literally, as pool:11;4
told it, " is ploughed as a field
;" the streets
prol
and unusually narrow; in many of them yon a
flights of steps, exceedingly difficult to mount a r 061/
horseback; the buildings are for the most pat",l
squalid. The streets, after nightfall, are in ,4
possession of the Turkish sentinels and hordes e'
dogs ; the latter, fortunately for the inhabitants' 0:4
pnblic scavengers. By day, within the
sysllsos i
little more than one unvarying scene of lifeless'. 9
e
without the gates the picture is still more lothl 's' ,
s''
fellah, a few women fetching water from Silos°lltlol
thy Jew, or a wandering Bedawee. comnrisello,,
living objects to be met with in our solitary 01 111'e
association that sustains the interest of the troe
tot ,
lives amongst recollee'ions of the past; 10,1,-ole,j`
sheds a halo round the present, gilding the
of
u,,i
dreary prospect with some faint reflection 0' 047 ness of bygone days, till memory, fondly awe
„O?
page which chronicles the history. of God's 13.eyliii,/
pie, calls to her side the aid of busy fancy; 11;r1,-
with a touch, peoples the solitudes, restores t",,
~i,
and makes glad the mourning " ways of Z.1„(13011;',
that the stranger must fall back on associat, ',,,
derive enjoyment from his visit to the holy cg'oert',,,
eye becomes accustomed to the surrounding 5,,01,, 1
rambles in the city and its neighbourhood bed
day more interesting and pleasing, it is pleast'the
,y,
shelter from the noonday heat, and rest beside ilte:r
ters of Shiloah that go softly,"' or wander illiesfey
gorge of Himmon. prying into the deserted
countless sepulchral chambers that pierce the 'Alive./
of the Hill of Evil Council. The Mount of
1:1,101eItj
barren and bare as it appeared on our first 3 jis tel
.-
rusalem, now as the spring advanced, put en, the Al,
vernal clothing ; the fig-trees were in leaf, arnbroll,leV
granates budded, the pensile crimson peePin%eir°J
pale green foliage ; the olives had put forth rora beti
and fragile blossoms, while the close green s'vsj p 14.,,
was enamelled with flowers; then it was indeetite,l7
at early dawn, to climb the. hill-side or, s frog
walls of the little mosque, to watch the sun riseto ?,si
hind the mountain range. of Moab, the 04 00'
streaked with the first faint light of day, Lfthe,44,
mist of morning yet hanging on the bosom o'
~..e ("l
lake below ; and now the craggy heights of !r V
Judah are tinted with the purple light, wilice `;'4
still slumbers amidst her terebinths and 1°0,6
The call to prayer resounds from the distalearAti
you turn, and the sacred city lies like a map 'it, the/
—the dome of the great mosque is flashing ll.„7
light—the Sepulchre of David, on the far V.iiiidy;
Zion, reflects the rising beams—the massive 4. Ito if,
the Armenian convent stand out from the ei:er 016 ?
and as the eye wanders from the old, grey tow
..„,feoj
pious, along the heights of Acra, the Latin efiriitT
dome of the Holy Sepulchre, the cupolas an ve,tor
the mosques are gleaming in the radiance °,f,:rogif
day ; still a shade lingers over the deep bed or
~ 0;1
if dusky night unwillingly abandons the drerli)jocr"
1
the dead. What an expanse of view frogs Ithet,
Olivet !• The eye can range from Pisgah t°,ooti,
heights of Mispah, embracing at a glance l'eicl, 11001
lake, desert and solitude, the cultivated ii
,sti ISA
abode of busy man ; but now the clear-tOl4 opt'
the convent bells falls on the ear, dark speci'ciffis;/
roofs of houses move to and fro, the sleePinils, to it is pleasant, above all, as evening fa,. geth I
meditate beneath the gnarled old olives 01,`'thltlry
and to think of One who " ofttimes,resortrsore co
his disciples." Here was the scene of his ~t 118.0,/
and• agony; from this same consecrated Trig ifyi
marked the wary steps of Judas. as, &see" 0 tliltt-4
dor f q. ii‘oi
band of men and officers," he led them ~ ~ ji .
ing path above there, and crossed the broeotorc..o.l3
whose murmuring stream was crimsoned inch t, logyr:y11,
as if the conscious waters blushed for the bas.,,io,,
of man. Yes, it is pleasant- to think on
_..l' be VII
where he rested, treading the very ground aw:,,gl,
pleasant, far more than p/e,asant—pleasant 6_, sceof.,
fitable. The thoughts to: which these sacrfLieti ot:,
birth should be graven on the " living 'lnoies/
heart," for then we walk not with the °le.";
past—we walk with Gel—Dublin Univar.sli/

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