The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK.

Plant Department.—Pelargoniums are now over for
the season. They ought to be placed out of doors, and
cut back. Do not, in all cases, adopt the old method of
heading down to two or three eyes ; prune more in ac-
cordance with the habit of the plant; look to form; a
round bush has its admirers, and few dispute the appear-
ance of a pyramid. In these cases the plant must be well
furnished from the pot upwards. No real amateur can
be supposed to dispense with his cutting frame. Gera-
niums, fuschias, &c., will now strike freely. Let the
situation l.), open, and fully exposed to the sun ; nail a
piece of cotton over the glass, and, in addition, in very
bright weather, a mat. The best plunging material for
this purpose is peat earth, passed through a coarse riddle,
and as the cold frame will require constant attention, we
will return to it next week.
Kitchen Garden.—Early peas, potatoes, &c., will now
be getting over. Lose no time in getting the ground well
wrought, and let cabbages, Brussels sprouts, cauliflowers,
and Legg's late white brocoli supply their places. Make
a sowing of lettuce, and plant out such as are in want of
it. Sow cauliflower and cabbage for spring use ; and
again about the middle of August. Keep the ground well
stirred amongst the growing crops; these fine seasonable
rains are making_a wonderful improvement in this depart-
ment.
Fruit Department.—Let no time be lost in getting as
' many strawberry runners pricked out as will be sufficient
for future•plantations. Amongst a mass of confusion, try
Hap \,Prolific ; if the British Queen is found to succeed
well there is none better in flavour ; Kean's Seedling, (if
true) is one of the most useful, but in this neighbourhood
it is, sadly degenerated. Retard a few gooseberries and

currants, by placing a strong stake in the centre, and
tying the branches neatly inwards, surrounding the whole
with a bass mat, or any other covering that will allow a
portion of air to pass through it.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPO NDENTS.
N. Tyler.—Gutta-percha would probably answer for
binding, but it would be necessary to have a hot iron
to form the junction of the two ends of the ligature.
The advantage of an elastic bandage would be very
great; besides which, the gutta-percha would prevent
evaporation from the incision. We should like to hear
the result of the experiment.

S. Stevens.—We have seen no ptospectus of a flower-
show at Huyton, but such an affair was spoken of some
time since.

13151ria P.elus.

The subscriptions at Manchester for the Peel monu-
ment now amount to nearly £5,000.
The foundation-stone of the new baths and wash-houses
at Preston was laid with great rejoicing on Thursday.
The Parish Church at Wigan will be reconsecrated on
Saturday with usual solemnity.
Sir John Gerard gave a grand dinner to the Lancashire
hussars on Thursday, in the Old Deer Park, near Billinge.
On Saturday week, Mr. Joseph D'Antoine, a German
merchant at Manchester, committed suicide by hanging
himself at the bedpost.
On Tuesday a fisherman named Peter Hodge went out
off Southport in his smack to fish for mackerel, and in one
catch he netted the enormous number of above 17,000.
PEEL MONUMENT.—The Manchester Committee have
received a letter from the Bishop, adding his name to the
list of contributors for twenty-one guineas, the maximum
fixed by the Committee.
The Manchester Guardian reports two fatal cases, one
of malignant or Asiatic cholera, and the other of chole-
raic diarrhoea, to have occurred in that town within the
last few days.
On the 16th inst. a young man numed Burns, son of
Mr. Burns, managing clerk of the National Salt Works,
Winsford, was drowned whilst bathing in the river
Weaver, near to his father's residence.

It is somewhat remarkable, that, with the exception of
the 2nd prize of £2O. the whole of the prizes given at the
meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society, for short
horns, were won by Yorkshire and Lancashire farmers.
Small cottages are now being built in every direction
in and around Blackburn ; and so great has been the de-
mand for bricks, that the supply has fallen far short of
the demand.

In the Manchester County Court, last week. the judge
ordered a shopman to refund the price of a dresspiece
which would not wash, but which his assistant had " war-
ranted as fast colour."

SINGULAR.—At Mr. William Street's farm, near Brad-
shaw, is a male turkey which has been silting several
weeks, and has succeeded in hatching two chickens. The
fowl still keeps to his nest, evidently intending to have a
regular brood.—Bolton Chronicle.

-On Saturday ;eek,sOre;i-wa3 the throng of visitors
at Blackpool, that hundreds were unable to obtain beds.
The railway carriages and the station were placed at the
disposal of persons to sleep in, but a great number had to
walk the beach all night.
On Monday week Elizabeth Jones, servant to Mr.
Young, of Tarporley, leaped through her bed-room window
in a state of somnambulism, and fell on the pavement
beneath. She was much injured, but is expected to
recover.

The Rev. 'William Edward Rawstorne, the newly ap-
pointed vicar of the parish of Ormskirk, entered upon his
ministerial duties on Sunday week. On his arrival into
the town on the previous day, he was greeted by merry
peals from the bells of the old Parish Church.
Mr. Gilbert, whose bus ness has made him intimately
acquainted with postoffice machinery employed in the
transmission of newspapers, has just published a pamphlet
in which he advocates additional facilities for the transit
of letters and newspapers, especially on Saturday, and
the acceleration and increase of day-mails as a substitute
for the Sunday delivery of letters.
SOUTIIPORT.—This fashionable watering place is now
very full of company, and at one time no beds were to be
procured, so that some parties had to go to Lytham to
sleep. The town is enlivened by various kinds of music,
amongst which are the black serenaders, with a harp, &c.
A theatre is also opened, in the Assembly-room, and a
small exhibition, of a similar kind, near the Union Hotel.
On 'Wednesday afternoon last, a boot-closer, in Man-
chester, named Reid, who was at work in a house oppo-
site to his own residence, was horrified to see his wife
(whom, being ill, he supposed to be in bed) lying on the
pavement in the street. The poor creature was a corpse,
having precipitated herself out of the bedroom window,
and fractured her skull most fearfully. She had been in
a low state of mind.

The Manchester Guardian mentions the case of a young
man, named Joseph Piston, who dreamt three several
nights that he had been drowned in the river Rollin. In
joke, he directed his family as to the disposal of his effects,
in case his dreams should be fulfilled. He went to bathe
on Friday in the above-named river, swam about some
time, dived into a deep part, and did not reappear. An
hour and a half elapsed before his body was recovered.
THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.—The
seventh annual meeting of this association is to be held
in the week commencing Monday the 19th, and termina-
ting on Saturday, the 24th of August, under the presidency
ofJas. Heywood, Esq. Monday will be spent in Manchester.
On Tuesday, they proceed to Whalley, Ribchester, Clithe-
roe, and in the evening to Lancaster. On Wednesday,
they visit Furness Abboy, Pcil Cootic, &c., and hula
meeting in the evening at Lancaster. On Thurs.lay, they
visit lornby Castle, and return to Manchester in time
for an evening meeting. Friday and Saturday will be
spent wholly in Manchester. _ _

THE LANCASHIRE PEEL MONUMENT.--It has been
determined by the inhabitants of Tollington to erect a
column on the summit of Holcombe Hill to the memory
of the late Sir Robert Peel. The view from the top of
this column, which will be accessible by means of a stair-
case, will command a panoramic scene of 200 miles in
circumference, embracing a sight of Yorkshire, over
Blackstone Edge; the Derbyshire hills, overlooking
Buxton ; the Staffordshire range of hills, Cheshire, the
Irish Channel, the Cumberland hills, and the watering
places on the Lancashire coast. Holcombe Hill is wi bin
a few miles of the birthplace of the late Sir Robert Peel.
EXTRAORDINARY DISCOYERY.—As Mr. R. Wright,
clock cleaner, of Marshside, was going along the back of
the Bold Arms Inn, Southport, on Wednesday, he per-
ceived the ground on a Sand-hill to move, as if by magic.
He was alarmed, and called on Mr. Richardson's son,
when, on turning up the sand, they found a little infant,
with its face downwards, struggling for life. The clock-
maker blessed the little boy, and said he would be a father
to it and bring it up himself. The infant was taken to a
house near to Mr. Richardson's beer-shop, where hun-
dreds of strangers have been to visit the little foundling.
One lady is willing to adopt it and give it a good educa-
tion, if it lives, which seems to be very probable. In the
meantime the police have been very active in endeavouring
to find the mother, and suspicion has fallen upon a female
of weak intellect, called " Trotting Nanny," from her
peculiar manner of walking or running, and who procures
a livelihood by collecting horse-dung on the roads. If a
few minutes longer had elapsed before the infant was
found, in all probability it would have been suffocated, as
its mouth and ears were full of sand. There was a green
sod placed where the child was lying. The foundling is a
very fine child, and many of the persons who have been to
see it have left money for its support. It is supposed that
the mother had given birth to the child whilst sitting
among thg sand-hills, at about three o'clock in the after-
noon. The infant has been baptized by the name of
" Sandy."
CONDITION OF THE MANUFACTURERS.—It is quite
clear that a Manchester manufacturer, going into the
market for cotton, will have to pay now about £l7O or
£lBO for the same parcel of cotton which he could buy in
1845 for £lOO. But how stands the matter when he
comes to sell his goods ? Here are six sorts of cloth,
given as the leading articles of the market ; and here is
the price of a piece of each. Let us compare 1845 with
1850 ;-- •

s. d. s. d.
No. 1.
2. ~ 6 11
3.
1.
).
6.

£2 710} £2ll 4
So that, for 100 pieces of each sort, an American mer-
chant would pay now £256 13s. 4d. for what, in 1845, he
bought for £239 7s. 6d. But the same American mer-
chant, selling his cotton to the Manchester factory, would
obtain £2OO for 60001bs of " upland fair," now—although
in 1845 he could only get £lO9 7s. 6d. Is this " pros-
perity ?" To us it seems too much like the condition
into which these same Manchester men have themselves
plunged the farmers. Fine harverts, plenty of corn to sell,
but prices which yield no profit. We heard, the other
day, of a young manufacturer who was asked how he was
getting on ? He answered, " Oh, urandly ! We are doing
a great business." " And to good purpose—to a.dran-
tage ?" was the further question of the anxious friend.
" Oh, don't say anything about that !" was the answer ;
" I dare not look at it." 3ut arithmetic will not be
cheated. The day of reckoning will be sure to come
sooner or later, and a fearful day it will be.
A " PARTNERSHIP FOR LIFE" EXPERIMENT.—On
the 15th of December last, Mr. George Peck, of the Royal
Oak, Chapel-street, Salford, caused the following adver-
tisement to appear in one of the Manchesternewspapers:—
" The advertiser, a middle-aged and respectable person,
would be happy to meet with a respectable female, as
partner for life, to assist in conducting a small house and
spirit vault in Liverpool or Manchester." The advertise-
ment was replied to by. a Mrs. Taylor, and an interview
took place at her lodgings in Medlock-street, where she
invited Mr. Peck to take tea. This was, of course, made
the occasion of discussing matters climected with the
" partnership for life." It would seem, however, that
the lady declined making any immediate arrangement of
terms until she should have managed Mr. Peck's house
for a while, and thus ascertained, by actual experiment,
how far a partnership for such a long date was likely to
prove agreeable. She had been married, and if her hus-
band were dead, she was a widow. She had a daughter
about sixteen years of age, a somewhat interesting-look-
ing girl, who was living with her; and it was decided that
both should reside at his house;. Mrs. Taylor being the
female manager, and her daughter to act as barmaid.
Nothing definite was arranged respecting financial recom-
pense—in case the partnership-was not completed ; that
also was to be left for future determination. The experi-
ment lasted for about four months ; in fact, until the
Tuesday preceding Whitson week, on which unfortunate
day Mr. Peck, having.been to Liverpool, brought home
with him a wife, of course much to the astonishment of
Mrs. Taylor, who was soon destined to hear from her
morepuccealigt 4141#:." mistress here.' She had