The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

CONVIVIAL 13LUNDEE

given to the French as

ree consu

Hip, hip, hip,

SERVE MEAT IN HOT WEATHER.—First wipe
the meat gently and lightly with a clean cloth, then dust
over every part with pure oaten meal. The meal imparts
a sweet flavour to the meat. It must all be wiped away
before the meat is put down either to be boiled or roasted.
—Magazine of Domestic Economy.
ANCIENT IMPORTATION INTO HllLL.—About 1595,
we find entered in the household book of the Cliffords,

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The toast was repeated by the toast-
' Health of the Three per Cent. Consols.

TO Pa

a sum of eleven shillings "for six cabbages and some
caret roots bought at Hull." These were then imported
from Flanders, whence even Queen Catharine, in the
reign of Henry VIII., had her salads. Potatoes and tur-

not generally known, even to the gardener, un-
;11 of Elizabeth.—Hull Packet.

THE CAUSE OF CORNS.—If shoes were constructed in
the shape of the human foot, neither too large nor too
small, and making an equal pressure everywhere, corns
and bunions of the feet would never exist. But, unfortu-
nately, shoes are seldom made after this fashion; and_in

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ladies' shoes especially there are generally two signal de-
fects,—first, the extremity of the shoe is much too nar-
row for that part of the foot, (namely, the toes.) which it
is to contain ; and, secondly, for the purpose of display-
ing as much of the foot as possible, the whole of the tar-
sus and metatarsus is left uncovered, and the pressure of
the shoe in front is thrown entirely upon the toes. The
ed against each other, and then

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pushed out of their natural position ; and all the project-
ing points, -chiefly where the bones are situated, are
pinched and tormented either by the neighbouring toes or
by the leather of the shoe ; and thus it is that corns of the
feet are generated.—Sir Benjamin Brodie's Lectures.

A RAPID COURTSIIIP.—the history of Robert Hall's
marriage was a singular one. It has been related in a
dozen different ways, but I believe the following account
of it to be correct :—One day, whilst alighting at a friend's
door for the purpose of dining with him, he was joked on
his bachelorshlp. He said nothing, but whilst at table
was observed to take particular notice of the servant girl,
who came in to replenish the fire. After dinner, es he
was sitting alone in the study, the young woman again en.
tered it with the coal-scuttle, when Mr. Hall, whom she
had supposed scarcely less than a king, said to her,

" Betty, do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?" The girl
replied, that she hoped she did, taking the question merely
as an accustomed one from a minister. To her utter sur-

se and constei
!owed it up I

and, exclaiming-,

ked her to
d Eaid

le ran away,

and on his speaking with Mr.-Hall on the subject, ihe lat-
ter declared his intention of marrying the girl, who he said
had taken his fancy by the manner in which sbe put the
coals on. They were married, and lived happily together.
His widow survives him.—Pen and Ink Sketches.

TREATMENT OF LITERARY MEN.--The soldier, the
sailor, the architect, the painter, are all within sight of
the most lavish prizes of public liberality. Parliament has
just given titles and superb pensions to the Conquerors of
the Sikhs. The India Company has followed its example.
We applaud this munificent liberality in both instances.
Two general officers have thus obtained a peerage, w.th
£7OOO and £5OOO a-year. They deserved those rewards.
But the whole literary ericourage,ment of the British em-
pire, with a revenue of fifty-two millions stern!, 7, is £l2OO,
little more than the tenth part of the pensio.• allotted to
those two gallant men. £l2OO fOr the whole literary en-
couragement of England ! There can be no greater scan-
dal to the intellectual honour of the pantry. The pettiest
German principality scarcely limits its literary encourage-
ment to this sum. We doubt whether Weimar,r, between
literary offices and pensions, did not give twice the sum
annually. But, named in competition with the liberality
of the leading sovereigns, it is utterly mean. Louis XIV.
two hundred years ago, allotted 80,000 francs a-year to
his forty members of the Academy, a sum equivalent in
that day, and in France, to little less than £oooo a•year
in our day, and in England. Frederic 11. gave pensions
and appointments to a whole corps of literary men. At
this moment there is scarcely a man of any literary dis-
tinction in Paris who has not a share in the liberal and
wise patronage of government, either in office or public
pension. But if we are to be answered by a class, pletho-
ric with wealth and rank, that literature ought to be con-
tent with living on its own means, must not the obvious
answer be—ls the author to be an author, down to his
grave? Is there to be no relaxation of toil? Is there to be
no allowance for the exhaustion of his over-worked facul-
ties ? for the natural infirmities of years? for the vexations
of a noble spirit compelled to submit to the caprices of
public
change;
and with its full share of the common
calamities of life, increasing their pressure at once by an
inevitable sense of wrong, and by a feeling that the delight
of his youth must be the drudgery of his age? When the
great Dryden, in his seventieth year, was forced, in the
bitterness of his heart to exclaim ' Must I die in the har-
ness ?' his language was a brand on the common sense, as
well as on the just generosity, of his eountry,—Blackwood,

THE FALL OF ROME.
ITS CAUSES AT WORK IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE

(From Blaekwood's Magazine.)

The people in our great cities do not call out, as in an-
cient days, for gratuitous distributions of corn from Ly-
bia or Egypt ; but they clamour just as loudly for free
trade in grain with Poland and the Ukraine, which has
the effect of swamping the home-grower quite as com-
pletely. The great capitalists do not make collossal for-
tunes by the plunder of subject provinces, as in the days
of the Roman proconsuls ; but they never cease to exert
their influence to procure a contraction of the currency
by the measures of government, which answers the pur-

pose of augmenting their fortunes at the expense of. the
industrious classes just as well. Political writers, social
philosophers, practical statesmen, fall in with the pre-
vailing disposition of the most influential classes; they
deceive themselves into the belief that they are original,
and promulgating important truths, when they are merely
yielding to the pressure of the strongest, or at least the
most noisy, class at the moment in society. The Reform
B•ll gave three-fifths of the British representat on to the
members for boroughs. From that moment the eventual

adoption of legislative measures favourable to the inter-
ests of capital, and agreeable to the wishes of the inhabi-

tants of to'

active

to those of the

['don of Ezyp-
tioch, and Con-
cities became,
bers, an object of dread to the

country, was as much as the daily dis

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