The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-11 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

Theodore Hook, meeting a friend just after leaving the
King's Bench prison, who said to him that he was getting
fat, "Yes," replied Hook, " I was enlarged to day."

A contemporary says, that transcendentalism is the
spiritual cognoscence of psychological irrefragability,
connected with concuitant ademption of encolutrimient
spirituality and etherialised contention of subsuitory con-
cretion.

NICE DISTINCTION.--the editor or the Louisville
Journal, speaking of -a brother editor, makes the follow-
ing nice distinctio,;( :—" I don't mean to call him a liar,
although I mur:i admit that he is a butcher of the truth
and an ass,..ssin of facts."

There are in. London and its environs 107,962 female
servants, and in Holborn alone 29,000, of whom from
14,000 to 15,000 are constantly out of place. In En-
gland and Wales there are £130,000,000. of property in
household furniture, £16,000,000. in wearing apparel, and
£31,000,000. in plate, jewels, &c. under the care of fe-
male servants.

To INCREASE THE PRODUCE OF LETTUCE.—By cut-
ting off lettuces immediately above the life knot, instead
of pulling them up by the roots, when wanted for the ta-
ble, a single or at most two sowings will suffice for the
year : the root will send out a crop of shoots, which are
just as good as those first taken ; but they are required to
be used before they become large, or they are apt to run
up to flower.

CIGARS.—The cigar nuisance has wonderfully abated
within these few years. There is, to all appearance, not a
tenth of the number of smokers there was some time ago ;
and those who continue the practice seem to belong to in-
ferior stations. Imitation has knocked cigar smoking on
the head. Having descended to shop lads, and all sorts
of apers of gentility, it has been abandoned, as a matter
of course, by those of higher rank.—Chamber's Edinburgh
Journal.

ANCIENT DEED.—The following conveyance of land,
in the year 1189, is in the hands of a gentleman, at
Sowerby-bridge, in as perfect a state as the day on which
it was executed. It is in abbreviated Latin, and is about
5 inches long by 21 broad. The deed may be commended
for its brevity as well as its antiquity. It runs as fol-
lows :—" Know all men present and future, that I, Gilbert
de Aubigne, have given, granted, and by this present
Deed have confirmed to William de Charnells for his
homage and service, one oxgang of land with its appur-
tenances in the Vill of Corringham, the same oxgang
which Ralph held of —, with all its appurtenances, in
Vill and out of Vill, to be held by him and his heirs of me
and my heirs freely and quietly, wholly and hereditarily,
in woodland and plain, in highways and footways, and in
all places and liberties to the said Oxgang belonging. He
and his heirs paying.thereout annually to me and my heirs
one pound of Cinnamon seed, at the feast of St. Michael,
for all service to me and my heirs belonging, except fo-
reign service.--And for this donation and confirmation,
the aforesaid Wm. de Charnells has given to me Twenty
Shillings Sterling. I have thereon taken his homage.
These being Witnesses, Wm. de Hulm, Gerard de Can-
vill, Sheriff of Lincoln, Adam de Parnell, Roger of St.
Martin's, Ralph his Son, Adam de Rokeby, Robert de
Oflington, John de Stafford, Ralph the Duke.

"Temp. Richard 1189."

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK.

We have had a fair average demand, for Tuesday, in
our Cotton Market. Fully 2000 bales sold at steady and
full market prices, without any change in the tone of the
market.