The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-14 00:00:00

While ye smiled o'er the social fire, or found the balm of rest !
How oft the shriek of drowning men the startled ♦ulture

When ye had closed v
pleasures sought !

ur doors in peace, and home's sweet

Then wake your songs of gratitude to those who brave the

ril life that ye may live, and still prove fair and free
fields, ob, bid this earnest prayer pre

And
Amidst y

" God guard t:

ships of England, o'er whatever sea they

LITERARY

NOTICES.

Punch's Almanac. Wareing Webb

leverest publications of the day.
vhich commences the volume for

The almanac,

stuffed full, crammed, and overrunning
with fun, merriment, and laughable absurdity. Rigdum
f sages, is completely thrown in the

the present

that sag,

Mounts has set so broad a stamp upon Punch's
to make one die with laughing.

shade
Almanac, that it is enong

The Commissioner. Curry and Co., Dublin ; Walmaley,

Liverpool

This ver

queer work contains many happy hits at things

and worldly follies in particular. We hardly
know what to make of it; the present number is a decided
improvement upon the former one. Perhaps as the story

in general

progresses we may become more interested. The illustra-
tions by Phiz (Leech) are the best part of the work.

The British Farmer's Magasime.—No. 20. Ridgway,
Piccadilly.

The farmer and agriculturist should by all means take this
periodical by the hand. It contains a great many articles
interest, reports of meetings, and valuable

upon SL

suggestions. The fallowing we quote, as deserving great
attention. The agricultural labourer is the only class that
march of intellect." "If igno-
-and assuredly the far-
mer's labourer is a perfect paradise. He rises with the lark,

cared for by tE

rance is bli

s folly to be wise,

and seeks his bed at sundown, and has no temptation to im-
mself—a book is rarely found in a farm house, ex-
Bible, and that we will say, and with little fear of
met with in ten houses out of twelve

on, is to

le of an agricultural district :

MPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE AGRICULTURAL

LABOURER,

stion worthy of consideration, whether, if,
e efforts made to disseminate agricultural

lower classes are duly cared for. There are
abundant proofs that the farmer need no longer be in doubt
,n which his predecessors had not the slight-
lg satisfied ; and to remain in ignorance of
of the day. A spirit of inquiry
y progressing; though not, perhaps, so ra-
night wish ; yet, nevertheless, that progres-
The evidence of this is obvious to all who
mk around ; for it can be seen in places where
nost sanguine expectants had hardly yet thought to

knowlt

a characteris

pidly as many
sion is certain

" This is as it should be, as far as the farmer is concerned,
but I fear the labourer is not proportionately provided for.
He remains, in too many cases, the same ignorant, unthink-
ing, neglected boor; indifferent to every thing but his work,
vasting his leisure time in discreditable ways, and reducing
;elf below the beasts of the field.
It is pretty generally admitted that a want of education
followers of agriculture has formed one chief obstacle
rapid advancement of that art. Where ignorance
v-mindedness and the most inveterate preju-
. recall ; and hence the difficulty of working
conviction on men labouring under their baneful influence.
Now, if the want of education have had such effect on the
onward course of improvement in the farmer's case, it will
readily be conceded that agriculture has suffered in a corres-
ponding degree from the ignorance of the labourer ; for it is
a well-known fact, that in hundreds of instances, where the
farmer has been desirous to adopt improvements, he has met
with such determined opposition from his labourers, as to
be compelled to abandon them I

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