Litchfield enquirer., 1838-02-01

| "~NS~S' " "uA 0 possession IS all ln1S Tor one man what an item, 1 should say. in one mans possessions, an estate which, a few years since, as one of the family told me, when the rents, owing to great improve ments, were advanced something above 20 per cent. added. by that mere hitch, from 50.OOO to 6O,OOO per annum to his Lord. ships pin money! But it is time to come nearer home.
 The mansion, in tho library of which I now write, is large high brick building, succeed, with two prong-like porches, as one end, one of which serves for the pic- ture gallery, and the other for the servants abodes. On the whole it is rather a shab- by a1air--owing, doubtless, to the Earl's tavorite seat being on the Isle of Wight l his does well enough for a sort of farm- house, and to come and pass a hunting week or two in the course of the season. With such an understanding. the whole establish- mcnt is kept reduced, especially as the Earl has lately taken fit of retrenchment in,o his head. In fact am told there ara not above 30 serU0nts at this time in the house, instead ofthe good old allowance of 70 or so, when the family. with their guests. used to be here.
 1 What these 30 contrive to do is of course no affair of mine. only know that Ush- err is very civil fellow, who brings my tea, and that his business consists solely in the charge of the beer. He took me into his cellar last evening and showed me to begin with, 10 enormous butts of APO gallons, and 32 of 21O each, of various ages. The wine is in like proportion; and there is fat butler, and ekei an under- butler, with white apron on. Beyond this have at odd walks made the acquaintance of the brewers premises, whose establishment, though scarcely noticeable in tho little viG- lage of buildings that surround the Hall. | might be converted into tolerable gentle mans mansion. It is only his place of bu- siness, however. His domestic estahlish- ment is somewhere else.
 The head blacksmith has one of 40 or 50 acres and a nice snuggery in the midst.--. That is mile or two distant. The head gardener, close by, has also very good house. He keeps about dozen men cons stantly employed. The steward, or chief agent, has still better place--which looks very much like $3OOO year---wth walks and grounds ofits own. So have some o;h- er officers, including the huntsman. This
 
 his business probably over 200 years, and his son is now being sdac0ted for the same. Besides him two kennel-keepers, and two whippers-in must always be on hand ,for the good reason that tho dogs always are.- About 40 couples ofthem occupy, In vari- ous forms, what could be called a very de. cent suit of rooms, or 10 ofthem, in long brick building by themselves. ln the stables about 40 horses are kept at present, including 20 or 30 prime hunl- CTS, every one of which has a room rather than $ stable, and eyeryrtwo the attendance of a groom. Here, therefore, is work for IS at least. Aftor all, his Lordship does not hunt, though he once did. The estab- lisl,nent is kept up from habit, good feel- ing for his people, and for those of his fam- ily, and others, who may now and then come here for sport Ofcoursc, it is tho same with the dogs and their five men.--- Yet the expense is enormous, for it is with dogs and hunters in England, as with pie lures and hundred other things, that if a man keeps at all, he must take pains with and pride in. Doubtless the huntsman has the genealogy of each of these puppies in- fniiely better preserved than his own. \ know of enc young nobleman's giving 200 guneas for a dog ofa good family but I dare say it was m extraordinary case, for he was very dogged amateur.
 The Human Voice.-Onc remark must be made on the beautiful arrangement of the ap- paratus of the human voice. No musical in- strument can be compared with it, for even the most full organs and pianos are in some respects incomplete. Some of the instru- ments are incapable of passing from piano to forte, as in tho labial pipes; others cannot rest long on the same note, as all those which are sounded by striking. The organ possess ses two scales, from the labial and the tongue pipes, and is in this respect comparable with the human voice, with its chest and falSett0 notes but none ofthese instruments unite all advantages like the human vocal organ.-- It belongs to the class of those that have tongues and these, when uniting with sys- tenn of compromising pipes. are next to tho violin, the most complete of all. Yet again, the vocal has this perfection, that from one tongue pipe the compass of the whole gamut and all the required variations may be pro duced, while in the most complete artificial apparatus each note must have its own pipe. An artificial imitation of this organ would be in some measure attained by the arrange ment of tongue pipe with an apparatus ea- silly manipulated to produce the required de- grees of tension of the elastic bands; but the toue of such an instrument. for which only dry elastic bands could be used, would not be able to initiate the soft, full tone ofthe moist animal elastic tissue, and there always woui0 be n great difficulty in manipulating H. Professor Mailer.
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