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SHOE BLACKING.

To make Blacking-balls. Take of mutton-suet, four ounces; bees'-wax, one ounce; sugar-candy, one drachm; gum-arabic, one drachm, in fine powder. Melt these well together over a gentle fire, and add about a spoonful of turpentine, and lamp-black sufficient to give it a good black colour. While hot enough to run, make it into a ball, by pouring the liquid into a tin mould, or let it stand till almost cold, or it may be moulded by the

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allows of, in reference to the ser viees of the mind.

He that studies much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their digestion being not so good.

The exact quantity and quality being found out, it should be kept to constantly.

Excess in all other things whatever, as well as in meat and drink, is also to be avoided.

Youth, age, and sick, require a different quantity, and those also of contrary constitutions; for what is too much for the phlegmatic man, is not sufficient for the choleric. The measure of food ought to be, as much as possibly can, exactly proportionable to the quality and condition of the stomach, because the stomach digests it.

The quantity that is sufficient, the stomach can digest, and it suffices for the nourishment of the body. A greater quantity of some things may be eaten than others,---the difficulty lies in finding out an exact measure; but eat for necessity, not pleasure, for lust knows not where necessity ends. Would you enjoy a long life, a healthy body, and a vigorous mind, labour, in the first place, to bring your appetite into subjection to

reason.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Country Biscuit Epicure shall have, if possible, his request gratified.

Fabius is under consideration.. J. R.-Eating Houses shall be considered; it was a great imposition. A Constant Reader is thanked.

A. Z. L.-We mean no person whatever. Does the cap fit? A Bull Dog-may bark.

Ed. of Maling should read our first Number more attentively.

ERRATUM IN NO. VII. P. 121, second col., line 26 from bottom, for or doughty, read are doughty.

Communications (post paid) to be addressed to the Editors, at

THE PUBLISHERS, KNIGHT AND LACEY, 55, Paternoster-Row, London.

T. C. Hansard, Pater-noster-row Press,

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THE MARKETS.

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It would do some folks much good, who live a little distance off, to walk down early to Billingsgate market occasionally, to see the show of fish amongst the wholesale dealers, and judge of the relative prices. hour may be shuffled away here by the observant pedestrian, and be profitably spent by those who wish to purchase fish: the present ruling prices of this commodity are about as follows

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Turbots, 4s. to 12s. each; dorees, 18. to 12s.; salmon, 6d. to 1s. per lb. whitings, 2s. to 6s. the 15; haddocks, 65. to 12s. the dozen; soles, 1s. to 25. the pair; eels 1s. per lb.; flounders, 2s. to 3s. 6d. the 26; whitebait, 1s the pint; lobsters and crabs, all prices; prawns, 3s. the pound; shrimps, twice the price they ought to be.

Fish comes fresher to market now than formerly, thanks to the steamboats, who take the fishing-smacks in tow, and bring them up to London against wind and tide: these steamers are excellent inventions; they bring our soles to market, and carry our bodies to Margate; they are like Noah's ark, floating-houses, full of living inhabitants; but we are getting out of the market, and no wonder, for it is a dirty little hole, and sadly crouded. Walk with us, reader, if you please, to Leadenhall. " Buy pigeons, Sir," says a boy, standing in the market with several score of picked and unpicked birds before him; "only one shilling a pair." Pigeons do you call them? you want to pigeon me, I think; they are rooks." Hundreds of rooks were sold during the past week for pigeons, and thousands yet remain to sell. The poultry market is very scantily. supplied with dead birds. Live ones are plenty, and poor birds are selling cheap.-Butter, best fresh, fourteen pence the pound; best salt, one shilling the pound.-Cheese: Cheshire cheese, 683. to 84s. the hundred weight; double Gloucester, 66s. to 74s.; single Gloucester, 50s. to 60s. In butchers' meat there is little variation; the warmth of the weather is against purchasing a stock. By the way, we

have tried and proved a useful suggestion to restore stale meat, and prevent any unpleasant taste at table:-Boil a lump or two of charcoal with it-simple, but very true.

The market-stalls groan beneath the weight of vegetables; prices can scarcely be quoted, as they are daily decreasing; in fact, there is little to complain of in the price of any description of provision, except indeed that of the most important--BREAD, which is now selling by the full-priced bakers at tenpence farthing the four-pound loaf, when, according to the price of wheat, it might be sold, and ought to be sold, at seven-pence halfpenny, or at the very utmost eight-pence: there must be an alteration.

HOUSE PAINTING.

(Continued from page 135.) YELLOWS. There are several substances used in painting for yellows, for common purposes; yellow ochre is generally used, especially where it is intended to remain of that colour; but if you want a real fine yellow, use chrome yellow, which should be worked with white lead, to give it body; if you require a deep shade, a tint of vermilion will improve it.

YELLOW PINK is a useful and cheap colour; it grinds easily, and bears a good body, a little inclined to green; but if you want a fine yellow, we say again use chrome for your life; it beats every thing else.

ORPIMENT or YELLOW ARSENIC. We only mention this because it is a yellow, and sometimes used; it is difficult of grinding, of a poisonous nature, and very dangerous to use; avoid it if you can.

MASTICOTT is a good light yellow, chiefly used in making greens; it grinds fine, and bears a good body.

BLUES. Prussian blue is a beautiful colour, of a tolerable body, and greatly used for a variety of greens, by mixing with yellow and with white-lead, to a variety of tints, and is the ground-work for the verdigris, which will make it bear out, and produce a most beautiful green.

INDIGO is a very dark blue, when

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worked by itself; it is, therefore, gene rally mixed with more or less whitelead, according to the shade required; it grinds very fine, and lies with a good body, and is much used in common painting; the longer this colour is ground, the better it looks.

SMALTS. Of all blues, smalt is the most beautiful, if viewed at a distance; it is a sandy colour, that carries no body in oil, nor must it be mixed with oil without white-lead, as it changes it to a black, and if mixed with white-lead, it loses its beauty, and appears faint: the proper way to use it, is by strewing as follows: temper white-lead pretty stiff with good boiled linseed oil, as stiff as you can well use it, with the brush; cover Över the work you intend to strew with smalt with this; be very careful completely to cover it, otherwise the smalt will not take; then strew the smalt thickly over, and stroke it over regularly with the feather of a goose-quill, to make it lie even and thick alike in all places; then dab it down close with a piece of linen cloth, that it may take well upon the ground laid under it; when the ground is quite dry, wipe off the loose colour with a feather, and blow the remainder off with a pair of bellows. If the work only requires a plain beautiful colour, it is now finished. We should mention, that the work upon which you lay the white-lead to be strewed with smalt, should be primed over once with white before you lay on the ground, and observe that the ground be per fectly white, which is essential to the beauty of the colour of the smalt; if the ground should not happen to be quite flat, take up some smalt on a flat piece of linen cloth, and dab it upon the ground you are to lay it upon.

GREENS. Any blue and yellow forms a green; Prussian blue, mixed with yellow ochre, or with masticott, forms a good green for common purposes, which may be reduced to any lighter tint by mixing it with whitelead; verdigris, however, is the best and most useful green; it is the rust of brass; it is a delicate green, indining to blue; mixed with a little

yellow pink, it makes a delicate grassgreen; it grinds very fine, lies with a good body, and works well; there is a preparation of it called distilled verdigris, which is wholly purified from dross and filth, of good use in fine works, but too dear for common painting.

PATENT GREEN is a beautiful green; its manufacture is a secret; it is cheaper than verdigris, and may be had at most of the oil-shops.

GREEN VARNISH is useful for wirescreens, fenders, window-blinds, and small articles.

(To be continued.)

WOMAN.

What is she? one of the most lovely and charming creatures in the world; to her we are indebted as the spring from whence alone all our domestic happiness and comforts flow; she it is who has power to enhance our enjoyments and pleasures of life, and every stroke of sorrow and adversity to alleviate: if fortune smiles on us, we have the power of sharing it with her whose smile imparts that real and stable pleasure unknown through riches: but in prosperity we know but little of her; it dims and conceals from our observation many of those nobler feelings and refined sentiments she possesses. He best can tell her worth who has drunk deep at the fount of ease and luxury; he who in cessantly has run the giddy round of every pleasure money could purchase, or his thoughts suggest; in these moments of riot and revelry he might feel happy with her, but he little knew her stirling value; let him, by some unexpected stroke of adversity, be reduced to poverty and want: who is it then that will endeavour, by kindness and affection, to sooth his wounded mind? his wife. Who, when all besides seem to frown, is it that endeavours to place before his broken spirit the cheering ray of hope? his wife. Who, under his accumulated scene of misfortunes is still his firm and faithful friend? and who, though poverty has sunk him in the estimation of an interested world, still feels for him that love which time nor change of circumstances can alter or

diminish? his wife. He reflects upon past scenes of splendor, and is driven nearly to despair; he thinks his happiness and peace of mind for ever gone: let him shake off that unmanly sorrow-let him take example from his wife. O man! where is thy boasted resolution, where thy firm ness and unshaken nerve, thy wonted boast in the hour of prosperity? Behold thy wife, she whom poverty cannot rob you of: she has a fortitude of mind, a firmness of resolution in the hour of adversity, which we should do well to imitate. Observe her who, but a short time since, moved in the gay circles of fashion, now reduced to the lowest ebb of want-watch her minutely hear ye not her deep and farfetched sigh, not for herself, but her husband? She who had been a stranger to every employment, now, with a nobleness of feeling peculiar to herself, assures him of better days; endeavours to persuade him to collect himself, and all will yet be well; and she accepts with gratitude and thanks the slender means which may chance to offer, of procuring, by honest industry, a small and scanty pittance: it is in these moments all the excellence of woman shines forth with increasing splendor: she remains the same either in poverty or riches; she whom we call the weaker sex is in fact the stronger; she not only possesses a firmer mind and resolution, but her feelings are more retined and sensitive: she inherits a large portion of sympathy for the misfortunes of others, and deals it out in plenty upon every trifling occasion; her love, when once obtained, is obtained for ever; and she never fails (as far as is consistent with female delicacy) to convince the object of her affections of her ardent attachment; she does not, like the lords of the creation, endeavour to make a conquest of a heart merely to desert it.

While in good health and spirits the dissipated man flies from one scene of vice to another, and is dead to every real enjoyment of happiness and contentment; let him reflect for one moment upon the enviable lot of the domestic man, and his own: he marries surely not to increase his com

forts, for he is incapable of feeling any; ; he, like the unthinking many, considers woman a being of no importance, one who must bear the brunt of his ill-humours and intoxicated hours; if he has an out-door business to follow, he works but half the week, and his small earnings he contrives to spend in the other half, thus leaving his wife destitute of every necessary: night after night finds him the constant companion of a pothouse if you argue the point with him, he assures you he will mend; but the company is irresistible; "they are a set of good fellows, and be sides, they would consider his absence a mark of ill-nature, as he possesses a good voice." Shame ! shame! has thy wife no voice? will you turn a deaf ear to the supplicating cry of injured innocence? she whom thou hast taken from a comfortable home, where every mark of paternal kindness was her's; she whom a few months since you accompanied to the foot of the sacred altar, and, in the presence of thy Maker, swore to love and protect! you have violated the solemn vow---you leave her unprotected; and at that lone hour when the busy hum of toil has ceased, and all, except fellows of thy own cast, are enveloped in the arms of sleep! Yes, she is left to brood upon the melancholy of her unhappy situation, and of those lost comforts she has left at home. Say! tell me! what are thy feelings at thy return home at this unseasonable hour? does the love-beaming eye of thy affectionate wife welcome thy return? No! her eye has lost its once unsullied lustre; the heavy sigh escapes her, and her pallid cheek be trays a soul of sorrow, and acquainted with grief. Can you behold this lovely creature sinking under the weight of thy ill usage, and not feel one spark of sympathy? Man! man! reflect upon thy conduct: wilt thou still continue to betray unoffending woman, and leave to infamy and shame that being whom thou art bound to cherish and protect; but beware of retribution, and ere it be too late, atone for thy past follies; remember she has a soul, and if by thy seducing arts she fall from the path of virtue, and is lost for

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