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as much transparent soap as is sold för two shilings!

TO DRY PARSLEY, &c.

To dry parsley and other pot-herbs, gather them in a dry season; pick off all discoloured and rotten leaves, well separated from earth and dust, placed in a sieve, covered with blotting paper, and exposed to the heat of the sun or of a stove in a dry airy place, and frequently turned; the quicker they are dried the better. Aromatic herbs, if not dried quickly, will lose much of their flavour; they may be dried before the fire in a Dutch oven; when dried, they should be well sifted in a large mesh sieve; if the leaves are separated from the stalk previous to drying, the operation will be more speedy: parsley thus prepared, is very pleasant and useful; it breaks into parts as small as are obtained by chopping: when you want parsley and butter, you need only put a small quantity into the saucepan with the butter; it will save the trouble of chopping. All dried herbs should be kept from the air in paper bags.

TO DESTROY BUGS.

If you are troubled with bugs in' your house, and would be relieved, get half a drachin of corrosive subImate, dissolved in a quarter of an vunce of spirits of salts; mix it with a quart of turpentine; shake it up well with a small brush; wash well the places where your unwelcome guests resort, and they will soon leave you; do not buy the corrosive subliinate until you want to use it: mix it' at once; it is a dangerous article to lay about, being deadly poison.

ESSENCE OF GINGER.

The fragrant aroma of ginger is so extremely volatile, that it evaporates almost as soon as it is pounded-the fine lemon peel goût flies off presently.

If ginger is taken to produce an immediate effect-to warm the stomach-dispel flatulence, &c., or as an addition to aperient medici:e

THE MARKETS. THE following have been the ruling prices for the last week :

MEAT.-Beef, per stone of 8 lbs., 2s. 4d. to 3s. 4d.; mutton, 2s. 8d. to 3s. Sd.; veal, 3s. to 4s.; pork, 3s. to 4s. 8d.; lamb, 4s. to 4s. 8d.

POULTRY, &c.---Turkey polts, each 3s. 6d. to 7s.; geese, each, 3s. 6d. to 7s.; fowls, per couple, 5s. to 98.; chickens, each, 1s. 3d. to 2s. ; ducks, each, 1s. 6d. to 35.; eggs, per 100, 5s. to 6s. 6d. ; butter, fresh, per lb. 10d. to 1s. 1d.; rabbits, each, 6d. to 1s. 3d.; pigeons, each, 4d. to 7d.

FISH.-Scarce any of the finny tribe at market, except salmon (6d. to 9d. the pound); lots of oysters and other shell-fish.

FLOUR.---Town made, per sack, 55s. to 60s.; ditto, seconds, 50s. to 558.

BREAD.--The highest price of bread in the metropolis is 10d. for the 4 lb. loaf: the proper price is 1d. below that rate.

POTATOES.---3s. to 4s. per cwt. Do not buy a stock; they will not keep yet.

CANDLES. (For credit) dips, 8s. 6d. per dozen; moulds, 10s. (For ready money) dips, 7s.; moulds, 9s.: retailed at the same average per Ib. Beware of plated candles, for an account of which, see a former Number.

MODERN MARKETS.-NO. III.

Billingsgate.

This market, appropriated for the sale of fish, is situated between the Tower and London-bridge, on the London side of the River Thames: there is a small dock, chiefly used by the oyster smacks. The whole market is not a third large enough for its purpose, and its present situation renders its enlargement difficult. The Custom-House bounds it on the east, and the wharf belonging to the EastIndia Company on the west; on the north, the houses in Thames-street, which stand at the bottom of a hill. If the line of houses which now stand in the market were pulled down, and the passage called Darkhouse-lane, the -market might be opened to Thamesstreet, and but for the hill, extended

farther north; but there would be the inconvenience of the carts and carriages passing through the market. There are various spots better calculated in point of size than Billingsgate for a fish-market, as Queenhithe, or Hungerford market; but being above London-bridge, the smacks could not easily be brought so high up: as it is, this is a dirty little hole, quite unworthy of the City of London, and ill adapted for the immense business done here. The Gravesend boats ply here, and daily sail upon the ringing of a bell at high water: surely they might take in their passengers higher up, at a sufferance wharf, and let the expense be borne by the passengers; as it is, they tend to crowd the market, to annoy the fish dealers, and subject the passengers to great inconvenience. Billingsgate is not only a market, but a school, and notorious for its peculiar language; so that a lady who excels in this particular, is complimented with the appellation of a Billingsgate. Reformation and improvement has reached even here: the fishmongers, if not so refined as Mons. Calicot of Bond-street, are civil; and as to the ladies of the market, we would fain describe them: gallantry impels on the one hand, but their retiring delicacy forbids on the other

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Jay what the fair should be, and they are that."

if removed by such tenant, must be replaced before his departure, or he becomes liable to an action for waste.

A tenant may remove erections and utensils necessary for trade, as brewing utensils, furnaces, coppers, fire engines, cyder-mills, vats for green and hot-houses, or a barn erected upon the premises upon blocks of timber, notwithstanding there be a covenant to leave all buildings which then were or should be erected upon the premises in repair; for such covenant only includes all buildings annexed to and become part of the reversionary estate.

The articles removable must, however, have previously been put in by the tenant; they also must be removed within the term, otherwise they become a gift in law to the reversioner.

In a case where a tenant had ́erected a barn upon the premises, and put it upon pattens and blocks of timber lying upon the ground, but not fixed either in or to the ground; and upon proof that it was usual in that county to erect barns so, in order to carry them away at the end of the term, a verdict was given for the defendant. The decision was, however, founded upon the custom of the county.

A man selling a house, where there is a copper or a brew-house, and where there are utensils, unless there were some consideration given, and a valuation set upon them, it has been held that they will not pass.

In a case where the defendant had taken down two sheds, called Dutch barns, which he had erected during his term, Lord Kenyon observed, "If á tenant would build upon premises demised to him a substantial addition to the house, or add to its magnificence, he must leave his additions at the expiration of the term, for the benefit of his landlord: but the law would take the most favourable constructions for the tenant, where he had made necessary and useful erections for the bencfit of his trade or manufacture, and which enabled him to carry it on to more advantage; it had been held so in the case of cydermills, and in other cases, and he

should not narrow the law, but hold, erections of this sort made for the benefit of trade, or constructed as the present, to be removeable at the end of his term.".

But it was determined, that a tenant in agriculture, who erected, at his own expense, and for the more necessary and convenient occupation of his farm, a beast-house, carpenter's shop, fuel-house, cart-house, pumphouse, and fold-yard wall, which buildings were of brick and mortar, and tiled, and let into the ground, cannot remove the same, though during his term, and though he thereby left the premises in the same state as when he entered.

Ornamental marble, pier glasses, hangings, and even wainscots, fixed only by screws, and chimney pieces, are held to be removeable, if put up by the tenant during his term.

In general, whatever a tenant has put up in a house for his convenience, he may remove, if done within the term, except such things as cannot be removed without injury to the premises.

Payment of Rent and Taxes.

Rent for tenements let from year to year, is commonly due at the four quarterly festivals, viz. Lady-Day, or March 25th; Midsummer-day, or June 24th; Michaelmas-day, or September 29th ; and Christmas-day or December 25th.

In general, however, a tenant need not pay his rent until it be demanded on the premises.

Every quarter's rent is deemed as a separate debt, for which the landlord can bring a separate action, or distress for non-payment.

Where a tenant occupies any place by a verbal agreement only, if any dispute arise respecting the rent, the landlord may, in a court of law, recover a reasonable rent for the same.

The landlord himself is the person most proper to demand rent; if he employs another person, he must be duly authorized by letter or power of attorney, or demand may be objected

to.

If a landlord wishes to take advantage of a re-entry for non-pay

ment of rent, he must be careful to demand, neither more nor less than is due; he must also show the certainty of the rent, and when it was due, otherwise the demand will not be good, nor will any re-entry be given him. The rent must be demanded on the premises, or at the front door of the house, previous to the re-entry.

Distress is the most casy and proper method to recover rent in arrear; but if the tenant tenders the arrcars, the distress must be withdrawu.

A tenant may not lawfully remove goods from a house before his rent be paid, without leave of his landlord.

Tenants are required to pay such sums of money as shall be rated on the premises, and to deduct so much out of their rents as the landlord ought to have paid.

By the annual land-tax acts, the tenant is directed to pay the landtax, and authorized to deduct it out of his rent. Disputes between landlords and tenants, in respect to this matter, are to be determined by the commissioners.

Though a tenant covenants to pay the reserved rent" without any deduction or abatement whatever," it has been determined, that the tenant may nevertheless deduct and retain the land-tax out of his rent, if such is to be paid by the landlord.

So he may likewise ground rent, which he may have paid on a demand from the ground-landlord, and also money expended in repairs.

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A covenant extends only to such things as are in being at the time of the agreement: therefore, where a tenant covenants to pay "all taxes, this binds him to the payinent of such taxes only as were in being when the lease was made, and not taxes or charges afterwards imposed.

And where it is covenanted in a lease, that the tenant shall pay all taxes, except land-tax, it has been held, that this exception extends only to the tax payable at the time of the demise, and not to the additional land-tax, which may be occasioned by an improvement of the eskuta

Form of a Receipt for Rent.

June 30, 1824. Received of Mr. A. B. the sum of ten pounds, ten shillings, for a quarter's rent, due at Midsummer-day last. C. D.

£10 10 0 ..

Double Rent.

If any tenant for life or years, or other persons who shall come in possession, by form, or under him, shall wilfully hold over any lauds, tenements, or hereditaments, after the determination of such term, and after demand made, and notice in writing given for delivering up the possession thereof, he shall, for the time that he shall so hold over, pay double the yearly value thereof; to be recovered by action of debt, in any court of record.

In case any tenant shall give notice of his intention to quit the premises holden by him, and shall not deliver up possession according to such notice, then the tenant shall from thenceforward pay to the landlord double the rent or sum which he should otherwise have paid; to be levied, sued for, and recovered in the same manner as single rent; and such double rent shall be paid all the time the tenant continues in possession.

If after notice of double rent be expired, a single rent be accepted, such acceptance will prevent the penalty, until notice be again given, and the time expired.

The notice to be given by the tenant may be either by parole or in writing; but that to be given by the landlord is expressly required to be in writing; and no given length of time is required previous to the expiration of the notice; for the double value can be recovered only by action of debt, but the double rent is recoverable by distress or otherwise, like single rent.

Law of Repairs and Waste.

If a landlord covenants to repair a house, and does not, the tenant may repair, and deduct the expenses out of the rent; and if the landlord should bring an action of debt for the rent, the tenent may nland thạ