So long, however, as any moisture remain in the straw, the field will be found to be the best stack-yard; and where grass or weeds of any kind are mixed with the crop, patience must be exerted till they are decayed and dried, lest heating be occasioned.

COOKERY.

MUTTON CHOPS DELICATELY STEWED,

AND GOOD MUTTON BROTH.

Put a pound of chops into a stewpan with cold water enough to cover them, and half a pint over, and an onion; when it is coming to a boil, skim it; cover the pan close, and set it over a very slow fire, till the chops are tender; if they have been kept a proper time, they will take about three quarters of an hour's very gentle simmering: send up turnips with them; they may be boiled with the chops; skim well; and then send all up in a deep dish, with the broth they were stewed in.

N. B.-The broth will make an economist one, and the meat another wholesome and comfortable meal.

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USEFUL RECEIPTS.

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RESTORE THE BLACKNESS OLD LEATHER CHAIRS, &c. Take two yolks of new-laid eggs, and the white of one. Let these be well beaten up, and then shaken in a glass vessel or jug, to become like thick oil; dissolve in about a table-spoonful or less of spirits of wine, an ordinary tea-lump of loaf-sugar; make this thick with ivory-black, well worked up with a bit of stick; mix with the egg for use. Let this be laid on as blacking ordinarily is for shoes; after a very few minutes, polish with a soft, very clean brush, till completely dry and shining; then let it remain a day

to harden.

The same process answers admirably for ladies cordovan, or gentlemen's dress-shoes, but with the following addition for protecting the stockings from soil. Let the white or glaire of eggs be shaken in a large glass

phial, until it becomes a perfect oil; brush over the inner edges of the shoes with it, and when completely dry, it will prevent all soiling from the leather. This requires to be repeated.

TO VARNISH DRAWINGS AND CARDWORK.

Boil some clear parchment cuttings in water, in a glazed pipkin, till they produce a very clear size. Strain it, and keep it for use.

Give the work two coats of the size, passing the brush quickly over the work, not to disturb the colours.

TO MAKE CAMP PAPER, WITH WHICH ΤΟ WRITE WITHOUT PEN, INI, OR PENCIL.

Take some hard soap; mix it with lamp black; make it into the consistence of a jelly, with water; with this, brush over one side of your paper, and let it dry; when you use it, put it between two sheets, with its black side downwards; and with a pin or stick, with a sharp point, draw or write what you please upon the clean paper; and where the tracer has touched, there will be the impression upon the lowermost sheet of paper, as if it had been written or drawn

with a pen. It may be made of any, by mixing the soap with different

colours.

it close to keep in the steam, and set it on a slow fire till they become soft. Take them out of the pan, and take off the skins with a penknife; then put them in the same water again, with vine-leaves, which must be cold, or they will crack. Put in

a little alum, and set them over a slow fire till they are green; then take them out, and lay them on a sieve to drain. Make a good syrup, and give them a gentle boil for three days; then put them into jars, with paper dipped in brandy laid over them. Stone jars I think preferable for sweetmeats.

WITHOUT BOILING. Pick the fruit clean from the stems, and send them to the oven to bake; or, you may put them in a jar or pan, in a kettle of hot water, till they are fit to use, as you may prefer. Allow a pint of juice to a pound of water. Roll the sugar to a fine powder, put it in a jug, and pour the syrup boiling hot on the sugar, which keep stirring till all the sugar be dissolved; then pour it into the glasses, and when cold, tie it down in the usual way. Pour all the juice you can from the currants before you squeeze them, as the first will be the clearest. The juice you press out must be put in a

saucepan, to be made hot, or it will not dissolve the sugar so readily; but it is equally as good as the other.

PICKLES.

TO PICKLE NASTURTIUMS.

Gather the berries dry: throw them into cold vinegar with some salt in it. They are an excellent substitute for capers.

TO MAKE MANGOES.

Take large cucumbers: cut a slice out of the sides, and take out the pulps clean. Fill them with shallots, brown mustard-seed, and sliced horse-radish; tie them up, and put them into jars; boil the vinegar, and pour it over them; let them stand four days; throw a handful of salt over them, and put them on the fire covered with vine-leaves. When they are green, put them into the jars; then boil the vinegar with some ginger and whole pepper, and pour

over them.

INDIA PICKLE.

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Take three quarts of strong vinegar, half a pound of salt, a quarter of a pound of shallots, two ounces of ginger, one ounce of white pepper whole, two ounces of mustard-seed, half an ounce of mace, and half a table-spoonful of Cayenne pepper. Boil it all together in the vinegar, and when cold, put it into a stone jar, and add two ounces of flour of mustard.

You may put in what fruit and vegetables you please, fresh as they are gathered, but they must be perfectly dry.

ENGLISH WINES.

PARSNIP WINE.

Take three pounds of boiled parsnips to every gallon of water, allowing three pounds of sugar to cach gallon. The parsnips should be bruised and pressed, then strained, and the liquor put into the cask.

GINGER WINE.'

Boil ten ounces of ginger for an hour in one gallon of water: let it stand a day or two closely covered; then strain, and add to it eighteen pounds of loaf-sugar, the juice of ten lemons, and ten Seville oranges pared very thin, the rinds steeped in two gallons of water for two days, then strained, and all put into the cask together: put a little more water to the ginger and rinds together: let it stand two days, then fill up the cask to hold six gallons and a half, wine measure: the juice having been put to the sugar, and the water to the rinds, the same day the ginger was boiled. Put to the above half a pinc of brandy..

Another Way.

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Take fourteen pounds of sugar, six gallons of water, four ounces of ginger bruised, and the rinds of four lemons: boil them together half an hour, keeping them well scummed. When cold, put it into the cask, with three pounds of cut raisins, the juice of the lemons, three spoonsful of yeast, and half an ounce of isinglass. Stir ̧` it often for about six days; then add a pint of brandy, and stop it close In six weeks, or two months, you' may drink it.

POETRY.

A MAN AND A FLEA. Oft to my sad reluctant lot it falls To note two sanguinary animals, Whose nature 'tis, for mind and body's food,

To feast exultingly on human blood. The one, form'd to embellish Nature's plan,

Yet glories in defacing it, is-MAN! The other, given man's bed-fellow tobe, Yet joys to break his slumbers, is-a FLEA!

Meet comrades! Man's a flea on the world's bosom

A flea's a man upon the microcosm!!

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Agreeably to the plan we proposed at the commencement of our publication, we will give a series of articles upon the various trades and professions, with such remarks thereon as may enable our readers to judge of the com parative advantages of each; and upon this, as indeed upon every topic of general usefulness, we will esteem ~ any communications from correspondents a particular favour; and we beg leave to ob serve, as a certain miniature painter did, "there is no occasion to come dressed:"

really useful information, in any garb, will always be acceptable. Under the head of "Trades and Professions" in our next, we will treat on the trade of a PRINTER.

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A Constant Reader is informed that we are fully convinced of the frauds and tricks which house-letters in gene ral practise they shall be noticed in due! time.

A Mechanic must put up with his loss; unfortunately there is no remedy. A. B. C. of Highgate, has obliged us The verses upon the Stock Exchange, if inserted, would injure many deserving individuals.

Mark L. will find an answer to his Query in the second Number of the Economist.

X.Y.Z.-A Reader of the EconomistCharley-J.P.& S.W. have come to hand.

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

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

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THE MARKETS. MEAT-The weather has most unfavourable lately for the meat market. Nearly a third of the meat slaughtered in the latter end of last week was spoiled: one butcher in Leadenhall had thirty pounds of beef spoiled. Beef and mutton are of about an equal price-from 6d. to 8d. the pound; veal, lamb, and pork a penny per pound dearer. There was a good supply of beasts at Smithfield on Monday last (beside the bipeds-it was fair time), and brought last week's prices.

POULTRY, &c.-Turkeys, 4s. 6d. to 7s.; geese, 4s. 6d. to 7s.; fowls, per couple, 3s. 6d. to 7s.; ducks, each, 28. to 3s.; eggs, per hundred, 53. 6d. to 8s.; butter, fresh, 1s. to 18. 3d.; butter, salt, 9d. to 1s.; rabbits, 1s. to 1s. 6d. ; pigs, 5s. to 7s.

FISH-Very little at market: soles, which are in season all the year round; some fine carp, salmon, and cod, with oysters, all pretty cheap.

FLOUR, per sack of 280 lbs.-fine, 55s. to 60s.; seconds, 50s. to 55s.

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BREAD 10d. the four-pound loaf: more shame the bakers, and more fools the buyers! Honest bakers sell the same for 8d., and wise and honest folks deal with them.

Best coals 52s. per chaldron laid in. BEER The London porterbrewers are strongly recommended to lower the prices of their beer, but by no means to lower its quality.

GAME.-There are certain places where this contraband article may be purchased. Partridges, 7s. the brace; pheasants, 16s. to 20s. the brace; heres, 8s. to 10s. each.

Pains and penalties, fines, imprisonment, transportation, and even death itself await the poacher;_ _yet the system it still continued. How long will the legislature suffer this disgraceful relic of the feudal system to continue?

Our Plate of this Number repre sents a merchant who has become the victim of this most horrible of all vices: he is about to commit the act of self-destruction, having lost his own property as well as that of others. Hell opens before his frantic eye, yet he is not terrified! The fiend that led him to the gaming-table, now urges him to the gulf of misery, and at one plunge he enters it. Oh! where is his family-his affectionate and ruined wife-his lisping, helpless, and innocent children - his drooping father, and his care-worn mother? Where is the hand that once dealt comfort to them all? Alas! it now grasps the fatal pistol, and at one movement completes the destruction of all!

We request our readers to read at• tentively our remarks upon gaming which are contained in our preceding Numbers, in order to show them the impossibility of gaining at this horri ble vice. Who ever saw a gmester rich? None. He may be in pro fusion to-day; but to-morrow sees him a beggar!

TRADES. NO. I.

(Printing.)

In whatever light this art is viewed, it claims indeed the highest respect and attention. From the ingenuity of the contrivance, it has ever excited mechanical curiosity; and from its connection with learning, and its in fluence on the human character, it is certainly the most important invention with which the world has been benefitted.

The principal workmen employed in this art are of two kinds-compo sitors, who range and dispose the letters into words. lines: pages, &c; and pressmen, who take off the im pression.

The COMPOSITOR distributes each kind of type by itself, among the divi sions of two wooden frames, an upper and lower, called cases; each of which is divided into little cells or boxes. Each case is placed a little aslope, that the compositor may the more easily reach the upper boxes.

Before the compositor proceeds to compose, he puts a rule, or thin slip