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with stuff or wine, which he says is sherry of God knows how long, or hock of the days of Noah, and it is all the while the rinsing of wine-tubs. That must be put down with the utmost severity. Good manners will not permit you to tell him the truth, and rebel at once under such unworthy treatment; but if you wear a stiff collar, à la George Quatre, much may be done by turning your head round on the top of the vertebræ, and asking him in the most cognoscenti style, "Pray, Sir, have you ever tasted sheeraz, the favourite wine of Hafiz, you know?"-Perhaps he may have tasted it, and thereby defeat you by saying so; in which case you must immediately make a double reserve by adding---" For it always puts me in mind of that famous Chinese wine that they make at Yang-pootchoo-foo-nim-pang, which strikes me to be most delicious drinking." If you beat him this way two or three times, by mentioning wines he never heard of (and in order to make quite sure of that, it will be best to mention those which never were in existence), you will out-crow him in the opinion of the company, and he, finding his popularity declining, will not go on with any farther display.

Maxim Tenth.

On the subject of the last apophthegm, it must be remarked, that you should know that the most famous Rhenish is made at Johannisberg, a - very small farm, so small, that every drop made on it is consumed by the proprietor, Prince Metternich, or given away to crowned heads. You can always dumbfound any panegyrist of his Rhine-wine, by mentioning this circumstance. "Ay, ay," you may say, "it is pretty passable stuff, but it is not Johannisberg. I lived three years in that part of the country, and I flatter myself I am a judge.

Maxim Eleventh.

The reverend Edward Irving, a man for whom I have a particular regard, is nevertheless a quack. I never saw so horrible a squint-gestures so uncouth, a "tottle of the whole," so abominable. He is a dandy

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The work "De Tribus Impostoribus" never had any existence.— Well, be it so-I intend to supply this deficiency soon, and my trio shall consist of Neddy Irving, Joe Hume, and The Writer Tam: three men for whom I have a particular regard.

Maxim Thirteenth.

Poetry does not sell again in England for thirty years to come. Mark my words. No poetry sells at present, except Scott's and Byron's, and these not much. None of even their later poems have sold. Halidon Hill, Don Juan, &c. &c. are examples of what I mean. Wordsworth's poetry never sold: ditto Southey's: ditto even Coleridge's, which is worth them both put together: ditto John Wilson's: ditto Lamb's: ditto Lloyd's: ditto Miss Baillie's: ditto Rogers': ditto Cottle's, of whom Canning singeth:

"Great Cottle, not HE whom the EDDA made famous,

But JOSEPH, of BRISTOL-the BROTHER of Amos."

There was a pause in poetry-reading from the time of Pope till the time of Goldsmith. Again, there was a dead stop between Goldy and the appearance of the Scots Minstrelsy. We have now got enough to keep our fancy from starvation for thirty or forty years to come. I hate repletion. Maxim Fourteenth.

Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.

Maxim Fifteenth.

If you want good porter in London, you must always inquire where there is a stand of coal-heavers. The gentlemen of the press have voted porter ungenteel of late, after the manner of the Tenth. They deal chiefly in gin and water, at threepence sterling the tumbler; and their

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chief resorts are the Wrekin, and Offley's Burton ale-house, near Covent-Garden, where He of the Trombone and I have occasionally amused ourselves contemplating their orgies. The Finish is a place where they may also be seen now and then- I mean the upper ranks. The Cyder Cellar I do not admire-nor the Eccentric neither-but chacun à son goût.

COOKERY.

TO BOIL RABBITS.

Truss the rabbits close, with their heads turned on one side, and fastened with the same skewer as the fore-legs, which must be brought down, and the hind legs brought up to meet them; boil them three quarters of an hour if large ones; fifteen minutes will do for very small ones; lay them on a dish, and smother them with onion-sauce, or make sauce for them as follows: boil the liver, and bruise it very fine with a spoon; take out all the strings; put to it some good veal broth, a little parsley chopped fine, and some barberries, picked clean from the stalks; season it with mace and nutmeg; thicken it with a piece of butter rolled in flour; let the sauce be of a good thickness, and pour it over the rabbits; garnish with lemon and barberries; some like only the liver and parsley chopped fine, and put into melted butter.

TO ROAST RABBITS.

Baste them with butter, and dredge them with a little flour; half an hour will be sufficient time to do them at a clear quick fire, if they are not very large; take the livers, with a little bunch of parsley, and boil them; then chop them very fine together; melt some good butter, and put half the liver and parsley into it; pour it into the dish, and garnish with the other half; let the rabbits be done of a fine light brown.

TO BOII. A CALF'S HEAD.

The head must be picked very clean, and soaked in a large quantity of water a considerable time before

it is put in the pot; tie the brains up close in a piece of rag, with four sage-leaves and a sprig of parsley; put them into the pot at the same time with the head; scum the pot well; you will know when it is boiled enough by the tenderness of that part which joined the neck; a large head will take two hours boiling; chop the brains with the sage and parsley that were boiled with them, and one egg boiled hard; put them in a saucepan with a bit of butter; peel the tongue; slit it; lay it in a dish, and place the brains round it; the egg may be omitted if it is disliked; bacon or pickled pork and greens are proper to eat with it; some like parsley and butter with it.

HARICOT OF MUTTON.

Cut the best end of a neck of mutton into chops, in single ribs; fry them of a light brown; put them into a large saucepan, with two quarts of water, and a large carrot cut in slices; when they have stewed a quarter of an hour, put in two turnips, cut in square pieces, the white part of a head of celery, two cabbagelettuces fried (a few heads of asparagus if you have them) and season all with a little Cayenne pepper and salt; boil all together till tender; put it into a tureen or soup-dish, without any thickening to the gravy.

SWEET SAUCES FOR EITHER HARE OR VENISON.

Currant jelly warmed, or half a pint of red wine, with a quarter of a pound of sugar simmered over a clear fire for five or six minutes; or half a pint of vinegar, and a quarter of a pound of sugar simmered till it is a syrup.

DOMESTIC MEDICINE.

FOR SCORBUTIC BLOTCHES. Take two or three handsful of water-cresses bruised, to a quarter of a pint of milk, and simmer them over a slow fire until they assume a green colour. Bathe the hands or parts affected with this liquid, and rub it

in dryly by the fire. Afterwards moisten the parts with a little simple ointment, to prevent the glutinous portions of the milk from cracking or chopping the skin when in a drying state.

This is a remedy founded on good principles, and should be at least tried fairly.

FOR HOOPING COUGH.

Take of conserve of roses, raisins of the sun, stoned, brown sugarcandy, two ounces each, and twopennyworth of spirits of sulphur; beat them up into a conserve, and ake a tea-spoonful night and morning.

This is a mere palliative, and has no power in curing hooping cough.

'USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS.

Ointment for Indolent Ulcers. Take twenty grains of red precipitate powder, an ounce of common lard, and mix. Spread upon the smooth side of lint thinly, and dress the ulcer twice a day.

USEFUL RECEIPTS.

GERMAN MODE OF CURING HAMS.

In Westphalia hams are cured between November and March. The Germans pile them up in deep tubs, covering them with layers of salt, saltpetre, and a small quantity of bayleaves. In this situation they let them remain about four or five days, when they make a strong pickle of salt and water, with which they cover

water. When strained and pressed, three pounds of moist sugar are to be added to each gallon of liquid. After standing open for three days, during which it is to be stirred frequently, it is to be put into a barrel, and left for a fortnight to work, when a ninth part of brandy is to be added, and the whole bunged down. In a few months it will be most excellent wine.

TO MAKE SCOURING BALLS,

Portable balls for removing spots from clothes may be thus prepared. Fuller's earth perfectly dried, so that it crumble into a powder, is to be moistened with the clear juice of lemons, and a small quantity of pure pearl ashes then added. Knead the whole carefully together, till it acquire the consistence of a thick elastic paste: form it into small, convenient balls, and dry them in the sun. be used:---first moisten the spot on the clothes with water, then rub it with the ball, and let it dry in the sun; washing it subsequently with pure water will cause the spot entirely to disappear.

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TO PREVENT BEER FROM GROWING
FLAT.

Put into a cask, containing 18 gal in a bag, and close the bung perlons, a pint of ground malt, suspended fectly; the beer will be improved during the whole time of drawing it for use.

We thank R. S.-An Economist is

them completely; and at the expira- NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. tion of three weeks they take them out of pickle, soak them twelve hours in clean well-water, and hang them up for three weeks longer in a smoke made from the juniper bushes, which in that country are abundantly met

with.

COMPOUND WINE.

An excellent compound wine may be made of equal parts of red, white, and black currants, ripe cherries, and raspberries, well bruised and mixed with soft water, in the proportion of four pounds of fruit to one gallon of

in time.-X. Y. is received.-Publius as soon as possible.-L. R. will not do.

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

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

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

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HIND QUARTER-1 Sir Loin, 2 Rump, 3 Aitch Bone, 4 Buttock, 5 Mouse do., 6 Veiny pieces, 7 Thick Flank, 8 Thin do., 9 Leg. FORE QUARTER-10 Fore Rib, 11 Middle do., 12 Chuck, 13 Shoulder or Leg of Mutton piece, 14 Brisket, 15 Clod, 16 Neck or Sticking piece, 17 Shin, 18 Cheek.

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THE PAWNBROKER'S SHOг.

(Extracted from a Clergyman's Com nonPlace Book.)

I was turning the corner of an alley, after having visited a dying old man, when one of the most miserable objects of pity that I ever beheld rubbed against me in passing: she was a woman of about thirty years of age, but poverty had placed full fifteen more upon her: she held a flat or smoothing iron upon her fingers, and shivering with cold, scarcely a rag. upon her, she hurried into the sidedoor of a pawn-broker's shop a few paces. from me. I was struck with the appearance of the poor creature, and her evident necessities; so, after a moment's hesitation between my good and evil spirit, I walked slowly into the shop where she stood, and silently observed her. “I want fourpence on the iron, Thomas," said she, as she presented the flat. Fourpence! The demand of so small a sum upon that, without which, perhaps, the owner could not procure subsistence (for she appeared to be of the poorest description of washerwomen) riveted my attention. Thought I, she must be sadly pressed, poor creature, to pawn her smoothing iron for fourpence! I will follow her to her wretched abode, and examine her situation. In a few minutes, the pawnbroker, who seemed to be one well suited for his calling, both in soul and body, dispatched his loan to the poor woman, and she departed. I walked after her to her hovel, which was situated over a stable, and on her way she purchased a loaf. When she had entered, I raised the latch, and slowly ap proached the fire-place of the most wretched abode that imagination could depict. A few embers were on the hearth, before which stood a small crazy table, upon which was spread two or three broken tea-cups, and a mutilated tea-pot. Three little children sat on the ground near the table, while the wretched mother dealt out to each a slice of the loaf, for the pur chase of which her smoothing iron was pledged. The poor woman arose front her stool as I approached, and courtsied, with a woe-covered smile. I

apologized for "disturbing her, and added, that I came to inquire into her distress. I saw you pledge your smoothing-iron at the pawnbroker's for four-pence, and it occurred to me that you must therefore be in distress. -"O, Sir," said she, "I am truly in distress; my husband, who for many years earned thirty shillings a week, has been dead this half-year, and I have only a little washing to support myself and three children."-Then, smoothing-iron to carry said I, will you not require your on your work?" Yes, Sir," returned she, "I have but one, and as I had nothing else to pledge, I took that; but I shall be able to take it out of pawn to-night." I demanded how, and she replied, that she had some things in the wash which were to be mangled, and that those she would finish and take home by evening, the payment of which would enable her to redeem her smoothing-iron. And are you often obliged to resort to this method? Yes, Sir," was the reply. I put my hand in my purse, and gave her what I could afford, and what, I think, made her happy, if the tears which she shed upon my hand as she kissed it, were proofs of it.

I departed, and immediately returned to the pawnbroker's shop, where I found the proprietor leaning I addressed him politely, and exon his elbow waiting for a customer. pressed my wonder at the circumstance of the woman having pledged the smoothing-iron. "La, love you, Sir, that's nothing: why that woman. I'll be bound for it, pledges that same iron every second day; she is one of our regular customers!" Atter some further observations, the pawnbroker assured me that he had one (a pedlar) who every morning left his watch for a pound, and redeemed it at night!"-Here our conversation was interrupted by a little ragged boy, who came in to pledge a book, at which I departed heart-sick, and upon my way home calculated the amount of interest which this poor accommodation of the loan. The woman and the pedlar paid for the pedlar paid 2d. per day for the interest, and 2d. for the ticket; 4d. per

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