POTATOES AND BROCOLI. AFTER young potatoes are cleared from the rows, and the ground well dug in the form of shallow trenches, and manured, it will be found advantageous to transplant spring brocoli plants in the trenches. It flourishes greatly after potatoes, as does wheat upon a large scale in farming. The refuse of the flax plant, and also that of parsnips, is equally favourable, with the potatoe, to a good crop of wheat, if sown after they are severally removed. -Morning Post. REMITTANCES BY POST. THE frequent losses of money inclosed in letters which have happened lately, induce us to call the attention of our readers to the following notice. They should be very careful how they entrust money to any mode of conveyance which does not insure its safe delivery. This is now done by the Post Office in the manner explained below, and it will be people's own fault if their remittances should be lost, after this time. The expense (sixpence for every sovereign) is not much, considering the advantage gained; and the person to whom the money is sent has only to call at the Post Office, on receiving the letter, and then he will obtain the sum from the Post-master, instead of having it in the letter. Post Office Notice.-A notice has recently been issued by the Post Office authorities, cautioning the public not to trust the conveyance of sovereigns and half-sovereigns in letters, as great risk of loss is incurred, and recommending persons wishing to transmit such coin to obtain a money-letter order, which will for the future be granted to the amount of 51., at the General Post Office, and the branch offices. It is presumed that this order has been made in consequence of the numerous miscarriages of money letters since the New Postage Act came into operation, before the receivers were directed to take the precautions now used to prevent the loss of such letters.Weekly Paper. PENNY POSTAGE.-ADHESIVE STAMPS. WITH regard to the Penny Postage, these adhesive stamps have given the question quite an unexpected and novel feature, as will be seen by the following paragraph, which we extract from the Westminster Review: "These stamps will, moreover be a very convenient and novel paper currency for sums of small amount. Indeed for any sums whatever under a pound sterling. A sheet of the adhesive stamps, minus two cut off, will be good paper for 19s. 10d.; a sheet minus five will be good for 19s. 7d, and so on. Correspondents will pay small debts of pence through the medium of these penny stamps. You wish to order a twopenny pamphlet or a fivepenny newspaper; by transmitting in an envelope the required number of stamps you effect the payment, which, for such sums, there are no ready means of doing at present."Northampton Herald. MODE OF STICKING PEAS. THE following mode of sticking peas, especially the taller varieties, is both cheap and simple, and possesses many advantages. Procure a number of strong thick stakes or thin poles, in length according to the height of the peas, from five to ten feet, and drive them into the ground on each side of the row, at the distance of three or four yards. Pass a small line along the poles, taking a turn on each within a few inches of the ground; and as the peas advance, raise the next turn a little higher, and so on in succession till they have attained their full height. Sow the tendrils of the peas and truss them round these lines, by which they will be supported in a better manner than by the common method of sticking. When spread regularly along the lines, they have a fine circulation of air, and pods can be pulled at all times without injuring the haulm; and as the birds have no twigs to alight on, the portion of the crop which they otherwise would devour and destroy is saved. An excellent way to preserve peas or beans from mice is to chop up the tops of the last year's shoots of furze, and sow them in drills.-Vegetable Cultivator. EXTRACTS FROM THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS, &c. GREAT PRODUCE.-In the spring of last year, a respectable farmer, residing at Whillimoor, purchased a bushel of barley, of the early ripe kind, weighing twelve stone, for 19s., which he sowed upon some potato land, and in the autumn it had yielded not less than 126 stooks. The land from which this astonishing produce has just been reaped is part of it tile-drained five yards asunder and one yard deep, the tiles being covered with brushwood and topped with soil.-Carlisle Paper. EFFECTS OF INTEMPERANCE.-Dr. Corsellis, in a letter from Wakefield Lunatic Asylum, dated Feb. 29, gives the following statement of the number of insane patients admitted into the following asylums, whose malady was caused by the awful propensity of drunkenness :-Glasgow, 37 males and 18 females; Aberdeen, 10 males and 3 females; Edinburgh, 11 males and 13 females; Dundee, 5 males and 3 females; Wakefield, 52 males and 20 females.-Cambridge Chronicle. INTEMPERANCE AND CRIME. [Extract from the charge of Jas. Clarke, Esq. Recorder of Liverpool, to the Grand Jury, at the late Epiphany Sessions.]" Perhaps the grand jury would hardly credit him when he stated that one-fifth of the cases in the calendar were attributable to intemperance, and to that only." MORE VICTIMS.-Six inquests have recently been held at Rotherham, in four weeks, all caused by drunkenness. Thirteen men have died in five years at a brewery near Huddersfield; but what is still worse, twelve of them died delirious!! JUST ESCAPED.-When I was a drunkard, I was three times run over with a cart, three times taken out of the water, and twice caught by straps connected with machinery.-G. Hewitt. SABBATH POSTAGE.-A great deal of trouble would be saved to postmasters, who have now so many letters they are obliged to sort, if Christians, who regard the Sabbath-day themselves, and wish others to do the same, would just pause and ask at the end of the week, "Now, on what day will this letter arrive? Is it one or two days' post? Will it arrive on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday ?" We have no doubt that thousands of letters arrive at the different post-offices, and letters, too, of no consequence, entirely for the want of a little thought in the persons who send them. CAUTION. A valuable young horse was poisoned at Springfield-place, in Essex, by eating some clippings of a yew tree, which had been thrown upon a dunghill. Cattle and goats (probably sheep also) are fond of yew, whenever they can get at it; and it is a fatal poison to them. PRESERVATION OF POTATOES.-In a field immediately above Gourock, on the farm at Drumshanty, ten or twelve men were engaged in digging several acres of potatoes and sowing oats at the same time. The potatoes were left in the ground by way of experiment, to prevent dry rot, and when dug were found to be in good condition. They are intended for seed potatoes.-Berwick Warder. It is said that pouring in as many clean pebbles as will keep the cask full as the liquor is drawn out, and thus excluding the air, will preserve the remainder of the liquor good to the last. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have received the communications of M. C.; L. S. R.; W. C.; A Bee-. Keeper; Y.; A. B.; A Gentleman's Servant; C. P.; E. A.; and Mary—. ON THE COLLECT FOR THE CIRCUMCISION. NEW year's day came, and after the service at the Church Charles and I agreed to walk to the house of a friend, to whose child he was about to stand godfather; we carried with us a Bible which he intended to leave as a new year's gift with his god-son. Like all other right thinking persons, Charles felt deeply the importance of the office he was going to undertake, and was anxious to impress upon his friends the duty of bringing up this, their first child, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. In our walk our conversation naturally fell upon the subject of Baptism; and Charles observed, that the Scriptures we had heard at Church contained much in- struction in the nature of the Sacrament, which had taken "It is strange," continued Charles, "how any persons can question the rightfulness of bringing their children to be baptized, when we know that the Jewish children were circumcised at eight days old, before they could understand the meaning of the rite, or be capable of actual sin." "It appears to me," said I, "that much evil and many disputes might be avoided, if there were more attention paid to those parts of the Old Testament, which refer to the events spoken of in the New. Persons read the Old Testament as if it stood alone, without noticing how every page contains something which points to things which are more fully explained in the Gospel. The whole design of Scripture is to teach us how we must be saved; to lead us to Jesus, and to prepare us for another country, even an heavenly. The histories of the Old Testament, the conduct of God's servants as related there, the dealings of God with His people, all have their spiritual meaning; every ceremony appointed under the law, pointed to the doctrines of the Gospel which were afterwards to be revealed when Jesus should bring life and immortality to light." "True," replied Charles, "and to apply your observation to the subject of this day's services; I would further remark, that both in circumcision and in baptism, there was the same spiritual meaning. Both these ceremonies were intended to teach mankind their need of that holiness without which no man shall see the Lord; neither was of any avail if the inward grace of purity whereof it was the outward sign, were wanting. The circumcised child, if he afterwards became unholy and disobedient, forfeited his title of a true Israelite, and was cut off from the congregation, and from all share in the blessings of the covenant; many thousands, we read, thus perished, though they had been circumcised; and alas! how many millions now, upon whom the cleansing waters of baptism have been poured, upon whom the mark of Christ's cross has been signed, live and die regardless of the terms of the covenant made for them, unmindful of their vows of obedience, ungrateful for the offered mercy of their God and Saviour." |