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      August 21,1852. The Gtar 0f Freed0m. - A...

      August 21 , 1852 . THE gTAR 0 F FrEED 0 M . - ai

      Gardening Calendar. Kitches Gaedex.—Keep...

      GARDENING CALENDAR . Kitches Gaedex . —Keep on planting out winter and spring- vegetables wherever there is room . The culture of growing crops should he attended to , when the state of the ground and weather will penult . Sow immediately in an open situation , a good plot of Early Stone , or Green Barrel Turnip for winter and spring use . Towards the end of the week , the principal spring crop of Cauliflowers and Walcheren Broccoli should he sown—sown thin in an open place , and not on too rich soil , or the plants will become gross and less liable to stand through the winter . Another sowing of the different kinds

      of Cabbage may be made for spring planting , and likewise of the hardy Cos and Cabbage Lettuces , selecting a similar spot for the seed beds , as recommended for Cauliflower * . Tlmi out and cut down a portion of the springsown Parsley , that a fresh growth may be made before winter- apart of the thinnings should be potted in 12-ineh pots for removing to frames in the winter . Sow succession crops of the white and red Turnip Radish- thin out Chichory , and plant largely of Endive . Where the ground is wet this crop should be planted on raised slopes , facing the south , to prevent damping in wet weather . This really valuable winter vegetable should find its way into every garden for culinary use , independent of its craalitifts ns a

      salad plant , Pull up Onions directly they show indications of ripenin " and expose the bulbs to the sun to ripen . Take up Shallots and Garlic for drying . As soon as a sufficient quantity of droppings is ready , proceed to make a bed for Mushrooms if not already done . Habdy Fbuit Garden . —The value of the Strawberry as a summer fruit renders its successful cultivation a matter of some importance the more especially , as it comes within the reach of the humblest possessor of a carden . The present is the best season for making new beds ; Strawberries thrive best m a deep , rich loam , and open situation : the land should have been previously trenched two feet deep , aud well manuredfor Strawberry

      , roots penetrate to a great depth ; scarlet runners , which have either been laid into small pots for the purpose , or the strongest whicli have taken root Iran the older beds . If large fruit is an object , a good space should be allowed them , say two and a half feet or three feet apart for the lartreleaved kinds , between the rows , and eighteen inches between tlie plants a somewhat less distance between the rows will suffice for the thvarier « -ow kinds and where economy of space is an object ; see that an open sit . ution is selected , for Strawberries never do well in close , confined places , though there is a general opinion they will grow anywhere ; water them durim * drv weather till they get well established . —Gardener ' s Chronicle .

      USEFUL RECEIPTS ' . Coolisg I ) bixks-Gixgeb WiNE . -The following receipt for ginger wine will be found economical , and when diluted with about two-thirds of water it is a very grateful and cooling beverage . The wine sparkles and froths on the top , similar to Champagne . " Put into a furnace the white of one egg , well beat , 41 bs . of loat sugar , and 1 gallon of water ; mix well , and when it boils skim until clear ; then add the rind of two lemons ( pared Very thin ) and 2 oz . of best white ginger , bsuised . Boil for a quarter of an hour remove from the furnace , and put in a vessel to cool ; when cold , add the clear juice of the lemon . To every 8 gallons of wine add two table spoonsful of yeast , and then tun , and let it remain in cask or bottle six weeks . It will keep several years , and does not require to be brandied .

      Science And Art. Ah Industrial Universit...

      SCIENCE AND ART . Ah Industrial University . —Ihe Surplus Committee of the late Great Exhibition , after considering a thousand suggestions—from tlie one which proposed to divide the fund amongst existing . Mechanics'Institutes to that which pointed to the gilding of St Paul ' s—are said to have resolved , so far as it lies with them , to devote the money in their hands—upwards of £ 150 , 000—to tlie foundation of an Industrial University , which , as understood by those who promote this scheme , means a congress of all the colleges of art , science , and labour . Its local habitation will , of course , be in London , but its influence is to extend into every town in England : —into scholastic Oxford not less than into mercantile Manchester—into literary Edinburgh as well as into smoke-enveloped Sheffield . A museum , laboratories , workshops ,

      lecturerooms and library wiU be required . The museum will probably consist of three general compartments : —( 1 ) a collection of raw materials and fabrics , — ( 2 ) a collection of tools , scientific apparatus , models of all kinds , ships , bridges , houses , railwa 3 s , machines and the like , —and ( 3 ) a collection of actual machines to be kept permanently at work , as were those in the northwestern division of the Crystal Palace . To put these collections of apparatus into beneficial practical action , a staff of professors—similar to those engaged at the Conservatory of the Arts and Trades of Paris-will be appointed to lecture to the pupils on the theory and science of their various occupations , so as to ground them well in the principles that govern the materials with which thev have severally to deal at the forge and in the workshop .

      Fi . ye-Aet Gossip—No one can aver that London is an architectural city . A late Premier is said to have called Trafalgar-square the iinest site m Europe—in jest , of coarse;—and the present Chancellor of ' the Exchequer , standing on ' the very spot , and mourning over the outward ugliness of the metropolis of the world , exclaimed that it would never be well with ns until we had hanged an architect ! Yet few capitals have so many fine structures as London possesses . Perhaps no city in the world can show three edifices ot equal beauty , grandeur , and effect to Westminster Abbey , St . Paul's , and and Greenwich Hospital . Home may surpass us with one—Cologne with another—but the Invalides at Paris or the Belvedere in Vienna must veil

      their fronts before the beautiful pile at Greenwich . We have fine buildings and flue sites—the frontages to the river and the parks are unrivalled points for architectural display ; but we have no " tableaux" to compare with the Place de la Concorde in Paris , the Opera Platz at Berlin , or the Piazza at Venice . Our fine secular edifices are scattered about in holes and comers , — as Lincoln's Inn Hall , the British Museum , the parish school in Endcll Street , the Exchange , and many others . Even our churches , beautiful as many of them are , add little to " the embellishment of London . St . Paul ' s can be seen onlv from the liouse-tous : a great part of Westminster Abbey cannot be seen at all . We go up an entry to St . Bride ' s ; and the Temple Church is liforallv encrusted with lawyers' offices , sr , the Cathedral of Charlemagne is with hucksters' stalls . The Strand offers an almost solitary instance of a church serving to beautify a leading London thoroughfare , blending with , and vet contrasting , the general aspect of the street . What is there done with indifferent materials happily disposed , may be achieved

      in Westminster with materials the most magnificent . The view down the new Victoria Street terminates witli the Abbey front , but takes in glimpses of the northern trausent and the sombre and striking south side . A little wore clearing on the south-east corner of the new thoroughfare would open a fine space there , and would bring into view some of the most remarkable features of Westminster Hall—the whole frontage of which is to be taken down and rebuilt—and of the new Palace , with its gorgeous towers aiultretted pinnacles . This scene might be made very effective . But not a little of ite hearty and effect will be marred should a ' report which we hear , but cannot believe , prove true , —namely , that the demolished portion of Dean s lard is to be again built on . We cannot think that any body of men should dream of spoiling the magnificent effects to he produced by opening the Abbey up to public sight on that side , for the sake of a few feet of ground , —and least of all conld we suspect of such fatuity the appointed guardians of the glorious efiiSce . It must be a mistake . —Aflienmum .

      Bread made by Machinery . —According to the last report of tne Academic des Sciences , a baker , named Holland , has at length succeeded m constructing machines for making and baking bread . By one of thess machines the dough is perfecfly kneaded , and with less than one-horse power . 1 he other is a new kind of oven , with a circular moving base in iron , heated by wood or coal fire underneath . The heat and smoke pass round the walls ot the oven , and over its top . The loaves are put into this oven with great facility , as its base turns round ; and the workmen can always watch the progress ol the baking through a glased aperture , which is furnished inside with a reflecting light . Instead of the

      Statistics Of The Week. Births Asd Death...

      STATISTICS OF THE WEEK . BIRTHS ASD DEATHS IN THE METROPOLIS . Last week the births of 771 boys and 964 girls , in ail , 1465 children , were registered in London . The average number « in seven corresponding weeks « f the years 1 S 45-51 was 1335 . The official report says the health ot London exhibits some improvement The deaths , which were 1 , 124 in the first week , hare fallen to 1 , 091 in the second week of August . Diarihcea and summer cholera are still fatal ; of 15 deaths from cholera 11 occnrreu in children under the a-e of 15 , and 4 in old people of the age of 60 and npvards : / o ¥ l y of the deaths occurred on the south , while eleven occurred on the north side of the Thames . 201 persons were destroyed by diarrluea , 1 / 4 * ere children , 15 were of the age of 1540 , and 12 were of the age of 60 and upwards . The total deaths from all causes under the age oi la , were 611 , between the age of 15 and 60 , 303 ; at the age of GO and upwards , 1 . 1 . The deaths of females ( 555 ) exceeded the deaths of males 536 ) by 10 *^ W * the proportions which was observed in the corresponding week of 1849 when cholera was epidemic , and 1 , 116 males , 1 , 114 females died .

      Statistics Of The Week. Births Asd Death...

      NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS TO AUSTRALIA . Official returnss'how that the number , both unassisted and in government ships , from the ports of the United Kingdom at which there are government emigration officers , whicli really includes the whole of the three kingdoms , are as follows , for tlie years ending April 30 , 1851 aud 1852 , respectively : Number of Emigrants . 1851 . 1852 . To New South Wales 852 .. 4 , 583 „ Victoria 3 , 941 .. 7 , 634 „ South Australia 2 , 883 .. 3 , 822 An increase , in twelve months , of from 5 , 676 to 16 , 036 or of 10 , 363 individuals .

      STATISTICS OP FOOD IN PARIS . From the official returns the following is the quantity of butter and eggs brought to the Halle of Paris during the last live years Butter . Years . Quantity . Average Price . 1847 - - - 5 , 320 , 345 kilos . - - - 2 f . 27 c . ISiS - - - 5 , 359 , 989 „ - - - 1 97 1849 - - . 5 , 568 , 109 „ - - - 1 91 1850 - - - 5 , 988 , 425 „ - - - 1 84 1851 - - - 6 , 400 , 079 „ - - - 1 87 The first six months of 1852 give a quantity of 3 , 151 , 703 kilos ., which will give for the whole year an approximate quantity of move than 6 , 000 , 000 kilos .:

      Eg" ° s . Years . Quantity . Average price . 3 S 47 - - 120 , 940 , 724 - - 57 f , Oc . per 1 , 000 . 1848 - - 106 , 747 , 222 - - 48 40 ., 1849 - - 113 , 587 , 732 - - 46 70 ' ,, 1850 - - 124 , 597 , 150 - - 43 99 „ 1 S 51 - - 129 , 732 , 299 - - 42 69 „ During the first six months of 1852 , 87 , 603 , 300 eggs were sold , which would make more than 160 , 000 , 000 for the year , with an average of 41 f . 35 c . per 1 , 000 . The following is tlie movement of the Halle in salt water fish :

      Years . dumber ot lots . Amount of sales . 1 S 4 S - - - 929 , 602 - - - 5 , 15 S , 006 f . 1849 - - - 1 , 016 , 302 - - - 5 , 458 , 142 1850 - - - 1 , 117 , 802 - - - 6 , 238 , 536 1851 - - - 1 , 101 , 908 - - - 6 , 562 , 860 The American Fisheries . —The amount of tonnage employed in the cod fishery of the United States last year was 87 , 475 ; in the mackarel fishery , 50 , 539 ; total , 138 , 314 . This year more is employed . Since 1830 there has been an increase in the tonnage employed of over fifty per cent . It appears from returns published , that from 1835 to 1846 both the makarel and cod fisheries were very seriously depressed , owing ' to more energetic exertions

      and the appointment of cruizers to protect the British fisheries . Since 1847 ,, when there was more laxity shown by the home and colonial authorities , they have improved , and there is now a greater tonnage employed in the business than at any time previous . It is now actively prosecuted , and nearly as large a number is engaged in the cod and mackarel fishery as in the whole fishery of the United states . The whole of this tonnage is owned in about four of the six New England States , Maine and Massachusetts being most largely interested . Nearly 20 , 000 men and boys are employed in the pursuit , independent of those occupied on land in preparing the fish for market . Notwithstanding this large tonnage and the extent of the annual catch , the States import largely from the NorthyAm erican colonies . The value of the dried and smoked fish imported last year into the United States was 781 , 470 dollars , and the consumption is rapidly increasing .

      Mabtuebose.—Let Us Go Further On—Further...

      Mabtuebose . —Let us go further on—further still—almost out of town—on the high road to Edinburgh--in a newly discovered region beyond the Regent ' s-park—there we shall find the Marylebone ( No . 16 ) , another little theatre of the same description . Though more in the country , it is not on that account more simple in its tastes . The gentle shepherds of Portnian-market have no love for the Idylls of Gessner , nor for the pastoral idealities of Georges Sand . They prefer selling mutton to tending sheep , and Robin Roughhead lias no notion of paying his money to look at himself . Why should he ? He aud has h of itwell of

      can do that all day long , enoug , as as shepherdesses and lambkins . He must have powerful excitement of an evening—assassins , wolves , tigers , by way of change . His object is to get away from himself . He can't indulge his taste for hull fights without going to Madrid , and the state of his exchequer forbids that , so he is obliged to he satisfied with the playhouse as the nearest approach to his favourite amusement- and of course , the more brutal and ferocious the exhibition , and tlie more his horse-laughter is excited , the happier he n-oes away . — Charles Maitheivs .

      Working Tailors' Association, 63, Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth.

      WORKING TAILORS' ASSOCIATION , 63 , WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ROAD , LAMBETH .

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      TRUSTEES . LOBD Godebich , I A . A . Vaxsittabt , Esq . 4 s Trorkiii" - men organized for the management and execution of our own » us ' n ns <} we \ wpcal vritlrgreat confidence to our fellow-working men for tViV h- \ ar * v support . We ask that support in ^ tlic plain words of plain men , withonT the usual shonkecying tricks and falsehoods . We do so because we know th * t we offer an opportunity for the exercise of a sound economy , hut \ x" unite our appeal move particularly because we believe that every honest artisan in supporting us will feel that he is performing a duty to the men of his class , which to overlook or neglect would be a treason and a ( lis-We ask for the support of working-men in the full assurance that no than that which offerand

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      MATRIMONIAL ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION . Legally Established 1849 . Head Office , London , Lincoln ' s Inn Field Chambers , and 2 , Portsmouthstreet , Lincoln ' s Inn Fields . —Branch Offices , Liverpool , Manchester , Bristol , York , and Aberdeen . Confidential Reefrec—B . Warwick , Esq .

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      'T © tine Millions CAPITALISTS MAY , BY COMBINATION , \ J prevent a Poor Man from obtaining the highest value for his Labour , but Capital can never prevent a Poor . Man buying his goods in the cheapest market—And at Bk . netfink and Coiii'aky ' s , 89 and 90 , Cheapsido the Working Classes may be supplied with everything necessary to furnish an eight-roomed house forJiee pounds , and every article warranted of the best quality and workmanship . The following is the list of articles-Hall Lamp , 10 . s . 6 d . , Umbrella Stand , 4 s . 6 d . - - 15 * o Bronzed Dining-room Fonder and Standrrds - - - n 6

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      MATIONAL GIFT EMIGRATION -i- ^ SOCIETY . TO AUSTRALIA , OR ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD . ' Many can help one , where one cannot help many . ' Office , 13 , Tottenham-court ( thirteen doors from Tottenham-court-road ) New-road , St . Pancras , London . ' The late gold discoveries in Australia , and the great want of labour ex perienced in both the agricultural and commercial districts consequent on that fact , calling loudly for an extension ' of tho means of emigration , it is proposed that a number of working men should associate together , aud . bv the gifts of '

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      THE SHE m FREEDOM

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 21, 1852, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_21081852/page/15/