dred cauliflower seeds will lie in a thim- | February, or it may be a little later, fill ble; and if you want three hundred with fine earth, to within about an inch plants, it is better to sow these three of the top, a flower-pot from twelve to hundred seeds in a proper manner, than fifteen inches over; take the little pinch to fling twenty thousand seeds over the of seed and scatter it very thinly over same space of ground. You must cut the top of the earth; then put some very the superfluous seeds up with a hoe, or fine earth over the seed a quarter of an pull them out with your hand; and, inch thick, or rather less. Set the pot in small as they are, and insignificant as a green-house, or in the window of any you may think their roots to be, they room where the sun comes, and give warob and starve one another, even before ter very carefully, and very gently, as they get into rough leaf. I know very occasion may require. When the warm well, that it requires a great deal more weather comes, the pot should be set out time to sow a bed of a hundred feet of doors in a warm place when there is long, and with cabbages, for instance; no heavy rain, and should be taken in at a great deal more time to sow it in night if there be any fear of frost. Todrills, and to put the seed in thinly, wards the end of April, the pot may be than to fling the seed thickly over the set out of doors altogether; and, small ground and just rake it in; but, look as the plants will still be, they will be at the subsequent operations; and you fit to be planted out in the natural will find that, in the end, this "sowing ground by the middle, or towards the abundantly" costs ten times the time latter end, of May. Then dig a piece and the labour which are required by of ground deep, and make it extremely the method of sowing pointed out in fine upon the top, and put out the little my book. Therefore, let no man ima-plants in rows two feet apart, and two gine, that to have a plentiful crop a feet apart in the row; for, though not great quantity of seed is necessary. bigger than a thread, each plant will When, indeed, you have reason to fear multiply itself into a considerable tuft that the seed is not sound, and when you before the middle of July; and then cannot obtain that which you know to they will begin to bear, and they will be sound, it may be prudent to throw in keep on bearing as long as the hard frosts great parcels of it. in order to have the keep away. The very runners which best chance to get some plants; but, proceed from these plants, will take hap-hazard work like this ought root, blow, and have ripe fruit, during to be avoided, if possible; and, at the first autumn. When the bearing is any rate, I pledge myself, for the over, cut off all the runners, clear the soundness of all my seed; I pledge ground close up to the tufts, and let the myself that, if properly sowed, every tufts remain to bear another year, when sseed that I sell shall grow. Thus far their produce is prodigious. But, then as to my seeds in general. I have you must grub them up; for they so now to speak of one sort of seed, multiply their offsets, and so fill the which, as that horrible old Whig, ground with their roots, that they almost Sir Robert Walpole, said of his bribes, cease to bear if they remain longer. So "is sold only at my shop." my shop." This that you must have a new plantation from is the seed of the CISALPINE straw- seed every year; and the seed you may berry: this strawberry, unlike all others save yourself, by squeezing the pulp of that I ever heard of, produces its like dead-ripe strawberries in water, which from the seed; is raised with the great- sends the seed to the bottom of the waest facility, bears most abundantly, and ter; you skim off the pulp, and drain keeps bearing until the hard frosts come. away the water, then put the seed out The seeds are so small that a little in the sun to dry, and then put it up pinch of them between the finger and and preserve it for sowing in the winter. the thumb is sufficient for a very large There is a red sort and a white sort, garden; and the method of rearing the which you may keep separate or sow plants is this about the first week of them and plant them promiscuously. And, now, to do justice to Sir CHARLES 17. Cale-Curled-Scotch. piece of knowledge, and at whose house, 19. Cauliflower. of my life. They were served up in a 23. Cucumber, early frame. and the taste and fragrance were equal 25. Endive. to the beauty. Sir CHARLES was so 26. Leek. good as to make his gardener save me 27. Lettuce-White Coss. a considerable quantity of the seed, 28. which, by the bursting of the paper, be- 29. came mixed; and, therefore, the parcels 30. Russia Coss. Brown Dutch. 35. Parsley-Curled. 37. 40. Tall Marrowfats. 41. Spinage. White Turnip. of this strawberry seed, which I shall 31. Mustard-White. No. KITCHEN GARDEN SEEDS. 1. Asparagus. 2. Bean-Broad, or Windsor. 42. Squash (from America, great va- 43. Strawberry-Cisalpine. FLOWER SEEDS. 45. Canterbury Bells. 48. Clarkia, (very beautiful). 51. Larkspur Dwarf Rocket. 54. Poppy-Carnation. 55. French. Kidney (or French) Scarlet 56. Stock-White Wall-flower. 5. CLARK, A., St. Clement, Worcesters., brewer. COOKSON, T., Staveley, Westmoreland, manufacturer. DOUGHTY, T., Goodge-street, Tottenhamcourt-road, chemist. Sd. a pound; any quantity above 50lbs. | BLYTH, W., Birmingham, file-manufacturer. 9d. a pound; above 100lbs. 7d. A parcel of seed may be sent to any part of the kingdom; I will find proper bags, will send it to any coach or van or wagon, and have it booked at my expense; but the money must be paid at my shop before the seed be sent away; in consideration of which I have made due allowance in the price. If the quantity be small, any friend can call and get it for a friend in the country; if the quantity be large, it may be sent by me. MANGEL WURZEL SEED.-Any quantity under 10lbs., Sd. a pound; any quantity above 10lbs, and under 50lbs., 7d. a pound; any quantity above 50lbs., 6d. a pound; any quantity above 100lbs., 6d. a pound. The selling at the same place as above; the payment in the same manner. TREE SEED. LOCUST SEED.-6s. a pound. From the LONDON GAZETTE, BANKRUPTS. BEAUMONT, J., & T. Holt, Cornhill, tailors. HALL, J., Liverpool, wine-merchant. HALL, J., Liverpool, merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. LONDON MARKETS. MARK-LANE, CORN-EXCHANGE, Jan. 21.We received good supplies of wheat from Kent, fresh up to this morning's market; the receipts, however, from Essex and Suffolk were limited. The quality was generally improved, particularly the Kentish samples. Early in the day wheat experienced an improved demand, and one of the leading houses on the market having bought rather freely, prices in many instances advanced 1s. per qr. on the terms of this day se'nnight, and millers who were out of stock were disappointed in purchasing to the extent or price they had anticipated, and they seemed induced, to come more readily forward. Old wheat, the stock of which is much diminished, participated in the advancement. The market, however, closed rather languid. For bonded York-descriptions we heard of no inquiry. Barley was in moderate supply. Fine bright shire, cloth-manufacturers. GAUKRODGER, T., Huddersfield, merchant. be noted worth 1s. more money; as the prinmalting parcels were very scarce, and must GREENE, J., Ampthill, Bedfords., scrivener.cipal portion of the arrivals are of stained, RATCLIFF, C., Knockin-hall, Shropshire, rough, inferior quality. These latter descriphop-dealer. SCORE, G., Lincoln's-inn-fields, scrivener. TIMSON, A., Dover, draper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. CRAIG, J., Edinburgh, hosier and glover. TAIT, W. jun., Musselburgh, cork-manufact. TUESDAY, JAN. 22, 1833. BARKER, T. C., Cumberland-place, Regent's- HARRIS, W., Croydon, bricklayer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. ASPINALL, J., Liverpool, banker. BANKRUPTS. BAKER, J., Over-Darwen, Lancashire, calicoprinter. tions, however, maintained Friday's currency. Malt continued very dull. Oats were in limited supply; and although the trade sustained no improvement, yet the article was taken off hand at full as good terms as last Monday. Maize met with some inquiry, and realised SMITHFIELD.-Jan. 21. In this day's market, which was throughout but moderately supplied, prime beef, mutton, and veal met with a tolerably ready sale, at an advance of about 2d. per stone; but with the inferior kinds, as also pork, trade was very dull, at Friday's prices. The beasts appeared to consist of about equal numbers of short-horns, Devons, and Herefords, for the most part steers and oxen; Irish beasts, and Scotch and Welch runts, chiefly from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk (with some few from Essex, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire), and the western districts, with a few Sussex beasts, Town's end cows, Staffords, &c. On the 1. of February will appear the first Number of COBBETT'S MAGAZINE: A MONTHLY REVIEW of Politics, History, Science, Literature, Fine Arts, Mechanics, and rural and domestic Pursuits. Edited by Joan and JAMES COBBETT. Price 2s. L' LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. C. F. PARTINGTON, Esq., on an improved H. 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Full three-fifths of the sheep appeared to ings, which have appeared from time to time be new Leicesters, of the South Down and during the past 18 months in that popular different white-faced crosses, in the proportion Sporting Weekly Newspaper, Bell's Life in of about one of the former to three of the London Just published, Part II., price 3d. latter; about one fifth South Dowus; and the 78 Comic Prints, illustrated by prose or poetry, remaining fifth about equal numbers of Kents taken from Bell's Life in London, comprising and Kentish half-breds, with a few old Lin- 36 portraits after the manner of Lavater, and colns and Leicesters, horned and polled Nor-42 miscellaneous political quizzical humorous. folks, horned and polled Scotch and Welch sheep, horned Dorsets, &c. Beasts, 2,509; sheep, 17,680; calves, 110; pigs, 120. MARK-LANE.-Friday, Jan. 25. The arrivals are moderate, with the prices the same as on Monday. THE FUNDS. Fri. Sat. Mon. (Tues. Wed. | Thur. These 78 prints cost, engraving alone, 400 guineas, and can now be had on one folio newspaper sheet for 3d.-Published by G. Goodger, 169, Strand, London, and sold by all Booksellers, Stationers, and Newspaperdealers; of whom may be had, also price three-pence, a new edition of Part the First of the Gallery of 130 Comicalities, of which 128,000 have been sold.-The Trade supplied at 2s. for 12, and copies of Part I. and Part II. will be taken back at the office of Bell's Life in London, 169 Strand, at the cost price, any time before the 24th December, 1833.-Pla cards for shop windows. 861867 864 861 867 Printed by William Cobbett, Johnson's-court; an published by him, at 11, Bolt court, Fleet street. VOL.79.-No. 5.] LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2ND, 1833. PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. [Price Is. 2d of life." I alluded to other taxes, with regard to which I was perfectly correct. In the report of the few words which I said in opposition to the second motion, you make me speak of "picking the pockets of the people." I did not make use of that phrase. It was a phrase, meaning that the money was unjustly taken out of the pockets of the people, but nothing about picking pockets. Hard words are not necessary when deeds are so flagrant. Bolt-court, 30. Jan., 1833. In another part of the Register I have inserted, from the Morning Chronicle newspaper, an account of the first This is not written to you, Sir, in the debate in the reformed House of ComI shall not continue to do this, way of complaint. The conduct of mons. your nor any thing like it; but I thought and the wonder with me is, and always reporter has been very fair towards me; that, merely as a matter of curiosity, my has been, that reports are made so acreaders would like to have an account of this first debate. I take it from the stood in cases of this sort, must necescurately as they are. To be misunderMorning Chronicle, as being the paper sarily occasionally happen; and, for my which I have for many years found to be generally the most substantially Part, I shall never complain unless the correct; in this present instance, I do misrepresentation shall appear to be not answer for the perfect correctness, refusal to publish a correction of the manifestly wilful, and unless there be a except as far as relates to my own misstatement. As to the trouble that speech, which I have now taken from the True Sun evening newspaper these corrections may give me, I have for insertion, in which it was corrected considering all the labour which it imnot undertaken this task without duly by myself. Before I proceed further, I think it necessary to insert the follow-Poses upon me. My time, all the best ing letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. 21, South Parade, St. James's Park, Jan. 30, 1833. session of Parliament, belong to my of my hours, at any rate, during the constituents, and not to me; and amongst the other duties which my solemn engagements with them impose upon me, is the duty which I have now been performing. I am, Sir, SIR,-In the report which you have published of my speech in the House of Commons, you have inadvertently com- your most obedient servant, mitted a very material error. You WM. COBBETT. make me say, "that the people of this Besides these errors in point of fact, country were paying 5s. a pound, or there were others of less importance, "15d. an ounce on their tea." What I which the reader will find corrected in did say was this, that, "in the article the True Sun; and I intend, regularly, "of tea, for instance, they paid 5s. a to make these corrections for republi"pound for that which they ought to cation in that evening paper. F |