FOUR GEMS IN ONE SETTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 250, 31 August 1864, Page 6

FOUR GEMS IN ONE SETTING.

The ways of business men are inscrutable, as inscrutable is their jargon. But we have all a right to use our reason and common sense when examining anything that is set before us. AVe distinctly declare, in defiance of all the dopmatism of business-men, that we do not believe in the reason assigned, in the follow ing Yorkthii e advertisement, for the prosperity of the concern which it is proposed to part with: —

"To Let, a Biewery, now doing a good business in consequence of Immnims. Anyone taking it may be taught the art of brewing. Address * * * Hull." How can a brcweiy, by any natural or non-natural interpretation of language, be alil'decl with lameness r Hoes the advertiser mean that the Hull folk know good beer from bad. and that he is obliged to do 100 much hop ? Without pausing for a reply, we cross the sea, and proceed to an Irish stable: — " I'or sale, at No. ** Leinster-road, a Lay horse, nearly tliorough-bred, perfectly gentle, a good roadster, ic., goes in harness, and stands IDi Jet. Apply to *** as above."

Some Irishmen are affable, some are haughty, but we did not expect to hear of any Hibernian gentleman riding tho high horse to this extent. A horse more tlian live yards high would suit the Irish Giant who has taken oil' his iiesli aiid stands, for coolness, in his bones (as we should have been glad to do just before the east wind came) in Surgeons' Hall. It is to England's advantage that Oircland should emigrate, if she produces such monsters. But, talking of monsters, here are evidences of the most brutal cruelly among a class which we believed was becoming more humane and civilised. This is from cauny Newcastle :—

" "Wanted, at the Felling colliery, a man as kicker. Must be able to write well, and keep accounts. Apply personally, with recommendations, at * * * *, .Newcastle."

Veiling and kicking. Yfas oyer such ferocity publicly i )ioch\iiiicd? Keep accounts, indeed- The savage who fells liis fellow-creatures and then kicks them, ought himself to be accounted for in the pages of the Xewgatc Calendar. Recommendations! They should come from tlie Ring, surely, and yet our fiercest, lighters never kick a man after they have felled him. "Willingly turning from such a revolting subject , we come to as hideous a notification, put iorth in a London paper:— " To Confectioners.—Wanted, a man, to boil, two or three days a week. Appjy to 1). Skelion, &e." i'kclton, indeed' Skeleton must surely be the horrid name. A confectioner boils a man two or three times a "week. Times have altered. A- cook (and confectioner probably) was boilid in Smithfield, in the dark ages, for poisoning an entire iuniiSy in soup, and his recipe, with slight modification, is evidently in the possession of several cheap eatinghouses ; nnd this wholesale boiling of one s fellowcreatures shows that we are relapsing into bimmerian darkness. "We can write no more. Confectioner, Jam sin is.