has been served. Never use round saucer animalculacatching champagne glasses, but properly fashioned tulip shaped ones.

AFTER GAME.-Either claret cup or port.

AFTER ICES. — Cherry brandy in Bohemian liqueur glasses; all other liqueurs are destructive of the palate. Should oysters precede the soup, a glass of Chablis or Sauterne.

"Oyster" or

anchovy" toast should be substituted for cheese; the handing round of the latter is more honoured in the breach than the observance. proper time to eat cheese is at luncheon.

BREAKFASTS.

à LA LORD WILTON.

The

Have a bill of fare of what is ready in the kitchen to be dressed, It is often painful to see plates of eggs and ham, cutlets, kidneys, come up and get cold on the side-board, especially when persons do not assemble punctually, as they should do at all meals to the minute.

It is very essential that the butler should be on the most charitable terms with the cook, so as to give due effect to the respective departments, as well as to ensure a cordial co-operation on the part of the whole establishment; it being now an acknowledged axiom that, with a good cook and a little mutual forbearance, domestic comfort and worldly happiness are greatly promoted. It is also necessary for a butler to be very circumspect in his conduct exacting strict economy and care throughout

his department. Early rising is requisite: drones must not be permitted to remain in the hive, punctuality being indispensable.

Taking the range of service, it is universally admitted that none are so well off as domestic servants, or in so good a position to save their earnings, and acquire the good will and patronage of their employers: few, however, profit by the opportunities offered, owing, in nine cases out of ten, to want of education and good conduct. If a person, well to do in the world, is pointed out as having originally been a confidential servant in a nobleman's or gentleman's family, it will be found almost invariably, on enquiry, that he or she seldom neglected religious duties-always attending public worship on the sabbath. And while on this portion of the subjcet, let it not be forgotten that the Book of Proverbs contains a code of ethics, which may truly be said to epitomise the common sense of philosophy for the daily study and practise of all grades of society: indeed, the reading of the Proverbs, and pondering over, and applying them hourly, cannot be too strictly enjoined in all households. The precepts lay down the foundation of all moral conduct, and may be not inaptly described as somewhat analogous to Soyer's fundamental receipts, Nos. 1, 7, and 134, mentioned in his "Treatise on Gastronomy," as forming the basis of the culinary art.*

* Some reform is absolutely necessary with regard to the class of footmen. A tall overgrown country lout from the plough, uneducated, expects to be speedily transformed into a ladies' footman, he turns up his nose at good wholesome plain food, declares his

The foregoing synopsis will be sufficient, as a general guide, to establish something like discipline and uniformity of practice in those essentials admitted to be necessary for regulating the movements of the " corps domestique," in order to secure combined action when auxiliary aid is required to assist the permanent establishment in serving a banquet.

Formulas for keeping simple and correct accounts of the expenditure in each department of the household should be provided, without which no establishment can be said to be well regulated. The want of this necessary and salutary check and supervision, has caused the ruin of many aristocratic families, especially in Ireland and Scotland, owing, in a great measure, to an utter forgetfulness that hospitality must be regulated by income, in order to guard against improvident expenditure.

master keeps a orrid bad table; that the beer is hexecrable, &c., forgetting that each servant is allowed, in all families, in addition lb. of loaf sugar, and 2 oz. of tea per week. In good old times, servants prided themselves on being family fixtures; now no young man considers he is bettering himself if he stays more than a year or two in one place, and when new liveries are issued, "Jeames" begins to talk of disagreeables in the servants' hall, and not being comfortable with his fellow servants; and after a few years in livery, he thinks himself competent to fill the responsible situation of house-steward and butler, or groom of the chambers. There are, no doubt, many honourable exceptions to the above rule. Women are by far the most valuable domestic servants, and do more work without bustle than any in-door footman.

PART THIRD.

THE following receipts will be found particularly useful on board yachts, and most refreshing after recovering from sea sickness, the effects of which were thus graphically described by a sufferer on board Royal Yacht Squadron cutter Nymph, placed by the popular Baronet at his disposal for a month's cruise. Being a nautical green hand, he was, of course, determined not to hang about Ryde Piers, but prove himself every inch a sailor, by keeping out at sea for a week: he suffered accordingly, and was unable to move from his couch; when, however, the weather moderated, and after being two days without food, he ordered some chicken broth; but no sooner had he raised himself, and swallowed a spoonful or two, then he dropped his head again on the pillow, and exclaimed, “Man wants but little here below, and not that little long.-Steward!! the basin!!! Quick!!!! Oh Yacht, my head!!!!!"

The steward, fortunately, was an old experienced hand, and admiring the determined pluck of his temporary master, recommended the sufferer to a glass of sherry, with half a tea-spoonful of Cayenne pepper, then to eat a dry biscuit. By a desperate effort this was accomplished; and, after an interval of half an hour, a

glass of cherry brandy was administered.

The same

process was adopted the next day, and at noon a tumbler of Moselle Cup, a la Sir John Bayley," completed the

cure.

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The following is the Baronet's receipt, to whom the author is, and the Liverpool public ought to feel, deeply grateful.

No. 1.-MOSELLE CUP, OR BOTTLED VELVET.*

à LA SIR JOHN BAYLEY.

A bottle of Moselle; half a pint of sherry; juice of a lemon, not too much, so as to predominate; two table spoonfuls of sugar; a bunch of burrage, or young nettles, for ten minutes, or a sprig of verbena; all well mixed and then strained and iced. It is very good without the herbs, and easily made in a jug filled with ice.

No. 2.-CHAMPAGNE, HOCK, OR CHABLIS CUP.

à LA GOODRICKE.

Dissolve four or five lumps of sugar in a quarter of a pint of boiling water, with a little very thin lemon peel; let it stand a quarter of an hour; add one bottle of the above wines; three or four leaves of burrage, or small bunch of young nettles, or a sprig of verbena; a small glass of sherry; half a pint of water; mix well and let stand half an hour; strain, and ice it well.

* Medical men now prescribe champagne for patients without taking the precaution to analyze what is called champagne, which is perhaps more adulterated than any other wine, except port; hence when made into cup it is far more wholesome.