rning, and preserved from the air until it is to be baked, the pastry
will be found much better. An expert hand will use much less butter and
produce lighter crust than others. Good salt butter well washed, will
make a fine flaky crust. When preserved fruits are used in pastry, they
should not be baked long; and those that have been done with their full
proportion of sugar, require no baking at all. The crust should be baked
in a tin shape, and the fruit be added afterwards; or it may be put into
a small dish or tart pans, and the covers be baked on a tin cut out into
any form.

PATTIES. Slice some chicken, turkey, or veal, with dressed ham, or
sirloin of beef. Add some parsley, thyme, and lemon peel, chopped very
fine. Pound all together in a mortar, and season with salt and white
pepper. Line the pattipans with puff paste, fill them with meat, lay on
the paste, close the edges, cut the paste round, brush it over with egg,
and bake the patties twenty minutes.

PAVEMENTS. For cleaning stone stairs, and hall pavements, boil together
half a pint each of size and stone-blue water, with two table-spoonfuls
of whiting, and two cakes of pipe-clay, in about two quarts of
water.--Wash the stones over with a flannel slightly wetted in this
mixture; and when dry, rub them with a flannel and brush.

PAYMENT OF RENT. Rent due for tenements let from year to year, is
commonly paid on the four quarter days; and when the payments are
regularly made at the quarter, the tenant cannot be deprived of
possession at any other time than at the end of a complete year from the
commencement of his tenancy. If therefore he took possession at
Midsummer, he must quit at Midsummer, and notice thereof must be sent at
or before the preceding Christmas. A similar notice is also required
from the tenant to the landlord, when it is intended to leave the
premises.--Every quarter's rent is deemed a separate debt, for which the
landlord can bring a separate action, or distress for nonpayment. The
landlord himself is the proper person to demand rent: if he employs
another person, he must be duly authorised by power of attorney, clearly
specifying the person from whom, and the premises for which the rent is
due: or the demand will be insufficient, if the tenant should be
inclined to evade payment. The following is the form of a receipt for
rent:--'Received of R. C. February 13, 1823, the sum of ten pounds
twelve shillings for a quarter's rent, due at