The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-07-03 00:00:00

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Pr le" Ni 4 l4 ."? 4 0 1 1k 6e - itligj ke& Ilk frf,g ANN dres_selt 11 e tr . h p t t tN‘ N t th Sl eeve 'eS !4 . 4,N 4l : Wtia t, S t " l t 1 1 3 1 are elit Y , c °JI e o t4t l 4._ l' as pen pa ") SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. .."--In agriculture as in business, to here w as only one blade before. ITUTIVR IMPROVEUENT.—The work o_4!:4lger dto be e f pob-work. ace-work :we wish we could 7 , e THE TILIBIES EMBANKMENT QUES e,„ it as you will, there never will be, "servators, any other settlement of this lI E MAINE LIQUOR QUESTION.—The who are agitating this question is a that negative comes with a twofold does it say you mayn't, but you shan't. Air. Disraeli on the subject of morn ,:4 4erollston began by saying, " I am quite as gentleman opposite. This is the of modesty on the part of the premier call to mid. " DIOGENES." 1-4 4/ 4 ) 11 r LITE ELA.TURE. 3C - 63 m iling nurse to anxious hus -14 44%4 ' ",,,, "1 4. 2 Missus has such a fine little boy !" ' .. "The hebdomadal consignment of lir r ; e. —The record upon the tally of the e tax-gatherer has called." domestic who splitteth the congreve. N and heir, loquitur) . —La, Ma ! Pa's ; they were red yesterday, and to= /zb ze•—The Grease Pot. e B . — School-days. I g/ o quitur).—" I must have some e recent extensive failure in the bank "e Purest instances we remember of -- Paul," The account of the proceedings at dents shouted "The Ladies in the , us more appropriate as a policeman's s congratulation. The ladies in the and housmaids, being recognised by the ) Perty of men of letters in quite another DER.-It appears that Louis Napoleon tug orders to the Crimea as to give .he army. The Emperor, who possesses ireaten or command," has an evident -i-ft:lents of the army. To gratify this advise the French authorities to give small steamer on the Seine, where he Talship by the orders of " Ease her !" hum-astarn !" &c." without damaging fering with the vessel of the state. )cir OR, WARNINGS BY A WA.TCII- Watch, should be carefully regulated ; attempt to make him suddenly slow ; iolently urge him to rapidity. Slow :, whilst rapidity frequently leadeth to carefully with the key of thy counsel, I dost not break the spirit of thy off :hy temper. The night air damageth zs ; so doth the latch key often open 'rood hours are the nucleus of good days, early will early rise in his profession. f thy son rather with the lantern of 11's-eye of Duty; for as the clock is said , un, so is a son sometimes faster for a 4erary concoction which is supposed to somebody's trunk, and is attributed to met v ut, is entitled Mo re d un . W e d on 't tA t ollunciation of this word would be, Wafti , passant, that whoever takes the ' 0 0 - 441 ' 1 . 4 question will find himself more ein oi t oe Talents of the Patronage-Secretary tyt.go/. obt whether a man is happier in ;8 8 ` of one's conntry. s e, It costs little trouble, saves the o ' in g You, and the paper always r serve th steady a " I,ong siz es " in your "`I'SZIONS. 4° Veltv i ' 4 the make of sleeves is now being s i en esses irttended for. walking or negligi cos ,es, which are,long and rather full, are are 4,, by a small turned-up cuff, and in front :7by open in their whole length, from top 1, 11 Part is edged with a ruche of ribbon of 1 1 1, Ae s d;:_clr,ess, and transversal bands or niches ttt4ietssha intervals to the sides, keep the sleeves and preveut the m f r om opening too too tarsi h e e r-teeyes o f Brussels net, reaching fill hing up i the gist, and also rather full, f l l llBl l 3 ' e tile slit in th e outer sleeves. Th e undeer eatli ti l (1 at the wrists by frills of lace,. whi h e etas of the upper-sleeves, and fall par- tially over the hand. A dress just made with sleeves similar to those here described, consists of sea-green silk. The cor sage has a basque, and is high at the back and slightly open in front; at the lower part is closed by, three or four fancy buttons. The skirt is trimmed by flounces, edged with a pattern in green of a deeper hue than that of the rest of the dress. The recently-introduced under-sleever, close at the wrist, and fastened by a turned-up mousquetaire cuff are rapidly gaining favour. • These cuffs, which are formed either of worked muslin or of lace, turn back over a small bouillonne of white muslin. Round the wrist and under the cuff is worn a band or bracelet of coloured ribbon, the ends of which diverge one from another, leaving an angular space between them. Many of the newest cuffs of this kind are composed of a mixture of needle-work and lace. The collar should be fastened with a bow and ends of the same ribbon as that employed for the cuffs. Black velvet ribbon is as much employed as ever for trim mings of various kinds. It is even introduced in trimming white lace or muslin.' We have seen a mantelet of white tarletane with three deep frills set on in large fluted plaits, and each of these frills was edged with three rows of narrow black velvet ribbon. The top frill was headed by three rows of the same. Another mantelet made of black tulle, edged with a deep frill, or flounce of the same material, has been trimmed on the body of the mantelet, as well as on the flounce, by rows of narrow black velvet, disposed so as to cross each other in the lozenge form. A row of fringe, about four or five inches wide, edges the flounce, and another row forms a heading. This black tulle mantelet has been worn with a dress of drab-colour barege, trimmed with flounces, each edged with stripes in pink. The corsage was high, and the sleeves frilled. The bonnet was of white crape, trimmed with drooping sprays of peach blossom. Bracelets of black velvet, lilac kid gloves, and boots of grey silk, fastened at the side by buttons of green enamel, completed the costume. Among the most elegant silk dresses of the season may be mentioned those trimmed with flounces of silk of two different colours, disposed alternately. Another favourite style of trimming the skirts of dresses consists of double flounces of different colours, the upper flounce being cut out in large scallops or vandykes. A much admired dress, made in this new style, is composed of pale-grey silk. It is trimmed with vandyked flounces of the same, edged with narrow floss silk fringe. Under each vandyked flounce of grey silk, there is one of dark-blue silk. The blue silk flounces are straight at the edge, and descend to the bottom of the fringe at the point of the vandykes. This dress has a high corsage, with a basque bordered by a double frill of grey and blue silk, cor responding in style with the flounces. The sleeves are trimmed with three of these double frills, and the corsage is orna mented with bretelles formed of the same trimming—namely, a vandyked frill of grey silk over another of blue silk. The under-sleeves and collar to be worn with this dress are of Valenciennes lace, intermingled with applicatur of narrow black velvet ribbon—a novelty we noticed some time ago, when it was first introduced.—The Lady's Newspaper. Bay, visiting the most prominent headlands, in order to look for traces of Lieut. Kane and his party. At the late conver sazione in the Royal Society's apartments, London, Captain Collinson exhibited some articles which are supposed to have belonged to the Franklin Expedition. They consist of part of a door-frame, with a catch for a latch, on which the Admiralty broad arrow is stamped. A piece of iron, which may have formed part of the steam machinery of the Erebus and Terror. This had been used by the natives as a hatchet. A piece of copper, with the broad arrow, also used by the natives as a hatchet. These articles were found in Victoria Strait, in the course of Capt. Collinson's voyage. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH Acnoss THE ATLANTIC. — The telegraphic communication between America and Europe, precedent to its extension round the globe, is too large a theme for any single hero. It is an idea. And yet the par ties engaged in its realisation regard it as already certain to be carried out. The experience of the Black Sea tele graph, for instance, is thought to be conclusive, if shorter Lines previously established were not. From Balaklava to Varna the wires stretch under water more than 350 miles, and not the slightest difficulty is experienced in using them. There can, then, be no difficulty in sending electricity across the Atlantic by the same means. The length of the wires from Ireland to Newfoundland will be some 1,750 miles; they will lie on the sandy plain which the soundings of our Government have shown to stretch from land to land for the whole distance, with the exception of about 200 miles next to the Irish coast, where the bottom becomes irregular and the water deeper. The actual distance is some 1,600 miles only, but it will be necessary to make a detour with the wires in order to carry them round the Banks, where icebergs often ground, and where the cable might be broken by their weight and friction. Of the company which has undertaken the cis-Atlantic portion of the work we have often had occasion to speak. It is composed of some eight or more wealthy gentlemen, who pro pose to lay the entire line from St. John's, Newfoundland, to New York with their own resources. Peter Cooper is the president and Moses Taylor the treasurer of this company ; and Cyrus Field, one of its members, has just returned from Europe, where he went to consummate the arrangement with the European company. The American part of thedine will be 1,200 miles in length, 71 of which will be under the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the cost of the whole is estimated at a million and a half of dollars. The wires across Newfoundland will make 400 miles of the line, running through a country hitherto unoccupied and unknown. In the maing of the path and other preparatory labours the company have had 600 men employed during the past year in that island alone. They have been liberally aided with grants of land from that colony, and have obtained advantageous charters and grants elsewhere. From our last English journals we learn that the cable to go under the Gulf of St. Lawrence was about to be shipped, and we may -accordingly soon expect to be able to receive despatches from St. John's as easily and regularly as we now do from New Orleans. This cable contains three electric wires only, it being contemplated to lay down another of the same size when the European wires have been brought across and the business between New York and London re quires it.—New York Tribune. MAGNITUDE AND NVALBERS. The .contemplation and study of the natural world, aided by the lights of science, dis close to us objects which soon emancipate the mind from the narrow limits imposed upon it by all those familiar and ha bitual standards of magnitude, and show us creative power working with equal sublimity, perfection, and wisdom, upon masses compared with which the most enormous objects around us, and the most stupendous mountains—nay, the entire globe of our earth itself, dwindle into insignificant atoms; and, on the other hand, upon objects so minute as to be rendered perceptible to the senses only by extraordinary expedients supplied by the resources of science,—such as the microscope. In both extremes of creation are found the same character and manifestations of Infinite power, wisdom, and skill, compared with which, the greatest attainable by the most exalted human intellect are mere foolishness ; benevolence of purpose, of which there appears neither end, limit, nor cessation ; and grandeur of design, compared with which all speculations of philosophy, and all visions of poetry, are puerile and ridiculous. Take a common terrestrial globe, for example, 24 inches in diameter. It is evident that, compared with the earth itself, three inches on such a globe would represent 1,000 miles, and consequently 18-1000ths, or the 65th part of an inch, would represent six miles. A mountain six miles high would, therefore, be repre sented upon the surface of such a globe by a particle of dust, whose diameter would not exceed the 55th part of an inch.— Thus, as astronomy has advanced, it has enabled us to ascend in the scale of the sublime from magnitude to magnitude, each successive discovery reducing all former standards to com parative minuteness, until the understanding and the imagi nation are confounded by the stupendous spectacle which the material world presents, and lost in that immensity which is the theatre of the creative and beneficent power of the Most High. In the manufacture of gold embroidery, threads of silver gilt are used. These threads are produced by flattening very finely-drawn gilt wire. The gold which coats an inch of such thread weighs no more than the eight-millionth part of an ounce. Yet this inch may be divided into one hundred parts, each of which will be visible without a microscope. In this way the eight hundred millionth part of an ounce of gold is rendered visible. But, if a microscope, magnifying five hun dred times, be used, a portion of gold, five hundred times less, that is, the four hundred thousand millionth part of an ounce will become visible.—Microscopic observations have shown that blood.is not as it appears to the naked eye, an uniformly red liquid, but that it is a clear, transparent, colourless liquid, SCIENCE AND ART. A STATUE of Allan Ramsay is to be erected in Edinburgh, where a memorial to the poetical barber has long been a desi deratum. AN ENGINEER of Vienna, Herr Francis Stiebbler, has in vented elastic carriage wheels, which can be employed as well upon railways as upon common roads. A patent has been granted. THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT requests the directors of railways in the empire to plant young trees, of a description indicated, at convenient distances along the lines, intending them to replace eventually the posts upon which telegraph wires are at present affixed. A NEW EXPEDITION into Central Africa is about to be undertaken, at his own cost, by M. Brun Rollet, a Sardinian, who for the last twenty-three years has been residing in Khartum, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits. He intends to start from Lake No, - or Nu, by some called Kura, the object being to penetrate westward up the Bahr el Ghazal. M. Rollet believes he will find his reward in rich stores of ivory, gums, &c., to be found in the regions he is about to visit. The expe dition will consist of six boats, manned by about sixty men all well armed. DR. HUMBOLDT, a nephew of the great Humboldt, has es tablished a hospital at Havana, to test a theory of inoculation for the yellow fever. The inoculation is followed by a moderate fever and illness of about a week. A number of soldiers have submitted to the process, and some English. men and Americans. A letter from the Havana states that it goes on with continued success. A commission of French medical men, who had come from Martinique to study this important discovery, have expressed their entire approbation of it. THE FRUITS or A HALF CENTIIELY.-Fifty years ago steam boats were unknown—now there are 3,000 afloat on American waters alone. In 1800 there was not a single railway in the world—now there are 10,000 miles in the United States, and about 22,000 in America and England. Half a century ago it took some weeks to convey news from Washington to New Orleans—now not as many seconds as it then did weeks. Fifty years ago the most rapid printing press was worked by hand power—now steam prints 20,000 papers an hour on a single press. " Now" is a great fellow, but will be much bigger half a century hence.—Philadelphia Ledger. ARCTIC DISCOVERY.—Letters from New York state that the Arctic Expedition in search of Lieut. Kane trailed on the 3rd of last month. The Expedition will proceed up Baffin's