The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

~ 11, 'li d l el' 41 2 5, 1855.] SUPPL Il r' 1 1 :44 4 „ 11 ia want of a wife—willing to sustain ti k ,: .l '; in. fact, we are in the market. Who ,I• ti t ' gone, gone ! Who's the lucky man ?" 4 forh; th • -- -Pevensey Bay, which Eastbourne ( 1 cli ff towards the west by Beachy Head, til it ,,,° l3 . the south-western coast, and which q,1 4 1% v i the Channel. Those who find pleasure '1,1 1 :. Z and Nature's varied features,. may 411' 8 7e cliff towers up and up, far higher [ ,,%ea, f jlefore you, and on either hand, is the ,Q4 1 , 8 ,"/the left, when we saw it, its colour k li t Oi` 4 s h , 2 _ ,''of conceivable greens, with dashes . of 1 p op sp i !'"nkle of white-crested waves; while on 1 't , , 4 1y tad out an expanse of molten silver, J illi e st Ltrobbing•—a more magnificent sight 4. ct'lle 4 ,, °IL Looking towards Hastings you 1) 1 1 °4 ills Ze - sthe bay beautifully curving—and N , llo wi l 4 a rtello towers • towards the west, the I ,'vith an d 8 Belle Toute, with its well-placed `lP tat iii te ° l l the land side, a noble sweep of N, N 41 1(1 foliage and the purple heather. ai t °l lll ki N less in sight of the great sea. Nor ti t rancitorT to which a view of it gives .....: • • 7) , . uh ey k , or in pensive mood, i 0' 4 11 1 71 upon that inward eye 11 ; 1 ; 4- "h e „ 1 the bliss of solitude." t h ,' ll th a Karla men tell strange stories of feats Nli gg e ' r a lcent and descent of the cliff, done rates to years gone by. Now, fortunately, re w i I° risk life are fewer and the doings len ' ern, some too adventurous tourist tries • , as was the case not very long since, to pieces on the beach below.—The 12?_IT OF PUNCH." " VINE DISEASE."--- •t 0 Drunkenness. FOR A. GERMAN BED. --- " Good ightmares." PnoGuEss.---The stick continues to progress throughout Naples. It / and sticks at nothing ! , s ts•EncEns.---By , an order from his has been the Second, the Harbour l's&ee.,ll constituted a sink port. • ~LE L. ..T he . imer, that th Provincial papers re collars, which e A-Inericans are wearing the ra t e of a New York manufactory keepina. w.,,th a thousand an hour." The er, b ut 1_ e " Go-a-head" nation. nen in an advanced stage of 4u3IIII4T Es• - -The illumination for the del at the P russ i an E m b assy i n P ar i s vlkh`ae illuminations, the most brilliant. hof refin e d diplomacy, it is said that the '4l with the v er y c h o i ces t R uss i an o il. TEE TOTALLER.-.-It is told of a (ES (4/4taller (whose decanter bears the e albtl confidential ") that when he ; L tirlnted some time since, of the utter ge Palls of Niagara, he immediately fle lli b. 1311111 ing• fae - '} 1, 1(3 PF. There appears to be no that Menschikoff has become Prince e ntered a monastery at Moscow. The 131Faipotentiary is now a humble monk to unbrownoffsky. With a pensive historical swagger at Constantinople, 1114 P r incipal occupation is to hatch and has• :, „ ROCHDALE . It was to be ex- Vews of the fall of Sebastopol would "en the ne rves o f the eloquent mem rear Ler. T he disastro u s t i d i ngs were thed as cautiously as possible. We are b'N ells he time we went to press, Mr. A spect d.nd it is not saying much—as ' its ANTIDOTE.---It seems, after i t e aLest adulteration of milk is with a question, with what kind of water? .1 4 ,„„ ad,r B water, there cannot well be a 'l.Leration, against which chalk itself b e times preferable. In fact, the Pidently r eserved as an antidote d rinking the Thames water, for we `N mixture is repeatedly administered (A cholera. g ent s to t)t; th e /V iler Nh ed i ni o aF. t . b ;IP Ar ▪ rl/r, v I • - . fo ll l . PC . *ll e ight r s 0 1 4 e,. p ° II MAI 4eSty , 111 4 i ° N chas b 4 4 . wo b la c l Z lirt 1!. at th e 0, in ke , I ;Ver, ) k ri f a 't t 3 itt io h Aol e " re Ori` e etota h 'at e ( 4 , 1 z A t kl, l l ' Fri 't (1 the rt 4 01 01 e ft, ,CBt l ' o ¢ o' .11 14 % . ent i t ,atl e 1) • 4 1 r en] (if of 1 1; 4411 re'lVt 8 P , r 1. 4 44 ikey tile 4°3l . ki itt ov e , ev k (1,, r ee v e s t E r eal • 3 d i ej t i yvetl 0, e x ] ,t* ( A t , lt i ea ) 1" ' 1 11 a . 11 t qf 11 / 4 1 t th f lal tkjd 13 41 e I t 01 Ng.shall nc` ,EMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN A COUPLE OF WONDERS.---There are always two money-questions, which puzzle people more than any other social question, including even the celebrated question, repeated de die in diem, of " What shall we have for dinner to-day ?" These questions assume the form of riddles that are constantly being asked, but to which we never recollect hearing an answer. Scarcely a day passes, but what you hear the question ap plied to some one you know. Every one present takes it up, repeats it nearly in the same form, until at last the whole society loses itself in a labyrinth of absurd surmises, out of which they are only conducted by the . thread of the next discourse. RUSSIAN RECEPTION OF THE NEWS OF THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL.—On the receipt of the intelligence of the fall of Sebastopol, Mr. Gladstone retired into his bedroom, and locked the door. Sir James Graham wept. Mr. Cobden, who was at tea, ordered the things to be taken away. The hon. gentleman was taken very ill in the course of the night. Mr. Bright stopped his ears with cotton, that he might not hear the ringing of the bells. Lord John Russell scratched his head. • King Otho, of Greece, shook in his shoes. Bomba danced with rage for a few moments, and then broke out into a violent perspiration. The Emperor of Austria, who was writing an autograph to the Czar Alexander, ground his teeth, and tore the letter to pieces. The King of Prussia was seized with a vertigo. When he recovered he expressed himself very unwell, and called for brandy and water, of which beverage His Majesty drank several glasses, crying more and more profusely over each, and was ultimately carried to bed. SCIENCE AND ART. VALUABLE HINTS TO SPORTSMEN.—The Scientific American says :—" Wash your gun-barrels in spirits of turpentine, by dipping a rag or sponge fastened on your gun-rod into the liquid, and swab them out three or four times, when they will be cleared Of all impuri ties, and can be used almost instantly, as the turpen tine will evaporate and leave the barrels dry ; even if they are a little moist, it will not prevent their going off like water. After being washed thus, there is no danger of rust, as when water is used. lam an old, experienced gunner, and have practised this for years, and found it useful." SLATE AND ASPHALTE PIPES.---The importance of a good supply of water is so strongly and increasingly felt, that many towns are incurring the great expense of laying down long lines of cast-iron pipes, in some cases more than twenty miles in length, in order to obtain water from pure sources. To diminish this expense, it is proposed to use pipes made of a combi nation of slate, asphalte, and iron, which can be sup plied, we learn, at little more than one-third the cost of cast-iron pipes, while in point of strength they are sufficiently strong to stand the internal pressure to which pipes in such situations are subject : they have been proved by hydraulic press to a pressure equal to that of a vertical column of water 500 feet high, and it is stated that a much greater pressure than this is required to burst them. The kind of slates used for this purpose are such as are too small for roofing houses, and for which there has not hitherto existed any use whatever, so that vast quantities are thrown away as rubbish at all the quarries. In forming the pipes the slates are bound round a cylindrical mould, overlapping and breaking. joint with one another, very much as on the roof of a house, or like the scales round a fish. A continuous spiral of hoop-iron is used to bind them round the mould, and the whole being heated, the interstices are filled in with fluid asphalte, and thus is formed a kind of wicker or woven work of slates and hoop-iron, cemented and concreted with asphalte. The adhesion of the asphalte to the slate is found to be as strong as the adhesion between the laminae of the slate itself, and thus the whole becomes nearly as strong as a homogeneous thickness of slate. ---The Builder. FILTRATION OF A RIVER.—The river Medlock, which passes through the heart of Manchester, receiving in its way a considerable number of sewers, and being used by dyeworks and various manufactories, empties the greater portion of its water in a state indescribably filthy and noisome into the Bridgewater Canal, of which i t is the principal feeder. The water is, at the entrance of the canal, near the western boundary of the city, nearly as black as , ARD. 119 ink, and almost as thick. In the canal which passes through part of Huhne, and through Old Trafford, Stretford, Sale, Timperley, and Altrincham (a distance of eight miles) towards Liverpool, it becomes more offensive than in the river, because a great portion of the canal being made before the invention of locks the drainage is comparatively small, and it becomes at times nearly stagnant. The districts named as those through which it passes out of the town are those which have been found most eligible for villas and suburban residences of the middle classes and town, where people who can afford to do so seek to escape from the smoke and impurities of Manchester. The Altrincham Railway, by which they travel backwards and forwards, runs nearly all the way close to the canal, and only those who have travelled by it can form an idea of the fact, is a great open sewer, and any plan which can be adopted to purify its waters must, of course, be a great blessing to such an extensive neighbourhood. An experiment is now in the course of being. made to filtrate the water of the Medlock at Manchester, near the point where it empties itself into the canal, and by a very simple method. On the left bank of the river, 40 or 50 yards from the canal, a good-sized tank is filled with lime and water, and resembles one of the lime puddles often seen near to new buildings for purposes of mixing with the other constituents of mortar. From this tank a trough, or open pipe, is carried across the river, along which the lime and water flows, and small holes, about an inch in diameter, at the bottom of this pipe, allow the fluid to fall through into the river at different points. From the place where the lime water falls into the river to its entrance into the canal the river is converted into a reservoir by means of a weir or backwater, at the mouth of the canal, the object being to hold the water here while the lime can operate upon it, and precipi tate the impurities mingled with it to the bottom. The surface water out of this reservoir flows over the littleweir m in or a e ; st a r n ea d m , th o o f only ugh a not b p o e u r t fec tw inches thy o clear,th d e e w ep or ater as it passes this point shows that the experiment has not wholly failed, but has accomplished a change already which i s a d es id era t um. Indeed, there appears little doubt, upon the approach to success which the experiment has thus early attained after two days' trial, that the perfect purification of the river is quite possible and is likely to be accom plished. The refuse and lime which sink to the bottom of the reservoir will, no doubt, be exceedingly valuable as manure. A VISIT TO THE MOSQUE OF OMAR, JERUSALEM.-- Some notes by Miss Rogers, the daughter of the emi nent wood-carver of that name, descriptive of a visit made by her and her brother (Vice-consul at Caiffa), under the auspices of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, will interest our readers :---" All had to take off their shoes. We had to change ours. The yellow shoes brought for me Lady M. wore. I kept on - my bronze slippers, which did very well. We enter the wonderful building, darker than I expected to find it ; a solemn, gorgeous gloom, recalling the effect of Owen Jones's Alhambra, at Sydenham. Very ancient mosaic of glass and stone, in Arabesque florid style, lines the base of the dome. A gallery of arches, like a Norman triforium, runs round above the surface of mosaic richly-stained glass windows, which, from the variety of colour, intricacy yet certainty of design, minuteness of division, have all the effect of transparent mosaic. Within a wooden railing (which I could peep over on tip-toe) was the wonderful stone which, attempting to follow the prophet to heaven, left the earth, and never quite returned to it again. Here it stands, in a very strange position, certainly, with not much to rest upon. The large dimension of this rock, or stone, surprised me exceedingly. The wooden ra iling is, in the upper part, pierced, painted, and prettily carved with rich interlacing designs, not unlike the Saxon MS. decoration ; an immense variety of panels in the lower part are not pierced ; the elaborate patterns are grounded out. We are now shown the praying-place of David, a white marble shrine of exquisite design and execution ; a recess, or niche, supported by two double columns, each column divided into four parts, and quaintly twisted and plaited, not only with itself, but with its sister column. The capitals, such as I have seen in Nor man wor k — v ery, very fine---such exquisite nicety of finish. Now we descend a dark, cavernous-looking place, attended by taper-bearers ; are now under the great stone, Mere are four places