The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-11-06 00:00:00

SUPP life ? Is it oppressed by ae dust of books ? Or is it :ssions Fly, fly, then, to with these grand, silent, m to the beatings of the win for thyself new strength A thou see nature in her crnificence ? Then see the `,er in old Norway. Descend k upon the valleys of Cla w beautiful Westfjordale, des quietly, embracing in overgrown with blue bells ;he silver rivers leaving the 'umps of trees and fertile w nearest mountain, with capped summits rear their m like reverend patriarchs race. Mark from these s of the morning and even -in the depths. See the storm, the calm beauty of itself over the, waterfall. Lan, behold this ; receive it gain !---Strife and Peace. some days past the select :senal, at Woolwich, have g the erection of a novel ie inventor, M. Balan, a who has obtained a patent mt. The apparatus bears way, and propels cars or ;ht on inclined wire ropes. tached at the extremities, materials or goods are to Tart by a lever, the length ,o the inclination required. :tutted to an upright post is horizontal the ropes are d of the lever is depressed in a reverse way, and the 11 go i n oppos i te di r ections. :jugs, embankments, guar be found useful, as it re the weight of the load A the car travels without re it is unloaded, and the Le car slides to its loading ;eonsly used for crossing interfere with the naviga the distance does not ex either goods or persons. Ipes must be supported by to the undulation of the ors to pass the supports a of each, on which frame te, with ropes attached, so : the stationary frame, the having counterbalancing me is laid near the ground, .)ition by a trigger, so that lies the trig g er, the move drawn up by the counter giving the rope a greater cars to pass over the up- Lent impetus to reach the operation takes place. It purpose of an electric g placed inside the ropes bmarine telegraph. WEDDING OF QUEEN at St. James's a quarter Ith. When she first saw the Duchess of Hamilton " said the princess, " you marriertwiee ; but it is bad proof of her sense ? .0 curl her toupet. " No, it looks as well as those sent for me : if the King iwig, I will; otherwise I Duke of York gave her : her lips trembled, but In the garden the King fallen at his feet : he pre- I led her into the apart ived by the Princess of : these three princesses At ten the procession Preceded- by unmarried daughters lEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STAN of peers, and peeresses in plenty. The new princess was led by the Duke of York and Prince William ; the archbishop married them : the King talked to her the whole time with great good humour; and the Duke of Cumberland gave her away. Sheis not tall,nor a beauty ; pale, and very thin ; but looks sensible, and is genteel. .Her hair is darkish and fine ; her forehead low ; her nose very well, except the nostrils spreading too wide ; her mouth has the same fault, but her teeth are good. She talks a good deal, and French tolerably ; possesses herself, is frank, but with great respect to the King. After the ceremony, the whole company came into the drawing-room for about ten minutes, but nobody was presented that night. The Queen was in white and silver ; an endles mantle of violet-coloured velvet, lined with ermine, and attempted to be fastened on her shoulder by a bunch of large pearls, dragged itself and almost the rest of her clothes half-way down her waist. On her head was a beautiful little tiara ofdiamonds, a diamond necklace, and a stomacher of diamonds, worth three score thousand pounds, which she is to wear at the coronation too. As supper was not ready, the Queen sat down, sung, and played on the harpsi chord to the royal family, who all supped with her in private. They talked of the different German dialects : the King asked if the Hanoverian was not pure : " Oh, no, sir," said the Queen, "it is the worst of all." She will not be unpopular. The Duke of Cumberland told the King that himself and Lady Augusta were sleepy. The Queen was very averse to leave the company ; and at last articled that nobody should accompany her but the Princess of Wales, lind her own two German women, and that nobody should be admitted afterwards but the King. They did not retire till between two and three.—Horace TValpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann. THE PHENOMENA OF NATURAL AND OF HYPNOTIC SLEEP.---In passing into common sleep objects are perceived more and m ore f a i nt l y, the eyelids dose and remain quiescent, and all th e o th er organs of convey sense become gradually blunted, an d cease to n their usual impressions to the brain, the limb s b ecome flaccid from cessation of muscular tone and action, the pulse and respiration become slower, the pupils are turned upwards and inwards, and are contracted (Muller). In the hypnotic state, induced with the view of exhibiting what I call the hypnotic phenomena, vision becomes more and more imperfect, the eyelids are closed, but have for a considerable time a vibratory motion (in some few they are forcibly closed, as by spasm of the orbiculares) ; the organs of special sense, particularly of smell, touch, and hearing, heat and cold, and resistance, are greatly exalted, and afterwards become blunted, in a degree far beyond the torpor of natural sleep ; the pupils are turned upwards and in wards, but, contrary to what happens in natural sleep, they are greatly dilated, and highly insensible to light; after a length of time the pupils become contracted, whilst the eyes are still insensible to light. The pulse and respiration are, at first, slower than is natural, but immediately on calling muscles into action, a tendency to cataleptiform rigidity is assumed, with rapid pulse, and oppressed and quick breathing. - The limbs are thus maintained in a state of tonic rigidity for any length of time I have yet thought it prudent to try, instead of that state of flaccidity induced by common sleep ; and the most remarkable circumstance is this, that there seems to be no corresponding state of mus cular exhaustion from such action. In passing into natural sleep, anything held in the hand is soon allowed to drop from our grasp ; but, in the artificial sleep now referred to, it will be held more firmly than before falling asleep. This is a very remarkable dfference. The power of balancing themselves is so great that I have never seen one of these hypnotic somnambulists fall. The same is noted of natural somnambulists. This is a remarkable fact, and would appear to occur in this way, that they acquire the centre of gravity, as if by instinct, in the most natural, and therefore in the most graceful manner ; and if allowed to remain in this position, they speedily become cataleptiformly and immoveably fixed. From observing these two facts, and the general tendency and taste for dancing dis played by most patients on hearing lively music during hypnotism, the peculiarly graceful and appro -priate movement of many when thus excited, and the varied and elegant postures they may be made to assume by slight currents of air, and the faculty of retaining any position with so much ease, I have hazarded the opinion, that the Greeks may have been indebted to hyponotism for the perfection of their ARD. 165 sculpture, and the Fakirs for their wonderful feats of suspending their bodies by a leg or an arm. It thus clearly appears that it differs from common sleep in many respects, that there is first a state of excitement as with opium, and wine, and spirits, and afterwards a state of corresponding deep depression and torpor.-- Mr. Braid's Neurynology.. A LION HUNT.—The following account of a " lion hunt," which took place near Bloemfontein, Orange River sovereignty, is from the pen of a settler there : " We left Bloemfontein on Monday, for the purpose of enjoying a week's sport on one of the farms of that truly hospitable gentleman, Mr. A. H.B—, distant from this about sixteen miles. Our party consisted of six, principally officers in Her Majesty's service, and a merrier one has seldom left Bloemfontein. We reached our little camp at sunset, looking forward with eager anticipation to the morrow, and with reason, for how rarely it falls to the lot of any one to see, much less to shoot, the noble animal we were in quest of! The next morning was beautiful, but cold, the pools being frozen. After breakfast our horses were saddled, guns looked to, and the pack' being called together, we started, beating the stony hills that stretch away for many miles round that jolliest of outposts, Bloemfontein. Many a mile we tra versed without seeing the noble game we sought, and we had almost despaired of finding them that day, when from the long grass up rose three wild boars, and immediately after five lions and lionesses, truly a splendid, and, to the sportsman, a thrilling sight. They trotted majestically away ; but on being hotly pursued, faced about. One of them, with her tail whirling on high, made a few springs towards us ' - but as we showed an imposing front, she stopped, a n d the dogs brought her to bay. Several shots were fired without effect, and she made alternate charges at the place where the bullets struck and at the dogs, who got out of the way fast enough. All this time she kept making a low murderous growl, and as her wrath increased, so did the impatient switching of her tail. At last a lucky shot hit the shoulder, and she charged viciously, nearly catching one of the dogs, which howled in anticipation of his fate, Several well directed shots now struck her, and after a few more short charges, and some desperate attempts to catch one of the pack, she rolled over dead. The process of skinning was soon completed, and we then went in pursuit of the other four, who had managed to conceal themselves in the long grass, and we were thus unable to find them. We returned to camp at sunset, passinc , large herds of quagga and blesbuck, with which the plains abound, their number baffling any attempt at computation. During the night, the tyrants of the wilds' serenaded us, and from the sounds we judged there were a goodly number of them. However, although we - hunted most inde fatigably for three days, we were unable to find them. Another day dawned, and again we scoured the plains, passing a few dogs, wolves, ostriches, and a number of jackals. On ascending a little hill, the hawk-eyed Tottie saw three specks in the distance, which he un hesitatingly declared to be lions. Although we could scarcely discern the objects he pointed out, away we went in pursuit, and after a hard gallop got up to them ; they immediately came to bay at some distance from each other, and were attacking with right good will ; one of them made a most determined effort to catch one of the party, and, his horse being blown, would most probably have succeeded, had not its at tention been diverted by the opportune arrival of another gentleman, being only a few yards behind, when it gave up the chase. While this little scene was enacting one lucky shot killed the second, and then we went after the third, which was slowly mak ing for an adjacent hill; hearing us in pursuit, it turned round, and at once charged about 150 yards ; as we all stood it thought better of it, and went at the dogs, who, however, eluded it grasp with sur prising quickness. The first shot broke his leg, and Added to his fury, but it was now incapable of doing much harm, so we went up within a few yards ; another shot went right through the heart, and, in credible as it may appear, it charged,/ and nearly caught one 'of the dogs ; this effort was an expiring• one, and rolling over, vainly endeavouring to catch some of its tormentors, the noble creature, who never for one moment showed its backs to us, gathered to its fathers. A short time sufficed to strip them of their skins, and ere the day closed the vultures had left bat a few bones to tell where so lately had stood 6, I°L"klat il 6, 1855.] • then Ili tti . of daily to O° S l ' l ' o fhi t° r liti " [occ 11 , 11 ,, N I) rooms—ti be calq,",:' of Norway rimming p as else ', l it' tleoi' llva Y ; alone your'' , i f tt of scenes, lister the a ., g e, nature, and w Ise cool ° .. ta ,-uut wouldst b : A i; i ii, it teliest magni 1 1 1 ; i Zi) 4 - o ',,ainer and white !a rn_ , c o! 1 , RiieS...walem, look 11 5 ; 1 , tP wi e j,u.t.jord, or thl v 14 the Maan glic the c , lili e _ e green islands . o d . 4. 1. _ See now th e ni g I : t , t 'Av Ql , behind inon cia tl 00 4 1/ ing )00,.. , , %N , ~, ,,„:''a s ,n dt lio e o ks now:cl ioreeo i l i yt 4 !tliful of theirdown i c a7 l l l e , : 1 41 ,34, 1 : 1 1,1,6,hiftin .g tints I riot, r 1 Ali the he i ghts--• c oll j t te ~ N wg eence of the s a . s.:;tY/ `'l,,N, l ‘vhich arches • ' j o g , i N" care-worn ma] , 9 11 1 , i je± . t ;l e t I lld breathe ag ' P OT E. 11 ` ;, ; , 4 4,,,, v at ,ili, o p 4,, ,,v .—ForAY F. 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