The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

ART, LITERATURE, AND SCIENCE.

Adam Bede has reached a seventh thousand.
Mr. Henry Mayhew is engaked on a popular Life of
Benjamin Franklin.

The first volume, in two numbers, of Louis Spohr's
Autobiography has just appeared.
An erudite work on the " History and Literature of
Shorthand Writing," by Dr. Julius Zeibig, has been
issued by the Royal Stenographic Institute of Dresden.

Messrs. T. B. Peterson and Brothers, Philadelphia,
have just issued a small volume, containing thirty-three
stories, ascribed by them to the pen of Mr. Charles
Dickens, and said never before to have been published
in the States.
The establishment of a Magnetical Observatory at
Vancouver Island is pos po led, in consequence of the
war with China precluchig the establishment at present
of a corresponding observatory at Pekin.
A lost picture of Raphael's has been lately discovered
at Valencia, and transferred to St. Petersburg.. The
recovered treasure is the celebrated "Vierge au Tait," a
detailed description of which may be found in Vasaria.
The new work by Count de Montalembert, entitled
" Les Moines d'Occident," is announced to appear at
Paris on the 15th of this month. An " authorised"
translation will soon after be published by Messrs:
Blackwood and Sons.

Messrs. Ward and Lock are preparing
,for immediate
publication a contribution to the department of literary
quasi-fiction created or popularised by Mr. Samuel
Warren, in his "Diary of a Lets Physician." It is to
be entitled " The Diary of a J'sdge, compiled from the
private note-book of a deceased judge."
Mr. Samuel French, New York, is publishing in
monthly parts, two of which has been issued, a work
entitled " Fifty Years of a Playgoer's Journal, com-
prising the dramatic annals of New York, from the
building of the Park Theatre, A.D. 1798, to its des-
truction, A.D. 1848. By H.N.D."
The " motildering toy," as Mr. Ruskin, in his recent
volume of "Modern Painters," aptly calls the new
Houses of Parliament, is becoming dangerous. A
week or two ago, " a large mass of rotten and decaying
stonework," reports the B,,,ilcling News, "forming the.
canopy of the niche containing the statue of Charles 11.,
broke away and fell to the groUnd with great violence,
from a height of 50 feet, smashing the pavement with
the violence of the concussion."

The Builder tells us that it is proposed to do honour
to the memory of Pugin, as one of the founders of the
tiothic .tteolvai, ana p 1 craft knowlectga mediaeval art.
The project takes a novel and commendable turn ; quite
in keeping with what would have been Pugin's wishes.
The intention is to raise a fund to be called " The Pugin
Travelling Fund." out of which architectural ancients
are to be awarded travelling scholarships : a sum of
money to be expended in a year's travel throughout the
United Kingdom, devoted to the study and illustration
of ;our noble monuments of mediaeval architecture,
sculpture, and painting.
The Mesirs. Longman will publish in the autumn a
work on the " Chase of the wild Red Deer in the
counties of Devon and Somerset,'' by Charles Palk
Collins, Esq., of Dulverton.

The far-travelled Mr. Lawrence Oliphant, explorer of
Eastern Nepaul and Western Minnesota, describer of
the shores of the Black Sea, and historiographer of the:
Elgin Missien to China, is about to appear as the author
of a work with a taking title, " Patriots and Pillibus—
ters ; or, Incidents of Political and Exploratory
Travel." The publishers are the Messrs. Blackwood.
Another poetical brother of Mr. Alfred Tennyson's
Las appeared, in the person of the Rev. Charles Ten-
nysOtt Turner, as a contributor to Maemillan's Hagazine.
This gentleZian joined the laureate in his first publica-
tion, "Poems bi' Two Brothers ; " he afterwards took
the name of Turner on succeeding to a property in
Lincolnshire. A'younger brother, Frederick, published

a volume of poems in 1854.
A work of reference of rather & ;level and peculiar
kind, and which will be found useful in 5c0,...Tal ways, is
on the eve of publication,—" Fairbaiim's Crest-DaPk of
the Families of Great Britain .and ireland." Vol. L
will contain : 1. An index to crests of nearly 50,040
names, with emblazonings; 2.-Nearly 3,000 mottoes, -
carefully translated, with the families who claim them;
3. Glossary of heraldic terms. Vol. 11. will comprise
146 engraved plates; showing aboVe 2,000 crests, mono-
grams, arms, crowns, orders, flags, &c., with a key the
plates, showing the families who claim the same crests.
The work has been Compiled by James Fairbairn, and
revised by Laurence Butlers, seal engraver in ordinary
to the Queen of Scotland. The publisher is Mr. Thos.
C. Jack, of Edinburgh.
The editors, or editresses, of the English Work-
toontan's Journal announce that on and after September
a new periodical,. established to promote the industrial
pursuits of women, will be printed by women at the
Victoria Printing Preis, 9,' Great doram-street, Bruns-
wick Square.; and in-making this announcement they
desire to draw the attention of their friends and the
public to this practical result of the principles which
they have advocated during the past three years. The
Victoria Press employs female compositors only and is
under the Management of a lady-philanthropist, Miss.
Emily Faithfull. .
Young Sullivan, the " Mcndeysohn scholar " sent by
the Mendelssohn Testimonial Fund to pursue his musi-
cal studies at Leipsic, has been gaining honours in that.
city. A German journalist says of him, in noticing the
Conservatorio Examinations, " Still more applause was.
given to the Overture composed by Mr. Arthur Sep.-
mour Sullivan, from London, to Moore's kose-festival.
in Lalla Rookh,' which in the spirit of the, present
time carried us with all the charm of the poem to the
fields of Persia, and justifies us to great hopes for the
young composer. Mr. Sullivan conducted his own,
music."

We are happy to find in the current number of " Mac-
millan" a paper by Carl Benson,' " My Friend Mr. Bed- .
low ; or, Reminiscences of American College Life."-.
" Benson " is the noes de plume occasionally adopted liy_
Mr. Charles" Astor Bristed "(a grandson, of the famous-'
John JaCob Astor, founder 'of the. Aster Library at Nov
YOrk),- and the'autlior'ofa work on Cambiidge.academiC
Fiire years is ari.English tniyersity;". from which
Englishm'en may learn something and Americans • have
learnt a great deal. Haiitig instructed his countrymen.
irrthe' ways and habits of an English Vniversity,
Briited now communicates. thiough "gaeraillatt to
English readeissome particulars of Transatlantic Mil,.
versity Life. He is equally- fitted for both pleasant
tasks, as, after studying at Yale Cottage, in kis. -own
country, he graduated as B.A. at our own-- Trinity' Col-
lege,
Gambridge,.in 1846.—The critic. • •

The Waterford Mail announces the appearance of thzt.
potato blight in . that quarter.

FOLLOWING. A NOBLE EXIMPLE.—The patriotic,
example of Mr. Charles Ratcliff, brother of
.-the ex—
Mayor of Birmingham, who was the first to raise, equip,
and drill a company of riflemen, 100 strong, at his
sole
expense, has been followed by Messrs. Campbell,. army.
clothiers, of Jermyn-street, and shoe-manufacturers at..
Northampton. The
.sth company. of N.orthamptou.
Ritlefi was formed and clothed entirely at the. expense of.
these gentlemen. . • -
An exquisitely formed model, on an unusually large
scale, of the attack, siege,. and. capture. of a strongly -
fortified town,
.has just, been completed at the Royal. •
Engineer establishment, Chatham, by the sappers and
miners, who have been _occupied about twelve months.
in the Undertaking,.under the superintendence of Capt,.
H. Schaw. The model, which is unique of its kind,.
. describes every incident connected. with a siege, the
works T.)eing.constructed :according. to. Vauban's theory.
of fortification, and the .whele. worked. out with the
utmost fidelity....
,• • • . .
THE YRPCI,I family of Guzman (of. •
h
which the French Empress 11. a. 1-ICVOIdAnt) is one of.
the ino4.lliustrions and historic ouses in Europe,. being
.i dina de
the parent stock from
.which; la,avg..s.prting the Dukes of
3
to. Torres, the Dukes. of. Medina Sidonia,
and the Counts Dukes of OlivareS, and the Xarquises.
and CoUnts of Montijo, Counts of Theba and Grandees .1
of Spain. In addition to the name. of. Guzman, her.
Majesty is entitled to that of Portocarrero, which recallis.:
likewise great historical associations. The Empress.
Eugenie is not the first of her race who has been called
to a throne : in 1633, Donna Louisa Francesca de.
Guzman married the King of Portugal, Don John
of Braganza.—S'r Bernard Burke's Second Series of
• • • .. ••
" Vicissitudes of Families."

All medicines aggravate, but Du Barry's delicious Ravalenta
Arabica Food effectually cures indigestion, t dyspepsia, )
flatulency, constipation, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints,
coughs, asthma, consumption, and debility without medicine -7
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"Riddington Rectory, Norfolk, June, 10, 1850. Eight years. .7
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nausea, for which my servant had Consulted the advice of many, '
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Flavell." Cure No. 48,311. "Bury, Lancashire, August 17,
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Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of spurious and injurious
imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's
mutations are prohibited by the High Court of Chancery under
a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Hooper Nevill and his
agents; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Ambles
Food, and that Du Barrys arc connected with such patent are
utterly false. No canister is genuine without the name Barry
Du Barry & Co., 77, Regent-street, in lull,
on the seal and
wrapper. Shopkeepers who attempt imposition in one article _
must expect to b • distrusted in all others. Packed in tins at
Is. ; 1 lb. 2s. 9d. ; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lls ; 121 b. 225. ; 281 b.
40s. The 12 lb. and 24 lb. canisters aro sent carriage.
free on receipt of Post-office Order by Barry Du Barry
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in this district :---Nixon & Thew' 1, Castle-street ; T. Low ; J.
KirkusL
Forsyth ; F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-snort; R. Sumner
& Co ; H. S. ..ilpass; E. Pearson & Son ; J.
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Sons & Co., wholesale agents; Joan Bevnon ; Thompson.&
Capper J. Strawson, druggist; G. Brimwell & Son; C.
Bromlow, 1, London-road; Isaac Woodville, tea dealer;
Rainies 1., Co., wholesale druggists; F. Staveley, druggist,
Price -street street ; T. D. Walker, Ranelagh-street ; J. It.
Howell,
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Middleton ; Gilbert Brothers ; J. Cruise ; Grace & Kelk.;
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JULY 10, 1860.

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