The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-15 00:00:00

'There is, of course,

on and for diff

nce of opinion
so that

on the subjects of which the author treats
we could not expect to go with him in all his de
auctions and explanations. The subject of the
might have been more clearly stated in the

Lewis Arundel

Mr. Frank Fairleol seems to he
bringing his story to a close, from the tendency of
events towards a denouement. There is not much
matter in the two numbers before us, but the scenes
are depicted with great skill, and the interest is well
sustained.—The Protestant Illagazine. The annual

lroad of Life

and xix

Protestant Association occupies a
large space in the present number; and great pro-
- e is given to the speech of the Rev. Dr.
e.—The Half-Hours with the Best Authors
reach the close of the first volume, without a dimi-
nution of interest or value.—Hogg's Instructor. In
a melange of this kind, costing only a few pence,
one is hardly prepared to find a biography of Nie-
buhr, and a well-executed steel-engraved portrait,
besides numerous essays and stories of a high class.

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ARIETIES

ONE cannot always be a hero, hut one may

a man.—Goetlie

MEASUREMENT OF LIGHT.—Such is the nicety with
which investigations into the nature and properties of
light have been conducted, that a wave of light can be
measured to the ten-millionth part of an inch, and the
quadrillionth of a second.

THE POWER
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Town-

F JENNY LIND'S voice may be in some

tood, when it is stated that it was dis-

hoard more than a quarter of a mile from the
hall on the evening of her concert in Northampton.

—New Yor

Tribune

A SHOWER OF BENEDICTIONS.—Last week the Arch-
bishop of Paris was blessing a bundle of eagles and tins ;
this week be has been busy blessing a heap of busts of the
President. If this shower continues Louis Napoleon will
find the French Church quite a blessing.—Punch.

To MAKE WATER COLD FOR SUMMER.—The following
is a simple mode of rendering water almost as cold as ice.
Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for water, be sur-
rounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton, to be
constantly wet. The evaporation of the water will carry
off the heat from the inside, and reduce it to a freezing
point. In India, and other tropical climes, where ice
cannot be procured, this is common. Let every mechanic
and labourer have at his place of employment two
pitchers thus provided, and with lids or covers, one to
contain water for drinking, the other for evaporation,
and he can always have a supply of cold water in warm
weather. Any person can test this by dipping a finger in
water and holding it in the air on a warm-day; after doing
this three or four times, he will find his finger uncomfort-
ably cold. _ _ _

ETIQUETTE.-Mr. Singer's explanation in a former
number of Notes and Queries is simple, and, I believe,
correct. The covered hands might be considered as dis-
courteous as a covered head ; but why should uncovering
either be a mark of respect ? The solution of the ques-
tion seems to me of some curiosity, and may perhaps be
to many of your readers of some novelty. These and
most other modern forms of salutation and civility are
derived from chivalry, or at least from war, and they all
betoken some deference, as from a conquered person to
a conqueror ; just as in private life we still continue to
sign ourselves the " very humble servants" of our corre-
spondents. The uncovered head was simply the head
unarmed : the helmet being removed, the party was at
mercy. So the band unmoved was the hand ungaunt-
leted, and to this day it is an incivility to shake hands with
gloves on. Shaking hands itself is but a token of truce,
in which the parties took hold each of the other's weapon
band, to make sure against treachery. So also a gentle-
man's bow is but an offer of the neck to the stroke of the
adversary ; so that the lady's curtsey is but the form of
going on hr knees for mercy. This general principle is
marked, as it ought naturally to be, still more strongly in
the case of military salutes. Why is the discharge of
guns a salute ? Because it leaves the guns empty, and at
the mercy of the opponent. And this is so true that the
saluting with blank 'cartridge is a modern invention.
Formerly salutes were fired by discharging the cannon-
balls, and there have been instances in which the com-
pliment has been nearly fatal to the visitor whom it meant
to honour. When the officer salutes, he points his
drawn sword to the ground ; and the salutes of the
troors is, even at this day, called " presenting arms,"
that is presenting them to be taken. There are several
other details both of social and military salutation of all
untries which might be produced ; but I have said
ough to indicate the principle.—Notes and Queries.
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THE GREAT QUESTION.

(From Blackwood's Maga:ine.

The Ministerial party, the Peel party, the Manchester
party, the Radical party, the Whig party, the Roman
Catholic party will, within a few days' time present them-
selves, in the persons of their respective members, and (if
honest) as exponents of their distinctive principles, before
the various constituencies of the country. From the past,
the future must.be judged of and provided against.

The momentous issue really before the country defies
,e abortive, yet insidious and dishonest, attempts to

reduce its proportions into the narrow compass of " Free
Trade or no Free Trade ;" and Lord John Russell, in his
letters to the citizens of London, thus far imitates the
examp:e of Sir James Graham. These attempts are, in
fact, a tacit and tremulous acknowledgment of the strength
of the great Conservative party which now guides the helm
and while repudiating the little test, ques-

ticn, condition, or formula proposed by the most cunning
(we use not the word offensively) of the revolutionary
tacticians, we beg to submit the following, as a far more

comprehe

nsive one, as the conditions on which votes
give❑ at the ensuing election; and they may be

should be