The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

FRlnAv.—The Princess Augusta (attended by Miss Wyn-
yard) the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia
Matilda, visited her Majesty yesterday, at Buckingham Pa-
lace.

Viscount Melbourne and Sir John Hohhouse had audi-
ences yesterday of the Queen.
The royal dinner party, last evening, included the Earl of
Errol, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Albemarle, Lord Barham,
Lord Clarence Paget, ard the Right Hon. G. S. and Lady
Agnes Bung. _ _ _

The band 'of the royal regiMent of horse guards attended
at the palace during the evening, and performed a number of
favourite pieces.
Prince George of Cambridge came to Cambridge House
yesterday morning. His royal highness returned to his re-
sidence, at Kew, in the afternoon. •

Mr. Sergeant Wilde -had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bourne, yesterday, in Downing-street.
The Right Hon. Dr. Lushington, Mr. H. Fox Young,
Mr. Samuel Smith, and Mr. Turnbull, had interviews with
Lord John Russell, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. •
A deputation, on behalf of the civil and military claimants
on Portugal, consisting of Major-General Sir JolmM.Doyle,
K.C.8., Lient.-Colonel Iliistow, accompanied by Mr. Brad-
burn, had an interview, on Wednesday, with Viscount Pal-
merston, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Irving, M.P., and Mr. David: Barclay, had an inter-
view with Viscount Melbourne, yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.'
The Lord Mayor had an interview with the Marquis of
Normanby, yesterday, ut.the Home-office.
Mr. Warburton had all inter view with Viscount Melbourne
yesterday.

NEW METAL.—Mr. Kersten; professor of chemistry at
the college of Friebeerg,„in Swig, has lately received a letter
from Professor-Berzfliius,.,in which, tis stated, that Professor
Mosander, of -Stonhelin lia's discovered, in the ore called
cerite, a new metal, to which he haS-given the name of lan-
tanum. Its colour is grey, and it appears to be soft anti
etnnAteed_iri the, wade of rprtupz,,whicla
Professor found in monazite, a new mine-
ral from the Ural mountains, which was determined by
Breithaupt, and sent b 7 Mr. Kersten to .Berzelius for further
analysis. Professor Kersten has since discovered the same
new metal in an ore from IS'weden 'Called godolonite. This
fifty-fifth elementary body has, therefore, been found already
in minerals coming ,froin ,very distant localities, and it is
somewhat remaiiiable that the north of Europe has come in
for so large a share'in furnishing the simple bodies of modern
chemistry.—Deardcn's

DIABOLICAL ALARM.—On 'Wednesday last, about half-
past five o'clock, some miscreant threw a canister containing
a quantity of powder, shot, . and a lighted fuse, through the
chamber-window of a houSe in Brumll-lane. From the
force with which it was thrown, it fell at the room door, and
immediately exploded, the contents passing partly out of the
room. Owing to this providential circumstance, the lives of
the husband and wife, who were asleep in the room, were
saved, but the door was blown out of the frame, the windows
shattered, and the bed-curtaiLs set fire to. The latter were
speedily extinguished ; and on examining the room, a ja-
panned canister, which would hold half a pound of gunpow-
der, was found in the room, and the remnant of a fuse burn-
ing near it. The husband is a scythe-grinder, and is in the
employment of Messrs. Linley, of Clough Works, whose
men turned out a short time ago. The same man was, we
understand, shot at about six or seven months since, and
there was then, as there is now, the strongest probability that
the guilty parties are the ministers of " trades' union'; ven-
geance. We earnestly hope that the wretches will be disco-
vered and brought to justice.—Sheffiehl Patriot.
O'CONNELL HUMBUG.—The great mendicant proposes
most modestly, to raise an army of 500,000 men for the use
of the queen, who, poor lady, is sorely beset in Britain, and
to allow Lord Normanby to withdraw all the regular troops
from Ireland!! ! This is the best practical joke he ever com-
mitted. If the troops were recalled; and the half of such a •
number of repealers embodied under his control, her majesty,
notwithstanding the awful loyalty of the whigs, would not
retain her seat for six months. What an incurable set of
fools the people of Ireland must be, who can patiently listen
to such thrash—much more, who are willing to pay for it.—
Glasgow Courier.

ANALYSIS OF HAILSTONES.—M. Girardin, in a letter to
M. Arago, gives the results of the analysis, which he has
made, of hailstones, collected in the month of February last.
It appears, from this paper, that hailstones contain a consi-
derable portion of organized and azotized matter, and a sen-
sible quantity of lime and sulphuric acid. The experiments
of chemists have before proved, that rain water, in falling
through the atmosphere, carries with it in solution to the
earth, ammoniacal salts, calcerous salts, and a flocky matter,
which is, without doubt, the origin of the deleterious princi-
ples which are dethgnated by the term ruis ruata. Hitherto,
however, no one has stated the existence of this (*prig
mattcr hailstoßes Degrde Aliffeltany,