The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, &c.

Dr. Lee has announced his intention of comin,7 forward as r:
candidate for the r.ltresentation of Aylesbury, at the next elec-
tion.—Bucks Herald.

Mr. Nicholl, a conservative candidate of great influence, rill
contest the borough of Yough.:l next elec'.i.w, and must likelv
drive Mr. John O'Connell out of the representation.--Limerick
Chronicle.

In addition to the gentlemen already named as likely to coma.
forward for the honour of representing the city of Bath
event of a vacancy, Captain rt•uuell, U.N., of High Littleton,
has been announced as a candidate.—ButA hierald.

i Earl of Surrey, and grandson of the Duke of Norfolk, as a
It is intended to bring forv:tl-1,1 LordFitzattan, sun of the:
, the next election, in uppositiou to Sir. Buckingham.— fj.7,4
1 candidate for the representation of the borough of
_Seeiheld at.
extent, but the ; Riding Hera
discovery of no fewer,
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than 581 bad votes, all of which have been objected to, and
ppearance of the register for the ensuing
nearly the whole of which, it is certain, will be lust to the radi-
cals. We are happy to be able to state there is a decided iut_.
year.—Morning
REPREsENTATioN ou ORKNEYi AND SHETLAND.—Mr. Bal-
'proyement in t
four, the present member, will, in the event of an election, be
ertek Dundas The • - .• in '
opposed by Frq . • _ contest will, ail puha-
biatv, be an unusually keen one. Political feeling runs, if pos-
sible, still higher in Orkney and Shetland thou in Caithness.
Ilhernald.
Northampton town and county conservative dinner is to take
on Thursday, the fit li of next month, and is expected to be very
numerously and respectably attended. Among the distite.r,oish-
ed characters who have already subscribed their niunt!s to dine
M.P.; W. it. Cartwright, 14'..5q., INI.P ;
are, Sir C. Knightly; Bart., M.P. ; Sir IL (inflame., Bart.,
C. Rose, Esq , M.P.;
The lion. Charles the Mayor of Northampton, end abou.t. 100 other gentlemen.
Augustus Murray has arrived by the Ox-
ford from New York. Ile has trhvelied fur two years in the .
United States. At the next election he will stand in the popu-
lar interest for Lanarkshire.—(iiasgow Chrwilde.
Me. BArtn.cm, M..l).—We are sorry to learn that the health
of vur respected and liberal-minded representative is such as to
leave not the least-hope of his ever Kg,ain resuming his parlia-
mentary duties.—Kendal Mercury. ~
•
LEEDS Et..TtioN.—At the nest election for Leeds it is in—
tended to invite George Goodman, Esq., the present Mayor, to •
,
allow himself to be 'put in nomination as a candidate in the
room of E. Baines
Esq., who pui poses 'retiring from repre-
sentation.—Leeds Time 3.

[ THE SEMICIRCULA R Aitcn.—lt is well ',mown to persons
, versed in ancient arlliteciure, that the semicircular trill which
1 has now been used for soute•centUries in all the civilized coun-
tries of Europe, was unknown to the inhabitants of ancient,
[ Greece. The Greeks had, it is trite, improved somewhat on the
architecture of the Egyptians and Thebans; but it is curious,
that an improvement so obvious as,tbe arch should not have been
made earlier. That the fact is so is uniptestionaide; for no re-
mains of this beautiful, useful, and (lovable form of architecture
have ever been found in the coins of...temples or other puhlh;
buildings,—not even of bridles,—built antecedent to th.i con-
guest of Greece by the Romans. The semicircular arch, then,
is decidedly a Roman invention; and though- superseded in no-
small degree during the middle ages, by the Gothic (or -rather
Moresco) pointed arch in the building of bridges, castles, and
- churches, in order to suit the sombre bent' of religious grandeur.
perfect,—nothing
and solemnity so apparent in ourold cathedrals•aud abbeys, still
the most experienced architects (amamt "1"1" wes the eele—
Michael Angelo Buouaratti) have contended that, both for
rodi,
beauty and strength, the in,;(forn or true arch is infinitely to be
preferred to the Gothic; for the -pressure of and on all 11115 he_
Ills jlls11.1:.a.
short of and crushing force van alter its
position or destroy its semicircular
_line. Reasoning tat there
• ted Metropolitan Surgeon-D t'
points, the celebra .
of _ . , en Ist,
tutiawl anniodsteoq,uearli;-o,,iefrtinlige cohesion V
Monsieur`
rued Incor '
ble Mineral Teeth on the same principle.ll.ll4 StleCeSS
much labour and experiment, was at length colt , , after
has, consequently, ever since abar.doned the 'Pete and he
has, conceived the idea ft.nny
I sightly use of wires and every other ligature Clams and un-
persons who are obliged to use artitio 1
whatever. To•
Proyement in modern science is a real amasticators, this blessing,inl-
THE RIVAL SCHOOI Al. ,
ASTERs _At ~.
last week, two schoolmasters . ' ts-tlrush ' petty sessions
who were at daggerS' drawn a appeared before the magistratesi
-weep them to teach_ the N n account of. the competition be.
Theiearned gentleman, Whohis was the insadcr of his rivars'do-
mind "
yin the yarinn rinottneentent, to initiate the . vont II ra
iiiranches of knowledge,. from A B C. to
Romer s records of
This flourishiao- tefeats 'of the
plume-waving nextor,"
description of his powers alarmed the peda-
gogne in noqsessio who sent a threatening letter, it: which he
vowed . to dive hisu*
quickly decamped.
. rival a most. serious castigation, unless he
;ed. In this epistle he render.ed the vuldarism
" cut your stick" into more classical expression-, " '' amputate!.•
your staff with celerity." The parties were bound to keep the
peace.