The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-07 00:00:00

FASHIONS FOR JULY.

(From the Loudon and Paris Ladies' .2ktugazine of Fashion.)
Pompadours watered, or satin, mousseline and batiste de
baiege with foulards, are favourite materials for summer
wear : organdys brochtls, prairie, and marbr6 muslin are most
suitable for bals champetre, dejeuaes, &c.
There is but little variation in the make of dresses ; the
corsages cut en V, continue in favour, with the sleeves mode -
rately full, though tight sleeves are not without their advo-
cates in Paris, and a kind of double sleeve has been intro-
duced; flounces for demi-toilettes, evening, or negligees, but
biais are often preferred to flounces or bouillons. Redingotes
are made with crossing bodiCs and muslins, are often full—
:a la Vierge—trimmed with a broad lace, and ceinture of wide
ribbon or taffetas scarf, with long fringed ends, encircling the
waist, with nceud in front, and ends reaching to the feet.
Many new pelerines and cannezous have appeared this
season in Paris, some buttoning up close to the throat ; the
Beguines collerettes also button to the throat, terminating
with a very small collar of square or rounded corners, which
turns over a cravat or velvet ribbon ; the collar is a little
open in front, and trimmed with lace, which descends ; the
habit shirt, as a frill, being delicately embroidered above the
lace. One of the new lichus is full behind, and with three
folds in front, and is trimmed with a small double ruche—
ruches are much in favour.

For bonnets, the Materials are always crape, organdy,
straw, paille de riz, Leghorn, poult de sole, tulle, or lace;
the colours are green, lilac, paille, blue, and the trimmings
of gauze, checked ribbons, lace voilettes, forming lappets on
each side, shaded marabouts' flowers in bunches, wreaths,
demi-guirlandes, and large feuillage and flowers of mixed
colours. Many Leghorns are of close forms, with low crowns,
the front sometimes a little turned up, trimmed with paille
ribbons, or demi-guirlande of Parma violets or wreath of
hawthorn, falling low at the ears. Capotes of tulle, particu-
larly if spotted, are pretty with pink or blue ribbon passing
through the runners. .
Plaid scarfs are worn again, and shawls and scarfs of em-
broidered silk, with fringe to match the colours. The muslin
bournous, lined with gauze in pale shades of pink or blue,
trimmed all round with lace, and having hoods to place on
at pleasure, form elegant out-door toilettes. Some organdy
shawls are embroidered in coloured worsted, with fringes to
match. Silk fringes are sometimes substituted for lace on
the muslin bournous, in pink and white, blue and white, ac-
cording to the lining.
Velvet spencers and bodies, also watered silk ones, are worn
with white skirts. Very pretty little caps are made for neg-
lig6, composed of half-handkerchiefs of tulle, trimmed with
lace, supported on either side by small pompons of gauze,
and nnuds of ribbon.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—EarIy yesterday morning, when
the luggage trains were on their way from Liverpool to Man-
chester, a very serious accident, occasioning the loss of pro-
perty to the amount of nearly one thousand pounds, occurred.
We understand that the tram belonging to Mr. Hargreaves
was following at a distance the train belonging. to the Liver-
pool and Manchester Company, (which included some tim-
ber carriages,) and when proceeding up the Incline, a con-
necting rod broke belonging to the carriages in the first train,
which being thus loosened ran back down the incline at a
tremendous speed, and, as a matter of course, came di col-
lision with Mr. Hargreaves' train, smashing everything be-
tore them. Three casks of wine and a hogshead of spirits
were stove in and soon emptied of their contents ; and we
hear that one of the engineers could not resist the temptation
of having some liquor free of expense, and took so much,
that a little time afterwards when attempting to step from the
engine tq the tender. (the train having started,) he fell upon
the rail, the wheels of the carriage passing over him and
Milling him.—Preston Pilot. .
GA„E.—Keepers inform to that there is every prospect of
plenty of game of all kinds, the season hitherto having been
remarkably favourable. It appears that the promise of hares.
pheasants, moor game, and partridges is considerably above
the averrge for some years past, and that, from the forward
state of vegetation, and the genial weather experienced, all
will be able to shy away cleverly from the deadly tube long
before the periods when the law permits it to be levelled at
them.—Staffordshire Gazette.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Archimedes had trial trips in the Forth on Tuesday
and Wednesday,

Strange to record, London, the first mercantile city in the
world, is still without a chamber of commerce !

It is computed that the French army at present in Algieria
is little short of 60,000.

The bank of Messrs. Langmead and Co. of Teignmouth
has suspended payment.

" Of in the stilly night," as the vatchman said ven they
asked asked him if he ever took a nap.

A Roman Catholic Barrister was recently refused ad-
mission to the bar mess of the Munster circuit.
The Duke of Newcastle is said to be forming a library at
Clumber, for the use of his large establishment there.
An oak as been lately cut in Shropshire, the weight of the
bark of which is 30 cwt., and that of the whole about 25
tons.

By the ancient laws of Spain, if a woman could prove her
husband to have been thrice drunk, she might plead for a
divorce from him.

It is understood that her Majesty will have another state
ball at Buckingham Palace, on Monday the 20th of July.

It is calculated that all the works in connexion with the
Thames Tunnel will he completed in two years and 'a half
from the present time.

One of the most ordinary evils of tight whalebone stays,
is to make the right shoulder of women much larger than
the left.

It has been remarked as a peculiar coincidence, that Gould
was a potman, Oxford a potman, and Courvoisier originally

a waiter

There is a report that the Grand Duchess Olga, daughter
of the Emperor Nicholas, is about to be married to the Duke
of Nassau.

• The Archbishop of York, who is now in his eighty-third
year, has been fifty years on the Episcopal bench.—York-
,vhireman.

THE FORTHCOMING EXECUTION--It is said that as much
as five guineas has been paid for a single place, commanding
a good View of the scaffold !

Two of the Junior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin,
have been married since the repeal of the cellibacy statute,
and two others are to follow immediately.
The Royal Agricultural Society of England will hold their
annual show on the 15th of July, at Cambridge. A dinner
is to be provided for 2500 persons.

A London omnibus driver has been committed to a month's
imprisonment, with hard labour, for reckleSs driving—a suit-
able warning to his brother jarvies.

There are but 146 Protestant children attending the na-
tional or rather government education schools throughout
the whole province of Munster.

A few days ago " a 'Woolwich gentleman" 'having been
unfortunately rowed on board the wrong steamer, made a
voyage to Boulogne instead of Ipswich ! .
There is a great deal of hunger and wretchedness in Killa-
loe at present. Housekeepers, heretofore comfortable, are
obliged to boil the cornkeale to support their families.
Mr. Warde, the tragedian, is in a very bad state of.health,
and great apprehensions are entertained by his friends that
he never will be able to resume his professional duties.
In a trial decided in the Exchequer Court, last week, the
following apothecary's bill was put in 136 boxes of pills,
137 draughts, 124 mixtures, 131 leeches, and two blisters."
One or two cases have recently occurred in Scotland in
which animals—horses and cows—afflicted with lock-jaw,
hitherto deemed hopeless, have been treated successfully.
The electors of the Tower Hamlets are looking out for a
successor to Dr. Lushington. Mr. Hume is talked of as the
liberal, Mr. George Robinson as the conservative candidate.
The Attoruey-General will have much work on hand dur-
ing the' ensuing assizes in Ireland ; he has several Ribbonmen
to prosecute, as well as to state the rights of the crown in
some civil actions that are pending.
The coffin in which the late King of Prussia has been bu-
ried was the same that served in 1810 for the remains of
Queen Louisa his wife, and which was replaced afterwards by
a marble sarcophagus.

The booksellers of Glasgow have agreed to shut their shops
on Saturday, at five o'clock, during the months of June,
July, and August, in order to accommodate themselves and
the young men in their employment.

During the past week, Mr. Thompson, fishmonger, of
Lombard-street, London, among other very large fish of the
same kind, exhibited a salmon, the weight of which was
forty-six pounds and a half.

EXTENSIVE PURCHASE OF LAND IN WIGTONSIIIRE, BY
THE EARL OF STAIR.—This excellent and popular noble-
man has purchased no less than .£115,000 worth of Lord Gal-
loway's estate in Wigtonshire.—Dumfries Times.
The Bath Church of England Lay Association have pre •
sented an address to the Bishop of Exeter in acknowledg-
ment of that distinguished prelate's great services in the Pro-
testant cause.

At a conference of the Roman Catholic Clergy held in
Ennis on Thursday, it was unanimously resolved to make
Repeal of the Union the primary aim and object of their fu-
ture political operations.—Limerick Chronicle.
An enormous thornback, nine feet long, seven feet broad,
and a foot and a half thick, has been caught in the North
Sea and brought to Ostend. It was immediately sent to the
Cabinet of Natural History at Tournay.

A woman at Essehe St. Lieven, in Bel4ium, has been re.
cently subjected to the Caesarian operation, for the seconi
time, with perfect success:• A procession of the inhabitant:
accompanied the mother and child to church when they went
to return thanks.

The chimney sweepers arc to be heard by counsel at the
bar of the House of Commons, against the extinction of
climbing boys. Counsellor Black is the advocate fixed upon,
who is to be furnished with a host of sweeping arguments.
It appears that Lord Brougham has been duly initiated
into the mysteries of the secret society called " The Odd
Fellows." At a recent meeting of the Fox Lodge, held at
Dover, one of the members stated this as an honour of
which they could boast. The two members for the borough,
it appears also are " Odd Fellows."
Peter Reilly, of Ballyconnell, Cavan, presented himself at
the goal of Carrick-on-Slinnnon, for the purpose of becom-
ing security for William Bonar, of Edinburgh, (one of the
fourteen persons charged with ribbonism, whose committal
was noticed), end was instantly taken into custody.
.It ap-
pears that information had been previously lodged against.
Reilly, as being concerned in the said illegal association.
Northern Standard.

TEETOTALISM.—A short time a gentleman quaker, a tee-.
totaller, was riding in his gig, when he came up to a man
who was lying on the road side • the friend alighted and in-
quired what ailed him, when die man replied that he was
tipsy and very ill and sick, "Ah !" said the gentleman,
" what a fool thou art for giving so much to make thyself
sick. and to purchase ill health, when thou canst have good
health for nothing at all."
A CAREFUL GOVERNOR. The Ceylon Herald complains
bitterly that a governor in the receipt of £7OOO per annum,
beside table money, 'should have no knives and forks, or so
few as to render it necessary, when he gives a party, to re-
quest his guests to bring their own. Is this the gentleman,
who, whenever the admiral of the station, Sir Thomas Mait-
land, chanced to visit the Colombo, invariably took himself
up the, country, to avoid entertaining him ?
RIBBLE NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT.—Notwithstand-
ing the late unfavourable weather, the whole of the Rock is
now entirely excavated out of the second, or middle length
of the cofferdam • and in the course of another week or two,
the excavators will commence their operations in the third
and last length. As the latter .contains little more than half
the quantity of either of the two former lengths, it is confi-
dently expected that the whole of the excavation will be
entirely completed by the latter end of September.—Pres-
ton Chronicle.

The operation discovered by the physician Diefferibach, for
the cure of squinting, has been successfully tried at St. Vin-
cent's Hospital, Dublin : it has also been performed in se-
veral cases at the London hospitable with success.

The bullets fired at the Queen by Oxford are selling rapidly
at high prices, in every quarter of the metropolis. They ap-
pear to be more numerous than the heads of John the Baptist
exhibited at the different monasteries in Italy, Spain, and
Portugal.

A shoal of wind-headed Porpoises or caaing wales, provi-
dentially came into the bay of Ardmore, near Waterford, on
last Friday, and many of them were captured by the poor
people of the neighbourhood, who were in great distress.—
Limerick Standard.

Madame Lange, the sister-in-law of Mozart, for whom he
composed many parts, is still upon the stage of Vienna, and
lately acted to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her debut.
A Mr. West (who was a dancer with Garrick nearly seventy
years) lately took a benefit at the same theatre.

A HINT TO MODERN DISSENTERS.—" If no coercive
power were admitted. it is probable that covetousness would
drive many into dissenting parties in order to save their tithes
or their possessions. So that none can reasonably blame a
government for requiring such general contributions.—Dr.
Do ddridg e

REDUCTION OF DUTY ON FRENCH BRANDY.—We have
received a communication to the effect that the treaty will be
signed at Paris in a week or so, and the reduction will imme-
diately follow. The amount of duty to be taken off, it is
supposed, will be Bs. per gallon.—Yorkshirernan.
Nearly 23,000 quarters of wheat reached the port of Lon-
don alone last week ; the whole of which, except about 5,000
quarters previously entered for home consumption, is now in
bond. The quantity of wheat at present bonded in the United
Kingdom is estimated at 420,000 quarters.
CONNUBIAL. HAPPINESS.—The Australian, Sydney pa-
.

per, of December 21, has the following :—" An.advetiise-
ment appears in a contemporary of yesterday, from a fond
husband, cautioning the public against giving credit to his
better half, she having absconded from home for the eigh-
teenth time !"

REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—AIthough no de-
finite resolution has been come to by the reformers of Man-
chester, as to whom their invitation will be given to stand
on the liberal interest at the next election, in the room of
R. H. Greg, Esq., still the probability is that their choice
will fall on T. M. Gibson, Esq.—Leeds Mercury.

A stalk of flax, about two feet in length, being a sample
of fifteen acres of a most promising crop, grown by W. G.
Irwin, Esq., of Annalgola House, county of Armagh, has
been forwarded to this office. We are happy to learn that
the crops generally in that neighbourhood, especially the
potato crop, are equally forward and luxuriant.—Newry Te-
legraph.

IMPORTANT. TO AGRICULTURISTS.—By the tithe amend

merit act, which has just received the royal assent, the corn-
.

missioners are now empowered to declare that tithes shall
cease to be taken in kind, upon the application of any land-
owner who is willing to give the requisite security for the
payment to the titheowner of the rent-charge awarded and
agreed upon.
ORIGIN OF " YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT."—The use of
•

" your humble servant" came first into England on_ the
marriage of Queen Mary, daughter of Henry IV. of France;
which is derived from votre tres humble serviteur. The
usual salutation before that time was " God keep you!"
" God be with you !" and among the vulgar, " How dost
do?" with a thump on the shoulder.—History of British
Costume.

By the law in Louisiana in relation to imprisonment for
debt, a man may be taken on a bail writ and imprisoned until
judgment, when he is released, whether judgment goes against
him or not. Thus it is a crime to be suspected of debt there,
but none to have it proved on you.

THE THILIsi-OUT AT STOCKPORT.—The turn-out at Stook-
port is not yet wholly decided. The weavers at three or four
mills are yet out, and still express their determination not to
return to work at the reduced prices. A numerous meeting
was held on Tuesday, and after the proceedings a procession
was formed, and they paraded through the principal streets
of the town, in the most orderly manner. Those who have
returned to work 'at the reduced price, are allowed to pass to
and from the mills without molestation. A delegate meeting
of weavers was held at the Bull's Head, Market-place, a few
days ago, when it was agreed that those weavers who are yet
out, should not return to work till they obtained the old
price, and when that was done, the weavers at four or five
other mills should turn-out, the delegates promising to raise
liberal subscriptions for their relief, in the different districts
they represented. The dispute between the manufacturers
and the dressers is yet undecided, and great inconvenience is
felt in consequence.—Mancheder Guardian.

POTATOIII6..—.Of thig ugrful root W 3 hear very favourable
reports. The yield is expected to be abundant, and the
7uality good.

HAMBURGH, JUNE 20.—Our post-office has received an
intimation from the Post-office at London, that the postage
of our letters would be reduced if reciprocity could be
reckoned upon.
The floating light at the entrance of the Tees was brought
to Mr. Mellanby's building-yard to be coppered, and when
hauled upon the patent slipway, upwards of seven tons of
small muscles were found adhering to the bottom, and have
been disposed of for manure.—Tyne Mercury.

AN UNIMPEACHABLE WITNESS.—On Thursday week a
man was charged before the magistrates at Monmouth with
murdering his wife, but while the investigation was going on
the woman herself appeared, and the prisoner who appeared
to be insane, was of course immediately discharged.
We are informed on good authority that Messrs. Hawes
and D'Eyncourt, the present representatives for the borough
of Lambeth, have received notice from a considerable portion
of their most influential supporters that after the present
parliament their services will be no longer required.—Times.

The address from the city of Limerick to the Queen has
been elegantly printed on pink satin, and encircled with a
wreath of Limerick lace, beautifully figured, representing the
rose, shamrock, and thistle, with the royal crown overhead.
—Limerick Chronicle.

The unfortunate Mr. Yarworth is not expected to recover
from the murderous attack made upon him at Piff's Elm.
The Worcester Herald states that he has risen from his bed
but twice during the last six weeks, and his decease was
hourly expected.
We hear that a brevet will positively take place if Her
Majesty gives birth to a son, but decidedly not should a
daughter be born.—Naval and Military Gazette.
The Sultan's favourite wife has had a daughter.. Great
rejoicings have consequently taken place in Constantinople,
notwithstanding the disappointment that the child was not a
son.

THE HARVEST.—On heavy clay soils there is a general
complaint of a deficiency of plant, and the ear is represetted
to be short. On light soils rather more than average crop is
anticipated. Owing to the unfavourable rumours, there has
been a rise in the price of corn generally throughout the
country ; in a few more weeks we shall be better able to give
an opinion, but we have every reason to believe that there
will be a full average crop.—Bristol Standard.
A pleasant typographical blunder appeared lately in one of
the morning papers. A petition presented by Mr. E. Ten-
nent, from Belfast, in favour of Lord Stanley's bill, com-
plained of the present registration system in Ireland as
" leading to immorality." By the addition of a sing.e letter,
the system of corruption was described as " leading to im-
mortality."
A lady lately observing to one of her maid-servants,
when she came in from the play, that her eyes looked red, as
if she had been crying, the girl, by-way of apology, said,
" Well, ma'am, if I did, it was no harm ; a great many re-
spectable people cried too."
On the arrival of the Dinan diligence at Nantes, on Mon-
day last, an Englishman alighted, who was about six feet in
height, and, calling to the attendant at the office, desired he
would take care of his little brother whom he had left inside.
The worthy official mounted the steps, expecting to receive
a child in his arms, but, to his astonishment, saw a " bit of
a baby" come forth, measuring full seven feet !
BARLEY.—The transformation of oats into barley, it is
said, may be accomplished at will in the following manner :
—They are to be sown late, and cut twice in the way of
grass before they come into ear—the following season they
will be changed into barley.—Athettattin. [A mode some-
what similar may be adopted with equal success towards
many other cereals and vegetables—for instance, if a cucum-
ber be cut three or four times before fully ripe, the next year
it will produce a boiled cabbage."
On Monday night a report was in circulation at Walsall
that a large sum of money had been found by the workmen
employed at the Walsall and South Staffordshire Bank, in
taking down the counters, &e., for the purpose of removal to
the new establishment. The fact, we are given to understand,
is, that on removing one of the counters upwards of £3OO in
notes was found concealed about an arm's length between the
counter and the wall, but by whom this sum was secreted is
at present unknown.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts has voted £3,000 for each of the years 1840 and 1841,
to be placed at the disposal of the Bishop of Australia, for
the purpose of assisting in building churches in New South
Wales ; and £5OO for each of those years for a similar pur-
pose in Van Dieman's Land ; and William Leigh, Esq., of
Aston-hall, Lichfield, has given the munificent donation of
£2,000 for the purpose of building a church and parsonage-
house in South Australia, and has appropriated 400 acres. of
land as an endowment. He has also made over to the so-
ciety two town acres of land in the city of Adelaide, producing
£l5O a-year.

We understand that the Marquis of Saldanha has 'bow
finally settled the object of his special mission to the British
government, and that he will return to Lisbon in the course
of this week. The claims immediately adjusted are those of
the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Beresford, and others, be-
sides the expenses of the expedition sent to Portugal in
1825. The civil claims are to be referred to a commission.
It is also said that the basis of a commercial treaty has been
agreed on between this country and Portugal.—Morning
Chronicle.

PUBLIC CHALLENGE.-Mr. Carpenter, of Hull Farm,
near Chipping Norton, Oxton, challenges to show a fat long-
wooled ewe, bred and fed by him, and now the property of
Mr. Robert MaSters, of Weston, in Northamptonshire,
against any man in England, for £5O at Cambridge on the
15th of July next ; age and time of feedinz to he taken into.
consideration. The judges to be chosen, one by each party,
and those two to appoint a third, provided one resided In
Oxfordshire, one in Leicestershire, and one in Gloucester-
shire. Mr. C. is the same person who exhibited a fat ewe
at the Smithfield Show in 1832.--Lincoln Standard.
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.-Mr. Marsh, chymist, con-
nected With the Royal Arsenal, recently discovered that it is
an invariable rule with iron which has remained for a consi-

derable time under water, when reduced to small grains, or
to an impalpable powder, to become red hot, and ignite any
object with which it may come in contact. This he 'expe-
rienced by scraping some corroded metal from a gun, which
ignited the paper containing it, and burnt a hole in his
pocket. The knowledge-of this fact may be useful in ac-
counting for spontaneous fires, the origin of which has never
been traced.—Times.

SOCIALISM AS IT is.-7-The community of Queenwood,
near Titherley, are already falling " into the sear and yellow
leaf." The public of the surrounding towns and villages
have ceased to be excited by the blasphemous and seditious
lectures, which only a few months since attracted hundreds,
on every Sabbath-day, to this sink of sin and wickedness.
Such is the apathy at the present time, that these worthies
have been compelled for a time to abandon their Sunday lec-
turing for want of visitors, and such is their domestic so-
ciality, that their great man and head farmer, Mr. Aldam,
has actually quitted through a general quarrel ! So much
for the vaunted system, where all is peace, love, and har-
tnony.—Salisbury Herald.

THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.—A variety of experiments
have within these last few, days been tried on the railway re-
cently laid down between Shepherd's Bush and the Great
Western Railroad, across Wornibolt, or, as it is more com-
monly called, Wormwood Scrubs, for the purpose of testing
the efficacy of the atmospheric tubes, the working of the air-
pump, and the speed of the carriages propelled along the
rails. It is gratifying to know that the results of these ex-
periments have all been satisfaCtory.
_Amongst those who

were present at the experiments on Monday last was his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, who expressed himself fully
satisfied with the result of the experiments. The mere rate

of the carriage with its passengers, weighing 8 tons 3 cwt.,
was 30 miles an hour ; with the carriage and passengers of 5
tons 13 cwt. it traversed the rail at the rate of 36 miles an
hour ; and during the time of the prince's inspection its ra-
pidity was still greater.—Standard.

A return to an order of the House of Commons gives an
account of the imports of foreign wine into the United
Kingdom for the year ending the sth of January, 1840. The
total quantity was 9,909,056 gallons. and the total quantity
exported was 2,053,085 gallons. The quantity retained for
home consumption, after deducting the amount exported
subsequently to the payrneut-of duty, was 7,000,486 gallons,
and the quantity remaining in warehouse under bond, on the
sth of January, 1840, was 11,233,744 gallons. It is worth
remarking, that it is shown by the same return that the
quantity of French wine retained for home consumption was
no more than 378,636 gallons, while the quantity of Spanish
wine was 2,578,997, and that of Portuguese 2,921,422.
OPENING OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY TO
BRENTWOOD.—This railway having at length reached its
terminus in Shoreditch, was on Thursday thrown open through
the entire line from that point to Brentwood, a distance of
eighteen miles. Crowds flocked at an early hour to the ter-
minus, and flags were flying from every steeple. A dejenner
a la fourchette was prepared on an extensive scale, and
several elegant tents, which had been erected for the enter-
tainment, were crowded with ladies and gentle Men. Bands
of music paraded the town, and the utmost hilarity pervaded
all classes. The directors, with a view of inspiring the public
with confidence, departed in one of the trains at twelve,
o'clock for Brent Wood, amidst a numerous concourse of
spectators, and they returned in time to see the two o'clock
train off. Everything passed over in a satisfactory manner.
The inhabitants of Brentwood have every reason to congra-
tulate themselves on the great increase to their trade and
comfort which this railway must occasion.
A NEW BRASS INSTRUMENT.—We have seen and heard
a musical instrument newly invented by Mr. John Shaw, of
Glossop, in Derbyshire ; an ingenious mechanic who has
made the improvement of brass instruments an object of his
attention for nearly 20 years. During his time he has, pro-
duced five new kinds of valve for lengthening and shortening
the tubes ; and has now constructed an instrument bearing a
general resemblance to the Cornet-a-piston, but decidedly
superior to that instrument in simplicity of mechanism,
quality of tone, and facility of performance. It is so small
that it can be carried in the pocket without inconvenience ;
yet, notwithstanding its diminutive size, its tone is superior
in power and volume to that of the Cornet-a-pistons or the
Cornopean ; and it has a clearness and brilliancy—a crisp-
ness—of which those instruments are deAitute, Time instru-
ment which we have examined has a perfect chromatic scale,
extending from G below the lines of the treble staff to the
double D in the hands of an ordinary player, but the scale
may be carried still higher by a powerful lip. Its intonation
is exceedingly true; and it seems capable of being played as
easily as a German flute. Such an instrument must be an
important addition to our orchestras, and to military bands
be invaluable. Mr. Shaw has taken out a patent, for the
invention ; though the instrument has not yet been brought
into use, nor, we believe even christened.—Spectator.

NORFOLK.—THE Cuors.—Upon the whole, it may be
fairly asserted, that the county of Norfolk never exhibited
so magnificent a prospect in its• growing crops of grain as it
does at the present moment. A bountiful and all-wise Pro-
vidence has scattered its blessings through the length and
breadth of this highly favoured land, and the anti-corn law

junta may. now say- with Balak of old, " I called thee
to curse this people, and behold thou bast altogether blessed
them !" The extreme folly of instituting any measure which
should incur the risk of driving us to a foreign market for a
supply of the first necessaries of life, can never be better ex-
etnplified than at the present time. Let any one examine th►e
crop of grain in this county, and inquire how it has been
produced ; he will learn that within the last few years the
acreable yield of grain has increased nearly aue•filth outer
and above what was formerly considered an average produces
and it is not improbable that the forthcoming harvest may.

even surpass in productiveness that of any forwer years. If
we inquire how this has been effected, we shall find that it
arises out of a vast expenditure of capital.—Lincoln

EXTRAORDINARY FANATICISM.—The villages of Coombe
Florey, Heise, and adjoining parishes, in Somerset, have fre-
quently of late been visited by field preachers, whose preten-
sions to extraordinary manifestations o9t " the Spirit, ' effect
followers with strong delusion!, by whichthey are led
from the plain path of duty into all kinds ot• visionary fancies.
and absurdities. They may hu.beard,at the distance of halt
a mile, crying out with steutorian voles, " Come in, come
in, and let the Spirit take possession of you, and convert you,
and drive the Devil out of you ' The process, we under-
stand, is this : A circle is formed of their deluded followers,
within which, whoever has a mind to be converted (as they
call it,) is admitted ; he is then exhorted and beaten till the
Devil is expelled, and the patient acknowledges himself to be
a convert! After this, they roll upon the
ground, or lie ap-
parently lifeless, or in fits of convulsion, for a while, and
then assert that they have been favoured with visions and
lights, and revelations from heaven !—Bristol Standard.