The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-02-08 00:00:00

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such amateurs as Lord SALTOUN and Sir GEORGE CLERK.
But it would take more space and time than you can
spare, or I bestow,—simply to indicate all the musical
preparations for the season just inaugurated. The two
Philharmonics promise splendidly ; SPORT?. and LIND -
PAINTER are to conduct the performances at the younger
establishment. The glee and madrigal people hold out
several musical banquets, selected chiefly from the fathers
of English song. Of music appreciated—loved truly by
English ear—glee and madrigal always tell, especially
with such charming and thoroughly English artists as
BIRCH and DOLBY. We shall be a musical nation in
time. I hold that we always were so, and that there are

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h, and German opera,

than we have eabbaqed from either, much as WILLIAM
BALER and others have been accused. Does not " All
round my hat" form the staple of HEROLD'S stunning
overture to Zampa Hear it, and believe.
Consideration of employers for employed is compara-
tively so rare a virtue in these utilitarian days, when
capital thinks it does enough for labour in paying its wages
regularly, that it is quite refreshing to come across an
instance which proves that liberality and thoughtfulness
for the future comfort, as well as the present well-doing of
faithful servants, is not altogether extinct among us. At
the meeting of the shareholders of the London and
County Bank, last Thursday, it was announced that the
'-man, Mr. JOHN SADLEIR, one of the new Lords of
—v, had given the princely sum of £1,500
..,vards increasing and fixing on a firm basis the provident
fund for its officers, which that establishment had kindly,
it may be added judiciously, founded. Such a fact does
honour alike to the benevolent intentions of the origi-
nators of this fund, and to the munificence of. Mr.
SenLere. in endowing it with an amount which places tout
on
a sure and permanent foundation. It may not be
of place here to remark, that the gentleman who has
acted in this princely manner towards the officers of the
establishment over which he presides, is "the denounced"
of the Irish people—the man designated a " traitor," and
a " renegade, for placing himself in a position under the
ABERDEEN Administration, where he can render essential
service to his country, and be the means of advancing
many of his fellow-countrymen.
it ever be the victim of quacksAalas,bdemaogues,
poor Ireland, will
driven into the wildest resolves by itneda and
of the wildest
politicians. It is practical, sound-thinking statesmen, like
yauip
rndtesaci Mr. SADLIER, which the sister country requires,
complete extirpation of your LUCASITES
Would that some second ST. PATRICK rose up and hunted
the toads from the beautiful island.
Your correspondent must be " all things to all men
so a word or two addressed to your scientific readers
during a week of unparalleled dulness may not be amiss.
I refer to the breaking of auriferous quartz and the
gold regions. On Saturday afternoon, by the kind invi-
tation of Messrs. GLOVER, the Ordnance engineers of
Drury-lane, a number of scientific and literary gentlemen,
among them were Lord CHICHESTER, Mr. BUTLER,
M.P., Mr. GREEN, M.P., the Hon. r. BINGHAM,
attended at the Ordnance Engineers' Foundry aforesaid,
to witness the wonders performed in quartz crushing.
The machine has been manufactured by Messrs. GLOVER,
under Capt. SHRAPNEL'S patent ; the experiments were
on gold, copper, and iron quartz—rather tough customers
to pulverize. The result was wonderful—entirely success-
ful in reducing the hard and rugged masses to a perfect
powder by concussion. The cost of the apparatus is go-
verned by size. The one experimented with on the pre-
sent occasion cost about £3OO. It consists of a wrought-
iron chamber about 10 feet long, five feet wide, and eight
feet high, with a Venetian-formed roof to prevent the
chamber bursting. In front of the chamber id au

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