The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

NOVEL PATENT.—Among the new patents announced
in Tuesday's Gazette, is one of Adolphus Theodore Wag-
ner, of Berlin, in the kingdom of Prussia, professor of
music, for the invention of a psycograph, or apparatus
for indicating persons' thoughts by the agency of nervous
electricity."
SUNDAY IN PARlS.—Active measures are now being
adopted for the prevention of Sunday trading and Sunday
labour in Paris. A society which had been formed for the
above objects nearly a year and a-half ago, has been quietly
and steadily at work, and has now produced a considerable
impression on the feelings of the public, particularly with
those connected with trade. It enrols 3,000 members,
including some of the most wealthy, exalted, and influen-
tial persons of the empire, and has established several
district committees in different parts of Paris, and some
important branch associations in the provinces. The
mode of operation is very simple. All purchasers and
employers as well as the tradespeople are requested to
agree, indeed, to sign a document that they will neither
buy nor sell, work nor give work, on the Sunday. This
has proved a great encouragement and protection to the
shopkeepers and to several public contractors, who have
ceased to employ their masons and bricklayers on the Sun-
day. All the principal shops in the Quartier St. Germain
are now closed on the Sunday. An interesting and
peculiar feature in the present successful progress of this
movement is, that an English gentleman, and a Protes-
tant, whose name I regret not to be at liberty to make
public, is now actively engaged in assisting in this very
important Christian work, and at the express and par-
ticular request of some of the leadinc, dignitaries of the
Roman Church.— Correspondent of St. James'sChronicle.
PRINCE NAPOLEON.—The Paris correspondent of The
Times says :—As I have spoken of Prince Napoleon, I
may mention some particulars relative to his late journey
to Brussels, which are derived from a good source. In
the course of his interview with the King of the Belgians
the Prince expressed to his Majesty the satisfaction of his
cousin the Emperor of the French that a more friendly
feeling had lately grown up between the Belgian and
French governments. The Prince is said to have added
that, as hostilities were probable between France and
Russia, the Emperor Napoleon wished to be assured of
the attitude which Belgium would assume in such an
emergency ; that his Belgian majesty had at his disposal
100,000 troops, and in the event (improbable though it
be) of Prussia taking part with Russia, 50,000 Belgians
might be sent to the Prussian frontier ; that the Emperor
did not wish any force to be sent to the French frontier,
but that the force in question should guard the Prussian.
To that proposition it is added that the King assented.
With respect to the fortresses along the French line, the
wish was expressed that they should be in part reduced,
and to that also his Majesty is said to have assented. The
Prince suggested that, as King Leopold was a constitu-
tional king, it would be necessary to have the sanction of
the minister for Foreign Affairs to the arrangement. The
minister was sent for, and his approval was given to the
proposed arrangement. Such, it is stated, on very fair
authority, was the object of Prince Napoleon's mission,
as also its result.

TITLES or znr CzAn.— The following is a Est of the
Czar's titles which always head every ukase :—" Nicholas,
by the grace of God Emperor and Autocrat all the
Russias, of Moseow, Kieft's, Viadamie, and Novgorod; Czar
of Kasan, of Astrachan, Poland, Siberia, and the Taurian
Chersonesus; Seignior of Pskoff, and _Grand Prince of
Smolensk, Lithuania, Wallachia, Podolia, and Finland ;
Prince of Edthonia, Livonia, Courland, and Semgalia, of
Bialystock. Karelia, Tver, Jougria, Perm, Viatka, Bul-
garia, and many other countries ; Seignior and Grand
Prince of the territory of Inner Novgorod, Tshernigoff,
Riaizan, Polotsk, Rostof, Jaroslaf, Bielozero, Oudoria,
Obdoria, Koudinia, Witebak, 3ftislaf, and Lord of all the
hyperborean region ; Seignior of the land of Heria, Kar-
talinia,-Grousinia, Kabardinia, and Armenia ; Hereditary
Seignior: and Simerain of the Circassian princes, of those
of the mountains, and others ; Heir of Norway, Duke of
Schleswig-Holstein, Saint Ormarn, Ditmarsen, and Olden-
burgh," &c., &c. To these titles moAt now be added that
of "Lord-fearing God," which the Czar has recently
assumed. The heraldic blazonings correspond to the des-
cription given above.
TITE MIRROR OF BEAUTY.—An optician of Nancy, M.
Gaiffe, possesses the mirror of the famous Heloise. "It
is a piece of iron six inches long 'by about six wide,
polished on one side and rough ,on the other. There
exists no trace of its having been in a frame, though it is
considered probable that it had one. It is placed between
two cushions of silk, which appear to be very old, and
Which have preserved the polish. 'The authenticity of the
mirror is thus established :—Heloise, as is known, after
her rupture with her learned lover; became Abbess of Le
Paraclet, and held that post for thirty years, when in
1164 she died. The nuns carefully preserved the Mirror
and other things which belonged to her ; and these
articles remained in the convent generation after genera-
tion, until religious houses were suppressed after the revo-
notion of 1789. At that time a Benedictine monk, Dom
Charles Cajot, was the spiritual director of Le Paraclet;
:and he took the mirror away. On his death, which took
place at Verdun in 1807, the mirror, together with the
,remainder of his little property, went to his niece
,Catherine Gody. In 1823 she died, and the mirror was
-sold for a large sum to a 31. Gnilgnau, from whom it was
.;recently purchased by M. Gaiffe."

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RUMOURED VISIT OF ENGLISH TROOPS TO FRANCE.-
-The following is from the Paris correspondence of the
Morning Herald :—" The rumour of an English division
being about to pass through France to join a French
=corps d' arm6e at Tonlon has taken such hold of popular
belief, that nothing short of an Official contradiction would
-do to eradicate the impression, so deeply rooted has it be-
come. The popular fancy, which is as dramatic as is is
-quick, bas already spread out the banquet in the Champs
-de Mars, and erected the altar on which the two greatest
nations of the world are to lay down their animosities and
prejudices, and vow to do battle side by side for the cause
of civilisation. We have the grand scena of fraternisation
before our eyes. We have the British hurrahs in our ears
,answering the Heaven-pointed sabres of French chivalry.
-We have a great many grand things besides ; but is it all
:a dream ? Did not the Corporation of London dine at the
Hotel de Ville ? Why should not the British army ban-
,quet at the Champs de Mars? And do not the people, it
-is inquiringly suggested, love soldiers more than corpora-
tors Not that they esteem the Lord Mayor less, but
:that they admire the Commander-in-Chief more. There
is precedent and example for such-a,display. Besides, the
people have a clear, well-defined notion of a soldier, while
their ideas touching a Lord Mayor were somewhat con-
fused. They believed the latter to be a Governor of Lon-
don, by whose permission the Queen was graciously
allowed to enter the city. About the general commanding
the expeditionary corps there can -be no fictions, and a
British general the popular fancy isdetermined on having.
Those who pretend to say it cannot be know nothing on
the subject. In expectation of so brilliant a novelty we
are fill in a delightful state of mind. If there be any
anxiety at all it is only touching places at the opera and
tickets for the public balls, for the representations and
faes inlonour of the English army, from which, unfor-
tunately, some must be excluded. Could this little cloud
of uneasiness be dispersed, the joy would be universal.
There is an old score of compliment to be cleared off by
the army itself, whose chiefs had been so well treated at
Chobham ; and then the National Guards who visited the
General Exhibition found no reason to-complain of British
hospitality. All circumstances accordingly combine to
prepare the way for the red coats. It must be so. We
have decorated the rooms for the feast, and ordered the
wines. We have imported the Barclay, the Hanbury, and
the Guinness ; and we have engaged the cooks who under-
stand plum padding and roast beef. Hip, hip,
,hurrah !
to the Emperor and the Queen of England. Whatever
you, John Bull, may think of the matter, here the,cry is
still "they come."

SPORTING _INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-TIEURSDA.Y.

Soon after the commencement of business 18,000 to 3000, or
" any part thereof," was repeatedly offered on die field for
the Liverpool Steeple-chase ; but 7 and 8 to 1 was subse-
quently offered. Bourton appears to have some warm friends,
especially in the city. 100 to 6 was taken about Peter, and 40
to 1 to " a little" about Squire of Mallon.—For Chester Cup.
20 to 1 would have been freely taken about the favourite, but
the highest offer did notexceed 18 to 1. Newminster returned
to 20 to I (taken).—Ruby was the only horse backed for the
Two Thousand; 4to 1 taken to a poney. In the city, 7to 2
was taken about Ruby, 9 to 2 &lard°, 8 to 1 Champagne, and
10 to 1 each Phaeton and Middlesex.—Autocrat was again in
great force. Additional investments by one who is "a tower
of strength" to hi ii amounted to ..e500; the total outlay in
his favour at 9to 2 was .'650. King Tom advanced to 7 to).
taken • 2000 to SO and 1000 to 40 taken about Acrobat ; 750 to
25 and 600 to 209 about Scythian; 1000 to 25 Knight of St.
George ; and 1000 to 20 Brother to Chanticleer. Honeysuckle
was ominously out of odour. 1000 to 10 was laid twice. 5000
to 30 taken about Funchbox, and 2000 even betted between
Marsyas and Andover.—Closing prices :
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
8 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Miss Mowbray—offered.
10 to t Mr. Moseley's Bourton,
100 to G Mr. Linnell's Peter—taken.
40 to 1 Mr. Littledate's Squire of Malton—taken.

CHESTER CUP.

18 to 1 agst Count li;tlllyany's Starof Surrey—tk. 20 to I.
20 to 1 Mr. A. Nichol's Newminster—taken.
50 to 1 Lord Derby's Umbriel—taken.
60 to 1 Mr. Snewing's Dan Cupid—taken,
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 agst Mr. J. Adkins's Ruby—taken.

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THE DERBY.
4to 1 agst Mr. R. E. Cooper's Autocrat-9 to 2 tk. freely.
7to 1 -- Baron Rothschild's King Tom—taken.
25 to 1 Lord Derby's Acrobat—taken.
30 to 1 Mr. Howard's Scythian—taken.
40 to 1 Mr. Morris's Knight of St. George—taken,
50 to 1 Mr. St. George's Brother to Chanticleer—tk.
80 to 1 Lord Clifden's Alembic—taken.
1000 to 10 Mr, A. Nichol's Honeysuckle—taken.
1000 to 6 Mr. E. R. Clark's Punchbox—taken.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FEIDAY.
Business, considering the time of year, is brisk, and ex-
tends over a long list of horses. Bourton was backed for the
Liverpool Steeple-chase in a good quarter, at 10 to 1 • and
Ruby was in demand for the Two Thousand Guineas, at 4 to
I.—The betting opened upon the Chester Cup with offers of
18 to 1 on the field, and subsequently 20 to 1. which was taken
about both the Star of Surrey
,and Newminater. The latter
has for some time been very shaky" in the market, but is
now firm, and as good a favourite as anything. There was a
disposition to bet against Nabob, and to back Dan Cupid,
Blame, Little Jem, and Brother to Little Swift.—For the
Derby, 400 to 100 was taken about Autocrat, and 200 to 25
King Tom; Dervish was a little on the decline.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.
Bto 1 agst Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray—taken, aft. off.
10 to 1 Mr. Bignell's
100 to 9 Mr. Moseley's Bourton-100 to 8 tk. freely.
14 to 1 Mr. Williams's La Gazza Ladra—taken.
16 to 1 Mr. Bignell's Peter Simple—taken.
16 to 1 Mr. Linnell's Peter—taken.
20 to 1 Mr. Barling's Bedford—taken, aft. off.
25 to 1 Mr. J. Osborne's Abd-el-Kader—taken.
25 to 1 Lord Waterford's Cockcrow—offered.
30 to 1 Mr. Slater's Burnt Sienna—offered.
33 to 1 Mr. Barry's Geraldus—taken.
100 to 3 Mr. James's Maurice Daly-40 to 1 tk. freely.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
16 to 1 agst Mr. J. Powney's Marc Antony—taken.
16 to 1 Mr. Dawson's Red Lion—taken.
16 to 1 Mr. Mare's St. Faith—taken.
16 to 1 Duke of -Bedford's Diomedia—taken.
20 to 1 Mr. Rogers's Pancake—taken.
25 to 1 .Bowes's Daniel O'Roke—taken.
METROPOLITAN HANDICur
AP.
20 to 1 agst Sir J. Boswell's Annie Sutherland—taken.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
34i to 1 agst Mr. J. Adkins's Ruby—taken,
4to 1 Lord Derby'S Boiardo—offered,
ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.
3to 1 agst Lord Derby's Meteora—taken.
oto 1 agar Mr A. Nichol 's Holleysuckle—token.

PACKET LIST.
Mails de- Last Next
Destinations. spatched from Packet Packet
London. Sailed. Due.
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S4A.dirTON STATION. (ay Day Mail.)
7th., 17th, and
Lisbon, Spain, and{ 27th of every Tagus' Feb. 16.
Gibraltar .... e month. J Feb. .7..
Gibraltar, Malta } 4th and 20th } Ind a
Eg- pty, Ceylon, and of every Feb. 4. Feb. 20.
China , month.
,ith Mar.
and
MP
Australia (vil India){ I 4th of every Feb. 4.
'altrnt. month.
Jan. 4".)
British Colonies in
Westindies(except I
Honduras),Foreign
Colonies, &c. in W.
Indies {except Ha- k. 2nd and 17th 1 Trent, Feb. 16.
vane), California, every mouth. f Feb. 2.
Venezuela, N.Gra-
nada, Chili. and
Peru, Greytown,
(S. J. de WiCaraglia,
Mexico and Havana{ 2nd of every 1 Trent,
month only. f Feb. 2. Mar"' 1'
{ 17th of every 1 Magdalna
Honduras & Nassau Feb. 16.
month. I Jan. 17.
Lisbon. Madeira, { •
month. Feb. 9.
9th of every Severn
B Brazil, B. Ayres, &Feb. 16.
Falkland Isles
Evening of the
14th of every Queen of
India. Ascension, Jan. 15. Feb. 26.
C .G. PLYMOUTH
H Mauritius, ope , STATION.
N Ceylon,l,
and Cape de Verds month. Mauritius, the South
Hope. Madeira. Tenerige,{ Evening of the }Vt.,'aante.rw2sc, Feb. 4.
h
and West Coast of 23rd of every
Africa month.
LIVERPOOL STATION.
British N. America) Every Friday 1 Europa, Niagara,
and United States. Evening. j Feb. 11. Feb. 15.