The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

YE:ARE Nor MISSED, FAIR FLOW t.-LiS-7

BY HRS. HEMAN:S.- • - -
Ye are not missed, fair flowers, that late were spreading
The summer's glow by, fount. or breezy grot ;
There falls the dew, its fairy favours shedding,
The leaves dance on; the yotnig [Ards miss ye not.

Still.plays the sparkle o'er the rippling water—
O ! lily, whence thy cup of• pearl is gone;
The bright wave mourns not for its loveliest daughter,
There is no sorrow i a the wind's low tone.

And thou, meek hyacinth !—afar is roving
!The bee that oft -thy trent-Wing bell's hat h kissed;
Cradled ye were, fair 'flowers ! midst all things loving—
A joy to all—yet, yet, ye are pot tniss'd!
Ye, that were born to lend the sunbeam gladness,
And the wind's fragrance, wandering where ye list—
Oh ! it were breathing•words-too deep -in sadness,
To say—earth's human flowers-not:more-are miss'd.

TH-ESLSTERS.-A

IL THK SAME.

" I go, sweet sister yet, ntyleart would linger with thee fain,
And unto every parting gift some deep remembrance chain ; •
Take then the braid of Eastern-pearls which once I loved to wear,
And with it hind for festal scenes thadark wave of thy hair ! •
Its pare"pu're biightness will beseem those raven tresses well,
And I shall need such ponip no more in my lone convent cell."
•
" Oh.t.speak not thus. my Leonorl wlts' part from kindred love?
Thro*Testi eesbetie.s-, when thouatt gone—my steps no snore shall move !
Howl-eould. I bear a-lonely-heartamid-a reckless throng? • • I should but miss earth's dearest voice in every tone'of song;
Keep, keep the braidof Eastern-pearls, 'or let me proudly twine
Its wreath once more around that brow, that queenly brow of thine."
. . ..... . .
" •wonldst thou strive a wetiqdr&bird.from shelter to•detain ?
Or wouldst thOiCeall a'spiritireed, to weary life again ?
Sweet sister, take the golden cross-that f have worn so long.
And bathed with many a burning tear for secret woe and wrong :
It could not still my beating heart! hut may it be a sign
Of peace and hope, my gentle one ! when meekly pressed to thine !"
...... • . . .
" Take back, take hack the cross of gold, our mother's gift to thee; It would but of this parting hour, a bitter-token be ;
With funoral splendour to mine eye, it would but sadly shine,.
And tell of earthly treasures lost; of Jo yriolongermine !
Oh, sister! if thy heart be thus with buried grief oppress'd,
Where couldst thou pour it forth so well as on my faithful breast!"
.
• " Urge me no more! a blight hath fallen upon my summer years ! • I should but darken My young life with fruitless pangs and fears;
lint take' at 1 'ast the lute I loy'd, and guard it for my sake.
And sometimes, from-its silvery strings one tone of memory wake !
Sing to those chords by starlight's gleam our own sweet vesper hymn,
And think that I too chant it then, far in my cloister dim."
" Yes, I will take.the silvery lute—and I will sing to thee
A song we heard in childhood's days, ev'n from our father's knee,
Oh, sister! sisfer ! "are thoSe note's amid forgotten things I
Do they not linger as in love, on the familiar strings ?
Seems not our swilled mother's voice to murmur in the strain,
Kind sister ! gentlest Leonor ! say shall it plead in vain ?"

MOST'E TRAORDINARY INVENTION

(From the French Correspondent of the Times.)
• We've iftfinft-liaVitig in 'Fiance, and afterwards in England,
-a revolution of -a most extraordinary character. The discovery
of a simple preparation, by which.the Writing with all sort of
ink (except India ink used for drawing) can be effaced, so as
not afterwards. to be •known that- it-has been so; is about' to be
made known to, the public. T-he moment this discovery iiinade
known, their will be no security for any one against having his
simple signature to a letter being made a signature to a bill of
exchange, or obligation fo a
.large surri of money. -For this
discovery which has been made has this peculiar characteristic
about it; that a.portien of tne writing may be effaced, and such
portion as the effacer thinks. fit,preserved, and yet the portion
of the paper from which the writing has been effaced looks pre-
cisely the same eolourairdappearauce; and can be just as easily
written upon_ as if it hail ne•ver been effaced at all: The dis-
coverers of this terrible secret.. have Already played tiff some
most extraordinary tricks pu the government. and on the'rner-
chants and 'hankeriiif this city—in order, nit-to delraud them,
but simply to ppen their_eyes to theappelliri;f, situation in which
th;s discovery places the whole of society. The other day
one of them- applied'itrthe preftictaie of police for a passport:
it was..duly filled up- and sealed. -The" next day one .of these
gentlemen went with the-passport to- M.- Gisquet, and said to
him, " Well M. Gisquet your people have given a passport
Without being filled up ;" and showing him the passport, horri-
fied the prefect by the production of a passport en-blanc. "No'
wonder," continued the gentleman, " that Don Carlos can ge
through France to Spain, when such tricks as these are played.
off, and such negligence shown at the prefecture of police."
M. Gisquet was confounded. He called 'the secretary; he
vowed that he had never delivered any passpnitrcluly signed as
this was, without itbeing...filled-up.---Clerk atter clerk was ex-
amined, and dismissals were talked of, when the gentleman
explained, that by the simple washing of the passport with this
newly, discovered liquid the writing-bad been effaced, and the
passpoit restored to its original state as before written ou. M.
Gisquet then examined fully the subject, and came finally
to the conclusion " that from henceforth. passports would be
useless, and that the police would be unable to do its duty."
Another anecdote was yesterday related to me of a merchant'of
eminence in this city, who refused to believe that the discovery
could be the means of defrauding to any extent: to
open his eyes to the state of danger in which aociefy is now
placed by this discovery, and by its promulgation, one of the
gentlemen effaced all the writing ofa letter which had beep ad-
dressed to him the previous day by his banker, except his sig-
natuie, and the day of the month and year. These were left as
signed. Then over this signature, on the place where the letter
had been written, he wiote an order, as though canaingfrOniabe
merchant to his cashier, ordering hiin to pay the. bearer one.
hundred francs. The gentleman presented the order to the
cashier, and duly received the money. He afterwards proceeded
to the merchant's house, told him what he had done, asked him
to examine his cashier and-the-order, and to say how he could
avoid being drawn on to any amount by this means ? The
merchant was horrified at his position, and admitted that he.,
might be thus ruined in a few days. The discoverers of this li-
quid, which will take out all inks, (except Indian ink,) are the
inventors of papers called papier de surete, which is very little
dearer indeed than the ordinary paper, and which, if written on,
cannot possibly be washed without changing the colour of the
paper, so that the fact of its having been washed wouldbe at once
detected. The ink cannot be washed off this paper as well as
off other paper,—but when, so, washed, all must be washed off or
none, for the fact of the washing is evident. .This-papferde4e.
rate ia now, of course, the generaldiscussion at Paris, atidwhen
once the secret 'of —washing all other papers shall be known, it
will follow that nil one will write on any other but this. The
French Government has at once ordered it to be used in the
government offices. have 'been told, that in consequence of
this discovery, the French government has loSt nearly a million-
or-francs in the sole -article of stamps during the past.sear:
for persons wash old 'bills or exchange and promisory notes,
which have been paid and done with at so much per dozen, so
perfectly, and make them look completely the same as when
new, that instead of purchasing new stamps for bills and notes,
and even for deeds, the old ones are used, after the paper is
washed over and over again. The French government, to pre-
vent the continuance and increase of this fraud; will be obliged
to pass a law that the stamps shall always bear the date of the
month and year in which they are pureh-ased, and must be used
in that seine month and year. Unless something of this sort
be speedily done, the moment the method of washing shall he
universally known, the stamps would - not prodOce mere than
one-half of what they have hitherto done. I will keep you au
courant as to this matter, which appears to me as likely to lead
to little short of a social revolution over the world, unless a dis•
covers/ be made of ink which cannot be extracted by any simple
process like that which is now applied with so much success.
The inventors of this washing liquid defy 'the patentee, of 4
existing inks in the world, (except Indian ink, which cannot be
used for general purposes on account of its sediment,) and main.
taro that no ink hitherto invented can resist their discovery
The subject will, I think, very soon occupy the public atten•
Con to the exclusion of all others.