The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

HARVEST PROSPECTS.

The weather still continues to further the already fa-
vourable condition of vegetation in all parts of the United
Kingdom. Our immediate district teems with an abun-
dant growth ; and although the want of rain throughout
the northern counties of England had begun to be se-
riously felt; the copious showers and milder temperature
which have supervened during the last day or two have set
all things right again. In the south of Ireland also, high
parching winds had been succeeded by refreshing showers,
which continued at intervals for several hours, and would
doubtless exercise a beneficial effect on turnips and spring
corn, which required moisture. The weather in the dis-
trict about Belfast has been changeable, with rather a low
temperature, but the crops are progressing satisfactorily.

A correspondent, whose imagination seems to be rather
impressed with the magnificence of the conception of the
tube bridges, says that Mr. Stephenson must henceforth be
regarded as the greatest of engineers, as, whatever diffi-
culties others may have had to encounter, no one ever
passed over so Menai Straits.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—Preparations have been made
for conducting the entertainments at these gardens during
the race-week on a scale of unusual brilliancy. Mad'lle
Lucie Duval, of whose elegant statuesque and pictorial
poses the press, as will be seen by the advertisement, has
spoken in the most favourable terms, will give some of
her most graceful representations. The fireworks will be
of the most splendid description. The gardens are now in
the most luxuriant condition, and afford a delightful
lounge during the cool summer eve Lings. We can add
to the account, given by our contemporaries, our own
impressions as to the beauty and chasteness of Madam'lle
Lucie's delineations. Her splendid figure is unsurpassed ;
and the grace and poetry of her embodiment of the beau-
tiful conceptions of the great sculptors and painters of
ancient and modern times, combined with the youth and
freshness of her countenance, lend a charm to her per-
tbrmances which we meet with in no other artiste. We
may mention one of her delineations—her Venus rising
from the sea, after Etty's picture, in which the effect of
these characteristics of her person and genius are espe-
cially manifested; but indeed the whole of her perform-
ances, and those of her companions, are brought before
the spectators with surpassing' beauty and effect.
A MOST AWFUL WOUND CUBED BY HOLLOWAY'S OINT-
MENT AND PILLS.—George Morris, a mechanic of Newport,
was, for months, rendered totally unable to work, or even move
about the house, from the effects of a dreadful abscess which
had formed in his thigh, and which had been repeatedly lanced
under the advice of various surgeons; ultimately, he was ad-
mitted into the hospital, from whence, after the best medical
skill had been tried, he was dismissed as incurable; yet to the
astonishment of all, this dreadful bad wound was soundly
healed by the use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, a supply_"
of which was kindly presented to him by the minister of his
parish.