The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-15 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty and the Prince visited her Majesty's
Theatre on Saturday.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Duke of
Devonshire with a visit on Saturday, at Devonshire-house,
Piccadily. A sumptuous dejetiner was served up, after
which the royal pair were conducted through the magni-
ficent saloons of that splendid mansion.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, visited the British
Museum on Thursday.
Prince Albert is almost a daily visitor at the Crystal
Palace. often accompanied by the Queen, with one or
more of the royal children.
Prince Albert has promised a deputation from the but-
ton burnishers of Birmingham to revive the fashion of
wearing gilt buttons, and was pleased to accept several
sets for himself and the two royal Princes.
Prince Albert inspected on Friday, at Buckingham
Palace, a Bible, a fac simile of that used by King Charles
I. upon the scaffold on the day of his martyrdom, copied
from Smith's " Collectanea Antiqua,', which was submit.
ted by Messrs. Lambert and Brown.
Lady John Russell intends giving a series of receptions
immediately after the Easter recess.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lord Grey de
Wilton, and the ladies Egerton, arrived in Grosvenor-
square, on Saturday, from Egerton Lodge, Melton Mow-
bray, for the season.
Lord Stanley arrived in town on Friday, from New-
market. The junior branches of his lordship's family
have left St. James's-square for Brighton, where the
noble Lord and Lady Stanley arc also expected to pass
the holidays.

A CONTENTED OLD BACHELOR.—In one of the re •
turns of the Dudley union, that of Joseph Jones describes
him as " Alias Old Joe ;" " Head of Family but no
memberi, a paradox ;" " Inflexible miserly bachelor ;"
and he appends the following poetical illustration of him-
self to his schedule :
" I have no wife to vex and tease me;
Nc child to trouble or displease me ;
No lodger to intrude his feet
Into my dwelling—quite neat;
No visitor to share my roof,
And after that to stand aloof;
No servant keep, but save her pelf,
And do things better for myself;
A miser surely, tho' not fat,
My household's cover'd by my hat.
" Rowley, 31st March, 1851." 6` JOSEPH JONES.
THE EARTH'S ROTATION EXPERIMENTALLY PROVED°
—Galileo discovered that all the vibrations of the pendu-
lum are isochronous—that is, the longest stroke of curve
the weighted end can reach is performed in the same
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portance in physics. If a pendulum be set in motion in
a vertical plane from north to south, such plane to an
ordinary observer appears to be stationary ; Mr Foucault,
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however, shows this not to be the case, but that the plane
is itself slowly, but surely and visibly, moving round the
point of suspension, contrary to the earth's motion, or
from east to west. The experiment has just been repeated
under the superintendence of M. Arago, and fully con-
firmed. If a pointer be attached to the weight of a pen-
dulum, suspended by a long and fine wire, capable of
turning in all directions, and nearly in contact with the
floor of a room, the line which this pointer appears to
trace on the ground, and which may easily be followed by
a chalk mark, will be found to be visibly but" slowly turn-
ing round, and thus confirming the rotation of the earth
by an experiment on its surface. The subject has caused
a great sensation in Paris, and it is intended to apply to
Government for the use of the Pantheon, for a grand
experiment on a pendulum ;lung from its highest point.