The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-26 00:00:00

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ALL NATURR.CRIES ALOUD—"THERE IS A GOD!"—He who
cannot see the workings of a Divine wisdom in the order of the
heavens, the change of the seasons,, the Bowing of the tides, the
operations of the wind and other elements, the structure ot the
human body, the circulation of the blood through a variety of
vessels wonderfully, arranged and conducted, the instinct of
beasts, their tempers and cuepositionsethe growth, of plants, and
their many etle'cts ler meat and medicine: he who cannot see
:,11 these, and many other things, as the evident contrivances of
it Divine wisdom, is sottishly tided, and unworthy of the name
of man.—Junes ur Nayland.
Mori:NFL:T. END OF A PATRlOT.—Captain Pedowski, a die-
tinguislit d officer of the Polish artillery, shot himself a few days
ago at Besancon. The motives for this desperate act are given
in a letter which he wrote immediately before his death, of which,
time foilow.iii is au extract:—" Having lost all hope of seeing
my native country restored—not finding the least chance even
sit my being ceded upon to die in her service—and having learnt
that my children have been carried into Siberia, by order of the •
tyrant of the north, I have resolved to abridge my useless life,
said put an end to all my sufferings. Adieu, unhappy Poland !
Adieu, my children ! Adieu to such of you, my fellow-country-
men, as hive only iu view the welfare of our beloved Poland
—Paris paper.
Love ors VTR BOARDS."—The following extraordinary cir-
cumstance took place at the commencement of the present
munth :—Josephine Dumesuil, the daughter of the proprietor of
an itinerant puppet-show, had formed an attachment to the Merry
tnd:e.v of her tether's stage. This gave offence to papa, who,
to pat au end to so unbecoming a liaison, dismissed the unfortu-
nate pickle-herring, and laid au injunction upon his daughter to
tease alt further intimacy with him. On the 3d insh, however,
the uiractor observed his discarded colleague amongst the de-
lighted' crowd, but his admiration was evidently more excited by
toe appearance of the lady of his love than of the other dramatis
persunie. This raised the choler of the mover of puppets. A
contest ensued, and the features of the poor Jack-pudding were
speedily brought into more than professional distortion by a
viotent 'slow from his ancient master; the disgraced suitor drew
a knife upon his antagonist, but was disarmed and driven from
the field. On the following day the father of the girl having
loaded her with reproaches, and threatened further chastisement
to her lover, she, in alit of passion, suddenly seized the weapon
lhrt had been levelled at the incest of her father, plunged it twice
into her own, and fell dead at his feet, thus turning a ridiculous
feree into a real tragedy.—French paper.
NEW S l'A r ERS.—Soine centuries back, by far the greater pro-
portion of the middle classes in this country were wholly igno-
rant of passing public events, while the working classes seldom
ia hired about any thing beyond their immediate callings.
Seanv meets we arc advanced as a nation in this respect, may be
seen from the following statement:—The first attempt at perio-
nice, lite:enure was made in England in the reign of Elizabeth.
it was in the shape of a pamphlet, called the "English Mer-
curic;" the first number of which, dated 1588, is still preserved
in the British Museum. There were, however, no newspapers
winch aepeared in England in single sheets of paper as they do
'at present, until many years after that time. The first news-
peper, caesei The Punic futelligencer," was published by Sir
Reeser L' Estrange, on the 31st August, 1661. Periodical parn-
lnses, which had become fashionable in the reign of Charms I,
were more rare in the reign of James 11. The English rebel-
lion of 1511 gave rise to a great number of tracts filled with
violent appeals to the public: many of these tracts bore the title ,
of Diurnal Occurrences of Parliament. The first Gazette in
England was published at Oxford, on Nov. 7th, 1665, the court
being, then heed there. On the removal of the court to London,
the title was altered to The London Gazette. The Orange Intel-
Vyencer was the third newspaper published, and the first after
the revolution in 1683. This latter continued to be the only
daily newspaper in England for some years; but in 1690 there
appear to have been nine London newspapers published weekly.
In Queen Anne's reign (in 1709) the number of these were in-
creased to eighteen; but still there continued to be but one daily
daily paper, which was then called The London Courant. In the
reign of George I. the number was three daily, six weekly, and
ten published three times in the week.—ln. 1,53 the number of
copies of newspapers annually published in the whole of Eng,
Laid was 7,414i:57; in 176 U the circulation had increased to
(s), and iu 103 l) it amounted to 30,493,911.—Pe5ine
eisanuetne.
'1 HE HYDRO-OXYGEN MICROSCOPE.—We were yesterday ad-
inittted to a private view of one of the most extraordinary exhi-
bitions we ever remember; it is denominated the hydra-oxygen
microscope, and is an application of the light employed by Lieut.
Drummond on the trigonometrical survey to microscopic pins-
poees. A stream of oxygen eeas and another of hydrogen gas
(the chief coustitutents of water,) arc brought into union, and
projected in an ignited state upon a mass et lime, producing a
tight or intense brilliancy, which, passing through a ions, throws
tae images of objects magnified from 10,600 to ni.)0,000 times, in
the manner of a solar microscope, upon a disk of 1-1 feet diameter.
The inanimate objects consisted of fragments of insects' wings,
of sea-weed, woods, hair, Ste. ; all the minute external pre-
herties of which were shown upon an exaggerated scale. A few
airs of an infant appeared like tubes two inches in diameter. A
small portion of the fine skin of the human per icavtium, exhibited
the courses of the arteries and veins. The penetrating nature Of
the light revealed the interior conformation of the (teas and
epiders in the object-glasses. The sting of a bee was a mon-
serous barbed Weepon7four feet long.he lancets of The horse-
fly scare sabres about two feet in length. The next ettrieuu part
of the exhibition consisted of the small eaiimulculre in a drop of
water, -some of which are seen. preying upon each ether. • Some
skeleton larvae were, front their caeptianees texture, beautifully
neveloned, eehibiting evens the veeicie of air which enables, them
to rise or descend in the water; dud sortie Of the wet ins, fotinil in
etagnatit ditches, the natural size of which is that-of a thread,
enpeared like time largest sized boa constrictor. It is, short, an
cenibition worthy to engage the attention of natural philosoph et
of the. highest class, us well as of tile merely curious. The in-
strument is constructed under the Superintendence of Mr, Cooper,
professor of chymistry, and of MreCary, the optician, The former
gentleman attends and explithiss very clearly and scientifically,
the different objects.— Thnesel nursday, Feb. 21. •
Mrs. Stanley had her first "At ifetne " fOr the: season, on
Saturday, at the Eight nen. Seerert'ary's new reside.licc iii
Carlton gardens. .