THE NEW MARVEL IN TELEGRAPHY,- The electric.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 94, 5 March 1862, Page 6

THE NEW MARVEL IN TELEGRAPHY,- The electric.

TEi.KGRAPin',—The elegraph is now completed between New York juiil San Francisco; across the continent of America, and here can be no doubt that it will be soon extended rom California to British Columbia. The Russian lovernment has already made arrangements for a elegraphic communication between St. Petersburg .nd the sea of Japan. In a short time the Russian vires will stretch to Eastern Siberia, aud from thence nto Russian America, where they will almost join he New York telegraph to British-North-Western America. The length of telegraph wire between England the United States, through Northern Europe, Vsia, and America, will be about 13,000 miles. The vkole of this will be above ground, except the deep ea cables in the British Channel ancl in Behring Straits, the latter being only thirty miles in width. Phe charge at present for short telegrams is at the : ate of about 50s. per 300 miles, anclanstantaneous : ommunication can be effected between stations nearly 000 miles asunder. Some idea, therefore, can be orined of the expense and time of sending a message rom London to the Atlantic seaboard of North Ame- j ic.a by £he north easterly route. The expense now oiuritarily inourred by conveying early commercial ■ utelligenee is shown by tho fact of the British mer- ] hants running clippers for that purpose between the , lost northerly Chinese ports aha Shanghai, the tpf- j linus of our mail communication In the Yello'jv Sea, ' ihould it be found impossible to lay down a cable ' long the bed of the Atlantic, the marvels pf Science ' nd the necessities of commerce Mill probably be i isplayed by England communicating, almost instanineously, with the United States by way of the ; limalaya and Rocky Mountains.— Weekly Dispatch. 1

MASKS AND PACES. j (From the London Review.) n " What are little girls made of ?" was a quesV;. tion often put to us of old, in our nursery days, ,Ji aud some surprise and some incredulity was !;" manifested at the enumeration of the various lf articles whicli the reply to the quesi ion alleged to go to the composition of our fair playmates, o- "What are full grown ladies made of ?" it would •is seem, might be asked now. And if a report of a of case in the Insolvent Court, which appeared the !i- other day in the papers, be correct, it would apn- pear that the answer which, in many cases, must ie be given to the new question, would be as startr- ling as that which was received by the other. It c- was strange enough to our youthful mind to hear es of " sugar and spice," coupled in the rhyme, as or they were with "all things nice," as usurping the. place of flesh nnd blood in the female frame. But ie it is still more astonishing to have it revealed to id us that when that frame has become matured, le and beams upon us with increased grace ami ie beauty, those more developed charms are owing in to an entirely new and, oue would have thought, it, less alluring preparation ; that sugar and spice ill have been superseded by gums, scents, essential r- oils, patent varnish, and other items which can ig hardly be classified under tbe head of "all things is, nice ;" and that, so far from having any knowledge of these inward qualities of the fair sex,"which, ho wJn ever attractive they may be, w«s do not pretend to ns behold with our eyes, we are often wholly dem eeived in what we actually do see. We believe as . we see a white forehead, and in the somewhat n ' prosaic poetry of fashionable life pronounce it ~.' white as alabaster. We are deceived. It is ai ! alabaster itself. We gaze with rapture on the ,y rounded symmetry of the form, on the glossy " abundance of the wreathed hair, on the even s rosy colour, never fading into paleness, never c ' pnrpling into an unbecoming blush, but shower' ing, as we fondly imagine, a heart unvexed by rg anxiety, and a natural ease of manner, free l,{ from shyness or mauvais honte. Alas, the 3( ] symmetry is but wool anel steel; half the litiir s is only so far the wearer's own that she has ,„ paid, or is to pay for it; the rosy .jheek is cunli uing mixture of dyes ; the very breath, teniptn ' ing our kiss as it comes across us, " like the jjj sweet south over a bed of violets,'' is. due to 0 C the scents and essential oils furnished hy Messrs. .j Burgoyne, the chemists to " Madame Rachel ' at Levison, trading under the name of Rachel, enle ameller of ladies' faces und dealer in cosmetics," w who is every now and theu petitioning Mr. Comce missioner Nicholls to relieve her from the little „ r embarrassments which she has evidently con- "» traded in the carrying on of her apparently j.. lucrative, but really unprofitable trade. [jj There can be no doubt ofthe fact ;it was judi s cially proved in open court, with the addition, j that so highly are Madame Levison's labors prfzeel |n . by her " patronesses" that they are in the habit of paying a fee of more than twenty guineas to inlt duce her to exercise her skill upon tbem. They j n must have a high idea of the value of her assist1 _ ance. Nor lias she a lew notion of it herself, since j r she disdains to call it " a trade," but describes it as " her profession," classing it by that dignifk-d •^ title, with the pursuits of the soldier, the lawyer, a- the physician, and the divine. Perhaps it is ente titled to the distinction, since it requires the cxerrc cisc of at least one virtue, inviolable honor and secrecy. Madame Levison herself is not of the , number of those who, while doing good in stealth, " blush to find it fame ;" but tlio feelings of " her t patronesses," it seems, are different. Tlicy would h0 not perhaps blush (since their blushes could not ' possibly be seen, that would be only so much '* good modesty thrown away) to have their pai tronagc known, but they would divert it for tbe ' future into some other channel, and Madame Le- ' Tison "would be ruined." " The great question that arise? to our mind on the consideration of these facts is whether, when properly understood, they our ht to heighten or fo " lower the esteem in wbich, ever since ■the days of , chivalry, the gentlemen of modern Europe "have agreed to hold woman. Tliere is much to be said on both sides. Those who take an unfavorable * view of Madame Levison's " profession" will di'l late upon an adherence to nature, freedom from _ disguise, dislike of affectation, and a score of' ' other virtues, all undeniably such, but all sadly ' V old-fashioned ;. those who look at the question in '• a more friendly light, will refer to that great poet, ; cl Peter Pindar, as an authority for the superiority ! of Art over.Nature, and looking on woman, ' " fresh from the hand of Madame Levison, in ' Bond-street, as a work of art, and high art too, ' f will pronounce her as such far more attractive ' ' than she could be if left' to the tell-tale blushes of ' j. country-bred simplicity. Nor will this be eb'ffi- ' .. | cult of proof to a candid mind. ' Every work of ' ■'jart is the more valuable as it is the most costly ; ' and what a high idea must be formed of the cost ] of the whole woman, when her mere face has cost ' . upwards of twenty guineas. Another circum- [ satnee which lends a value to such works, is their ' real or presumed antiquity, anel this attraction ' -.. ill clearly be inseparable from those ludics who * frequent Madame Levison's workshop. In most l " instances, probably, they are very old in reality; i but where, this is not the case, they at least t -y raise such a presumption of their being very t '' old, as is nearly equal in value to actual anti- ' " quity. Once more : works of art elerive an • additional estimation if brittle or perishable, s " This charm belongs in great perfection to those v who are the handiwork of Madame ' Levison ; ' tlrny are perishable, since they continually r"quire renewing ; they are brittle as the most delicate china vase. The choicest specimen of Sevres or Pekin does not require more delicate ', handling nor more careful moving, than the lady ' who, if she were suddenly to turn her henci, , . might deface the white enamel of her neck by an ' unsightly crack. At present we understand that £ ! the faces produced by Madame Levison are so ' 1 far monotonous as being wholly free from Hues • [■ .md specks. Perhaps as ijiaturer years enlarge [ her experience (thp great artiste is as yet not . ; twenty-one years of age), she may be able to acid . 1 lines to her suhjects, like those on the celebrated ' crackling china, when a sudden contortion would . \ produce no ill effect, but only acid one more line , •' us an additional ornament to those already exist- , ' ing ; at present, however, in what we must eali the infancy of the workman's skill, the beauty of ' the unbroken surface will be imperilled, if not , ' destroyed, by the slightest hasty movement; and f ■ the manufrctured lady must be as carefully i brought down stairs, delicately dusted, ancl ~ 1 gently put in her place as the most fragile , . filagree. a ' Nor are they only bodily advantages "which are derived hy the objects of maelame's skill ; j* i they imbibe from her labors at least one im- '. portant and beneficial mental lesson. What can °, ■ be more useful, more indispensable to all persons " iin good society .than to learn to control their °, emotions and passions ; and what stronger motive to do so can be conceived than is supplied by t, the reflection that a tear would wash the roses from the cheek ; that laughter would split the ™ sides of the face, while blowing the nose might '.' lead to the visible portion of that critical feature coming off in the pocket-handkerchief So H' '■ highly indeed, do we estimate Madame Levison's . practice, as offering thestrongest inducement to 0' the control of the feeliiiga, that, if the Isdy were °' sufficiently philanthropic to allow the coarser males to share the benefit of her workmanship. , c we are not sure whether newspaper editors plight rl,' T not find it greatly to their benefit to seek her as- i sistanee, since their are few classes whose members are at times under stronger temptations to '" yield to influences calculated to disarrange the jl' features. On this point, however, we will offer '? no positive opinion at this moment ; nor indeed, c' ; on the other ; but will only say, that if tbe advocates of Madame Levison's rrt, to which we!? have endeavoured to give faithful expression, be ' sound and correct, we hope Mr. Commissioner *'j Nicholls will not be so harsh as long to withold from an anxious May fiair the restoration of her free service.

Tr.ccOT.KNT Pdulicanb.—The publicans of Yackandandah have resolved to put down slygrog selling in their neighborhood, and iv order to eflect their object, have pledged themselves •'to take out no licenses on the next annual licensing day, unless they arc protected by the proper authorities against the wine aud spirit mef-chijnts and sly grog sellers of Yackandandah aforesaid.-' The unprotected publicans are of eou'rse deserving of sympathy, but liow-the fly grog fraternity'will grin'if they attempt to carry out- their pledge. The " sly" fellows will monopolise the trade, and the " pubs" will be mulct hi heaTy penalties.— M. A. Mail, 7th Feb.

MELBOURNE EXTRACTS. The Bendigo Advertiser says :—" The Al! 'England Eleven match at Castlemaine will, accord- | ing to the local press, not languish for the want of funds. Anions tha contributors we find the ■Municipal Council down for L! 0. Doubtless tho ' Bendigo Club will say to the Sandhurst Council, igo and do likewise." What are the funds of tlie [ Municipalities, partly contributed by the State, . to he applied to next ? '. Kisa mc Exi-i.okf.k.—Under this title the Pastoral Times has the following :—" We notice [by an advertisement in the Castlemainc journals that Mr. King has entered into-the luiblichouso . business of that town. The hotel of which he .is .advertised as landlord, is called " The O'Hara , Burke ; " anel the public are invited to try the , effictofgood liquors and civility at this hostelry. | We believe that several presents of purses containing sovereigns bave alrciidy been presented to j the hero of Carpentaria. We do wish tbe publicr house puff hail been left alone. Much of the poetry ami romance of the Expedition anil tho [ heroism of its only living representative are rubbed j off by this descensus averni —at least we think l so." We ard glad to say that the poetry of the , Expedition is not likely to "be merged iv the brandy , cask, and also that Mr. John King, who it now on . a visit to Castlemainc. distinctly disavows the intention of adopting the business of a . licensed victualler in Castlcmaine or elsewhere. , Tbe mistake has been made in this wise. Mr. J. . C. King, no relative! or countryman of Mr. Jol'in t King, the explorer, has recently taken a house at , the corner of Mostyn and Urquhart streets, which ,be hai converted into an hostelry. Beiug deter- , mined to adopt the best means of attracting custom, he bethought himself that by in some raea- . sure us ng his name in conjunction with that of . R. O'Hara Burke, he would best effect the object , the object in v'ew. He accordingly names bis new . house the " O'Hara Burke" hotel. We give this , explanation in order that people at a distance may . not think the real hero guilty of such abuse of-his . leader's name in order to attract what in his case . would ahhost be a meretricious trade.— M. A. . Mail, 12th February. , A new theatre is about to be built in Mel- > bourne, the management of which, when completed will, we believe, be ve*ted in Mr. Coppin. t The site will be near the Eastern Market, iii . Bourke-street. We hear that the necessary . amount of money has been subscribed, and the , building operations will be commenced forthwith , — Herald. '. DiAneimcAi. Act.—On the night of Saturday ,or morning o* Sunday some dastardly scoundrel set fire to the stack of oats belonging to Mr It Kelly, ofthe Royal Hotel, Albury. The stack', | which was 47 feet by 24, and contained upwards I of a thousand bushels of oats, was situated on F Kelly's farm at the Point. The fire was burning . for two days, but although a large body of men . were in attendance, they were unable to do more . than prevent the flames extending to the adja- . cent buildings. The stubble round the stack was ; very high, and was not burnt at all when the lire i was first discovered, so that a light must have been applied to it some distance from the ground. . Suspicion attaches to two persons, but as yet the . clue to their detection remains to be unravelled. I : — Federal Standard, 6th Feb. , Vincent Pyke, Esq, M.L.A.—We regret to \ state that this gentleman bus for some time past . been suffering from ill health to such an extent ns to necessitate absence from his parliamentary ; duties.— M. A. Mail, 7th Feb. The^Senfine/, Warrnambool, says:—The "cul- . ture ofthe hop is proceeding with success. Fine , healthy plants, with large tendrils, may now be . seen at Mr. John Midgeily's, Yangery, Mr. J. Anderson's, Mrs. Thompson's, aud other places. It is said that no less than five hundred and . thirty candidates for the Emigration lectureships , have forwarded their applications to the Chief ■■ Secretary.— Melbourne Paper. . Incendiary Bush Finica.-It is a dep!orab!« : fact that nearly all the bush fires which result iv . such terrible loss to the squatters,' and sometimes .to the farmers, arc the result of fires wilfully lighted. Sometimes the disaster is occasioned by • carelessness ; travellers uui draymen neglect to put out their camp fires, a breeze springs up, aud the flames arc spread around. But more frequently the fires are the result of direct malice ; in fact, incendiarism. Prompted by ill feeling anel revenge towards an individnaf squatter, men designedly set fire to his grass, choosing, of course, for their purpose, an out of the way spot, where the flames can rapidly spread, aud the -fire assume ■ large proportions before assistance'"can be gathered to extinguish it. On Sunday last, there was a re- ■ markablo instance of this villainy iv the neighborhood of Dunkcld. The Linlithgow Plains Station which belongs to Mr.Silas Harding, and of which Mr. T. Kemp is tho' Superintendent, iras set on lire on that day. |.in several different places, ancl from all the attendant circumstances, there is not the least doubt of its having been done designedly and maliciously. Information ofthe affair was at once given to the police, and Mr Kemp issued placards on Monday, offering 30/. reward for such information as would lead to the conviction of the offender, but wo have net heard of any person baring been arrested. On tho foilowing'dny, Mr. M'Lean, a farmer at Muddy Creek, had liis stacks set on fire, and nearly the whtile of bis crops, which had just been harvested', were destroyed.— Hamilton Spectator, Btlr Febi"