The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

PAISLEY OPERATIVES.
I have the honour to transmit a copy of resolutions
adopted at a meeting:of a number of the unemployed ope-
ratives of Paisley, on the 10th instant.
These operatives have resolved to emigrate to Port
Philip or Sydney, instead of remaining at home, with
little or no chance of employment—dependent for sub-
sistence on the subscriptions of the charitable—a burden
on their richer brethren.
This resolution, they hope, will be looked on as laudable
on their part, and that it will be countenanced by all who
wish to see their countrymen living independently by
means of their own honest industry, instead of being de-
graded into the condition of paupers.
Free passages cannot be obtained, however, without.
the emigrants being properly clothed ; this, for the rea-
sons stated in the resolutions, it is impossible for the
parties to do, and they therefore have resolved to appeal
to her Majesty and the Government, and to their
wealthier countrymen, in the humble hope they will be
induced to extend their generous aid to them on this
occasion.
Should you approve of their conduct, and favour them
with your subscription, have the goodness to transmit it
to John Scott, Esq., banker, Paisley, who, along with
Provost Bisset, will take care of the fund, and see to its
proper application.

I ha;e the honour to be, your Very obedient servant,
WILLIAM MORRISON, Chairman.
Philosophical Hall, Paisley, Aug. 12, 1841.
At Paisley, and within the Philosophical Hall there,
the 10th day of August, 1841 years.
At a numerous meeting of the unemployed opera-
tives of Paisley, and principally those who have been
for some time working in the Town's Quarry, at Seed-
hill, and at other out-door labour, and who are paid out
of the Relief Fund,—Mr. Wm. MORRISON in the Chair.
The Meeting having been convened for the purpose of
taking into consideration the expediency of emigrating
to Port Philip or Sydney—free passages having been of-
fered to all eligible parties by one or other of: the bounty
ships to sail from the Clyde during the present and en-
suing months of September and October, provided the
parties can procure adequate clothing, or outfits for the
voyage—the following resolutions were adopted :
First—That from the embarrassed state of trade and
manufactu! es in the town of Paisley, and throughout the
county; generally, the meeting see no probability of a
retit:rn of employment—at least for a long time—where-
ty they might be enabled to earn an adequate subsist-
ence for themselves, and wives, and children; and, there-
fore, that rather than remain at home dependent on the
charity of others, in the shape of subscriptions and as-
sessments for relief of the unemployed, it is infinitely bet-
ter for all concerned that they should transfer their in-
dustry to one or other of the above mentioned Colonies,
where there is a great demand for labour, and where the
services of labouring men are consequently better re-
warded than at home.

Second—That the meeting avail themselves of the
opportunity of obtaining free passages by one or other
of the bounty ships which will sail from the Clyde during
the present season,and that theyuse every exertion to for-
ward the necessary Certificates, on or before the Ist Sep-
tember next, after which time the Colonial Land and
Emigration! Commissioners have intimated no applica-
tions or certificates will,be registered or received.
Third—That it is necessary that each emigrant be
provided with proper clothing for the voyage. But as,
from the long period of want of employment and poverty
into which the unemployed operatives of Paisley have
been thrown—their best clothing having been either
sold or pawned—it is impossible that ;the parties can
clothe themselves at their own expense, or from their
own resources, and that an appeal be made therefore to
her Mesty the Queen, to her Majesty's Government,
and to Lord Melbourne and the other individual mem-
bers of the Cabinet, and to the noble and wealthy of the
land, in the hope that they will regard the resolution of
the meeting as a praiseworthy attempt on their part to
lift themselves from a state of poverty and dependence,
to one in which they will be enabled to earn an honest
and independent subsistence, and at the same time, free
their native country from the burden of supporting them,
while they will contribute to the extension of her
Majesty's colonial empire, and to the glory of her reign,
which like that of her illustrious predecessor, Elizabeth,
will be promoted by giving encouragement to all measures
of emigration and colonization.
Fourth—That this appeal to her Majesty and the
Government is necessary, because, from the numerous
bankruptcies and insolvencies which have happened in
the town, and the depressed state in which the town and
neighbourhood are—anything like a local appeal for
assistance would be quite in vain. The meeting under-
stand that the Committee having the management of
the Relief Fund, have resolved on making an appeal to
the nation at large on behalf of their unemployed towns-
men, but the meeting are respectfully of opinion that it
is much better that any assistance should be extended
to them in the way they now ask, in respect the commu-
nity will be permanently relieved of the burden of sup-
porting them, whereas, otherwise, any sum necessary
for this purpose during the ensuing winter would far ex-
ceed what is requisite for clothing them for the voyage
to Port Philip or Sydney.
Fifth—That at the lowest computation it will take 41.

per head to clothe the intending emigrants, and counting
them at 250 as the complement of one ship, the sum of
1,000/. will therefore be required for the clothing and
outfit.

. Sixth—That Mr. Hastie, M.P. for Paisley,Mr. Patrick
Maxwell Stewart, M.P. for the county, and the Hon.
Viscount Kelburne, M.P. for Ayrshire, be respectfully
requested to use their influence in support of the views of
the meeting, and that the following Committee be ap-
pointed to correspond with them, and to prepare addresses
to her Majesty, and to Lord Melbourne, and the other
members of her Majesty's Government, viz.—
WILLIAM MORRISON, Chairman.

ALEXANDER CHISHOLM,
JAMES MACINTOSH,
PETER MACINTOSH,
DANIEL CAMPBELL,
ANDREW WEIR.

Seventh—That it be intimated in the applications for
subscriptions, that all sums subscribed be transmitted to
John Scott, Esq., Banker, Paisley, who, along with Pro-
vost Bisset, will take care of the money, and see to its
proper application.
Eighth—That the Chairman subscribe all communica-

tions-on behalf of the Meeting, or those who are enrolled
for free passages, under the direction of the Committee,
who shall see that none be enrolled unless properly
qualified. WILLIAM MORRISON, Chairman.

EXAGGERATION OF ANCIENT STATUES.--
In specimens of statues left us by the ancients, we see
something that always fascinates us, at the same time
that we find everything exaggerated in them. The rea-
son is thus happily explained by Mr. Abernethy:—
" The ancients did exaggerate in their statues ; but then,
there was so much grace in their exaggeration that you
did not see it, but you were fascinated ; their foreheads,
for instance. Look at them, and you see them coming
forward, they overhang the rest of the face. You see
they do not shelve away, they are broad and expanded.
Animals, the brutes, have scarcely any foreheads ; the
monkey's forehead recedes, and the dog's head falls
back completely. The ancients, therefore, with rea-
son, gave a full projecting forehead to their statues,
to dignify them—to mark, as it were, the strik-
ing difference there was between man and other ani-
mals. Now the eyebrow is quite peculiar to man—no
other animal has it : the ancients laboured that part of
the human countenance with extraordinary care; for it
is particularly adapted to convey expression. The
eyes, too, they managed in the same way. Some of the
inferior animals have their eyes so brought forward on
the surface of their face, that they can see sideways,
they can see around them, and even behind them ;
which is a sign of a suspicious, apprehensive, anxious,
disposition. The ancients gave to the faces of their
statutes eyes that looked straightly and directly upon
you—that look sternly forwarp ; and they did this
in order to convey to the beholder, that the
originals felt the very reverse of timidity, of
apprehension, and suspicion. Then the nose. Man has a
peculiar one : it has a bridge in it ; all other animals
want the nose as it is in man. Those animals, instead
of a nose, have a snout—it is a snout, not a nose. Now
the ancients, in their heads, attended greatly th the
nose ; they placed the bridge of it very high in the face;
they placed it above the centre of the orbit of the eyes.
The Greeks brought the nose straight down—the Ro-
mans gave it a bend upwards ; they arched it, thinking
that to be the handsomest form. The nostrils they made
as little like a snout as possible. In the statues of the
ancients you see the mouth made in a peculiar way; it
is, so to speak, as little like a devourine• aperture as pos-
sible; they knew it was made for articulating, for express-
ing thoughts by language ; and they made it as expres-
sive as they could. The lips were made muscular and
strong. Brutes, we find, have no chins ; that is a part of
the face peculiar to men. The ancients were very par-
ticular about it, and formed it large and expressive.
Now, if you could put all features on paper, you would
have the countenance of Jupiter Olympus himself. The
ancients, however, did not give the same face to all their
statues ; it is quite true what Dr. Spurzheim said of them,
that they knew much better than to place the head of a
philosopher upon the shoulders of a gladiator."
GELATINE.---At least thirteen years ago, phi-
lanthropy and science united their efforts and invented
the gelatine ; that is to say, a new kind of food made
out of a pretended juice drawn from the meat-bones.
I remember having denounced this-deceptive nutriment,
and given it the name of button soup. For fifteen, years
they have been feeding with this famous gelatine the sick
in the hospitals, the poor in the charitable establishments,
and the prisoners in gaols. They were going to intro-
duce the article to the soldiers,' barracks, when some
sceptical person said Excuse me, but suppos?,
we see first if this ibed be reall nourishing."
Much displeasure was called forth byy this dol-bt;
Science shrugged her shoulders, and proceeded, from
a weakness with which she reproached herself,
to make new experiments on the subject. It re-
sults from a Report signed by Messieurs
Chevreul, and Thonard, that the supposed nutritive
Mae•endie,
pro-
perties of gelatine have no existence :of two dogs,the batter
fed with gelatine, the QtUer with pure water,thAka to the
lived longer Oulu the former I Thus,
fall those wh
united guts of philosophy and science'lave been fell
4-4 prisons, hospitals, and poor-h
Cl:literally died of during fifteen years upon gelativie,
many t— Alphonse P"
hunger. What an escape, the arr.
BRAT IPA fETOßT._Madnmonad a ma g-
Aigieeiat cat. M. de C. alnuse`. eimself one day by
killing it. far want of s"",aething else to shoat. Madame
0. caused to 1.," ' her own house, and in the houses
mends, all sorts . set inntsofmouse-traps
; and when three
or four hundred mice
were caught, she had them put
into a box, which was forwarded to Madame de C. at
her country-house-
The lady eagerly opened the box
the while
at expecting to find in itso
filled me new
house . v
hmode s ;htihlee
mice jumped out and presently
at the bottom of the box was found
hush
snotb a
neddhiraecs
killed
Madame deo
C. Madame, your
my eat-. 1 send you my mice," Alphonse parr.