The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday night last,
about half-past ten o'clock, an accident, which has been
unhappily followed by fatal results, occurred at the village
of Upton, near this city. The children of a cottager
named Bennett had gleaned some corn, which was left to
dry on the floor, when, owing, it is supposed, to some
sparks coming down the chimney from a neighbour's
house, the straw ignited, and the room was
flames. The parents and two children effected an escape,
but two others (John, aged 5, and George, 9 years) were
so dreadfully burnt that they expired, after much suffer-

soon in

ing, on Friday. The accident happened whilst the family
were in bed, and the two poor children who are dead
could not be got out of the cottage till they had received
injuries which have proved so distressingly fatal.—Chester
Courant.

HOOTON.—REMARK ABLE OCCURRENC E.-A circum-
stance occurred here on last Sunday, which deserves pub-
lication. Two horses. the property of Robert Morris,
Esq., of " the Low Fields," had been left the previous
night to pasturtin a field contiguous to the line of rail-
way from Chester to Birkenhead. By some means both

the horses got out of the field, and strayed on the line.
About half-past 5 o'clock a.m., when the luggage train
arrived near to Hooton. one of the horses jumped clear
from the line into a field below ; the other ran on before
the train, all the way to Birkenhead. It must have tra-
velled at an incredibly rapid speed. In consequence of
the dense fog which envel Ted the horse and engine at
he time, the driver of the engine did not perceive the

horse for some time, though he fancied he heard some
peculiar noise before him. As soon as he perceived the
imminent peril the horse was in, he immediately slack-
ened the speed at which the engine was going, thus giving
the horse a chance for its life, and by a providential
thought, saving., perhaps, the whole train from destruc-
tion. The horse, on arriving at Birkenhead, was laid
hold of by a policeman, and taken to the stable of an inn,
and on examination was found to have sustained no in-
jury, beyond a few bruises about his feet. Our corres-
pondent adds, that so far as he has been able to learn, no
person is to blame, unless, indeed, it be a " pointsman"
usually stationed near Limekiln.latte ' • who, had he been
at his post of duty, could have signalled the train to stop,
and thus have saved the further abuse of the horse.—
Chester Chronicle.

LIVERPOOL ACADEMY.-(THIRD NOTICE.)

No. 34, " Sunset View of Dresden," by W. Wyld, is
a very good landscape; the colouring is clever, and the
effect very superior.

36, "An Old Mill," by T. Creswick, R.A. An ex-
quisite little study, by a masterly hand. The peculiar
tone of colour in this picture is remarkable, but the effect
is unquestionably fine ; it is entirely free from that cold,
positive expression which has been complained of in many
of the works of this artist.

41, " The Opera Box," by Frank Stone. One of the
gems of the Exhibition. it represents a beautiful girl
seated in the Opera box, rather withdrawing from the ob-
servation she is so calculated to excite ; for whilst atten-
tively watching the stage, she is screening herself behind
the projection of the box. Frank Stone is an admirable
depicter of female beauty.
45, " Nell Gwynne," by Augustus Egg, A.R.A. Of
all the pictures in the Exhibition entitled to compete for
the prize, this is in our estimation the best. 52, " The
Bourgeois Gentilhomme," by W. P. Frith, A.R.A., will
be equal to it in the estimation of many, and we cannot
but confess their merits are so nearly equal that it is only
after considerable examination and reflection that we give
our opinion in favour of Mr. Egg. His pictlre represents
Mr. Pepys and his wife amongst a party of actresses at
the King's Theatre, amongst whom is the celebrated Nell
Gwynnc receiving a kiss on her fair cheek from the gal-
lant Mr. Pepys, who recoris the fact in his diary with
evident. gusto. As to the execution of the painting, it is
admirable. Had Hogarth painted in the nineteenth cen-
tury, he would have painted like Mr. Augustus Egg.
Mr. Frith's painting is also very fine, full of life, spirit,
and artistic excellence.

46, " Portrait of the Rev. Augustus Campbell, Rector
Of Liverpool." by Mr. Westcott. Lice all the works by
this artist, this portrait is both admirable for its fidelity
and for the masterly skilj shown in its execution. This
picture was in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy last
season, and was much admired.

47. AnoVier portrait by a Liverpool artist, which is
entitled to some praise. It is, however, a quadruped
instead of a biped—being the portrait of a favourite
hunter, by Mr. Huggins.

49. 14 Allugueuol, on St. Bartholomew's-day, refusing
to shield himself from danger by wearing the Roman Ca-
tholic budge," by J. E. Millais. This being the prize
picture, we should have noticed it first, had we followed
the ordinary rule. We have, however, deferred it until
now, in the hope that almost daily examinations would
give us some idea of the motive which actuated the Liver-
pool Academy to confer the prize upon this picture.
Without one pleasing feature in the whole composition,
it is extravagant, crude, and affected in the highest de-
gree. We can scarcely call it a picture: it rather resem-
bles a bas-relief of German wool upon an ugly brick wall.
The fond maiden need not express such intense fear of her
lover leaving her; he is immovably fixed in the brick
wall, of which it is evident she also is an Integral part.
In our opinion, great talent was never more sadly
perverted. _ _

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION AT NEWCASTLE-ON-
TYNE.—The extensive works of Messrs. Christian, All-
hueson, and Co., well known as the Tyne Soap and Alkali
Works, on the south bank of the river, were injured by
fire to a serious extent on Saturday week.—The damage
is variously estimated at from £lO,OOO to £20,000.
BLAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PlLLS.—Extract of a
letter, written by John Molard Wheeler, Esq , Collector
of Customs, Jamaica, having been handed by his brother,
at Swindon, to Mr. Prout, for publication :—" I know you
have never had occasion to take Blair's Pills, but let me
emphatically tell you in mercy to any friend who may
suffer from gout, rheumatic gouj-, lumbago, sciatica,
je,ie,rheu-
matism,
or any branch of hat widely-allied [Emily, to
recommend their using t . In this country they are
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leave the house for about an hour, having previously of escape. The insects continue to
brought in-doors a quantity of corn in the straw. On of exhaustion, except, perhaps, in a
leaving she locked the door, and left her three children may be released by the breaking of
within, of the respective ages of one, three, and five years. member by which they have been en
By some means not yet known the house took fire, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Po
the poor children were all burnt to death. The mother is _
almost in a state of distraction.