The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-09-24 00:00:00

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FRIDAY.

The Hornby Castle Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 added.
Two miles: Four 'Subs:
Lord Westminster's br h Cardinal• Putt, 5 yrs, Bst 21b.. 1
Mr. Ramsay's lir c Easingwold, 3 ,yrs, 6st 111 b . ...... 2
The ScarborouglFStakes of 30 sovs. each, 10ft, for three-yr.,
olds colts, Bst filb ; and fillies, Sit 31b ; the winner of the,
St. Leger to have carried 71b extra. One mile. Nineteen

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Colonel Cradock's br c The Provost • (Templeman) 1
Lord Eglintoun's br c Malvolio, by Liverpool - 9 • 2
Major Yarburgh's bl f Lollypop 3
The Park Hill Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for three-yr-old
fillies, Bst 41b. St. Leger course. Fifteen subs.
Mr. Bowes's eh Mickleton Maid
Col. Craufurd's b Dolphin
Mr. Smith's br Margaret - 3
LordElerby's
,ch Imogene
Duke of Richmond's b Ref:l
THE: TOWN PLATE for £100: thret' years, Tst Sib ; four,
Bst 71b; five, 9st ; six, and aged, 94 31b. Maiden colts
allowed 21b, and maiden- fillies, 31b ; • the second to receive
18 guineas. Heats, two miles.
Lord Eglinton's eh f Opera, 4. yrs .
Mr. Milner's br c Humphrey, 4 yrs
Mr. Smith's br f Memento, 3 yrs
Mr. S. King's br f Juvenile, 3 yrs

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24 0 2
12 3 3
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On Monday last the sale of whales,- strAnded. in Panhope
Flotta, took place there, and were .principally-- •sold to pur-
chasers from Kirkwall and,stromness, at prices 'averaging
about 7s. 6d. per .cwt.--Scole4Paper.

SINGULAR ACCIDRN'T.—On Weduesday afternoon, three
men and a woman were proceading down the' rtt'et in a skiff,
loaded with bags' of silk thrums, 'or weste,<Olfthtirivay to
a steamer in Deptford Ceeek,ancl,on.arriving oral& Surr:T,,,
Canal Dock IV thirhithe, one of the merriltlitiltitsOittini'
on the top of bags, rolled overboard into tltOßittr,_
ing a bag with bite. The bag was stifficientlrhantifie4fti,
keep him afloat, and he:held on, his weight Cati!ito'g.tliii Oct
to.turn over and cvcw, the man going over witliiVaiiikalfifil
fresh hold every time it rose to the-surfae.,'"Flriktiiirithitt6
some time, and the man was nearly exhausted: :1011.altirtu*8
an inspector of the Metropolitan ThanicsikoOliclNAttltll4lP4l
boat's crew, rowed towards hiM, and -nit tint zrg66lll4iltitlf
he eagerly grasped, and Henderson, ooe cf theqpretso
police' galley:, drag,:zed him into it. :IL* tvent-iti 4'l,4tittLe4
great exhaustion, and was rowed aslicireisodtt ittsqtestAigetli
procuretl some stininlants,•and he very e,,Art I.ecON-Vfetl,'slid
expressed his thanks to the officers for saviu; his life; The;
bag was afterwards picked up by the polico, and it re<juireol
the united exertions of four men to drag it into another boat;
—Morning Herald:

STOCKPORT VIARUCT,—`.Ve menicioned a month ago that
six arches of this stulieadous undertaking' had been. turned
and completed ; since then anOther Of the 10.0 arelies (Bft
span) has been turned, and the Piers for three others are
nearly ready to receive the framing of the centres; so that
seven arches, two of the small and five of the large are so
far completed as now to assume a feature from which the.
public may gather some idea of the extraordinary magnitude'
of the undertaking, The greatest praise is due to the'coni•
tractors for the alacrity with which the work has irt4eeded;
and judging from present appearance, we might venttfre'to
predict that all the 'ten arches on the Lancashire Side of the
river will be completed in. the course .of the'present-yeir:
This is a most extraordinary instance of despatch; even qurl
to railway speed, when it is told that they were cOirtin&,nd
in March last, that eight of them are Gift. span, and five of
them 73ft. above the surface of the earth 011ie uniicrtsi.le
of the arch, and that each will consume 1-10,000 biick.^,- end
3500 feet of timber.—Slockport Advertiser. •

THE CONSEQUENCE OF VIEWING A LADY'S LEG .
Mary Dowding was charged at the Mansion-house, on Tiles-
day, by Mr. Francis Lessey Sele, of Gallea-qhay, under the
following circumstances :—The complainant stated that on
the previous night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he
was passing the foot of St. Dunstan's-hill, when he was
abruptly stopped by the prisoner and another woman. The
other female stopped to tie her barter, and whilst he was
looking at her leg, the prisoner, he believed, picked his pockets.
—The Lord Mayor—You naid for peeping. (Laughter.)
Was it a very fine leg?
~Complainant—Ll can't say much
about it.—The Lord. Mayor—ion must have been very in-
tent upon the leg, to lose your pUrse without knowing any-
thing about it. • (Laughter.) Cornplainatit—lt is absolutely
the fact. The prisoner' walked off whilst I was looking at
the leg, and the other went away immediately afterwards. In
a few minutes I missed my purse, which contained about
15s.—Lee, an officer, stated, that on.taking the nrisoner
into custody, she threw some silver on the ground. She
also threw away two purse slides, which the complainant
identified. The prisoner, whO denied all knowledge of the
transaction, was then committed for trial: •
OIL PAINTINGS COPIED BY MAXIIINERY:^FOT several
years the frequenters of the Museum of Berlin remarked the
constant attendance of a man of small. stature, and of
poor and miserable appearance ;- instead of Walking through
the gallery, and noticing the different pictUr'eS, he stopped
invariably, in the room devoted to the Flemish School, con-
stantly fixed before the same picture—nainely, theportrait of
Rembrandt; there he stood for hours together with his hands
behind his back, and. hiS eyes rivetted upon his favourite
canvass. Thus it was that M.- Liepman was engaged during
10 years in meditating the invention of a machine capable of
copying oil paintings, and in Which he has at last succeeded
beyond his most ardent wishes. 'At his house can now be
seen more than 100 copies of the " portrait of Rembrandt,"
all preserving most scrupulous resemblance to the original.
How this result'Was- obtained is the secret of the inventor.
When one reflects upon the numberless privations,, and some-
times even actual *ant xvltich this. artist must have under-
gone in the pursuit of his object iria to be hoped that so
great an improvementwill Meet with its-just reward, • With
the assistance' ef afaithful servant he worked for several
years from morning till night, to the great injury of his health,
but his ardour was not to be damped, and his exertions in-
creased with the difficulties of the task. Whati&more sin-
gular, he did not in the first instance take an entire copy of
the picture, but in separate portions, and at different periods,
as he got them into his head after a :careful examination at
the museum. Thus he brought home one day aneye,.then
a nose, then apart of the hair. It was thus that 3.e4rs ,;ere
taken up before the work .was comPleted. He has. produced
with this machine in one of the galleries of the museum, and
in the presence of the d:r ators of the establishment, 100
copies of the " Portrait of it—ttbrandt,"
painted by Rein-
brandt himself; a picture of which the copying in the ordi-
nary manner offers the greatest difficulties. Ills copies are
perfect, and repeat even the most delicate touches of the
colouring. He asks only 20 francs for each copy.
NEW MODE OF POACHING.—An association has been
formed in Peebles-shire forttip preservation of game. They
have been pretty successful, Ife belieVe, in repressing the or-
dinary kinds-•of poaching • but we beg to call their special at-
tention to a new triode which was poicted mif -to us the other
clay by an Engliih gentleman, Who: first discovered it on ` a
range of Peebles-shire moors, whitiblie a -dozen miles-or so
from Moffat. Having aimed at a particular-bird' and brought
it down, he was rather surprised when his attendant, 'Or an
accompanying friend, remarked that three had fallen. 'On
going up, there was the bird he had shot; and two otheri:iit-
tempting to rise, but unable to make more than a yard or two
of flight from the ground. They were speedily caught Laud
on being examined, it was found that the tips of their pinions
had been cut for some time. This roused the suspicion-of 'our
sportsman; and, on making enquiries in various quarters; he
found that
_this practice of cutting the pinions is by no-means
uncommon. Certain parties on the hills find the nests-in the
breeding season, watch the coming out of the chicks, catch
them and cut their wings in the manner aforesaid, and then
let them go. Well, the birds, though thus docked, feed as
plump as their neighbours among the heather, till the time
comes round when they are fit for the poacher's- purposes.
The enemy then takes his rounds, and knowing where the
nests were, knows Where to spring his game. The old birds,
and such of the brood as he had not caught when fledglings,
are raised, and whirr away. Their wing-curtailed companions
attempting to do it, are instantly seen and pursued; and se-
cured with little trouble. And so the poacher doetchis deadly
work. Our informant, who has been taking these Peebles-
shire shootings, and paving his. V) yearly to the Game pre-
serving Association referred to, hasfound far fewer, grouse
this season than usual, which he attributes to the cowardly
and destructive mode of poaching which we haNe now exposed,
—Dumfries Herald.