The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-29 00:00:00

WATKIN WILLIAMS, Chairman.
ASPINALL, Esq., and seconded by

Proposed by JAMES

JOHN.
FORMBi, Esq.,
That the cordial tluinkspf tbil Meeting be given to WAr-
lax Wit,t.tANTh, Esq., for bii efficient and impartial conduct
in the Chair. .

TO THE MUNICIPAL BURGESSES OF SAINT
PAUL'S WARD.

GENTLEMEN,
THE highly respectable and numerously signed Requisi-
tion which you have presented to me, inviting, me to
become a Candidate for the Representation of your Ward at
the ensuing Municipal Election, demands my sincere thanks.
I beg to assure you that I feel deeply sensible of the ho-
nour you are desirous of conferring upon me; and respect-
fully place my humble services at your disposal.
My political opinions are well known to most of you to he
strictly Conservative; and on these opinions my Votes, if
elected to the Council, will be based, however much I may
deplore the admixture of party politics in that body.
If honoured with your confidence, it will be my desire to
discharge my duty , zealously and faithfully, to the best of
my judgment and abil►ty, for the benefit of the Town in ge-
neral, and of, your Ward, in
.particular.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your
.faithful Servant,. ,
JOSHUA EDWARDS.
I's Hamlet,
,Toxteth Park,
ber 13th, 1841.

Saint „Ifichge,
dcto.

TO TIIE ELECTORS OF.ABERCROMBY WARD

- GENTLEMEN, : • '
THE very kind and flattering :invitation I have received
from a numerous and highly respectable body of Electors
in your Ward, to offer myself again as a CANDIDATE for
the representation of your interests iu the T n Council,
i
demands. from me the expression of my gratef thanks • and
as the period approaches when I must resio• nto your hands'
the'trust you so liberally reposed. in me ree years ago, I
cannot longer delay avowing more form my readiness and
my intention to accede to the wishes of my friends, and to
solicit once more a renewal of your confidence and support.
Having now resided for a considerable . period in Aber-
crombie Ward, and during that time become personally ac-
quainted with many of you, it would be superfluous in me to
enter into any detail of the opinions I entertain, knowing
that, from past experience, they must be familiar to you; I
have, generally speaking, opposed the measures of the
hitherto predominant party in the Council, because I believed
them to be wrong; calculated, probably, to gratify the feel-
ings of some, but in no way tending, as I conceive, to ad-
vance the real and permanent welfare of the community.
Nor is it easy to reconcile the inconsistency of that Part',
who, whilst they pretend to lament over the angry expres-
sions so frequently made use of in the Council Room, are
still willing to approve the conduct of those Representatives
who add fuel to the flame by the introduction of topics for
discussion, purely of a Political Character ; and which, in my
judgment, have no connexion Whatever with the duties of a
Town Councillor, thus increasing the very evil they are so
loud in condemning; I therefore refrain from offering any
opinion on subjects of political interest, believing that my
duty, should I be returned as your Representative to the
Council, will be.to beware of incurring the reproof given by
Lord Stanley, at Lancaster; to the Manchester Manufactu-
rer, when he said, "Don't you-think, Mr. Brookes, that it
would be better if every body attended to their own busi-
ness?" It has been the practice with some of those whose
best security has-been in the Majority they could command
in the Council-room, to taunt the party with whom, on most
occasions, I have the pleasure to act, with liberality—with
feelings of hostility towards others—and with being unfriendly
to the education ,of the industrious classes. That the pre-
sent syetem adopted in the Corporation Schools has appeared
-nst of us to be objectionable, there can be no question ;
2 are illiberal, or unkindly disposed towards any
etas of the community, is an 'assertion without proof, and,
therefore,' Vatueres-0 ; ant With respect to, our 'being opposed
to the advancement of Education, there are fortunately nu-
merous institutions in Liverpool for Religious and Moral
instruction, more than sufficient to satisfy every honest mind
that the charge is wholly unfounded, and the object in making
it a questionable one ; examples of illiberality, in this re
spect, which it is no idle boast to say, the party complainirig
vould do well to imitate.
I will only further stet -

to n
but that

t, should I succeed in being
as your Representative, it will be my earnest desire,

as it has hitherto been, to endeavour, to the best of my abi-
lity, to discharge the duties confided to my care with zeal

lam, Gentl

en, with much respect,

Your faithful and obedient Servant,
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE

24, Abercromby -square, 22d October, 1841

BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL

EL E N

OF COL

NCILLORS

ON MONDAY, IST NOVEMBER, 1941.
THE BURGESSES of the Sixteen Wards will have to
11 supply the Annual Vacancies by electing ONE COEN-
cILLoR for each Ward, to serve for three years.
The following are the Councillors who go out of office :
No. 1, Everton Ward Mr. john Holmes.
No. 2, Scotland "lard Mr„:' Isaac Holmes.
3, Vauxhall Ward Mr. Thomas Case.
, Saint Paul's Ward.... Mr. George Wright.
. 5, Exchange Ward Mr. Henry Holmes. •
INo. 6, Castle-street Ward.. Sir Joshua Wahnsley.
No. 7, Saint• Peter's Ward. Mr. John Woollright.
No. 8, Pitt-street Ward Mr. Hugh Hornby.
No. 9, Great George Ward. Mr: James Lawrence.
No. 10, Rodney-street Ward. Mr. Henry Lawrence.
No. 11, AbercrombyWard Mr. Robertson Gladstone
No. 12, Lime-street Ward Mr. Thomas Morecroft.
No. 13, Saint Anne-street Ward. Mr. James Parker.
No. 14, West Derby Ward. Mr. John Shaw Leigh.
No. 15, South Toxteth Ward. Mr. William M'Kee.
No. 16, North ToxtethWard. Mr. Alexander Smith.

No. 4,

The following POLLING PLACES have been appointed
by the respective Aldermen and Assessors, and are approved
of by the Mayor :

No. I—EVERTON WARD.
At the DERBY ARMS HOTEL, Kirkdale-road, Kirkdale

2-SCOTLAND WARD

The House, No. 2U, on the south side of Burlington-street,
near Scotland-road, occupied by Mr. Edward R. fluson.
No. 3—VAUXHALL WARD.
JAMES CORRAN'S HOUSE, No. 137, Vauxhall-road, oppo-

site the end of BlackstOck-street.
No. 4—SAINT PAUL'S WARD.
The SHAKSPEARE TAVERN, at the corner of Ray-street and

Prussia-street
No. S—EXCHANGE WARD
The north end of the SESSIONS-HOUSE, in Chape
No. 6—CASTLE-STREET WARD.
The QUEEN'S ARMS HOTEL, in Castle-street
No. 7—SAINT PETER'S WARD.
The HORSE and JOCKEY, in Seel-street.
No. B—PITT-STREET WARD.
The SOUTH CORPORATION SCHOOL.
No. 9—GREAT GEORGE WARD.

4-street

The SHOP, No. 61, on the north side of Nelson-street, oc-
cupied by Mr. Richard Ilesketh.
No. 10— RODNEY-STREET WARD.

The SHOP near the entrance to the New Arcade, on the west
side of Renshaw-stteet, occupied by Mr. Bryson.
No. 11—ABERCROMBY WARD.

A. Boon! in the JOINER'S YARD of THOMAS BAGE, on the
east side of Mount-pleasant, nearly opposite the Fever Ward.

No. 12-:-LIME-STREET WARD.
The OFFICE of Mr. MACKAItELL, on the east side
of Norton-street.
No. 13—SAINT ANNE-STREET WARD.
The HOUSE, No. 32, on the east side of Christian-
occupied by Mr. Richard High.
No. 11—WEST DERBY WARD

street,

The HOUSE, on the south side of Edge-hill, opposite the
Church, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Procter.
No. 15—SOUTH TOXTETH
.WARD.

The SHOP on the wert side of Park-road, occupied by John
Tyrall, near the Church of St. John the Baptist.
No. 16—NORTH TOXTETH WARD.

A BOOTH adjoining the Royal Oak Public-house, at the
corner of Warwick-street and Park-road.

The time allowed for Polling is from Nine o'Clock in the
Forenoon to Four o'Clock in the Afternoon ; but the Pre-
siding Officers have power to Close the Poll at any time be-
fore Four o'clock, if one hour should elapse during which no
vote shall have been tendered for any Candidate.

By order of the Mayor, and of the Alderman and Asses-
sors of the respective Wards.
RD. RADCLIFFE, Town-clerk.
Town-hall, October 26, 1841.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of
the CHESTER and BIRKENHEAD RAI 'PAY will be
holden on MONDAY, the first day of N ember next, at
Twelve o'clock at Noon, at the Clar on Rooms, South
John-street, Liverpool, for the pur eof receiving the
Report of the Directors on the su ect of the Woodside
Ferry. Dated the 19th day of October, 1841.
WM. DIXON, Chairman.

DIRECTORS.
Rear-Adm. Nish. Tomlinson Rear-Adm. Sir Samuel Pyrn,
Sir Thomas Grey, F.R.S. K.C.B.
Capt. Peter M`Quhae, R.N. George Dacre, Esq.
Montague Gore, Esq., M.P. Capt. William Ilolt, R.N.
Trustees—Chris. rearse, Esq. ; Benj. Williams, Esq.
Bankers—The Bank of England; Messrs. Cockburn & Co.,
Whitehall.
Auditors—Mr. Jonathan Ball; Mr. Jas. Chas. Hardy.
Secretary—John Charretie,'Esq.
Solicitor—Ambrose Clare, Esq.
OFFICE, 61, MOORGATE-STREET, CITY.
riIHIS Company is formed for the purpose of making and
improving harbours by means of coating breakwaters,
affording complete protection to shipping, and for other im-
portant works, beneficial to the maritime and commercial in-
terests on the coasts of the Uni-ed Kingdom, where the great
want of shelter and security is daily productive of the most
disastrous consequences, involving an annual loss of upwards
of 1,200 lives, and the destruction of property to an extent
of £3,000,000 sterling.
The deep interest which has been expressed in Parliament,
and the reports of the Government Commissioners, and the
Parliamentary Committee, prove incontestibly the absolute
necessity which exists for the immediate reparation of all our
present harbours, and for the formation of at least 250 sew
ones. The Commissioners in their report state that three
alone will (if formed upon the old principle of the Stone
Breakwater) cost the nation no less a sum than £6,000,000
sterling, and the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a very
recent debate in the House of Commons, at the same time
that he admitted the urgent necessity for the required ex-
penditure, found himself compelled to declare that the state
of the public revenue and present finances of the country
could not provide for so immense an outlay. By means of
Captain Tayler's. meritorious invention the expense offers no
longer any obstacle, inasmuch as by the adoption of a float-
ing breakwater, and a new mode of mooring, 180 harbours of
refuge can be formed at a cost of less than the amount esti-
mated by the Government Commissioners as the sum re-
quired by the old modes for the construction of three.
The principle upon which this invention acts so effectively
is simple, and carries conviction with it to minds the least
scientific; it is that of yielding and giving way to the force
and violence of the sea. instead of opposing to it a fixed and
and solid resistance, by means of sections of timber, which,
at the same time they yield to the shocks of the sea, admit
the waves to pass under, over, and through them ; and thus,
by giving vent to the fury of the waves, so dividing and
breaking them as to reduce them to an open and harmless
state, thereby converting all within the inner circumference
of the breakwater sections to smooth water.
In addition to the high sanction and support of the above-
named distinguished patrons to this invention, it has also re-
ceived the full approval and recommendation of numerous
harbour-masters, and other nautical and scientific men, the
best able to decide on its merits. The efficacy of this break-
water has been practically tested, and found to possess im-
mense advantages over all other breakwaters hitherto known.
These advantages are too numerous to be particularised
within the limits of an advertisement, but are detailed in the
Prospectus, 'which may be had at the Company's office.
Suffice it to say, that by the adoption of the floating break-
water for the purposes recommended by the Government
Commissioners, incalculable benefit will accrue to the na-
tion, and several millions sterling advantageously saved to
the public, thereby ensuring to the shareholders a most pro-
fitable return upon•their invested capital, far exceeding the
most sanguine expectation.
That the government of this country will avail itself of the
ready means which the facilities of this invention afford to
effect the required national works of such paramount impor-
tance, and which it has hitherto been deterred from attempt-
ing solely because of their apprehended cost, there can be
no doubt. The increasing necessity of commerce must also
secure its adoption by the corporations of all maritime places,
and we may further rely that there is scarcely a single port
in the United Kingdom= which will not avail itself of the
benefits and advantages now presented. Its adoption at all
fishing ports will greatly tend to increase our fisheries, by
claims
m o
every daily
faffording, at a very moderate outlay, refuge and security in
' all weather to fishing craft, and safety and protection to our
onixeorrittioornis h
o usma
have
dsuhearld yprfiessshienrgmeen, whose
os:exposureriend to an
hu-
manity. The profits arising from the a •
ious important
benefits which this Company alone can accomplish,vr ara cost
within the reach of all, cannot fail to ensure alarge and im-
mediate dividend to the shareholders. It is calculated that
the town of Brighton
would, by the use of 40 sections of the
! Floating Breakwater, realise an income of many thousands
per annum. The authorities of Dieppe arc also equally aline
to the immense advantages this new invention presents.
Dieppe Harbour will then become the first and most produc-
' tive haven in France, and being in a direct line from London
to Paris will materially benefit the town of Brighton.
The Directors have great satisfaction in stating, that they
are in active negotiation with several places of the highest
PRICE'S PATENT COMPOSITE, or IMI TION maritime importance, and that the Admiralty, zealous for
SPERM CANDLES. They gives brillian nd steady the promotion and success' of the undertaking, have granted
light, without requiring to he sniffed, and are uallV appli- the use of anchors and ground moorings to enable Captain
cable for family or counting-house use, an are now much Tayler's plan to be put in immediate operation at Brighton.
used in the Metropolis for Lighting Chur es and Chapels,
The rules of the Society are formed for the protection of
and Public Buildings generally. the shareholders; a Charter of Incorporation, or Act of
At One Shilling p their res
Parliament, will be forthwith obtained to limit ou-
p
which, compared with the light gt ,is cheaper than the • • •of shares taken.
ability to the amount
commonest Tallow Candle. Prospectuses and other particulars may be obtained by
the Company's office, where
These Candles are now supplied by most of the Chandlers applying to the Secretary, at
throughout tilt. • Country, but where they cannot otherwise be
the models and lagr r• arns may be inspected at the solicitors',
remitting £5 to EDWD. PRICE and Belmont, S. I Buckler= eitherand at the office of Somers
had, on renal C0.,0. 5, Ise- ane,
Brighton ; of which places appl:ca-
Vauxhall, Surrey, any Private Customer may be supplied Clarke, Esq.,
with 1001135., and no charge will be made for the box, the tions for shares may be made until the 15th of November
value of which will, in most cases, cover the of when the allotment will be made.
expense next,
also be immediately appointed at all the prin-
carriage. The brx will be charged for an smaller uantit Agents v,
Any Person wishing to try these Candles, has onlysendt Ens and sea-ports.
to pal* see the Brighton Herald of the 22d of May, Brighton
E. P. and Co. a Postoffice Order for Ten
Shillings,and a box
containing 911bs. shall be i cl. odd G iardian of the 25th of August, and The Times of the
mme tate y sent down ; the
Bd. being for the box. 28th of May, and 28th of August last.

CONCERTS A LA NIUSARD.
lie are respectfully informed that a SERIES of
i:RTS, a la Musard are intended to, be given at
Newington, Bold-street, the first of which will
,n the Evening of SATURDAY, PCtober, 23d,
sand wilt consist of nearly thirty Performers,

ly of the Room, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Seven, and the Concert commences

1E FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER ELECTORS
THE CHESTER. DIVISION OF THE COUNTY
CHESTER FOR THE ELECTION OF CORONER.

o ill health, which renders me unable to execute
of CORONER, for the Chester Division of
f Chester, with satisfaction to myself and the
stage, I intend, after a period of upwards of
service, to resign the said office, that another

INER may be appointed in my stead ; and as my Ne-
Mr. JOHN WOOD MASSEY, (who at various times has
' ' and assisted me in taking Inquests, and
ng my late illness,) proposes to offer himself
TE for the Office, I feel a pleasure in saying
perience he has had on such occasions, he is
petent to discharge the duties of the office, and
he will meet with your favourable consideration on
ass.
I am, Gentlemen,

CANDIDA

Your very respectful and obedient Servant,
F. THOMAS
. _

.r, Octob

9th,1841

'HE NOBILITY, CLERGY, GENTRY, „AND
EHOLDERS OF THE CHESTER DIVISION
THE COUNTY OF CHESTER.
rIY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN.

TN consequence of the Resignation of my Uriie, Mr. F.
THOMAS, (whose recommendation in my,Avour I have
the pleasure of submitting for your inspeckan,) I beg to
offer myself as a CANDIDATE for the office If CORONER
for this Division of the County, and assure you, should I be
appointed to the situation, it will be my unceasing endeavour,
by devoting the whole of my time to the faithful discharge of
the duties which will devolve upon me, to give satisfaction.
I cannot avoid taking this opportunity to return my best
and most grateful acknowledgments to the numerous Electors
who have already promised me their support.

My Lords and Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servant,
JOHN WOOD MASSEI
White Friars, Chester, Oct. 18th, 1841.

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street. Established 1820.

By Her MTjesty's Royal Letters Patent,

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS

TAKEN BY THE
REFLECTION OF LIGHT,
AT THE

VT GARDENS, ST. JAMES'S WALK,
LIVERPOOL.

rrHE Proprietors of the REFLECTING APPARATUS,
which FAITHFUL MINIATURE LIKENESSES
in Countenance and Person are " wthi from the
" in the short space of a few seconds, respect-
.,ce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of
Are, that the Extraordinary Process
IS NOW OPEN.

Nature

The Corporation of Liverpool having granted the site of
-113SERVATORY, S.T. JAMES'S W4LK, a neat and
.filding has been erected therebn, in which the
I OTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, the discovery of which
ked among the greatest scientific achievements of the
it age, is now in DAILY OPERATION.

LICE FOR EACH PORTRAIT, INCLUDING
IS ONE GUINEA.
JOHN RELPH, Manager.
as recently introduced into England, at
1L POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, LONDON; and
ring are a few extracts from the leading Journals
) its merits :

Invention

(From the Times.)
JGRAPHIC MINIATURES.—The principle has
erfected as to be almost incapable of further
The novelty attendant upon the fact of
ed in the short space of five seconds with a
miniature likeness than the most accom-
could paint on ivory, after days of laborious
,ed with the fineness of the weather, drew
host of curious fashionables, at the Poly.
so many, indeed, that notwithstanding
riod of time occupied in the operation, the room
ed for hours together, by parties anxiously waiting
n. The apartment appropriated for the magial
—for so it may be termed—is well calculated for the
desired, being on the highest story of the institution.
tie roof, which is constructed of blue glass, of about
- of an inch thick, a very powerful light is obtained,
o ingeniously contrived as to revolve with the siau.
an of the room, nearly in the centre, an elevated
ced, on which the party whose likeness is to be
, with his head reclined backwards, In this posi-
itter is told to look into a glass box, in an opposite
about five from him, in which is placed the plate
ressed with the portrait. Having done so fora few
he descends, and in a few minutes afterwards a
.•esented to him. The likenesses which we saw
ible, and closely true to nature, beauties and de-
being alike exhibited ; therefore those who are
of their personal appearance had better keep from

istitution

re adroir

fence of photography.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
When we formerly described this process, the time requi-
- taking a portrait was, generally speaking, about four
; but in consequence of the great improvements that
Jeen made, the time has been reduced to about five se-
conds on a clear day ; but during cloudy dull weather the
operation may require from a minute and a half to two tni-

ninutes

The portraits taken by this means are really extraordinary
as likenesses ; they are true to nature, for nature here is her
own delineator. The features are admirably marked out and
delineated, and the likenesses at first sight are so extraordi-
nary, that they are really startling.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—One of the most inter-
sights it is possible to conceive is now attracting
rowels daily to the Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
The patentee has christened it the " photographic mode of
taking likenesses." By this process, in the incredibly short
space of five seconds, the likeness of any individual is taken
down on a piece of metal, and the portrait is a perfect fac-
simile of the sitter. It is nature herself that is called in to
be the artist, and her performance is truly astonishing,
leaving immeasurably behind it everything that human skill
could effect.

From the Morninq Herald.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We were present on Sa-
turday at the exhibition of the extraordinary process of
taking portraits by the reflecting apparatus, lately patented,
and now for the first time brought before the public. By the
photographic progress, perfect likenesses are taken, in the
short spa of from ten to five and twenty seconds ! We
say perfect, because the prepared plate on which the objects
is reflected must of necessity produce a perfect transcript of
that object. The operation, therefore, being thus unerring,
the fault of even the slightest failure in likeness can only
be attributable to the person sitting, which, of course,
may result from an assumed or unnatural position.
Although the exhibition hag been only of a private character,
and of some two or three days, we understand that it has
been visited by all the parties possessing the privilege.
Among other influential personages present on Saturday, we
Noticed the Earl of Shaftesbury, who expressed his surprise
end gratification at the extraordinary invention.
(From the Court Journal.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC LIKENESSES.—We attended yesterday
the private view given by the patentee of the reflecting ap-
ratus at the Polytechnic IRstitOtion:,by which photographic
.sses are taken, and with Ilici,greatest accuracy, in a
nod varying from five to twenty- seconds. We were de-
Ahted with the exhibition.
(From the Morning Post.)
The patentee of this invention has adopted the principle of
giving these " reflections" to the public at a very moderate
cost, compared to the ordinary price of miniatures, trusting
his return to a general desire to possess them, whieh he
`icipates must be felt by all persons who would cherish the
memento of a dear friend or relative.
(From the Courier.)

" Every line, every touch in the pictrue produced is from
the pencil of nature, without flattery or fallacy."
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—We took an opportunity
on Monday cf again visiting the Polytechnic Institution, to
witness the astonishing manner in which portraits are taken
by the photographic process. The room was crowded with
nobility and gentry, among whom we noticed Lord Aber-
deen, and several other persons of rank, each of whom, in
the warmest terms, expressed their delight and astonishment
at the rapidity with which the portraits of different gentle-
men were taken, and the extreme fidelity in the execution.
It is, in fact, impossible for the portraits to be any thing
short of a complete copy of nature.
(From the Observer.)

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The appearance of the
miniature thus produced is that of a mezzotint engraving,
the likeness being no question of opinion, but a plain matter
of fact, for nature in this, as in other similar operations,
makes "no mistake." There is such subtilty of touch and
tone in the likeness as might fill a Vandyke or a Lawrence
at once with delight and despair. Altogether this is a most
wonderful and extraordinary exhibition. Those who in por-
traiture are fond of being " flattered," will certainly not
patronise the photographic method of taking likenesses; but,
on the other hand, who want the real thing, and we
presume them to be theymajority, will unquestionably spend
a guinea with great wthiellietn7rness in the production of a minia-
ture portrait which
swearr fathers and mothers, wives, sisters,
and brothers may
Separateanda female appropriated to ladies and gentlemen, tnot.l'enen,
attendant are els also
ees
waits upon the former to agseeist in arranging the dress so as
pictorial effect.
to produce the most desirable
(From the Naval and
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.
e it was
doubted whether Photography
human ever be brought to
enable the artist to take an unerring ace and form, so as to
picture in its
the slightest motion inevitably destroying
.experiments,
dttffiakeulty ; and
progr e e s . Ingenuity, perseverance,
olaPau.ntnl7l.afr ayyriesnG:ageameatzfftheee:cittePilvm: likeness,
time en, from a
have at length completely triuphed over the
;aetnwe varying
miniature portraits, infallibly Faithful, are
sittting of from five to twenty seconds ,
according to the intensity of light.
(From Belts Weekly Messenger.)
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.—MINIATURE PICTURES. It is
bodily and personally the individual who is the sitter. It is
as much so, as he sees himself in the most accurate lookin
glass, but with this difference, that the Photographic likenesgs
is the image as if it were removed from the surface of the
mirror, and rendered perpetual. It is an everlasting memo-
rial of the man at the moment it is taken—and therefore the
most precious gift that can be given to those who love him
while living, and will cherish his memory when dead. It is
a discovery, which not only saves the sitter from the tedium
of being fixed in the same position for many an hour for his
likeness, (for this is accomplished in the sixth part of a mi-
nute)—but it affords to artists themselves the surest Fuide
for copying other likenesses, whether in miniature, or in oil
paintings as large as life.
Specimens may be seen, and Orders reeeivecLitt Mr. L.A.•
CET'S REPOSITORY OF Mere, 100, BOld.BilVelit

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

We have learned, with sincere pleasure, that the unfor-
tunate differences existing between the Edinburgh and
Glasgow committees of directors have at length been amicably
adjusted. At a recent meeting of the general board, attended
by members of both committees, the alterations in the con-
stitution of the board recommended by the last general
meeting of shareholders were taken into consideration, and
the following changes, which had been previously approved
of by both committees, were unanimously agreed to, and
will be embodied in the new bill for which the company have
occasion, on other accounts, to go to parliament.
The Edinburgh and Glasgow committees, as existing under
the present act, are to be abolished, and the whole powers,
both of the management and execution, are to be vested in
the board of directors, who will meet, as at present, in Glas-
gow, and consist of fifteen members, (instead of twenty-four
as at present,) of whom six shall reside within twenty miles
of Glasgow, and four within twenty miles of Edinburgh ;
the board to have power to name committees in Edinburgh
and Glasgow, and delegate to them such powers and functions
as they think proper.
This proposed modification of the constitution of the board
is, we understand, to be submitted to the shareholders, and
will, we have little doubt, he cordially approved of by them.
Both the interests of the public and of the company are con-
cerned in this result ; for however much the directors have
hitherto held their differences in abeyance in every thing
connected with forwarding the works on the line, yet these
differences were of a nature that rendered harmony at the
board doubtful, and unity of management impossible. The
unseemly spectacle will also be prevented of a contest in
parliament among parties who should never appear before
that tribunal disunited.

We understand that Sir Frederick Smith, the Government
Inspector, was recently here, and examined minutely the
state of the works along the line from end to end. We have
not as yet seen any official report published, but we under-
stand that he was highly pleased with the substantial manner
in which the finished portions of the works were constructed.
With regard to the time of completing and opening the rail-
way to the public, it is understood that Sir Frederick con-
sidered it likely that the whole works, including the great
whinstone cutting at the Croyridge, might be ready for traffic
by the middle of November. From the energy with which
the unfinished parts are pushed forward, we have little doubt
that this might be the case with average weather, but taking
into account the unfavourable season which we have had from
the beginning of August down to the present time—certainly
the most rainy season that has been experienced in this part
of the country for many years—our wonder is rather that so
much has been accomplished than that something yet remains
to do. Should November, however, prove more aus.dicous,
it is expected that by the beginning of December the wishes of
the public will be realised. One advantage, at least—and
that not a small one—has resulted from the wetness of the
season. Much of the subsiding and slipping of the embank-
ments, which might otherwise have happened at a future
period, has already taken place, and the consolidation of the
works has thus been greatly matured before the line is opened
for traffic. Upon the whole, therefore, considering the in-
creased security to the public the delay is not so much to be
regretted; because whatever tends to inspire greater confi-
dence in the community in the safety of the line, will ulti-
mately be for the true interest and benefit of the Railway.—
tilaagoio Courier.

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The walls of Dublin are posted with placards, offering
bounties, not only to able-bodied, but ordinary seamen, for
her Majesty's service.
For the last twenty-five years, the dock-yards at Deptford,
Woolwich, Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, -Plymouth,
and Pembroke. have not presented such a scene of activity
as they do now ; there being no fewer than twenty-six to
thirty ships of different rates fitting out for active service.